Fun hangin w you guys Marlin the Wizard was a dope edition y’all should checkout our feat vid finally bout to drop the album got a few others were recording still a big scene here in Seattle🌲🤘
Bleach was 1989 and recorded on almost no budget. This album is phenomenal. Chris was my favorite singer. He also sang for Audioslave with the musicians from Rage Against the Machine. Check Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog (1991) to hear what Chris can do vocally. 😊The album is great. Pearl Jam was being created while the album was being made. 8:03 Drummer Matt Cameron is also in Pearl Jam, the last of the grunge kings. Ten (1991) is their masterpiece. The odd sound at the end of My Wave was the bass. The previous album Badmotorfinger (1992) is also mandatory. Dave Grohl (Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters singer) said about Black Hole Sun that the critics said Nirvana was punk meets The Beatles. Dave and Nirvana got to hear this album before it was released while recording In Utero. They were absolutely blown away. Dave said Black Hole Sun was grunge meets the Beatles more so than anything Nirvana ever did. A demo of spoonman can be heard in the film Singles (1992) which was set in Seattle. Soundgarden and Alice in Chains perform.in it. Chris appears. Pearl Jam act. Chris wrote music for the score. Very good sort of Rom com.
@@TerribleEnglish Dude so AIC was inspired by Soundgarden then cose they were first . If you are Deaf then you didn't see difference and I'm sorry for that , different sounds, voices both great albums but totally different.
He's great. I met him in the crowed at a Rollins Band/Tool show when Tool was touring for Opiate in 92. It was a small 300 person size club in Seattle. Amazing show!
Undeniably #Unique It's interesting to watch what Pete Thorn & the other dude used to come up with to cover Kim's parts when they toured with Cornell in the 2000s, because *nobody* can just learn what Kim does!!
@@SPGhettus I think Cornell wrote most of their guitar riffs though? But both of them are (were) unique and great. They often used odd time signatures that didn't feel clunky at all but had a groove and flow. Thayil's leads remind me of Vernon Reid a bit, chaotic but beautiful.
The Temple of the Dog album is well worth a listen thru.... & as a follow-on I'd recommend watching the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel for the Seattle scene. ;)
Temple of the Dog was a mix of most of the biggest Grunge bands. Audioslave was Chris plus Rage Against the Machine. It feels like Grunge artists just loved mixing and matching to make some amazing bands.
@dudermcdudeface3674 That's the best description I've read for grunge. You get, brother. It just hits you different. I grew up with it and I always go back to it
@@dudermcdudeface3674 that is exactly what grunge is brother. It’s like having the friend you’ve always needed, that gets you fully. There aren’t many things that are as genuine as grunge… especially in this day and age
@@soundgardengods that song alone changed my whole taste in music. It shuffled on as I was doing work, when they got to the part where Cornell sings over himself with the words “Pale in the flare light, the scared light cracks and disappears” I stopped whatever I was doing, turned up the volume and said to myself WHAT THE F*** IS THIS. I’d never heard anything like it before. Since then I’ve been a huge soundgarden fan and grunge has become my favorite genre. But as much as I love other grunge bands, no one does it like soundgarden
@@kx4tee 1000% brother.. can you imagine being in your twenties, in the early 90’s, living in Seattle. Having the chance to experience these 4 great bands redefine what a rockstar is, literally just bleeding their souls to the world… being able to experience them at live events… hearing albums like Dirt, Superunknown and Ten as they were released… and seeing how they influenced a whole generation of people. It really breaks my heart to see that there’s no one trying to reignite this beautiful genre, but It also makes me more appreciative for what these guys did throughout the 90’s, how many lives they saved just by being themselves and making music that you can tell is from the heart and not this pretentious b*llsh*t we’re getting today
One thing not a lot of people mention is how brilliant a rhythm guitarist Cornell was. Dude was able to belt these insane vocal lines while playing odd time-signature riffs. blows my mind to this day
A couple things about this album off the top of my head: - Spoonman is Artis the Spoonman, a street performer in Seattle, and the breakdown section is him playing spoons (there’s studio footage somewhere on TH-cam) - Chris fried five mics while recording this album. With his voice. - 4th of July is about getting pulled over on an acid trip and thinking the lights are fireworks - Like Suicide is about a bird that flew into Chris’s window and broke its neck, and he had to put it out of its misery - Chris when asked about the meaning of Fell On Black Days: “"Fell on Black Days" was like this ongoing fear I've had for years...It's a feeling that everyone gets. You're happy with your life, everything's going well, things are exciting - when all of a sudden you realise you're unhappy in the extreme, to the point of being really, really scared. There's no particular event you can pin the feeling down to, it's just that you realise one day that everything in your life is fucked” Genuinely one of the greatest albums of all time. There will never be another like Chris
@@ShininDays It was in this one alone. Apparently, because they needed a very sensible type of mic to catch his whole range and texture of voice, the mics went nuts and broke, got fried. But I recall the producer also saying that his voice reverberated against the door at the studio sometimes. So... Yeah.
AUDIOSLAVE NEXT!! Listen to their self titled album. It’s Chris Cornell at the vocals, with the band members of rage against the machine. That album is absolutely phenomenal!!
Maybe they should check RATM first if they haven't yet, and other great Soundgarden albums like Badmotofinger or Down On The Upside, then check Audioslave that it's like a perfect fusion of both bands.
if you didnt think it was "grungy" enough, listen to their previous album "badmotorfinger", way "dirtier" and aggresive. specially the track "slaves and bulldozers". still really good, though the first 5 songs on that album are my favorite sequence of songs in all of grunge
Like Suicide was written after Chris Cornell was writing and a bird crashed into his window and paralyzed itself so chris put down the bird with a stone, it flew into the window just like suicide. My favorite closing track off of any album i’ve ever listened to
It's really clever writing too, "she lived like a murder" sounds like it's describing someone who grabbed life by the throat, but once you know it's about a bird you get the "murder of crows" double meaning as well. (Honestly I liked the song a lot more once I knew what it was about, if you take it all literally it's a bit uhhh)
@@eggstuThe night Cobain died Chris closed SG's show with the acoustic version of Like Suicide. Backstage and at the hotel the band trashed everything and got dead drunk just to numb the pain.
This album and Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" were released the same day. NIN was 2nd while this album was 1st on the Billboard charts. And I was 15 when this album came out, and it was quite the time to grow up listening to music.
