Being in the right place at the right time is one of those necessary priorities for taking off. For Mother Love Bone, it was the right time but not the right place. When I bought Apple, I expected Grunge, but in reality, I found a band that sounded more like those vibes that were sweeping through L.A. than Seattle. But that matters little because a few months after this good debut, lead singer Wood had already died from an overdose. Gossard, along with his friend Ament, would form Pearl Jam, but that's another story. What remains, years later, of this dazzling debut? Certainly, many beautiful songs, an immense taste for hard blues ballads, and the anger of what could have been but wasn't.
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