what is and isn't grunge?
(comment meant for Facebook, but it got way too long) as for grunge, there's a lot of discussion regarding what belongs and what doesn't belong to the genre. more often than not, it overlaps with alternative rock thanks to bands like Nirvana, but that's where grunge purists will come in and say, "no, nirvana are not real grunge." they'll often cite bands that effectively started the whole movement in roughly 1984-86 - i.e. soundgarden, green river (which would splinter off into mudhoney and mother love bone), malfunkshun, melvins, the u-men - which were largely considered to be part of the massive indie music scene in seattle. a lot of these bands varied wildly in specific style - soundgarden was more indebted to psychedelic rock, melvins were big into the super-slow hardcore punk of black flag's my war, and green river were a slightly heavier garage rock/blues rock band - but they seemed to share a few commonalities: 1. their casual dress (partially to e