Blind Melon...who/what/when/where/why

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I have always dismissed them, but the other day, while watching a b comedy film "slackers" (not slacker) there was this amazing song, which i then found out was by blind melon. so tell me more. good bad, stupid, annoying, or great?

― ddd, Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"No Rain" = total classic. Not heard anything else tho.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The dead singer is totally a local hero here! (okay, he's not a hero at all, but he's popular with, uh, some crowds.. okay, sometimes people go to his grave to get stoned. if that isn't classic, what is?)

Central Indiana reprazent!! 765 in this bitch! (something tells me this won't take off..)

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

um! former bloomingtonian! huh! go John Cougar!

I always pegged them for the hippie Jane's Addiction, and basically as good for the listener as that concept could possibly get. Probably aged better than the Spin Doctors.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

What ages better, dead meat or stinky cheese?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard a couple other songs I liked. I'm usually not into the hippie/jam band thing, but I liked "Tones of Home" a whole lot.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Deserted" is one of my all-time favorite songs. Otherwise they were kind of annoying.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

They were awful. But when I saw Guns 'n' Roses years ago, Shannon Hoon stood next to me for a while; he was pretty cute.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i always liked "Soup", thats it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked a couple of things about blind melon, particularly soup (that first album is a bit bland)

Firstly, tones of home is pretty sweet. The guitar playing is interesting, they would only play a riff for one or two bars before getting tired of it and moving on to something else. The song was always constantly shifting and changing.

I don't know if its because of that, and I don't know if I can quite explain what this is but... they seemed to share a common idea of what they were playing but they all went about it in different ways. The only way I can describe is that they were playing AGAINST each other rather than with. I felt REM was doing a similar thing on New adventures in Hi Fi. Both these bands managed to pull this off, at moments, and those moments were brilliant.

― Laney, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Mouthful of Cavities breaks my heart.

― james devon, Friday, 17 January 2003 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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