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You should really check out “You” by Candlebox. A real feeling in that song, too. Extremely underrated band. I won’t reveal too much, but “You” has some real feeling, too.

Man, early 90s we’re just absolute fire for music. No matter what genre you were listening to, the music was incredible.

The song is about Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone. Same as Alice in Chains' Would.

That whole album is a F'n MASTERPIECE.... don't stop now. this body of work will shift your perspective of this era. this album is the correction that many people need. there are few albums where you can play every song and truly love each one of them and you never get tired of them. this album is one of those unicorns. don't be afraid of the respect. they deserve it

This is another song written in memory of Andrew Wood.

You know that one song that takes you back like a literal time machine to a particular moment in life and it's just so damn bittersweet because it's a moment in time that no matter how easy it is to drift back to those memories and just engulf your soul in it, the minute you hear that melody... it hurts so damn bad because you know you can never be there, and truly experience that particular time in your life again? This is that one song for me. As much as I love this song, and wanted to see your reaction...I almost try to avoid it like the plague. It pulls at my heart strings every damn time 🥺💗.

I hadn’t heard this song in so so many years. That opening riff…instant time machine. An unexpected flood of emotion came through me. Brought a tear to my eye.

Even though it went platinum, it's still a very underrated album when compared to other mid 90s albums.

One of the best records of the decade. This, Throwing Copper and Ten were the three albums that changed my musical life in the 90s. The live performance of this on Letterman is amazing.

Song was written about Andy Wood, lead singer for Mother Love Bone, who died of a heroin overdose at age 24. Btw, grunge is not happy music 😂

Too me, one of the most underrated voices in that era

This song has one of my favorite guitar solo's. I love that warm Les Paul neck pickup tone.

Gotta listen to "you" "change" "blossom" "no sense"; the entire album is worth a listen 👌💯

Always LOVED the vocal after the guitar solo. Just so good!

"Cover Me" is my favorite song by Candlebox.

Still to this day. One of my FAVORITE songs (favorite bands). Real talent and real emotions.

This song is about Andy Wood also! Was that on purpose since you posted this along with Temple of the Dog? Cornell was his roommate and Kevin Martin was close with Chris and met him when he was 16 and had just moved to Seattle. So its super sad that Kevin sang the other song, Say Hello 2 Heaven about Chris when Chris died and Chris had wrote it about Andy. What a sad history for that circle :(

This always reminds me of the distance that took place between my brother and I before he passed. It touches a deep part in my soul and brings me to the edge of Tears every time I hear it.

Now that you mention the purple rain, I hear it. Definitely an influence. what i love about you guys, you open my eyes to songs I already know. ❤

One of the best debut albums ever , up there with pearl jam ten imo

This whole Album is great. Cover Me You Change

They're one of my favorites. "Rain" is definitely my favorite. The bluesy feel in it is everything.

This song is so soothing, even though it rocks. Grunge at its best.

Definitely an emotional song that captures the feeling of sadness, anger, yet also love that come along with the loss of a friend. It's one of the greatest songs of the 90's in my opinion. Now check out the song "You".

These guys kind of paved the way for bands like 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Breaking Benjamin, etc., good solid radio ready heavy rock

The line "they watch you suffer, yeah they hear you calling home" is so deep and chilling. 🙏🏼

This Candlebox album is one of my favorite albums. So many great hits, You, Cover Me, Change, and even Blossom are absolutely amazing! Don't sleep on this album!

Candlebox was one of my favorite groups from that Era! They also put on one hell of a live performance! You guys should definitely check out other songs of theirs.

This whole freakin album is fantastic! I still jam it 30 yrs later!

Man this takes me back to my senior year in highschool....places, names, faces...all come flooding into memory ❤ Peace from Pennsylvania ✌

Yes! Love it. This is my twenties jam. I was lucky enough to live in Seattle during the metal and grunge Era. Great album.

It's one of the songs that got me thru the loss of my mom...I was 14 and muisic is what saved my life after she was gon

This song was played at ever school dance I went to. Probably that was the last time I heard it. As an adult listening to it this time it is a really sad song.

" I didn't mean to cause you any sorrow! I didn't mean to cause you any pain!"

