In one regard, Veruca Salt was a one-hit wonder, scoring one of the great singles of the grunge era with "Seether." The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business. 28.01.1995, Peaked at #171 on To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. End User Agreement. These two fractured, painful separations drive Post throughout Resolver. Gravity Studios, Studio Chicago, Sunshine Studio. With their thin, singsong vocals and fuzzed-out guitars, Veruca Salt may sound like the Breeders and the Pixies, but lack either band's talent for inverting pop conventions or taste for the bizarre.What Veruca Salt has instead is a raw talent for simple, infectious pop songs; the result is a surprisingly fresh fusion of alternative pop and bubblegum. | After a long hiatus, Veruca Salt have returned with an even tougher sound that appears to pick up where L7 left off. Terms of Use; Privacy Policy; About Our Ads; Advertising © 2019 Billboard. Billboard is a subsidiary of Valence Media, LLC. About Billboard. All Rights Reserved. Their Cheap Trick-meets-Pistols formula, no longer bogged down by any perceived sellout baggage, is lean and mean, with the added bonus of sounding best when turned up very loud. Gordon packed up her bags and set out on a solo career, while Post dug in her heels, retained the Veruca Salt name, assembled a new band, and recorded the third Veruca album, 2000's Resolver. Eric Shea, Belly, Elastica, Kelly Deal, Liz Phair, The Posies, Weezer, Terms of Use The well-nigh incessant rotation of Veruca Salt's massive hits was a burden on many a radio listener back in 1994. But an exorcism set to music that refuses to acknowledge anything's changed in music since 1994, which makes it even more unsettling and fascinating. 01.08.2015, Terms of Use That is undoubtedly not what Louise Post had in mind when she made Resolver, but at least she made an album with some character, something that many of her peers can't claim. Veruca Salt Lyrics: Ahh, ahh / Ahh, ahh / Ahh, ahh-ahh-ahh / Veruca Salt, the little brute / Has just gone down the garbage chute / And she will meet as she descends / A rather different set of Never once does Post let up her attack on Gordon and Grohl, except for when it becomes a little unfocused and becomes a vicious attack on the world in general. Their Cheap Trick-meets-Pistols formula, no longer bogged down by any perceived sellout baggage, is lean and mean, with the added bonus of sounding best when turned up very loud. © 2019 Billboard. The fact of their talent with Punk-damaged AOR hooks cannot be disputed, and the bad-ass Chrissie Hynde tone of their vocals is fun now that nobody cares about the credibility of Grunge anymore. Now, the title of the record may suggest that she's trying to resolve her feelings and attitudes toward these breakups, but the album plays as a relentless, unmitigated stream of bile from the second she hisses, "She didn't get it so f*ck her" in the opening salvo "Born Entertainer." About Veruca Salt. Peaked at #69 on | After a long hiatus, Veruca Salt have returned with an even tougher sound that appears to pick up where L7 left off. Billboard is a subsidiary of Valence Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. napster.com requires JavaScript. So, Resolver winds up being the kind of album that appeals to the hardcore who refuse to acknowledge the shifting times, plus the handful of jaded record geeks who just can't help but listen to something unintentionally strange and compelling. But perhaps all the critical hostility directed at this band was something of a backlash to the still-recent success of Nirvana and resultant transition of Grunge from an underground phenomenon to the sort of thing played over the speaker system at K-Mart. The friendship with Gordon wasn't the only severed relationship Post endured between 1997's Eight Arms to Hold You and Resolver -- she also broke up with Foo Fighters leader/Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Privacy Policy Privacy Policy 03.06.2000, Peaked at #159 on © 2020 Rhapsody International Inc. All rights reserved. Napster and the Napster logo are registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc. JavaScript is disabled in your browser settings. But today their music is easier to take. Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. Advertising. All of this is set to music that's halfway between American Thighs and Blow It Out Your Ass and completely dated in 2000, when post-grunge had become a faded memory. In one regard, Veruca Salt was a one-hit wonder, scoring one of the great singles of the grunge era with "Seether." By any conventional yardstick, this does not result in a good album, but it surely is a fascinating listen. About Our Ads The well-nigh incessant rotation of Veruca Salt's massive hits was a burden on many a radio listener back in 1994. But perhaps all the critical hostility directed at this band was something of a backlash to the still-recent success of Nirvana and resultant transition of Grunge from an underground phenomenon to the sort of thing played over the speaker system at K-Mart. Read Full Biography. The fact of their talent with Punk-damaged AOR hooks cannot be disputed, and the bad-ass Chrissie Hynde tone of their vocals is fun now that nobody cares about the credibility of Grunge anymore. But perhaps all the critical hostility directed at this band was something of a backlash to the still-recent success of Nirvana and resultant transition of Grunge from an underground phenomenon to the sort of thing played over the speaker system at K-Mart. There's something perverse about the record, since it's not at all like reading a diary, it's like being assaulted by a half-forgotten, half-drunken acquaintance, intent on filling you in on every single excruciating detail of their miserable life -- at top volume, no less -- after you haven't seen them in years. But today their music is easier to take. In another regard, they were one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mac or Hüsker Dü, as longtime friends Louise Post and Nina Gordon had a bitter falling out over stolen boyfriends, stabbed backs, and general unpleasantness. This Chicago-based indie quartet was one of the first successful grunge-pop bands of the 1990s post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. Veruca Salt Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine + Follow Artist. In another regard, they were one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mac or Hüsker Dü, as longtime friends Louise Post and Nina Gordon had a bitter falling out over stolen boyfriends, stabbed backs, and general unpleasantness. Cookie Settings The well-nigh incessant rotation of Veruca Salt's massive hits was a burden on many a radio listener back in 1994. An exorcism, really.

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