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If Andrew Wood hadn't died
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:38 am
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:38 am
Would Mother Love Bone have turned out better or worse than did Pearl Jam?
Discuss.
Discuss.
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Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:42 am to bobbyray21
Woods voice wasn't strong enough to have the kind of impact PJ did, he struggled singing live performances.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 8:01 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Woods voice wasn't strong enough to have the kind of impact PJ did, he struggled singing live performances.
It was different, that's for sure. I actually like Andrew Wood's voice better, though. It's cleaner sounding.
You could be right that it didn't project in live performances. I would have no way of refuting that. Some voices can sound great in the studio but terrible live.
Y'all ever heard Sleigh Bells live? fricking girl can barely hold a note. It's embarrassing.
Y'all ever heard Mark Foster of Foster the People live? Dude's voice is AMAZING. I had no idea until I saw them. Same goes for Neon Trees guy. Dude has serious pipes.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:01 am to bobbyray21
I think they get lumped in with the hair metal bands without a massive makeover. MLB is closer to Queensryche than Nirvana.
The Screaming Trees likely become the massive mainstream success as the gateway band to Seattle instead of Pearl Jam, and Mark Lanegan dies of heroin overdose in 1997, making it 3 of 4 for frontmen for the big Seattle bands (Chris Cornell still makes it through).
The Screaming Trees likely become the massive mainstream success as the gateway band to Seattle instead of Pearl Jam, and Mark Lanegan dies of heroin overdose in 1997, making it 3 of 4 for frontmen for the big Seattle bands (Chris Cornell still makes it through).
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:47 am to Baloo
I think MLB were the perfect link between 'hair' and grunge. I would've loved to have seen how their career would've gone.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:19 pm to Chitter Chatter
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I think MLB were the perfect link between 'hair' and grunge. I would've loved to have seen how their career would've gone.
Me too
There are alot of bands like this
Blind Melon
INXS
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Etc...
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:24 pm to Standing ona beach
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Blind Melon
I think they would've gone on to be the best band of the 90s if Shannon doesn't die.
Hell I already think they were the best band of the 90s but if he lives then I think everyone else would have recognized that as well.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 12:58 pm to CottonWasKing
"Apple" is one of my favorite albums ever. However, MLB was much more glam than grunge.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 1:18 pm to Les Cajones
Yeah, MLB is very glam. The hair metal scene is a clear offshoot of glam (it's essentially glam without the irony), which is why I think MLB would've been lumped in, fairly or unfairly, with that scene. Alice in Chains almost went down that path, but remade their band on Sap (even pissing on their old band photo on the back cover) and of course, on the greatness that is Dirt. Dirt is so great that it kind of retroactively dirtied up Facelift.
Maybe MLB had it in them to make they bit of a u-turn, but I don't think so. Alice in Chains always had a toe in the grunge pool by having a lead singer addicted to heroin, who made every one of their songs sound like it was about heroin. AiC could leap aboard that whole grunge express without really trying. MLB was just too different to fit in that marketing plan.
Though this assumes "grunge" still happens. Pretty much every band tagged with the label hated it and actively worked against it. It was primarily a media construct, and without another "grunge" band to link to Nirvana in the mainstream, maybe Seattle doesn't explode at all. Who knows what will move Madison Avenue?
Maybe MLB had it in them to make they bit of a u-turn, but I don't think so. Alice in Chains always had a toe in the grunge pool by having a lead singer addicted to heroin, who made every one of their songs sound like it was about heroin. AiC could leap aboard that whole grunge express without really trying. MLB was just too different to fit in that marketing plan.
Though this assumes "grunge" still happens. Pretty much every band tagged with the label hated it and actively worked against it. It was primarily a media construct, and without another "grunge" band to link to Nirvana in the mainstream, maybe Seattle doesn't explode at all. Who knows what will move Madison Avenue?
Posted on 9/19/12 at 1:43 pm to Baloo
I was merely speaking of great bands who lost their lead singer in their prime or before. Looking back on MLB now, they were definitely more glam but I could see them transitioning into "grunge". But who really knows
Moral of the story today kids is "Say no to Drugs"
Moral of the story today kids is "Say no to Drugs"
Posted on 9/19/12 at 1:49 pm to bobbyray21
The song Hunger Strike wouldn't have been made 
Posted on 9/19/12 at 2:02 pm to Gnarls Broccoli
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The song Hunger Strike wouldn't have been made
That's funny and true
Posted on 9/19/12 at 2:51 pm to Standing ona beach
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I was merely speaking of great bands who lost their lead singer in their prime or before. Looking back on MLB now, they were definitely more glam but I could see them transitioning into "grunge". But who really knows
Moral of the story today kids is "Say no to Drugs"
Their music has a very "grunge" appeal IMO. Stardog Champion, etc...
Posted on 9/19/12 at 3:45 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I don't see MLB as a hair metal band at all. I think they are very unique, and probably closer to Soundgarden than to the other Grunge type bands.
Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:06 pm to Bubba Hotep
Since we're revisting what might have beens from bands of that era, here's a cool story about Mudhoney and their halfhearted attempt to go mainstream in '92
Posted on 9/19/12 at 10:28 pm to Gorilla Fingers
His death put so much in motion. Temple of the Dog would not have formed or been written. Pearl Jam without Gossard or Ament? Vedder never leaves San Diego? Nirvana would have still been formed.
The whole Seattle thing was about angst, sadness, and heroin. Add to that a guy who was friends with a lot of those musicians dying. Fuel to the fire.
Could Wood have made the transition from glam? Would he have to?
The whole Seattle thing was about angst, sadness, and heroin. Add to that a guy who was friends with a lot of those musicians dying. Fuel to the fire.
Could Wood have made the transition from glam? Would he have to?
Posted on 9/20/12 at 8:10 am to LSU alum wannabe
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His death put so much in motion. Temple of the Dog would not have formed or been written. Pearl Jam without Gossard or Ament? Vedder never leaves San Diego? Nirvana would have still been formed.
The whole Seattle thing was about angst, sadness, and heroin. Add to that a guy who was friends with a lot of those musicians dying. Fuel to the fire.
Good post. I've never heard this argument before, but I think I buy it.
Posted on 9/20/12 at 9:29 am to LSU alum wannabe
Seattle wasn't about sadness. It was about gallows humor, but it wasn't about being sad. Cobain never got credit for being as funny as he really was. His big hit song was about deodorant, for godsakes. Rape Me is the Teen Spirit riff backwards. This was a band always playing with a bit of a smirk.
And the godfathers of the scene were all pranksters -- the Dwarves are funny as hell, Mudhoney spent more time mocking the scene they created than trying to cash in, and even the Sub Pop label was a big joke.
Sarcastic? Sure. But sad? Not really, no.
And the godfathers of the scene were all pranksters -- the Dwarves are funny as hell, Mudhoney spent more time mocking the scene they created than trying to cash in, and even the Sub Pop label was a big joke.
Sarcastic? Sure. But sad? Not really, no.
Posted on 9/20/12 at 1:57 pm to Baloo
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His big hit song was about deodorant
I'm not entirely sure exactly what the song is about but I'm pretty confident that it's not actually about deodorant.
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