This song was written about Andrew Wood, former lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone who passed away from a heroin overdose. I believe he died right before their album came out. There’s actually 3 hit songs written about Andrew, this one from Candlebox, Would by Alice In Chains, and Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog. He was Chris Cornell’s roommate and well known by these other bands. It’s a great song.

great album I still listen to it occasionally, "you" is another excellent song. grunge has a tendency to be very somber and sad. soul asylum's runaway train was just gutting especially with the video it's a 1 2 punch of sadness.

Candlebox's self titled debut is gold from start to finish! Definitely check out the opening track "Don't You" for its heavy bluesy hard rock grooves. Other awesome songs on this album include "Change" (a slow burner, but one of my favorites), "You", "Arrow" and "Cover Me." Enjoy 🤘😎🤘

I lost my best friend, Paul, during the summer between 5th and 6th grade going up from Elementary to Middle school. I don't remember specifically if it was the last day we spent together, but I remember us hanging out playing until it ended with a fight and him getting in trouble. He got tonsillitis and went in for a quick surgery which had no complications, but the meds they gave him when he went home that night didn't mix well with the aesthesia still in his blood, and he died in his sleep. This song really takes me right back to the very last time I saw him alive, how it wasn't under the most idyllic circumstances, and how I'd cut off my arms just to give him a hug and tell him I miss him. I love and miss you, bro. If there's ever a Get Out of Heaven For 24 Hours card and you can cash it in, visit me anytime after you visit your family and your little bro. I helped him grow up and I think you'd be proud of the man he is today. Just, rain on me once in a while man. Or give me 2 seconds of sun if it's already raining. Or blow a little breeze out of nowhere on a hot and still summer day. I'll know, man.

An all time 90's classic, it never gets old!

One of the best rock songs of the 90's.

I love the way George does his "DAMN!!" And his "BAM" Lol. Its Adorable!!! By the way love this song. The instrumentals are awesome and the writing is great!

Mourning with a sincere warmth. It's hard to explain.

I was just out of high school and was a band that really hit me out of the gate. I think I was primarily listening to PE, STP, Alice In Chains, Ice Cube and Wu

I just saw these guys in concert tonight at River Spirit in Tulsa

Entire album is awesome. Grew up listening to this. “Changes and “Blossom” are probably my favorites on the album. I can definitely feel the purple rain similarities. It may have been heavily influenced 🤷‍♂️. Guess it’s a good thing I Iove both songs. Great reaction.

Candlebox had musicians a lot of grunge bands didn't have. One of the first CDs I ever owned. They definitely love blues and they have some songs that anyone in the blues genre would respect. Rain is nothing short of amazing.

Candlebox was my first concert. I was 3 years old and they played at a festival in my city. I don’t think they were like huge huge yet but my dad would always take us to watch live music when he got the chance. My dad has a cassette tape with this song and one other on it. Love Candlebox!

This album came out the Summer before my senior year in hight school. Dating a girl I thought this song was about a relationship. Left me far behind life moving to fast losing someone that you cared about someone going off to college and your left behind to suffer. Trying to save what you have knowing it’s ending not on your terms. Tortured things are crumbling all around you. Trying to hold on to what you had. Heart broken. It fit for the devastation at the time. Still love this song as well the hole album. I didn’t find out until later in life what it was about. Hey Andy!!! Love crown of thorns makes me cry!

If you were learning how to play guitar in the early 90’s you learned to play that intro. lol

Candlebox is so underrated. They are phenomenal

I still think "You" is their best song hands down. You got to review that song.

This is such a great album that I still have in my rotation. "Cover Me" is by far my favorite off this album though. There are so many good ones to choose from . BTW (unrelated to the Grunge-ish marathon) you've got to get back to Pantera. (Groove Metal Marathon perhaps?) As far as I am aware, you have only reacted to "Walk", and the drum track for "Suicide Note Pt. II", in memory of the late, great Vinnie Paul. Walk is great, but just the tip of the iceberg regarding the talent and aggression that Pantera brought to metal. Dimebag Darrell Abbott, is one of the greatest metal guitarists of all time, and was taken before his time. There are way too many Pantera staples to mention here. I am sure Patreon poll would get the job done. One of my personal favorite tracks is "By Demons Be Driven". Vulgar Display Of Power FTW!!!!

