BULLSHIT!!!!!! KIRBY, GO BACK TO YOUR HOLE ON THE EASTSIDE!

NIRVANA FOREVER!!! ABERDEEN PRIDE!!!

Grunge is dad.

grunge is dead, but Nirvana will always and forever be the king of them all.

kirby what are you on about?

I agree, Soundgarden was better. Temple of the Dog might be my favorite, however.

temple of the dog? dude! why?

One time I saw Chris Cornell eating waffles (or pancakes) at Minnies on Broadway when I was 18. Or 19. He was by himself. I believe he also had orange juice.

Tad forever!!

It could have been a mimosa. But the real question is: Were the pancakes/waffles larger or smaller than his gigantic motherfucker of a head?

Jeff, Soundgarden?

They may have been my first show (Spokane Arena in May of '94 on the "Superunknown" tour), but there is no way they are a better band than Nirvana.

This is entirely due to Chris Cornell.

in a completely conceivable marvel comics "what if?" scenario: if kurt would have not killed himself, he could've fronted a new band formed with the ex-members of the stone temple pilots to create lukewarm radio singles for heavy kroc rotation. take that audioslave!

tallchris: Cornell used to have unparalleled pipes. see: "slaves and bulldozers" on badmotorfinger. Of course Nirvana was a more "important" band culturally, and were undeniably sweet, but when it boils down to it I would rather listen to badmotorfinger than nevermind, and I would rather listen to "superunknown" than "in utero." I am only sick of hearing one soundgarden song: "black hole sun." I am sick of hearing several nirvana songs: "heart shaped box," "teen spirit," "come as you are." this is due to mtv and radio overplay, but it is a truth nonetheless. there are a select few nirvana songs that I think still totally 'rock:' "scentless apprentice" and "breed" are key examples. for soundgarden, the list is much, much bigger.

none of this should go to discount my love for nirvana. it should only go to strengthen my love for soundgarden, which is mighty.

Kurt probably saw that in his future.

Jeff, you must be smoking some "unparalleled pipes."

Grunge was shit. None of these bands are worth a damn.

All of you need to get out more.

In a parallel universe after Kurt died Ben Shepherd took over as singer guitarist and Nirvana soldiered on.

Another lame fucking Kirby post.

WHAT THE FUCK. Is anything you do not boring?

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jeff, you fucking love soundgorden so hard.

Kirby is the Truth.

Kirby is the biggest hack I have ever read.

They're no U-MEN.

@21: thank you Dan.

Stating the obvious: Nirvana, Soundgarden, many, many others including Mudhoney and the aforementioned U-Men and Screaming Trees and Dead Moon, then some bands you hate to admit you like (now is the time to bring up Temple Of The Dog or Cat Butt), THEN Alice In Chains.

Jesus.

I respect Soundgarden more due to the fact that they have the power to actually get the band back together.

I just hope they wait 20+ years before they do so. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to muster a shit over it.

Soundgarden is one of those bands that seemed amazing at first and got progressively more crappy. The Screaming Life EP, about half of UltraMega OK, and that HIV Baby 7" were ramped up, but most of the music they're famous for is long slow rock ballads that weren't much different from '70s stadium rock. Grunge was some amalgamation of rock, punk and the Northwest garage band sound of the '60s, but you don't hear any punk or garage in later Soundgarden, or for that matter craptastic bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, etc.

Kirbs...C'MON...go buy some Deep Purple (MK2) LPs, at least Machine Head and Fireball! Soundgarden was...well...always kinda lame as their version, that being their BAND Soundgarden, of Deep Purple was 3rd rate. No one I knew liked 'em beyond the Screaming Life, Ultramega records, when did they come out, '88? And then by the time they made MTV those who thought those records were "okay" had changed their minds...Of course, that guy Kim is super nice, though at the fake MC5 show a few years ago his contribution was...uh, interesting...he needed a FAN to blow his hair around during the two chord rave up of Kick Out The Jams. Eep.

RE: Nirvana - I'd rather listen to the Melvins!

I agree with Dan @24 assessment.

And c'mon Kerri, Dead Moon was in a class all their own. Not an ounce of me hates to admit I like'em.