I loved the reaction boys. What I loved more was the fact you dudes were just chilling and listening to an entire album and discussing it. This was a literal passtime/hobby for ALOT of people back in the days. I feel like alot of younger people today dont do that enough. I got this on Casette tape when I was a boy in 1994 and I really truly consider this Soundgardens Masterclass. Its all killer, no filler. The thing about grunge is that all these bands from the Seattle area never actually called their brand of Alternative-Rock and scene, "grunge". The music journalists came up with the tag and they really dug "the style" of the Pacific Northwest scene at the time. Record execs and MTV decided to go all in on them(invest), put it in a nest little package for the masses to make money... which turned out to be a great idea from a business standpoint because 1. that scene was cool AF and 2. the musicians and songwriting from this era and part of the world was top tier at that time. Some other good alternative rock albums from this era that isnt "grunge" but similar is Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Stone Temple Pilots - Core Kyuss - Welcome to Skyvalley Weezer - Blue Albim ...so many other greats from 90s. Its honestly going to be a chore in a 1/2 to find anything that can top Superunknown. Its a literal 10/10 record. I dont even think Nevermind is as solid as this record.
I agree 100% about the chilling listening to it album and talking about it. We used to sit in a dark room, chill and listen to an album together & talk about the songs
I moved visited Seattle in the early 1980's and move to Seattle area in 1985 and I remember seeing Spoonman down on the waterfront doing his act. Pretty cool they wrote a song and had him perform in the studio.
A Reaction That’ll be Perfect for y’all… Temple of The Dog (Chris Cornell Side Project) & Mad Season (Layne Staley Side Project) arguably my Favorite Albums of the Two 🤘🏼😎
To answer your questions guys, I’m 41 this year, born in 83. Grunge blew up all over tv and the radio when I was a kid. It’s my first real memories of music and it’s by far my favourite scene. Kids and teenagers thought grunge was just straight up badass! Lots of attitude and had their own rebellious look. I feel like they took what bands did in the 70s and went dirtier/heavier and made it their own. I remember as a teen in the late 90s going to house parties and all the dudes had long hair and grunge being cranked on the stereo and bong smoke being blown all over the place. The best memories 🤣🍻🤘
Old dude here! Was luckier than s#@% to be at uni in Seattle when the grunge scene was growing. Was able to go see bands like Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Tad, Gruntruck, etc, etc on weeknights for $4-5 bucks. Absolutely one of the greatest music scenes of alltime. Chris Cornell was a god of vocals. Check out the likes of Slaves & Bulldozers, Jesus Christ Pose, or Beyond the Wheel if you want your mind completely blown.
Boys I gotta tell ya I'm a little cooked off an edible but when I close my eyes it's like I'm sitting on the back porch with my buddies just jamming and chilling and damn that's cool
Hell yeah. I wore this CD out as a kid! You guys need to check out the album Frogstomp by the band Silverchair. They were like 15 when they recorded it and it's a grunge classic.
I was 12 y/o in ‘92, on my way from Florida to England to live, dad was in the Air Force 🇺🇸 my uncle handed me 2 cassette tapes for my Walkman, Alice In Chains-Dirt and Stone Temple Pilots-Core to listen to on the plane ride. Changed my entire life. I didn’t discover Chris Cornell until I heard him and Layne on the song ‘Right Turn’ on AIC ‘Sap’ Ep. 🤘🏼 The next time I saw my uncle when I was back stateside in 2001 he played TOOL Lateralus for me, and I have “spiraled out” ever since!
Definitely some Seattle-ish weather for you here in the UK to match the music on those 2 cassettes! LOL (I know STP are from San Diego, but you wouldn't have guessed by listening to "Core"!) Sounds like an uncle with great taste tho tbh. :)
I have your same age. Im a november 1980. I really have some cristal clear memories of what was tò listen album like this back in days. It still get with me and bring me joy.
Like Suicide is not nearly as cryptic as it seems once you hear the story: The lead singer woke up in the morning to discover a crow had broken it's neck flying into his window, and was laying there dying, so he finished it off with a brick. "She lived like a murder..." because a group of crows it called a 'murder'. Obviously there are layers, but that's the inspiration.
I’m obsessed with watching you guys take in the music of my childhood! I was born in ‘83 & my exposure to grunge in middle school was nothing short of life-molding, especially as a girl with a twin brother who had ALL the albums on CD & I would take them & play them & try to return them before he noticed 😅😂❤
@@jenniferfowler682I’m thankful that my parents (who were born in the mid-late 40s) exposed me to the greats of the 60s & 70s, too. I grew up with Bob Dylan, James Taylor & Joni Mitchell. In high school, my boyfriend exposed me to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, etc. I was highly favored by the rock gods to have that kind of exposure at such a young age 😊❤✌️
Being 42, I find this hilarious and inspiring at the same time. Definitely dig into older music guys. So much great stuff. That's what I did as a teen in the 90's.
Jason Everman played guitar with Nirvana then when he was pushed out ended up playing bass for Soundgarden for a period then went on to be an Army Ranger. He actually put up the money to record Bleach. Chris Cornell's first wife Susan Silver was Soundgarden's manager she also managed Alice in Chains and some other Seattle bands. Matt Cameron is the drummer for Pearl Jam he was also Soundgarden's drummer and Temple of the Dog. He is in a new band now named 3rd Secret that has Krist the bass player from Nirvana, and Kim Thayil the guitar player from Soundgarden in the band.
Spoonman is inspired by Artis the spoonman, a street performer in Seattle who makes music by striking spoons. He even performs the "spoon solo" and appears on the music video of the song.
The Spoonman was a guy back in the day who used to busk by playing the spoons in Seattle. He's playing a spoon solo in the track if you happen to listen to it again. Shout out to Spoonman and Tubaman Seattle legends.
I saw him in a tiny bar venu with like 100 people, and he was so cool, when his band took a break mid way he busted out an accoustic and took song requests while just chatting with people about stuff, super nice guy
I just had a craving for more Soundgareden after listening to this album. I just finished listening to Badmotorfinger. This is up their with one of my fav albums of the 90s and possibly all time. It is much more upbeat and heavy than Superunkown. If you had to go in to battle or needed an energy boost then this is the album I would choose. Is it grunge, is it hard rock, is it metal. Answer is yes. It is a mix of alot of different types of rock with with element of grunge and metal thrown in. Best vocal performance on any album period. Each Soundgarden album is different from the next. Just because you listen to one Soundgarden album does not mean you know their core sound. Down on the Upside is their follow up to Superunknown and it is one of their least sounding grunge albums. Still has some classic songs on it. I hope you do more Soundgarden as their sound is so varied. Most bands can't even pull off one masterpiece let alone 2 like Soundgarden did in the 90s.
I've been meaning to deep dive into Soundgarden's discography for literal years now and this was the perfect gateway. I've listened to Spoonman and Black Hole Sun more times than I can count, but songs like Superunknown and Limo Wreck were songs I never knew I needed to hear!
