commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996

Chris Cornell is as cheesy as Dave Navarro, I keep expecting them to end up with their own Bravo show. xp

i live for disappointment

Cornell was always like a hair away from becoming David Coverdale even when Kim Thayil and Susan Silver were around to ground him

omg Navarro Cornell reality show would be tragic and amazing

xpost LOOOOL

don't get disliking "black hole sun" though

droning, annoying

overplayed. hate it now. I prefer listening to the albums/ep before Superunknown anyway.

holy shit nicole

bhs overplayed to irritation threshhold was breached

got cable tv in our area the year that black hole sun vid was never off mtv. That killed the song for me. Thankfully on the down on the upside tour cornell played it solo acoustic so it wasnt as annoying.

Would recommend Tori Amos to fill out the Cornell/Navarro judging panel

Down on the Upside is not great. Ty Cobb is okay, and Blow Up The Outside World. But def pale compared to Superunknown...you could kinda tell they were pretty much done

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:16 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, and 'Pretty Noose', 'Rhinosaur', 'Burden In My Hand', 'Never Named', 'Never The Machine Forever', 'Switch Opens', 'Overfloater' and 'An Unkind'.

yeah, befitting the era it's too long but there are still a lot of good songs

bhs overplayed to irritation threshhold was breached

that was true for me at the time, but 16 years down the road, it's gone back to just being a song i like

i swear to god there were two versions of the BHS video that played -- the first didn't have nearly as much cgi, maybe none at all? back me up here somebody

don't remember a version w/out heavy cgi. there is this though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0SK2fDCxQ

yeah the video was super-annoying too

http://cltampa.com/binary/6aa3/black_hole_sun.jpg

love the video

the

worst

btw i just put on black love on spotify. my reaction to the whigs was the exact opposite of some of you, i first heard gentlemen like three years ago and my thought was god damn if i heard this record when i was 17 it would be one of my 10 favorite records ever. i'm not really in a place now where i connect with it 100% emotionally but it's pretty amazing music.

i swear to god there were two versions of the BHS video that played -- the first didn't have nearly as much cgi, maybe none at all? back me up here somebody

i remember this!

Thankfully on the down on the upside tour cornell played it solo acoustic so it wasnt as annoying

Oh yeah, that would totally make that song MUCH less annoying.

I give up on Soundgarden after Badmotorfinger. And really after the first half of that album. Everything up to and including "Jesus Christ Pose" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything after.

wiki to the rescue

The video was released in June 1994.[25] After several weeks of airplay on MTV, a second version of the video was substituted containing more elaborate visual effects than the original, including the addition of a computer-generated black hole.

i'm still def an early-screamo Soundgarden stan -- but in the last year or two I've come around on Superunknown

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

love the toys in the attic vocal rasp on "do it riiiiiiiight"

Yeah, totally remember that earlier "Black Hole Sun" video.

because this still makes me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni632sTHZWU

after an hour I am still finding it increasingly hilarious, given all the Pumpkins articles I read creepily obsessing over D'arcy and given how strikingly cheekboned James Iha is/was, imagining pouty Baldy Corgan stood at the back of a photoshoot thinking "does this mean... they don't think I'm the cute one?!"

thank you thread

I mean...

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/120313-billy-corgan.png

ack

hit every branch on the way down

humpty dumpty lol

He is awesome as Varys on Game of Thrones though.

Corgan's like seven feet tall--that's why he was put in the back.

hahaha nicole

he was also good in the Addams Family movies

http://i.imm.io/odjY.png

voted for 'new adventures...' without that much doubt, even tho i listened a lot to 'tiny music...' when it came out - and have fond memories of it.

also, 'no code' is prob my fav pearl jam album - not that it matters that much since i was never never a huge fan to begin with - but i don't listen to 'vitalogy' in a very long time...

Philip wins the thread. It's all about Thayil's "Whatfuckingever, man."

Down on the Upside is not great. Ty Cobb is okay, and Blow Up The Outside World. But def pale compared to Superunknown...you could kinda tell they were pretty much done

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:16 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, and 'Pretty Noose', 'Rhinosaur', 'Burden In My Hand', 'Never Named', 'Never The Machine Forever', 'Switch Opens', 'Overfloater' and 'An Unkind'.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, May 4, 2012 12:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

and "Dusty" and "Zero Chance" and "No Attention"!

btw guys i finally thought of a major label follow-up with a serious sales dropoff from '96 that i totally overlooked for the thread options:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/CrackerTheGoldenAge.jpg

I actually just listened to "I'm A Little Rocket Ship" the other day

i hate my generation!!

fight this generation

Philip wins the thread.

I always thought Cracker was pretty lame and trying way too hard.

oh god yes

lol anthony when you added that song to your spotify 'used bins' playlist at first i thought the playlist was called "I'm A Little Rocket Ship to Used Bins"

which is p otm when you think about it