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5 Records That Defined Seattle’s Grunge Explosion

The Seattle grunge explosion of the 1990s created some of the most well known records of the decade. These 5 albums continue to resonate.

In 1989, the enterprising upstart label Sub Pop – long before they’d achieved their joking goal of “world domination” – brought British music journalist Everett True out to Seattle to drum up some buzz about the city’s fertile backwater music scene. The resulting piece for Melody Maker shone an international light on bands like Nirvana, Mudhoney, TAD, Girl Trouble, and many others, and helped popularize the term “grunge” – which had been used by Sub Pop’s Bruce Pavitt as early as 1987 to describe Green River in a company record catalog. The following decade, the Seattle grunge explosion produced a number of classic records that continue to resonate today.

Pearl Jam

Ten (1991)


Mudhoney

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)


Nirvana

Incesticide (1992)


Alice in Chains

Dirt (1992)


Soundgarden

Superunknown (1994)

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