SteveXFR

Diamond Eyes - Deftones

Asphyxiation - Sons Of Apollo

F**k off and die - Darkthrone Too much?

Baby got back - Sir Mix A Lot

I got a bit confused here. This should have gone I the grunge discussion, not here.

As we're many terrible bands. I'll draw your attention to Trapt, Creed, Nickelback and Counting Crows.

Invisible man - Queen

Notes you'll hear through a doom mix, interesting tonal complexities will get lost.

No. There were quite a few still on their books from before grunge. Sonic Youth is one that comes to mind.

I remember there was one British grunge band, Bush. They were a bunch of rich kids funded by their parents and bloody awful.

There are some Grunge records that still sound fresh. Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden, Vurses by Pearl Jam and Inhaler by Tad. The one I couldn't work out is were Dinosaur Jr grunge?

Even if they do sound interesting and complex, would you hear it through your overdrive/fuzz and two heavily distorted guitars and a loud drummer? The last rhythm guitarist I played with took two strings off his guitar and tuned the remaining four to A# F A# F so he could bar across all four strings to get octave power chords. He even managed to play decent solos with it. I had more strings on my bass than he had on his guitar but I only used my G string for one note in one song, I'd have been better off with a well set up, tuned down 4 string but I did like my Stingray Ray35

Very, very true. Lemmy didn't do groove, that would have required some subtly. Lemmy had all the subtly of a nuclear bomb.

Al Cisneros occasionally uses a 5 string but he mostly uses low tuned fours. You'd never use the G string on a five so why have it there? Also, lots of open string drones and pull offs from high up the neck to open so it's really difficult to play most stuff without having the right tuning.

Iron Man - Sabbath

Best live show I ever went to. Not a mosh pit for the feint hearted. I went home covered I blood (some of it mine) with a ripped shirt and half a drum stick. An hour and a half of pure punk energy So no Nirvana, Alice In Chains or Soundgarden?

Them Bones - Alice I Chains

I haven't watched it yet but if Melvins, Green River, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, Tad and Mudhoney are omitted I wil hunt down Mr Beato to express my displeasure at his substandard video.

A gem among turds. Not really an indie band though, very definitely a rock band. Them Crooked Vultures played their first ever show as a surprise support band for Arctic Monkeys.

Yep. I forgot that. Was there one? I just remember awful rubbish like Coldplay, Keene and Snow Patrol. The peak of bland

Beat on the brat - Ramones

To be honest, I think hair metal killed hair metal. Too much drink and drugs ruined their ability to play and write new music that wasn't just rehashed versions of their old b sides.

Battery - Metallica Batteries contain electrolyte innit

Nu metal was terrible in general but as you mentioned, SOAD were excellent and Daron Malakian is still releasing music which is like modern SOAD and is excellent. Deftones were another very good nu-metal survivor although I don't see anything they made after White Pony as being nu-metal. Not all nu-metal was as bad as Crazy Town or Trapt. Even Limp Bizkit made one acceptable album (their first). Same in Britpop. There's some very good bands still going from that scene. Suede, Supergrass, Charletons and Placebo were all britpop, all still going and all excellent. We are overdue a big new revolution in music but I'm not sure it'll happen now that music scenes don't really exist anymore. There's no more metal clubs, no one goes to night clubs, even raves are just a handful of hippies with some pills playing early 90's music

I'm not sure why but grunge gave the world three of the all time greatest rock drummers. Jimmy Chamberlain, Matt Cameron and Dave Grohl.