Soundgarden

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/inside-chris-cornells-moving-refugee-themed-final-video-w488762

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornells-daughter-pens-poignant-fathers-day-note-w488849

'Overfloater' is good. I don't think I've ever made it this far into DOtU before.

i ordered a CD (the old pre-remastered version of Badmotorfinger -- which I think actually sounds better a/b-ing my itunes rip vs. the spotify version of the deluxe remaster) right after his death off Amazon (it was on sale one day for $4)

it's really been rewarding listening to this band with fresh ears, I hadn't actively listened to Soundgarden (with the exception of checking out King Animal a couple times) in so many years, so blown away but how GOOD they were...a lot of this stuff I listened to on the car radio or cassette player or a cheapo boombox in someone's apartment or dorm, now listening on good headphones, the rhythm section is such so top notch and Kim was heads above any other guitarist of this era, in terms of having chops but not being a wanker and also using a lot of weird tunings and dissonance and odd time signature riffs that are somehow as infectious as 70s rock

and Cornell...man just a real rock singer that can fucking go out there and GET IT IN like a 70s dude

yep

yeah, and even a lot of the popular retro 70s-styled rock acts that plopped out after the turn of the century never had guys who could wail vocally, they were almost always working with a limited toolbox.

the weird tunings really opened up so many sonic possibilities. when I was learning guitar, Soundgarden were some of the earliest riffs I learned, and I remember learning "Mailman" and "4th of July" and how fun those were to play due to the really weird tunings and unusual finger positioning. always purposeful, like Mailman sounds so fat because the tuning has the A and D strings detuned and set to the same note so it's essentially fattening the high note of the octave, while the E string is detuned and serves as the low octave note. and the tuning allows you to have a Drop D type setup, fingerwise (only with a lower tuning and fatter sound).

yeah i didn't even know about something as routine as drop D until I learned "Outshined"

Badmotorfingers is also kind of more...psychedelic than I thought of them, like I dunno they are traditionally what I think of as a psych band but there's a sorta LSD vibe that hangs over it

They are def psychedelic. I remember the first things I read about them in the Melody Maker circa 91 referred to Thayil's "heavy karmic guitar".

I said something about this way up thread, but they've always reminded me of a very heavy version of early Traffic - the shifting overcast-sky textures of the arrangements, riffs that are complex but not wanky, Cornell's pleading hooks.

God yeah. They would have smashed Paper Sun.

"Mind Riot" kinda felt like a precursor to some of the more atmospheric stuff they did on later albums

That Vedder video making the rounds is cathartic and sad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2GcJ32m13Y

they've always reminded me of a very heavy version of early Traffic

for your consideration, this challop (?) i found on the interweb:

'SG was always more Heart than Sabbath'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY5tDB9mp3c
what a voice

OMG

heavy as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPDK0m8Ir4

Wow. Thanks for that.

And for this:

/they've always reminded me of a very heavy version of early Traffic/

for your consideration, this challop (?) i found on the interweb:

'SG was always more Heart than Sabbath'

that whole new live album is great, some nice early jams on it. felt very very lucky to have caught one of those reunion shows in london - they were on amazing form.

looking back at setlist only sad thing for me personally was no jesus christ pose https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/soundgarden/2012/o2-shepherds-bush-empire-london-england-53da9f5d.html

new live album is immense. cornell's voice is so strong.

Yeah, I'm listening to the live album now and it's redeeming King Animal songs for me - I found that album incredibly forgettable at the time, but those tunes slot into an amazing set very well.

it's a great album! worth spending time with!

Bones Of Birds is one of their very best

Drown me riff 4 lyfe

nah slaves & bulldozers

why choose

“Hands all over” a close second maybe

"Beyond the Wheel" is the tits

cosign on that too

I miss Chris Cornell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUqkDX0tnfM

I will never regret buying the ticket to see him on a whim at some minor local festival (when I couldn't make Welcome to Rockville), as he was gone only a few weeks later. he seemed in good spirits and sounded great, with a lot of his power coming back.

oh, the other song that was a jam was "Room a Thousand Years Wide"

nah slaves & bulldozers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8hKsPtw4yY

was curious about this performance and just ended up watching it straight through. greatest band of all time

I saw them on that tour. Gigantic performance, and one of the greatest large venue-concert experiences I can remember.

I was at that show. I'd flown home from Seattle, interviewing Mark Arm, that morning. It rained, and it was sublime. Cornell's voice just got better and better.

He wrote the best vocal melodies.

Yeah that tour was awesome. I saw them the year prior in SF and they were on fire.

Was reminded of this today:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZmsBHcOtL._AC_SX679_.jpg

SOUNDGARDEN ROOKIE CARD!

Sad it's not the rare error card with Scott Weiland in a tutu

I'm gonna hit
I'm gonna hit that
I'm gonna hit that upper deck and run

XP But otoh you get Ben Shepard's photo and Jason Everman's credit.

no Hiro, no credibility for a rookie card

Everman’s incorrect credit - he was only in the videos and maybe toured the album. Hiro played on it and he’s pictured on the cover, for crying out loud!

I am pretty sure this was Jason's only studio contribution with SG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpT4kgg5xlw

https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/soundgarden-vicky-cornell-resolution-unreleased-chris-cornell-songs-1235304525/

Sad it’s taken this long just to get close to getting these songs out.

Can't believe it's been almost six years. Wow.