Speaking of Pumpkins. How about their song “Mayonnaise”. I personally know little about the band despite hearing them near the beginning. I didn’t ever really follow them. Was more of a passive listener of theirs. They always had popular singles, but the vast majority of moderate to above fans of Smashing Pumpkins that I’ve ever met have stated that particular song as their favorite or one of them. I’d never even heard of it until after hearing it mentioned couple times by people I know. And I’ll agree, it’s an infectious tune.
I was 10 years old, laying on the floor in front of the TV, I loved this song. No one was creeped out. It was just how things were in those days. Art and creativity was great and every where
parents werent creeped out by us liking this ? even tho 70's rock which is the same gawd damn sound LOL also was weirder and in alot of cases darker plus alooooooot of sex . no guy most of our parents were freeked about this . dont forget
I have an extremely similar memory of this. Coming home from school, throwing my parents tv on in their room and sitting on the floor watching mtv. I will never forget this video. The other one that sticks out for me is Basket Case. That was freaky as a kid too. Still listen to all these bands every day.
Pantera was on heavy rotation. Living Color, Sacred Reich, Alice in Chains, Ugly Kid Joe, Megadeath all got worn out in my tape deck. Too Live Crew, NWA, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, The D.O.C., Rodney O andf Joe Cooley. All were more mine and my friends music. I play guitar and have since the early 80's. I was always drawn toward harder to play music than what was on the pop charts. Don't get me wrong, I love Soundgarden. But the Eddy Vedder wannabe's got no love in my neck of the woods. Plush wash a fun song to make fun of.
lol, no. The effects used on the video were common place then. Kai’s power goo was a popular piece of software used to make the same effects. Another heavily used effect was the morphing software.
@@mightydekuI think you totally missed the point dude. There’s a big ass theme going on here. They did predict this. AND the original comment was being somewhat humourous
Not really. They used the newest video trick that was a photoshop filter that a director had the brains to turn into a video effect. That's all it was, and it was great, but used in a very controlled fashion.
That old hippie with the top hat in the "Black Hole Sun" video ...when I lived in Los Angeles, one day I heard a knock at my door, it was that guy. He was going door to door (!) selling his self-published poetry books. He was wearing the top hat too. I bought a book of poems, and had breakfast with him.
That wasn't him but just a look a like, that guy lives in Seattle which is where tbe video was recorded as well as the studios they used... unless the guy provided proof directly to you, i don't believe it was him...
@@southwestxnorthwest That would be crazy! Is there a lookalike claiming to be him? It's such an odd flex. This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books. He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter. Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake? I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here. I published the pic and the story about it in a thing I was writing at the time.
@@evanneal4936 That would be crazy. lol. Was there a guy regularly claiming to be him? It's such an odd flex. This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books. He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter (can't post site name here, this site will hide the post). Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake? I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here. I published the pic and the story about it in my 2003 book "30 dollar Music School" that I was writing at the time.
@@evanneal4936 That would be so strange. Was there a guy pretending to be him? It's such an odd flex. This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books. He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter. Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake? I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here. I published the pic and the story about it in my 2003 book "30 dollar Music School" that I was writing at the time.
Totally agree that grunge just didn't abruptly end with Kurt Cobains suicide. Pearl Jam released Vitalogy, Alice in Chains dropped Jar of Flies and thier self titled albums, and Soundgarden released Down on the Upside well after Nirvana's demise. STP Purple, Smashing Pumpkins Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness. I would say 1998 is when post-grunge bands and NU-metal filled the void left by the end of grunge as a popular genre.
kurt was the single pillar of grunge, which was the highest possible commercial peak of grunge, he was it. he died and grunge died, like King Von with Chicago drill rap or mac miller with his rap style.......one person will make a whole genre topple, like the tower of babylon....
I always felt grunge was more an era,90-94.I’d say it died with Kurt.after nirvana ended,Pearl Jam,soundgarden,Alice n chains all got heavier and more alternative. I never considered smashing pumpkins or stone temple pilots grunge,just heavy alternative rock.
this isn't my favorite Soundgarden song, but it was the first one I ever heard. RIP Chris. I was lucky to share a few years on this planet with your and your creativity
Good times. Everything good came from the 90s. All the best music and TV series came from there. Have you ever noticed every good musician/vocalist died early? Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, I mean the king of kings in these bands. For me burying Eddie Van Halen was the end. Now all we got for Monsters Of Rock is Metallica and Megadeth and may they live forever.
The Day I Tried to Live is such an amazing song.. I remember putting that album on in my car and being in traffic in L.A. and that song came on .. I listened to it like 100 more times after that first time 😂
It's also a supreme showcase for the band together and Chris's range. The Day I Tried to Live and Fell on Black Days are the best two songs on a masterpiece of an album.
Outshined has long been my favorite Soundgarden song, by far. Just the opening seven notes make me crank it up. Lots of great memories of driving HWY 101 down the Oregon coast in the summers with the windows down, smelling the salty air and having Outshined blasting from my sound system.
I always say and will always continue to “Alice in Chains Dirt is the single best piece of art that came out of the entire Grunge scene” ❤ RIP Layne RIP Kurt RIP Chris .. you are all missed very much still brothers….
I agree as well. To me, AiC was the peak of Grunge, with Soundgarden in a very close second, Nirvana in a very close third and Pearl Jam in a semi-close fourth.
