A few people I know will fight you to the death defending Soundgarden as the greatest band of all time. I share your feelings Doug. I think Cornell is an awesome vocalist, but some of Soundgarden's later stuff was very drab. The chorus "Fell on Black Days" sums up the drabbness the best. I would suggest giving Binaural a listen though. Im not asking you to put up a shrine to them, but its worth a play.

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If you're looking to get heavier into Pearl Jam, I would recommend staying far away from Binaural and Riot Act. "Sad" is one of the best songs on Lost Dogs.

'Superunknown' is actually the only CD that I wore out and had to buy again because I listened to it so much.

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Wait a minute, this is the guy with Riot Act bumper sticker on this car . But seriously thouhg. Binaural, are you kidding me? I actually just threw it on. I realize Nothing as it Seems and Soon Forget are a little weak, but the rest of the CD is an awesome listen. Breakerfall is an intense opening song. Sad is great, Undone is right up there.

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Its a 2003 tour sticker.

Of the Girl and Sleight of Hand are the best tracks off Binaural. Soon Forget was better the first time around...when Pete Townshed played the uke on 'By Numbers.' I would highly recommend Yield over anything PJ has to offer.

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To each their own. And if you want to talk better the first time around... Given to Fly + Going to California = MATCH! Still pissed I wasnt there for the HoB 2005 show.

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grunge somehow paved the way to ska for me...don't know how and i don't know why but i loved me some ska. mid-late 90's was all about it.

Funny you say that, I had a SKA period myself after high school. Reel Big Fish blasted for a while. I got over it pretty quickly though. The only weird thing was the song "Shes got a girlfriend now" became an inside joke around my group of friends. But thats a story over beers.

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yeah, reel big fish. saw them twice in concert, and met them at one of their concerts. reel big dicks.

i was into a ton of ska music for about a 2 year period: fish, the specials, the smooths, cherry poppin daddies, five iron frenzy, kemuri, mighty mighty bosstones, buck o'nine, etc...went to a lot of ska shows. skanked hard core.

loved me some ska...FIF, Supertones...went to every ska/punk show under the sun. Elgin was a great place to catch good up and coming ska. Even liked the semi-big band stuff that came after for a little while...Brian Seltzer, the W's...

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

The thing with Ska was, I loved it for a year, then it was like I woke up one day and said wow I cant stand this stuff anymore. I dont remember when or why, but it was a sudden thing.

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the shows just stopped...couldn't find a ska/punk show anywhere. I switched back to my love for good blues lead guitar.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

that's why i usually compare ska with disco. same reaction, just a different decade.

I always thought Hail,Hail totally rocked.

No Code was the only english speaking ablum at El Gallo on 137th in Crestwood.

If I was there it was 3 am and I was drunk...so I always got a kick out of putting on Hail,Hail...there would be spanish music playing at a reasonable volume and 10 seconds after i made the selection dramatic cut to an insanely loud opening riff of Hail, Hail

Without fail at least one drunk person freaked out and one time a girl fell out of her chair.

So yeah I like Hail,Hail

im right along with delany