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Mudhoney - Mudhoney members Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters and Matt Lukin mix a unique grunge rock brand of hardcore and punk-laced rock which may be ultimately remembered more for who it inspired than the individual songs alone, although powerful.

Mudhoney were among the leaders of the grunge movement which would eventually include such alternative rock powerhouses Nirvana and Pearl Jam. All were part of the raging Seattle music scene of the 1990s and paved the way for bands of the present as diverse as Korn and Jon Spencer.

A testament to the esteem in which the band's music is held can be no-so-subtly in found in Cameron Crowe's grunge spotlight "Singles." The movie focuses around a fictional band "Citizen Dick" which is said to be based on Mudhoney and its music.

The band first emerged in the late '80s and have just released their latest project, 2000s Here Comes The Sickness: the Best of the BBC Recordings. Sometimes violent, sometimes sweet, the album reflects Mudhoney at their quintessential best: live and loud.
Smashing Pumpkins - before the Smashing Pumpkins were formed the lives of all band members were extremely different. Once they culminated and formed a group, all four lives changed forever. They became a band that were looked down upon, told they could never be big, given all the wrong advice, insulted, and told all lies. Their great success a few years later disproved all the cynics and critics of their music.

Billy was working in a used-record shop and "basically being the four-track cassette making geek." James was a student in Graphic Arts at Loyola University and playing in a band called Snake Train. D'Arcy was still working at a coffee shop. She had training in oboe and the classical violin.
Soundgarden - this Seattle-based US quartet fused influences as diverse as Led Zeppelin, the Stooges, Velvet Underground and, most particularly, early UK and US punk bands into a dirty, sweaty, sexually explicit and decidedly fresh take on rock 'n' roll. The band, Chris Cornell (b. 20 July 1964, Seattle, Washington, USA; vocals/guitar), Kim Thayil (b. 4 September 1960, Seattle, Washington, USA; guitar), Hiro Yamamoto (b. 20 September 1968, Okinawa, Japan; bass) and Matt Cameron (b. 28 November 1962, San Diego, USA; drums), proffered a sound characterized by heavy-duty, bass-laden metallic riffs, which swung between dark melancholia and avant garde minimalism. Cornell's ranting vocal style and articulate lyrics completed the effect. The band's first recording, 1987's six-song Screaming Life EP, was the second release on the hugely influential Sub Pop Records label, and marked out their territory. Indeed, Thayil had brought together the label's owners Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in the first place. Following the Fopp EP, the band became the first of the Sub Pop generation to sign to a major when they attracted the attention of A&M Records, although their debut set, Ultramega OK, was released through SST Records in order to maintain their indie credibility.

A&M eventually released Louder Than Love, one of the most underrated and offbeat rock albums of 1989. After its release Cameron and Cornell also participated in the two million-selling Temple Of The Dog album, that co-featured future Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament laying tribute at the door of deceased Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood. However, following the recording sessions for Louder Than Love, Yamamoto was replaced by Jason Everman (ex-Nirvana), though he played on only one track, a cover version of the Beatles' "Come Together", before departing for Mindfunk via Skunk. His eventual replacement was band friend Ben "Hunter" Shepherd (b. 20 September 1968, USA). Badmotorfinger built on the band's successful formula but added insistent riffs, the grinding but melodious guitar sound that would come to define the grunge genre, and their own perspectives on politics, religion and society. Among its many absorbing moments was the MTV-friendly single "Jesus Christ Pose".
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