Fall Out Boy's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" makes me want to beat the entire band with Peter Hook's bass guitar. What is worse is that this band is from my hometown-Chicago. If I ever see them in town I will exact revenge on what damage this song did on my ear drums. Ian Curtis must be cutting himself somewhere. And the Cure, they did an equally irratating version of this song.
Now let me defend Eddie Vedder, along with other Chicago music icons as Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry, Naked Raygun, Material Issue, Veruca Salt, Cheap Trick, Buddy Guy, Liz Phair, and Wax Trax Records , I am very proud to say he is from Chicago. Nirvana was Nirvana-no doubt. But Mudhoney was Nirvana before Nirvana but without an incredible frontman-Cobain. Pearl Jam, in their day was one of the best bands in the states and if you ever saw them live-wow. Now, Eddie's voice may not be the voice of rock Gods, but it does have character and soul. Some of my favorite singers don't have great voices-they just have voices that mean something. Rock on Eddie!