The Seattle Effect: Ten great Hard Rock albums released when Grunge ruled the world We all know that when Nirvana and their accolades started to take over MTV, the “Hair Metal” sweet days were over. Shoe-string budget stage sets, flannel shirts, darker subjects and NO GUITAR SOLOS were replacing Aquanet, power ballads, duckfaces and all that. I understand the fact that popular music has changed through the years and will always have. But the "Grunge thing" had such an effect on Hard Rock, that bands that were playing stadiums in early 1991, would be performing at tiny clubs later on the same year. Record companies dropped some that had just signed their contracts and finished records would be shelved in some cases. Some bands tried to turn their sound into something more contemporary, flirting with the aforementioned Grunge or Alternative Rock, which was also popular during that time. In this article, I’m going to bring ten records that were released between 1993 and 19
