Pearl Jam what could not be said about this band? Seriously, if you were to travel back to 1993. While Adorable and Catherine Wheel helped bring the shoegaze movement to the foreground - with two critical albums each - before their careers crashed and burned beneath them. Sunny Day is believed to have coined the phrase "emo" and for good/bad launched a million sad kid bands on to the market (though none - besides maybe Death Cab - could achieve the same fine art and accolades). Two have longevity in their career as most originally thought they would be a flash in the pan, and no longer chart after the 90's (pearl jam, jay-z) and the other three were pretty much the anchors of a couple musical movements that have come and gone, and come back again.
I believe they all hold up in their own right. "As lame as it sounds, I'm finding it hard to choose these in any order or pick a #1. Singer Robin Wilson sang some backing vocals on my band's last album - check out the tracks ' Everything Changes' and ' I Just Can't Let Go.' They've since put out 2 records, but nothing can touch the sadness and beauty of New Miserable Experience - it's an amazing collection of songs. The band released a followup in 1996 - which I dig - then broke up for a while. Shortly after its release, chief songwriter Doug Hopkins took his own life. Almost every song could've been a single - and hell, five of the twelve songs were. Listen to the beautiful melodies, and stunning songwriting. Listen to the lyrics - the sadness, the pain and the emotion. While some may discredit this album as being nothing more than radio pop of the 90s, I strongly disagree. When I drive over the Mill Avenue bridge, past the flour mill - I hear this album in my head. Rita's fortune telling shop on University, I hear this album. For me, this is the album I hear when I drive around Tempe, Arizona.
Therefore I submit that NME was the GB's debut. Over half of the songs on Dusted were re-recorded & re-released for New Miserable Experience and its major label predecessor, the Up & Crumbling EP. Notes and Memories: Surprised? First, I should mention that the GB's released their own record called Dusted, back in 1989.
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