@@bobthebear1246 Cornell is my favorite singer of all time but AIC kind of reminds me of Pantera wit that Groove.. their music has this vibe.. and Layne’s voice .. Good Lord he was an amazing singer.. and Jerry is probably one of the most underrated artists ever.. his harmonies.. his riffs.. his song writing are on another level.. I used to watch the AIC Unplugged religiously as a teen ❤️
AIC were a sludge-metal band with roots in hair metal. You simply can't call both nirvana and AIC grunge bands. The sound of Nirvana defined what we know as grunge music. Bleach is probably the best album that's ever been made in the genre imo.
Truly it was the last great era for rock and roll. And yes, grunge was much more poetic and introspective than 80's rock in general (with some exceptions: the Police, Allan Parsons Project, etc)
I remember waking up on one Sunday morning, turning on the TV in bed and the show that came on was CBS this morning, Sunday edition, a low key, one anchor morning newscast. The anchor said coming up, musical guest Chris Cornell. I rolled over in bed and said all right! What I heard a few minutes later was a mind-blowing acoustic version of Black Hole Sun that just blew me away! He sang the song like it came from the depths of his heart. I guess he knew something we didn't because he passed away later that week...
I thought it was literally about depression. So sad about Chris. I was playing pool in a local bar and MTV was on a couple of the monitors and I remember stopping what I was doing because of the video. It was very unnerving but then I saw his face and was mesmerised by how beautiful he was.
I miss Chris. I always wondered what was going through his head there near the end. Having my own mental struggles like that and all. Such a fantastic song. It’s great, dark, and fun. Since then I’ve had to add sad too. Between Soundgarden and AIC, there a handful of songs from each that just stop me in my tracks. Being absolutely amazing, imo, being stunningly good and could hit right in the feels in many ways. After their respective deaths some of those tracks developed extra meaning and feeling. BHS being one of them. Beautifully haunting track to this day. Think I may go listen to the song right now. RIP Chris.
I miss when bands communicated through emotions. Connecting with audiences. Making people think and feel. Too many now feel like I'm being told how to think and feel.
The entire purpose of great art, literally all art, is to communicate through emotions. Like, going back to when a child first acted out a temper tantrum to get sympathy and comfort.
Grunge was such a reaction to all the sterile pop metal crap that had dominated the charts just like how punk was a reaction to disco and overproduced pop in the 70s
Soundgarden, Audioslave and Higher Truth album, can transport the intellect to a soulful connection. Intellect merging with soul. Chris Cornell was an amazing songwriter and presented his works with an equally amazing gifted voice. And so handsome to complete the gifted awesomeness of Chris Cornell. RIP
No one I know was anything but amazed at how great Black Hole Sun was and what a fantastic singer Chris Cornell was. I was blown away by Pearl Jam’s unbelievable, actually near perfect album, properly titled 10, but Black Hole Sun and Spoon Man are two of my favorite post-70s rock songs.
I love the song as much as the next person, I do... sometimes the song still hits right when I am in the mood for it... particularly in the summertime. But I have burnt out on the album version cuz I've listened to it way too much lol ... R.I.P. Chris Cornell... NO ONE SINGS LIKE YOU ANYMORE!
This song and its lyrics spoke to me at the time and still do, It was exactly how I felt. I'm heavily tattooed, but got a piece worked into my Japanese backpiece, and sleeves of a Sun being swallowed by a void in a storm with lightning bolts hits having the sun undergoing 3/4 Eclipse.
The way i always saw it was that when Cobain died, it signaled the beginning of the end for grunge. I always saw the breakup of soundgarden to be the last nail in the coffin, when grunge was dead and in the ground.
I was a middle schooler, sitting at home in the kitchen doing homework next to a portable radio, listening to the main rock station in Wichita when I heard BHS for the first time. Blew me away. A defining moment in my early musical tastes.
Great video! I absolutely love Soundgarden, one of my al time favorite bands. I remember getting a dubbed tape of Badmotorfinger when it came out. I liked it so much I tracked down all of their previous releases, and bought Badmotorfinger on CD when it was re-released with the SOMMS ep. I still remember exactly where I was when they first played Spoonman on the radio, driving around the loop at the local community college coming back after eating lunch. I freaked out "this is f'ing Soundgarden!! On regular radio!!" I bought Superunknown the day it was released, still one of my most listened to albums. I was crushed when Chris committed suicide. I think that hit me harder than losing people I actually knew.
This came out right when I shipped overseas in the military. It was so wild going through the military with this music. Going into desert storm with creeping death. Flying into Bosnia with chutes and ladders. Going into Afghanistan with lateralus and then Iraq with SOAD’s BYOB. I can go through my life with what music was hitting me with the moment I was in. I still have CD’s with sand in their case from Iraq I’m sure. I’ll pull out CD’s and plop them in my stereo now as I sit alone most nights and I’m transported back to members coming back in the wire showering and drinking green food colored vodka with a buddy.
It IS remarkable & unexpected that Black Hole Sun got big. “The Day I Tried to Live” received a lot of airplay, too. Also a surprise because those songs are pretty dark.
Chris Cornell was a seriously badass vocalist. When I first started playing guitar (around 1980) I had a friend, Randy, that played guitar and was a great vocalist. Sounded a lot like Cornell. Randy was the reason I started learning guitar. If he would have stuck with his music I believe he'd had been a superstar. Miss Chris and Randy.
