Soundgarden

just to be clear, the album's much, much better than Live To Rise, even if it doesn't set you on fire.

yeah i'm assuming that has to be the case. should really not post much here til the album drops anyway.

a) nobody listens to rock radio

Nobody you know listens to rock radio. As someone who works for a hard rock/metal label, let me assure you that getting songs on the radio is a hugely important part of promoting a band.

::long sigh:: listen i prob listen to rock radio more than 99% of the people on this board and realize it does have a more significant listenership than most of them would like to believe. i'm just saying, in the larger context of terrestrial radio and popular music as a whole, it matter so so so so much less to so fewer people than it did the last time Soundgarden made an album.

especially for an established band like Soundgarden.

the audience of all of atlanta's rock stations combined isnt as big as the audience for its single biggest hiphop station. my understanding is that's basically a nationwide trend

yeah definitely

This is a subject for another thread, but I can't figure out hip-hop's business model.

Yeah, I can't believe people pay money to hear that crap either.

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i like this record!

i mean half of it is the pleasure of hearing thayil, shepherd, and cameron play together on a new record

the audience of all of atlanta's rock stations combined isnt as big as the audience for its single biggest hiphop station. my understanding is that's basically a nationwide trend

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:58 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is not true where i live, but minneapolis and atlanta are like opposites

anyway this record has some good playing on it! vox/lyrics mostly suck but yeah i'm digging hearing kim playing again....about as good as you could expect

i mean half of it is the pleasure of hearing thayil, shepherd, and cameron play together on a new record

This is all I really care about from a SG reunion.

yes! hearing cameron/shepherd hold it down and thayil soar is something else. cornell isn't half-bad either. i've only listened to KA a couple of times so far, but nothing has really hit me as being jarringly bad yet. he's at least a lot less creepy than he was w/ timbaland, and not as sentimental/transparent as he was with audioslave. so that's something.

chris cornell is a horrible person

seeing them tonight. stoked.

also finally bought the reissue of Superunknown (remaster isn't spectacular but lost my 18-year old version and wanted the bonus disc) but now on re-reading the lyrics to Mailman part of me wonders if it's about salad tossing o_O

they were awesome in london earlier in the summer - played superunknown in its entirety (save Half, disappointingly).

yeah my friend went last night and said it was Superunknown and BMF heavy, which is music to my ears.

if they play "Limo Wreck" and "Mailman" I will lose my shit. i've always dreamed of hearing those in a live setting. it's an outdoor show too so it won't be sound bouncing off walls and make me go deaf.

so...great

haha!

cornell doesn't seem to have aged a day, does he?

Saw them here in September last year, what a set! They kicked off with 'Incessant Mace' and kept dipping deep in the catalogue even as they played most of the hits. They're not much of a stage presence, but hey. The one they didn't play was 'Black Hole Sun', and as I was leaving the moaning of punters around me was something else. I mean you paid €60 to see a band play one song? Feck off.

It's a shame though because he can actually sing that song live now, unlike back in the day!

my only complaint (if it's even a complaint) is that they were a little 'hits' heavy. I woulda loved to hear "Mailman" or "Limo Wreck". but who gives a shit really?

this is the reason I love outdoor shows. hearing "Fell on Black Days" as the sun was setting = <3

Saw them last week too. I was there mostly for NiN, but it was cool to see SG back together. Cornell was in great voice. I don't know how well-regarded the Down on the Upside era is, by them or the fans, but I was disappointed they skipped the entire album since the show was pretty much all hits anyway.

he played "Burden in My Hand" and "Pretty Noose" last night, which surprised me given how static their setlist had been over the last few weeks. I was glad - don't love Upside, but I love those two songs, especially the latter.

I was quite surprised at how full-voiced he sounded on "Beneath the Wheel". No, it wasn't as powerful a wail as it was in the Ultramega O.K. days, and he had to strategically take breaths to get through it. But there was power behind that falsetto, rather than wispiness. For a guy that's pushing 50 that was technically a baritone anyway, to hit stratopheric notes like that is extremely impressive.

He did a helluva "Fell on Black Days" too!

Those are exactly the two songs I would have liked to hear. Aw well. "Fell" was the highlight of the show for me too.

Cornell won me over on the last reunion tour -- all I needed was to hear 'Like Suicide' live again and I was back to full fangirldom

Just bought Screaming Life/Fopp on vinyl and it is really incredible how these two EPs framed my entire way of listening to music. And I'm still hearing new things in both (and in "Ultramega OK," and "Louder Than Love," and "Badmotorfinger," and the Temple of the Dog album too)

uh also how did nobody let me know about the three disc set of b-sides and other rarities that came out last month

you're all fired

;_;

maura i had a tweet where i made fun of the title, that is pretty much the most helpful thing i could have done

i wuz gonna maura but i didn't wanna be that guy that posts shit to someone who would already know perfectly damn well about it so GUESS THIS ONE'S ALL ON YOU

anyway surprised if there's anything on it (except steve fisk apparently) you wouldn't have collected??

i have most of the pre-'93 stuff but idk it's just nice to have it all in one place!

anyway fine you're all rehired

Nothing To Say is the best thing they ever did

ultramega ok is such a fucking tragedy :'(

^ said cuz "flower" and "beyond the wheel" really ought to hold their own with "nothing to say" (along with "hunted down", "hand of god", "hands all over", about half of badmotorfinger, etc). but for the production.

uh also how did nobody let me know about the three disc set of b-sides and other rarities that came out last month

No one told me either, argghh!

There are a bunch of covers on the comp.

the covers are often great, the sabbath cover is better than the original. the first disk of rarities is often great. the third disk? i don't know who would ever want to listen to the third disk.

I thought the covers were almost uniformly awful (particularly that Sabbath tune) though the version of Budgie's "Homicidal Suicidal" is pretty decent, the rarities I could take or leave, and yeah, the third disc is pretty much disposable.

if by 'that sabbath tune' you mean their cover of into the void then O_o

i love their into the void cover

Really don't like it. Mainly because it's one of the best lyrics Sabbath ever wrote, and these clods had to fuck with it because the message wasn't heavy-handed enough for 'em.

are you trying out for bill magill?

The 'Void' cover is exactly what you'd expect (except for some lyric changes). Original is better by virtue of Iommi's tone.