Let's all pack our shit and move back to the 90's! Who's with me...!

This song was written about Andrew (Andy) Wood by the lead singer. Their band was recording at the same place Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood’s band, had made all their albums which helped influence the idea behind the song. The original lyrics were “Now Andy” but were eventually changed to “Now Maybe”. The song “Say Hello to Heaven” was written about Andrew Wood as well!

They are amazing live!!!!! I've seen them 5 times lol the 5th one was at a smaller venue very intimate and they joined the crowd and hung out with all of us after the concert, very nice guys!

Early 90s alternative was such a mood. Good choice.

You guys should react to “Silverchair - Tomorrow” for 2nd wave of grunge bands in the 90’s.

Listening to this again nearly 30 years later, with a mind to break it down, reveals an interesting structural choice. Rather than going bridge into a solo back to chorus, they go solo into the bridge. That sets the tone and sets it apart from other hits of the era. The solo here describes the mood rather than being the catharsis. And the passion in his voice during the bridge, nearly wordless, is the emotional outburst. It's not the flashy notes that hook you and set your soaring, it's the passion that reaches down into your guts. There is no let up in the final runs through the chorus. Now he's finding his words, and there are too many. They don't fade it out, they run it too hard and it just collapses under the weight of the emotion. Candlebox was among the groups that came around and seemed like they were trying to make grungy hits. But this song stands the test of time because of that structural choice. It doesn't comes across, 30 years later, as trying to mimic the grunge aesthetic. It just sounds like a genuine feel that fits into the popular mood.

Hell yes!!! No way I'm not watching this when I see yall checking out an absolute classic and one of the more underappreciated bands from the Seattle scene.. COVER ME also another great one

R.I.P. Andrew Wood

Tribute for the late Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone, a band you should definitely consider reacting to. "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" would be a great place to begin.

you'd be hard pressed not to hear this song on the radio at least once a day lol absolute classic

I will never forget when I bought this CD. I was driving my Mom’s big ass van. When I pulled out of the parking lot, I took off someone’s back bumper with my front bumper. They saw me when it happened and was like, “hey man, not my hooptie”. Lol.

That is one of my top 3 guitar solos of all time and this was always one of my favorite songs to play on guitar as well, it's just such a well written song. While You is another big hit off of that album, my other favorite one is Blossom. It doesn't get enough love.

Love this album beginning to end. I heard the song You on the radio and thought, who is this? I immediately went to the store and bought the cd. Loved it from the 1st lesson. Seen them 4X's and they're great live too. Saw them open for RUSH in 1993. Great show.

For some reason i was getting back into this album when i finally quit opiates. It will always has a special place in my heart.

I saw this band a handful of years ago. They were on tour for the anniversary of this album. Before playing this song, the singer said; "I wanna see some rock n roll shirts out in the crowd!" And he was pointing out a few shirts up front--Motley Crue, Guns n roses, etc. I was actually farther back in the crowd. Was wearing a Soundgarden shirt. All of a sudden he points back by me and says; "I see a fuckin Soundgarden shirt out there!" This next song is about my friend Andy Wood from a band called Mother Love Bone who passed away. I miss him. And I miss my old friend Chris Cornell too. I know they're up there rocking out and I'm hoping one day I will make it up there and I get to see them again. This one's for both Andy Wood & Chris. This is called 'Far Behind'". Then they played this song. I couldn't believe he saw me. Was really cool

You guys need to review the song"Mother" it's a lesser known song by the phenomenal band Blind Melon...Shannon Hoon's voice (R.I.P.) rings out with such raw emotion & pain, kinda sad but a great tune from the days of grunge...enjoy.

Blossom by Candlebox is an Excellent song. Listen to it.

My favorite Candlebox song. Glad y’all are here for it.

I never really thought about it, but the tone of the clean guitar is very Purple Rain.

“You” is by far my fav from this band but you can’t go wrong with any of their tunes

Check out a band from Canada called "TV On The Radio", specifically a song called "Wolf Like Me". You'll love the video. A great bunch of free thinking brothers breaking stereotypes. Made it on Letterman. Criminally overlooked.