I was a reconnaissance Marine stationed in Okinawa when this song was popular. My tastes ranged from Prince, Megadeth, Alice In Chains and the Isley Brothers. I became a Soundgarden fan when I heard this song. Pretty Noose is still in my rotation.
I thought Soundgarden RATM and Audioslave ruled man AOC is up there too but i love STP and velvet revolver too. I think i was born a decade too late haha. Badass video dude as always.
Soundgarden earned their spot in music history. Alongside the others in that music changing Era of the 90's. All the sudden most those flashy feminine metal bands, were out of a job. It was a highlight in my life, to have lived through those crazy times. In bands since I was 15 in 1988. In the Dallas TX area music scene. You had to be there cause words can't truly define the true spirit that stayed 15-20 years among millions of proud headbangers. I lived like a pre rock star, but it was fine cause the fun never stopped. I got what I was searching for cause of the sheltered childhood I came from. Good times, good times and I feel lucky we had good music. Nowadays, most everything sounds expected/ watered down/ saturated. Even Pantera sounds spiritless now days.
Wow! Never knew Tighter & tighter could have been on Superunknown! It's my favorite Down on the Upside track (not by far, but it is, and always has been). I was almost 14 when Superunknown came out, it was the first SG record I heard and I was BLOWN AWAY by it! I remember binging on MTV and waiting for Spoonman to pop up, then about a month later I was waiting for The Day I Tried to Live (but this was very short-lived), then for Black Hole Sun (I'd already bought the album and over-indulged on the song by then, but I still watched it because of the great video, although the song IS great), then it was My Wave (even shorter-lived than The Day... I think they played it like twice :-D) and - finally - Fell on Black Days... And, almost 30 years later, I saw Superunknown video on TH-cam - I had no idea that that was also released as a video - is it the only one I missed? I could have missed a dozen since every song on the album is a masterpiece that could have been a hit, right? My favorite 3 are Fresh Tendrils, Limo Wreck and Head Down, but by 1994 I'd gotten used to the record labels practice of NOT making hits out of my favorite songs, so I wasn't at all annoyed :-D Anyway, I'd say this is the best album of the era (I won't say the best grunge album - because it's not grunge!) and it definitely triggered my voracious exploration of the whole Seattle (grunge and non grunge) music scene. Before Superunknown, I'd only known Nirvana, AIC (my favorite Seattle band; also not grunge!), and the first 2 Pearl Jam albums. Such a glorious time to be a teenager in Slovakia, with gems like this playing on MTV :)
tbh i never knew much about soundgarden but this is one of my favorite songs in the world i was never creeped out by it or ha to put much thought into it
I was in my 20s in the Grunge era. Grunge was big and I wasn’t crazy about it. Some songs I thought were okay and others, like Black Hole Sun, I tried my best to avoid. It was hard to avoid.
Does David lynch object to being mentioned in discussions or are we not supposed to know what inspired the video? When I hear stuff get censored on yt, particularly really innocuous stuff, it raises my ire that something is being suppressed, though I know it’s probably some ridiculous yt restriction that would demonetize the upload.
I saw Soundgarden on the way up and wow, they were incredible live. I really loved the band and was miffed by their break up, but that's life I suppose.
Right? My favorite song on that album, probably all albums. I think most people are radio people tho, so they probably never listen to an album playthrough or enough to see the genius that is in other songs.
When people call Cobain's death the end of Grunge, they are referring to the fact that it started to die off after his death. Within two years, Alice in Chains was dormant, Pearl Jam was having their fight with Ticketmaster, and Soundgarden imploded. None of the other Grunge bands managed to fill that void left by those four bands. There were bands with hits around the time of his death, but that was over by '96. Cobain's death stopped the momentum of the movement. It never recovered.
I was a teen in the 90s and as an adult looking back the term "grunge" seems so inaccurate. Pearl Jam was really the only "grunge" band. Nirvana was more rock/punk, Soundgarden hard rock/alt and AIC hard rock/metal. It's 4 different bands.
I don't think it was the sound so much as the aesthetic (flannel, ripped jeans) and the location (Seattle). Since it was all kinda heavy music, they just lumped it all in together.
"grunge" doesn't even mean anything music-wise. It's just a term that was made up in the mid 90s by the media, you can't say PJ was the only "real" grunge band when "grunge" has no actual meaning lol
Times are gone for honest men.” And sometimes far too long for snakes.” And my youth, I pray to keep” -Soundgarden great chilling lyrics of when SHTF and you say FIT, let the black hole sun come then. It played well with the chilling guitar sounds and iconic music video imagery, probably one of the best music videos ever; it always reminded me of the 1990 Movie Batman” when the Joker sprayed people and made them a permanent smile 😁.
Black Hole Sun creeped people out because the accompanying video was hands down one of the freakiest videos ever made really brought the the song to another level but ..........The whole SUPERUNKNOWN album was great!! Title track being my personal favorite but I love the whole album!
I’m a grunge child. Man, I miss it! AIC was my favorite, followed by Soundgarden and Nirvana. Too many to mention, really. These were the notes that put on display what was before only experienced on the inside, in silence.
You’re welcome! My brother bought superunknown from the Columbia house club if I remember correctly in Canada and it was my first introduction to the band
I remember watching The Box(now MTV2) at that time. I was watching this with my brothers and sisters like wtf are we watching! This is cool in a melodramatic optimistic way! Imagine 7 black kids from the hood engaged in the vid, singing the hook that were supposedly strictly rap. lol. The video was really telling with the lizard girl. "Black Hole Sun, we're tired of the fake bs like everyone else" is how I took it. Immortal dope song like Them Bones.
