Soundgarden

Every single time a grunge band reunites or tours or has a new album or a high profile reissue for the past 10 years there's been a bunch of goofy "grunge is back/we're cycling back to grunge already" grumbling. Did people go "it's the British invasion all over again!" when the Stones released albums in the '80s?

The Stones didn't really go away (like Pearl Jam I guess), but I remember theere "return to the psychedelic 60s" in the reviews for Steel Wheels around that tune Continental Drift. There was more of a ton of nostalgia being pushed on stuff like The Doors, Beatles and Hendrix. Around that time the Dead's concert crowds really expanded. The mass popular music magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin both referenced back to that stuff all the time. Not that those artists have ever really not been popular since the late 60s, but I think that late 60s stuff did get a big boost in popularity around the 20 year cycle in the late 80s.

Grunge/alternative music is just one of the next things in the docket, as the last decade was all about getting into reviving new wave/early hip hop/post punk stuff.

I'm sure like Alice In Chains is doing now, Soundgarden (and Stone Temple Pilots) are going to rake in some cash playing shows if they play the gigs. All of those bands stopped touring pretty early, one for obvious reasons, so there is probably some pent up demand to see them live.

This is where we can be thankful for the Foo Fighters having been a huge act on their own, because otherwise I'd get the feeling there would have been some sort of 'reunion' by now.

Coming soon, 3d Imax Nirvana reunion featuring Rock Band Cobain, broke Novoselic, and Dave "Probot" Grohl.

I'm sure someone out there is probably going to try to put together a Cobain/Nirvana movie like this one, which is also an example of 60s nostalgia in the late 80s.

http://i.allstarpics.net/images/orig/6/p/6pirvrzu903868i9.jpg

It'll be called "Rape Me".

Perhaps we should all script it now so that WE can be the committee that ruins it before some other committee does.

yeah, whatever ... I'm "sorta" psyched about this, as Soundgarden was a huge band for me -- I bought a used cassette of 'Ultramega OK' from Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor shortly after the album was released (they were mentioned in some article in Rolling Stone at the time about cool new college rock bands -- reviewer specifically mentioned that they sounded "like Led Zeppelin", so of course I was hooked.)

I saw them probably 10 times between '89 and '91.

I saw the Voivod/Soundgarden/Faith No More tour twice. I saw the Danzig/Soundgarden/Corrosion of Conformity tour twice. I saw the tour with Swervedriver, I saw them on Lollapalooza a couple times. Some other one-offs like the time they played Saint Andrews Hall with Big Chief opening up. Basically they were like my fave band, and they sounded so good with pot, which I was smoking a ton of in those days.

I randomly bumped into K1m Thay1l when I was in Seattle in November (I flew out to Seattle to see Them Crooked Vultures), what a thrill. Cool guy. Had fun drinking beer with him in Capital Hill.

"I saw the Voivod/Soundgarden/Faith No More tour twice."

My biggest concert regret. I was 16 and the show was 21+. It nearly killed me.

when me and high school buddies went to the show in Kalamazoo, we totally stalked Snake. We watched him walk into a bookstore, and followed him in. He was in the science fiction. We walked up to him and told him what big Voivod fans we were. He shook my hand but looked uncomfortable. I feel bad about it now.

i'd doubt whether they'd actually ever heard grunge, screamo or nu metal.

I heard a lot of grunge in my 20s. I've stayed away, for the most part, from nu-metal and screamo. I'm open to learning or being disabused of wrong ideas, tho! What am I missing?

well, mostly, i don't think there's hells of much grunge in Nu Metal, tbh - maybe Alice In Chains and PJ are an influence on yer Creed, etc, but when i think of that genre i think of Limp Bizkit, of Korn, and the like, who all dealt in a particularly numb-nutted version of rap-rock. as for screamo, again, it seems to take influence more from hardcore, etc than grunge per se, though tbh the only screamo i really rate is the AWESOME blood brothers.

Oh, I definitely buy the Nu-Metal/Numb-Nutted Rap-Rock link. Meh. I'm happy to hear that these terrible genres trace few bloodlines back to grunge.

Hey, which of those two terrible genres is that terrible song from where the singer growls "I'm doin' the best I ever did/I'm doin' the best I can/Now GO AWAY!" The intent of this song must be to make the listner LOL.

for some reason that lyric is making me think of the wonderful Blondie song 'go away', which it most certainly is NOT, so i don't know!

that song is by Godsmack, who were named after an Alice In Chains song and are way more nu-grunge than nu-metal

RIGHT! That's the terrible band -- and terrible song -- I was thinking of.

Nu-grunge . . . phooey.

daniel i don't know why youre so worried about nu-metal since we are talking about soundgarden who rule hard and always have.

lol, not really worried; it was part of a tangent. But, now that you mention it, Soundgarden was my second favorite grunge act (far, far behind Nirvana).

well, mostly, i don't think there's hells of much grunge in Nu Metal

there's lots of grunge in nu metal. Korn's debut is basically Faith No More + Pantera/Machine Head/Early 90's Sepultura groove metal + grunge song dynamics

my first Soundgarden show was Big Day Out in Melbourne in 1994...also my first real 'concert' so I had no idea what I was in for got myself a primo spot right up the front & they opened with 'Searching With My Good Eye Closed'. As soon as the music started the crowd surge lifted me off my feet and I wound up 20 people deep...scary at first but DAMN it was fun. Never forget that feeling of the bass and the guitar like piledrivers in my chest...my ears rang for days after and I was hooked.

