he has more credits on badmotorfinger, on upside he only had the one
― j., Sunday, 21 May 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
but he deserved an individual songwriting credit for each of his Billy Corgan quotes
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 21 May 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norW_pCErk0
― van smack, Monday, 22 May 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
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
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
No because Black Hole Sun is a garbage song no matter who sings it, Cornell included
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
i dont hate it the way i used to but it's still one of my least favex
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― Spottie, Monday, 22 May 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
it's a good song that was a victim of its own success
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
an ideal DOTU with outtakes should have "Blind Dogs" and "Kyle Petty, Son of Richard" imo
― steen vogue (some dude), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
Agreed. For my own nostalgic purposes, I'll probably eventually buy an official mix of the entire Self-Pollution session if it's ever available. I'm surprised the entire 5-hour broadcast hasn't been pressed to vinyl by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqc3mEWxIVA
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
watched the dave grohl youtube that appends cornell doing an acoustic black hole sun to the end, it's telling how at certain points he is perfectly able to lay back and let his singing be more casual, so that it's clear that the sudden drama at that point in the full recording is manufactured by the band's performance, not necessarily written into the song. but later on he opts for the yelled 'black hole sun! black hole sun!' refrain, which i guess marks the song as recorded/written as a rock song, in a way that he did not think needed to be modified in acoustic performance (but maybe could have been).
― j., Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
oh come on black hole sun is grebt
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
in fairness i thought maybe i hated it for a few years there but then i listened to it and i was wrong
I like it as a change of pace on Superunknown but I wouldn't count it among my favourites. The chorus always feels like a bit of a letdown.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
it must be weird to know that you've written a song that everyone is going to sing to you when you're dead
― j., Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
That happened to me with Stairway to Heaven, but I never liked BHS in the first place.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
Misread that at first as B&S
― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
BHS revisionism can suck it, I mean - the thing has become an overplayed staple so it's far from my favorite on the record (that'd be "Limo Wreck" or "Mailman"), but damned if it still doesn't make me wanna sing along.
half of my school thought it was called "Black, Old Son"
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
Does it have anything to do with the Lost Generation guy, Harry Crosby?
― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
I feel compelled to say mine is not revisionism. I had a viscerally negative reaction to it from the first day I heard it and have been working towards some form of mild neutrality ever since then
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
tribunal will rule on that in the morning, have yr notarized affidavits ready!
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
I do think it's probably the least interesting of the singles tho......
I'd rather hear a tribute cover of like, "The DAy I Tried to Live"
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
BHS revisionism can suck it
Perhaps, but by 1994 I was already sick to death of Soundgarden and didn't give a care about Superunknown outside of "My Wave," and the ferocity with which "Black Hole Sun" was overexposed poisoned a song I thought was bad to begin with.
ymmv, of course, but imo the dropoff after Badmotorfinger was significant and probably comparable to R.E.M. post-Bill Berry.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
i'd pay human earth dollars for Ann Wilson to do Fourth of July
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:44 (six years ago) link
some good old clips of Chris, starting with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZaglHQOgt8
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
audio only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJ8ATggl5c
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
^^^ this. it's an impossibly sad, beautiful song about depression. I sang it to my daughter as she went off to sleep the other night (she's too young to really grok the words, thankfully) and the "no one sings like you anymore" line hit me like a brick wall
― pickety third (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure what I think of BHS these days. There's maybe a similar problem with it as with Cornell's other flirtation with a Lennonesque melodic sensibility, Blow Up the Outside World, which I used to think was amazing, but now sounds rather gratingly portentous and cheesy.
― Freedom, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
By contrast, some of the more understated stuff on DOTUS, I think, still stands up really well. "Switch Opens" may be another case for arguing that Ben Shepherd was SG's most beguilingly idiosyncratic songwriter (also comes to mind is the melodic and rhythmic wonkiness in the chorus of "Somewhere", or the way an otherwise fairly standard, punk-metal song like "Face Pollution" is totally made by the unhinged instrumental section near the end.)
― Freedom, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 10:34 (six years ago) link
I think I may have mentioned it upthread, but I was watching some BMF-era live footage on Youtube a while back and Ben Shepherd is a deranged motherfucker, leaping and staggering around the stage and not missing a note but looking like he's scarcely paying attention to anything that he's doing. Thrilling stuff.
― pickety third (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
This one is p great imo.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
There's an interview from those days in Bass Player magazine with Shepard and the interviewer talking completely past each other, where Ben talks about wanting to crawl under the stage and set off low-frequency bombs from there.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
Revisiting King Animal for the first time since it came out. There's a hoarseness in Cornell's voice on "Been Away Too Long" that makes him sound like Sammy Hagar. That was my impression of the album at the time - that it sounded more like Chickenfoot than Soundgarden. We'll see.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
'I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota' is the rare lyric about depression that's both hilarious and heartbreaking. I forget because the riffs are all-encompassing on most listens, but really it was the lyrics on Badmotorfinger that sealed the deal for me.
― pavane to the darryl of strawberry (bendy), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
living colour's blow up the outside world cover was great, was cool to see a tribute by a band that actually had the chops and singing ability to cover soundgarden and do them justice
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
also unperson jesus christ chickenfoot have a little decency
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
Bones Of Birds is wonderful
― pickety third (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
Anyone ever listen to that Hater album?
― Heez, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
After making it all the way through King Animal, my impression from five years ago (!) was reinforced. All the songs were decent riff-rock, but when it was over I couldn't remember how a single one of them went. If I was on a game show and the challenge was, "Hum one song from Soundgarden's King Animal for $10,000," I would be going home empty-handed.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
i guess that's cool but the playing on that record is wonderful and the songs are all real growers
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
"bones of birds" and "halfway there" are up there with any of cornell's great hooks
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
and "eyelid's mouth" is maybe the most matt cameron matt cameron song ever, title on down
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
I remember liking it but then not going back to it very often
― pickety third (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Wellwater Conspiracy has some jams.
― yodarman, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
The first Hater album was reissued last summer, it's quite good. They made a second one years later but I've never heard it.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah I really liked the first one
― Heez, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
i liked it alright at the time, but i have no idea if it's aged well or not.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link