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getting across that kind of power pop clarity and simplicity through angry punk songs, harder than you think

i think Nirvana at the time was a band i was a bit cool on but every single time i hear a Nirvana song now, anything from Bleach or Nevermind or In Utero, i wonder why i wasn't more into them. I think Unplugged is actually the one i've cooled on more when at the time of its release i maybe liked it the most.

but then again a lot of those early '90s grunge albums sound a lot better now than they did at the time. i always liked them but even moreso now Pearl Jam completely owns, for example.

when Cornell died (RIP) I went back to Soundgarden for the first time in forever and goddamn what a fucking band, what great sounding records

yup

i spun Superunknown for the first time in a million years after he died and that's a massive album.

yes

the best

soundgarden were the real deal

have put on Superunknown to try and resolve my one hang-up with the record: its opening stretch. from Head Down onward it's a perfect record but...OK I've gone in let's do this

to me it's Louder Than Love > Ultramega OK > Superunknown > the rest

But I agree, amazing band

Badmotorfinger is better than all of those, and those are all really good.

shit'ch yea, Soundgarden wailed. Hearing "Wave" at the end of one of the episodes of Escape From Dannemora--it set the tone so perfectly for Tillie's brazen idiocy and semi- lack of conscientiousness, during one of the final few episodes.

controversial, though. Hmmmn. Another Timbre (label) has been putting out high quality recordings for the last nine years, at a consistent / quick frequency. There's an unusually high # of 'classics', for the amount of releases there are. I probably already posted about AT, though

OK yeah, I'd have Superunknown start with the title track and ditch everything before it to an EP or something. I've contropped the uncontroppable, sorry

Badmotorfinger is the best IMO

the one that sounded a LOT better than I remembered was Down on the Upside

I think I prefer Superunknown because it has more of my favourite sort of Soundgarden song: the roiling six-minute bastard

That said, Pretty Noose is maybe their best tune?

Five-minute bastards can also apply

god those 90s albums (not just soundgarden) were *long*

I too have come to the shattering realization that pearl jam whips ass

Like listen to “the leash” ... what goes harder than that? And I think their whole ethos was kinda cool *shrug*

At the time I vastly preferred Green Day

soundgarden sucked because they really wanted to be Roy Orbison but didn't have the balls to really go for it

time to bump the superunknown thread again

honestly i'm just making shit up -- i don't really care about soundgarden

Every rock album from roughly 1996-2000 could lose about 5 tracks or 15 minutes and be vastly improved in the process.

agree, just not superunknown

bullshit -- Arab on Radar's Soak the Saddle is perfect as is

Badmotorfinger is the best IMO

OTM

Black Hole Sun, Spoonman, Limo Wreck, Kickstand, and 4th of July could all go IMO.

they can all go afaic

Arab on Radar was p dope, Chinese Stars too

Doomsday Student is/was closest to the greatness of AoR

Chinese Stars was good iirc -- only saw them once

Unperson, those are the two hits and three really strong album cuts imo! "4th of July" might be my favourite song on that album.

Black Hole Sun is one of the worst songs Soundgarden ever recorded. It's one of the worst songs of the 1990s. Whether that's why it was a massive hit, I will not speculate.

I don't hate it but that one isn't my favourite at all (decent Aerosmith verse, monotonous chorus). It does annoy me that 'everyone' seems to know this great, weird heavy band by that one atypical ballad. They obv made the right commercial call by not cutting it, though, ha.

Black Hole Sun is one of the worst songs Soundgarden ever recorded. It's one of the worst songs of the 1990s. Whether that's why it was a massive hit, I will not speculate.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, February 13, 2019 1:55 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha dude c'mon do you want me to start listing trash alt rock one hit wonders?

summoning: stronghold
summoning: oath bound
summoning: let the moral heroes sing your fame
summoning: dol goldur
miles davis: kind of blue

quality take

hahaha dude c'mon do you want me to start listing trash alt rock one hit wonders?

Hey, I didn't say it was one of, like, the five worst songs of the 1990s. There were hundreds. It was a dark time.

i still love nevermind, can't stand the NMH dude's singing, you're welcome

is Judas Priest is 10X the band Iron Maiden is controversial?

I think the conventional wisdom is that Judas Priest's albums are better, but Iron Maiden live is life-changing. That's how I feel about it, anyway.

youth of america wipes the ass of about any album out there.

Arab Strap are more fun to listen to than Belle and Sebastian. Arab Strap's music has more resonance (physically and emotionally) than that of Belle & Sebastian.

not controp ^

this is definitely the right thread to polish the balls of tedious rawk wankery Soundgarden though, well done everyone

Arab Strap have about 15-18 really good songs, B&S have about 70

ahh, shit

So, Soundgarden are tedious now? Or just soda jerk (another ten percenter) thinks so.....?

As an American it's my honor to polish Soundgarden's balls to a mirrorlike sheen

Can somebody fill me in on the "controp" thing? What does it mean? Is it just cool to keep me guessing?

Soundgarden are a great band with no front-to-back great albums. (Ultramega OK and Badmotorfinger come closest, to me.)

Can somebody fill me in on the "controp" thing? What does it mean? Is it just cool to keep me guessing?

controp = controversial opinion