Daniel Johns (Silverchair) solo album...

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Silverchair was every 90s teenage dream come true

[The exploding boy]

Not rally. I was off grunge by the time they came around and I could tell they were lame. I guess most teenagers wish they could be rock stars though sure, no matter the decade. But i didnt want it to happen playing this shit.

[Trotskilicious]

PPL DYIN
PURH MASSACUH

[The exploding boy]

Also personally i wasn't made aware of Magic: the Gathering until like maybe 1999. When did it get popular in the US?

Its possible it took them a while to translate it to french markets though.

[Trotskilicious]

Nerds were playing at lunch in 94

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Originally Posted by The exploding boy

Not rally. I was off grunge by the time they came around and I could tell they were lame. I guess most teenagers wish they could be rock stars though sure, no matter the decade. But i didnt want it to happen playing this shit.

They were 15 when they came around

You wanted to be one of the Hanson boys? That's okay

[cardiac]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Anyway, Silverchair belong to the inner sanctum of the triple J illuminati so Daniel Johns will doubtless get endless radio rotation and second headline at every festival in Australia for the duration of the 2015/16 season. He'll crack top 10 in the hottest 100 next year. It's a terrible system.

Every Silverchair album (there were five spread over 12 years) went to number one in Australia and they had their biggest radio hit (Straight Lines) just before they broke up. People genuinely loved that shit in there from the beginning to the end. If he gets on endless radio rotation and gets to play big festivals, it's because he's australian pop-royalty.

I don't think they had any notable hits abroad since "Freak", at least not in the states.

I was very much into Silverchair when I was 13 and used to listen to "Neon Ballroom" alot. That being said, I'm not really digging this new song. Sounds horribly generic as far as R n' B goes.

[Trotskilicious]

sounds like nickleback

[Funbags]

Originally Posted by cardiac

I don't think they had any notable hits abroad since "Freak", at least not in the states

I think Daniel Johns has a touch of Billy Corganitis in that he hates the fact that everyone in the US thinks of him as a grunge has-been.

The new solo song sounds like he's trying to get the mainstream success Silverchair's legacy denied him. If his solo debut doesn't become a hit, I imagine he'll have his "I want my band back" moment.

The last Silverchair album was actually pretty awesome imho. This song is an incredibly beautiful piece of music:

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by toase

They were 15 when they came around

You wanted to be one of the Hanson boys? That's okay

i was like 20 when mmmbop came out. It was a good four years after frogstomp. At that point i wished i was Robert smith. As for at 16....i wished i was Trent reznor...


an yes i know they were teens thats why i said i suppose most teens wish they could be rockstars, and they got their wish but i still didnt wish i was them. i wouldnt have wanted it to happen playing the shit they did.

Truthfully nobody should be a succesful musicians at 15. theyll always regret the shit they made.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by slunken

i have a distinct memory of spending one summer in a dirty card shop playing magic the gathering for hours and listening to frogstomp with all my friends. we would all ride our bikes there and meet before they opened at like 1030/11 and play magic until 3 or 4. then we would go swimming or something. i think the guy tried to close by 5 but sometimes on special nights he would plan to stay open way late and we would all hang out late and drink pop and play magic. guy could have been a pedophile for all i know. he was missing 2 fingers off of one of his hands. guy ran the cardshop in town in a few different locations all while i was growing up. sometimes his mom would fill in. his name was steve. i think he lived with his mom.

yea, frogstomp.

Show us on the doll where Steve touched you. It's okay.

[The exploding boy]

show me in this culture where frogstomp has been celebrated as fine accompaniment to a game of Magic.

[Trotskilicious]

1995 usa, america

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Originally Posted by The exploding boy

an yes i know they were teens thats why i said i suppose most teens wish they could be rockstars, and they got their wish...

So we kind of agree there

[The machine of god]

Originally Posted by toase

...sounds like Justin Timberlake meets Lorde



(at least this single does)

The producer and co-writer IS Lorde's producer and co-writer.

[wHATcOLOR]

the EP is out now, 4 songs -- on spotify.

i really like it. this dude is the shit

[wounded]

I need to brush off Neon Ballroom

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR

the EP is out now, 4 songs -- on spotify.

i really like it. this dude is the shit

Jesus christ some of you guys will like any old turd that one of these old grunge guys puts out

[redbull]

i dont think this solo stuff is very good, but Silverchair has at least one legitimately good album (Diorama) and some other good songs like Emotion Sickness

[wHATcOLOR]

Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR

the EP is out now, 4 songs -- on spotify.

i really like it. this dude is the shit

Anyone been listening to the full album? It's called Talk and is on spotify. I like several of the songs quite a bit, there are at least 2 that I skip each time, but overall I dig it

[Sonic Johnny]

Originally Posted by redbull

i dont think this solo stuff is very good, but Silverchair has at least one legitimately good album (Diorama) and some other good songs like Emotion Sickness

I've not been a fan of these guys in 12+ years but I saw them live once and they opened with Emotion Sickness and it absolutely destroyed.

[LaBelle]

His song about Casper, the Friendly Ghost is my favorite

[D.]

Sick, sick tunes for a sad, sad world.

[redbull]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

I've not been a fan of these guys in 12+ years but I saw them live once and they opened with Emotion Sickness and it absolutely destroyed.

2003ish? that tour had the extended versions with the long slow jam at the end...I saw them in 2007 and they played the boring short version :/

kinda miss being into this band being 12 was pretty cool in retrospect

[Sonic Johnny]

Originally Posted by redbull

2003ish? that tour had the extended versions with the long slow jam at the end...I saw them in 2007 and they played the boring short version :/

kinda miss being into this band being 12 was pretty cool in retrospect

it woulda been 2005 or 6... IIRC it was their first show back after the break they took while Daniel did that awful Dissosciatives album after Diorama.

[cardiac]

That's some D'angeloesque shit right there. Not a bad album.

[Mals Marola]

for real, i've liked both songs posted so far

still fairly hard for me to connect these with the guy who sang "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" tho, & not just cos it's a different style of music

[fuzzyroes]

Would anyone give the slightest of shits about this new music if it wasn't sang by some 90's grunge lead singer?

Serious question.

[Elphenor]

hey I agree with you on this fuzzy

this shit is terrible

[fuzzyroes]

That it is. It almost makes Chris Cornells "Scream" seem tolerable in comparison