Soundgarden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbSFprzSaA&spfreload=10

i dont know if I can handle Temple of The Dog yet. i cried my eyes out at the live show in December when he was alive & singing, god knows I'd be a mess now

i am really struggling with this. i mean bowie & prince broke me but this is like my immediate musical circle, it's just too fucking real & i hate it

VG : hugs. xx

ty <3

aw

yep god almighty do NOT watch clips from last night's Detroit show, just don't do it to yrself

;_;

thanks for the warning- I don't want to remember him in some fucked up way.
goddamn I can't overstate how much I love that band. truly sad

i tried to do a top 10, so far i'm at 25 lol

I've always thought pre-major label Soundgarden was a bit hit-and-miss. I think they got better once they signed to a major...but I'm listening to "Screaming Life" right now and it is knocking it out of the park right now. Proper grunge biznizz

played through superunknown making dinner. i've never been one to play their records all the way through and i don't know why, they were really really good.

it's funny, i was so diehard about soundgarden that i fucking HATED superunknown when it came out

i hated all the dudes at college that suddenly were airdrumming to spoonman and i hated black hole sun on the radio endlesssly & i hated chris's haircut & the album was so new & polished sounding
i liked 4th of july & fell on black days but man thst album was a real sore point for me for a while until i grew out of it

so dumb

now i listen to it & it is so good all the way through, just so much going on musically & lyrically! fucking huge achievement

lol i'm younger than you but there was a ubiquity to superunknown even for me so i can totally see pushing back on those songs.

and then tonight i'm like the spoonman riff is up there with any jimmy page riff ever.

Superunknown is great.

Yeah I was way into Badmotorfinger and then Superunknown was their "sellout"' record for me where they "lost their edge". Of course that's silly in retrospect, it's a fine record.

There are some really good songs on Superunknown but I have always hated "Black Hole Sun." Not since it got popular, but since the first time I heard it. It's slow and boring, it's got that lacy-cuffs psychedelic thing going on that I hate...it's just not a good song, to my ear. But "My Wave" still kills, and a bunch of other stuff, too. Like basically every album from 1996, it's too long, of course.

I couldn't quite get over "Spoonman" to a degree -- I kept imagining Sammy Davis Jr. doing a riff on his "Candy Man," even more Vegas, though ("The shpoonman, he's got the shpoons!"). So I ended up more appreciating them for Superunknown where I had played Badmotorfinger into the ground, and I never quite returned to that same level in general with his work. Different sonic interests and so forth. Remarkable album nonetheless -- I remember it and The Downward Spiral came out the same day and charted 1-2 as a result. For a moment there things seemed aligned with my vision of the universe.

A very nice touch

The Space Needle will go dark from 9-10pm tonight in remembrance of @chriscornell. RIP. #noonesingslikeyouanymore https://t.co/D0XmOhTbkp

— Space Needle (@space_needle) May 18, 2017

I couldn't quite get over "Spoonman" to a degree

OTM. That song is dreadful, I never even bothered to listen to the album.

https://genius.com/Soundgarden-spoonman-lyrics

But I loved every release up that one, saw them a half-dozen times.

My Wave and Fell On Black Days are perfect meshings of sound, melody, arrangement, and singer.

Wtf "spoonman" is awesome

Lately I've been waking up early in the morning and putting on NPR to help me doze back off, so I was only half-awake when I heard about his death and now its fact is trapped between concrete reality and a hazy half-memory. It just doesn't square to me.

I may be the only person who thinks Ultramega OK is their best album, but their singles are all-time, and he was a brilliant songwriter.

i learned about this b/c my wife audibly gasped looking at her phone at about 7 a.m. while we were waking up. first thought was something happened at her job, second thought was something happened to trump.

this news was unwelcome, to say the least.

Michael B OTM. 7/4 riff is inspired.

Musically I have no problem with the song! But still.

I don't know what the lyrics are about, really, but I didn't think that was a concern for you.:)

Genuinely curious about the cavils!

