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1. damaged goods.. always make better artist we go all the way with it so you don't have to... i am just a worm i eat dirt. -deyar
2. omg the nineties sucked.
3. One of the best band's ever in my lifetime
4. is it me or is this very Led Zep in places?? Either way, I'm enjoying it!
5. My all time favorite song is on this album. St. Andrew's Fall. The last lyrics get me all the time. I love this song!!!
   
   I can't tell you how many ways that I've sat,
   And viewed my life today, but I can tell you
   I don't think that I can find easier way
   So if I see you walking hand in hand in hand
   With a three armed man, you know I'll understand
   (Pockets full of crappiness
   Can't piece together my day
   So I pose myself this question
   Maybe sleeps gonna get me in the shade
   I got my head buried in this pillow
   I got my head buried in this pillow
   So low)
   
   But you should have been in my shoes yesterday.
   Oh oh oh, you should have been in my shoes yesterday.
6. What an amazing album...
7. <3 so beautiful.
8. One of the greatest albums of all time. That is not hyperbolic, it's just true.
9. vaya basura con 12 bloques de publicidad, a la mierda!
10. What's the hidden track called?
11. x Ian mosberg
12. aaaahhhh
13. 3 greats I met in Nashville at Starwood are now gone, August 92...Shannon, Mike Starr, and Layne. THATS...why I'm a Drug Counselor specializing in opioid dependency.......what a fucking waste......
14. This album was almost an anthem for me and my group of friends back in summer '97. That last summer when we just graduated high school and we all felt so grown up. We were all about to go different ways in life but we were still innocent. Nobody was anybody, yet everybody was somebody. We were still young enough to think we knew it all, not yet wise enough to realise we knew next to nothing. They say youth is wasted on the young but mine wasn't. This album takes me back to those sweet days! Thanks.
15. one of my favorite bands, just now a days people do not know who there are. just different time variances. if i spelled that right. lol.
16. One of my all-time favourite albums !! So well done. R.I.P. Shannon Hoon
17. Great vocals
18. I'm probably going to sound like I'm over-hyping this CD, but holy shit! This CD is soaked in so much musical greatness it's nearly overwhelming but in a good way. It has a New Orleans horn group open up the album with Shannon singing on top of the band with his distinctive gruff but high and gentle croon. This is titled "Hello Goodbye." The last lyric really gets me excited for the whole album: "But if I can leave with a little bit of explanation, then anywhere in the world I choose to go I'll have it made." This is like the roller coaster reaching the top and stopping for a short moment and soon you begin the comedown that is Galaxie, a hard rock/blues rock/psychedelic rock opus which goes loud/soft. "No it isn't me, no it isn't me, I'm in my Galaxie!" Next comes a psychedelic/bluesy/math rock track with some complex transitions and meter changes and loud/soft passages. It's a 5/4 timing at times. This one will make you want to jump up and down. Next is a psychedelic 6/8 ballad about Shannon's grandma titled "Vernie." "Gotta have your own space, a collection of small glass chickens, oh Vernie what a garden you have." What a verse. It ends with a bluesy kick back and relax vibe to it and is one of my favorite parts of the whole album. Next is a very clever song titled "Skinned" that combines blues/folk/country with some comical relief about serial killer Ed Gein; hence the name. "When will I realize this skin I'm in, hey it isn't mine? When will the thrill be too much meat for me to hide anymore?" again, what a line. Next is almost a latin-esque/psychedelic hard rock track titled "Toes Across The Floor" which has a chant-y chorus in it and somewhat cryptic lyrics, especially "And if I can't lay my head beside this God of mine, maybe the Hunter's dog called God could be my friend in time." where does this come from? Genius. Next is a psych folk alt rock song which features harmonica titled "Walk". This track is one of my favorite songs of all time. Seriously. This next track throws you for a loop because it starts out real heavy and fast like hardcore punk and goes into a swing-y/hard rock track and fades out with a soft rock ending. This song is titled "Dumptruck" and ends with the line "Nothing's gonna come between my Dumptruck and me." Kinda strange but haunting. But not as haunting as this next track that has an almost eastern flavor to it and violins and a ethnic flute coming in and out of the mix. This is titled "Car Seat (God's Presents)" and sends a chill down my spine each time. This song is also quite cryptic as far as lyrics. I couldn't even list it because you'd just have to read for yourself. It also contains spoken word which is sort of hard to understand. Next comes "Wilt" which combines blues rock/psychedelia and almost funky. Next is probably the most psychedelic track of the whole album titled "The Duke" which would be a perfect song to get recreational to. Next is probably the most intense track on the whole album titled "St. Andrew's Fall" which is self-explanatory. It's about the band witnessing a man jumping from a building to his death. It starts out with an alternative/psychedelia track and starts-stops a couple of times and goes into an intense jam with all players firing on all cylinders and all kinds of other crazy instruments like fiddles which breaks into a slow psychedelic symphonic ending. Next is a psychedelic 70's sounding progressive rock titled "New Life" which is about the birth of his child. This is another recreational rocker as I call these kind of songs. Next is the sweetest beginning ever where Shannon points out that cats are meowing and comes in is an acoustic guitar playing a very catchy riff and circles around and into a more electric version of the song and guest vocals on the song. This song is titled "Mouthful Of Cavities" and is probably my favorite Blind Melon song of them all next to St. Andrews Fall, Change, and Walk. The album ends with a rock version of "Hello Goodbye" titled "Lemonade" which is a bluesy/psychedelic hard rock track and Shannon Hoon just belts the words out here. The song then breaks into a quick syncopated groove as Shannon sings "Too much, too much Lemonade" and the song ends with the New Orleans-esque horns. This album starts and ends on the same note sort of like The Wall. If you had this on vinyl you could play this album seamlessly as if it doesn't end at all. So to conclude, I have to say that this album covers so much ground as far as musical aspects go and is probably one of the most genius album I've ever heard and is practically timeless. This is echelons ahead of their first album. This album is almost overwhelming with genius. One day people will dig this out and it will be heard for what it's really worth. This is a diamond of an album. It is probably without a doubt the best album of the nineties, arguably. Also you get a bonus track at the end of the album which is a semi-instrumental jam where Shannon's vocals are back masked. Not sure why this is but who cares. Listen to this album! It changed my life forever.
19. if I COULD keep a little bit https//  ooofff
20. Thank you so much. I have shared this album with people of genders and races for over 20 years and have always received rave reviews. Magic