Grunge was massive during the 1990’s! As with any music scene it came with its own fashion that included:
- Torn jeans,
- Bulky shoes
- Chequered flannel shirts (we already covered this here)
- Chain wallets
- Ripped Cardigans
- Basketball caps (preferably worn backward)
- Long hair
- Grunge musicians tried to be just themselves without all the bullshit of glam rock
Whilst this naturalistic fashion worked well for some of the more attractive elements of society (e.g.Kurt Cobain), it did not work so well for the ugly fuckers.
So lets see the worst of these grungy uggers:
10: L7
Whilst L7’s name might be a reference to the “69″ sex position, this LA grunge band ain’t much to look at. Singer Donna Sparks nailed the final nail in her ugger coffin when she removed her used tampon and threw it into the crowd at Reading Festival 92. If they had been a bit more attractive, people might have enjoyed Donna revealing her pubic area during the live UK tv show - “the word.”
9. Sound Garden
OK so these boys ain’t that bad to look at but its what inside that counts! This Seattle band where plagued with critics calling them neo-Cons when they refused to get involved with the politics of “grunge.” At techy wank we love rumors and we also hate neo-cons so Sound Garden are at number 9.
8. Alice in chains
Another Seattle band that look like utter dog shit. These bad boys mix geek with long hair that cumulates in a look that just plain don’t work.
7. Neds Atomic Dusbin
This British pseudo grunge band took their name from an episode of The Goons which is particularly fitting seeing as they look like some of the biggest goons in the music business.
6. MudHoney
Whilst highly influential in the Seattle grunge scene and especially Kurt Cobain, its a real shame that MudHoney members looked like Geeky pedophiles.
5. Tad
Tad were one of first “grunge” bands out of Seattle but failed to gain real monetary success from the mainstream grunge era. One reason for this failure could be the fact they where led by an ex-butcher Tad Doyle and each one of them was clinically obese.
4. Babes in Toy Land
This Minnesota grunge band where anything but what their name suggests. The front women - Bjelland reportedly hated her ex-band mate Courtney Love arguing that she had stole her style! One wonders about the sanity of the both of them.
3. Pearl Jam
They did a great cover of the Neil Young song “Keep on rocking in the free world” but Christ what an ugly crew!
2. Dinosaur Jr
A mix between Gandalf the White and a perverted monkey this band had a very strange look.
1. Courtney Love
I truly apologize for this photo, I hope no one is eating and viewing this. How Kurt Cobain put up for with her for so long, I have no idea! Who would think that uggliness could cause others to commit suicide?
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Any reason why you are are doing such a good blog?
That image of Courtney Love just made me vomit. Well, not really, but that woman thing is enough to make anyone retch.
YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GRUNGE AND THE STYLE… MAYBE THEY DON’T LOOK GORGEOUS BUT HELLO! THAT’S THE IDEA!
MAYBE YOU’LL SHOULD TALK ABOUT OF GLAM ROCK, AH?
i agree with ‘grunge’s addict’.. and eddie vedder is fucking gorgeous, anyway!!!
also, saying that courtney’s appearance led to kurt cobain’s suicide is pretty despicable.
This is the stupidiest thing ive ever stumbled upon in my entire life…..your comparing the genre of music that said F you to the horrid Glam of the 80’s rock scene and picking apart these great musicians for their appearance? What the hell is wrong with you. none of these captions were either clever or funny. Whoever wrote this trash, your everything that sucks about society and “pop” culture. Who gives a shit what these people looked like, i doubt youve ever heard anything the more obscure bands on this stupid list have ever done.
Go back you your soulless, uninspired, brainwashing, celebrity obsessed reality tv show based life, and leave the last great music movement out of this….
Ouch looks like I hit a few raw nerves.
Anyway can’t stay as “American Gladiators” is on in 5 mins…
PS: I have never listened to any of these musicians
Courtney love is fucking gorgeous asshole
that’s not soundgarden in the picture, moron.
Anyone who has shit to say about how a grunge band looks is a fuckin moron. it isn’t about the looks; it’s about the music. And it sure is a shame that musicians don’t live by that today, probably thanks to people like you.
They all look like Heroin addicts to me.
Pra mim a melhor banda de GRUNGE é e sempre sera Mudhoney.
Logo após vem MoTHER LOVE BONE.
They all look like drugs addict.
Grunge was no less a valuable expression of self than the long-haired hippies of the 60’s. Every generation will have its rebels. No doubt about that.
I am not one to judge guys but the members of pearl jam and sound garden can pull dime pieces on the regular, they are not ugly guys, but courtney love, she deserves tha spot for sure.