Soundgarden

My Wave is great turned up, that one and S-Unknown were the perfect soundtrack to a fucked spring break trip

"Preaching the end of the world" is one I'm afraid to listen to cos idk if I can do the emotions that come w/ that song right now

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, May 19, 2017 3:31 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is the one that got me yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_T8zzH19s

Scott Strapp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7JX-JfGzZI

Xp to Ned: yeah I mean that's what I was badly trying to get at I think, that it struck me that way only on relisten after a number of years away from it because it so much doesn't obviously feel like an heir to Zep or Sabbath, and I think a lot of that distinction is in Cornell's lyrics and vocal persona, and in certain nuances of the way the heavy riffage feels just slightly off kilter.

"Ferry Boat #3" on the Singles Soundtrack reissue is quite nice.

Beyond the Wheel is my go to olde SG choon

Beyond the Wheel is fucking amazing

It's on some deep Birthday Party Bauhaus shit & I love it. I live for Cornell's banshee wail

He sounded so good on it 3 weeks ago too. :(

His baritone vox were always underrated. Like his Plant-esque wail gets so much focus but his low to mid range was so resonant and expressive. It is what made "Fell on Black Days" work so well.

"Sumshower" got me through teenage depression too

Hands All Over is probably the only pro-environment track that warrants replay

Touring band cover version tributes to CC are everywhere on Youtube, RHCP, Train, Bush, Living Colour, Ann Wilson, Live (lol), Stone Sour, Megadeath, Scott Stapp.

oh man, that Living Colour Blow Up the Outside World is moving as hell.

Yeah, bless them

I've spent a bunch of today relistening to Down on the Upside and its period b-sodes to try to come up with a better sequence - brad was right, it's not easy. This is the best I could come up with - I figured the best course of action was to try to do a 12-track Badmotorfinger style tracklist than to try and repeat the Superunknown sprawl like they did on the released album. Apologies to any "Ty Cobb" lovers out there.

Pretty Noose
Dusty
No Attention
Tighter & Tighter
Bleed Together
Burden in my Hand
Rhinosaur
Never Named
Zero Chance
Karaoke
Boot Camp
Blow Up the Outside World

*b-sides, durr

"Applebite" or "Overfloater" (depending on yr preference) can easily slot in after "Rhinosaur" if that's not sprawling enough for ya

I think it's great there are all these instant covers happening but also telling that most of the bands listed couldn't come close to Soundgarden/Cornell in the first place. (My exceptions would be Living Colour, Ann Wilson and Megadeth when Mustaine isn't an insane goober).

Stone Sour guy made a really good stab at Unshined

But I get your point

cough OUT shined

Oh shit, sorry, where's my head?

Never really listened to Soundgarden too much, but a) the last time I saw them they were awesome and b) I love "Rhinosaur."

Megadeth when Mustaine isn't an insane goober

don't be uncool, ned

"megadeth when mustaine isnt an insane goober"

i....dont follow

That megadeth tribute clip was painful to watch

How much of role did Thayil play as a songwriter ? Rhinosaur sounds to me like a riff he would write

he has more credits on badmotorfinger, on upside he only had the one

but he deserved an individual songwriting credit for each of his Billy Corgan quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norW_pCErk0

i like seeing all the artist tributes but i would love something other than 900 versions of black hole sun, is that shitty to say

No because Black Hole Sun is a garbage song no matter who sings it, Cornell included

i dont hate it the way i used to but it's still one of my least favex

def not my fav any more but it was the song that got me into them, so im not gonna sit here and slander it nope.

it's a good song that was a victim of its own success

an ideal DOTU with outtakes should have "Blind Dogs" and "Kyle Petty, Son of Richard" imo

Agreed. For my own nostalgic purposes, I'll probably eventually buy an official mix of the entire Self-Pollution session if it's ever available. I'm surprised the entire 5-hour broadcast hasn't been pressed to vinyl by now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqc3mEWxIVA

watched the dave grohl youtube that appends cornell doing an acoustic black hole sun to the end, it's telling how at certain points he is perfectly able to lay back and let his singing be more casual, so that it's clear that the sudden drama at that point in the full recording is manufactured by the band's performance, not necessarily written into the song. but later on he opts for the yelled 'black hole sun! black hole sun!' refrain, which i guess marks the song as recorded/written as a rock song, in a way that he did not think needed to be modified in acoustic performance (but maybe could have been).

oh come on black hole sun is grebt

in fairness i thought maybe i hated it for a few years there but then i listened to it and i was wrong

I like it as a change of pace on Superunknown but I wouldn't count it among my favourites. The chorus always feels like a bit of a letdown.

it must be weird to know that you've written a song that everyone is going to sing to you when you're dead

otm

in fairness i thought maybe i hated it for a few years there but then i listened to it and i was wrong

That happened to me with Stairway to Heaven, but I never liked BHS in the first place.

Misread that at first as B&S

BHS revisionism can suck it, I mean - the thing has become an overplayed staple so it's far from my favorite on the record (that'd be "Limo Wreck" or "Mailman"), but damned if it still doesn't make me wanna sing along.

half of my school thought it was called "Black, Old Son"

Does it have anything to do with the Lost Generation guy, Harry Crosby?

I feel compelled to say mine is not revisionism. I had a viscerally negative reaction to it from the first day I heard it and have been working towards some form of mild neutrality ever since then

tribunal will rule on that in the morning, have yr notarized affidavits ready!

I do think it's probably the least interesting of the singles tho......