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
A new daaaaaaamaaaaaaage
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
I vividly remember driving through the woods in the middle of nowhere with some friends looking for a party as a senior in high school listening to this a few days after it came out and REALLY digging "searching with my good eye closed" when it came on, all swirly and heavy and shit.
I also really wish someone in louisiana would stage some sort of 5k fun run and call it the 'rusty cajun run' which is the only way I hear that line these days.
― joygoat, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
also i fucking LOVE the horns on drawing flies
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
xpost lol rusty cajun run
I saw them a few years later with blind melon and neil young (with booker t & the mgs) which is maybe the most wtf 90s lineup I can think of.
― joygoat, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
Room a Thousand Years Wide is an all-time song
is there really any bad ones on this?
"Searching with my Good Eye Closed" is what they began the first show I saw of theirs with
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
yes, same for my first soundarden showsuch a beast of an opener
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 October 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
this is really the album where Cornell's voice got body to it. his mid-range really became more of a weapon so he wasn't just an air raid siren all of the time. just funny how different he sounded in the early days - like he sounded great, don't get me wrong, but he sometimes lived in the stratosphere ("Nothing to Say", "Beyond the Wheel"), and his mid to lower range wasn't used as well - and the music was a bit noisier, rubbery and less dense idea-wise pre-Shepherd.
here he really added dynamics and become a multi-pronged weapon. some of my favorite vocal performances from him on here.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
Mind Riot isn't the greatest song on this necessarily but it's the one I spend the most time thinking about when I'm not listening to the album
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Saturday, 9 October 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
I owned it on cassette at first, so I always think of “Rusty Cage” thru “Jesus Christ Pose” as basically one long song.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie),
That build up! It's got a totally mental tuning as well, every string is 'e'.
― chap, Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
I really don't think there's a bad song on this.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
Mind Riot has one of the nicest melodic riffs on the entire album.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
Holy Water is also sinister af
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
I have a distinct memory of hearing Outshined for the first time on my grandmother’s clock radio and feeling like “Whoa, this is so badass, but also nerdy at the same time! Someone made metal just for me!”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
tbc I was like 11 years old
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 October 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
You know an album kicks ass when every single track gets at least two votes.
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, April 5, 2009
as true now as it was then \m/
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Tomorrow begat tomorrow...
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
was this posted?
An Oral History Of Badmotorfinger. How are you celebrating 30 years of 'Badmotorfinger?' https://t.co/7pph0DA6zd— Chris Cornell (@chriscornell) October 12, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
There’s a picture in there of them at the Lollapalooza show I saw in Chicago. My friends and I had gotten way into the Ohio Players and somehow discovered that Soundgarden had covered “Fopp” which of course we never actually heard because it was a small town in 1992. Anyway we painted FOPP on a bedsheet and snuck it in and unfurled it in the middle of their set and Chris Cornell started laughing and sang a line from it and we were super stoked. Later RHCP actually covered it and we thought perhaps we had inspired them to learn it backstage on a whim but it turns out they played it pretty frequently.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
Heh, someone posted "Drawing Flies" to a xenharmonic/microtonal FB group I read.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 October 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link