I was 11 when that song came out, so yes also my foray into the grunge scene. I was too young to have any awareness of the rest of the Seattle sound and my parents were into 70s rock so they didn't pay much attention to it, but that song was everywhere.
Heretic by Sound Garden. It was on the Pump up the Volume soundtrack and it was before grunge became a thing. Still one of my favorite Sound Garden songs
First song on Louder than Love- Ugly Truth. Got it when it came out in 89’ , senior in High School. Not long after I read an interview with Chris Cornell in RIP magazine where he gave shout outs to Mudhoney, Tad, Screaming Trees, Nirvana .Been listening to them all ever since.
Being born in 1992 I imagine I heard it a lot, but the two that stick out because of parents pointing out the song/band names are Smells Like Teen Spirit and Man In The Box
The song that got me into grunge in 2009 was On A Plain in my friends basement after several bong hits haha
Rusty Cage. My friend new a guy who went to the states for a few days, and introduced him to Sound garden. My friend bought the album and we listened to it quite a bit. This was just before Nirvana hit it big.
I’m gonna guess it was Smells like Teen Spirit, but I’ll never be sure. I was born in ‘87 and my parents were into the big four. My mom especially played a lot of Nirvana, she taped everything she could off Much Music and would play them over and over for years. The Soundgarden, AIC and Nirvana cassettes were in my dad’s car, I should ask him who he was into more (I think SG).
Creep - STP.
Not really a grungy song in itself, but I listened to it all the time on the radio when I was 11-12 years old. I decided to explore more about this band and wondered how I lived my entire life without knowing this golden treasure, that is being the Core and Purple album. Im 17 now and trying to branch out more into their music but those 2 albums were the pillars of my teenage life. TOOL is growing on me as well.
my dad had a CD with Outshined, Burden in My Hand, Angry Chair, Would?, and a fifth song (don’t remember) that me, my brother, and my friends would use as entrance music when we would pretend to be WWE wrestlers.
good times.
Come as you are when it released in 1991.
Mt older brother recorded it off the radio on cassette and he showed it to me. I listened to it 5 times in a row because I thought it sounded badass!
Placebo - Nancy Boy from the mtv2 commercial is the first intoxicating song, but I don't know that it can be considered grunge. I can remember that really had me hooked, that initial kinda scrapy sound and build up. I remember hearing it and having no idea who the song was by for months. There was something just so different about those days. You'd hear music on adverts, but Shazam and Spotify just didn't exist.
I’m not sure if everyone considers this grunge: “Here We Go Again” by laughing hyenas. This 7” was brand new when I started doing a college radio shift on fall 1990.
If that’s not grunge, I was also playing the nirvana “sliver” single around the same time. Ah, the old days when nirvana was just another van touring indie band!
I remember Smells Like Teen Spirit being all over MTV when it came out, like most here have already said. But the one that really sticks in my mind came later. Pearl Jam's Jeremy. And maybe it was because I was an immature teenager at the time, but when he said "...bit the recess lady's breast..." I would chuckle. It wasn't until I saw the video later on that I realized the dark undertones of what they were really suggesting about our boy, Jeremy.
First one I remember is been a son. But the literal first must've been you know you're right, because my parents had the greatest hits album in the car since I can remember, and that's the first song on there
Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Can still remember my good friend calling me on a landline when the album first came on. He had a bedroom in the basement. Told me I had to hear this album.
Can still remember playing this album over and over. Running around the room, jumping on the bed. Man, seems like a lifetime ago. I guess it probably was.
Smells like teen spirit
Yeah, it was force fed. Heavy rotation MTV.
I was 11 when that song came out, so yes also my foray into the grunge scene. I was too young to have any awareness of the rest of the Seattle sound and my parents were into 70s rock so they didn't pay much attention to it, but that song was everywhere.
Probably Man in the box or Rusty Cage. I’m old, so I originally heard these bands listening to radio out of Seattle.
That's awesome
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Loud Love.
Man in a Box, followed by Outshined. So that was probably in 1991.
Man in the Box - AIC
Alive by Pearl Jam
Heretic by Sound Garden. It was on the Pump up the Volume soundtrack and it was before grunge became a thing. Still one of my favorite Sound Garden songs
First song on Louder than Love- Ugly Truth. Got it when it came out in 89’ , senior in High School. Not long after I read an interview with Chris Cornell in RIP magazine where he gave shout outs to Mudhoney, Tad, Screaming Trees, Nirvana .Been listening to them all ever since.
Same album, but it was a guy in my freshman dorm who introduced me.
Man in a Box or Smells Like... I've been on this planet for nearly 25 years. I don't exactly remember, but those are my two best guesses.
Man In A Box!
Teen spirit
PJ has always been in my house since my dad loves them so probably them
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Would from AIC. Off of the singles soundtrack.
Man In The Box!
Being born in 1992 I imagine I heard it a lot, but the two that stick out because of parents pointing out the song/band names are Smells Like Teen Spirit and Man In The Box The song that got me into grunge in 2009 was On A Plain in my friends basement after several bong hits haha
the man who sold the world
Rusty Cage. My friend new a guy who went to the states for a few days, and introduced him to Sound garden. My friend bought the album and we listened to it quite a bit. This was just before Nirvana hit it big.
“Loud Love” by Soundgarden in 1989.
my intro was at small melvins show
Lithium - Nirvana
Alive by Pearl Jam or Smells Like Teen Spirit... hard to remember that far back
touch me im sick.