Depends on what you listen to. Listen to Temple of the Dog or Euphoria Mourning and you realize this dude was like a Top 5 - 10 rock vocalist of all time. Some of the earlier, scream heavy stuff I agree but Chris Cornell’s discography is so diverse I can’t get on-board with your take
@@BC08 those albums are pure classic and that’s totally true, also just listening to beyond the wheel from 1990 at Düsseldorf is enough to tell how goated he is
to this day man black hole sun is such a hard song for me to play on guitar .... the memories behind tht song are just something that cant be explained dawg .
fun fact, it's not a womam singing on Half, it's the bassist Ben Shepperd with a bunch of weird production and voice effects, he also wrote the whole song
Another banger good shit. This is what happens when grunge doesn't mind to be a lil technical, jazzy, and psychedelic. Most songs are not in 4/4 which is kinda crazy for a "mainstream" alt rock album. And it's still fucking grunge -- its has that indescribable vibe and some of the most devastating lyrics of any grunge album. An amazing record all around.
Oh, you're going to enjoy Pearl Jam!!! 🔥🔥🔥 I'm pretty certain that TEN altered my reality when I first listened to it. It's phenomenal, start to finish. 💯💯💯💯💯 I was 19 in 1990, so I was thrilled with & completely immersed in Grunge. I hope you'll soon discover/stream UNDERTOW by TOOL, 1993. If u haven't already; I'll have to go look. Enjoy your journey into Grunge!! 🎉🎉🎉 P.S. Drummer Matt Cameron played for and toured with both Soundgarden AND Pearl Jam simultaneously!! #badass
I turned 50 this year. back in early 90 or late 91 a friend of mine who was going to college gave me a kinda mix tape, but it was put out by the producer from Seattle. It was called SUBPOP, and it had NIrvana, Tad, Screaming Trees, Green River and many other bands that were playing with heavy bass, punk and blues. He took me to a show in a 150 capacity venue called Gabe's Oasis and we saw Nirvana and TAD. Blew me away. Later that year, I went to a show with 3 headliners and a band i'd never heard of. The headliners were Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. I was ready to MOSH. Then this skinny guy with blond dreads walked on stage, lit a bunch on incense sticks and a big incense brick. Sat down in front of the mic stand and just kinda swung his head back and forth for awhile. The lights dimmed, red/green light covered the stage, the blond stood up, the band came out. And I heard Layne Stayley for the first time. Alice in Chains absolutely blew my soul into oblivion. Rest of the show was good, Slayer being the best, but about a month after that show, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit started getting radio and MTV airplay, and what became the Seattle movement began. I was a junior in HS. We Gen Xers are so lucky to have lived in the times we did.
Being a teen in the 90s was amazing for music. You look at the many thriving genres and everyone had their opportunity to shine. That's what makes our generation so eclectic. Loved that time.
My favourite quote "I get that, but this is ACTUAL music"😂 it is rare for us older people who grew up with this as the only music, to be able to explain the concept to young guys like you...thank you for educating the younger generation and sparking new interest in these masterpieces of the past ❤
As a random Scotsman who is old enough to remember buying Badmotorfinger & Superunknown on day of release, I'm thankful to the invasive algorithm for popping this up in my recommendeds! Always nice to see some young'uns appreciate some quality music rather than the sh!t the industry seems to fill the charts with these days. :) I reckon y'all would enjoy the Temple of the Dog album. The quick over-simplified story is that Chris Cornell was sharing a house with Andrew Wood, singer of another Seattle band called Mother Love Bone. Sadly he died of a drug overdose. Cornell basically wrote the Temple of the Dog album as a send-off for Andy. Remaining members of MLB got together to record the songs with Cornell, new singer Eddie Vedder, & Matt Cameron of Soundgarden on drums. Those musicians (minus Cornell & Cameron) went on to be a band called Pearl Jam. Some truly great moments thru the Temple of the Dog album. If y'all are interested in knowing more, I recommend the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel of that Seattle scene & these events, as well as loads more about Pearl Jam thru the next 20years. ;)
Like suicide is about a bird who flew into Chris Cornell’s glass sliding door and killed its self like suicide. Spoon man is about a street performer who played the spoons, I also think imo (my theory) that it has some metaphors for heroin use. People obviously cook it in spoons. “All my friends are brown and red” -the heroin and blood in the needle? “All my friends are skeletons” -the heroin addicts
No the real story is that the 4 members of the band just wrote random thoughts and then they compiled it into a song. Chris had a bad prescription drugs addiction
Love what you're doing here guys. Marlin blended in perfectly! Chris Cornell is one of my favorite singers of all time. I must suggest: Faith No More (Band) - "The Real Thing" (Album) from June of 1989
mannnnn love the fact yall did this .... learned this entire album on thr guitar in higschool and ill never fucking forget it man even the slightest smell takes me back to those days afterschool blasting this nonstop
I hope for the 5th album you guys listen to the album that inspired ALL of this grunge you're listening to: Doolittle - Pixies Not only an absolutely amazing album but it's the album that inspired the whole Seattle scene and the one that you can point back to and say, "yeah, this is where Grunge took off." Tons of other great grunge bands to pick up later on down the line too, along with listening to the rest of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc. that you've already been exposed to. And once you guys are done with Grunge I hope you move into the mid-late 90s era that Grunge evolved into which is alt rock. You would absolutely fucking LOVE listening to bands like Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is unique and amazing with better lyrics than anything you've heard on the channel yet) or Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl going from drummer in Nirvana to the biggest rockstar in the world with the debut self-titled Foo Fighters album being written, produced, and having every instrument played by him) or Radiohead, Weezer, Bush, Oasis, etc. Also you should check out Temple of the Dog as a special bonus 6th grunge album, supergroup with members from all these bands you're listening to here (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc.) who only did one amazing album that you absolutely have to hear. That said, with everything going on in the world right now, I think the album you really need to hear is Rage Against the Machine. There's no genre, it's never going to fit in with any other groups, and the message and lyrics and musicality are on another fuckin level. RATM will change your life and you won't just need lyrics, you'll need to do 6 hours of Google searches after the album just to understand their references. Which will then change your entire perspective on life after realizing a rock group from 30 years ago is the only reason you know about the shit you're going to learn and that all the stuff they are singing about is somehow even more relevant today :P
As much as the crew enjoys grunge, you should check out Singles, the movie set in the grunge scene. Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament appear as the bandmates of one of the main characters. The actor is the lead singer, so Eddie is the drummer. A couple of characters go to an Alice in Chains show, you get parts of "It Ain't Like That" and "Would" live, and in another club, Soundgarden is playing "Birth Ritual", one y'all haven't heard yet, but it's on the excellent soundtrack. Cornell also makes a separate cameo.
