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Maurice wrote:This may be the name of my next project. Thanks!

That term is patented, son.

mattw wrote:

That term is patented, son.

I hereby bow to the power of Jack Lord and recuse myself from using Heavy Waffles.

I was teaching in Missouri in the early nineties, and as it was summer time, we had the windows open. A car went by blaring loud rock music, and a few of my students started bopping their heads. I decided to fuck with them a bit and said, "What's that?" A girl in the front row said, "Uh...Pearl Jam!" "I should have guessed," I said, at which point the room erupted with shouts of "Come on, man," "You don't like Pearl Jam?" etctera.

"Look," I said, "I've got nothing against Pearl Jam. But as an old school punk rocker, I resent the suggestion that so-called 'alternative' music is the new punk rock or anything. To me, Pearl Jam isn't the Sex Pistols of the 90's, they're the Foreigner of the 90's, just a corporate rock band, and I don't see them as being any more revolutionary than Alanis Morrisette."

Everyone threw hands up in disgust, except for the girl in the front row, who said, "Alanis is cool."

Eddie Vedder. He's our Bono, no?

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Eddie Vedder. He's our Bono, no?

I don't know about that.
I think I could probably hang out with him.
On the other hand, I would rather have my nuts physically ripped off my body from some cum-crazed squirrel before I'd hang out with Bono.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Eddie Vedder. He's our Bono, no?

Yes he is.



RIP.

The Kid wrote:Yeah, the Killers are bad. Can anyone honestly tell me that they're worse than Candlebox?

Ooof. Candlebox is terrible. I curse you, The Kid.

But The Killers are worse. You see, The Killers are just terrible and depressing. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. However, Candlebox at least reminds me of Collective Soul (if only because they were contemporaries and their band names both begin with "C") -- and I can laugh without irony at that funny little "yeah" part in Collective Soul's "Shine".

I know that's not much. I mean, I'm not cutting out this review and sticking it on the fridge if I'm Candlebox. However, it's enough to keep them a solid furlong behind The Killers in the Crap Derby.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:I don't see [Pearl Jam] as being any more revolutionary than Alanis Morrisette.

Fun fact: Pearl Jam's "Ten" and Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill" have sold a collective 28 million copies.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:But The Killers are worse. You see, The Killers are just terrible and depressing. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. However, Candlebox at least reminds me of Collective Soul (if only because they were contemporaries and their band names both begin with "C") -- and I can laugh without irony at that funny little "yeah" part in Collective Soul's "Shine".

Mr. W, you can't defend Candlebox as being better than the Killers on their own terms, but instead offer a forced connection to Collective Soul? Who sucked soooo much in their own right?
Maybe for me it comes down to the fact that the Killers are clearly ripping off better bands than Candlebox was. When I linger on Q101 for a few minutes, I'd rather listen to a very dumbed-down, radio friendly version of Wire's/Joy Division's poppiest moments than listen to a very dumbed down version of Pearl Jam that isn't really radio friendly at all, in that it has zero hooks.
I really didn't expect someone to take the Candlebox bait, so propers to you for having the balls.
But come on, I mean, Candlebox! Candle-fucking-box!?! I remember a print ad for their second album, billing them as "just another band you can't live without." This ad undoubtedly sparked a few suicides.

Candlebox made a second record?

Angriest_Dragon wrote:Candlebox made a second record?

Fuckin' A right they did. Apparently they had a third as well:

http://www.maverick.com/candlebox96/cmp/main.html

They also stopped updating their website in 1998, around the time that "Adam Sandler's new movie The Waterboy" came out, and just about at the same time that the last remaining Candlebox fan on earth started getting into nu-metal.

The Kid wrote:Mr. W, you can't defend Candlebox as being better than the Killers on their own terms, but instead offer a forced connection to Collective Soul? Who sucked soooo much in their own right?

RANK!!!

Candlebox
The Killers
Collective Soul