Song Suggestions, 90's Grunge.

[wintremute]

A guitarist friend of mine is talking to me about making a band that focuses on the 90's grunge like Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.

Are any of you in a similar band now? If so, what are some songs that go over well for you?

 

[Lownote38]

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush, Wicked Garden, Interstate Love Song, Vasoline, Creep
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage, Black Hole Sun, Outshined
Nirvana - Lithium, In Bloom, Come As You Are, Heart-Shaped Box, All Apologies
Pearl Jam - Alive, Even Flow

I was there as a teenager when this stuff came out, and these are the songs I remember going over well.

 

[shawshank72]

I play originals in that genre, that being said every time we have thrown insterstate love song into the mix we always got a great response.

 

[Jimmy4string]

We do:
In Bloom, (no audience excitement so far)
Plush -goes over well
Interstate love - 50/50
Sex Type thing -no audience excitement yet
Own worst enemy -Lit -we open with this (did good on St pat's day)
All the small things -Blink 182 -goes over well
Radiation Vibe -Fountains of Wayne (we still have not played this live)

 

[HoboCop]

I've really never had a lot of luck with that genre in general. I guess the STP songs go over the best. Nirvana always sounds like a good idea but doesn't get much response and is terribly boring to play. I wouldn't really know about Soundgarden because nobody can sing that crap. Alive and Even Flow do work ok, but really the closest thing that really does work is Green Day. People go nuts when you act like you are going to play Tool, but I've never been in a band where that would work either, you need kind of a special drummer to make that go.

 

[fretter]

You might want to try "Man in the Box" by Alice In Chains. I remember DJs spinning that song to huge response before Nirvana became popular.

 

[wintremute]

We do:
In Bloom, (no audience excitement so far)
Plush -goes over well
Interstate love - 50/50
Sex Type thing -no audience excitement yet
Own worst enemy -Lit -we open with this (did good on St pat's day)
All the small things -Blink 182 -goes over well
Radiation Vibe -Fountains of Wayne (we still have not played this live)

Thank you!

 

[electracoyote]

Don't forget all those tasty gems from bands like Lit, Eve6, Offspring, Harvey Danger, Third Eye Blind, et. al.

 

[HoboCop]

Rage Against the Machine seems to work usually, if your singer can do it.

 

[wintremute]

Rage Against the Machine seems to work usually, if your singer can do it.

I love playing that, but yeah...if you don't get that attitude in that rap everything falls apart.

 

[BassplayinBob]

Green Day Longview.

 

[CatchaCuda]

As far as grunge, I think it's all been mentioned.

Though it's not grunge (and say what you will) I think Green Day perfected the 3min song in the 90's. Welcome to Paradise should go over well.

 

[roller]

PJ's "Black" is a nice way to slow things down with a band like that.

 

[Wulfensteiner]

Any Nirvana song
Dandelion - What a drag
Pearl Jam - Alive
King Missile - Detachable Penis
Radiohead - Creep
Weezer - Sweater song
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Everclear - Santa Monica, so much for the afterglow
Tonic have a bunch of 90s grungy stuff..
Bush - Comedown
Alice In Chains - We die young, down in a hole, would?
Down - Stone the crows (not really grunge but wouldn't be out of place!)
I could go on for days lol

 

[bearfoot]

 

[Burwabit]

It’s mandated by law that you play 2 Toadies songs per set. Speaking from experience.

 

[PWRL]

I'm not sure how "grunge" it is/was, but you could throw in some Screaming Trees. I Nearly Lost You and Bed Of Roses were both pretty good.

 

[TrentB]

I’m in a 90’s rock band. Here’s our set list for our next gig. We’ve added some more danceable tunes that aren’t grunge but still from that era.

1. Plush
2. Wicked Garden
3. Times like these
4. Alive
5. Jeremy
6. Longview
7. welcome to Paradise -Green Day
8. Basket Case
9. Machine Head
10. Everything's Zen

1. 3am
2. Smooth
3. Semi-Charmed Life
4. Inside Out-Eve6
5. Song2
6. All the small things
7. The Hand that Feeds
8. My Own Worst Enemy
9. Breed
10. unglued
11. Sex Type Thing
12. She
13. When I come around

1. two princes
2. Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand
3. Santeria
4. Dani California
5. Trippin on a hole in a paper heart
6. Brain Stew/Jaded
7. Say It Ain’t So
8. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
9. Big Bang Baby
10. Slither
11. Heart Shaped Box
12. On A Plane
13. Even Flow
14. Everlong

 

[packhowitzer]

We Die Young - Alice in Chains

 

[Nephilymbass]

A guitarist friend of mine is talking to me about making a band that focuses on the 90's grunge like Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.

Are any of you in a similar band now? If so, what are some songs that go over well for you?

We aren’t that style but we do like to cover songs from that era and kind of drag them into our style . The grunge era and 90s alternative rock is kind of like classic rock for me. Stuff that older generations considered classic rock is more like “oldies” for me. Here’s one of our covers
We’ve also covered Pearl Jam, Alice, Nirvana, we tried some soundgarden at rehearsal but weren’t really feeling how was sounding