To me, that movie holds a special place. The lead character guy worked for the Dept. Of Transportation. I worked in Seattle for the Dept. Of Transportation from 1990-1998. Yeah, that shit hit home. 😂😂😂
@@charliemac64 Singles followed a few plot lines, but if you're talking about the lead I think you are, didn't they more or less cast him as a less-talented Andrew Wood? He was Cornell's roommate and in a band with Ament and Gossard.
@@SPGhettus You're right...there really wasn't a "lead." I'm talking about the guy that hooked up with Kyra Sedgwick. He was pushing the bullet train at his work. You're thinking of Matt Dillon's character, the singer of the band "Citizen Dick." I have a flyer from a "show" they did that I picked up at the last Temple of the Dog show in Seattle a few months before Cornell's passing. :(
I was 18 in 1995. It was a great time to be young. Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam (Check out their album "Ten") Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden ("Badmotorfinger" is just as good), Temple of the Dog,.Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Blood Sugar Sex Majik") and Faith no more (both "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust" are amazing). It's great watching you discover it all...
I was 20 when this album came out, it’s F*****G RAD watching you young guns listen to stone cold classics like this for the first time! Reminds me how lucky I was to live through Grunge at the time. My suggestion that is on the edge of Grunge would be Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Not quite grunge but still heavy a.f. In parts and a beautiful album. Keep up the good work lads 👏 ❤
All these albums are part of my playlist on the way to work, now I'm missing Pearl Jam's TEN album, which also has Eddie Vedder as vocalist and thank God he's still alive The drummer for Soundgarden at that time is Matt Cameron, now on Pearl Jam I recommend the Pink Pop show, Ben Shepherd the bassist is an animal
Oh wow guys! You are just like I was with my cousin and my best friend almost 30 years ago hearing this amazing album for the first time! You bring me nostalgia. I loved Soundgarden so much during my teens!
You guys gotta run it back quick with another Cornell album whether it’s soundgarden, Audioslave, temple of the dog, or his first solo album euphoria mourning bc this reaction was fantastic and he has nothing but amazing music
Grew up in the 80s - high school /college drop out 93->>> Grunge is the historical musical movement before the internet destroyed the soul of man. That’s why they all had depression- life as we knew it was about to never be the same. We went to shows to thrash and rock out hard -- no cell phones -- it was the culmination of Rock.. Metal.. Punk and New Wave -- it was EPIC to be alive at that time….. Please 🙏🏼 check Jane’s Addiction - Dinosaur Jr-- Mudhoney -- Stone Temple Pilots
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Thanks to our friend Marlin for coming on! I think we changed his destiny for music after listening to this together.
Marlin blended in really well ! As good as I could have hoped. Hard to enter in like that but did ace.
Thanks for having me on!
I fkn LOVE seeing young ones discover my favorite music 🎶🎶🎶🤘🤘🤘
Fun hangin w you guys Marlin the Wizard was a dope edition y’all should checkout our feat vid finally bout to drop the album got a few others were recording still a big scene here in Seattle🌲🤘
Bleach was 1989 and recorded on almost no budget.
This album is phenomenal. Chris was my favorite singer. He also sang for Audioslave with the musicians from Rage Against the Machine.
Check Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog (1991) to hear what Chris can do vocally. 😊The album is great. Pearl Jam was being created while the album was being made. 8:03
Drummer Matt Cameron is also in Pearl Jam, the last of the grunge kings. Ten (1991) is their masterpiece.
The odd sound at the end of My Wave was the bass.
The previous album Badmotorfinger (1992) is also mandatory.
Dave Grohl (Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters singer) said about Black Hole Sun that the critics said Nirvana was punk meets The Beatles. Dave and Nirvana got to hear this album before it was released while recording In Utero. They were absolutely blown away. Dave said Black Hole Sun was grunge meets the Beatles more so than anything Nirvana ever did.
A demo of spoonman can be heard in the film Singles (1992) which was set in Seattle. Soundgarden and Alice in Chains perform.in it. Chris appears. Pearl Jam act. Chris wrote music for the score. Very good sort of Rom com.
We need badmotorfinger it has in my opinion some of the hardest heaviest vocals in grunge
Yep, although they've already done AiC - Dirt, which is basically the same album, lol
i don't necessarily agree AIC and SG have two different styles and sounds both awesome but both really essential to hear on their own
Unsurprisingly, I'll second that!
@@TerribleEnglish Dude so AIC was inspired by Soundgarden then cose they were first . If you are Deaf then you didn't see difference and I'm sorry for that , different sounds, voices both great albums but totally different.
@@blackcrow4218 They're really similar albums. It's not meant as a diss to either band
Kim Thayil is such an underrated guitarist imo.....
He's great. I met him in the crowed at a Rollins Band/Tool show when Tool was touring for Opiate in 92. It was a small 300 person size club in Seattle. Amazing show!
Undeniably #Unique
It's interesting to watch what Pete Thorn & the other dude used to come up with to cover Kim's parts when they toured with Cornell in the 2000s, because *nobody* can just learn what Kim does!!
He comes up with one unique riff after another, truly one-of-a-kind
@@SPGhettus I think Cornell wrote most of their guitar riffs though? But both of them are (were) unique and great. They often used odd time signatures that didn't feel clunky at all but had a groove and flow. Thayil's leads remind me of Vernon Reid a bit, chaotic but beautiful.
For sure. He is so unique I can't think of anyone that sounds like him at all.
Excited as hell for Jar of Flies
yesss me to nutshell is a very sad but good song!
I'd cream
Jar of Flies is next level!
Chris Cornell also sings on "Temple of the Dog", which may be the best album of the grunge era.
Yeah it’s probably the most emotional and the most heart and soul put into any grunge album. My personal favorite.
The Temple of the Dog album is well worth a listen thru.... & as a follow-on I'd recommend watching the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel for the Seattle scene. ;)
And Audioslave
Temple of the Dog was a mix of most of the biggest Grunge bands. Audioslave was Chris plus Rage Against the Machine. It feels like Grunge artists just loved mixing and matching to make some amazing bands.
Agreed, by far one of the most essential listens in grunge
You get it. Grunge is primal, magical, and emotional, but with zero self-importance.
