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Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:01
 
 kingart wrote:
Bands with a fruit in or for their name

Blind Melon
Lemonheads
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Moby Grape
The Cranberries
The Raspberries

There's more. Can't recall them. Help me out, RPers. 
 
 

 PopKombo wrote:

How about Smashing Pumpkins?  Pumpkins are scientifically speaking, a fruit.  Oh, and Bananarama and Tangerine Dream.


 dsd wrote:

Electric Prunes (someone has to say it)
 
Fiona Apple?  Don or Neneh Cherry?  Chuck Berry?

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 11:16
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Bumped from 8 to 9.  Dammit, Shannon Hoon - wrong place, wrong time, wrong choices... We could sure use your music now.
 
Miss you, Cynaera...
 

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 07:02
 
 scraig wrote:
i hate heroin. seriously retarded.
 
I believe it was cocaine that killed Shannon.

dsd
(PDX)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 07:02
 
 PopKombo wrote:

How about Smashing Pumpkins?  Pumpkins are scientifically speaking, a fruit.  Oh, and Bananarama and Tangerine Dream.
 
Electric Prunes (someone has to say it)

PopKombo
(Up Against the San Gabriels)
Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 17:15
 
 kingart wrote:
Bands with a fruit in or for their name

Blind Melon
Lemonheads
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Moby Grape
The Cranberries
The Raspberries

There's more. Can't recall them. Help me out, RPers. 
 
 
How about Smashing Pumpkins?  Pumpkins are scientifically speaking, a fruit.  Oh, and Bananarama and Tangerine Dream.



Jodo901
Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 17:12
 
One of my faves from this great but short lived band. The light that burns twice as fast burns twice as bright. Peace.

"Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die."

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 08:30
 
Bands with a fruit in or for their name

Blind Melon
Lemonheads
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Moby Grape
The Cranberries
The Raspberries

There's more. Can't recall them. Help me out, RPers. 
 

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 16:52
 
i hate heroin. seriously retarded.

Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 16:52
 
 GuiltyFeat wrote:
20 years ago this sounded like it was from 20 years ago.
 
Really, it was never a good band.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 07:26
 
 emh wrote:
Saw them open for the Stones at Three Rivers. I was going for the Stones, didn't really know or care about Blind Melon.  Expecting them to be marginal, they ended up being one of my most pleasant live show surprises.  Not just decent live, they were really good.
 
i was at that show!! i agree - it was good.
i am from pgh.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 07:23
 
 Kaisersosay wrote:
Too young,,,too young
 
i forget, was it drugs?

Kaisersosay
(Mighty Mighty Bostown)
Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 07:22
 
Too young,,,too young

emh
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 12:48
 
Saw them open for the Stones at Three Rivers. I was going for the Stones, didn't really know or care about Blind Melon.  Expecting them to be marginal, they ended up being one of my most pleasant live show surprises.  Not just decent live, they were really good.

richlister
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 01:38
 
In the words of a number of artists "Only the good die young" This was obviously before the time of Amy Winehouse.

bronorb
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 12:38
 
Play Mouthfull of Cavities!

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 06:24
 
Very. Good. Music.

echoes
(Danbury, CT)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 08:51
 

RIP Shannon Hoon



sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 20:20
 
is that Little Miss Sunshine on the cover art?

jhorton
Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 14:42
 
Just brilliant.

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 16:40
 
Had a chance to see these guys live in a smallish venue just as No Rain was breaking - I think they went on to tour with the Stones later that year? Anyway, they were so good, you could really tell they were playing music light years ahead of some of the so-called jam bands they got compared to during that era. Real talents, such a profound bummer about Shannon.

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 22:20
 
Nice!

Difool
(near Hamburg, Germany)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 00:14
 
But I know we can't all stay here forever,
So I want to write my words on the face of today
...And then they'll paint it 

Love this tune.

somecallmejohn
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 11:42
 
singer reminds me of the singer from Jane's Addiction

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 11:58
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Bumped from 8 to 9.  Dammit, Shannon Hoon - wrong place, wrong time, wrong choices... We could sure use your music now.
 

Wow...I sure agree with you on that!

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 11:57
 
Bumped from 8 to 9.  Dammit, Shannon Hoon - wrong place, wrong time, wrong choices... We could sure use your music now.

iTuner
Posted: Nov 12, 2011 - 20:51
 
Perhaps my favorite song of theirs. Always have to turn it up.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 11:29
 
 Gryn wrote:

It can't be helped.. Some people simply don't have the intellect to appreciate music as good as this.
 
