Soundgarden

probably because you heard Carry On

j/k tho. I kinda wanna listen to his other solo albs now, I ignored them because I hated Carry On so much but now is the time to get acquainted.

"Follow My Way" is still my fav solo joint of his....starts out so Zeppelin-y

carry on is p bad beyond "you know my name" and "arms around your love" and i have no idea why except that maybe audioslave briefly ruined his songwriting

"follow my way" is such a jam

I hated Audioslave but man he he get mileage out of that material with his performances

i just revisited a few audioslave singles. "be yourself" is a great song. the more aggro audioslave tracks are dogshit imo

now i'm onto scream, which 1) lol 2) but i think this song is a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A9lcO2xeMQ

brad, it's bad. I've wanted to defend scream so bad but in the end, it's just not possible.

lmao i love it while recognizing it is bad

dang that's bad

i do feel like cornell might have been in store for an increasingly interesting solo career as he aged, cf Robert Plant.

i was hoping Scream would be nothing but covers of the Michael Jackson song when it came out

Down On The Upside is better than I remembered. It's still too long, but that's a quibble. I had forgotten songs like Zero Chance and Tighter and Tighter.

Down on the Upside is notable for being the Soundgarden record that Ben Shepherd had the largest hand in, writing-wise. Thayil contributed 'Never The Machine Forever' (a standout track, IMO) but much less compared to what he'd done before.

What I always liked about this band is that all the band members wrote songs and contributed riffs and ideas, even Matt Cameron who came up with some great stuff.

you can really hear cameron's melodic sensibility and odd Soundgarden-ish chord changes in his songs for Pearl Jam

Cameron has "Mailman", "Fresh Tendrils", "Applebite" and "Room a Thousand Years Wide" to his credit, so fair fennel seeds to him. And your comments have aroused in me something I'd have never expected: interest in 00s PJ.

His stuff on Binaural is partic strong

"Green Disease" off the mostly ignorable Riot Act is great

I didn't realize 'Room a Thousand Years Wide' was Cameron... it's about my favorite Soundgarden song most days.

It's a Thayil lyric, but Cameron wrote the music.

They should have done more songs with sax on them.

or songs about improbably large rooms

goddamn what a good song

I saw some pics from the memorial & fell apart again. But it did lead me to find a full recording of his Albert Hall show from last year. He sounds so fucking good

https://youtu.be/z6qUbq6JzFo

TOMORROW BEGIIIIINS

NORAH JONES - BLACK HOLE SUN tribute cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQ08Ixczvo

Whole raft of covers here

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornell-see-best-tributes-to-soundgarden-singer-w483606

Hilarious:

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

HI DERE

xp "Get Right" sounds like a Soundgarden song.

whoa, this exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY6cyaUzuU0

that clip Freedom posted is hysterically funny imo, well worth watching

lost me at spoonman

Still cannot really believe it.

clip is funny but sad... natasha schneider too...

It's a parody of a classic Sid-era Pink Floyd interview.

i got a tattoo of the "s" on ULTRAMEGA OK

ULTRAMAURA OK

Rock

\m/ \m/

I put down some of thoughts re Chris Cornell & Seattle bands & my teenage life here, if anyone wants to read

http://tourdefrump.blogspot.com/2017/05/its-just-end-of-world-chris-cornell-and.html?m=1

Wonderful work. :-)

I'm always struck by how few people talk about the Screaming Trees. Lanegan, yeah, but not the band. "Sweet Oblivion" is a great album.

Ha, I've been thinking about them randomly for the past couple of weeks. (In part due to the great new Lanegan album, admittedly.)

Sweet Oblivion and Dust are masterpieces, and a lot of their SST output is brilliant too.

yeah, it was like there wasn't enough room in the wider world for one more Seattle grunge band

Screaming Trees have always been a favorite- Cornell co-produced and did backing vocals on Uncle Anaesthesia.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/inside-chris-cornells-moving-refugee-themed-final-video-w488762

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornells-daughter-pens-poignant-fathers-day-note-w488849

'Overfloater' is good. I don't think I've ever made it this far into DOtU before.

i ordered a CD (the old pre-remastered version of Badmotorfinger -- which I think actually sounds better a/b-ing my itunes rip vs. the spotify version of the deluxe remaster) right after his death off Amazon (it was on sale one day for $4)

it's really been rewarding listening to this band with fresh ears, I hadn't actively listened to Soundgarden (with the exception of checking out King Animal a couple times) in so many years, so blown away but how GOOD they were...a lot of this stuff I listened to on the car radio or cassette player or a cheapo boombox in someone's apartment or dorm, now listening on good headphones, the rhythm section is such so top notch and Kim was heads above any other guitarist of this era, in terms of having chops but not being a wanker and also using a lot of weird tunings and dissonance and odd time signature riffs that are somehow as infectious as 70s rock

and Cornell...man just a real rock singer that can fucking go out there and GET IT IN like a 70s dude