@dudermcdudeface3674 That's the best description I've read for grunge. You get, brother. It just hits you different. I grew up with it and I always go back to it
Grunge is authenticity first, no pretentiousness.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 that is exactly what grunge is brother. It’s like having the friend you’ve always needed, that gets you fully. There aren’t many things that are as genuine as grunge… especially in this day and age
4th of July is, in my opinion, the greatest grunge song ever made
Agreed. My favorite song of all time. Soundgarden could fuckin doom
@@soundgardengods that song alone changed my whole taste in music. It shuffled on as I was doing work, when they got to the part where Cornell sings over himself with the words “Pale in the flare light, the scared light cracks and disappears” I stopped whatever I was doing, turned up the volume and said to myself WHAT THE F*** IS THIS. I’d never heard anything like it before. Since then I’ve been a huge soundgarden fan and grunge has become my favorite genre. But as much as I love other grunge bands, no one does it like soundgarden
It’s a huge shame the genre’s dying out
@@tyronnemoosa4741 right. and especially for some of us that never got to experience it in its prime :/
@@kx4tee 1000% brother.. can you imagine being in your twenties, in the early 90’s, living in Seattle. Having the chance to experience these 4 great bands redefine what a rockstar is, literally just bleeding their souls to the world… being able to experience them at live events… hearing albums like Dirt, Superunknown and Ten as they were released… and seeing how they influenced a whole generation of people. It really breaks my heart to see that there’s no one trying to reignite this beautiful genre, but It also makes me more appreciative for what these guys did throughout the 90’s, how many lives they saved just by being themselves and making music that you can tell is from the heart and not this pretentious b*llsh*t we’re getting today
One thing not a lot of people mention is how brilliant a rhythm guitarist Cornell was. Dude was able to belt these insane vocal lines while playing odd time-signature riffs. blows my mind to this day
And funky too - he had such character in his voice that it just always made every groove sound so rad
A couple things about this album off the top of my head:
- Spoonman is Artis the Spoonman, a street performer in Seattle, and the breakdown section is him playing spoons (there’s studio footage somewhere on TH-cam)
- Chris fried five mics while recording this album. With his voice.
- 4th of July is about getting pulled over on an acid trip and thinking the lights are fireworks
- Like Suicide is about a bird that flew into Chris’s window and broke its neck, and he had to put it out of its misery
- Chris when asked about the meaning of Fell On Black Days: “"Fell on Black Days" was like this ongoing fear I've had for years...It's a feeling that everyone gets. You're happy with your life, everything's going well, things are exciting - when all of a sudden you realise you're unhappy in the extreme, to the point of being really, really scared. There's no particular event you can pin the feeling down to, it's just that you realise one day that everything in your life is fucked”
Genuinely one of the greatest albums of all time. There will never be another like Chris
did he fry 5 mics on this album or badmotorfinger ? cause if he managed to fry 5 mics on this one he probably destroyed 20 mics on badmotorfinger
@@ShininDays It was in this one alone. Apparently, because they needed a very sensible type of mic to catch his whole range and texture of voice, the mics went nuts and broke, got fried.
But I recall the producer also saying that his voice reverberated against the door at the studio sometimes. So... Yeah.
@@ShininDays Just on Superunknown, I think they were u87s. Produce Like A Pro did an interview with Michael Beinhorn and he mentioned it
you have any idea where Chris talked like suicide
AUDIOSLAVE NEXT!! Listen to their self titled album. It’s Chris Cornell at the vocals, with the band members of rage against the machine. That album is absolutely phenomenal!!
Maybe they should check RATM first if they haven't yet, and other great Soundgarden albums like Badmotofinger or Down On The Upside, then check Audioslave that it's like a perfect fusion of both bands.
YES YES YES
1st Audioslave album was a masterpiece
Cornell with Morello is magic. Audioslave is a MUST.
if you didnt think it was "grungy" enough, listen to their previous album "badmotorfinger", way "dirtier" and aggresive. specially the track "slaves and bulldozers". still really good, though
the first 5 songs on that album are my favorite sequence of songs in all of grunge
Definitely. Badmotorfinger is one of the best albums of the 90’s or grunge in general, hands down.
Yeah, Badmotorfinger is definitely more of that "metal grunge" they like from AIC than the "rock grunge" on this album.
They should have started with Badmotorfinger
@@ThePatchedVestI'd say Superunknown is more like heavy psychedelic, almost Led Zeppelin-ish, and Badmotorfinger is like a Sabbath album.
I told these boys that BMF was their “Dirt”. Hopefully they check it out
Their next album "down on the upside" is a masterpiece. Really heavy and soulfull stuff.
Like Suicide was written after Chris Cornell was writing and a bird crashed into his window and paralyzed itself so chris put down the bird with a stone, it flew into the window just like suicide. My favorite closing track off of any album i’ve ever listened to
Nice to see folk saving me some typing!
Agreed re favourite closing track btw. ;)
The acoustic version is amazing
@@badm0t0rf1nger I was just going to type this. Great song!
It's really clever writing too, "she lived like a murder" sounds like it's describing someone who grabbed life by the throat, but once you know it's about a bird you get the "murder of crows" double meaning as well. (Honestly I liked the song a lot more once I knew what it was about, if you take it all literally it's a bit uhhh)
@@eggstuThe night Cobain died Chris closed SG's show with the acoustic version of Like Suicide. Backstage and at the hotel the band trashed everything and got dead drunk just to numb the pain.
I would recommend Soundgarden's whole discography!
Ten next definitely
I believe 'Mailman' is about a spate of postal workers going on shooting rampages that happened in the 90's which spawned the term 'going postal'.
Mailman. Without spoiling much, is because he's going postal. And because he's going postal.. Mailman.
This album and Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" were released the same day. NIN was 2nd while this album was 1st on the Billboard charts. And I was 15 when this album came out, and it was quite the time to grow up listening to music.
Couple of weeks later Pantera went Number One
Once you guys do Ten you 100% need to do Core by Stone Temple Pilots or of course Jar of Flies by AIC
Alive in the Superunknown 🎵
First it steals your mind, and then it steals your soul 🎵
I loved the reaction boys. What I loved more was the fact you dudes were just chilling and listening to an entire album and discussing it. This was a literal passtime/hobby for ALOT of people back in the days. I feel like alot of younger people today dont do that enough. I got this on Casette tape when I was a boy in 1994 and I really truly consider this Soundgardens Masterclass. Its all killer, no filler.
The thing about grunge is that all these bands from the Seattle area never actually called their brand of Alternative-Rock and scene, "grunge". The music journalists came up with the tag and they really dug "the style" of the Pacific Northwest scene at the time. Record execs and MTV decided to go all in on them(invest), put it in a nest little package for the masses to make money... which turned out to be a great idea from a business standpoint because 1. that scene was cool AF and 2. the musicians and songwriting from this era and part of the world was top tier at that time.
