| 100% | TAD | 3 | Pioneering Seattle grunge band |
| 62% | SOUNDGARDEN | 11 | Seattle grunge band with the 1994 rock hit "Black Hole Sun" |
| 61% | ALICEINCHAINS | 13 | Seattle grunge band with the 1994 rock hit "No Excuses": 3 wds. |
| 60% | FOOFIGHTERS | 11 | Seattle grunge band with the 1999 rock hit "Learn to Fly": 2 wds. |
| 45% | TAD | 3 | Influential grunge band |
| 44% | NIRVANA | 7 | Grunge band fronted by Kurt Cobain |
| 42% | TAD | 3 | Doyle of namesake grunge band |
| 41% | JAM | 3 | Seattle rock band Pearl ___ |
| 40% | ROSSDALE | 8 | Lead singer of grunge band Bush, Gavin |
| 40% | KORN | 4 | Pioneering band in nu metal |
| 39% | NIRVANA | 7 | 90s grunge band, Buddhist state of final release |
| 39% | MELVINS | 7 | Grunge rock band behind "Night Goat" |
| 38% | ALT | 3 | ___-rock (music genre that includes grunge bands and Blur) |
| 38% | ABNEYPARK | 9 | Seattle steampunk band fronted by Robert Brown |
| 37% | HOLE | 4 | Grunge rock band behind the hit "Miss World" |
| 36% | PEARLJAM | 8 | Grungy Seattle band headed by Eddie Vedder |
| 35% | PEARLJAM | 8 | 90s grunge rock band fronted by Eddie Vedder |
| 35% | BABES | 5 | ___ in Toyland, grunge rock band behind "Bruise Violet" |
| 34% | STP | 3 | Grunge band that recently reissued "Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop," for short |
| 34% | TREES | 5 | Screaming ___, grunge rock band behind the hit "Dollar Bill" |
| 34% | CHAINS | 6 | Alice in ___, grunge rock band behind the hit "Rooster" |
| 33% | LAYNE | 5 | Grunge pioneer Staley who was Alice in Chains’s original lead singer |
| 33% | MEGADETH | 8 | Pioneering thrash metal band with its own music festival, Gigantour |
| 31% | SAYHI | 5 | Seattle-based indie rock band behind albums like "Discosadness" and "Endless Wonder": 2 wds. |
| 30% | JAM | 3 | Pearl ___ (Seattle-based band) |
| 30% | JAM | 3 | Pearl ___ (Seattle band) |
| 30% | FIGHTERS | 8 | Foo __, Seattle rock band, members from Nirvana |
| 30% | SOUNDGARDEN | 11 | Grunge rock band who won the 1995 Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy for 14-Across |
| 26% | JAM | 3 | ___ band |
| 26% | ONEMAN | 6 | ___ band |