It can be argued that taste and aesthetics, philosophically, have little to do with "intellect" or reason, but feel free to insult those who do not agree with your tastes if it makes you feel better.


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 11:17
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Great tune.... but my wife can't stand these guys for some reason.... like fingers on chalk board.... frankly I don't see how you can't appreciate it
 
send her my way...


bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 14:38
 
This song takes me back to the 90's when I lived in Northern California...
Bee girl!

alanthecowboy
(Lakefield)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 19:45
 
 jukes1 wrote:


From Klosterman's blog:

"People will never stop talking about the handful of musicians who died at age 27 <...>. Otis Redding died at 26 and Bradley Nowell died at 28, so they won't be mentioned the next time some bozo writes a story about "The Curse of 27.""

 
Exactly... I'm sure lots of musicians died at 25, and at 26, and at 28 (like Shannon), and so on... I have a feeling that if you average it all out, 27 has absolutely no significance.  In fact, I would further suggest that you would just start to see a bit of a rise around 75 or 80, but that doesn't make news...


GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 02:09
 
20 years ago this sounded like it was from 20 years ago.

jukes1
(Pittsburgh, PA)
Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 10:35
 
 romeotuma wrote:


Shannon Hoon death from a cocaine overdose in 1995... wasn't he 27? Another sad sad loss... this is a fine song...
 

From Klosterman's blog:

"People will never stop talking about the handful of musicians who died at age 27 <...>. Otis Redding died at 26 and Bradley Nowell died at 28, so they won't be mentioned the next time some bozo writes a story about "The Curse of 27.""


ddog
(Midwest USA)
Posted: Jul 26, 2011 - 10:37
 
Local kid, good athlete in high school, got hooked up with the wrong group, buried in a local cemetery..

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 26, 2011 - 10:36
 


Shannon Hoon death from a cocaine overdose in 1995... wasn't he 27? Another sad sad loss... this is a fine song...




jkhandy
(Near the ocean (in my mind))
Posted: May 21, 2011 - 11:48
 
 jonahboo wrote:


it's cheaper to keep her

 
But life is way too short


adamdbenson
(CA->IL)
Posted: May 07, 2011 - 19:51
 
Looks like somebody's been listenin' to Ray...

 jonahboo wrote:


it's cheaper to keep her
 


jonahboo
(in a corner)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 12:30
 
 TreborG2 wrote:
You do know, divorce can be cheap... :)
 

it's cheaper to keep her


TreborG2
(VA - which is..'somewhere' east of paradise)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 12:27
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Great tune.... but my wife can't stand these guys for some reason.... like fingers on chalk board.... frankly I don't see how you can't appreciate it
  You do know, divorce can be cheap... :)



jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 12:24
 
Noise.

jonahboo
(in a corner)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 12:23
 
 cousinkill wrote:
Man, this one takes me back to high school. Wore it out in my Monte Carlo's cassette deck! Love=>10
 

:)

'78 Regal for me

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 04:47
 
Yes, this is a good band. Sadly for some reason, commercial radio tried to sully their good name by force feeding just one song of their repertoire down our throats breeding undeserved resentment and non recognition of their talents.

Netto
(Khimki, Russia)
Posted: Jan 15, 2011 - 19:22
 
Movie with a bee was good on a old MTV «120 Minutes», who was remember. Was liked it. Actually because of him this group of memorable for me.


horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 09:10
 
 S-curvy wrote:
Excellent Bill!  I never would have expected to hear Blind Melon on RP.
 

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lootunes
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 09:06
 
 EssexTex wrote:
One of the best songs ever
 

From one of the most underrated bands. 

EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee)
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 09:04
 
One of the best songs ever

Seahunt
(Parent's Basement)
Posted: Oct 28, 2010 - 12:53
 
 ick wrote:
Shannon, it's too bad you couldn't make the necessary changes that may have kept you alive.
 

x2 {#Sad}

MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Oct 28, 2010 - 12:48
 
Janis Joplin? 

jckearney
(home/work)
Posted: Sep 26, 2010 - 20:27
 
lovin' it!!

cousinkill
(Kokomo, IN)
Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 03:41
 
Man, this one takes me back to high school. Wore it out in my Monte Carlo's cassette deck! Love=>10

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 06:20
 
 Gryn wrote:

It can't be helped.. Some people simply don't have the intellect to appreciate music as good as this.

 

After this remark, I can't help but feel relieved that it has been my good fortune to have always liked this band.