Cornell, Vedder making a comeback...common sense and real feeling in music?? NEVER!

Have you ever experienced that feeling inside where absolutely anything and everything is possible? A wondrous surge of adrenaline as you think about how and where to begin...Life can be like that sometimes. For me to feel this special feeling I only have to play one song only. This is the song that makes me feel like I could climb mountains and not have to catch my breath. Rise Up by Eddie Vedder. I can say with great regret it took my watching the movie Into the Wild before I knew that Vedder had even been producing music still. My days of pining for the sound of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and other various groups having lessened and soon faded practically out in 1999. I forgot how it was to be moved by the deep resonating male voice leading the instruments as they create musically indepth masterpieces.

I have to give my due to the wonderfully talented singer, Chris Cornell who suddenly was alive for me again when that American Idol singer brought the spotlight back to him. Sure Audioslave had a good run but to be realistic he's much better on his own. Billie Jean? A great song that needed the twist that Cornell put to it. All of this is not new news to the music buffs out there, but I am far from a music obsessed individual, even when the teenage years were upon me I never reallly did go out of my way to find out much about the bands themselves. Music has the ability to move and...not move all the same. If it speaks to me than I like it. If it doesn't than it's a pleasant distraction from the silence while I drive my car. Most main stream radio can have that effect. Who knew how many times John Mayer said the same lyrics over and over in the same song until it was played twenty-five times a day?

But that's what most music is today right? The same over and over...can't be a song until you sing the same thing at the end of each verse, add a couple of those lyrical note jumping riffs and...well... there you go!