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Alice In Chains: Music Bank

David Bennun, The Guardian, October 1999

IF EVER a Central Committee for Naming Things should be summoned into existence, I would like to nominate, for the chair, the inventor of the word "grunge". Talk about hitting the proverbial nail bang on its bent and rusty head. How appetising, you're bound to ask, can anything called "grunge" turn out to be? As tempting as a bowl of toasted gravel? Slightly less enticing than a walrus in a Wonderbra? Not quite as much fun sandpapering your piles? So it proved.

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