MM Vol 1 - 006 - Staind

MM Vol 1 #006

Staind

"Epiphany"

(2001)

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Genre:Alt Rock

pic by Inuksuk
Of all the artists in Mellow Mix Volume 1, Staind have the most songs featured, 3. Goes to show what I thought of Staind back in 2001/2002 doesn't it? "Epiphany" is one of the most important songs I listen to. It's one of those songs that when it comes on and i'm typing away, it makes me stop and think. Usually, I just gaze away at a tree or some innate static image like that out of my window and think of this time period, makes me remember what this song actually meant, something personal to me. There is only a handful of songs that can actually do that to me .... this is one of them. Sometimes it is better to feel pain than nothing at all, as I am getting older, I am thinking, I might just subscribe to that thought.

e·piph·a·ny: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.

art by mafaka

Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, where Aaron Lewis performed their first mainstream hit "Outside" (a song he was working on at the time but had not yet finished—he finished it on the fly while performing) with Fred Durst to hundreds of waving cigarette lighters, and which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break the Cycle, which brought them international success (it went number 1 in both the U.S. and the UK), sold more than 7 million copies, and had first week sales of over 767,000 in the U.S. alone. The album sees the band move away from the nu metal sounds of their previous album and resort to an alternative metal sound which has spawned five hit singles to date, "It's Been Awhile", (which hit the Billboard Top 10) "Fade", (which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows), "Outside", "For You", and the acoustic ballad "Epiphany", and included a track called "Waste", devoted to two teenage fans who committed suicide shortly before the album was released. The album also received mixed critical praise; Rolling Stone magazine called them "the grim genre's most song-oriented, downright sensitive band in years" while New Musical Express referred to the album as "14 tracks of parent-friendly grunge-flavoured soft rock that make Creed sound like GG Allin." (a statement that proved ironic, since Break the Cycle was later included in Hit Parader's The Top 50 Metal Albums of All Time at number 46 and The Top 10 "New Metal" CDs at #3). 'It's Been Awhile' spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream rock charts, respectively, making it one of the highest joint number 1s (30 weeks) of all time. ~ [Source:wikipedia]

For more Staind see Number 20 & Number 44

For Creed see Number 48

For Limp Bizkit see Number 31

This song has a crowbarred rating of 97.6 out of 108

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