I saw these guys for the first time in the UK a few years ago. Tiny venue and hardly anyone in the crowd because they aren't really known here at all. The band were really appreciative and they didn't expect anyone to turn up but those guys still played to 50 fans like they were putting on a show to 50,000 in a stadium, they were awesome.

You couldn't share the pain, they watch you suffer...hits hard on the heart. Addiction is real. And watching someone you love in the downward spirals and you are helpless. This song is so beautiful.

I’ll admit I’ve never listened to a Candlebox album but the songs I know like this one and You are really good so I should check out some albums from them… I love this sound from this era. That somber and slow sound but peak notes of powerful voices but usually keeping soft. Man..

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I heard this song randomly on a youtube playlist about 2 years ago and I recognised it from my childhood. I had no idea what it was or who was playing it, but I recognised it instantly to be 100% 90s and one of those songs that Ive heard before and forgot existed for most of my life.

He wrote the song after his friend Andy died of a drug overdose. Andy was the frontman of a band called Mother Lovebone. He died in 91. A year later they became Pearljam.

If y’all liked this song then definitely peep You as well, much more emotion portrayed there. But I’m still waiting for you guys to do a Santana song..

Please do Stone Temple Pilots - “Sex Type Thing”, “Unglued” or “Wicked Garden”

This song was on the radio (and still is) all the time!

Madonna was one of the founders of MAVERICK RECORDS. I thought that was pretty neat. She definitely has good business instincts in addition to her talents.

I like to see you react to Great White "house of broken love " the extended version intro is straight up blues.

Also, the other big hit from this band is called "You" (I know pretty close title to my other recommendation) and is also pretty much a banger.

Grew up with these guys. I'll never forget my cousin buying the CD driving around with his friends with me in the backseat of the car vibing out. Good times.

Great band that is still rocking today.

It’s possible you heard this in an episode of “Eastbound & Down” 😂

The second album "Lucy" is a masterpiece compared to this first album.. A whole different level of artistry

If you don’t check out their follow up album, Lucy, you are missing out. Didn’t really hit, but a classic tale of a grossly underrated album, due to expectations to repeat the debut album formula. “Simple Lessons”, “Vulgar Before Me”, and “Drown” just to name a few. So good! Check it out. Would love to hear a review about one of those songs from that album. You guys are awesome!

Candlebox is an incredible band. Peter Klett's solo on this track is killer.

Candlebox had an amazing first album, but I never liked any other album they made. Candlebox had such great potential, but unfortunately their first album was the bands best and only really charting album. Candlebox's other albums just sound so different and weird than their first.

A lot of folks consider this song a latter stage of 80s hair metal.

Fantastic rocking CD from start to finish - a fantastic CD from beginning to the end ... Musically it has some real hints of jazz and blues and straight up kickass rock/alternative. .. Kevin Martin has a great voice and Pete Kletts guitar work was very good, he had some good riffs, some excellent leads, rocking tones and great writing material, the whole band just rocks , i think it belongs in the top 10 CDs the 90s for Hard Rock IMO, it absolutely belongs in the conversation.... Keep rocking

Imagine you're sitting around a campfire with your friends in the middle of nowhere next to a beautiful lake. You're drinking beer, smoking weed, you're howling at the moon, and this song is blaring out of boombox.

The fact you enjoyed Candlebox, and didn’t like Jesus Christ Pose or Rusty Cage, is the equivalent to someone enjoying MC Hammer while dissing Public Enemy

You 2 are the first reaction channel I first saw & by far the best. Keep it up the good shit brothers

you guys nailed this reaction. The Purple Rain reference would have seemed crazy had I not been listening to the song and hearing that guitar tone. Candlebox has progressed and has a more blues, soul, hard rock, and pop vibes.

Wow guys, great choice! My band used to cover this song, and it was always a crowd favorite, especially with the women. Great but often overlooked 90s band all around. The reason the guitar sounds like "Purple Rain" is that the guitar in both songs has heavy "chorus" effect and likely use the neck (bass) pickup on the guitar. It was very common in the 80's, not so much in grunge/post-grunge. BTW, that part of the song you guys rewound right after the guitar solo incorporates heavy use of the "Hendrix" chord (7#9). You can hear it distinctly and it's a monster part of the song.