IF YOU EVER wished you had come of age during the grunge era of the early 90s, or spent your adolescence with a Seattle-associated soundtrack in your ears, then it’s time to test your wits on the music which drew a line under the hair-rocking of the 1980s.
Match the lyrics to the band to see how you do in The Grunge Generation Quiz.
1. Into the flood again/ Same old trip it was back then/ So I made a big mistake /Try to see it once my way.
Sound Garden
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
2. Thoughts arrive like butterflies/ Oh he don't know, so he chases them away / Someday yet he'll begin his life again/ Life again, life again.
Mudhoney
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Hole
3. In my eyes, indisposed /In disguises no one knows / Hides the face, lies the snake / The sun in my disgrace.
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Mudhoney
4. I'm so happy because today/ I've found my friends / They're in my head / I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you.
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
The Gits
5. It hurts me to be angry / Kills me to be kind / But my only torment / Is my own disguise.
The Gits
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Tad
6. I want to be the girl with the most cake / I love him so much it just turns to hate / I fake it so real / I am beyond fake.
The Gits
Hole
Pearl Jam
Melvins
7. Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach /As I want you to be / As a trend, as a friend / As an old Memoria.
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Mudhoney
8. Crash and burn / All the stars explode tonight / How'd you get so desperate / How'd you stay alive?
Screaming Trees
The Gits
Melvins
Hole
9. Waitin / watchin' the clock/ it's four o'clock / it's got to stop.
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Mudhoney
Nirvana
10. One who doesn't care / is one who shouldn't be / I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me.
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Pearl Jam
Hole
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You scored 100%
Amazing work! You were either a teenager in the 90s or wished you were, right?
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You scored 90%
Seriously impressed,TBH.
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You scored 80%
Brilliant work. You've always been partial to a little grunge, haven't you?
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You scored 70%
Really solid effort; fair play.
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You scored 60%
Not too bad at all. Fair play!
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You scored 50%
Half right, half wrong. Not the worst by any stretch!
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You scored 40%
Hmmm... not your favourite genre, is it?
You scored out of !
You scored 30%
Well look, it's clearly not your favourite genre.
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You scored 20%
Well look, you tried and that's the main thing!
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You scored 10%
OK, so you have heard of the genre... right?
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