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Alice in Chains with Soundgarden and Nirvana tying for the second position. Pearl Jam is lame imo. Audioslave should not be included in this - their only tie to grunge is Cornell, no one else in that band is a grunge player, and the music isn't grunge it's just hard rock.
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Maybe on its own Cash's is better but the emotion of Hurt at the end of TDS, following The Downward Spiral, is so overwhelming if played while in the right mood that I voted for it. It's slow pace, its beauty, the lyrics that rap up the story (but don't make it THAT clear) all come at the perfect time.
As a stand-alone, I actually like Sad Kermit's version best. I'm not even joking, Kermit plays it really well.
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Layne Staley for sure. Most soulful and emotional, with a great range. Cornell's voice is also very impressive but he doesn't emote as well imo.
Everyone knows Layne from AIC, but his singing on Mad Season's 'Above' is better than most of his AIC work. Wake Up, Long Gone Day, I'm Above, River of Deceit... all great examples of Layne's amazing talent. I don't like AIC's Live album but there are some good boots of them, and MAd Season's live performance was pretty damn good.
I don't think Vedder or Kurt are that good. Mark Lanegan deserves some credit too.
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1. Guns N' Roses
2. Blind Melon
3. Nine Inch Nails
4. Barenaked Ladies (yea, that's right.)
5. Matchbox 20
6. Smashing Pumpkins
Then it's a jumble of Skid Row, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Alice in Chains, Unified Theory, Charlie Parker, and many more.
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Shannon Hoon
Axl Rose
Some old fuckers to make me look like a 'real' music fan
Coltrane
Trent Reznor
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Shannon would've turned 40 today. Listened to Self-Titled and Soup, gonna put on Nico a little later, maybe watch Letters From DVD too.
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If you're into some cool time arrangements and are okay with massive distortion some NIN instrumentals on The Fragile (Just Like You Imagined, Complication, The Frail, etc.) are great. They tend to be short, however.
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They suck either way.
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With respect to the band's wishes I didn't take them (RSoE, Hypnotized, Sometimes or Wishing Well) but if you have the patience for slow-loading proboards forums try http://blindmelonforum.com . There's probably someone there who could hook you up.
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Change - Blind Melon
Wasted Time - Skid Row
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Jaded - Aerosmith
Girl on the Moon - Foreigner
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2 more new songs up! Tumblin' Down and So High. Check them out!
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Sept 18 will be the last show played by this touring incarnation of NIN. And it sounds like Trent's going to go more electronic. Sad, although Aaron North needs to go anyways.
"YOU ARE getting the last show of the current incarnation of the band."Although Reznor's touring band of drummer Josh Freese, guitarist Aaron North, bassist Jeordie White and keyboardist Alessandro Cortini are excellent support players, "at this point, I want to switch things around a bit. Nine Inch Nails as a rock band configuration, we've done it and we've done it again. I see other ways I can present the material in concert, more challenging, something new. I don't want it to go stale."
This group has toured together for two years, he said. "It's a well-rounded concert, a good collection of songs from different records."
If the show approximates the high production values seen on the 2006 tour DVD, "Beside You in Time," it should make for quite a spectacle, blinding strobe lights included.
"The show evolves, like a film," Reznor said. "It has a flow to it. And it'll be not what you saw on the DVD. It'll be cooler than that."
But the time has come to dial back.
"The idea of five guys playing loud music two hours, while it's the culmination of fine tuning over a lot of years, has got to change once finances come into play, especially performing in markets outside of the mainland U.S. I want to whittle things down."
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Lucky! I wish there was a show I could go to. They get pretty close but it's not going to line up quite right this year.
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Their myspace page has 2 brand new songs! Right Set of Eyes and Hypnotized! Both are fantastic and well worth checking out.
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Shannon Hoon
Freddie Mercury
Randy Rhoads
Layne Staley
Shannon Hoon again
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how can Skid Row have so many votes?
Slave 2 the Grind is not a cheesy hair-metal album. It's hard, and it's real metal, and anyone that hasn't heard it shouldn't talk about it because it is not 'I Remember You' or '18 and Life'.
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^ Soup takes a few listens to sink in, but I actually ended up liking it more than their debut.
New song Sometimes and new video on their myspace. Sometimes is my least favorite of the new songs, but it's still pretty cool. Now that we've heard 5 songs, I wonder which of them actually makes the final album cut. Also, I don't think they have a record deal yet. They are announcing tour dates though, progress is undeniable.
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Tough between Dirt, Slave to the Grind and Superunknown. Went with Slave, although the best album from those years is Blind Melon's self-titled debut.
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BRAND NEW SONG put up on the band's myspace player yesterday. 'Wishing Well' is up along with a slightly altered 'For My Friends' and especially Wishing Well is a great song and album quality with Travis Warren's vocal work.
Check it out.
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ive always thought that blind melon was such a good band musically they should have carried on straight after shannon died. its a band it could work for, like pink floyd or acdc. but bands like queen should never come back, theres only two members perfoming, just as bad as the who.
Have you heard Abandon Jalopy? It's mainly Brad Smith, but everyone from the band is featured at some point or another, it's a great album. Unified Theory was okay too, worth hearing anyways.
From reading about it, it seems these guys took Shannon's death really harshly, and it would've been unbearable for them to try to plow through with a different singer in the rest of the 90s.
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Blind Melon is my favorite band behind GN'R, and I really believe they're gonna win the skeptics and doubters over when they release their album with Travis Warren. The guy's got an amazing voice, sounds enough like Shannon for me to think that the old songs will work live, and the 'new' song he wrote that they put up online back last year was great.
I don't know if it'll be as good as Soup or Self-titled, but I think it could be one of the best albums of whatever year it hits shelves in.
The latest from guitarist Rogers Stevens.
this is getting very chinese democracyishindeed....have patience my friend. We are greasing the wheels in every way. It's possible that we could release several records before you get your eager hands on 'chinese democracy'. I hear all the gossip about that record out here....rather amusing from a distance but I would imagine not so amusing to be involved. All the music will be done on our record before the end of the week....
We're going to get it all mixed and then go out and figure out a record deal or something. If there's time before we have to turn in masters, we may even track more songs. There are WAY too many songs for us to get to right now...some really good ones that I'm bummed we haven't gotten to. Everybody is writing so much that it has been tough to keep up.....
rogers
Also we know that there is at least one song about Shannon on the record.
Faith No More
in MY WORLD
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I like FNM quite a bit, Angel Dust is great. I've actually been more interested in getting Mr. Bungle's first album lately though. I'm going to try to pick that up in the next couple of days.