Blind Melon

Soup
$11.94
What can I say Blind Melon is the best grunge band around. They didn't last long because of Shannon Hoon's tragic death RIP. But this is my favorite Blind Melon CD. All of the songs have great riffs and Shannon's voice is so great. it fits the music so good, like Jerry and Layne "Alice In Chains." There are so many great songs like Galaxie "my favorite," 2x4, and Skinned. Every song is great in its own way.If you liked there first CD thin I really think that you will like this one.

A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other: The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon
$19.99
Great read. Feels like a behind the scenes look at Blind Melon and their music. Gives everything a whole new feel with resonating effects. This book makes Blind Melon's music even more touching.

Blind Melon [Explicit]
$7.99
Blind Melon were one of the tougher bands to categorize during the Alternative Explosion of the early 1990's. Not because they work in an esoteric style; the band plays lightly psychedelic classic rock, and their music fits squarely into the jam band tradition. But if you wanted a new band to sell in those days, you had to market them as "alternative". So poor Blind Melon were forced to compete in the same field as L7 and Nirvana, and took a lot of criticism ("alternative to what?") for a description they had nothing to do with. Fortunately the band found their crowd organically, and mainstream rock fans who dug Led Zeppelin and the Black Crowes found their way over to Blind Melon eventually.

Listening to the album now, Blind Melon's self-titled debut is a remarkable straightforward heavy rock album, filled with inventive riffs and melodies, dusted with psychedelic leanings and occasional country sensibilities, and blessed with an expressive singer. Furthermore, it's almost completely free from 90's production techniques, so it's aged a lot better than other albums from the era (like Pearl Jam's debut TEN, which sounds rather slick in comparison). The album is loaded with ambitious yet low-key compositions, like the soaring opener "Soak the Sin" the very Led Zeppelin-esque "I Wonder", which swings from a delicately-picked intro to an uptempo solo-driven middle section and back, and of course the hippie-ish jam hit single "No Rain". Singer Shannon Hoon lacks the rampant ego that makes so many blue-eyed soul crooners so hard to stomach, and I've never understood why he takes as much criticism as he does. The band is equally unpretentious, and their hardest-rocking numbers here, like the slightly Jane's Addiction-leaning "Tones of Home" and the funky "Seed to a Tree", just sound like great ways to get a crowd going at their show.

As I said, Blind Melon were ultimately embraced by the classic rock-loving crowd, which meant that the jocks in high school totally dug them, and cranky elitist hipsters like me tended to fault the band for their fanbase. But listen to Blind Melon with an open mind, and the band's good nature shines through on every song, and makes it impossible to dislike them. The sound of this album has since been resurrected by an entire new generation of bands picking out the best bits of rhythm and blues and folk and reinventing them (As Tall As Lions, Mewithoutyou, The New Pornographers, etc.). So now more than ever, it's worth giving Blind Melon a listen. It doesn't have a great rep, and the album cover is ugly (sorry kid, I know everyone is pretty in their own way, but that's a damn unflattering shot of you), but the music contained in it is totally worthwhile.

For My Friends
$15.99
THESE KATS MUST HAVE SUM SERIOUS 'NANAS/ THIS ALBUM KICKS OUT THE JAMS MFR. REALLY TIGHT, SOLID THE WHOLE WAY THRO. WASNT A FAN OF THE BAND B4 N NOW IM ON BOARD. PRESTINE* NOT A MUNDANE TRACK TO PASS BY HERE. IT HOOKS U ON THE LINE LIKE A BIG SALMON N DOESNT LET GO. YA DIG. GET WIT IT. GROOVY. HIP. CRACKS LIKE THE WHIP. CHECK THIS OUT 10 ON A 5 SCALE. WORD.
THNX -M