Screaming Life Not Crap

FOPP Not Crap WF2 for "FOPP Dub"

Ultramega OK Not Crap

Louder Than Love Not Crap

Badmotorfinger Not Crap WF1 for slight self-indulgence/length

Superunknown Not Crap WF1: -5 for "Black Hole Sun", -2 for "Spoonman", +4 for "Head Down", +2 for "The Day I Tried To Live"

Down On The Upside Crap WF5. Aside from Cameron and Thayil, there are very few things that are good about this record, and "Burden In My Hand" has nearly all of them. "Blow Up The Outside World"? Sheeesh.

Soundgarden = Not Crap for Thayil, Cameron, Yamamoto, Shepard, and most of Cornell.

I have just learned, via DrAwkward's post, that Soundgarden toured with Skid Row. This is entirely appropriate.

Soundgarden were cheesy cock rock with grating vocals and dull guitar pyrotechnics. Further, "Soundgarden" is a terrible band name, and always sounded sorta pyramid-power-new-agey to me.

CRAP. Zero waffle factor.

"Soundgarden" is a terrible band name, and always sounded sorta pyramid-power-new-agey to me.

Soundgarden named themselves after the Sound Garden.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

"Soundgarden" is a terrible band name, and always sounded sorta pyramid-power-new-agey to me.

Soundgarden named themselves after the Sound Garden.

Oh, I know that. That fact does not make it a particularly good band name. I suspect their rock music would have been better served by a band name with more "flash and balls."

the cow says...not crap

bad motorfinger fuckin owns

kim rocks

cornell on the other hand sheer crapola

I'm not sure which creative forces were at work the most in Soundgarden throughout the years, but for every five or six forgettable songs, they had one killer song... "Flower", "Toy Box", "Mind Riot" are great examples of the better songs...

I think Kim, Matt, Ben, and Hiro are wonderfully nice people... Thayil has guested on several Steve Fisk songs.. and I thought Truly, the band with Hiro Yamamoto and Mark Pickerel (Screaming Trees, Steve Fisk, Pell Mell, etc.) was overlooked.

I never heard much about Chris, nor met him, so I can't say anything other than that he's really staining his resume being in beach-volleyball rock band Audioslave.. and also suing his former bandmates and ex-wife/manager.

UltramegaOK, Louder Than Love, Badmotorfinger, all great albums. Superunknown has a couple/few songs that I really like, but mostly it was the end for me. I think the Hater album was one of the more overlooked albums of the 90's. Love it.

The Soundgarden tour I really wish I would've gone to was the one that went Soundgarden, Voivod, and Faith No More, back in like 1990 or so. I *REALLY* wish I would've been at that show, to see all of those bands when they were slaying.

Even though they ended badly, and Cornell has gone on to do even worse still, I would say a definite NOT CRAP for Soundgarden. Cameron's drumming on any of those 3 albums is enough to single-handedly outweigh all of the CRAP factors, even the makeup back in the day or the suck-ass near the end.

These guys did a lot to bring odd meter rock into the mainstream, too. So good for them on that one.

scott wrote:Even though they ended badly, and Cornell has gone on to do even worse still, I would say a definite NOT CRAP for Soundgarden. Cameron's drumming on any of those 3 albums is enough to single-handedly outweigh all of the CRAP factors, even the makeup back in the day or the suck-ass near the end.

These guys did a lot to bring odd meter rock into the mainstream, too. So good for them on that one.

I agree about Matt Cameron. He is an excellent drummer. And, despite what some others here think, I think Cornell has a likable voice. Not to mention, he's a hottie.

edit- for my hasty typing.

Morning dump.

eephour wrote:
bad motorfinger fuckin owns

So NOT CRAP. Allow me to expound. I am heartened to see the stories here of how Soundgarden was the band that turned people on to real rock, and I think that's true for a lot of folks who may have otherwise fallen into the Warrant/Cinderella canyon, never to be heard from again.

For whatever indefensible crap that Cornell and Co. morphed into in the mid-90s, Badmotorfinger was the fucking blueprint that made me appreciate skilled, pounding drumming, "good" guitar wankery and LOUD distortion. I wore that cassette out. The transition between "Slaves and Bulldozers" and "Jesus Christ Pose" on this album is one of my all time favorite rock moments, ever. For a high school kid who had never heard real heavy music before, it was a revelation.

I am eternally jealous of my friend who saw them in 1990 or so at a small club in Detroit. I was about a year late to that party. I wonder if Skid Row even listened to them before they invited them on tour-I think it'd be fairly obvious they were set up to get blown off the stage.

I never listen to them anymore. I think I will tonight.