Best of Grunge Tournament: 1991-1996- Hail Hail wins

[stip]

This is a tournament to determine the best song from the big six grunge groups, during the prime years of grunge, so the focus is on Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots (plus supergroup projects).

How it works:
1. There will be a 128 song song pre-tournament tournament consisting of major b-sides, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, and two major albums that fell outside the 91-96 timespan (Bleach and Facelift).
2. While we will play this out to a winner, the top 16 songs will advance into the main tournament
3. The main tournament consists of every major album from 1991-1996, plus those top 16 songs (complete list is below). There was no way to fit in Iron Gland, Pry to, Master/Slave, Stupid Mop, I'm Going Crazy (hidden song on Gish)and the untitled hidden song from Sap, but all other 'hidden/filler' tracks are included
4. Single elimination. Voting generally lasts one day, and will typically close out between 8-9 AM est, depending on my schedule.
5. Ties will carry over into the next round, unless a tie prevents the tournament from moving forward, in which case voting will remain open for specified intervals of time.
6. Enjoy! There is a ton of great music here to rediscover

The bracket can be found here

The pre-tournament bracket can be found here

The Tournament

Alice In Chains

Sap

Dirt
Would?

Jar of Flies

Alice In Chains

Misc

Nirvana

Nevermind

In Utero

Misc

Pearl Jam

Ten
Black
Release

Vs
Animal

Vitalogy
Last Exit
Corduroy


Merkin Ball

No Code
Hail Hail

Misc

Smashing Pumpkins

Gish

Siamese Dream

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Misc


Soundgarden

Badmotorfinger


Superunknown
The Day I Tried to Live

Down on the Upside

Misc

Stone Temple Pilots

Core

Purple

Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop

Misc

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The Tournament

Alice In Chains

Sap
Brother
Got Me Wrong
Right Turn
Am I Inside

Dirt
Them Bones
Damn That Riover
Rain When I Die
Sickman
Rooster
Junkhead
Dirt
God Smack
Hate to Feel
Angry Chair
Down in a Hole
Would?

Jar of Flies
Rotten Apple
Nutshell
I Stay Away
No Excuses
Whale and Wasp
Don't Follow
Swing on This

Alice In Chains
Grind
Brush Away
Sludge Factory
Heaven Beside You
Head Creeps
Again
Shame In You
God Am
So Close
Nothin' Song
Frogs
Over Now

Nirvana

Nevermind
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Come As You Are
Breed
Lithium
Polly
Territorial Pissings
Drain You
Lounge Act
Stay Away
On a Plain
Something in the Way
Endless Nameless

In Utero
Serve the Servants
Scentless Apprentice
Heart Shaped Box
Rape Me
Frances Farmer…
Dumb
Very Ape
Milk It
Pennyroyal Tea
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Tourettes
All Apologies

Pearl Jam

Ten
Once
Even Flow
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Oceans
Porch
Garden
Deep
Release

Vs
Go
Animal
Daughter
Glorified G
Dissident
W.M.A.
Blood
Rearview Mirror
Rats
Small Town
Leash
Indifference

Vitalogy
Last Exit
Spin the Black Circle
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Nothingman
Whipping
Corduroy
Bugs
Satan's Bed
Betterman
Aye Davanita
Immortality

Merkin Ball
I Got Shit
Long Road

No Code
Sometimes
Hail Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind
I'm Open
Around the Bend

Smashing Pumpkins

Gish
I Am One
Siva
Rhinoceros
Bury Me
Crush
Suffer
Snail
Tristessa
Window Paine
Daydream

Siamese Dream
Cherub Rock
Quiet
Today
Hummer
Rocket
Disarm
Soma
Geek U.S.A.
Mayonaise
Spaceboy
Silverfuck
Sweet Sweet
Luna

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tonight Tonight
Jellybelly
Zero
Here is No Why
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
To Forgive
Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
Love
Cupid de Locke
Galapaogs
Muzzle
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Take Me Down
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Bodies
Thirty-Three
In the Arms of Sleep
1979
Tales of a Scorched Earth
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Stumbeline
X.Y.U.
We Only Come Out at Night
Beautiful
Lily (My One and Only)
By Starlight
Farewell and Goodnight

Soundgarden

Badmotorfinger
Rusty Cage
Outshined
Slaves and Bulldozers
Jesus Christ Pose
Face Pollution
Somewhere
Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Room a Thousand years Wide
Mind Riot
Drawing Flies
Holy Water
New Damage

Superunknown
Let Me Drown
My Wave
Fell on Black Days
Mailman
Superunknown
Head Down
Black Hole Sun
Spoonman
Limo Wreck
The Day I Tried to Live
Kickstand
Fresh Tendrils
4th of July
Half
Like Suicide

Down on the Upside
Pretty Noose
Rhinosaur
Zero Chance
Dusty
Ty Cobb
Blow Up the Outside World
Burden In My Hand
Never Named
Applebite
Never the Machine Forever
Tighter & Tighter
No Attention
Switch Opens
Overfloater
An Unkind
Bootcamp

Stone Temple Pilots

Core
Dead & Bloated
Sex Type Thing
Wicked Garden
No Memory
Sin
Naked Sunday
Creep
Piece of Pie
Plush
Wet My Bed
Crackerman
Where the River Goes

Purple
Meatplow
Vasoline
Lounge Fly
Interstate Love Song
Still Remains
Pretty Penny
Silvergun Superman
Big Empty
Unglued
Army Ants
Kitchenware & Candybars
My Second Album

Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
Press Play
Pop's Love Suicide
Tumble in the Rough
Big Bang Baby
Lady Picture Show
And So I Know
Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Art School Girl
Adhesive
Ride the Cliché
Daisy
Seven Caged Tigers

