He knows how it will end, but he hasn't written the end yet. So any uncertainty is based on how he hopes he'll strike the tone he wants but that he may not be successful.

Heh. The biggest play I can think of for "Song of the Summer" was Colbert last September when he made fun of the corporate sponsorship for the "honor" of getting to play the SoS on his show. Har. And coincidentally, that was the first time I ever heard "Blurred Lines." I had tuned in for the whole Daft Punk thing.

I do totally agree with you about the development of a band's sound not happening overnight. And I'd agree with you that first STP record sounded more like Alice in Chains musically. (And "Facelift" by AiC was from 1990).

I clearly remember the first time me and six of my friends sat around watching a video of "Wicked Garden" and we were all saying things like, "I didn't know Eddie Vedder had another band." and "Why'd he cut off all his hair and dye it orange?" We pretty soon figured it out, but the point I was trying to make was that…

With respect to all involved,
I've got no serious bone to pick with Jason Heller's analysis except to point out that I think grunge was a much much smaller phenomenon in reality than it was ever portrayed in the media. A lot of the bands that got the "grunge" label— Pearl Jam, for instance— were uncomfortable with it.…

hmm. If it always ends with diarrhea, you may be doing it wrong.

Bleah. Hatesong always seems like it should be a good feature to read but more and more, is just kinda petty gripes w/o any real explanation. The recent conversation with David Lynch where the interviewer said more about the song than Lynch did is about standard.