^ Let us not forget Gary Oldam asking if it was white boy day.

It's funny, the Soundgarden I've listened to and enjoyed the most by far is the Spoonman acapella, good for endless transcendent pairings back in the YouTube Doubler days.

Not crap for everything up through Superunknown. I couldn't get into the later stuff.

Great band up to a point. I got into them from the perspective of a metalhead with Louder than love in 89 and heard them as something akin to Trouble or Danzig; if you enter their world from a more punk/indie perspective which they actually came from though it's hard to hear on their major-label records, I can TOTALLY understand if you find them unbearable...

Anyway; Badmotorfinger is one of my top 5 "heavy albums released after the 80s and while *some* of Superunknown sounds too 90s MTV grunge, there's way tio much Good shit on that record for me to dismiss it... Not crap.

Krev wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:45 pm I just listened to Ultramega OK for the first time in forever, and it's still cool. "Beyond the Wheel" is like grunge Candlemass.

This is Spot on. I find that album hit-and-miss but beyond... is incredible and manage to sound like 80s doom metal with a stumbling, Birthday Party style rhythm section... a total winner in my book that I find hard to compare with anything else in that era...

Oh yeah, one last note:it piss me off that people compare them with Alice in chains and Pearl Jam to this day; the former band wore their 80s buttrock bagage all over their sound complete with meat-beats and pinch-harmonics in the solos and power-ballads; the latter played a particularly frigid form of classic rock-at NO point did they have the quirks *or* heavyness that made Soundgarden special. Whatever...

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jakethesnake wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:54 pm Oh yeah, one last note:it piss me off that people compare them with Alice in chains and Pearl Jam to this day; the former band wore their 80s buttrock bagage all over their sound complete with meat-beats and pinch-harmonics in the solos and power-ballads; the latter played a particularly frigid form of classic rock-at NO point did they have the quirks *or* heavyness that made Soundgarden special. Whatever...

The Pearl Jam/ Soundgarden camps are heavily entwined over the years, so that doesn't seem that much of a stretch, really....

Like a lot of people posting here I don’t really equate them with “grunge” per se. I probably didn’t listen to them from 1996-2016… but I’m totally sold on Badmotorfinger - way more sax than I remembered - and Superunknown which is a pretty seminal album. I got the 20th anniversary vinyl recently, fuck me Limo Wreak and 4th of July bring it… dread is my favourite musical aesthetic.

And Cameron is a phenomenal drummer.

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