A lot of people shit on Silverchair back in the day. But they were in highschool, with an album on the top ten, touring huge venues… They lived the garage band dream. Respect.
They weren’t unknown in the UK but they were far from super popular in my experience and I never met anyone here that had an opinion either way so I didn’t realise they were particularly shit on. I just know this song well from Kerrang TV circa 02/03.
They were all over the radio in the US.
Yeh they definitely weren’t getting radio play over here!
I got into silverchair in 1998ish between Freak Show and Neon Ballroom. Freak Show was exactly where I was musically at the time, and Neon Ballroom was very unexpected for me when it first released, but I really felt like I grew with the band. I can’t really even listen to Frogstomp or Freak Show anymore, but I still love Neon Ballroom onward.