Grunge

Though the film makes relatively few gestures toward contextualizing the band's place in the music of the '90s the band's members scorn the term grunge as a reductive buzzword, there are a few heartrending clips of The Most Dangerous Line of Latitude on the Planet Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. ❋ Dana Stevens (2011)

Not once during these shows did the word grunge cross my mind. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pearl Jam went on to surpass its 1990s contemporaries like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana, even as it transcended the label grunge. ❋ By ANDY WEBSTER (2011)

With British music in the grip of acid house, and long before the term grunge was in popular use, a trio of musicians from Seattle played the Astoria at the bottom of a bill featuring fellow plaid-shirted rockers TAD and Mudhoney. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The term grunge doesn't really bring a whole lot to my mind," Arm says over the phone from his home in Seattle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And dear god, when can we finally retire the term grunge for anything that's worn or distressed looking? ❋ Nicolas_evans (2008)

But the word "grunge," if not beloved, does accurately describe the music's sense of loss, frustration, and anger and the depth of the magically evocative drop D power chord, which you hear in songs like Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" and "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains. ❋ Ken Kurson (2011)

Underride are about as far from "grunge" "post grunge" or any other genre with the word grunge in it as you can get. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I was so filthy: sunscreen, bike grime, another layer of sunscreen, grunge from the road, sweat, some more muck just for good measure. ❋ Kate Fleurange (2009)

But as with all things Nirvana, the anniversary of Cobain's death is overblown, and should be celebrated insofar as it had the positive effect of putting the first nail in the coffin of the marketing term "grunge." ❋ John Giuffo (2011)

And to prove that loud music is not the exclusive domain of men of a certain age, we talk to the genre-defying Erika M Anderson, whose music as EMA has been labelled "grunge", "goth", "drone-folk", "rock" and all points inbetween. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Meanwhile, I'd have hoped for more original taste from my two personal favorite members of the selection committee, Radiohead and Beck - but they played it safe, too, with "Kool Thing" and "Sugar Kane," respectively, both big singles from the peak of SY's major-label grunge crossover era. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Washington State, with its gray skies and aura of wet gloom, was the natural birthplace of the unrelentingly bleak music that came to be known as grunge. ❋ Ken Kurson (2011)

Even before the album sold 4 million copies and the accompanying single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," launched the behemoth known as grunge, the band members talked about making a punk record. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean, if that does refer to anything real which I don't see how it does, can't we just say that that would be "grunge 1" in the dictionary, and the much more interesting, diverse range of music that I'm calling grunge would be "grunge 2"? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)