Some other good alternative rock albums from this era that isnt "grunge" but similar is
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Kyuss - Welcome to Skyvalley
Weezer - Blue Albim
...so many other greats from 90s.
Its honestly going to be a chore in a 1/2 to find anything that can top Superunknown. Its a literal 10/10 record. I dont even think Nevermind is as solid as this record.
I agree 100% about the chilling listening to it album and talking about it. We used to sit in a dark room, chill and listen to an album together & talk about the songs
Superunknown iis like 6/7 on the heavy scale and Badmotorfinger is like an 11 both of them are great but they are super different
Yeah, Badmotorfinger made them and this album was overproduced and made to appeal to chicks, a sharp drop off in my opinion
@markshaffer6447 holy shit you're a burnout
@@markshaffer6447 overproduced my ass
Spoonman was a streat performer(playing spoons as percussion instruments) in Seattle. He's in the official music video.
I moved visited Seattle in the early 1980's and move to Seattle area in 1985 and I remember seeing Spoonman down on the waterfront doing his act. Pretty cool they wrote a song and had him perform in the studio.
A Reaction That’ll be Perfect for y’all… Temple of The Dog (Chris Cornell Side Project) & Mad Season (Layne Staley Side Project) arguably my Favorite Albums of the Two 🤘🏼😎
To answer your questions guys, I’m 41 this year, born in 83. Grunge blew up all over tv and the radio when I was a kid. It’s my first real memories of music and it’s by far my favourite scene. Kids and teenagers thought grunge was just straight up badass! Lots of attitude and had their own rebellious look. I feel like they took what bands did in the 70s and went dirtier/heavier and made it their own. I remember as a teen in the late 90s going to house parties and all the dudes had long hair and grunge being cranked on the stereo and bong smoke being blown all over the place. The best memories 🤣🍻🤘
I saw Soundgarden just 2 weeks before he died. I could tell he was off and even mentioned it as we were leaving. Then he was gone.
You did your listen on the 20th??? Seriously?!? The twentieth of July would have been Chris Cornell's 60th birthday. I kid you not.
Old dude here! Was luckier than s#@% to be at uni in Seattle when the grunge scene was growing. Was able to go see bands like Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Tad, Gruntruck, etc, etc on weeknights for $4-5 bucks. Absolutely one of the greatest music scenes of alltime.
Chris Cornell was a god of vocals. Check out the likes of Slaves & Bulldozers, Jesus Christ Pose, or Beyond the Wheel if you want your mind completely blown.
Boys I gotta tell ya I'm a little cooked off an edible but when I close my eyes it's like I'm sitting on the back porch with my buddies just jamming and chilling and damn that's cool
I swear I had forgotten even Mailman slaps
rip chris cornell
the HALF track was sung by Ben Shepard the bass player of the band....I think he wrote that one too....
Hell yeah. I wore this CD out as a kid! You guys need to check out the album Frogstomp by the band Silverchair. They were like 15 when they recorded it and it's a grunge classic.
I was 12 y/o in ‘92, on my way from Florida to England to live, dad was in the Air Force 🇺🇸 my uncle handed me 2 cassette tapes for my Walkman, Alice In Chains-Dirt and Stone Temple Pilots-Core to listen to on the plane ride. Changed my entire life. I didn’t discover Chris Cornell until I heard him and Layne on the song ‘Right Turn’ on AIC ‘Sap’ Ep. 🤘🏼
The next time I saw my uncle when I was back stateside in 2001 he played TOOL Lateralus for me, and I have “spiraled out” ever since!
Definitely some Seattle-ish weather for you here in the UK to match the music on those 2 cassettes! LOL (I know STP are from San Diego, but you wouldn't have guessed by listening to "Core"!)
Sounds like an uncle with great taste tho tbh. :)
I have your same age. Im a november 1980. I really have some cristal clear memories of what was tò listen album like this back in days. It still get with me and bring me joy.
Like Suicide is not nearly as cryptic as it seems once you hear the story: The lead singer woke up in the morning to discover a crow had broken it's neck flying into his window, and was laying there dying, so he finished it off with a brick. "She lived like a murder..." because a group of crows it called a 'murder'. Obviously there are layers, but that's the inspiration.
I’m obsessed with watching you guys take in the music of my childhood! I was born in ‘83 & my exposure to grunge in middle school was nothing short of life-molding, especially as a girl with a twin brother who had ALL the albums on CD & I would take them & play them & try to return them before he noticed 😅😂❤
Me too!!! 83 was great to be born we had the best of all the worlds growing up music wise. Except we missed 70s rock which was incredible
@@jenniferfowler682I’m thankful that my parents (who were born in the mid-late 40s) exposed me to the greats of the 60s & 70s, too. I grew up with Bob Dylan, James Taylor & Joni Mitchell. In high school, my boyfriend exposed me to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, etc. I was highly favored by the rock gods to have that kind of exposure at such a young age 😊❤✌️
Being 42, I find this hilarious and inspiring at the same time. Definitely dig into older music guys. So much great stuff.
That's what I did as a teen in the 90's.
Check out their album Badmotorfinger.❤
I'm glad to have a mother who listens to bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, and so many other great grunge bands.
This is a great Album. I am not sure which I like better, this or Badmotorfinger. Both masterpieces.
personally i gravitate more towards Badmotorfinger, a lot more raw and just full of unbridled energy
Great that two albums are so great like those and hard to pick a fav
After Badmotorfinger I hope they also check Down On The Upside, very underrated album.
Badmo is the energetic puppy who grew into his peak form as Superunknown, then mellowed slightly as Down on the Upside. ;)
Badmotorfinger is a perfect album, this is 4 songs marketed to the chick-rocker market and the rest is album filler BS
Jason Everman played guitar with Nirvana then when he was pushed out ended up playing bass for Soundgarden for a period then went on to be an Army Ranger. He actually put up the money to record Bleach. Chris Cornell's first wife Susan Silver was Soundgarden's manager she also managed Alice in Chains and some other Seattle bands. Matt Cameron is the drummer for Pearl Jam he was also Soundgarden's drummer and Temple of the Dog. He is in a new band now named 3rd Secret that has Krist the bass player from Nirvana, and Kim Thayil the guitar player from Soundgarden in the band.
Tell marlin he's a cool cat
Spoonman is inspired by Artis the spoonman, a street performer in Seattle who makes music by striking spoons. He even performs the "spoon solo" and appears on the music video of the song.
You guys will absolutely LOVE Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder has incredible vocals.
Soundgarden is up on top, every album is good but Badmotorfinger has a special place in my soul.
32:09 speaking for someone who turned 15 in 1995, it was pretty great! But we didn’t realize how great until we could compare it to the next 30 years.
