what killed the Seattle grunge sound/scene?

Question

should it come back?

Answer 1

After Nirvana broke open the whole scene.....well it became huge. Every band began copying and manipulating the "Seattle Sound" and it turned into post-grunge.......bands like Bush, Days of the New, Candlebox etc..... took over the popularity. Along with the deaths and breakups of the largest grunge bands (Nirvana, Soudgarden, Alice In Chains), Bripop became huge......acts like Oasis, Blur, Pulp and Supergrass dominated the radio.

Pearl Jam, the sole remaining band of the grunge "Big Four" boycotted Ticketmaster and its monopoly.....canceling its tour and trying to find venues that didn't use Ticketmaster caused them not to play much in the US for a few years

Answer 2

Popularity did. Any "underground" and "alternative" scene will lose their core enthusiasts after a while, when what once was "alternative" becomes mainstream. When the "wrong" audience shows up at concerts (too young, too old, too many women, too many "not hip" people...) and when mainstream media becomes too interested, the original audience moves too something else, because for them popularity = "sellout".

"Grunge speak was a hoax created by Megan Jasper, a sales representative for Sub Pop Records. Under pressure from a reporter for The New York Times who wanted to know if grunge fans had their own slang, Jasper, 25 at the time, told the reporter a set of made-up on-the-spot slang terms that she claimed were associated with the Seattle grunge scene in the early 1990s. The information given by Jasper appeared in the sidebar of a November 15, 1992 feature article of the Times. (...) Jasper had been sick of the attention that reporters were paying to people involved in the Seattle grunge scene, and thus pulled the prank to get back at them for their superfluous questioning."

Answer 3

The scene ran its course pretty quickly, but the effect of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains will be long lasting. I would say that the death of Kurt Cobain started the fall of the scene...

but Limp Bizkit is guilty of killing rock music altogether. I hate them so much.

Answer 4

It became too commercial.
As far as it coming back I don't think any genre actually completely dies. Someone, somewhere is still making that kind of music and wearing those so called 'grunge clothes'.

Answer 5

Courtney Love

Answer 6

Several things....

The death of Kurt Cobain along with the British Pop. Invasion (Oasis, Blur...etc.) and commercialization of "grunge"

I think if it came back it would kill my nostalgia for it....what a great period.

Answer 7

I don't know, but it's kinda like witnessing vigilantes take out some sicko pedophile serial rapist on a dark alley - you just turn the other way and say under your breath .."well, at least somebody put and end to it". Obviously , my answer to the second part would be.....NO.

Answer 8

Too many artists died. I think it started with Cobaine's death. I wouldn't be sad if grunge didn't come back.

Answer 9

The horrifying mediocrityand blandness of Creed Nickelback and Matchbox 20

And certainly not.

Answer 10

Prozac