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Marilyn Manson Claims to Have Invented the Term 'Grunge'


. (Radio.com) Interview Marilyn Manson and you're guaranteed to get at least one off-the-cuff headline-making morsel. The latest? The goth rock overlord claims to have invented the term "grunge."

While speaking with Noisey UK, Manson reflected on his early rock 'n' roll days when he was a music journalist. "I hated rock'n'roll when I started," he said. "It was on the cusp of grunge and a lot of bands that I used to call 'commonist rock' because everyone wanted to be like the common man with the flannel shirts and Pearl Jam and their fight against Ticketmaster and all this horse sh*t."

At one point in his music journalism career, Manson reviewed Nirvana's 1989 debut studio album Bleach and while writing the term "grunge" came to him. "Nirvana was different," he continued. "That was one of the bands I covered first as a journalist and I'm just going to go ahead and say I coined the term 'grunge' in a review of 'Bleach'. You're welcome."

However, a quick search on the Internet reveals that writer Paul Ramball used the term a full 11 years earlier in 1978 in an NME article. Read more here.

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