In your Jesus Christ POLL: BADMOTORFINGER

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

yes, same for my first soundarden show

such a beast of an opener

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.

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

I owned it on cassette at first, so I always think of “Rusty Cage” thru “Jesus Christ Pose” as basically one long song.

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),

That build up! It's got a totally mental tuning as well, every string is 'e'.

I really don't think there's a bad song on this.

Mind Riot has one of the nicest melodic riffs on the entire album.

Holy Water is also sinister af

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!”

tbc I was like 11 years old

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/

Tomorrow begat tomorrow...

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

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.

Heh, someone posted "Drawing Flies" to a xenharmonic/microtonal FB group I read.