I was more into metal/ hard rock but I loved the grunge bands too. I remember when Badmotorfinger came out. It was different and loved Cornell’s voice and power it had. Was also into Alice In Chains and PJ. Nirvana was ok to me didn’t love them overall but loved some songs.
Superunknown wasn't as important an album during the so called grunge era as maybe Nevermind or Ten but it was one of the best albums from that era and most musically accomplished with very diverse songwriting. I loved it. Basically rock and metal songs with beatlesque melodies and Cornell's voice. It was the slow burn smash hit from that era and was high on the charts that whole year of 1994. Grunge and interest in rock music was alive and well in 1994/1995 after Kurt's death. I was a teenager then and everyone was wearing grunge clothes and rock t shirts.
I love it when people say that a specific genre of music is dead. It seems like every time that phrase is uttered there's eventually some artist that always comes out with something extraordinary that blows everybody's minds, once again proving the statement false.......except for disco. Disco is most definately dead.....disco has had plenty of time to make a huge comeback but has yet to make it's triumphant return to the relief of millions
Badmoterfinger is such an underrated album. They definitely could have put out a couple more singles from that one. Rusty Cage and Slaves and Bulldozers are my two favorites off that
What other songs should I cover? Here’s the breakup of Soundgarden video I reference th-cam.com/video/TFTYO2IWSaw/w-d-xo.html
How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths or Back On The Chain Gang by The Pretenders.
Please do anything from Kings X. Their most popular album is Dogman but they have a lot of great songs.
I think Cherub Rock is a perfect song
Speaking of Pumpkins. How about their song “Mayonnaise”. I personally know little about the band despite hearing them near the beginning. I didn’t ever really follow them. Was more of a passive listener of theirs. They always had popular singles, but the vast majority of moderate to above fans of Smashing Pumpkins that I’ve ever met have stated that particular song as their favorite or one of them. I’d never even heard of it until after hearing it mentioned couple times by people I know. And I’ll agree, it’s an infectious tune.
30 years of SUPERUNKNOWN!
I was 10 years old, laying on the floor in front of the TV, I loved this song. No one was creeped out. It was just how things were in those days. Art and creativity was great and every where
Totally! I was 13 🥲😉
I agree. I don't recall anyone being creeped out. Grunge was big and more often than not the songs were not bright and cheerful but we loved it.
parents werent creeped out by us liking this ? even tho 70's rock which is the same gawd damn sound LOL also was weirder and in alot of cases darker plus alooooooot of sex . no guy most of our parents were freeked about this . dont forget
Why is it that youngish people love to talk about their age when these music videos pop up? Just wondering.
I have an extremely similar memory of this. Coming home from school, throwing my parents tv on in their room and sitting on the floor watching mtv. I will never forget this video. The other one that sticks out for me is Basket Case. That was freaky as a kid too. Still listen to all these bands every day.
RIP Chris Cornell ❤️
Saw them on 92 Lollapalooza with pearl jam. What a show. Still gives me chills to think about the soundgarden set. It was incredible
Cornell 🐐 🙌🏻❤
Him and Chester Bennington were working on a documentary exposing PDF philia
@@stargazer4625lucky! I saw the Deftones, Pantera and Black Sabbath at the Palace of Auburn Hills in 1999. Best concert I've ever seen. 🤘🏻😁👍🏻
I miss him, but he took the easy way out. And I’ll never forgive him for it.
Black Hole Sun and Interstate Love Song were the defining songs of the summer of 1994.
Don't forget velvet revolvers silther
@@nicholasmarkham7030that was 2004.
@@nicholasmarkham7030Yeah, get your decade right,and Velvet Revolver is garbage compared to Soundgarden
@@casanovafrankenstein8538 sound garden is good
Pantera was on heavy rotation. Living Color, Sacred Reich, Alice in Chains, Ugly Kid Joe, Megadeath all got worn out in my tape deck. Too Live Crew, NWA, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, The D.O.C., Rodney O andf Joe Cooley. All were more mine and my friends music. I play guitar and have since the early 80's. I was always drawn toward harder to play music than what was on the pop charts. Don't get me wrong, I love Soundgarden. But the Eddy Vedder wannabe's got no love in my neck of the woods. Plush wash a fun song to make fun of.
Soundgarden predicted silly snapchat filters decades before snapchat even existed.
lol, no. The effects used on the video were common place then. Kai’s power goo was a popular piece of software used to make the same effects. Another heavily used effect was the morphing software.
@@mightydekuI think you totally missed the point dude
@@mightydekuI think you totally missed the point dude. There’s a big ass theme going on here. They did predict this. AND the original comment was being somewhat humourous
Haha so true 😂
Not really. They used the newest video trick that was a photoshop filter that a director had the brains to turn into a video effect. That's all it was, and it was great, but used in a very controlled fashion.
That old hippie with the top hat in the "Black Hole Sun" video ...when I lived in Los Angeles, one day I heard a knock at my door, it was that guy. He was going door to door (!) selling his self-published poetry books. He was wearing the top hat too. I bought a book of poems, and had breakfast with him.
That wasn't him but just a look a like, that guy lives in Seattle which is where tbe video was recorded as well as the studios they used... unless the guy provided proof directly to you, i don't believe it was him...
