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It is difficult to separate a lot of the music that came out of "grunge" from its era in time. Yet some of it is timeless. Satchel's first album, EDC, is timeless.
At this point, it is not even easy to say what grunge is, or was. Some sort of combination of punk, metal, different time signatures, different keys, and so forth. Some of the most popular grunge never appealed to me at all, and even some of the better early grunge can easily sound dated. How much of that is the extent to which it was copied and warped, who can say? Nevertheless, I think that the best of the movement was actually the side projects, and the minor albums. Mad Season. Brad.
Satchel.
Brad and Satchel were quite different, despite Shawn Smith, and appealing in distinct ways, but EDC stands on its own decades later. None of the trappings of overly simplistic punk. None of the bombast of metal. Instead, just a hint of the funk/R&B that came out of LA's... I hate to say "alternative" scene, but the movement that produced bands like Jane's Addiction, along with the compositional sophistication that came from some of the more ambitious New York rock bands, with just enough of the grunge aesthetic to keep Satchel vaguely categorized within that movement. That combination keeps the sound so unique that Satchel doesn't sound at all dated because it doesn't really sound like part of the grunge scene at all.
With Smith's voice, rather than the stereotypical grunge vocal approach, it was always going to sound different anyway. There's that R&B thing, giving Satchel part of its uniqueness. Smith matched his voice to different aesthetics in different projects, but the mix was particularly appealing here because of the contrast between the sweet soul of his voice and the crunch of the guitar. Yet without the kinds of basic, conventional grunge chord progressions dominating everything, it still stands out as something that you don't think of as just a companion piece to Ten or Badmotorfinger or something like that.
Grunge basically went away, and so much of it is just dated. EDC, though, stands the test of time. It still warrants attention in ways that the popular stuff perhaps doesn't, except as historical pieces. Yes, I do think that the best of the movement, such as it was, came from the side projects.
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