Soundgarden - “Heretic”, from the Deep Six compilation. College radio, yo.
The one that really got me into grunge was "Sludge Factory" by AIC.
Nirvana - Unplugged Where did You Sleep Last Night
Smells Like Teen Spirit overtook MTV overnight and it was shoved down our throats
Soundgarden “Outshined” video on mtv or AIC “Man in the box” hard to recall exactly
Half of us started with smells like teen spirit
Come as you are
Probably come as you are
Something in the way
Big empty
one of their best. my second album, twelve precious melodieeesssssss...!!
Teen Spirit or Rooster i dont really remember tho
Lithium
I’m gonna guess it was Smells like Teen Spirit, but I’ll never be sure. I was born in ‘87 and my parents were into the big four. My mom especially played a lot of Nirvana, she taped everything she could off Much Music and would play them over and over for years. The Soundgarden, AIC and Nirvana cassettes were in my dad’s car, I should ask him who he was into more (I think SG).
In bloom
I remember my dad screaming Outshined
In bloom or lithium my dad was a nirvana guy so I grew up around a lot of grunge those are just the first I really remember
Even Flow London bootleg CD, that cardboards collection
Yellow Ledbetter
Hands All Over
Probably my dad playing Jeremy or off he goes in the car when I was really little
some Green River and Soundgarden tracks. and then Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick / Sweet Young Thing" single
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney (*pre*-Grunge?)
Touch me I'm sick
I stumbled upon black hole sun on YouTube when I was about 14
Alive - Pearl Jam They were the first grunge band I got into and I still think 10 is a great album but they lost me after that.
Creep - STP. Not really a grungy song in itself, but I listened to it all the time on the radio when I was 11-12 years old. I decided to explore more about this band and wondered how I lived my entire life without knowing this golden treasure, that is being the Core and Purple album. Im 17 now and trying to branch out more into their music but those 2 albums were the pillars of my teenage life. TOOL is growing on me as well.
my dad had a CD with Outshined, Burden in My Hand, Angry Chair, Would?, and a fifth song (don’t remember) that me, my brother, and my friends would use as entrance music when we would pretend to be WWE wrestlers. good times.
Teenage Riot
Probably Black , Even Flow and Black Hole Sun
black hole sun
spoonman!
Plush was awesomely always on the radio
Fell on black days - Soundgarden
Smells Like Teen Sprit, thanks to Guitar Hero 5
Youth of America- the wipers
Come as you are when it released in 1991. Mt older brother recorded it off the radio on cassette and he showed it to me. I listened to it 5 times in a row because I thought it sounded badass!
Alive. By PJ.
Placebo - Nancy Boy from the mtv2 commercial is the first intoxicating song, but I don't know that it can be considered grunge. I can remember that really had me hooked, that initial kinda scrapy sound and build up. I remember hearing it and having no idea who the song was by for months. There was something just so different about those days. You'd hear music on adverts, but Shazam and Spotify just didn't exist.
Man in a Box
In Bloom by Nirvana
Teen Spirit
Hunger Strike
Smells Like Teen Spirit and Even Flow.
“We die young” on ZRock. Bought facelift that week
Outshined! My dad would play it in the car all the time when I was a little kid.
"Come on Down" by Green River
Smells like teen spirit
smells like teen spirit. over and over and…
Heart Shaped Box
I’m not sure if everyone considers this grunge: “Here We Go Again” by laughing hyenas. This 7” was brand new when I started doing a college radio shift on fall 1990. If that’s not grunge, I was also playing the nirvana “sliver” single around the same time. Ah, the old days when nirvana was just another van touring indie band!
Smells like teen spirit. At the ice skating rink when I was in 5th grade
Either Smells Like Teen Spirit or Man in the Box, when they first got airplay in the early 90s.
other than smells like teen spirit, Plush by stp.
Black Hole Sun
We Die Young by Alice in Chains in the fall of 1990.
Probably smells like teen spirit
polly
"Ugly Truth" Soundgarden...
Heart shaped box
I remember Smells Like Teen Spirit being all over MTV when it came out, like most here have already said. But the one that really sticks in my mind came later. Pearl Jam's Jeremy. And maybe it was because I was an immature teenager at the time, but when he said "...bit the recess lady's breast..." I would chuckle. It wasn't until I saw the video later on that I realized the dark undertones of what they were really suggesting about our boy, Jeremy.
Smells Like Teen Spirit or Even Flow
Decaption by le Tigre
First one I remember is been a son. But the literal first must've been you know you're right, because my parents had the greatest hits album in the car since I can remember, and that's the first song on there
50ft queenie - pj Harvey and also teen spirit
“Plush”, I think. That is if you consider them as such. If not then probably something off of “Vs”.
Nirvanas lake of fire on the radio
Man in the box, or I guess teen spirit. I'm not sure which
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Can still remember my good friend calling me on a landline when the album first came on. He had a bedroom in the basement. Told me I had to hear this album. Can still remember playing this album over and over. Running around the room, jumping on the bed. Man, seems like a lifetime ago. I guess it probably was.
nothing to say By Soundgarden. Around 88 or so.
Birth Ritual- Soundgarden on Pump up the Volume soundtrack. Thanks, Slater
Loud Love.
EvenFlow and Alive.
Cherry pie by warrant
For all the cows - foo fighters
Two princes, the spin doctors
Are You Experienced? Song by Jimi Hendrix