Popular Grunge Bands List

Grunge is a genre of music that originated in Seattle, Washington in the late 1980s. In its wake, grunge gave rise to a kind of music that came about to define the youth of those times. Full of heavy as well as heavily-distorted music and angst-filled lyrics, grunge music was popularized the most by Nirvana and Pearl Jam - two grunge bands that grunge enthusiasts and fans all over rank to be the top 2 grunge bands to have ever existed. Though Nirvana came into existence in the 1980s (1987 to be precise) it attained cult status in the 1990s, with the release of their most popular and influential album Nevermind. This album introduced the world to grunge and transformed it from a local form of music to an international genre. Pearl Jam followed closely - the band, formed in 1990, is one of the most definitive existing grunge bands. Pearl Jam aficionados sometimes say that Pearl Jam is a genre in itself - that they are in a league of their own. However, it is majorly classified as a grunge band.

Popular Grunge Bands

Here is a list of popular grunge bands according to the years in which they released albums.

Grunge Bands of the 80s	Grunge Bands of the 90s
The U-Men Green River Screaming Trees Melvins Skin Yard Soundgarden L7 Mudhoney Blood Circus Mothe Love Bone Nirvana Tad	Alice In Chains Babes In Toyland Gruntruck Seaweed Hammerbox Hole Smashing Pumpkins Spin Doctors Temple of the Dog 7 Year Bitch Failure	Love Battery Sprinkler Stone Temple Pilots X Japan Marilyn Manson Nine Inch Nails Mad Season Malfunkshun Third Day Truly Jerry Cantrell

The Complete List

Here is a complete alphabetical list of all the grunge bands to have ever existed.

7 Year Bitch	A Day With The Dammed	Alice In Chains
Ammonia	Angel's Perfect Dream	Another Dead Hero
Atticus Finch	Babes In Toyland	Bad Legacy
Battalion Of Flies	Beard Seeking Missile	Big Chief
Big Dismal	Billy Corgan	Black Market Radio
Blind Iris	Brain Danger	Bullets For Teeth
Bush	Candlebox	Candy Flesh
Causticum	Chokebore	Collective Soul
Courtney Love	Crash Palace	Creed
Cry Row	Dai Lo	Days Of The New
Dead Mushroom	Descados	Dimusculated
Dry Can	Endorphins	Evil Adam
Fadeless	Far Plain	Fast Foolish Flies
Feuerzeug	Fire In The Asylum	Fis(ch)er
Flood	Flux	Foetus
Glomming Geek	God Slaves	Green River
Grey Daze	Gruntruck	Guldin
Harmful	Hauk	Headquake
Helium	Hole	Honeytrap
Hopesfall	Illusion	Invain
Jehangir Aziz Hayat	June Deville	Juxtaposed
Kandi	Coded	Kursed
L7	Lethargy	Live
Local H	Love Addiction	MAB
Mad Season	Maddame...	Mindfunk
Mother Love Bone	Mudhoney	Musicphobia
My Darkest Days	My Sister's Machine	Nirvana
Nisvanis	Noiseless	Novels
Nuno	Onesidezero	Pagoda
Pandora	Paradox	Paw
Pearl Jam	Puddle Of Mudd	Radioactif
Rapscallion	Rosemary	Scorching Bullets
Screaming Trees	Second Coming	Serial Joe
Skin Yard	Smashing Pumpkins	Smeer
Smile	Soul Asylum	Soundgarden
Sponge	Steal-No	Stone Temple Pilots
Stub Horn	Tad	Tantric
Temple Of The Dog	The Big F	The Half Bees
The Jesus Lizard	Toadies	Trubador
Tumbleweed	Verdena	Violent Soho
We The Faceless	Witness	Zero Point

The popularity that grunge ultimately received kind of emphasizes an important point - whatever you do, if you do it with conviction, the world will accept and celebrate it. Grunge, and the factors that stemmed it, are something not everybody gets. The wet weather of Seattle, the constant downpours, made people stay indoors for the majority time of the day; it made the youth gloomy, restless. They had no way to vent their feelings, their youthful energy that they were so full of. At such times, they went underground, to the basements, to the garages, and what came out of all the angst bursting underground was grunge. They say you will never understand or appreciate grunge unless you have been in a situation like that - that desperate, that anxious as those kids were in their basements. But those rebels created a revolution and changed the face of music for years to come. I wonder if they are aware about it though; or more so if they care. In the words of Kurt Cobain, Oh well, whatever, nevermind...

*Disclaimer: The list of popular grunge bands given in this article is subject to change according to personal choice!