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The Pre-Tournament

B-sides
Yellow Ledbetter-pearl jam
Foosteps-pearl jam
Wash-pearl jam
Dirty Frank-pearl jam
State of Love and Trust-pearl jam
Breath-pearl jam
Alone-pearl jam
Crazy Mary-pearl jam
Leaving Here-pearl jam
Black Red Yellow-pearl jam
Dead Man-pearl jam
I Hate Myself and Want to Die-nirvana
Even In His Youth-Nirvana
Verse Chorus Verse-nirvana
Drown-smashing pumpkins
Glynis-smashing pumpkins
Kyle Petty, Son of Richard-soundgarden
Karaoke-soundgarden
Bleed Together-soundgarden
Show Me-soundgarden
Birth Ritual-soundgarden
Seasons-Chris Cornell
A Little Bitter-alice in chains
What the Hell Have I-alice in chains
Dancing Days-stone temple pilots

Insecticide
Dive
Sliver
Stain
Been a Son
Turnaround
Molly's Lips
Son of a Gun
(New Wave) Polly
Beeswax
Downer
Mexican Seafood
Hairspray Queen
Aero Zeppelin
Big Long Now
Aneurysm

Pisces Iscariot
Soothe
Frail and Bedazzled
Plume
Whir
Blew Away
Pissant
Hello Kitty Kat
Obscured
Landslide
Starla
Blue
Girl Named Sandoz
La Dolly Bita
Spaced

Mad Season
Wake Up
X ray Mind
River of Deceit
Lifeless Dead
I Don't Know Anything
Long Gone Day
November Hotel
All Alone
I'm above
Artificial Red

Temple of the Dog
Say Hello 2 Heaven
Reach Down
Hunger Strike
Times of Trouble
Wooden Jesus
Your Savior
Four Walled World
All Night Thing
Call Me a Dog
Pushin Forward Back

The Aeroplane Flies High
…Said Sadly
You're All I've Got Tonight
Clones (We're All)
A Night Like This
Destination Unknown
Dreaming
Ugly
The Boy
Cherry
Believe
Set the Ray to Jerry
Zero
God
Mouths of Babes
Tribute to Johnny
Marquis in Spades
Pennies
Pistachio Medley
The Last Song
Meladori Magpie
Rotten Apples
Jupiter's Lament
Medallia of the gray Skies
Blank
Tonite (reprise)
The Aeroplane Flies High
Transformer
The Bells
My Blue Heaven

Bleach
Blew
Floyd the Barger
About a Girl
School
Love Buzz
Paper Cuts
Negative Creep
Scoff
Swap Meet
Mr Moustache
Sifting
Big Cheese
Downer

Facelift
We Die Young
Man in the Box
Sea of Sorrow
Bleed the Freak
I Can't Remember
Love, Hate, Love
It Ain't Like That
Sunshine
Put You Down
Confusion
I Know Somethin' Bout You
Real Thing

Mother Love Bone
Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns

[stip]

Round 1a will be open for two days.

[Anders]

Fantastic initiative and work. Well done.

[VinylGuy]

Im so happy...thanks stip. This is so cool.

[PHATJ]

Im so happy...thanks stip. This is so cool.

Ditto

[PHATJ]

Is it possible to get YouTube links to both songs in each matchup? At least through the first few rounds would be really nice. There is a lot of material here I am not familiar with just by name.

[stip]

anything is possible. it depends on how busy my morning is. of course anyone can link a video...

[chewm]

This is great

[PHATJ]

Thanks for adding all the videos , doone.

[doone]

Thanks for adding all the videos , doone.

No problem. I'm not familiar with most of these B-sides so I had to look them up anyway.

If you or anyone else wants to embed, feel free.

[PHATJ]

Thanks for adding all the videos , doone.

No problem. I'm not familiar with most of these B-sides so I had to look them up anyway.

If you or anyone else wants to embed, feel free.

I had to do the same for several, and I would embed but I'm too retarded to figure out how.

[doone]

Thanks for adding all the videos , doone.

No problem. I'm not familiar with most of these B-sides so I had to look them up anyway.

If you or anyone else wants to embed, feel free.

I had to do the same for several, and I would embed but I'm too retarded to figure out how.

[PHATJ]

Thanks for adding all the videos , doone.

No problem. I'm not familiar with most of these B-sides so I had to look them up anyway.

If you or anyone else wants to embed, feel free.

I had to do the same for several, and I would embed but I'm too retarded to figure out how.

[Self]

I am here to vote against everything Smashing Pumpkins. Not because I don't think they belong, but because I loathe them.

[ABNorman]

I am here to vote against everything Smashing Pumpkins. Not because I don't think they belong, but because I loathe them.

Despite all your rage, you are still just a post on a page.

[Self]

I am here to vote against everything Smashing Pumpkins. Not because I don't think they belong, but because I loathe them.

Despite all your rage, you are still just a post on a page.

Man, that song sucks. "Wanna go for a ride?" Yeah, I do. Let's go to Home Depot so I can get some giant nails to drive in my ears.

[ABNorman]

I am here to vote against everything Smashing Pumpkins. Not because I don't think they belong, but because I loathe them.

Despite all your rage, you are still just a post on a page.

Man, that song sucks. "Wanna go for a ride?" Yeah, I do. Let's go to Home Depot so I can get some giant nails to drive in my ears.

I still remember a Mad Magazine comic on Lollapalooza or something back around this time, and one of the "jokes" was an audience member complaining about the sound during a Smashing Pumpkins set, something like "They've got all these ridiculous noises I can barely hear the singer!", and the sound tech guy goes "Hmm, you're right, better turn up the instruments."

[ABNorman]

I also remember getting caught listening to my brother's Pumpkins CDs when he walked in the back door while I thought nobody was home and caught me jumping around the lounge. That was a fight.