Like everyone else in the universe, I picked up this album because it featured "What's Up," which might be one of the most satisfying self-pity songs ever written. It was cheap and it was only a disc, so I figured I didn't have much to lose. That was around two years ago. Since then, I've never dug too deeply into "Bigger," honoring my "play through once" tradition before burning "What's Up" to my computer and forgetting that I have anything by the Non Blondes.
This is tragic, because, as it turns out, 4 Non-Blondes' Linda Perry has some real pipes, something like Janis Joplin re-imagined by Courtney Love. With thick, bluesy guitar riffs, distraught war lyrics, and some really trippy cover art, this album is even (meh, this is reaching) reminiscent of Bob Dylan. Truly good folksy-rock. I may have to play around with listening through the rest of these tracks a time or two more before I let "Bigger" gather dust again.
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| Interscope // 1992 |
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