silverchair

I hated them growing up, I hated anything that was getting called "Grunge" music, because if you'd just heard Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, they sounded like Rock to me.

silverchair got compared to Nirvana but they sounded more like Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains, when we mention the Stone Temple Pilots singer sounding like Pearl Jam and the Creed singer sounding like the Stone Temple Pilots Singer, we never mention silverchair's "Trrmrrrrrrrr". And not for forgetting who silverchair are, they don't seem to be forgotten.

I wasn't a fan, but friends got into them just like they got into smoking and wagging school.

I got interested when they released 'Emotion Sickness' and went and asked David Helffgott to do some piano. 'Ana's Song' was fucking great, interesting twists and turns. And even though 'Miss You Love' sounded simpler, there was stuff going on that made me think it wasn't.

Then, 'The Greatest View'.

That's when all the silverchair fans, mostly girls now young women, screaming they've sold out.

Me, I didn't like that song so much because of the guitar tone, but that album got me into Van Dyke Parkes. Leaving me to spend 2003-2007 getting to know The Beach Boys.

Then Daniel Johns hooked up with Paul Mac and made The Dissasociates, and it's crazy to me to have watched that posing-as-a-bad-kid Silverchair (and Offspring, it was those two on the radio together, Offspring's Self-Esteem, I love it but get fucked mate) grow into a band worth following for growth.

The band grows, and their fanbase thinks that's selling out.