a truant finds home
so i've been on this pearl jam kick all day. spinning the vitalogy, vs. and no code albums, and it brings me back to when vitalogy came out in '94. i was so enraptured by ten and vs. and i remember first hearing last exit and then spin the black circle... and being excited... and then the rest of the disc was so QUIET and mellow. it bothered me, this wasn't my pearl jam! how dare you change your musical style?
i didn't ever appreciate the disc fully probably until six or so years later when i started escaping the orbit of planet music elitist and looked outside the two genres that were all i was allowed to like. i remember in january '95 thinking, i'm gonna toss this disc, it sucks, pearl jam is lame now... something made me keep it. i guess we never know what we're going to enjoy - or be like at all - in the future, right?
however, there is always the worst CD purchase i've ever made, one that i will never regret. no, it isn't N.E.R.D.'s in search of... disc (colossally HORRIBLE lyrics that made me hurt); it's not marilyn manson's smells like children disc (yep, i owned that, it was back when they did the cover of the eurythmics's sweet dreams... i remember being 15 and thinking i was such a rebel for listening to that band... it was 1995, after all)...
nope. top of my list (bottom?) is everclear's sparkle and fade. the customer reviews for this (quoth one, "EVERCLEAR IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO MANKIND SINCE THE INVENTION OF THE CD PLAYER") make me retch. this is pure musical trash. if someone rubbed a blank CD on the bottom of a toilet seat in a new york subway, it would be more valuable than this absolutely terrible album. poorly written 'melodies', bland and jerky rhythms that never change, and lyrics that sound like a first grade musical. if this disc ever finds its way into your cd player, put on some leather gloves, take the disc and player outside into your backyard, dig a pit, place them in it, pour some gas on it, burn it (being careful not to inhale the sucky fumes), then shovel dirt onto the ashes, praying for repentance as you do so. then put a statue or something over the spot.
heh. backyards. anyone remember wegman's awesome mud wrestling pit?
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