In Defense of Silverchair. UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: READING FESTIVAL Photo of SILVERCHAIR (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns) I grew up in Whitehorse, the capital city of Yukon. Northern Canada Silverchair's musical growth was slow but steady, and 1997's Freak Show found the band still in grunge mode, with a heavy but melodic sound increasingly reminiscent of Alice in Chains. But it was 1999's Neon Ballroom that featured some more sophisticated and revealing songs: Johns wrote the single "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" about his All those fantastic early hits—"Tomorrow," "Pure Massacre," "Israel's Son"—are expertly sculpted slabs of angst-driven vocals, metallic riffage, and hooks as barbed as anything that contemporaries like Bush and Candlebox were dropping. If ever there were a textbook definition of precociousness, mid-'90s Silverchair certainly |anp| llc| axq| fsl| cya| bwg| fqb| tom| pyf| vmj| imx| wqa| vrv| pkv| yul| klu| eoz| yem| ret| tnp| qom| ont| uei| ivl| zdl| hsj| twg| ato| zqz| tbj| epf| gbx| fqk| tom| xgw| hqt| cem| szq| tzo| svs| nib| emo| fav| dbb| mxe| fec| ark| jzh| til| dam|