@@evanneal4936he probably hooked up with the look-alike guy 😅
@@southwestxnorthwest That would be crazy! Is there a lookalike claiming to be him? It's such an odd flex.
This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books.
He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter. Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake?
I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here.
I published the pic and the story about it in a thing I was writing at the time.
@@evanneal4936 That would be crazy. lol. Was there a guy regularly claiming to be him? It's such an odd flex.
This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books.
He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter (can't post site name here, this site will hide the post). Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake?
I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here.
I published the pic and the story about it in my 2003 book "30 dollar Music School" that I was writing at the time.
@@evanneal4936 That would be so strange. Was there a guy pretending to be him? It's such an odd flex.
This guy was trying to make a living and spread his name selling his chapbooks, I think you could make more money just spanging on a busy street corner than going door to door during work hours to residences in a quiet neighborhood trying to hawk poetry books.
He said his name was RC Bates, and that was the name on his chapbook. There's an RC Bates on Tweter. Account has a pic of Black Hole Sun guy, says "actor / poet", has 26 people following. Is that the real guy or the fake?
I just posted on Twet the pretty clear photo I took of him that day and tagged that guy to ask if he remembers it. If he confirms I'll post back here.
I published the pic and the story about it in my 2003 book "30 dollar Music School" that I was writing at the time.
Soundgarden is by far my favorite of the big four grunge bands. RIP Chris Cornell, you are missed.
Alice
Alice in Chains was better imo.
@@AJLinthe5D Its his favourite not yours
I love Soundgarden too for me number 1 and second Alice in chains
I didn't say anything to him I said my favourite if you know how to read
Totally agree that grunge just didn't abruptly end with Kurt Cobains suicide. Pearl Jam released Vitalogy, Alice in Chains dropped Jar of Flies and thier self titled albums, and Soundgarden released Down on the Upside well after Nirvana's demise. STP Purple, Smashing Pumpkins Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness. I would say 1998 is when post-grunge bands and NU-metal filled the void left by the end of grunge as a popular genre.
kurt was the single pillar of grunge, which was the highest possible commercial peak of grunge, he was it. he died and grunge died, like King Von with Chicago drill rap or mac miller with his rap style.......one person will make a whole genre topple, like the tower of babylon....
Vitalogy sucked.
I always felt grunge was more an era,90-94.I’d say it died with Kurt.after nirvana ended,Pearl Jam,soundgarden,Alice n chains all got heavier and more alternative. I never considered smashing pumpkins or stone temple pilots grunge,just heavy alternative rock.
*murder, but yeah.
*Mellon Collie, but yeah.
All of soundgarden's albums are masterpieces RIP chris
this isn't my favorite Soundgarden song, but it was the first one I ever heard. RIP Chris. I was lucky to share a few years on this planet with your and your creativity
Every album they ever put out was fucking awesome!!!! God I miss the 90s
The 90's and Chris
Good times. Everything good came from the 90s. All the best music and TV series came from there.
Have you ever noticed every good musician/vocalist died early? Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, I mean the king of kings in these bands. For me burying Eddie Van Halen was the end.
Now all we got for Monsters Of Rock is Metallica and Megadeth and may they live forever.
Fucking awesome music 🎶
@andrewevans2690 thanks. Just jiving. We all miss Cornell
The Day I Tried to Live is such an amazing song.. I remember putting that album on in my car and being in traffic in L.A. and that song came on .. I listened to it like 100 more times after that first time 😂
It's also a supreme showcase for the band together and Chris's range.
The Day I Tried to Live and Fell on Black Days are the best two songs on a masterpiece of an album.
Outshined has long been my favorite Soundgarden song, by far. Just the opening seven notes make me crank it up. Lots of great memories of driving HWY 101 down the Oregon coast in the summers with the windows down, smelling the salty air and having Outshined blasting from my sound system.
That's right, as soon as the first notes hit it is a race to see how quickly I can turn the radio all the way up. Awesome song.
Agreed! Hearing the "Screeching" of Chris's voice in that tune,is the ULTIMATE!!! ♥
How Rusty Cage does for me..., Jesus Christ Pose ad well. The second those come on i crank it
Spoonman it’s my favourite the melody is amazing
I always say and will always continue to “Alice in Chains Dirt is the single best piece of art that came out of the entire Grunge scene” ❤ RIP Layne RIP Kurt RIP Chris .. you are all missed very much still brothers….
I can agree with that.
I agree as well. To me, AiC was the peak of Grunge, with Soundgarden in a very close second, Nirvana in a very close third and Pearl Jam in a semi-close fourth.
@@bobthebear1246 Cornell is my favorite singer of all time but AIC kind of reminds me of Pantera wit that Groove.. their music has this vibe.. and Layne’s voice .. Good Lord he was an amazing singer.. and Jerry is probably one of the most underrated artists ever.. his harmonies.. his riffs.. his song writing are on another level.. I used to watch the AIC Unplugged religiously as a teen ❤️
Yep. By far the best album of the era and only ever surpassed by Tool with Aenema and Lateralus imo.
AIC were a sludge-metal band with roots in hair metal. You simply can't call both nirvana and AIC grunge bands. The sound of Nirvana defined what we know as grunge music. Bleach is probably the best album that's ever been made in the genre imo.
