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The Rise of 'Munch'/A New Look at Pearl Jam/Remembering Coolio

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I Got Bugs in My Room, Bugs in My Bed

I think better man is probably a better song than just about anything STP ever did. I had forgotten until your book that Stone hates that record though that makes total sense because it's when Ed sees control of the band. The more tortured he acted about being mainstream famous, the more everybody hated it. He just could not win. If he acted happy with it, then the indie people would hate him. But even when he acted tortured, no one looks the sort of fugazi side of things was sympathetic to that. They were just like, you're being an asshole. Like what was your problem? All the stuff we're talking about and Kurt Cobain killed himself on Mount Rushmore

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