you point out the flaws of the record industry, and talk about jizz.

pos.

Erg. Forgot how good Jessie is.

Album Rating: 4.0

Jessie literally never gets old.

"Jessie", "Bridge" are all timeless classics in my book, lol. It may sound funny to call them so, but damn they are so good. And "Pansy" is one the most intense grunge songs I've heard, but still retaining a unique melody. Thank God for Road Rash, if you know what I mean ;) These guys were just too unique to become mainstream, imo

Album Rating: 4.0

album rules HARD, great review homie

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is better than any Nirvana and Pearl Jam album. This is criminally overlooked.

Album Rating: 4.0

It's great lol but not better than Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, In Utero or even Nevermind. There are a ton of lesser known grunge albums I'd take over this too, like some old Tad.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Pleb jam this hard

Album Rating: 4.0

Yep, these guys ruled.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

This record should have been massive. Just goes hard from start to finish.

picked this up yesterday in the 99 cent bin, and it does not disappoint

Throughout my life of being lucky enough to have heard Paw play live at The Day on the Hill at KU, I have heard all the comparisons and accusations of being just a copy of Nirvana and just a Kansas group of really good formula followers of the Seattle sound.

This was a curious thing I never really understood when you consider that before Nevermind was actually in hand, Nirvana was touring small halls and venues with Urge Overkill, and the show at the Kansas Union Ballroom at KU, featured the local opening act PAW on October 17th, 1991.

Most of the tracks that made it to the debut album Dragline were played at that show, and demo tapes had been created, and Nirvana was yet to reach Odin status of grunge, a word that had yet to reach the billions of ears with a new definition.

Did Paw suddenly copy the Nirvana sound after the show? Or had these songs been created in the preceding year or two given the band was formed in 1990 when Bleach was an underground SUBPOP album and a rare pre-internet era copy may have found it's way to Kansas?

The following around the world says it all. Many millions of fans who love all the work from Dragline, Death to Traitors, Home is Strange Place, Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself, some bootleg stuff and studio recording tapes that can stream through your wifi at a keystroke.

The honest review would look at Mark Hennessey's latest group Godzillionaire, with three albums from Small Change, to The Great Depression, to Negative Balance, and more work on the way. As a fan and as a music lover looking for the gems where I can find them...I say the new work is better than Paw, and that's saying quite a bit. But a listen to the later work gives a richer and deeply singular understanding of the early music from Dragline. As does later work from Grant Fitch with his Palomar and New Franklin Panthers.

A read of any of the published poetry from Mark Hennessey and you see the depth of his writing capabilities and realize the lyrics across all the music are uniquely his own.

Copy cats? Just another good riff and formula band song after song? Or something really amazing that just wasn't well placed by A&M?

I'm just some guy with something to say. Thanks for the review!

jessie :’(