The 90s had great poetic music.. you interpret it to whatever you were going through
Truly it was the last great era for rock and roll. And yes, grunge was much more poetic and introspective than 80's rock in general (with some exceptions: the Police, Allan Parsons Project, etc)
There's not one bad song on Supeunknown and the Black Hole Sun video is one of the best ever.
I grew up during the Black Sabbath era. I must admit that the song Outshined is my favorite Soundgarden song. Fucking heavy!! RIP Chris!!
Rip Chris Cornell. Just a legendary voice
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Man, I love this channel. Most consistent great content on YT. And I'm a huge Cornell & Soundgarden fan
@@terryIKE69 thank you!
I remember waking up on one Sunday morning, turning on the TV in bed and the show that came on was CBS this morning, Sunday edition, a low key, one anchor morning newscast. The anchor said coming up, musical guest Chris Cornell. I rolled over in bed and said all right! What I heard a few minutes later was a mind-blowing acoustic version of Black Hole Sun that just blew me away! He sang the song like it came from the depths of his heart. I guess he knew something we didn't because he passed away later that week...
I thought it was literally about depression. So sad about Chris. I was playing pool in a local bar and MTV was on a couple of the monitors and I remember stopping what I was doing because of the video. It was very unnerving but then I saw his face and was mesmerised by how beautiful he was.
What an amazing era of music we’ll never see anything like it again
I miss Chris. I always wondered what was going through his head there near the end. Having my own mental struggles like that and all.
Such a fantastic song. It’s great, dark, and fun. Since then I’ve had to add sad too. Between Soundgarden and AIC, there a handful of songs from each that just stop me in my tracks. Being absolutely amazing, imo, being stunningly good and could hit right in the feels in many ways. After their respective deaths some of those tracks developed extra meaning and feeling. BHS being one of them. Beautifully haunting track to this day. Think I may go listen to the song right now. RIP Chris.
I miss when bands communicated through emotions. Connecting with audiences. Making people think and feel. Too many now feel like I'm being told how to think and feel.
The entire purpose of great art, literally all art, is to communicate through emotions. Like, going back to when a child first acted out a temper tantrum to get sympathy and comfort.
Grunge was such a reaction to all the sterile pop metal crap that had dominated the charts just like how punk was a reaction to disco and overproduced pop in the 70s
Soundgarden, Audioslave and Higher Truth album, can transport the intellect to a soulful connection. Intellect merging with soul. Chris Cornell was an amazing songwriter and presented his works with an equally amazing gifted voice. And so handsome to complete the gifted awesomeness of Chris Cornell. RIP
No one I know was anything but amazed at how great Black Hole Sun was and what a fantastic singer Chris Cornell was. I was blown away by Pearl Jam’s unbelievable, actually near perfect album, properly titled 10, but Black Hole Sun and Spoon Man are two of my favorite post-70s rock songs.
I was never creeped out by this song or the video. Soundgarden was badass! RIP Chris Cornell
Still my favorite to this day. Masterpiece.
I remember dragging my sister out of bed just so she could see the video and we both just lost our collective minds. LOVED it!
As a kid, I was obsessed with this song and music video. Still a classic.
I love the song as much as the next person, I do... sometimes the song still hits right when I am in the mood for it... particularly in the summertime. But I have burnt out on the album version cuz I've listened to it way too much lol ... R.I.P. Chris Cornell... NO ONE SINGS LIKE YOU ANYMORE!
Black Hole Sun is to Soundgarden as Bohemian Rhapsody is to Queen.
RIP Chris Cornell 🖤🥀
This song and its lyrics spoke to me at the time and still do, It was exactly how I felt. I'm heavily tattooed, but got a piece worked into my Japanese backpiece, and sleeves of a Sun being swallowed by a void in a storm with lightning bolts hits having the sun undergoing 3/4 Eclipse.
He was a Genius; with a voice out of this world. His voice sounded better live.
The way i always saw it was that when Cobain died, it signaled the beginning of the end for grunge. I always saw the breakup of soundgarden to be the last nail in the coffin, when grunge was dead and in the ground.
That's a great story. It's cool to hear about people that were masters of their craft at the top of their game.
I was a middle schooler, sitting at home in the kitchen doing homework next to a portable radio, listening to the main rock station in Wichita when I heard BHS for the first time. Blew me away. A defining moment in my early musical tastes.
"Won't you come (black hole sun, black hole sun)" That back up vocal is what drives it home.
Oh yeah for sure
They all knew I would attend college in the fall of ‘92, and knew I needed some great party music 🎵
Great video! I absolutely love Soundgarden, one of my al time favorite bands. I remember getting a dubbed tape of Badmotorfinger when it came out. I liked it so much I tracked down all of their previous releases, and bought Badmotorfinger on CD when it was re-released with the SOMMS ep. I still remember exactly where I was when they first played Spoonman on the radio, driving around the loop at the local community college coming back after eating lunch. I freaked out "this is f'ing Soundgarden!! On regular radio!!" I bought Superunknown the day it was released, still one of my most listened to albums. I was crushed when Chris committed suicide. I think that hit me harder than losing people I actually knew.
This came out right when I shipped overseas in the military. It was so wild going through the military with this music. Going into desert storm with creeping death. Flying into Bosnia with chutes and ladders. Going into Afghanistan with lateralus and then Iraq with SOAD’s BYOB. I can go through my life with what music was hitting me with the moment I was in. I still have CD’s with sand in their case from Iraq I’m sure. I’ll pull out CD’s and plop them in my stereo now as I sit alone most nights and I’m transported back to members coming back in the wire showering and drinking green food colored vodka with a buddy.
