Yeah. I had an older cousin who'd regularly have 5 to 10 other skateboarders either either doing ollies and kick-flips over coolers or they'd be downstairs where had a band setup and recording studio. I was downstairs over there when they were playing 'Dirt' and I think the first place I was impressed with it was the intro to 'Down in a Hole', 'Rooster' was good, and it grew on me from there as I got what they were doing.
TBH I probably didn't give their post self-titled albums enough credit. I remember going back through Black Gives Way to Blue and not minding it, it's still Jerry Cantrel's apocalyptic sludge riffs, but I'm not as drawn and I think it was due to necessary concept shifts. 'Sublime with Rome' is another example of a band that everyone loved where they had an iconic singer who died and after that everyone kind of walked away. I do need to give more of a listen to 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here' and 'Ranier Fog' because those were way after my time but probably not bad albums and it looks like Dinosaurs even did better on the charts than Black.
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22 Jun 2025, 7:27 pm
