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They were, but it didn't sell so they sold their souls to their corporate overlords. I can't be too critical though. While my library is filled with cuts from a Boy Named Goo and prior Dizzy, Broadway, (gulp) Slide, and (big gulp) Black Balloon are also in it. I drew the line at Iris and stopped listening to them after that abomination. Maybe they yo-yo'd back sometime after and I'm unaware.
I saw GGD live in 1997 or 98. They were a pretty good live band. The chicks sure dug them. They did a cluster of songs that were more punk that the chubby bass player sang.
Pip's Invitation said:
I should have checked before posting this. I think there's a Beavis & Butthead clip for half the songs on my list.
MAC_32 said:
Same, the hits are great but my favorites were the opener and closer - Dam at Otter Creek and White, Discussion. Began and ended the album extremely well. The slow build and tonic explosion in the former. The chill vibe that suddenly delves into chaos in the latter. Too bad they couldn't duplicate this effort, but it and Mental Jewelry were a solid back-to-back.
They may seem a bit much now, but they scratched a certain itch. U2 stopped being U2 in 1991 and these guys filled the gap for those who wanted “serious” rockers who had a positive message — definitely no “I hate myself and want to die” vibe here.
GGD was a band that the music insiders loved, same with thr Lemonheads. GGD had all sorts of issues early in their career, mainly self-induced and Rehab isn’t cheap. They had some pretty decent songs, but they always marketed the slow songs like Iris. It pays the bills I guess. I’ll still play a little of the faster stuff from time to time and think how this band could have been so much more.MAC_32 said:
Throwing Copper got a lot of plays, but before I purchased it my good friend brought it over a few times to listen to while we were playing video games, and this was before the time this song was released. At any rate, through several playthroughs I was convinced that he was singing "Iron Lung", which certainly brings a different sort of meaning to the song.
I like both songs… Hope has such an amazing voice
I like both as well and the video w/ Hope was a reminder of how cool the Reid brothers were. Last time I saw them, man were they old.
One of my favorite guitar riffs, terrific song, I'd have it higher.
I don't have a ton to say about this single. It's Prince making his own Stylistics song instead of just covering them as he did with Betcha By Golly Wow. Because he's Prince, it's an good example of the genre, but he worked in other more interesting areas even on the very uneven Gold Experience album. I think it particularly suffers in comparison to some of his other ballads like Do Me Baby or, particularly, Adore. But pretty much every ballad suffers in comparison to Adore.
Well, 6 years had passed. Many bands —certainly any that aspire to creative growth — are completely different at opposite ends of any given 6-year timeframe. The difference was we didn’t get any material in between so we don’t know what the incremental steps would have sounded like.
A lot of the bands in the latter half of this countdown will have some "angst" about it. Not super-sad angst, but college guys at the concert wearing wool socks with their Teva sandals "angst".
Judging by the age of the folks I see at GBV shows, pharmaceutical assistance may be required for that.owerboner:
I really liked the Hootie tunes when they first came out. The songs were then overplayed like crazy and I couldn’t stand any of the Hootie music. Now, after not listening to those tunes for many years, those songs are enjoyable again.
those guys were the antithesis of everything in the music industry from then. all the hard sounds in rock and hip-hop... everything just washed away in ez nice listening guitar pop. I mean, there wasn't much "interesting" about the music, but damn those were some solid pop tunes and at just the right zeitgeisty moment for them for people who didn't want "hard".
I do NOT want to meet the person who would passionately argue either side of this argument.
My hot take is that "it's kind of hard when she's ready to go" is an underrated, brilliant line.
big offspring fan, saw them live several times late 90s and maybe early 00s
