An Alternate ’90s Alternative Universe

This morning, I was watching a bunch of the videos from Fire Aid. This, of course, included the Nirvana set that was fronted by multiple different women. And it got me thinking back to when we got wind of PJ Harvey almost fronting a band with Grohl and Novoselic and doing Milk It. I started to think about a scenario where she joined Nirvana much earlier and a few other thoughts…

PJ Harvey Fronts Nirvana

Kurt Cobain was a big fan of PJ Harvey and their stars were rising at the same time. Cobain tragically passed away in 1994. The following year, Harvey released To Bring You My Love and a few months later Grohl released the first Foo Fighters album. Imagine a scenario where, in that timeframe, the idea to have PJ Harvey front Nirvana comes about and in ’96 or ’97 we get a new Nirvana album with a mix of songs written by Harvey and Grohl. It changes the trajectory of Dave Grohl’s career, though it would still be possible that Foo Fighter continue as a side project. I have to wonder if this combination produces better music than the Foo Fighters have in the past 25+ years…

Navarro stays in RHCP

The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ One Hot Minute album is one that is disliked by a number of fans, but very much enjoyed by me. And since then, they’ve gone in a direction seemingly quite different than their earlier years. I cannot argue with what they’ve done, people fucking eat it up. But what if Dave had stayed in the band and you got more rock than ballad in the future years. I’d prolly love, but I’d also hate to see Flea broke. So maybe this is just my selfish bullshit.

STP Replaces Weiland in the 90s

The late ’90s were a turbulent time for Stone Temple Pilots and while they did continue to put out albums through the end of the decade, there was enough of a gap for the rest of the guys to form Talk Show. I saw them live and while Dave Coults was good, he was nowhere near the frontman that Scott Weiland was. If you never saw STP live in the ’90s, you missed out on peak Weiland and a live frontman that can easily make top 10 lists. So how the hell do you replace that, in that era? Mike Patton. Let’s imagine a world where Patton begins fronting STP in the early 2000s. We would lose out on some great Patton bands, but Faith No More wouldn’t be one of them. Could you make the trade off?

-Chorizy-E