Signifying nothing

Definitely have a listen to FELA KUTI, you're perhaps already familiar with the track Expensive Shit.

I believe it's also referred to as a baritone.

Eddie is a beautiful man.

Cornell has been living off past glories since Superunknown, whereas Weiland has proved himself to be a consistently adept songwriter, shown by both the last STP album and his immense second solo record.

If you're referring to the likes of Bush, Silverchair, and Live, that led to Creed and Nickleback, then I think you have appalling taste in music. The established bands under the Grunge moniker continued to make good stuff post 95 imo, with the exception of Down On The Upside, which was a huge drop from Superunknown, and mostly reminiscient of a tired b-side collection. PJ's No Code, SP's Adore and ST's Dust are some of the best albums of the nineties though.

Man, to me, "No Code" is so much more than just an album. It's near perfection.

I love it too, as much as Ten and Vitalogy anyway.

STP's Tiny Music was another great one from 96, unfortunatly they finished the decade with an almost nu-metallish sound, Weiland even appeared on a Fred Durst album fucks sake.

Timeless was near universally accepted as THE drum&bass album when it dropped, it might not make the same statement as it did then, but neither can any d&b. Another guy called Roni Size was a big name back in the club scene of the 90s.

Good lord, can I possibly talk you out of taking this step? I grew up hearing a lot of this, it played havoc with my mental stability;and what have you got anyway? tunes spliced and tricked with simple automated features on some sequencing software.

Anyways, I don't know any comps but are you familiar with Goldie's Timeless? twas a semi-mainstream breakthrough d&b album in the mid 90s. Also, The Prodigys debut, Experience, easily their best album imo, was recorded just before rave music fragmented into jungle and happy-hardcore. If old-school jungle beats pique yer interest, you need to hear it/you probably already know it.

Popularity doesn't infer quality, why does it matter?

I ripped it onto my ipod a month back and've yet to properly listen to it, but from what little I have heard it's not all that bad, and certainly not a Scream.

If you're referring to the likes of Bush, Silverchair, and Live, that led to Creed and Nickleback, then I think you have appalling taste in music. The established bands under the Grunge moniker continued to make good stuff post 95 imo, with the exception of Down On The Upside, which was a huge drop from Superunknown, and mostly reminiscient of a tired b-side collection. PJ's No Code, SP's Adore and ST's Dust are some of the best albums of the nineties though.

Are many still listening to Rage these days? I was 15 when I bought their debut, and maybe I was aware they were cod political even then, but it's a great album nonetheless.

It's eerie how it seems like you can hear Layne on some of the tracks.

Surprisingly great album, after Cantrell's awful solo stuff I wasn't expecting much.

I can't remember what book it was but I've read about his childhood. His mum. I'm English so I know they are English and in a very conservative way. I mean they play cricket. They were the new aristocrats of England. A whole generation seemed to get rich from the entertainment industry which put them amongst the upper classes in a way. I'll prob get the book as it's bound to have something.

It's this weird split with him though, sorta working class but then not in ways, definitely suburbia i guess but like council houses and stuff? And yet he sang for the Queen and his grandparents were like founder members of the British Labour Party, i never knew that shit, his grandfather knew Clement Atlee, worked alongside him. So it's weird, it's not even Conservatism, it's not middle class, it's not really working class, it's...well, Keith.

Council house = working class

After a cursory skim, I must say I think it's garbage. Kiddie rhymes, basic beats. Bullshit. Pure fucking bullshit.

He wasn't a very accomplished drummer anyway.

Why in fucks name would they wanna add ashba to an album that was released in 2008? I don't care one iota if he is in the studio w/them or note to be honest, just as long as their time there is productive.

I find it odd that people could find Weiland physically attractive, I mean, since the VR days he's resembled a pickled cadaver, lost a hell of a lot of weight since the early 90s.

1. Perfect Crime

2. It's So Easy

3. Out Ta Get Me

4. Nighttrain

5. Locomotive

6. Don't Damn Me

7. Estranged

8. So Fine

9. Better

10.Right Next Door To Hell

In the Slash book, he tells how him and Duff ventured out to a gig in East London the week before the Marquee shows in 87 and got stranded, he couldn't remember who they'd been to see, but Duff wrote about it in one of his blogs last year and it was The Replacements.

Not as good as Soundgarden or Alice in Chains, about on par with Nirvana.

They all have their own merits, in Vedder PJ have the greatest lyricist, and they definitely have the back catalogue, even if some tenth-rate punkwank has crept into their work of recent times.

Celebrity Skin is a good country mile ahead of Live Through This imo.

The new albums okay, but it blatently rips off that Verve song.

I love CS, but nothing beats LTT.

What Verve song?

Pretty blatently lifted from it, yeah.

Pretty much,yeah.

Queen have the sonic impact of a vacuum cleaner if you ask me.

He should do a Ziggy Stardust tour. It would be unexpected and new to a lot of people that there would be nothing "nostalgia tour" about it. It wasn't even a true "concept album", but would be interesting if he "ripped himself off" from those days and came up with a "follow up". It's almost like a "what if Syd Barrett came out of retirement" story, and just develop this back story of what Ziggy's been up to the past 37 years.

I know he likes living in the present when it comes to his music, but it would be interesting to see if he could pull it off.

After having heart problems on the Reality tour it's probable he won't ever tour again, he hasn't even recorded since.

There's a Cameron Crowe film coming out to celebrate their 20th, at least it was being filmed.

Any fans of Blind Melon? I think they were great, Shannon was a wicked singer.

Forget the Isobell Campbell/Gutter Twins projects, they're average. The treasure lies in his solo work: The Winding Sheet, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost and Bubblegum match the last two Trees albums. It's worth checking them all out, everything he's touched in his solo career has turned to gold.

I can understand U2 making music about political issues, but they've seen their sisters and brothers killed on the streets, lived in extreme poverty in country which was torn apart in almost every possible way. And who was Eddie Vedder ? Sure he had hard childhood but many children did, but he wasn't living in poverty, The Edge built his first guitar from some shitty scraps,

U2 are from Dublin, Ireland. I suggest you take a look into its socio-economic history throughout the 70s before you spout such nonesense.

Eddie's a crazy-eyed cool fucker. Pearl Jam are amazing.