just louderize the shit out of it make those matt cameron drums shake the ground
― j., Friday, 6 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
i'm thinking about how massive some of the riffs would sound. in particular, Outshined and Room a Thousand Years Wide.
― charlie h, Friday, 6 June 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
feelin
― j., Monday, 19 October 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
that verse riff for "Holy Water" don't mess around
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 19 October 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
MIIIIIIND RIOTTT
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Monday, 19 October 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
the back half of this kind of turns into an anticipation of down on the upside
― j., Wednesday, 21 October 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
in a way...abandons the Sabbath heavy dirge riffing and goes into some of that open string psychedelic noodling they'd do later. just think they did it better here than on the latter.
will say the Upside stuff sounded nice live tho lst year.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
yeah i tend to think of it in my head as all sabbath heavy dirge riffing b/c of beginning and 'new damage', plus other stuff i kind of just lump together as 'not anything'
― j., Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
the hammer-on/pull-off riffs in weird tunings was always one of my favorite bits they did on BMF through Upside. especially the title track to Superunknown, that main riff.
It was also hella fun to be 15 years old learning the guitar and tuning a shitty Fender Squire to their weird tunings and learning to play these songs.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
did not know they were remastering this!
It's already on Spotify
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/soundgarden-announce-deluxe-reissue-of-badmotorfinger-for-25th-anniversary/
― Spottie, Monday, 28 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
7 discs and no SOMMS EP? What's up with that?
― dinnerboat, Monday, 28 November 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
That second CD also features the version of “New Damage” with Queen’s Brian May.
whaaaa
― orifex, Monday, 28 November 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
my music news pipeline has utterly failed me
― j., Monday, 12 December 2016 05:54 (seven years ago) link
it sounds good! not the revelation i would have wished, which was maybe impossible (still kind of in mark arm 'rush' territory in the drums), but the bass has more body and there's more definition and separation in the guitar parts.
― j., Monday, 12 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
the latter brings out the constant texturing and noisification they've always got going on, but it especially adds to the faster songs in the latter half, because the twistiness of the riffs is made to stand out
― j., Monday, 12 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
It will never sound better than on my 1991 cassette.
― Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
OTMFM.
Dammit, just remembered that this is one of those albums I have to listen to anytime people start discussing it.
― The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
― charlie h, Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:23 PM (two years ago)
oddly, it's the buzzing thayil (i assume that's him) drone under the verses on 'room' that stands out for me—the weirdness of it definitely seems accentuated
― j., Monday, 12 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Slaves and Bulldozers is still my fuckin fav
― Neanderthal, Monday, 12 December 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
man I haven't listened to this since I had it on tape when it was new
still pretty fuckin good
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
This album will always rule, IMO. I'd love to have been in the rehearsal room when they were learning how to play 'Face Pollution' ... the second half of that track is still one of my favourite Soundgarden moments.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
I had this album on really poorly pressed vinyl back in the day and was never sure all the tricky changes in Face Pollution weren't my needle skipping
― Herpes Bizarre (stevie), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
hard to imagine that this and use your illusion came out in the same month
― j., Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
hmm I guess use your illusion wasOUTSHINEDOUTSHINEDOUTSHINED
― niels, Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-soundgarden-audioslave-dead-aged-52
But there’s no doubt that Nirvana’s success propelled them to new heights of popularity, aided by the fact that Soundgarden’s breakthrough album Badmotorfinger, was clearly their most focused and commercial to date. But Soundgarden’s oft-reviled willingness to court a mainstream rock audience – “Fuck, you sound like Rush,” offered Mudhoney’s Mark Arm disparagingly on hearing Badmotorfinger – was always balanced by a certain strangeness and desire to experiment.
― j., Saturday, 11 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
From the interview Ned posted:
Regarding your own playing, some people I’ve spoken to feel that Rush’s last two albums were more commercial than usual. Was that on purpose? NP: Well, if we were trying to be commercial, we failed.
NP: Well, if we were trying to be commercial, we failed.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 January 2020 05:24 (four years ago) link
this album fucking rules, start to finish
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
yes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
love that every song got a vote
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
This is the only Soundgarden album I ever put on.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
I got to see Johnny Cash play around the time of the second American album. It was right after Soundgarden broke up, and I vividly remember him introducing "Rusty Cage" is his trademark baritone. "I sure hope those boys get back together again."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
30 years old!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
now i know why you've been taken
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Slaves and Bulldozers is the fuckin best
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
This album has aged really well.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 October 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
otm
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
NOW I KNOW WHEN YOUVE BEEN TAKEN
― brimstead, Friday, 8 October 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
why
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, October 8, 2021 7:36 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
best cornell vocal performance?
― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Friday, 8 October 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
So many tropes of the Mainstream Rock Format come together here - drop D, jagged time signatures, over-the-top self pity and self aggrandizement, but yeah, it has so much going on and such sly humor it has really aged well. It's not brickwall compressed, so it does sound like four guys in a room, which helps. Secret weapon: horns.
― Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 8 October 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
While I don't like this album quite as much as "Superunknown", I will say that "Outshined" is among their best songs.
― Lone Wanderer Mark II, Friday, 8 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
the highs are HIGH
― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
i much prefer this to superunknown but idk, i guess i formed that opinion when i was 14 and have stuck by it without really revisiting
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
yeah same but in reverse
― um, i mean... im sure weve all seen the videos, so... that will help (Spottie), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
(but i have revisited)
the devil saysaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
the amount of time i spent with this cassette it would count as one of my best friends
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
wdyll in a badmotorfinger shirt on my 16th (?) bdayhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154912576217912&set=a.426357297911&type=3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
shittry that againhttps://i.imgur.com/k9isJOC.jpg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
That photo rules.
I'm all in with Badmotorfinger over Superunknown and I'd still vote Jesus Christ Pose in this poll. I still don't really understand how they make the noise they make.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link