It IS remarkable & unexpected that Black Hole Sun got big. “The Day I Tried to Live” received a lot of airplay, too. Also a surprise because those songs are pretty dark.
Yeah I hear both on my local radio a ton still.
Chris Cornell was a seriously badass vocalist. When I first started playing guitar (around 1980) I had a friend, Randy, that played guitar and was a great vocalist. Sounded a lot like Cornell. Randy was the reason I started learning guitar. If he would have stuck with his music I believe he'd had been a superstar. Miss Chris and Randy.
I remember watching the Winter Olympics 94 or 95. Elvis took the gold medal figure skating to Black Hole Sun.
I was a reconnaissance Marine stationed in Okinawa when this song was popular.
My tastes ranged from Prince, Megadeth, Alice In Chains and the Isley Brothers.
I became a Soundgarden fan when I heard this song.
Pretty Noose is still in my rotation.
I thought Soundgarden RATM and Audioslave ruled man AOC is up there too but i love STP and velvet revolver too.
I think i was born a decade too late haha.
Badass video dude as always.
We got pictures now of the sun ejecting matter in a big black chunk. It happens all the time. That one got me.
Another great explanation of the Soundgarden experience.. you always make it light my main.. all the best
Soundgarden earned their spot in music history. Alongside the others in that music changing Era of the 90's. All the sudden most those flashy feminine metal bands, were out of a job. It was a highlight in my life, to have lived through those crazy times. In bands since I was 15 in 1988. In the Dallas TX area music scene. You had to be there cause words can't truly define the true spirit that stayed 15-20 years among millions of proud headbangers. I lived like a pre rock star, but it was fine cause the fun never stopped. I got what I was searching for cause of the sheltered childhood I came from. Good times, good times and I feel lucky we had good music. Nowadays, most everything sounds expected/ watered down/ saturated. Even Pantera sounds spiritless now days.
What a gited band and what a lyrical writer blessed with 'gunrge' to a league of his own. And was loved by so many. Still am, to be honest.
Blackhole...formed the soundtrack to that Summer of '94. A top twenty hit in the UK, even my parents became fans of the band.
May have expressed what a lot of people were feeling,Very prophetic.
I love the chord changes, its the biggest reason i love the song, everything else just seems like a bonus
The others may be first but I have never supported anyone so hard as I have as a Chris Cornell fan,.and so deservingly so, is he!!!!
Wow! Never knew Tighter & tighter could have been on Superunknown! It's my favorite Down on the Upside track (not by far, but it is, and always has been). I was almost 14 when Superunknown came out, it was the first SG record I heard and I was BLOWN AWAY by it! I remember binging on MTV and waiting for Spoonman to pop up, then about a month later I was waiting for The Day I Tried to Live (but this was very short-lived), then for Black Hole Sun (I'd already bought the album and over-indulged on the song by then, but I still watched it because of the great video, although the song IS great), then it was My Wave (even shorter-lived than The Day... I think they played it like twice :-D) and - finally - Fell on Black Days... And, almost 30 years later, I saw Superunknown video on TH-cam - I had no idea that that was also released as a video - is it the only one I missed? I could have missed a dozen since every song on the album is a masterpiece that could have been a hit, right? My favorite 3 are Fresh Tendrils, Limo Wreck and Head Down, but by 1994 I'd gotten used to the record labels practice of NOT making hits out of my favorite songs, so I wasn't at all annoyed :-D Anyway, I'd say this is the best album of the era (I won't say the best grunge album - because it's not grunge!) and it definitely triggered my voracious exploration of the whole Seattle (grunge and non grunge) music scene. Before Superunknown, I'd only known Nirvana, AIC (my favorite Seattle band; also not grunge!), and the first 2 Pearl Jam albums. Such a glorious time to be a teenager in Slovakia, with gems like this playing on MTV :)
What a brilliant single black hole sun,I bought the single back in 1994 awesome
cool video! love the details, the necklace from Hoon and would love to hear more about the song with Cantrell jamming with Chris.
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The video freaked me out. Black Hole Sun is a phenominal song. Chris was a bottomless well of musical creativity ❤
tbh i never knew much about soundgarden but this is one of my favorite songs in the world i was never creeped out by it or ha to put much thought into it
I was in my 20s in the Grunge era. Grunge was big and I wasn’t crazy about it. Some songs I thought were okay and others, like Black Hole Sun, I tried my best to avoid. It was hard to avoid.
Did you censor the words "David Lynch"? Just curious why? Great video as usual though!
I was wondering the same thing.
Thank you Mr. Rock for the post! 🤘🏻😊
you're welcome
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Great video, Soundgarden is one of my top ten!
Does David lynch object to being mentioned in discussions or are we not supposed to know what inspired the video? When I hear stuff get censored on yt, particularly really innocuous stuff, it raises my ire that something is being suppressed, though I know it’s probably some ridiculous yt restriction that would demonetize the upload.
Rusty Cage has always been my favorite Soundgarden
I saw Soundgarden on the way up and wow, they were incredible live. I really loved the band and was miffed by their break up, but that's life I suppose.
Never cared for this song, but really loved ‘the day I tried to live.’
Right? My favorite song on that album, probably all albums. I think most people are radio people tho, so they probably never listen to an album playthrough or enough to see the genius that is in other songs.
