So, what have you been listening to lately?

[ilan]

Lately I'm re-discovering Robben Ford.

[uwe]

Starting at 02:25 some nifty psychedelic camera effects, I first thought my screen had given up on me! 

[Alanko]

Looks like a psychedelic prolapse.

[Dave W]

[Dave W]

[ilan]

And a blonde Rivoli to boot

[Dave W]

Yeah, the Rivoli was the first thing I noticed when they played on the Tonight Show in the late 90s when Sex and Candy was high on the charts.

[uwe]

  This is what Grunge must sound to people who dislike Grunge (like me!). Mindless bar chord shoving from the guitar and root note plucking from the bass following the chord changes, with a lead vocal "melody" that sounds like he made it up during a microphone test while weaning off his antidepressants. I'm so dejected.

Rant over! Someone had to say it.

[uwe]

And now for some life-affirming music (you know the world is in a bad place if Swedes of all people have to provide that) ...

[Dave W]

This is what Grunge must sound to people who dislike Grunge (like me!). Mindless bar chord shoving from the guitar and root note plucking from the bass following the chord changes, with a lead vocal "melody" that sounds like he made it up during a microphone test while weaning off his antidepressants. I'm so dejected.

Rant over! Someone had to say it.

It was a huge hit. I just looked it up, 15 weeks at #1 on Billboard's modern Rock charts.

You don't have to like it.

[westen44]

It was a huge hit. I just looked it up, 15 weeks at #1 on Billboard's modern Rock charts.

You don't have to like it.

I never paid much attention to it, but it was definitely on the radio a lot.  I do think the studio recording was better than the live performance, though, especially on the vocals. 

[uwe]

I've never heard of either the song or the band, but I've come across so much new to me good music in this forum that a rare dud like this once in a while is totally ok. I generally listen with open ears and an open mind, but this just sounded drab and uninspiring to me. But then a lot of the post-Nirvana alternative rock left me cold. I like some refinement/skill in music. Punk at least had some boisterous energy.

[westen44]

I've never heard of either the song or the band, but I've come across so much new to me good music in this forum that a rare dud like this once in a while is totally ok. I generally listen with open ears and an open mind, but this just sounded drab and uninspiring to me. But then a lot of the post-Nirvana alternative rock left me cold. I like some refinement/skill in music. Punk at least had some boisterous energy.

I thought being drab, uninspiring and hopelessly jaded were supposed to be a big part of grunge in the first place.  That seemed to genuinely have been what the people wanted.  I was never a fan, but grunge was better than much of the utter crap which followed it. 

[slinkp]

I am very late to the party on these guys, but ...it's growing on me. This drummer Joey Jordison (RIP) was really something. Sadly the bassist Paul Gray is gone too.

[gearHed289]

I thought being drab, uninspiring and hopelessly jaded were supposed to be a big part of grunge in the first place.  That seemed to genuinely have been what the people wanted.  I was never a fan, but grunge was better than much of the utter crap which followed it.

I have to agree.