One of my favorite albums of all time. It’s a masterpiece.
The Spoonman was a guy back in the day who used to busk by playing the spoons in Seattle. He's playing a spoon solo in the track if you happen to listen to it again. Shout out to Spoonman and Tubaman Seattle legends.
TUBAMAN!!! ❤❤❤
RIP
I like this trio idea. It was nice having a different vibe added to your mix. Stay as 3!!
I saw him in a tiny bar venu with like 100 people, and he was so cool, when his band took a break mid way he busted out an accoustic and took song requests while just chatting with people about stuff, super nice guy
(Spoonman was a street artist in Seattle who made his show using many spoons as rythm tools, he's the one playing the spoon you can hear in the song)
"Down on the upside" is a great album also
I just had a craving for more Soundgareden after listening to this album. I just finished listening to Badmotorfinger. This is up their with one of my fav albums of the 90s and possibly all time. It is much more upbeat and heavy than Superunkown. If you had to go in to battle or needed an energy boost then this is the album I would choose. Is it grunge, is it hard rock, is it metal. Answer is yes. It is a mix of alot of different types of rock with with element of grunge and metal thrown in. Best vocal performance on any album period. Each Soundgarden album is different from the next. Just because you listen to one Soundgarden album does not mean you know their core sound. Down on the Upside is their follow up to Superunknown and it is one of their least sounding grunge albums. Still has some classic songs on it. I hope you do more Soundgarden as their sound is so varied. Most bands can't even pull off one masterpiece let alone 2 like Soundgarden did in the 90s.
Kim T is a very underrated guitarist. Nothing like watching him live ad play against feedback on "Far Beyond the Wheel"
4th of July is the song I always return to. It's glorious.
I've been meaning to deep dive into Soundgarden's discography for literal years now and this was the perfect gateway. I've listened to Spoonman and Black Hole Sun more times than I can count, but songs like Superunknown and Limo Wreck were songs I never knew I needed to hear!
You need to hear Audioslave. It’s basically Rage Against the Machine with Cornell on vocals. Tom Morello on guitar is amazing!!
We need Temple of the dog ! And Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger !
chris voice is something that really grows on you with time, he's so unique you have to like understand it first🤣
Depends on what you listen to.
Listen to Temple of the Dog or Euphoria Mourning and you realize this dude was like a Top 5 - 10 rock vocalist of all time.
Some of the earlier, scream heavy stuff I agree but Chris Cornell’s discography is so diverse I can’t get on-board with your take
@@BC08 those albums are pure classic and that’s totally true, also just listening to beyond the wheel from 1990 at Düsseldorf is enough to tell how goated he is
@@BC08 100 million percent agreed!
to this day man black hole sun is such a hard song for me to play on guitar .... the memories behind tht song are just something that cant be explained dawg .
fun fact, it's not a womam singing on Half, it's the bassist Ben Shepperd with a bunch of weird production and voice effects, he also wrote the whole song
this is how i felt in the 90's. it's wonderful to see others enjoying the same. absolute love.
Another banger good shit. This is what happens when grunge doesn't mind to be a lil technical, jazzy, and psychedelic. Most songs are not in 4/4 which is kinda crazy for a "mainstream" alt rock album. And it's still fucking grunge -- its has that indescribable vibe and some of the most devastating lyrics of any grunge album. An amazing record all around.
Oh, you're going to enjoy Pearl Jam!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I'm pretty certain that TEN altered my reality when I first listened to it.
It's phenomenal, start to finish. 💯💯💯💯💯
I was 19 in 1990, so I was thrilled with & completely immersed in Grunge.
I hope you'll soon discover/stream UNDERTOW by TOOL, 1993.
If u haven't already; I'll have to go look.
Enjoy your journey into Grunge!!
🎉🎉🎉
P.S. Drummer Matt Cameron played for and toured with both Soundgarden AND Pearl Jam simultaneously!! #badass
Pearl Jam Ten and STP core next up
What are you guys' top 3 songs from Superunknown ?
Mine are (probably):
-Limo Wreck
-Mailman
-The day i tried to live
Fantastic album. Love Soundgarden, it was cool to see your reactions to it!
I turned 50 this year. back in early 90 or late 91 a friend of mine who was going to college gave me a kinda mix tape, but it was put out by the producer from Seattle. It was called SUBPOP, and it had NIrvana, Tad, Screaming Trees, Green River and many other bands that were playing with heavy bass, punk and blues. He took me to a show in a 150 capacity venue called Gabe's Oasis and we saw Nirvana and TAD. Blew me away. Later that year, I went to a show with 3 headliners and a band i'd never heard of. The headliners were Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. I was ready to MOSH. Then this skinny guy with blond dreads walked on stage, lit a bunch on incense sticks and a big incense brick. Sat down in front of the mic stand and just kinda swung his head back and forth for awhile. The lights dimmed, red/green light covered the stage, the blond stood up, the band came out. And I heard Layne Stayley for the first time. Alice in Chains absolutely blew my soul into oblivion. Rest of the show was good, Slayer being the best, but about a month after that show, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit started getting radio and MTV airplay, and what became the Seattle movement began. I was a junior in HS. We Gen Xers are so lucky to have lived in the times we did.
Pearl Jam TEN, hell yeah!!!!! enyoing so much these grunge albums.
Being a teen in the 90s was amazing for music. You look at the many thriving genres and everyone had their opportunity to shine. That's what makes our generation so eclectic. Loved that time.
We need more MBKILLER5000!!!!!
My favourite quote "I get that, but this is ACTUAL music"😂 it is rare for us older people who grew up with this as the only music, to be able to explain the concept to young guys like you...thank you for educating the younger generation and sparking new interest in these masterpieces of the past ❤
my biggest fucking flex bro is having the guitarist signature guitar bro like fuckkkk man this band and chris cornell bro saved my dam life
Black Hole Sun is a grunge masterpiece
Live through this by hole,amazing album
As a random Scotsman who is old enough to remember buying Badmotorfinger & Superunknown on day of release, I'm thankful to the invasive algorithm for popping this up in my recommendeds! Always nice to see some young'uns appreciate some quality music rather than the sh!t the industry seems to fill the charts with these days. :)
I reckon y'all would enjoy the Temple of the Dog album. The quick over-simplified story is that Chris Cornell was sharing a house with Andrew Wood, singer of another Seattle band called Mother Love Bone. Sadly he died of a drug overdose. Cornell basically wrote the Temple of the Dog album as a send-off for Andy. Remaining members of MLB got together to record the songs with Cornell, new singer Eddie Vedder, & Matt Cameron of Soundgarden on drums. Those musicians (minus Cornell & Cameron) went on to be a band called Pearl Jam. Some truly great moments thru the Temple of the Dog album. If y'all are interested in knowing more, I recommend the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel of that Seattle scene & these events, as well as loads more about Pearl Jam thru the next 20years. ;)
Like suicide is about a bird who flew into Chris Cornell’s glass sliding door and killed its self like suicide.
