Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone
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Artist: Mother Love BoneEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
Published: 1992
CD Release Date: 1992-09-22
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- This Is Shangrila
- Stardog Champion
- Holy Roller
- Bone China
- Come Bite The Apple
- Stargazer
- Heartshine
- Captain Hi-Top
- Man Of Golden Words
- Capricorn Sister
- Gentle Groove
- Mr. Danny Boy
- Crown Of Thorns
- Thru Fade Away
- Mindshaker Meltdown
- Half Ass Minkey Boy
- Chloe Dancer/ Crown Of Thorns
Music reviews of Mother Love Bone
Music Review: classic songs that are sadly, not recognized as the classics that they should be recognixed as
Rating: 5 Stars
In an alternative universe Mother Love Bone is a household name, praised by critics and recognized as one of the best bands of the 90s, and no one has ever heard the words "Pearl Jam" mentioned in that order. In this universe singer Andrew Wood was one of the biggest rock stars of the 1990s and he continues to enjoy his celebrity today....
Listening to the 1992 self-titled Mother Love Bone compilation, (also known as "Star Dog Champion) which consists of the band's brilliant debut album "Apple" (1990) and an earlier EP "Shine" (1989) it's easy to ask "what could have been?" If Andrew Wood hadn't died of a drug overdose, what would his status and the status of Mother Love Bone be today? What great music would they have gone on to record?
But alas, Mother Love Bone died along with Andrew Wood and one is left to speculate. What we are left with is just one album and an EP, the sole testaments of a great band.
While there are a fair amount of albums that weren't recognized in their day (like Love's "Forever Changes" or The Velvet Underground and Nico, both 1967) no album has been as criminally neglected as "Apple." While the album received and still receives good-to-glowing reviews and "Crown of Thorns" is considered a classic, the band and their music, have been, overall, greatly overlooked and under appreciated.
What exactly was the sound of this great band? Grunge, right? After all, Mother Love Bone was from Seattle and three of the band members (Ament, Gossard and Bruce Fairweather) were in the Green River (one of the pioneers of Seattle grunge) so "Apple" should have a total grungy sound, right? Well, not exactly.
Listening to Mother Love Bone and then comparing it with Mudhoney, it's clear that when Green River split, singer Mark Arm took the band's sound with him. Mudhoney was really just a continuation of Green River, with its distorted guitars and "fuzz" while Mother Love Bone had an entirely new sound.
Imagine crossing Led Zeppelin with Aerosmith and Jefferson Airplane, and that's pretty much what you get with Mother Love Bone--a totally retro, neo-psychedelic, hard rocking band with groove-laden bluesy riffs, killer solos with strong melodies. Andrew Wood, who could have been a love child of Janis Joplin and David Lee Roth, was a charismatic, gifted singer whose voice and words combined a paradoxical mixture of utopian happiness and lonely despair, sometimes in the same breath. This makes listening to "Apple" kind of a unique experience. In some ways it's a celebratory, happy album, and in others, it's a deeply sad one.
While only two members of MLB went on to play in Pearl Jam, if you listen to "Apple" and then "Ten" (1991) you can see the natural progression, how one seems to naturally follow the other. "Ten" may have, overall, better songs, but "Apple" has its strengths too. While both albums are terrific and have a classic-rock feel, "Apple" seems to be a little more spontaneous, less slick, and certainly bluesier with stronger melodies. Stylistically, the sunny, hippie Wood is the polar opposite of the somber, baritone Vedder.
Songs like "This Is Shangrila," "Stardog Champion," "Holy Roller" "Stargazer," "Crown of Thorns" and "Come Bite the Apple," (in which Wood prophetically sings "my future was in my hands `till I washed it all away") rival anything from Aerosmith's "Rocks" (1974) and are classic songs that are sadly, not recognized as the classics that they should be recognixed as.
One can only guess what Mother Love Bone could have achived, but its frutless to contemplate. One thing is for sure though, Andrew Wood, Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Sone Gossard and Greg Gilmore left one great album, and that much is indisputable.
On a side note: This single-disc compilation contains most of the "Shine" EP, and there is another 2-CD edition that contains the entire "Shine" EP. While these songs aren't as strong as what the band would later do, they are worth listening to.
Description of Mother Love Bone
It wasn't death but life that brought Mother Love Bone to the attention of the world in the end. Andrew Wood's premature passing was a personal tragedy to all who knew him and to the band's hometown fanbase, but the group had barely made a mark beyond theAlternative Rock CDs
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