That’s not to say these guys don’t have chops: Chris Cornell has the sort of soaring, muscular voice Ian Astbury can only dream of, while guitarist Kim Thayil comes across like the Edge with an attitude, but they do seem more inclined to beat a riff into submission than strut their stuff by playing rings around it … (the songs) are mean, lean and fighting fit … yet as basic as the band’s musical architecture seems on the surface, there’s a surprising finesse to these arrangements …” “… Soundgarden pushes the envelope … like Danzig or the Cult, Soundgarden takes its cues from metal’s new primitivism, eschewing virtuosity for the brutish efficiency of simple aggression. Big Dumb Sex was made famous thanks to a cover version on the 1993 Guns N’ Roses album The Spaghetti Incident?.
Soundgarden’s major label debut, 1989’s Louder Than Love hints at things to come with songs like Loud Love, Hands All Over and Get On The Snake. Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M Records Superunknown was remastered for a 20th Anniversary re-release special edition in 2014.Soundgarden – Louder Than Love (1989/2016)įLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:08 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Rock It won Best Metal/Hard Rock Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards and the 1995 Clio Award for Alternative Music Video. The music video for Black Hole Sun, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, was a huge hit on MTV. It attracted a 1995 Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album and two of the five singles released from the album won a Grammy – Black Hole Sun for Best Hard Rock Performance and Spoonman for Best Metal Performance. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. As Rolling Stone concluded, “it demonstrates far greater range than many bands manage in an entire career.” At the same time it explored a menacing interior landscape teeming with pain, fear, fury and defiance. An immediate #1 album in the States, it netted Soundgarden two Grammys, shifted millions of units worldwide, and introduced the band to a mass TV audience via the video for Black Hole Sun.
Mainstream success came with the Marelease of Superunknown.
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