THE GRUNGE MATCH - 048
Match 048:
Alice In Chains "Frogs" (1995)
Nirvana "Dumb" (1993)
Pearl Jam "Mankind" (1996)
Soundgarden "She's A Politician" (1992)
"Frogs" is not as bad as I remember now that I take another listen. It is super long, clocking in at 8:18, and it's the uninteresting kind of slow so that doesn't help its case, but the chorus saves it (though at the five and a half minute mark, the song devolves into the mumbling, free association jammy bullshit I remember it being). If you cut the last three minutes, it would be perfectly fine, but NOOOO. Instead it's a wash.
"Dumb" is one of my personal favorites from "In Utero". It doesn't aspire to be anything greater, but it doesn't underachieve in spite of its lack of intentions. It's got a cool cello thing going on, it's pretty chill without being a dirge, the lyrics are kind of...well, dumb but since the song is called "Dumb", it fits. I can vibe to this.
"Mankind" is the first time Stone Gossard takes over singing duties for Pearl Jam. If he wrote the lyrics, I hope he never does this again, because his voice is okay but the words are infantile rock and roll garbage. It be gobbletygook, main. And the music is a bog standard alternative song from 1996.
"She's A Politician" sounds like a re-recording of something from "Ultramega OK". It's less than two minutes, it's got some sorta cool riffs but a weird, jagged chorus that's sort of off-putting. Being that they're a MUCH tighter band in 1992, "She's A Politician" comes off much better than the random trash that dragged down much of their full-length debut. It needs some work, but eh. Not the worst.
"Dumb": 4
"She's A Politician": 3
"Frogs": 2
"Mankind": 1
TOTALS:
Pearl Jam: 136
Alice In Chains: 128
Nirvana: 109
Soundgarden: 108
Nirvana continues to hang on with all they've got, but tomorrow brings changes. Yes, "In Utero" has a better side B than side A, but "Superunknown" makes its first mark on the scene. And fittingly, "Alice In Chains" (the album and the band as we knew them) will be "Over Now".
Alice In Chains "Frogs" (1995)
Nirvana "Dumb" (1993)
Pearl Jam "Mankind" (1996)
Soundgarden "She's A Politician" (1992)
"Frogs" is not as bad as I remember now that I take another listen. It is super long, clocking in at 8:18, and it's the uninteresting kind of slow so that doesn't help its case, but the chorus saves it (though at the five and a half minute mark, the song devolves into the mumbling, free association jammy bullshit I remember it being). If you cut the last three minutes, it would be perfectly fine, but NOOOO. Instead it's a wash.
"Dumb" is one of my personal favorites from "In Utero". It doesn't aspire to be anything greater, but it doesn't underachieve in spite of its lack of intentions. It's got a cool cello thing going on, it's pretty chill without being a dirge, the lyrics are kind of...well, dumb but since the song is called "Dumb", it fits. I can vibe to this.
"Mankind" is the first time Stone Gossard takes over singing duties for Pearl Jam. If he wrote the lyrics, I hope he never does this again, because his voice is okay but the words are infantile rock and roll garbage. It be gobbletygook, main. And the music is a bog standard alternative song from 1996.
"She's A Politician" sounds like a re-recording of something from "Ultramega OK". It's less than two minutes, it's got some sorta cool riffs but a weird, jagged chorus that's sort of off-putting. Being that they're a MUCH tighter band in 1992, "She's A Politician" comes off much better than the random trash that dragged down much of their full-length debut. It needs some work, but eh. Not the worst.
"Dumb": 4
"She's A Politician": 3
"Frogs": 2
"Mankind": 1
TOTALS:
Pearl Jam: 136
Alice In Chains: 128
Nirvana: 109
Soundgarden: 108
Nirvana continues to hang on with all they've got, but tomorrow brings changes. Yes, "In Utero" has a better side B than side A, but "Superunknown" makes its first mark on the scene. And fittingly, "Alice In Chains" (the album and the band as we knew them) will be "Over Now".
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