Soundgarden

had a lovely surprise this morning. put on Euphoria Morning to listen to on the drive to work and got an immediate, vivid flashback as Cant Change Me started

In 1999 i travelled to the US & met Mr Veg for the first time. We took a road trip to SF, Santa Cruz, LA and Vegas & I had completely forgotten til now that Euphoria Morning was one of the cds in the changer!

We must have spun it a lot on that trip because it was all i could think of the whole time I was listening to it.... visions of our various stops & the landscapes rushing by and all our dumb injokes from that trip

It was such a happy memory, felt like a great bonus putting this album on expecting to cry a lot and instead smiling happily & singing along

It's such a beautiful album, I def am going to try to keep it in the rotation for a while.

i slept on Cornell's solo career completely. I should probably pick up Euphoria Morning. How's Higher Truth?

I just learned that he rereleased Euphoria Morning in 2015, retitling it Euphoria Mourning.

Euphoria Morning was recently re-released on vinyl, but you’ve changed the title to what you’d originally intended it to be – Euphoria Mourning. How did it come to be spelt differently on the original release?
It was a pretty dark album lyrically and pretty depressing, and I was going through a really difficult time in my life – my band wasn’t together anymore, my marriage was falling apart and I was dealing with it by drinking way too much, and that has its own problems, particularly with depression. So I titled the album Euphoria Mourning, but right before the record came out and I was doing interviews over the radio for example, if you say “Euphoria Mourning”, the listener doesn’t know if it’s mourning with a “u” or morning without a “u”. And that started to bother me. So I had a conversation with my manager at the time, and said I really love the title but do you think it’s confusing? And he suggested that Euphoria Morning would probably be a better title. I thought, in contrast to the lyrics maybe that works. And it wasn’t my manager’s fault, I was a grown man and could say I don’t think that’s a good idea, and in the back of my mind I didn’t think it was a good idea. But mentally I wasn’t together enough to really know what was right. So I went with “Morning”, and it’s bothered me ever since. It even showed up in an early review where someone reviewing the record said that the title sounded like a potpourri scent, and when I read that I was just like [with disdain], “Fuck! Fuckin’ bullshit!” The title was so beautifully poetic to begin with, just the concept of euphoria in mourning; it was a moment I felt inspired and I let all the air out of it. So when we decided to do its first vinyl release I thought, I want to change the fuckin’ title! [Laughs] It’s time to change it.

Did Cornell and David Tibet do something together at one point? I have it in my head that they did but google did not turn up anything

Burying Artis in the mix on Spoonman was dumb.

Been incredibly busy for the last couple of days so only just heard about this. Absolutely shocked. RIP.

xxp you're thinking of andrew wk?

it just gets more & more grim

http://www.spin.com/2017/05/chris-cornell-police-report-death-details/

Burying Artis in the mix on Spoonman was dumb.

This is my one criticism.

just over an hour ago i got the tip off : i am neighbour free all weekend.
now, i aint a full on audiophile freak,
but my midrange floorstanders can make a noise that is rather glorious when given the chance.
and yeah, i know it's not the choice of heroes,
but the first audioslave album is sounding insanely good at the moment.
i will of course do the soundgarden groove at some point.
however, despite the backing band, the vocals ..
well, i don't need to say anymore.

crank it! :D

Euphoria mourning though

thats the one ive been re-visiting the most since the news.

The verb I mean. Or is it still a noun

"Preaching the end of the world" is one I'm afraid to listen to cos idk if I can do the emotions that come w/ that song right now

"follow my way" too

My Wave is great turned up, that one and S-Unknown were the perfect soundtrack to a fucked spring break trip

"Preaching the end of the world" is one I'm afraid to listen to cos idk if I can do the emotions that come w/ that song right now

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, May 19, 2017 3:31 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is the one that got me yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_T8zzH19s

Scott Strapp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7JX-JfGzZI

Xp to Ned: yeah I mean that's what I was badly trying to get at I think, that it struck me that way only on relisten after a number of years away from it because it so much doesn't obviously feel like an heir to Zep or Sabbath, and I think a lot of that distinction is in Cornell's lyrics and vocal persona, and in certain nuances of the way the heavy riffage feels just slightly off kilter.

"Ferry Boat #3" on the Singles Soundtrack reissue is quite nice.

Beyond the Wheel is my go to olde SG choon

Beyond the Wheel is fucking amazing

It's on some deep Birthday Party Bauhaus shit & I love it. I live for Cornell's banshee wail

He sounded so good on it 3 weeks ago too. :(

His baritone vox were always underrated. Like his Plant-esque wail gets so much focus but his low to mid range was so resonant and expressive. It is what made "Fell on Black Days" work so well.

"Sumshower" got me through teenage depression too

Hands All Over is probably the only pro-environment track that warrants replay

Touring band cover version tributes to CC are everywhere on Youtube, RHCP, Train, Bush, Living Colour, Ann Wilson, Live (lol), Stone Sour, Megadeath, Scott Stapp.

oh man, that Living Colour Blow Up the Outside World is moving as hell.

Yeah, bless them

I've spent a bunch of today relistening to Down on the Upside and its period b-sodes to try to come up with a better sequence - brad was right, it's not easy. This is the best I could come up with - I figured the best course of action was to try to do a 12-track Badmotorfinger style tracklist than to try and repeat the Superunknown sprawl like they did on the released album. Apologies to any "Ty Cobb" lovers out there.

Pretty Noose
Dusty
No Attention
Tighter & Tighter
Bleed Together
Burden in my Hand
Rhinosaur
Never Named
Zero Chance
Karaoke
Boot Camp
Blow Up the Outside World

*b-sides, durr

"Applebite" or "Overfloater" (depending on yr preference) can easily slot in after "Rhinosaur" if that's not sprawling enough for ya

I think it's great there are all these instant covers happening but also telling that most of the bands listed couldn't come close to Soundgarden/Cornell in the first place. (My exceptions would be Living Colour, Ann Wilson and Megadeth when Mustaine isn't an insane goober).

Stone Sour guy made a really good stab at Unshined

But I get your point

cough OUT shined

Oh shit, sorry, where's my head?

Never really listened to Soundgarden too much, but a) the last time I saw them they were awesome and b) I love "Rhinosaur."

Megadeth when Mustaine isn't an insane goober

don't be uncool, ned

"megadeth when mustaine isnt an insane goober"

i....dont follow

That megadeth tribute clip was painful to watch

How much of role did Thayil play as a songwriter ? Rhinosaur sounds to me like a riff he would write

he has more credits on badmotorfinger, on upside he only had the one

but he deserved an individual songwriting credit for each of his Billy Corgan quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norW_pCErk0

i like seeing all the artist tributes but i would love something other than 900 versions of black hole sun, is that shitty to say

No because Black Hole Sun is a garbage song no matter who sings it, Cornell included

i dont hate it the way i used to but it's still one of my least favex

def not my fav any more but it was the song that got me into them, so im not gonna sit here and slander it nope.