Grunge music

:Grunge redirects here. For other uses, see Grunge (disambiguation).

Notes

• {{note|coupland}}The novel ' by Douglas Coupland, which popularized the term "Generation X", was published in 1991. Despite common belief, the novel makes no reference to grunge at all; Nirvana had yet to release "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the time that the novel was published. Still, the characters' attitudes and dress styles were seen as being reminiscent of those of grunge fans and musicians.
• {{note|ArmGrunge}} Arm first used the term in 1981, before he had adopted the name under which he became famous. As Mark McLaughlin, he wrote a letter to a Seattle zine, Desperate Times, criticizing his own then-band Mr. Epp and the Calculations as "Pure grunge! Pure noise! Pure shit!" Clark Humphrey, who edited Desperate Times, cites this (Loser, 63) as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of SubPop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987–88, using it on several occasions to describe Arm's band Green River. {{ref|hump1}}
• {{note|geffen}}A common claim of the media is that Geffen Records played a major role in marketing grunge to the mainstream audience. However, its only involvement was in promoting Nirvana in the 1990s. It is worth noting that Nirvana had already begun to gain a considerable following when they were signed to Sub Pop.
• {{note|pavitt}}Pavitt and Poneman were both criticized for their actions. Some grunge fans felt that their role in popularizing grunge was done out of greed rather than an actual love for the music.
• {{note|postg}}Most grunge bands that came from outside of the Pacific Northwest belonged to the subgenre of post-grunge. Those mentioned were not exceptions; Bush and Silverchair, despite their success, were heavily criticized by grunge fans for helping post-grunge proliferate in the music industry. Stone Temple Pilots were often criticized for their similarities to mainstream musicians of the previous decade, and some grunge fans do not believe that they count as a grunge band at all.