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blind melon
Blind Melon
(Blind Melon/Soup)
"grab my knee and look at me and
try to tell me
i'll be home soon,
asleep in my bed and unstoned.
i'm tired of me this way"
You remember Blind Melon, right? Yeah that snappy "No Rain" song with the dancing bee girl... that's the one. Almost everyone i know liked that song, and how could you not? lead singer Shannon Hoon combined somber, straight forward and yet oddly upbeat lyrics with grass-roots, New Orleans style music to create an original and striking debut album. of course, around the time of it's release, most of us were heading to the nearest salvation army to gear up with military boots and contemplating how much money it would take to get to seattle.
i remember visiting my grandmother in sacramento, california the summer that "No Rain" aired on MTV. i stayed up all night waiting to see the REM video for "Everybody Hurts," and i must have seen the dancing bee girl 100 times... even in the midst of my "everybody hurts" teen angst stage, i will admit that she made me smile. granted, i was smiling about kicking her bee ass.
there are very few albums from my past that i re-visit and hardly any of them ever produce the excitement that i had the first time around. but now, 8 or 9 years down the road, Blind Melon will not leave my stereo.
in a way, i curse my former self for not giving Blind Melon the attention they were due when Shannon Hoon was still alive (he died from a drug overdose in New Orleans, 1995), but i just have to face the fact that i didnt really get them until now. and maybe thats for the best,
though the thought of never seeing them tour causes me actual anguish.
i highly suggest that you pull this album out and dust it off. it's the most
skillful, inspiring, tragic and comforting music i've heard in a long time.
it's painful to think that there will be no more of Blind Melon, but it makes the music they put out that much more enticing and personal.
you never know what you have until it's gone.
and on that cliché, i will just finish by saying that this has been one of the most difficult and irrelevant reviews i've ever written, and i dont think i can exactly pinpoint why.
im finding it next to impossible to attempt to describe how much i think of their music
i guess all i can say is that it's akin to spending
time with someone that you havent seen but still care deeply for,
and when they put their arms around you,
you are so relieved.
or
i dont know if their original site is still up