Soundgarden

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?

The "limp-pop" thing was actually Cornell's second solo album. People keep forgetting the actually not terrible Euphoria Morning. I'd rather have had more in that direction than Audioslave tbh.

god i hope they do more than fests--feelin too old for that bullshit.

Yeah I would love to see them, but not paying huge $$$$ to deal with the Lolla crowd in 100 degree August heat.

Timbaland Is Producing CHRIS CORNELL?!? How In God's Name Did I Miss This?

There are few things worse in this world than hearing Chris Cornell's pinched, straining scream further ruin a song that was already pretty shitty to begin with.

I don't want to haul my ass to Chicago, definitely hoping for a few more shows.
Cornell sounds a hell of a lot better than I thought he would in those youtube clips.
and that set list...short of Little Joe, that's almost my perfect setlist. NO BLACK HOLE SUN!!! If I never heard that song again it would be too soon.

Ha! My first reaction to the setlist was "Aw, no litte joe!"

Keep in mind since this was a secret show, the setlist might be more 'obscure' than what they play at 'Palooza. could also be that Cornell hates Black Hole Sun too....

Recording seems to be here, haven't downloaded it yet so I don't know what the quality's like.

http://theshadowkick.blogspot.com/2010/04/nudedragons-live-4-16-10.html

I is be burning that on first opportunity.

woohoo

Part 1 of the file is already gone. Did anyone snag it and can link it?

damn.

all this love is making me wish i hadn't deleted scream the mixtape off my hard drive a few weeks ago.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3547729051_38e0c09bda_o.jpg

not sure i ever listened to it all the way through - but for the artwork alone it was worthy of some love.

Part 1 appears to be back up. I'm d/ling now, will report....

burned the bootleg, minus Searching With my Good Eye Closed, which is a corrupted file. will report back...

oh yay some asshole in the audience is singing along so I can't hear Chris much on Rusty Cage...

so my impressions are I won't listen to this much but it's a neat lil souveneir, the band sounds great, like they haven't missed a step. Chris goes flat a bit vocally, but he sounds better than I expected. his shriek is more shrill than melodic nowadays, but he still hits some good ones. he has 'old man' sounding moments like he did on his "Carry On" album but even Fell On Black days he modifies the way he sings it to fit his current voice.

totally wanna see em now.

ok he sounsd awful on Slaves and Bulldozers :(

haha now i'm afraid to listen :S

it's interesting that they so heavily favored songs from the Badmotorfinger/Louder Than Love period where Cornell was probably screaming a bit a more than on the last 2 albums, maybe he felt like he had something to prove by singing those songs again.

yea for sure. he did hit some real nice screams that show some of it is still there, but I can imagine he only had that stamina early in the show and had to result in turning the awesome "NOW I KNOW WHY YOU'VE BEEN TAKEN" shriek into a....polite tinny falsetto. It kind of....deflates the track :/. plus it's also hard when you're playing guitar at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crILNt7-kj8

from the same show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K913KVe3kH8

The aesthetic slide from shitkicking potheads covering Cheech&Chong/Spinal Tap into...whatever this[^]is...is why I bailed after Badmotorfinger. Somewhere along the way their tongues got too far into their cheeks and numbed up their critical faculties.

Anyway Kim Thayil kicks ass.

But the song is from the Badmotorfinger sessions...which explains why it's so badass. A+ for the Hawkwind video as well.

Ah, I thought it was new. And my impression was that it would have fit nicely as a filler track on Badmotorfinger or LTL. My other thought was, "Man I miss Thayil".

I know its a new Cornell vocal track, but is it a new recording of a song they wrote back then? Or is this a "cleaning up" of an older recording?

from wikipedia:

The song was recorded during sessions for Badmotorfinger and, according to Chris Cornell in an interview with USA Today, "Black Rain" captures "that super heavy version (of the band) we were finally realizing to its fullest potential about 1991." On September 17, 2010, a Music Video was released, directed by Brendon Small of Metalocalypse.

i thought the singing sounded totally like Badmoterfinger era Cornell!

