Canadian Politics Today

what i did on my vacation for the last ten years took pictures of your town plaid perfume on my breath i mean i've been drinking scotch while touring through your town adultry makes you give things away it gets you confused adultry takes a one room vacation then it gets you alone turns into a hoonymoon scream then you have to change the sheets smoke in one hand looking for a light martini in the other hand pointing out midnight now that you pulled the school underwater and drowned the prom which man will you save for this friday you can put him in a fish pond and watch him swim around then have a catholic dinner if it isn't men it's death it's the same old testament at the cross her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping where my man extended hung driven with nails to wood smoke in one hand looking for a drink drink in the other hand pointing out midnight at my desk as you're sleepng as the big deal of death kills me and starts leaving everbody asks me how i'm doing i'm doing everything alone rave on children and try to sleep larks must sing grave, deep melodies happy that they die the sly brown fox pulled up a glass pulled up a chair and yanked out my hair when i tried to sit i fell down when i woke up he was gone so one has a smoke one has a drink the man is gone, mary's dead good morning midnight

Thanks Mikey, i'll check this stuff out when i have more time.  Never really heard the early REM stuff, interesting so far, big fan of their post-mainstream success stuff like most.

As a fan of grunge & post-grunge "alternative" like most (Kurt Cobain is in my avatar btw.  i've heard them talk about their influences from the 80's, so I've dove a bit into those bands they mention like Pixies, Huster Du, etc.

I was more of a post-grunge guy.  I wasn't a big fan of Nirvana or grunge in the 90's, but i've recently started getting into them all, ie: Alice In Chains, early Stone Temple Pilots. Cobain and Layne Stanley had such a piercing edge to their voices.   I recently picked up the early STP album "Core" (1992), great stuff.  If you add Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, those 4 lead singers are all dead now from suicide and/or horrible drug abuse.

I remember when grunge came out, those songs were so depressing, the teens I knew who were into grunge were all so depressed & emotionally disturbed, they all seemed like John Connor from Terminator 2...problems at home for many of them i think, divorced parents and such. It was a weird time and culture to be alive in.  Those 4 singers were like our collective depressed angst young men and they all payed for our entertainment with their lives.

Seems obscure !  Good, I'll google