Soundgarden

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I left off your favorite. Nine spaces not counting "other," nine tracks from my own mix CD. That meant that I left off SOMEBODY'S favorite. So if I missed yours, add 'em.

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[DS1]

1. Ouch, very dark collection

I'll have to go pull out my cd and get back to you

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Yesterday was a dark day...

The full mix CD ended up being:

1. Rusty Cage
2. Slaves & Bulldozers
3. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
4. Room A Thousand Years Wide
5. My Wave
6. Fell On Black Days
7. Superunknown
8. Black Hole Sun
9. Like Suicide
10. Blow Up The Outside World
11. Burden In My Hand
12. Tighter & Tighter
13. Overfloater

...and I've gotta tell ya, assembling this one was cathartic. Just what the doctor ordered.

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[djeseru]

2. "With an ounce of pain..."

"I wield a ton of rage...just like suicide."

Er, um, just singing along...:hi:

[LynneSin]

4. Soundgarden is good but Audioslave is better

and so is the shorter hair

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. Maybe yes, maybe no, just "maybe"...

I always considered "Down On The Upside" to be a letdown after "Superunknown," but how the hell are ya gonna follow THAT one?

So far I haven't heard a LOT of Audioslave songs that kick the ass of the "Superunknown" tracks. When Audioslave has the longevity AND the songs...maybe.

"Black Hole Sun"...The John Lennon of "I Am The Walrus" and "I Want You, She's So Heavy," sounding pissed and disillusioned, yet hopeful...

"Like Suicide"...Closer to Led Zeppelin than Page himself got with David Coverdale. Rides the listener hard and puts them away wet.

So my question is where is the "Black Hole Sun" and "Like Suicide" on either of Audioslave's CDs? Hmmmmm?

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[LynneSin]

11. Yes but you're talking 'Apples' and 'Oranges' here

I mean Audioslave is basically Soundgarden lead with Rage Against the Machine backing those vocals (which really that is Audioslave) so for me to go in there expecting Soundgarden (or for that matter Rage Against the Machine) would be me like putting on a Page & Plant CD expecting to hear Led Zeppelin. Sure some of the names are the same but the music is different (even when Page & Plant is actually doing LZ songs) - there is a new maturity that wasn't found on earlier works done by the artists not that earlier works were somehow inferior because surely they weren't.

I got hooked on Audioslave with "Doesn't Remind me of Anything" and probably listen to their 2nd CD (Out of Exile) moreso than their first self-titled CD.

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. Audioslave is alright...

I've heard a few songs that I like. I don't understand it really, I love Soundgarden and I love Rage Against The Machine, so you'd think a supergroup combining the 2 bands would be awesome...but really they are just meh in my book.

Ok for the radio listen but I don't think I would buy the album based on what I've heard so far. Although Chris Cornell is looking pretty hot these days.

[jonnyblitz]

18. I don't think they are all that either.

I much prefer each band seperately.

[Reverend_Smitty]

20. I guess I'm more disappointed than anything...

when I heard that they were teaming up I got my expectations too high. If I didn't know their previous bands I would probably have a higher opinion of them

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. "Rusty Cage"....

but I think I actually prefer Johnny Cash's version to the original.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Agreed. Absolutely.

As a lifetime Cash fan, it was sublime to see him hit the target so dead-on at that stage of his career. Part of the credit goes to Rick Rubin for suggesting it, as well as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for anchoring the vocal. But in the final analysis, this was a pure Man in Black MASTERPIECE.



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[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Yeah...

Cash was one of the very few singers I can think of with the ability to take someone else's song and make it his own. There's some really brilliant stuff among his late-career covers..."Rusty Cage", obviously; his versions of Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat", Danzig's "Thirteen", "Personal Jesus" (a surprising and inspired choice for him to cover, IMO), and NIN's "Hurt", which he totally fucking OWNED.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

21. "Hurt" triples in intensity when you see the video.

I know a lot of people thought it was over-hyped and over-rated, but I don't see that. When June Carter died...knowing the relationship she had with Cash, and his own eroding health...you had to wonder how long he'd be around. Seeing the then-current images of Cash juxtaposed with the young and unstoppable Carter & Cash...just devastating. A masterpiece. That video made a lot of the "MTV Pioneers" seem like the posers that they truly are.

[TheProphetess]

6. I only know a few sporadic songs

but my favorite was a coordinated effort between Pearl Jam and Chris Cornell called Temple of the Dog.

"I don't mind stealing bread from the mouth of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless when my cup's already overfilled"

[tjdee]

7. Where is the "Chris Cornell is the hottest man in music" option?

He is so good looking it's frightening.

[Maestro]

8. Rusty Cage for sure.

I love the riff in that song!

[jpgray]

12. Pretty Noose

[jonnyblitz]

13. other. "nothing to say". nt

[CanuckAmok]

14. I woke the same.... as any other day, except...

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade, and watch the rolling heads

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar’s change
And gave it to the rich

The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing

One more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed

The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you

[no name no slogan]

15. "Paranoid"

Wow, that whole record was great! Ozzy's voice was right on, Tony Iommi's guitar was rocking, and Bill and Geezer held the rhythm section together swell. Damn, Soundgarden was a great band in their prime!

[ghostsofgiants]

16. I was always partial to "Burden In My Hand"

[DS1]

22. Okay, I voted

Burden In My Hand

heh, nice even poll. must be a good mix

[Texasgal]

23. Blow up the outside...world....

Nothing seems to kill me.......... no matter how hard I try.............