The Apogee Commercial Grunge 
in 1990 and recommended by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Nirvana Geffen hires. The band recorded with producer Butch Vig (future member of Garbage) and a budget of $ 125,000 in contrast to the 600 of his debut. Not happy with the sound of the disc, take care Andy Wallace (who later would work with Rage Against the Machine, Sonic Youth, Blind Melon and others) that remix album. The result was
Nevermind.
While disc sales expectations did not exceed 500,000 units in the first six months sold 3 million driven single and video of the song that marked a before and after the Rock of the 90: "Smells Like Teen Spirit
." The song with a strong apathetic, sarcastic and disillusioned broke the mold of rock music that prevailed in the 80's.
Nirvana's success paved the way for some attention to other Seattle bands like Pearl Jam, who had edited the same 1991
Ten debut, which began to climb the charts months after its launch and would become like the other side of massive Grunge scene.
On January 11, 1992 Nevermind album becomes U.S. bestselling
dethroning of Michael Jackson Dangerous . The singles and videos of Nevermind and Ten follow one after another, Soundgarden achieved commercial success with her album Badmotorfinger
, "Jeremy
" becomes one of the year's most popular videos on MTV and Alice in Chains released their second Dirt and dark disk
. To this is added the release of the film by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown) called
Singles, set in Seattle and is full of allusions to the city's music scene. In the film are playing live Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, who meet at the soundtrack with Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, The Lovemongers and Screaming Trees. Appear in supporting roles including Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament.
At that time the Hair Metal is forgotten in the overnight. Bands like Warrant, Winger, Poison and Cinderella are displaced from popular preferences for alternative music. Even they are stigmatized and are frequent targets of ridicule.
Thus, 1992 marked the final emergence of grunge and alternative music allowing MTV, record companies and the public begin to pay attention and space to college rock bands of the 80 as Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins emerging as alternative . The effect also allow a wider spread to British bands like Catherine Wheel and other exponents of
Shoegazing . Mudhoney
time was a relative success in Europe and in 1992 received a more substantial budget to record their album Piece of Cake
including
single "Suck You Dry
" and a cover of Elvis Costello "
Pump it Up. "touches something also Screaming Trees have sold just over 300,000 copies of Sweet Oblivion
in the U.S. thanks to the song" Nearly Lost You
. "However, these successes are smaller and eventually only 4 groups Seattle managed a real commercial success and mainstream recognition: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden.
In this context, there are still interesting discs Seattle who did not receive attention as
Dayglo Love Battery 1992, despite having released a single interesting as "Out of Focus
."
in 1993 goes on sale
V / S of Pearl Jam debuted at No. 1 bestseller in several countries and popularize a number of bands under the umbrella of alternative music: Soul Asylum, Stone Temple Pilots , Blind Melon, Collective Soul, Candlebox and others who exploit the commercial grain influences Seattle and combined with other musical elements. Meanwhile
Nirvana released an album entitled
far less friendly In Utero, but was rumored to be called I Hate Myself and I Want to Die (I hate myself and want to die) in a clear example of the boredom of Kurt Cobain with show business and demonstrating their self-destructive tendencies. Despite its dirty sound disc becomes a new best-selling but not match the figures of its predecessor. Centrifuges
Trends and Tragedies
In 1993 it was clear that the most popular bands of the Grunge had its own distinctive sounds and groups already bored of the common tags and hyper-marketing the "Seattle Sound." If Nirvana made its manifest anti
with In Utero, Pearl Jam claims that will not record more music. However, the boom had not yet.
in January 1994 for the first time an EP (disc short-term) debuts at No. 1 best-seller in Billboard magazine. The question is
EP Jar of Flies Alice in Chains possessed a sound much more relaxed and less dense than their long durations (in line with their previous EP, Sap
). That same year, released his album Soundgarden Superunknown
popularized the songs "Spoonman", "Fell On Black
Days "and" Black Hole Sun
. "
Meanwhile, Pearl Jam released their third major album, Vitalogy
and start a legal battle against the ticketing company Ticketmaster for concert Overcharge on tickets that keeps the band to shows low cost to their fans. That battle would keep the band of Eddie Vedder and company outside of the big stadiums and even reach a plea before the U.S. Congress. His last major appearance was at the MTV Awards in 1994 where he played with Neil Young's song "Rockin 'in the Free World."
Nirvana, meanwhile, recorded in November 1993 for submission to MTV Unplugged playing three covers of a band that influenced the eighties, Meat Puppets. Those songs were "Oh I
", "Lake of Fire
" and "Plateau
" to which were added several hits and other songs themselves as "
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Which had been recorded in 1990 by Cobain and Novoselic for a solo debut of Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees vocalist. It is rumored that the band split. Kurt Cobain declared at one point that he would do something like what The Beatles did
disk Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band that catalyzed a major progression for the music. No clutch, the pressure of stardom, Cobain's depression and heroin addiction leads him to the limit. Having had problems in the tours, continuing problems of ulcers and to remember the chords of the songs (which led to Pat Smear
play guitar with the band in recent months) Nirvana playing live longer and after August 1 April Kurt Cobain's body is found in your home. He had committed suicide shot himself with a shotgun three days earlier.
Fans around the world make massive layoffs and the video for "All Apologies
" in acoustic version with a stage full of candles is transformed into a hymn of farewell. Cobain's death marks the beginning of the term for Grunge.
Alice in Chains in 1995 after infighting manage to get a self-titled album in 1996 and performed an acoustic performance for MTV would print on disc, but the singer Layne Staley who struggles against his addiction to heroin seems more interested in a project together guitarist Mike McCready and drummer of the Screaming Trees, Mad Season
entitled and Above
disk. Pearl Jam is immersed in its battle against Ticketmaster and play as support band
disk Mirror Ball Neil Young but not mentioned in the title because of problems with his record label.
Some symptoms that things were not before the Seattle bands for the two examples as the fourth album Love Battery
Straight Freak Ticket
, released by Polygram that goes unnoticed, and Truly
debut LP ,
Fast Stories ... From Kid Coma , which despite being a musical jewel more complex than most of their more famous and have received excellent reviews from critics had bad luck that his Capitol passed through a crisis and the disc received any support or promotion after editing.
In 1996, after a separation comes a new work entitled the Screaming Trees Dust
. Despite critical acclaim, the album fails to catapult to fame. That same year saw the light Soundgarden's last album, Down on the Upside and Pearl Jam released their album No Code
no closer to his musical success or past business and it is clear that the boom of Grunge is gone.
Nevertheless, some bands influenced by past and classified as post-grunge
achieved some successes. These include Creed, Staind or more of the acoustic Days Read
