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artist:candlebox
album:candlebox
i had to run out to wawa to get milk earlier, and on the two-minute drive there, this song came on the radio. i had to get out right after it started, but made it back to the car before it ended, so i got to hear some of it. i decided on my way home from wawa that i was going to hunt this album down and listen to it today.
1993. i was 13 when this album was released. i remember hanging out with Brielle, which i did quite often, at some point after the release, and she played this album for me. early on in high school, i got a lot of my musical suggestions from Brielle, because she always seemed to know what stuff was out there that i was missing spending all of my time listening to the radio. i guess i have her to thank for my interest in indie stuff...because while this is still fairly mainstream, she was teaching me that there was other stuff out there besides what was being played on the radio.
anyway, Brielle gave me a tape one day, on side A it contained In Utero by Nirvana and the B side was Candlebox. I've always been a B-sides girl, i guess. i remember distinctly the feeling of being such a bad-ass because i was listening to a song in which the singer yelled "FUCK YOU" and at 13 or 14 years old, nearly 20 years ago, that was a big deal. I'm not going to lie to you, its still kind of a big deal to me to hear the unedited version. its possible that i still smile coyly when i hear him yell.
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