Who is the true godfather grunge do you think?!
Question: Some people say its Kurt Cobain. Other people say it is Neil Young. Then other people say it's Eddie Vedder. Who would you chose?
Answers: Some people say its Kurt Cobain. Other people say it is Neil Young. Then other people say it's Eddie Vedder. Who would you chose?
Freddy Mercury for sure. I mean, he sucked so many dicks and then comes Nirvana who's music actually sucks dicks.
Buzz Osborne from the Melvins Dude
It wasn't just one person, grunge music was influenced by number of different artist's, but if i had to pick one i would have to go with Kurt Cobain because he and nirvana basically defined grunge music to the mainstream.
Kurt Cobain.
No doubt about it, he had the look, personality and voice (:
Nirvana made amazingly awesome music and I will actually love them forever.
Kurt Cobain was a hero.
Kurt Cobain, no question he brought it into the mainstream. If you're talking about the actual roots of the music itself you'll have to look way further back than Neil Young, although he is fantastic and was certainly influential. I think you'd have to go as far back as Robert Johnson and his peers, who basically paved the way for Rock music, of which Grunge grew out of. The Blues were an original in a different way than grunge, because you can't find the integral components to blues in any other form of music that existed before it, but grunge takes from former forms of rock music.
Andrew Wood.
Neil Young, sure. Even some early Grand Funk Railroad recordings could meet the test.
Free's "Wishing Well", later covered by Blackfoot, very grungy. Put hanging chords and remove the horns from Tommy James' "Draggin' The Line" and you have a grunge song.
And don't forget the simple drama of 1960s songs by The Who, like "I Can See For Miles" or "Happy Jack". Listen to them and you'll hear the roots.
King's X
In many ways, grunge music was to the 90's what punk was to 70's. Both grunge and punk were relatively short lived musical genres that had a much greater impact than their sales, radio play, and concert performances would indicate. However, critically, both genres were both hailed and disparaged as either the future of rock or an indication that rock was dead.
So just as Neil Young's 1979 release of "Rust Never Sleeps" marked a turning point in both punk and rock, so did "Ragged Glory"'s release in 1991 foreshadow the emergence of grunge. Ragged Glory's raging feedback was widely emulated and influenced numerous bands, including Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth among others.
The earliest written reference to Neil Young as the 'Godfather Of Grunge' was in December 1991, when Tower Records in house publication Pulse! published a cover article on Neil Young titled 'The Godfather Of Grunge Rock' by Steve Martin.
The album Freedom is considered to be one of the ten most important albums in the history of alternative music. Pagewise in 2001 said:
"Despite what some Nirvana fans might say, this is the album that started it all. Neil Young is the grandfather of grunge. 'Freedom,' which Young released in 1989, was the first true alternative album. It seems a stretch to call an album by someone Young's age alternative, but the label is applied to the music.
Neil Young - Vedder's and Cobains style came from Neil Young
Neil Young for sure!
Pearl Jam and Neil Young recorded the albums Mirror Ball and Merkin Ball together and Eddie Vedder was influenced greatly by Neil Young.