I may be the only person who thinks Ultramega OK is their best album

The remastered version gives you a much stronger case.

nah I still have a block with that song

I did only just realize how Zeppelin-y Big Dumb Sex is with that big old fat riff, which makes the song even funnier

Is it just me or did he look very handsome on the "like a stone" video? That said I was never much of a fan of Soundgarden or Audioslave and I hated his Bond song in Casino Royale but I really respected him and liked him as a person... saw several interviews and fan videos of him instage joking with the audience and to my surprise he was not an asshole at all. I feel like most rockers from the late 80s early 90s were very unpleasant people.

Not Cornell tho... so he was a talented guy, humble and charismatic and pretty good looking. A keeper all around... real shame he wasn't happy with his life, seemed like he had it all.

My modest obit

Spoonman is about heroin right

the only thing you got wrong is that cornell was the only credited writer the majority of those songs. respect to thayil but if you believe the band chris came in with many of those twisty riffs mostly formed.

Oh I believe it.

I love Michael Beinhorn's pedigree -- Material's keyboardist producing this band!

xxxpost Moka, fyi Chris Cornell looked handsome in every waking moment of his adult life

dude was hot af

fuckin hot

remember in the mid 00's when he was suddenly super-tanned? even then

be still my ovaries

https://68.media.tumblr.com/7095b8a000a9bd1a822ac07703b231eb/tumblr_olcb9vuudJ1w4tfzvo1_400.gif

lolol

I think I've written about this previously on ILM, but back in the mid 90s I was in a band that briefly was being courted by a record label in southern California. The head of the label was pals with Chris Cornell and arranged for him to come down and hang out with us. We went out to dinner with Cornell and the label folks and then later hung out with him at his hotel room, mostly drinking beers, shooting the shit, goofing around. For some reason, we ended up watching Barbarella, which happened to be on the hotel tv. Anyway, Cornell was very nice to us, he was a chill, down-to-earth guy. We were of course very star struck. This was shortly after Superunknown came out, so pretty much the height of his career. There was really no reason why he should have to hang out with me and my band friends, but he was perfectly friendly and patient with us, and gave us some good advice about the record biz. I appreciated the fact that he was the one person we were interacting with that didn't come across like he was trying to sucker us in one way or another. He just seemed to really have his shit together and to be enjoying life.

One thing I remember is that in the record label guy's office there was a Christmas photo of Chris Cornell and his wife both in big garish Christmas sweaters with big smiles, very cute. It was nice to know he didn't take himself too seriously and could just be happy and silly, despite the heavy rocker image.

wow that's awesome

he has always seemed very thoughtful. and i love his super dry sarcasm, he has a pretty killer sense of humor like a lot of guys from that scene

possibly the best gif ever, at least for my needs

https://68.media.tumblr.com/ad84d8f2408c29edd533be0ab7e85d3a/tumblr_o4bifeOogB1scx7dho1_400.gif

xps to crut, fwiw

Cornell on "Spoonman"

It's more about the paradox of who (Artis) is and what people perceive him as. He's a street musician, but when he's playing on the street, he is given a value and judged completely wrong by someone else. They think he's a street person, or he's doing this because he can't hold down a regular job. They put him a few pegs down on the social ladder because of how they perceive someone who dresses differently. The lyrics express the sentiment that I much more easily identify with someone like Artis than I would watch him play.[6]

speaking of Beinhorn, this bullshit was still floating around int he '90s:

Jack Endino: I’m not a big fan of the production. It’s okay. It’s kind of noisy now when I listen to it. The production captures a feel, which I think is good, but it’s an odd-sounding record if you listen to it with technical ears

Yeah I really like him with the tan and the shorter hair.. its how I first saw how he looked like I think.

Moodles story confirms my suspicion that he was a really cool guy to be around and not a pretentious asshole like others in the scene.

lol 'my needs'

i don't think it's controversial to say that beinhorn's production was a little stilted, tho i think it mostly works

I can't hear how it's stilted.

it is a bit odd-sounding, it sounded weird to my ears when it came out. Sounds great now.