Yeah. Their entire catalogue since then.

Does not mean it was their best work. BSSM had some good music on it. Still think that MM was better.

Isnt this a little different than saying "Mothers Milk was their last good album"?

IMO Mothers Milk was an overall a better album. Give it Away and Under the Bridge brought down BSSM down a few notches.

Cobain knew it lol.

I have no quarrel with you holding that opinion. What I am disagreeing with is this:

Dude what?
Frusciante the guitarist was gone for 1 maybe two
albums and and was replaced with Navarro then came back.

Hillel Slovak, Arik Marshall, Frusciante, Navarro, Jesse Tobias, DeWayne McKnight, Jack Sherman.

I loved Mother's Milk, but I thought BSSM was better.

bravo :clap:

That must be why Pearl Jam sold out Wrigley field in 45 minutes.

We're talking about the "movement" not one particular band

I have loved Pearl Jam from the beginning. I think the "grunge" label was always dumb. They are simply a great rock band. Are there people who still consider them grunge? Are there people who think grunge is a thing?

to put this into context, Tobias, Marshall, and Blackbyrd didn't record with RHCP; they're were all in the band for a cumulative 15min, collectively.

Sherman replaced Slovak for the first album and tour while Slovak was in another band with Jackie I, so really it's like this :

Sherman : 1984
Slovak : 85-88
Frusciante : 88-92
Navarro : 93-97
Frusciante : 98-2010
Klinghoffer : 2010-??

that's 5 guitarists over 30 years.

'grunge' WAS a fad - only people at least a decade older than me even use that word in conjunction with any type of musical genre though; it described the way posers dressed in high school.

Fact is, the music of the so-called 'grunge' bands is pretty disparate. Jane's Addiction sounded nothing like Chili Peppers, who sounded nothing like Soundgarden, who sounded nothing like Smashing Pumpkins.

I don't know too many bands from the 70's and 80's who put out records that move huge numbers, except for U2 and RHCP. Elton John.

But a lot of the 70's/80's bands move tickets purely on nostalgia; they hit the baby boomer market hard - even going so far to scalp their own tickets to make sure they gougue their 'fans' for as much as they can.

they've had at least 3 great records since then.

Hell, I'm in the minority, but I'm a big One Hot Minute fan.

Hey...Dane's in the industry, so that means his opinion on the subject is somehow more valid than anyone else's.

Only people in their fifties.

'Grunge' was laughable as soon as they started trotting that stupid ****ing word around.

No one my age used that word, unless we were making fun of old people.

'My aunt said 'grunge', hahahah!! Then I said I didn't want gravy on my mashed potatoes, and she said 'that's okay, you're 'alternative'. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!'

But no one who was in the moment ever went 'think I'll listen to some 'grunge' as they reach for the Mudhoney CD...ever.

Like, it was just rock music to us. There was no 'grunge movement' - all that shit's in hindsight. Geffen records was pushing Nirvana's Nevermind just as hard as they pushed GN'R and Aerosmith back then, played them all on the same radio stations. The compartmentalization within the industry didn't happen until later, after Nevermind went to number one and they realized the MARKET that was available.