smashing pumpkins

[metalkingdom]

I wouldn't put AIC in the same category as Smashing Pumpkins.

 

[Mike]

im pretty open musically, but i sitll dont like the pumpkins or alice in chains.

 

[AsModEe]

I'm pretty opened musically too, but from everything I heard, I can only listen to metal on a daily basis.

 

[Chromatose]

I wouldn't put AIC in the same category as Smashing Pumpkins.

grunge was just another part of 90s alternative at the time as far as most were concerned. I'm looking at it from the broad perspective that plagued most superficial predetermined leanings.

 

[metalkingdom]

I'm looking at it from the broad perspective that plagued most superficial predetermined leanings.

That sounds cool.

AIC wasn't, and never was, "grunge". It's really strange how they got lumped into all of that stuff. Spot on guitars and solos and an amazing vocalist = not grunge by a long way. I bet if the 'Ryche came out in 1991, they would've labeled them grunge too. Speaking of Queensryche, I've been working out to Empire. "The Best I Can" is a fucking great pump-you-up song while lifting!

 

[Super Mahrio]

anything that came from Seattle at that time that wasnt really heavy was labeled grunge... Soundgarden really didnt fit into that catagory either but some of their early shit did sound grungy... (Louder than Love, Ultramega OK, Screaming Life) but when Badmotofinger was released, boy did they prove themselves ungrunge! AIC was never grunge..they always bordered on metal...

 

[Chromatose]

yes yes, AiC is great and all, but face it, even if it can be argued against it since "they're better than those bands," the media certaintly grouped them in the grunge scene, no question. Anyway, that wasn't that point, it was just an example of a band close minded metal heads would list as "shit", since it does happen here a lot ( ha ha Will)

 

[Super Mahrio]

odd...alot of metalheads ive talk to state otherwise Chromie..

 

[Chromatose]

a case of missing the point and/or having to be there.


but if we had a time machine and could go back into early 90s pop culture on the east coast!.. oh right, well then no point continuing.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

apparently they just reunited