History Music / TheWallflowers

Jakob Dylan, being the son of Music/BobDylan, started the band in 1989. Looking to write classic BluesRock with a modern edge to it, the band worked hard on songwriting for their first 3 years. Their self titled album was released in 1992, and went largely ignored at the time of its release due to the rise of {{Grunge}}. The album was also met with lukewarm reviews, most critics saying that Jakob was trying to be too much like his father.

They spent the next year trying to support the album, but Jakob's refusal to advertise himself as Bob Dylan's son and Creator/VirginRecords' failure to properly promote the album caused the band to have a fallout. They left Virgin and dropped most of the original lineup and signed to Interscope Records for their second album ''Bringing Down The Horse''. This time, the band focused on a more edgy sound, straying away from the casual roots-rock formulas on their first album. This time, it was a commercial success. It went 4x platinum, and the songs "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache" were both chart toppers. The critical response was also MUCH more welcoming, with most publications giving the album a near-perfect rating.

!! "Bringing Down The Tropes":

* EpicRocking: Mostly on the self-titled album where several songs qualify ("Honeybee" is 9:14, "After the Black Bird Sings" is 8:26, "Hollywood" is 7:02, "Another One in the Dark" is 6:31). After that, apart from bonus tracks or songs including hidden tracks, they only have one song that tops the six-minute mark, "From the Bottom of My Heart" on ''Rebel, Sweetheart''. (A live version of "Invisible City" on some versions of ''(Breach)'' reaches 6:29, and "Birdcage" and "Babybird" are indexed as a single track which reaches 7:42, but they are two separate songs).
* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Collected: 1996–2005,'' a greatest hits album that [[CanonDiscontinuity completely ignored their first self titled album on Virgin Records]]

* {{Nepotism}}: Averted. As mentioned above, Jacob refused to be marketed at the son of Music/BobDylan, even though it was common knowledge at that point, and wanted the band to be successful on their own merits. It cost them a great deal of advertising at first.

* RecordProducer: They've had several, the most famous of whom are probably T-Bone Burnett for ''Bringing Down the Horse'' (as well as Dylan's solo album ''Women + Country'') and Brendan O'Brien for ''Rebel, Sweetheart''. Music/RickRubin produced Dylan's solo album ''Seeing Things''.
* RepurposedPopSong: As of 2014, "One Headlight" is being used for Geico motorcycle insurance

* ShoutOut: "Sleepwalker" refers to Music/SamCooke by name, as well as his song "Cupid". "Reboot the Mission" mentions Joe Strummer by name and alludes to the fact that Mick Jones, who provides guest vocals and guitar on the track, used to play with him.

-->''"Come on try a little\\

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Probably the reason Dylan's solo albums weren't released under the band name; ''Seeing Things'' is a stripped-down FolkMusic album while ''Women + Country'' is mostly a country album with comparatively little rock influence.

Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wallflowers a fully detailed page]]. Also, the band has its own webpage, which can be found [[http://www.thewallflowers.com here]].

!! This Band provides examples of:

* ShoutOut: "Sleepwalker" refers to Sam Cooke by name, as well as his song "Cupid". "Reboot the Mission" mentions Joe Strummer by name and alludes to the fact that Mick Jones, who provides guest vocals and guitar on the track, used to play with him.

They spent the next year trying to support the album, but Jakob's refusal to advertise himself as Bob Dylan's son and Virgin Record's failure to properly promote the album caused the band to have a fallout. They left Virgin and dropped most of the original lineup and signed to Interscope Records for their second album ''Bringing Down The Horse''. This time, the band focused on a more edgy sound, straying away from the casual roots-rock formulas on their first album. This time, it was a commercial success. It went 4x platinum, and the songs "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache" were both chart toppers. The critical response was also MUCH more welcoming, with most publications giving the album a near-perfect rating.

* CoverVersion: "I Started a Joke" by Music/TheBeeGees, which appeared on the ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' soundtrack; "Heroes" by Music/DavidBowie, for ''Film/Godzilla1998''; Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic", for ''Film/AmericanWedding''.