Tuesday, September 26, 2006

grunge max part-I

eh nilsappa jhini.this is the millionth time u'r listening to that song,uh,what is it called?

wooofsch!

What?

(sniffing)wooffsch!

Oh ya!plush.'Will she smell alone?'!@#$%.It's addictive though.

Stone temple pilot 's good man.ave to listen to them more often and many of their unpopular songs too. Grunge has lured me ever since I first dismissed Nirvana's vocalist as ordinary,worse,dissonant.I still feel that way,though my dislike for his vocals has been moderated over time.

What is essential for a grunge vocalist is to add depth to the sublime guitar pieces that often accompany good grunge pieces. Depth in terms of a generally high-pitched voice;a complementary 'bass' vocal (like Jerry cantrell's of Alice in Chains) would be icing on the cake,staying in tune with the melody (Pearl jam's Eddie Vedder sucks because of his melodic 'digressions'),a haunting or enticing tone adds to the appeal of a song.

I was listening to this song,which jhini woofs about,and couldn't help singing along (thank mini-lyrics for that) until I just realised what i had been singing.Here's an excerpt:

'And I feel,and i feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?'

For me,the wording of a song comes a distant fifth to the music and other musical matters.Still,I only want my frequent public renditions of the song (Helmet shields most of my singing and mouth guitaring on my daily ride!) to be a little more meaningful.

I don't think the huge electrical machines at IISc have heard any grunge in a long time and am pretty sure not in a long time to come.

Here's a trippy piece that i would sing any day for the guitar solo that follows:

'Kickin as I'm tryin' to sleep
I got mud beneath my shoes
Rubber band,rubberband
Gun in hand,gun in hand'