Bands that survived the Grunge apocalypse?

From Tom Petty himself: "Nirvana was the most significant thing to me since The Beatles"

 

Aerosmith and kept their hair long through the 90’s.

 

What's your point?

 

You seemed quite dismissive of my comments.

 

Is this supposed to be just about 70s artists?
Page Plant had a ready audience in the 90s, and played some great music.


As for 80s acts........
Metallica plowed through the 90s and always had an audience.
Megadeth maintained an audience.
Anthrax adapted and maintained an audience.
Corrosion of Conformity may have had their most success in the 90s? I could be off there.......

It was bands considered hair metal that fell off, particularly ones with only a single minor hit album or less, and by now things have come full circle, to where a band like Twisted Sister probably does well, if their out playing...<I have no idea if they are/ and I realize they probably have a couple hit albums....

 

I thought that this thread would be about "Grunge"-bands that survived the end of Grunge, which was similar to the end of Punk. Sudden fame, mainstream success, endles mocking because of "selling out" etc. in the press that after a while decided that Grunge was not hip anymore now that it lost it`s undergroundyness and not to forget too much drugs and death.

I guess if anything Grunge first replaced Glam Metal and Sleaze Rock, paved the way for Alternative Rock and Nu Metal and in the end some of it`s young fans explored and found joy in the older forefathers too. In the long run Grunge rejuvinated Rock and made it "cool" again.

Yes, I stole most of my thoughts from Wiki entries. ;-)

 

The Ocean Blue
Didn't even seem to phase them...

 

If you were in a hair metal band, there sure was.

 

Supertramp

 

It was weird, seemed like in the space of a couple years I was hearing Ratt on local rock, and then it was all Candlebox

 

If anything, Grunge saved Boomer rock, look what it did for Black Sabbath and Neil Young! It was the 1980’s glam metal and sleaze rock bands that it wiped out. Probably Guns n’ Roses are the most notable of the bands to survive.

 

Paul McCartney!

 

Like cockroaches

 

Where are all the grunge band now though??? Most of them are too dead to even consider repetitive multi farewell tours like KISS and Motley Crue....so who got the last laugh??

 

Hair bands would've died out no matter what, but characters like Eddie Trunk and leagues of third-tier, late comer Sunset Strip type bands would have you believe that everything is the fault of "grunge", "grunge killed rock", "if only grunge hadn't come along, etc."

Fact is, hair bands themselves were a fad that had a good run and died out due to over-saturation.

 

These are called exceptions to the rule. Many of the hair bands (and yes I realize Kiss is not a hair band) are playing crappy little burnout clubs with 1 or 2 original members if they still play music at all. There is a club in my metro area that specializes in booking these washed up acts. Winger is playing there next week.

 

Me, too. The Walkabouts came out of Seattle and recorded for Sub Pop at the same time as Nirvana and the rest, and went on to a long and varied career which to answer the original post's question include many of my favorite post-1992 records.

 

Yes, they transitioned from drumb hair pop metal to puppets of Britney Spears' songwriters. Score!

 

R.E.M. had their biggest success in the grunge era, with an album (Automatic) that had nothing to do with it.

Also, thanks to grunge, major labels started taking chances on bands that weren't at all grungy, but were well established in the indie world. Everyone from Yo La Tengo to American Music Club to gasp, Pere Ubu.

 

...adding:
Pixies

 

Death to the Pixies

They died in 1991

 

Just registered, this is the first thread I checked and bumped into this.
I think I'll like it here.

 

Black Sabbath certainly survived because they're the fathers of grunge.

Marillion? Sadly, no one cared before or after the grunge apocalypse.

 

Next rock-like bands who definitely were not on the same side of cool, didn't only survive grunge, they had massive sales and popularity. They even (re)peaked:
U2
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Bon Jovi
Meat Loaf
Crowded House
Depeche Mode
INXS
Iron Maiden
Queen
Guns n' Roses
Roxette

Some of them were consciously attacked (Cobain -> Guns n' Roses), others were left alone (AC/DC, Crowded House).

Next already established bands didn't only survive grunge, they also thrived on the new 'mindset':
Faith No More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beastie Boys
R.E.M.
Metallica
Slayer
Sepultura
Pantera

Most of them survived grunge better than… grunge itself. Who do we still have? Pearl Jam as a band. Oh, and Mark Lanegan. But he does a different thing now.

 

Frank Black.