![]() ![]() But the word "grunge," if not beloved, does accurately describe the music's sense of loss, frustration, and anger and the depth of the magically evocative drop D power chord, which you hear in songs like Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" and "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains. No one seems to know who coined the term (it may have originated with Mark Arm of Mudhoney, who used the word in a letter to a fanzine in 1981), and all the musicians associated with the scene claim to hate it. Journalist Jeff Gilbert memorably dubbed it "complaining set to a drop D tuning." A sound based on resonant power chords and growling vocals, practiced nearly exclusively by white guys in lumberjack shirts, it began as an amalgamation of punk and glam, blending the former's raw power with the latter's deliberate stage presence and lengthy, complicated song structure, adding a few top notes of heavy metal. ![]() Washington State, with its gray skies and aura of wet gloom, was the natural birthplace of the unrelentingly bleak music that came to be known as grunge. ![]()
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