MM Vol 1 - 019 - Silverchair
MM Vol 1 #019
Silverchair
"Ana's Song"
(1999)
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Genre:Alt Pop
Every fat bastich has a anorexic person dying to get out, only problem is they probably ate it, and If being fat is ugly, then anorexia has to be the ugliest. I'm sorry, but its the truth. Daniel Johns the lead singer from Silverchair suffered/suffers from anorexia nervosa and one would think its not something males would suffer from. Interestingly, I feel that this subject is just to taboo for even me and to be honest i don't know why. Silverchair once sang the song Tomorrow in 1995 "Fat boy, wait till tomorrow" and ended up in 1999 with Ana's Song "I love you to the bones, and Ana wrecks your life, like an anorexia life". So somewhere in between for Daniel Johns, something just went wrong.
Silverchair circa 1995
Silverchair are a three piece rock band from Newcastle Australia. The group was formed by three schoolmates (Daniel Johns, guitar/vocals, Ben Gillies/drums, Chris Joannou/bass) around 1992, using the name Innocent Criminals. They first attracted public attention in mid 1994 when they won a demo competition supported by the Australian radio station Triple J. This quickly lead to a recording contract even though at the time the bandmembers were all only 14 or 15 years old. Their debut album, Frogstomp, was a raw, muscular slab of angst riffen rock. Recorded in just nine days, it was released in 1995 and quickly became a huge hit not just in their homeland but also in North America where it entered the top 10 on the back of the single Tomorrow. At the time, some critics said that the group was derivative of many other alternative bands, particularly those from Seattle but that did not stop Frogstomp from becoming a multiplatinum success around the world, eventually selling more than 2.5 million copies.
Silverchair circa 1995
Silverchair are a three piece rock band from Newcastle Australia. The group was formed by three schoolmates (Daniel Johns, guitar/vocals, Ben Gillies/drums, Chris Joannou/bass) around 1992, using the name Innocent Criminals. They first attracted public attention in mid 1994 when they won a demo competition supported by the Australian radio station Triple J. This quickly lead to a recording contract even though at the time the bandmembers were all only 14 or 15 years old. Their debut album, Frogstomp, was a raw, muscular slab of angst riffen rock. Recorded in just nine days, it was released in 1995 and quickly became a huge hit not just in their homeland but also in North America where it entered the top 10 on the back of the single Tomorrow. At the time, some critics said that the group was derivative of many other alternative bands, particularly those from Seattle but that did not stop Frogstomp from becoming a multiplatinum success around the world, eventually selling more than 2.5 million copies.Silverchair circa 2000
In 1997, they released their sophomore album Freak Show. The album saw the band starting to find a more original sound while Daniel Johns' lyrics dealt with the pressures of adapting to the sudden fame. In Australia and parts of Europe the album yielded huge hits such as Freak and Abuse Me but, although it went gold in the U.S., its sales performance was not as strong as Frogstomp. Following their graduation from high school the band started work on the album that became 1999's Neon Ballroom. Daniel Johns had been through many emotional problems and he used the album as a catharsis for his personal demons. Employing a wider range of instrumentation, his heartfelt and distinctive songs had a sound which not even the harshest critic could call derivative. As a result Neon Ballroom attracted tremendous critical acclaim around the world, particularly the haunting Ana's Song" and the epic Emotion Sickness (which featured pianist David Helfgott, the inspiration for the movie Shine).
Silverchair circa 2005
Freed of their schooling obligations silverchair was able to tour much more extensively in support of Neon Ballroom. These efforts bore fruit with the disc ultimately outselling Freak Show with global sales in excess of 1.5 million copies. Now, all just entering their twenties, Silverchair have established themselves as a formidable live rock band. Unlike many of their contemporaries they have continued to evolve musically while attracting a loyal, and growing, fan base. They now seem established as a band with a long career ahead of them, a result which would have seemed highly unlikely when they first burst onto the music scene as teenagers back in the ninties. ~ [Source:Artistdirect.com]
One thing i did learn while researching Silverchair was that Daniel Johns once suffered from reactive arthritis early in the millennium, just as i once did in 1995 for 3 months. Let me tell you, it was *!%^&$#%# painful, there were days where i couldn't even walk & i was only 30 years old (Oh so young)~ crowbarred
This song has a crowbarred rating of 79.2 out of 108 pts
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posted by crowbarred at 6:06 PM
2 Comments:
Any info about ReA woud be greatly appreciated as my 22 yr old daughter has had it for 3 months.
I caught ReA while working in a retail shop whuch could have been transmitted through exchanging money, not washing hands and chewing nails (tsk) The bad part of ReA was the first 3 months, but it took 6 months to be back to normal. All i took was voltarin and antibiotics, It never came back although i read it can at a later stage. Women getting ReA is rare but does happen. Here is a link for a detailed description of ReA .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_arthritis (Hope that helps ~ crowbarred)
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