Not crap. A handful of song are ok.
And obviously "Grunge" was a term that the chiefs at Sub Pop helped hyped to get their bands "succesful".
We already know that that term was already used to describe Aussie Garage punks band in the 70s ... dont we ?

tmidgett wrote:Steve from Mudhoney did a good job of demonstrating it in some movie, by playing a barre chord.

I don't remember precisely what he did, but it was something like:

A barre chord punk-style (all downstrokes, whole thing, sharply)

A barre chord metal-style (palm muted w/upstroke, just the bottom strings, sharply)

A barre chord grunge-style (the bottom half of the chord, washy up/down strokes, with the occasional high string hit, not that sharp)

Actually, that was Leighton from The Thrown Ups.

Slintler

burun wrote:

kerble wrote::- |

Is that the emoticon for "meh"?

it means: "Whatever."


:- |

Tevs man. Tevs.

Crap.

people here are hating on "down on the upside"... which, yes, was crap for the most part.... EXCEPT for that song "overfloater"

great song

no, people here are hating on Soundgarden....who are CRAP.

clocker bob wrote:Soundgarden had more good songs than Nirvana.

And Matt Cameron is a more interesting drummer than Dave Grohl.

Wow. That is some heavy bullshit right there.

Soundgarden are CRAP.

for a week now i've been in the process of transferring my CDs to mp3s and apple lossless audio files. after plowing through all the obvious gems, i've started sifting through some of the more spotty recordings in my collection -- stuff i would've gotten rid of years ago if it weren't for a couple good tracks here and there or some sort of nostalgia value.

yesterday, i put in Superunknown, which i liked a lot when i was fourteen and fifteen. and after giving it an honest listen, i must say, on the whole, i think Soundgarden made pretty crappy music (this is afterall one of their better albums).

i guess what put me off the most was the lyrics. quite simply, i never realized what a bad lyricist Chris Cornell is. and since the vocals are so prominant, the bad writing is pretty hard to ignore. some of the songs were fuckin' cringeworthy ("Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman" come to mind --- just dreadful). but that being said, there were about seven tracks that i thought were pretty okay. "4th of July" and "Head Down" are very good songs in fact.

so... i guess i'm gonna have to vote CRAP 7.

Soundgarden sucks, but not as much as Abba.