10 Perfect Albums That Will Make You Love Grunge Music

10. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

If you were talk to any grunge purist, most of the greatest music to come out of the scene had to be released by 1994. The minute that word got out that Kurt Cobain had killed himself, much of the Seattle scene really had the wind knocked out of them, with bands either breaking up or going through some of the biggest slumps in their catalog. If there was one guy who could have steered us past that though, it was going to be Dave Grohl.

After getting himself out of his personal funk of having Nirvana's future abruptly end, the Foo Fighters wasn't even meant to be a mainstream project, just being the product of Dave hanging out in a studio every now and again and recording some of the songs that he was working on on his own. While no one was expecting Kurt Cobain levels of songwriting or anything, the first Foos project is about as compact a listen as any other grunge record, sounding rough around the edges and even sprinkling in some other influences like metal on Weenie Beenie or Beatles flavored pop on Big Me.

You can definitely hear the seeds of the In Utero era still in some of these songs, but Dave wasn't looking to just make a band that would be similar to Nirvana. This was a shot of life for the rest of the genre, and it gave most of us hope that the sounds of Seattle might be able to thrive even without the voice of a generation with us anymore.