311 had already made it, and used that opportunity to make their own Sgt. At that time, radio and MTV were kings, and if you didn’t have airplay there, you would never make it. These are the songs that many bands create and never release because of timidness. The eerie “Light Years” and “Creature Feature”, the finger-plucking of bassist Aaron “P-Nut” Wills on “What Was I Thinking?”, or maybe just listening to the absolute mind-numbing guitar solo of guitarist Tim Mahoney on “Use Of Time”. It’s the deep cuts that you play over and over again, trying to catch the meaning. This song showed another side of the band and was perhaps the catalyst for the odd, dark, and mysterious lyricism found throughout the rest of the album.īut the singles aren’t what make Transistor great.
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The honest song written by lead singer Nick Hexum is full of heavy riffs, dueling guitar solos, and, at the time, their heaviest lyrics, at least on a single. However, the third single, “Beautiful Disaster”, with one of the most recognizable intros of any song, may be 311’s greatest hit to date. The opening titular track, which would also be their lead single, did well on radio, and the video received MTV airplay (as did “Prisoner”).
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