Saw them again in 95 I think...also a great show but that first was my favorite.

Strangely, I saw Nirvana twice on the Bleach tour, but I never saw Soundgarden. I only really like Screaming Life tbh.

I only really like Screaming Life tbh

That's what everyone says! It is great, though.

I know. I get teased often for (almost) always liking a band's first release best. In this case, nothing Soundgarden ever did afterward sounds remotely like Screaming Life though. It's a little gem.

And I was just way more into Nirvana, Tad, and Green River. Soundgarden were leading the way towards the side of grunge that was reaching up into the stars instead of down into the muck.

Screaming Life was the shit..."Little Joe" one of my alltime favorite SG songs. Soundgarden was probably my first introduction to something that sounded like metal but wasn't. You know that wasn't a hair band, and that wasn't Metallica. It was something else, and I was fascinated. I think I was maybe 14 or 15...a total eyeopener for smalltown me. I mean, I was all over Pearl Jam, but the early Soundgarden was something that felt more like it was mine, because not everyone liked it the first time they heard it. the banshee wail kind of pissed people off and that pleased the hell out of my teenaged self.

SOUNDGARDEN WILL BE ONE OF THE HEADLINERS AT THIS YEARS LOLLAPALOOZA FESTIVAL. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL ON AUGUST 8TH AT GRANT PARK, CHICAGO ILLINOIS.
BEN, CHRIS, KIM AND MATT

http://www.soundgardenworld.com/

/street team

Still not worth $200. Lady Gaga, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, and Green Day are the other headliners.

If they're smart the opening song will be "Searching With My Good Eye Closed."

Do people actually care about the Strokes still? Anywhere?

I would totally pay less than $20 to see the Strokes play in a small club.

Truth be known, Cornell's voice is so shot that he's using auto-tune for this show

Sorry to derail, but...

Is it just me, or are Ultramega OK and Die Kreuzen's October File basically the same album?

wish I was going to the "Nudedragons" show in Seattle tonight

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F004486C4BD63A8?did=danger

+1 if I'd known i'da flown up for it

i think chris cornell is one of the best hard rock vocalists of the 90s. too bad he is a douche.

pretty sure a list of the greatest hard rock vocalists of all time would be almost wall to wall douches.

think it just was announced this afternoon, roger. else I'd have probably done the same

I know! I'm not chastising you for late notice -- it's clearly meant for local fans -- I'm just sayin' ;-)

http://www.spin.com/articles/reunited-soundgarden-play-secret-seattle-show

Setlist:
1. "Spoonman"
2. "Gun"
3. "Searching With My Good Eye Closed"
4. "Rusty Cage"
5. "Beyond The Wheel"
6. "Flower"
7. "Ugly Truth"
8. "Fell On Black Days"
9. "Hunted Down"
10. "Nothing To Say"
11. "Loud Love"
12. "Blow Up The Outside World"
13. "Pretty Noose"
14. "Outshined"
15. "Slaves And Bulldozers"

Encore:
16. "Get On The Snake"
17. "Big Dumb Sex"
18. "Waiting For The Sun"

ha they certainly are fans of anagramming aren't they?

That's a pretty good setlist

I thought that name sounded familiar... they played a secret warm-up gig before their Badmotorfinger tour 20 years ago under the name Vince Whirlwind and the Nude Dragons.

Pretty awesome that they played something from every album.

Wow. are there any boots flying below the radar? I'm curious as to how his voice held up, cuz many of those songs are shriek-fests.

"Slaves and Bulldozers" though, omg...would love to hear that live!

jeez .. that setlist kinda rules! so much 'Louder Than Love' stuff!! figgered they would just play the "hits" from their AOR era. but no "My Wave", "Day I Tried to Live", "Black Hole Sun" ... nuts! actually pretty psyched for the Lolla show now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiZ2wg1ZBxc

I've been listening to Louder Than Love a lot lately. I think it holds up pretty well as a solid hard rock album. There's a definite Jimi Hendrix/Voodoo Child influence in Hands All Over (same in Even Flow, btw). I love the way the melody is there just to let Chris Cornell belt out long notes - the words are pretty irrelevant.

Hands all overrrrr!
Dead composerrrrrr!
Broke the toasterr!
Hang stockbrokerrs!

LTL has always been my favorite album of theirs. I love the Terry Date production, it's very "roomy". when I came out I was a senior in high school and used to come home from school every day, hit up the one-hitter, and blast the thing in my room. good times

when "it" came out...

outed

um so Chris sounds OK....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLsm8qsHMw

That sounds pretty f'n good!

I had to check and re- check that set list.
No Blackhole Sun?

I was never a huge fan but *that* song is a keeper

Love the Die Kreuzen mention^^^^ Great band.One of the best HC albums (the s/t) ever followed by that gothemo October File. Classic