Grunger
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A grunger is a member of the grunge music subculture, which was mostly popular between 1991-1996. Grungers are connected by a common taste in music, clothes, shared interests and alues. Grungers are less politically motivated than punks. They tend to be apathetic and lazy. Heroin use is very popular in the grunge scene. Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone, Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana all died as a result of heroin.
Terminology
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Music
The first traces of the grunge subculture appeared in the Seattle, Washington area as early as 1983, when the first grunge bands began arriving on the music scene. Grunge music was influenced by hardcore punk bands such as Black Flag and Bad Brains, as well as other bands like The Stooges and Neil Young. Popular grunge bands include Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Alice in Chains. One of the icons of grunge is Kurt Cobain, who was the lead singer of Nirvana until his death in 1994, although he is still attributed to the genre.
Fashion
The most common style of dress that grungers adopt is the use of old clothing and a DIY ethic. Grunge fashion mixes punk and hesher fashion.[1] Most grungers grew their hair long, which contrasted with the spiked or shaved hair associated with the punk and hardcore scenes of the late 80s and early 90s.[2] Common forms of clothing that grungers wore was old ripped and torn jeans, flannel shirts (usually unbuttoned), old plain T-shirts, denim shirts, baby doll dresses, ski caps and backwards baseball caps. Because of the decrease in bright colors black was usually worn with complimentary colors such as grey and white.[citation needed] Other popular colors were indigo, forest green, maroon, and brown.[citation needed] They tend to wear Converse shoes or Dr. Martens boots. The origin of the use of old flanellette jackets is the cold weather in the rural towns surrounding Washington and Seattle, where some of the leading grunge bands formed.
In popular culture
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