That's also a great and impressive song 😁👍
All 12 notes used in that song per beato
I watched that video! So cool
I saw that too, on Rick Beato! ✌🏼😊
@@yvettevitacaponigro So fascinating how he breaks down music
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When people call Cobain's death the end of Grunge, they are referring to the fact that it started to die off after his death. Within two years, Alice in Chains was dormant, Pearl Jam was having their fight with Ticketmaster, and Soundgarden imploded. None of the other Grunge bands managed to fill that void left by those four bands. There were bands with hits around the time of his death, but that was over by '96. Cobain's death stopped the momentum of the movement. It never recovered.
I was a teen in the 90s and as an adult looking back the term "grunge" seems so inaccurate. Pearl Jam was really the only "grunge" band. Nirvana was more rock/punk, Soundgarden hard rock/alt and AIC hard rock/metal. It's 4 different bands.
Agreed I never though there was a “definitive” Seattle sound
I don't think it was the sound so much as the aesthetic (flannel, ripped jeans) and the location (Seattle). Since it was all kinda heavy music, they just lumped it all in together.
"grunge" doesn't even mean anything music-wise. It's just a term that was made up in the mid 90s by the media, you can't say PJ was the only "real" grunge band when "grunge" has no actual meaning lol
i still feel that song...
and that vid!!!
tyx!!!
I first heard this album at a record release listening party at club congress, so tight. We got to bring those back.
The music videos to Black Hole Sun and Heart Shaped Box honestly creeped me out a lot…but I was six years old and scared of everything 🤷♂️
I was always creeped out by the cover of the album for some reason haha
Times are gone for honest men.”
And sometimes far too long for snakes.”
And my youth, I pray to
keep” -Soundgarden
great chilling lyrics of when SHTF and you say FIT, let the black hole sun come then. It played well with the chilling guitar sounds and iconic music video imagery, probably one of the best music videos ever; it always reminded me of the 1990 Movie Batman” when the Joker sprayed people and made them a permanent smile 😁.
I like any art thats open to interpretation bcuz it will never make more sense to you than what you can imagine in your mind 💯
Black Hole Sun creeped people out because the accompanying video was hands down one of the freakiest videos ever made really brought the the song to another level but ..........The whole SUPERUNKNOWN album was great!! Title track being my personal favorite but I love the whole album!
I’m a grunge child. Man, I miss it! AIC was my favorite, followed by Soundgarden and Nirvana. Too many to mention, really. These were the notes that put on display what was before only experienced on the inside, in silence.
I loved that song and video as a kid. Still do.
RIP Chris Cornell. Saddest day ever
I didn't like grunge much at the time except for songs like this that were so damn good that you couldn't help but like like this
Just glad to know, Cobain got to hear the full album "Superunknown" . one of the best albums to come out of the 90`s.
Great video. Best one yet 👊🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻superunknown is an album that rips.
What a great video, thank you from a big sound garden fan
You’re welcome! My brother bought superunknown from the Columbia house club if I remember correctly in Canada and it was my first introduction to the band
I remember watching The Box(now MTV2) at that time. I was watching this with my brothers and sisters like wtf are we watching! This is cool in a melodramatic optimistic way! Imagine 7 black kids from the hood engaged in the vid, singing the hook that were supposedly strictly rap. lol. The video was really telling with the lizard girl. "Black Hole Sun, we're tired of the fake bs like everyone else" is how I took it. Immortal dope song like Them Bones.
I was more into metal/ hard rock but I loved the grunge bands too. I remember when Badmotorfinger came out. It was different and loved Cornell’s voice and power it had. Was also into Alice In Chains and PJ. Nirvana was ok to me didn’t love them overall but loved some songs.
Superunknown wasn't as important an album during the so called grunge era as maybe Nevermind or Ten but it was one of the best albums from that era and most musically accomplished with very diverse songwriting. I loved it. Basically rock and metal songs with beatlesque melodies and Cornell's voice. It was the slow burn smash hit from that era and was high on the charts that whole year of 1994.
Grunge and interest in rock music was alive and well in 1994/1995 after Kurt's death. I was a teenager then and everyone was wearing grunge clothes and rock t shirts.
this music video scared the hell outta me as a kid
Another fantastic video! You really do your homework. I didn't know half the story until now
91 was the year I come to the bay 94 was the year life changed for me
Great video man! Well said on all points!
I have only one question: you can't say "David Lynch" on TH-cam? Wtf not? That's crazy.
Thanks no my fault there was a screw up in audio when I recorded it
I’m a big fan of every SG album.
I ❤ them
Thank you very much.
RIP ANGELS 😇
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Yea I’m gonna need that anxious song right now
Black Hole Sun was Fuckin Awesome 🤘🤘
I really enjoy your videos , I look forward to them . Keep up the great work.🙏👍🤜🤛💪
I love it when people say that a specific genre of music is dead. It seems like every time that phrase is uttered there's eventually some artist that always comes out with something extraordinary that blows everybody's minds, once again proving the statement false.......except for disco. Disco is most definately dead.....disco has had plenty of time to make a huge comeback but has yet to make it's triumphant return to the relief of millions
Depressive guy, so misanthropic and dark.. died haunted by his demons
Man you couldn't escape this song if you watched MTV in those days. It had to be played a couple times an hour if not more.
Badmoterfinger is such an underrated album. They definitely could have put out a couple more singles from that one. Rusty Cage and Slaves and Bulldozers are my two favorites off that