Citations:bubblegrunge

English citations of bubblegrunge

• 1993 November, Newsweek Staff, “Checking The Alternatives”, in Newsweek‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

  Success meant the singer had to put up or shut up: to establish his credibility or be written off as a purveyor of bubblegrunge.

• 1995, “Music from the Television Series My So Called Life”, in Asiaweek:

  The '90s teen-angst experience encapsulated on record: engaging bubblegrunge from the likes of the Lemonheads and Madder Rose, unrequited-love yearnings from Juliana Hatfield and Daniel Johnston (whose “Come See Me Tonight” is stone beautiful) and a few dollops of healthy aggression from Sonic Youth and Afghan Whigs.

• 1996, Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Buckley, editors, Rock: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 504:

  Critical and commercial success in Britain … was counterbalanced by poor sales in the US, where Dando was seen as a lightweight ‘bubblegrunge’ star, an insult which infuriated him.

• 1999 December, Richard Gehr, “The 20 Best Albums of 1999”, in Spin‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-12-06:

  An eloquent guitarist, composer, and producer, Martsch lets you in on the secret with his Every-youth homilies (“You’ve become / A fraction of the sun”), then spits you out through his atomic-cannon guitar. It’s bubble-grunge as art-rock, wavering edgily on the cusp of jam.

• 2008 May, Chuck Eddy, “Local H, ’12 Angry Months’ (Shout! Factory)”, in Spin‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-03-12:

  A dozen years and one drummer removed from their copacetic Nirvanabe nugget “Bound for the Floor,” Scott Lucas’ Illinois-bred bubble-grunge duo are still loudest and prettiest when hitching their power chords to power pop.

• 2013 January, Tom Breihan, “Album Of The Week: Bleeding Rainbow Yeah Right”, in Stereogum‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-12-11:

  The effect is to remind me of early-’90s alt-rock radio, when bands were just starting to carve out places for themselves by coating pop songs in guitar fuzz and creating a sort of bubblegrunge that briefly thrived before all the Eddie Vedder soundalikes came along and ruined everything forever.

• 2015 August, Michael Hann, “The Lemonheads: 10 of the best”, in The Guardian‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-02-04:

  But that can’t be enough to explain why the Lemonheads are barely even a footnote these days, when in the early 1990s, they seemed like the group who could credibly bridge the gap between grunge and pop (“bubblegrunge” was one wag’s description of their style).

• 2016 March, Ben Thompson, “Wolf Alice live review – goodbye, cool world”, in The Guardian‎^[6], archived from the original on 2022-10-27:

  Artistically, the first coming of bubblegrunge (which was indeed a thing) probably peaked with the second Breeders’ album, Last Splash, in 1993. The cunning ploy of grafting breezy pop melodies on to an already time-honoured, sludge-rock base persisted for some years – through Veruca Salt’s Seether to the millennial earworm invasion of Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag.

• 2021 August, Brad Shoup, “DC Talk: Jesus Freak Album Review”, in Pitchfork‎^[7], archived from the original on 2024-04-15:

  “[A] radical change for the boys,” mused CCM Magazine at the time, “but it sounded an awful lot like... teen spirit.” Unusually, the song was pitched up a half-step, as if reaching for bubblegrunge higher ground.

• 2022 September, Olivia Horn, “The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s”, in Pitchfork‎^[8], archived from the original on 2024-05-24:

  “Seether” is bubblegrunge at its finest, all guitar fuzz and pop stickiness and crackling angst animating a personification of anger that just can’t be leashed.

• 2023, Pinksqueeze (lyrics and music), “WTF Is Bubblegrunge”, in Be Gay Have Fun‎^[9]:

  The term bubblegrunge was coined in the ‘90s / But no one heard of it until Spotify Wrapped 2021 / The Internet says it’s a combination of pop and grunge / But to me, it just sounds like it’s girls playing guitar

• 2023 September, Tony M. Maghirang, “Adventures in new music: Celebrating the unique, the strange and the bizarre subgenres”, in BusinessMirror‎^[10], archived from the original on 2023-09-23:

  Alternatively referred to as dark pop, bubblegrunge is ‘90s grunge laced with yummy yummy ‘60s bubblegum melodies.

• 2024 January, Tyler Jenke, “Bubblegrunge”, in Gig Life Pro‎^[11], archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

  As the name suggests, bubblegrunge is not just a single sound, but rather the amalgamation of two separate genres. The first is bubblegum pop, a pejorative term for disposable pop music that has often been associated with catchy, upbeat pop and/or rock songs aimed towards teens. … The other half of the equation is grunge, a subgenre of alternative rock that exploded out of the Seattle area of the US in the late '80s.