Part one of term paper
Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic) The three members of Australia's Silverchair aren't high school boys anymore. Really, it doesn't brother me that these little Aussie fellas made a friggin' mint doing a cute little Nirvanable grunge act back when they were 14 years old. Hey, good, just like winning the lottery, boys, you hit the jackpot, good ...

Part two of term paper
... track with the words "lessons learned", it's hard to suppress a sigh at the overt lyrical references to Kurt Cobain's "Dumb". Then, again, maybe they're in on the joke. I mean, c'mon leading off an album as bad as this with a track called "Emotion Sickness!" Someone is pulling our collective legs here. Sure enough, the boys deliver on the promise of that title, creating a miserable mishmash of Nirvana in a soft mode, Zeppelin playing "Kashmir" on a bad drug day, even throwing in a little flatulent ...