The New What's On Your Cd/Turntable Thread.

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Seattlite nostalgia

Electrafixation said:

Gotta say that Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger is one the heaviest albums I have ever heard.
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I have to admit that it was Superunknown that finally hooked me. Specifically, the songs "Like Suicide" and "Superunknown". And then, comparing Ben Shepherd's songwriting ("Head Down") to his side project, "Hater", I finally came to have faith in Soundgarden.

That's not to say I rejected Badmotorfinger out of hand, but Soundgarden was never really my thing until this one night that I sat around with a friend, listening to Superunknown and a couple of Screaming Trees albums (Invisible Lantern and Buzz Factory) while smoking bowls and tripping on 'shrooms. Incidentally, Soundgarden appeared on MTV's Headbanger's Ball that night; it was the great appearance where Kim went off about credit-card carrying jocks, and Ben nearly fell out of his seat laughing.

All told, it was impossible after that to deny the attraction to Soundgarden. I finally managed to see them live at their last show in Seattle. Shame about that. It was a hell of a set.

As to Hammerbox, well, they're just flat-out cool. And vocalist Carrie Akre's follow-up project, Goodness, well, yeah. They're good, too.
 
Tiassa said:
I have to admit that it was Superunknown that finally hooked me. Specifically, the songs "Like Suicide" and "Superunknown". And then, comparing Ben Shepherd's songwriting ("Head Down") to his side project, "Hater", I finally came to have faith in Soundgarden.

That's not to say I rejected Badmotorfinger out of hand, but Soundgarden was never really my thing until this one night that I sat around with a friend, listening to Superunknown and a couple of Screaming Trees albums (Invisible Lantern and Buzz Factory) while smoking bowls and tripping on 'shrooms. Incidentally, Soundgarden appeared on MTV's Headbanger's Ball that night; it was the great appearance where Kim went off about credit-card carrying jocks, and Ben nearly fell out of his seat laughing.

All told, it was impossible after that to deny the attraction to Soundgarden. I finally managed to see them live at their last show in Seattle. Shame about that. It was a hell of a set.

As to Hammerbox, well, they're just flat-out cool. And vocalist Carrie Akre's follow-up project, Goodness, well, yeah. They're good, too.
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Interesting Perspective and thank you for the Hammerbox info. I have to confess that when you mentioned in cahoots with the others I had to check 'em out, so I did a little googling and liked what I found.

Soundgarden is one of those bands that you look at in hindsight and realize just how good they WERE because of their chemistry as a band. I had been listening to them up to and including the BMF album and it was stunning to hear them mature the way they did. They were always about that high energy Washington angst/grunge sound, but BMF seemed to mark their absolute raw/heavy combined best out of sheer juxtaposed chemistry.

I think that Superunknown was pretty much the beginning of the end because the individual musicians could no longer operate as a natural combination of each other, but rather grew too artistically distinct on an individual level for their direction to retain a natural group coherency. Whereas their best "pop" efforts were contained without question on the SU release, by this time it was basically well crafted individual statements on behalf of Cornell & Thayil respectively.

If the ever do reunite, you might see something happen that bears a great likeness to the Metallica saga with respect for their musical progressions.
 
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Mirror, mirror on the wall
The face you've shown me scares me so
I thought that I could call your bluff
But now the lines are clear enough
Life's not pretty even though
I've tried so hard to make it so
Mornings are such cold distress
How did I ever get into this mess

I'm snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind

Harmless and innocent you devil in white
You stole my will without a fight
You filled me with confidence, but you blinded my eyes
You tricked me with visions of Paradise
Snowblind

Snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Now I'm snowblind, snowblind, snowblind

Mirror, mirror I confess
I can't escape this emptiness
No more reason to pretend
Here comes that same old feeling again

Snowblind, can't live without you
So fine I just can't get away
Won't you throw me a lifeline
I'm going down for the third time
I'm snowblind, and I can't get away
 
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