Soundgarden added Soldano to the mix

[cardinal]

Loud Love and BMF are great. Spoonman, when it came out made me do a German Shepherd head tilt as to what is this shit? I liked some of the drudgery stuff on SuperUnknown but it just had no staying power for me at all. The only thing I really liked on SuperUnknown was they finally gave Matt Cameron’s drums a great mix after BMF.
Down On The Upside just went too much into regular songwriting for me. But I also don’t like any AIC after Dirt either. It seems as soon as the bands break big with their OG flavor then release the inevitable, let’s keep the money and tours rolling, I’m not angry anymore albums, I lose interest.

fwiw I think Spoonman started out as a joke that ended up worked into a full song.

I like all their albums; they have different moods for sure.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

i really dont even like most of their "hits", its all the deep cuts that are great. i wouldnt even want to hear black hole sun, outshined or rusty cage if i saw them.

Rusty Cage is a bad ass song with an incredible riff.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Dude, you get into some PCP or something ? Black Hole Sun ain't even close to the best song on that album. Mailman might be the best fucking song ever written by anyone, ever. Head Down, Like Suicide, The Day I Tried To Live. And BadMotorFinger fucking kicks ass. Not to mention Burden in My Hand. Fucking Soundgarden was killer as killer gets.

The first Audioslave album kicks ass too. I got a bootleg copy of that album about 6 months before it was released. They were billing themselves as "Civilian" and it only had about 4 songs on it. Killer shit man.

Agreed. Black Hole Sun is the only song on any of their albums that I almost always skip. Just heard it too many times. It's almost reached Stairway to Heaven status with me.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Loud Love and BMF are great. Spoonman, when it came out made me do a German Shepherd head tilt as to what is this shit? I liked some of the drudgery stuff on SuperUnknown but it just had no staying power for me at all. The only thing I really liked on SuperUnknown was they finally gave Matt Cameron’s drums a great mix after BMF.
Down On The Upside just went too much into regular songwriting for me. But I also don’t like any AIC after Dirt either. It seems as soon as the bands break big with their OG flavor then release the inevitable, let’s keep the money and tours rolling, I’m not angry anymore albums, I lose interest.

I love Down on the Upside, literally every song on the album is perfect to me. At a time where most of the hard rock and metal coming out was focused on getting heavier through heavily distorted guitars, screaming and growling vocals, and brickwall production they put out an album where the heaviness came from the songwriting and arrangements, and using that to craft a crazy dynamic album that breathes like the life it comments on.

 

[Ricky Rockhardo]

I think the question we should be asking here is if we prefer Soundgarden today + some vocalist to no Soundgarden at all.

I was close to seeing them just a few weeks before CC did himself in but the show was on Mother’s Day and that wasn’t a hill I wanted to die on.

I wouldn’t mind seeing them with Taylor because I still think it would be cool to see Kim, Matt, and Ben, with the understanding that it will never be the same without CC.

 

[Anje]

I think Robbie Locke, Farmikos singer, could cover Soundgarden pretty well.


Dig Pretty Reckless' rocking stuff.

Robbie sounds fantastic for sure, but to be honest I'd prefer seing him touring with Farmikos / Holmes!!
When is that new album from Joe coming btw?

 

[LPMojoGL]

Robbie sounds fantastic for sure, but to be honest I'd prefer seing him touring with Farmikos / Holmes!!
When is that new album from Joe coming btw?

With ya. Would love to see them live, or at least hear a new full album.

 

[mentoneman]

every time i randomly caught Chris C singing live on a tv thing i thought he was very good and probably the best talent of that era, but i pretty much ignored the grunge/Seattle scene music.

if that come as you are song came on the radio or saw the naked baby in the pool album cover i would know it was nirvana, i know black hole sun is soundgarden, i know that billy goat mumble-chewing the mic song is eddie vedder/pearl jam, and if i heard the most popular riff of alice in chains or stone temple pilots biggest song i think i’d be able to name the band…

this ends my 90s grunge rock wisdom.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Loud Love and BMF are great. Spoonman, when it came out made me do a German Shepherd head tilt as to what is this shit? I liked some of the drudgery stuff on SuperUnknown but it just had no staying power for me at all. The only thing I really liked on SuperUnknown was they finally gave Matt Cameron’s drums a great mix after BMF.
Down On The Upside just went too much into regular songwriting for me. But I also don’t like any AIC after Dirt either. It seems as soon as the bands break big with their OG flavor then release the inevitable, let’s keep the money and tours rolling, I’m not angry anymore albums, I lose interest.

I dig Superunknown and DOTU.
I'm not the biggest Soundgarden fan, but hard not to admit that Superunknown might be the pinnacle album of the "grunge" era. It definitely captured the vibe of the times back then. Agree about Spoonman. Didn't like it when it came out, still like, wtf.
Like Suicide, 4th of July, Day I Tried to Live, Fell On Black Days.....
Brilliant songwriting and production. Imagine all the late teen/early 20 somethings discovering soda, psychedelics and really good loving, with this album in the background.
Def not the angst-ridden stuff of the latest 80s/early 90s. But, ain't nothing quite like those 2 albums, what I consider Cornell's peak Cornellness songwriting.

DOTU freaking rox, imo. So many great songs.
AIC had just released the Dog album, and you knew they lost a step, totally deflated. Cobain was dead. Hoon was dead. Pearl Jam went to shit after Vs(really after Ten imo). STP was hitting, not as good with Tiny music vs Purple, Scott was unraveling. Tool was killing it, releasing their peak album, imo, just a few months after DOTU.
Alanis Morrisette had taken over the airwaves. The excitement and newness of the early 90s was giving way to something different. Like the freaking Macarena, Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, Tripping Daisy, Presidents of the USA, Dave Mattews....ugh.

 

[SFW]

Cool to hear Matt Cameron on backups. And who is playing second guitar?

Mike McCready from Pearl Jam was playing second guitar. And the only person that I think that can do Cornell justice would be Ian Thornley.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Mike McCready from Pearl Jam was playing second guitar. And the only person that I think that can do Cornell justice would be Ian Thornley.

Thornley def has his Cornell moments. And SRV guitar moments. And all kinds of other stuff. Dude is a walking encyclopedia of influences rolled into his own thing.

 

[LPMojoGL]