365 project:"these foolish games are tearing me apart"

67.

artist:jewel
album:pieces of you

yesterday on facebook i asked for a suggestion on which album should be the 365 album of the day, and the only suggestion i got was pieces of you by jewel. i suppose it was a good thing that i own that album. i used to have it on cassette back in 1995 when it came out, but since cassettes have become obsolete, i purchased it on vinyl...

(i just happened to notice on amazon.com that they vinyl sells for nearly 50 bucks a pop now. i KNOW i didn't pay that much for it. weird.)

i think there is a reason that i never bought this album as a CD. its boring. i listened to it last night as i fell asleep, and aside from the singles that got radio play in their time and that might turn up now on some adult rock (also known as elevator music) station, i just didn't care anymore.

at 15 i felt like it was edgy to listen to songs that dealt with subjects like suicide (which is what i take the song Adrien to be about. i could be wrong) and drug use (little sister). i just don't really get it now. i guess i didn't really at 15, either, if i thought it was edgy, but even at 15 i knew that bands like Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers were overrated and not my bag at all, and there wasn't much out there alternatively. See, that's the thing about the grunge era...if you liked the music it was a fantastic time to be alive, but if you got bored quickly of the same stuff being repackaged with a different face, there wasn't much else going on.

Grunge was supposed to come and save us from the Boy Bands and synth-pop of the '80's but i LIKED the boy bands and synth pop. i didn't want to be saved. i listened to those new bands because everyone else did, but i didn't like it. i convinced myself i did, but even last night in the car i found myself getting very angry because two of my six radio presets were playing Nirvana jams and i just don't like Nirvana. i don't think that Kurt Cobain was any better than Donnie Wahlberg. what can i say? same idea, different package.

So, I listened to Jewel. I never bought another Jewel album after this one, though. i don't remember why i bought it again on vinyl, but I'm inclined to believe that it was for nostalgia's sake. I listened to it maybe a year or so ago and wasn't impressed and didn't want to be bothered with it again, but bothering with old albums again is the purpose of this project, so i took Kristina's suggestion and went with it...and what we ended up with was a huge diatribe about why i don't like grunge music.