Spoon man is about a street performer who played the spoons, I also think imo (my theory) that it has some metaphors for heroin use. People obviously cook it in spoons. “All my friends are brown and red” -the heroin and blood in the needle? “All my friends are skeletons” -the heroin addicts
Can’t do Layne, Kurt and Chris without listening to Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Fax, ten is a must after this
Please listen to Purple or Core by stone temple pilots
Bro, EXACTLY what I was about to type when i saw your comment. They NEED to do both of those albums for sure.
Purple
4th of July is literally a song about being fucked up on acid during 4th of july and Cornell thinking the world was ending 💀
No the real story is that the 4 members of the band just wrote random thoughts and then they compiled it into a song. Chris had a bad prescription drugs addiction
@@Babbitz Chris told the story of him being on acid and having a bad trip. He said that from his own mouth.
I loved this reaction! Consider reacting to The Colour and The Shape (foo fighters), I know you guys would love that album.
One of my favorite albums of all time!
Love what you're doing here guys. Marlin blended in perfectly! Chris Cornell is one of my favorite singers of all time. I must suggest: Faith No More (Band) - "The Real Thing" (Album) from June of 1989
mannnnn love the fact yall did this .... learned this entire album on thr guitar in higschool and ill never fucking forget it man even the slightest smell takes me back to those days afterschool blasting this nonstop
I hope for the 5th album you guys listen to the album that inspired ALL of this grunge you're listening to: Doolittle - Pixies
Not only an absolutely amazing album but it's the album that inspired the whole Seattle scene and the one that you can point back to and say, "yeah, this is where Grunge took off." Tons of other great grunge bands to pick up later on down the line too, along with listening to the rest of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc. that you've already been exposed to.
And once you guys are done with Grunge I hope you move into the mid-late 90s era that Grunge evolved into which is alt rock. You would absolutely fucking LOVE listening to bands like Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is unique and amazing with better lyrics than anything you've heard on the channel yet) or Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl going from drummer in Nirvana to the biggest rockstar in the world with the debut self-titled Foo Fighters album being written, produced, and having every instrument played by him) or Radiohead, Weezer, Bush, Oasis, etc.
Also you should check out Temple of the Dog as a special bonus 6th grunge album, supergroup with members from all these bands you're listening to here (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc.) who only did one amazing album that you absolutely have to hear.
That said, with everything going on in the world right now, I think the album you really need to hear is Rage Against the Machine.
There's no genre, it's never going to fit in with any other groups, and the message and lyrics and musicality are on another fuckin level. RATM will change your life and you won't just need lyrics, you'll need to do 6 hours of Google searches after the album just to understand their references. Which will then change your entire perspective on life after realizing a rock group from 30 years ago is the only reason you know about the shit you're going to learn and that all the stuff they are singing about is somehow even more relevant today :P
As much as the crew enjoys grunge, you should check out Singles, the movie set in the grunge scene. Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament appear as the bandmates of one of the main characters. The actor is the lead singer, so Eddie is the drummer. A couple of characters go to an Alice in Chains show, you get parts of "It Ain't Like That" and "Would" live, and in another club, Soundgarden is playing "Birth Ritual", one y'all haven't heard yet, but it's on the excellent soundtrack. Cornell also makes a separate cameo.
To me, that movie holds a special place. The lead character guy worked for the Dept. Of Transportation. I worked in Seattle for the Dept. Of Transportation from 1990-1998. Yeah, that shit hit home. 😂😂😂
@@charliemac64 Singles followed a few plot lines, but if you're talking about the lead I think you are, didn't they more or less cast him as a less-talented Andrew Wood? He was Cornell's roommate and in a band with Ament and Gossard.
@@SPGhettus You're right...there really wasn't a "lead." I'm talking about the guy that hooked up with Kyra Sedgwick. He was pushing the bullet train at his work.
You're thinking of Matt Dillon's character, the singer of the band "Citizen Dick." I have a flyer from a "show" they did that I picked up at the last Temple of the Dog show in Seattle a few months before Cornell's passing. :(
I was 18 in 1995. It was a great time to be young. Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam (Check out their album "Ten") Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden ("Badmotorfinger" is just as good), Temple of the Dog,.Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Blood Sugar Sex Majik") and Faith no more (both "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust" are amazing). It's great watching you discover it all...
This album along with Tool and Alice in Chains (among many others) were essential to my teen years through highschool
I was 20 when this album came out, it’s F*****G RAD watching you young guns listen to stone cold classics like this for the first time! Reminds me how lucky I was to live through Grunge at the time. My suggestion that is on the edge of Grunge would be Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Not quite grunge but still heavy a.f. In parts and a beautiful album. Keep up the good work lads 👏 ❤
All these albums are part of my playlist on the way to work, now I'm missing Pearl Jam's TEN album, which also has Eddie Vedder as vocalist and thank God he's still alive
The drummer for Soundgarden at that time is Matt Cameron, now on Pearl Jam
I recommend the Pink Pop show, Ben Shepherd the bassist is an animal
Oh wow guys! You are just like I was with my cousin and my best friend almost 30 years ago hearing this amazing album for the first time! You bring me nostalgia. I loved Soundgarden so much during my teens!
Hoping for Faith No More : Angel Dust and Stone Temple Pilots : Purple to come soon!!
Shoutout to the editor, those cuts during the music are clean as hell
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
some people dont consider them grunge but they had the spirit
You three guys react very good together. Definitely great chemistry!
Back in the day, it was summer '94, head down blasting and some window pane tabs.. if you know, you know..
You guys gotta run it back quick with another Cornell album whether it’s soundgarden, Audioslave, temple of the dog, or his first solo album euphoria mourning bc this reaction was fantastic and he has nothing but amazing music
Chris’s voice crushes all others
Core by Stone Temple Pilots is *A MUST*
Definitely bring Marlin back at some point. The dude appreciates this stuff for sure!
Grew up in the 80s - high school /college drop out 93->>> Grunge is the historical musical movement before the internet destroyed the soul of man. That’s why they all had depression- life as we knew it was about to never be the same. We went to shows to thrash and rock out hard -- no cell phones -- it was the culmination of Rock.. Metal.. Punk and New Wave -- it was EPIC to be alive at that time….. Please 🙏🏼 check Jane’s Addiction - Dinosaur Jr-- Mudhoney -- Stone Temple Pilots