There's just no way he could sing like that these days.

I still would go see them for Kim tho'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tkrMIGTStc

Soundgarden to record a new album...
http://www.spinner.ca/2011/02/16/soundgarden-new-album/

nooooooooooooooo

I would completely and 100% endorse this.

That is, if time travel were an option and we could get pre-1994 Chris Cornell in to do vocals.

Ah, could be ok. If we're talking about reunited alt rock bands from my youth I'd much rather it were Faith No More though.

^ yes!

I think it's great they're recording again. I want to hear what great new riffs Kim has in store for us.

I mean, how bad can this really be? They sounded okay to me on their reunion gig.

yeah, seriously. obviously i'm going to be cautiously optimistic until i hear anything, but i feel like Soundgarden has as good or better a chance as any of their peers of making a good album today -- also it's not like Cornell would be doing anything better on his own and the other guys mostly haven't had very productive creative outlets in a while, maybe they could really use that collaborative spark again.

also i'm psyched for the live album they're releasing next month that was recorded in '96, saw them at Lollapalooza that year and it was a killer set

i dunno. cornell really hasn't been on his game since well... 1996. his first solo record was alright, though his lyrics have really taken a dive over the years into this weird superficiality i didn't think was possible. the fact that the other guys haven't been up to much either (aside from cameron) also makes me cautious.

i just hate when bands shit on their legacies. jane's addiction and smashing pumpkins have dragged their good names through the muck, and for what? their hearts might be in the right place, but there's nothing worse about a band that doesn't know when to call it quits.

there are probably better examples of this, but i think alice in chains have come probably the closest to releasing a record that is consistent with their older records. they toured for years prior to even stepping into a studio.

with a new singer though! disgusting they still use the AIC name

i disagree. cantrell was always the main songwriter in that band, and his vocals always had a strong presence on the older records as well. layne stayley was certainly a significant part, but not to the same extent as other lead singers in other bands. plus, the new singer's voice wasn't even very high in the mix on the new record. blasphemy or not, after almost ten years they were still able to make an "alice in chains" record without sounding like some sort of shitty parody or caricature.

i've made this argument on ILM before, but i think a lot of music fans invest far too much importance in breakups as a convenient narrative that tells them when the door is shut on a band making music or doing anything that matters to their legacy, far beyond simple cynicism about bands reuniting for money or whatever. if guys who made great music together once wanna take a break from that for a while, and then give it a try again, let 'em. if it sucks, i'll file that album away and keep listening to Superunknown, no skin off my back.

I have never heard the new AIC and don't ever care to either. I wanna hear the new Soundgarden.

I'm eating a tuna sandwich

i've made this argument on ILM before, but i think a lot of music fans invest far too much importance in breakups as a convenient narrative that tells them when the door is shut on a band making music or doing anything that matters to their legacy, far beyond simple cynicism about bands reuniting for money or whatever. if guys who made great music together once wanna take a break from that for a while, and then give it a try again, let 'em. if it sucks, i'll file that album away and keep listening to Superunknown, no skin off my back.

― tellysavalas (some dude), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

true enough. i'm excited about the whole reunion, don't get me wrong, but just cautious because of how fast it seems to have happened. it's hard to not be worried about something i know and love, but you're right.

i guess compared to AIC touring for 4 years before dropping a new album it's fast, but i feel like Soundgarden's been feeling this out pretty patiently and it seems like they didn't even start to give any indications of a new album until they took a while to try working on new songs and make sure they wanted to take the plunge, so hopefully they know what they're doing.

I'm actually looking forward to the new Soundgarden studio disc. I like their first three albums (don't like Superunknown or Down On The Upside, though) and I like a lot of the first Audioslave album and a few songs on the ones after - I don't think Cornell's lost much vocal power at all, if any.