Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm in the studio with Corey Grow and Angie Martosio, and we're going to be talking about Rolling Stone's recent list of the 50

greatest Grunge albums of all time. It's kind of pegged to the 25th anniversary

of the year that Grunge truly ruled the world.

But I have a lot of questions for these people.

One of the questions is, what is Grunge?

What criteria were you using?

Because there is some stuff in this list

that surprised even me.

I was taken aback. I was startled by some of the things in this

list. Well that's the point of the list in a way. Grunge for me I mean I was 13 in 1994 which you know

talk about the 25th anniversary of 1994 that was the music that was

popular for when I was growing up nirvana obviously you know you can always

look to them you know the big four sound garden pearl jam alice and chains we all kind of

can appreciate them as grudge but as you dig deeper into it and as you learn a little bit more about other bands,

Melvins, Mud Honey, you realize that grung isn't just like one sound, you know there's obviously a whole color palette there so what we wanted to do with this list was kind of reflect that whole color palette there. So what we wanted to do with this list was kind of

reflect that whole color palette and show that there is stuff like Melvins that

sounds incredibly slow and sludgy and doomey and more metallic and then there's like

more punky type things you know like L7 or something like that that can show off a different side of what grunge was and what people considered grunge then and in hindsight kind of this collective idea what grunge is so to sum up, Grunge is sort of a combination of punk and

metal and classic rock. It was this thing that these kids all just grew up with these

diverse influences in the 1980s and it all just kind of came together in the 1980s because if you think about the 1970s when they were growing up

Sex pistols and the Ramones were big but also Aerosmith also they had records by the Stooges and stuff like that so So it sort of was this melting pot of different things

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