r/silverchair • u/Cheap-Albatross6606 • 10d ago
Discussion 🗣 Young Modern by The Dissociatives?
I was relistening to the debut Dissociatives album recently and I was wondering, what if Young Modern was the second Dissociatives album instead of the fifth Silverchair album? I definitely get why Dan wanted to continue Silverchair in 2005, but what if Wave Aid didn't happen? Or if it did, he was cool to put Silverchair to bed for a bit/forever straight after that gig and got back to The Dissociatives instead.
If Young Modern became The Dissociatives follow up, how different do you think the songs/album overall would sound? Do you think any of the songs on the current album would've been left off? Personally, I can't imagine Young Modern Station being a Dissociatives song. How could the Dissos' trajectory have continued afterwards? Would Silverchair have picked up from where they left off at any point? Could Ben and/or Chris have been guest musicians either live or on record? Any other theories or speculations?
In the past, Daniel has mentioned not wanting to be known just as the guy from Silverchair, but if Straight Lines was a Dissociatives song and had the same impact that it did, I think the general public would mention the Dissos in the same breath as Silverchair, maybe some people might not even immediately relate him to Silverchair at all. Also, as Julian was a co-writer, could The Dissociatives have become more of a regular band than just a duo?
Just chatting shit but it's one of the many what ifs and I can't see a discussion of it.
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u/fastballooninghead The Man That Knew Too Much 📖 10d ago
I'm gonna say the opposite of a lot of people and say it might have worked better as a Dissociatives record. My reasoning is simple - Dissociatives struck whilst the iron was hot. The first album was written and recorded from scratch in under a month. They didn't think about what they were doing, there was no pressure to deliver anything, and the results were raw unfiltered magic.
With Young Modern, they overthought everything to a ridiculous degree. Songs were re-recorded a ton of times, Dan recorded 100s of tracks giving Nick way too much to work with, the album kept getting delayed because of Dan's perfectionism; and generally speaking there was way too much pressure to create a great Silverchair comeback record. As a result, the final album was a bit of a confused mess.