as i have said many many times here i hated bands like Nirvana,Pearl Jam and all the countless grunge bands BUT i respect anybody who made the jump from 80's metal to grunge because i couldnt do it and i didnt know anybody who could i was wondering if anybody here did..

i don't know if i went full-on into grunge, but i went from full-on gothboy to...uh...something else altogether...when 'nevermind' came out.

Anxiety said:

cool i had a couple of goth friends i remember this friend of mine Robert who was this clean cut kid 1 day and like overnight he turned into goth boy! he totally changed his look and even ran off with a goth chick..it was a pretty interesting transformation

Mazerati said:

Like most of the unfortunate souls who came of age in the eighties, I went through a dreadfully embarrassing metal phase in my teenage years. I have a lot of regrets about that, needless to say, but thankfully I'd grown out of that well before grunge came along. It was around 85 or so that I discovered Television, The Replacements and Prince and started hiding my Crue albums in the closet.
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i totally skipped past the whole metal thing in the '80s. where i grew up, metal and country music was what everyone listened to, and since everyone disliked me and i disliked them right back, i disliked what their tastes in music, too.

eventually, i did manage to warm up to motorhead. there's some other metal stuff i don't mind, and some of it that makes me giggle, but for the most part it just brings back tiring memories of young horny rednecks cruising the k-mart parking lot in shelbyville, indiana.

Anxiety said:

I love Motorhead - and I really love those ridiculous, over-the-top black metal bands like Mercyful Fate and Celtic Frost. That stuff does more than make me giggle. If I'm in the right mood, one minute of my old Roadrunner records sampler that I bought back in 84 can have me in hysterics.

Mazerati said:

i was only like 10-11 then ...but i remember grunge/alt rock being all the rage for the gen-x types.

Nahh. I skipped the whole grunge thing for the most part. It was too whiny and faux angst ridden for me.

damosuzuki said:

i have a CD by a death metal band called vondur that makes tears roll down my cheeks. i can't tell if it's supposed to be funny or not, but a concept album about the death star, and the songs repeat the band's wishes for everyone to do lots of drugs and die.

here's what the cover looks like:

http://www.grave.com/meta...dur-st.jpg

Anxiety said:

Oh Lord, I've seen this cover before (I can't recall in what context).

I absolutely have to hear this - NOW. More money wasted on Amazon, I guess...

damosuzuki said:

i think one of the guys in Vondur is named "It".

and It is a dwarf.

and It has like three other bands.

i swear - i'm not making any of this up.

Anxiety said:

There's nothing weirder than real life, I swear. Hunter Thompson and Bill Burroughs couldn't think up anything that bizarre no matter how many narcotics you fed them.

I was all over the place, but I did listen to some metal in the 80s and some grunge. Van Halen (which I don't exactly consider metal), Maiden, Anthrax, Metallica, AC/DC (another band I don't consider metal, but everyone else seems to). Some S.O.D., Slayer, Motorhead. As for grunge, mostly Nirvana, Mother Love Bone (which I kind of consider more metal), and Soundgarden. I never listend to either genre exclusively, or even primarily, but I was into some of it, for sure.
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It was a great time for music, in a sense. I was very much a rocker, but I had been listening to hip-hop for so long, that I was starting to fill in my album collection with some great old discs like Black Flag, Coltrane, Classic Rock, etc. Eventually I caught an EP from Sub Pop that had an old Oio Players remake on it. A friend told me that they had something to do with a band called Soundgarden so I kept an eye out for their stuff at the college record recycling store. There I scored an 2cd set of Badmotorfinger that had a disc called SOMMS. There was a neat take on Devo's "Girl U Want" and I loved Devo so I hung onto it and played it from time to time. That was about the time that Nirvana hit it big on MTV and I was hooked. I picked up Nevermind and reminded me of blues meets punk meets acid jazz for somereason.

Of course, once grunge hit big, I picked up some Green River (didn't really dig it), and some Mother Love Bone. Of course, more Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, but I was lucky to have access to expendable money and a nice resource for getting cheap albums.

Anywho, the same 2-3 year period (like 90 - 93) I was totally getting obsessed with Prince outtakes. I'd go in, see what they had, and if they had nothing I'd pick up some promo hiphop/grunge/trance/house/etc. play it for a week, dub what I liked, then I'd take them back when the store got in something sweet like Charade or Chocolate Box.

I was still picking up the rock stuff too, and filling in albums from Faster Pussycat, Gwar, etc.

I guess going to grunge through Soundgarden's style helped the transition. They're a bit more metal sounding than some of the other punkier styles.