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Soundgarden
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Soundgarden
What no soundgarden thread??? Did I miss it somewhere?
Room A Thousand Years Wide ROCKS!!!
Room A Thousand Years Wide ROCKS!!!
We're all mad here!
Alex - Agreed. Jimi though?Xanadu wrote:yeah, so is Alex...
and Jimi Hendrix is overrated...kickass and innovative for his time but overrated
uhhhhhh that's blasphemy where I'm from.
You need to listen to him "Machine Gun" Monterey Pop...
to me Hetfield and Hammett are overrated.
They got NO POP at Live Earth....Did you see where the British
DETAINED Hetfield for having that taliban-like beard?
I can't blame the blokes. I'd have thrown him up on a wall TOO.
Don't start none...won't be none.
love is destruction with a loud noise
as posted by moi on another site:
I was driving to Badmotorfinger again today, and those opening hammer ons made my hair stand on end. Everything from this album is brilliant, including the title (Badfinger and Motorhead make you a Bad Mother Fucker). The last four Soundgarden albums were all exceptional, but Badmotorfinger was the defining artistic statement. It has a gloriously racous and messy feel, like wading through the carnage of a collapsing rustbelt city, putting together a photographic collage of blight and despair.
Chris Cornell was once the most original and charsmatic voice in hard rock or metal. That was lost along the way. It was a cruel joke when Keith Bergman posted the farcical headline "Cornell regrows hair, becomes Superman again, apologizes for Audioslave." To many fans he will always be the towering figure who stood next to Matt Dillon in 'Singles' as Bridget Fonda's car windows were blown out by an overcranked stereo. That music destroyed the car, like Cornell destroyed his voice. I doubt he ever tuned up before live shows in the old days, because he can't sing any of his old material properly anymore. Just watch the Live 8 performance. It's atrocious!
Now he is only a shell of his former shadow, but on Badmotorfinger his voice moved mountains and split skulls. Listen him sing 'Ave Maria'. It's the way the song was meant to be heard. Some people sing from the head, some from the throat, and some from the diaphragm. Cornell sang from every wound in his black heart. I would sell my soul, my car, and my neighbor's children to sing like he did in those primordeal years.
He is still an excellent musician and lyricist; they all were. Matt Cameron wasn't a virtuoso, but he did lay down some furious and highly challenging beats. John Tempesta once called him "the Steve Gadd of hard rock." Sheppard and Yamamoto were both excellent bassists, and Cornell/Thayl could trade riffs and solos all day long, absolutely attacking your senses. Thayl was always good for a monster solo too. Few grunge bands could even pretend to boast guitar attacks like that.
Few metal bands had ever written lyrics as personal or introspective as Soundgarden managed. They painted ugly pictures, and glorified the imprefect. Given their mindset, progress and optimism became barbaric superstitions. It was like standing on the precipice of an abyss, waiting for the rising tide of fatalism to annihilate all the futile gestures of a misspent life.
I'm looking california and feeling Minnesota
I was walking on a tightrope in two ton shoes
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures
Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load
These are four lyrics from four different songs, and they're all brilliant.
I assume that somewhere in Cameron Crowe's vault, I'm betting he has complete footage of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden doing their live performances from Singles.
They need, I repeat, NEED to be released in their entirety. When I first saw them play Birth Ritual, I pulled this number:
I was driving to Badmotorfinger again today, and those opening hammer ons made my hair stand on end. Everything from this album is brilliant, including the title (Badfinger and Motorhead make you a Bad Mother Fucker). The last four Soundgarden albums were all exceptional, but Badmotorfinger was the defining artistic statement. It has a gloriously racous and messy feel, like wading through the carnage of a collapsing rustbelt city, putting together a photographic collage of blight and despair.
Chris Cornell was once the most original and charsmatic voice in hard rock or metal. That was lost along the way. It was a cruel joke when Keith Bergman posted the farcical headline "Cornell regrows hair, becomes Superman again, apologizes for Audioslave." To many fans he will always be the towering figure who stood next to Matt Dillon in 'Singles' as Bridget Fonda's car windows were blown out by an overcranked stereo. That music destroyed the car, like Cornell destroyed his voice. I doubt he ever tuned up before live shows in the old days, because he can't sing any of his old material properly anymore. Just watch the Live 8 performance. It's atrocious!
Now he is only a shell of his former shadow, but on Badmotorfinger his voice moved mountains and split skulls. Listen him sing 'Ave Maria'. It's the way the song was meant to be heard. Some people sing from the head, some from the throat, and some from the diaphragm. Cornell sang from every wound in his black heart. I would sell my soul, my car, and my neighbor's children to sing like he did in those primordeal years.
He is still an excellent musician and lyricist; they all were. Matt Cameron wasn't a virtuoso, but he did lay down some furious and highly challenging beats. John Tempesta once called him "the Steve Gadd of hard rock." Sheppard and Yamamoto were both excellent bassists, and Cornell/Thayl could trade riffs and solos all day long, absolutely attacking your senses. Thayl was always good for a monster solo too. Few grunge bands could even pretend to boast guitar attacks like that.
Few metal bands had ever written lyrics as personal or introspective as Soundgarden managed. They painted ugly pictures, and glorified the imprefect. Given their mindset, progress and optimism became barbaric superstitions. It was like standing on the precipice of an abyss, waiting for the rising tide of fatalism to annihilate all the futile gestures of a misspent life.
I'm looking california and feeling Minnesota
I was walking on a tightrope in two ton shoes
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures
Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load
These are four lyrics from four different songs, and they're all brilliant.
I assume that somewhere in Cameron Crowe's vault, I'm betting he has complete footage of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden doing their live performances from Singles.
They need, I repeat, NEED to be released in their entirety. When I first saw them play Birth Ritual, I pulled this number:
Strength and beauty destined to decay
so cut the rose in full bloom.
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood
a love like blood
~Killing Joke~
so cut the rose in full bloom.
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood
a love like blood
~Killing Joke~
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I'll agree that Kirk Hammett is overrated, but James Hetfield and Alex Lifeson?Xanadu wrote: Alex - Agreed. Jimi though?
uhhhhhh that's blasphemy where I'm from.
You need to listen to him "Machine Gun" Monterey Pop...
to me Hetfield and Hammett are overrated.
This and more from a man with a Zakk Wylde avatar.
Strength and beauty destined to decay
so cut the rose in full bloom.
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood
a love like blood
~Killing Joke~
so cut the rose in full bloom.
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood
a love like blood
~Killing Joke~