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Alice In Chains is my favorite. Laynes voice is fckn powerful. Layne and Jerry’s harmonies were beautiful. A ridiculously good tight sounding band overall.
1° Alice In Chains 2° Nirvana 3° Soundgarden 4° Stone Temple Pilots 5° Pearl Jam 6° Mother Love Bone 7° Screaming Trees 8° Mad Season 9° Temple Of The Dog 10° Mudhoney Honorable mentions: Melvins The Smashing Pumpkins Bush Hole L7 Tad Skin Yard And many others ❤
Cornell’s vocal range and his wide array of songs he’s done with Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, and his solo work is why he is one of my favorite singers ever and I’m still sad he’s gone.
1-4 are totally interchangeable, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains are all better bands in my option, but Nirvana will always top lists like this because of their cultural relevance for the time period.
I think all 4 bands are equally as talented and had a major impact on rock, but Alice In Chains and Nirvana were just on another level in my opinion, they both deserve number 1
Even though Nirvana is my least favorite of the "big 4", I think they are only challenged by AIC, because of the impact and influence they had in the industry. I'd say 1-2 3-4 are interchangeable.
@@brandonaceituno1756 I think he dislikes AIC. To blatantly omit one of the big four grunge bands, but add STP, I doubt he forgot. _Why_ he dislikes them, well,who knows? Lol He’s missing out, I definitely know that much!!
0:35 10. Temple of the Dog 1:36 09. Silverchair 2:38 08. Bush 3:37 07. Screaming Trees 4:31 06. Stone Temple Pilots 5:30 05. Mudhoney 6:22 04. Pearl Jam 7:20 03. Soundgarden 8:23 02. Alice in Chains 9:35 Honorable Mentions: Candlebox, Sponge, Melvins, L7 10:42 01. Nirvana
The Melvins deserve much more than an honorable mention. They are literally referred to as the grandfathers of Grunge, they were Kurt Cobains biggest influence and he even worked as a roadie for them. Plus, after almost 40 years they are still going strong. Also, Mother Love Bone, Butthole Surfers and Kyuss deserve some love.
I am not surprised Nirvana is #1 here, but my Top 4 are: 1) Alice in Chains; 2) Soundgarden; 3) Pearl Jam; and 4) Nirvana. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden have the most metallic sound and influences, which is why I put them up top. Pearl Jam has a more classic rock feel to them, which is why I put them above Nirvana. I think I also got a bit sick of Nirvana due to overexposure, although they were still a legendary band.
"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc." - Kurt Cobain
"When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound." - Eddie Vedder
Rest in Peace Andrew Wood, Chris Cornell, Mark Lanegan, Scott Weiland (and later Chester Bennington), Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Mike Cross, Kurt Cobain, and the "Godmother of Grunge" Tina Bell.
Glad to see AIC get the worthy respect it deserves. One of my favorite bands ever. The 90s grunge scene will go down as one of the most impactful music eras ever.
My list is more like: 1pearl jam, 2alice, 3nirvana, 4soundgarden, 5stone temple, 6screaming trees, 7temple of the dog, 8mad season, 9mother love bone, 10mudhoney
"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden." - Bruce Dickinson
Even though Chris Cornell is my favorite singer I've got to put Soundgarden as my second favorite grunge band overall behind Alice in chains. Although this opinion may change tomorrow because I love them both so much.
We should have all listened to Pearl Jam about ticketmonster. Originally Eddie wasn’t really in Temple of the Dog, he was just hanging out, but he noticed Chris (a great friend of Andrew Wood) was struggling to sing the low and high parts of Hunger Strike at the same time, and he quietly stepped in to take the low part.
nirvana will now and forever be the best grunge band ever to exists in my mind as well of many other people. rip kurt you will always hold a very very special place in my heart and mind and I will always love you thank you for all you did for the grunge era and for all you did as a person.
I was never a big grunge fan. I can take or leave pretty much every band on this list, but Soundgarden I absolutely love; Badmotorfinger is one of my favourite albums by anyone ever. Nirvana isn't far behind, and though I used to tease some of my friends who were superfans I think Nirvana conveyed a rawness and passion that most other grunge bands couldn't match. It made many of the latter always sound so commercial and homogenized in comparison, at least to me. I did like some STP, though, and L7 was pretty damn fun.
My list: 1. Pearl Jam 2. Alice In Chains 3. Nirvana 4. STP 5. Soundgarden I like/love them all but I connect heavily with PJ and AIC whereas I feel Nirvana is great but overhyped and Soundgarden is the hardest to connect to. STP is very underrated imo.
I'm glad to see the "core 4" is in the top 4 on this list, so you did your research. As someone who was a teenager in the 90s and listened to these bands every day (still do), I appreciate that. I miss the 90s so much 😔
Chris Cornell did all. Soungarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, Grammy Nomination from Solo Work, Songs for Cassino Royale and Avengers. Then, more Soundgarden. Obs: He had voice struggles too. I guess it's the same as it was with Axl Rose. Too much raw power. Mixed that up with drugs, and you have a problem.
Enjoyable video. More attention could've been given to the Subpop bands and those who were on the Deep Six comp though. Silverchair and Bush are typically regarded as post-grunge and shouldn't have taken the place of groups like Tad, Love Battery, U-Men, Green River, and others.
Will you at least add Sonic youth please? Not too late for an honorable mention. Fitz of Depression was a very important band in the Pacific Northwest at that time also. Nirvana used to open for them in Olympia and then fitz started opening for Nirvana.
Top 5 should've been: 1. Nirvana 2. Pearl Jam 3. Soundgarden 4. Alice in Chains 5. Stone Temple Pilots Also Silverchair should've been replaced on this list with Candlebox.
L7 and Melvins should have made the main list and AIC definitely my number one out of these bands. The harmonies between Layne and Jerry will always be phenomenal. They deserve to be in the Hall of Fame for sure.
Top 4 is Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, and Pearl Jam in 1, all incredible bands, but one of the best grunge songs of all time (black) was Pearl Jam as well as other amazing songs like Jeremy, Even Flow, Rearview Mirror, etc
I love all the Seattle big four... But my god I love Alice in Chains soo muchh. Layne's voice, Jerry's guitar and their perfect synchronised harmony voice when doing slow rock tunes.... Such a great masterpiece!
WatchMojo, thank you so much for not making a nightmare-inducing still from the Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" music video the thumbnail of this video. I really, really appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving to all the American WatchMojo fans out there!
Hey, WatchMojo. You should definitely do a list of the Top 20 Best EDM Songs of the 2000's. I have some examples of these songs they should get a mention. Examples: Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (2002) Enur feat. Natasja - Calabria 2007 (2007) Daft Punk - One More Time (2000) Edward Maya feat. Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love (2009) Eric Prydz - Call on Me (2004) Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire - Ghosts 'n' Stuff (2008) Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky (2001) ATC - Around the World (La La La La La) (2000)
In my Opinion the top 4 were in the correct order, Nirvana will always be the number one best band of all time in my opinion, and Layne Staley will always be the best vocal singer of all time
I was about to pick you up on not mentioning L7. Right at the end. Pixies should get a nod too. You did mention Mudhoney so I'm happy. But watching this I thought how it was never really a coherent genre. Not a bad thing. Bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains don't sound alike. More culturally similar than musically similar I guess. It made sense at the time.
Grunge is one of the most influential genres of music that rose and fell within a generation, that everyone still brings up. But these lists and such will never compete with what it was like to BE in that era and LIVE during the time of grunge and how it shaped [the then] modern music…
