Soundgarden

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sghQIma-2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihZNidf5h4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u09QeukRV2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BK3f3RSpgA

i'm not crazy about the pre-Shepherd records so i was almost hoping that whenever they tour around here the set would be just the hits straight up, like similar to the set i saw them do at Lollapalooza a few months before breaking up, but yeah pretty cool that they went through the whole catalog and ignored their biggest hit. they'll probably be at least a little more crowd-pleasing on the festival circuit, though, i imagine.

aww....Cornell's voice sounds shot on "Spoonman" - as I feared, but was hopeful after the first youtube posting.

damn they sound great

cg listen to nothing to say he sounds pretty good there all things considered

xpost I was just posting that he sounds a million times better on Nothing to Say.

all things considered I think I'd pay to see em. I never got to the first time around

now if only they'd play Limo Wreck

What? Was the limp-pop direction of his first (& only) solo joint failing him so much that he's reverting back to his Badmotorfinger / Louder than Love uber-aggression stance?

Good lord, this sentence.

soundgarden were never uber-aggressive either, always supremely graceful

A passerby wearing tie-dye said to one person desperate for a ticket, "Good luck in life."

I <3 Soundgarden but you have to give it up for this zing

i think its actually scientifically impossible to be zinged by someone wearing tie-dye tho

soundgarden were never uber-aggressive either, always supremely graceful

― a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass" (stevie), Monday, April 19, 2010 5:56 AM (3 hours ago)

old big bad ass circle of power Comin To GETCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!111!!!11!!!

yeah but even that song breaks down to a slow sweet groove around 1:30

Good god it's nice to hear Thayil again. I don't even care if Chris can't maintain the screaming anymore. Definitely psyched to see them.

There's a supposedly decent rec gone up on D1M£AD0Z£N if anyone's interested.

yeah really if i go to a show it'll be to hear the band ROKK THE FUKK OUT, if the vox sound good it'll be a bonus

is there any word on how extensively they'll be touring and whether they'll be doing headlining gigs all over or mostly festivals?