Style recipe for Suno v5

Grunge

rawdefiantmenacing110–150 BPM

Raw quiet-loud alt-rock with fuzz guitars and unpolished drive.

History

Grunge came out of Washington state in the mid-1980s, from Seattle, Olympia and the towns around them, and at first it was simply called the Seattle sound. The local label Sub Pop and bands such as Green River, the Melvins and Mudhoney built it by crossing punk with heavy metal. When Black Flag toured small towns in 1984 playing slow and sludgy, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne began writing slow, heavy riffs, and producer Jack Endino later described the result as seventies-influenced, slowed-down punk. Distorted guitars, dissonant harmony and lyrics about alienation, addiction and self-doubt set the tone, with the noise of Sonic Youth and Pixies feeding in. The word was first tied to a Seattle band in 1981, when Mark Arm sent the fanzine Desperate Times a mock letter trashing his own band as pure grunge and pure noise. Nevermind by Nirvana broke the dam in September 1991, followed by Ten from Pearl Jam, Badmotorfinger from Soundgarden and Dirt from Alice in Chains, and grunge became the most popular hard rock of the decade. Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994 drained much of its energy, while post-grunge acts such as Creed and Nickelback carried the sound on.

The recipe

Style

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Grunge, 1990s, raw, defiant, menacing, fuzzed power-chord guitar, melodic bass, hard-hitting drums, detuned guitar leads, chorused clean guitar, crashing cymbal wash, feedback squeal, open power chords, bent pentatonic leads, male lead vocal, gravelly and torn, baritone to yell, anguished outsider, strained rasped belting, mumbled verse phrasing, throat tearing screams, sludgy guitar fuzz, roomy live drums, raw unpolished mix, analog tape grit, thick sludgy fuzz, murky low midrange, boxy rehearsal room, natural drum bleed, dragging heavy backbeat, loose behind beat, hushed verse whisper, explosive chorus surge, collapsing noisy outro, polished professional master, wide dimensional stereo, 130 BPM, for workouts

Lyrics

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[Vocal: male, anguished outsider, gravelly and torn, young adult, baritone to yell, strained rasped belting, mumbled verse phrasing, throat tearing screams]
[one lead vocal, no second vocals]
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
[high energy, acoustic strum bridge]
[Verse 2]
[Bridge]
[stripped-back, contrast]
[Outro] [fade to end]

Negative Style

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low bitrate, low quality, amateur mix, 2D sound, mono, narrow stereo, harsh sibilance, autotune artifacts, robotic pitch correction

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Tag breakdown

Every descriptor in this style, listed one at a time.

#	Tag
1	Grunge
2	1990s
3	raw
4	defiant
5	menacing
6	fuzzed power-chord guitar
7	melodic bass
8	hard-hitting drums
9	detuned guitar leads
10	chorused clean guitar
11	crashing cymbal wash
12	feedback squeal
13	open power chords
14	bent pentatonic leads
15	male lead vocal
16	gravelly and torn
17	baritone to yell
18	anguished outsider
19	strained rasped belting
20	mumbled verse phrasing
21	throat tearing screams
22	sludgy guitar fuzz
23	roomy live drums
24	raw unpolished mix
25	analog tape grit
26	thick sludgy fuzz
27	murky low midrange
28	boxy rehearsal room
29	natural drum bleed
30	dragging heavy backbeat
31	loose behind beat
32	hushed verse whisper
33	explosive chorus surge
34	collapsing noisy outro
35	polished professional master
36	wide dimensional stereo
37	130 BPM
38	for workouts

38 tags and 719 characters go into this recipe, prompted in English and shaped by the 1990s.