Garbage Days Revisited #62: Mother Love Bone - "Apple" (1990)
"I used to treat you like a lady, now you're my substitute teacher/This bottle's not a pretty, not a pretty sight/I owe the man some money/So I'm turnin' over, honey/Looks like Mr Faded Glory is once again doin' time..." - Mother Love Bone - Crown Of Thorns It's all too easy when writing columns on great under-rated albums to pose the question "what if?" but in the case of Mother Love Bone and their starcrossed lead singer Andrew Wood, it's kind of unavoidable. Essentially MLB were the bridge between glam rock and grunge. They'd come up through the same proto-grunge primordial musical swamp based mainly around Seattle and Minneapolis that had birthed Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Soul Asylum et al but while their alternative credentials were pretty solid, these guys very much weren't afraid of wanting to be proper rock stars and in Wood they had a singer who, similar to Axl Rose, had grown up with his '70s glam records ...