August 17, 2025 • 37 mins
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl, Adam and I discuss the fourth studio album that debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 310,000 copies in it’s opening week. That band is Soundgarden and the album is Superunknown.
Song of the Week!
Man On A Mission - The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers
Gremmie Out of Control - Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs
Stump The Barron!
John the Fisherman - Primas - Frizzle Fry
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Genre: Grunge
Release Date: March 8, 1994
Studio(s): Bad Animals (Seattle, Washington)
Producer(s): Michael Beinhome, Soundgarden
Label: A&M
Length: 70:13
Number of Tracks: 15
If you like the music featured on this episode please check out today’s episode you can get links on this episode's webpage. If you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
Song of the Week!
Man On A Mission - The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers
Gremmie Out of Control - Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs
Stump The Barron!
John the Fisherman - Primas - Frizzle Fry
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Genre: Grunge
Release Date: March 8, 1994
Studio(s): Bad Animals (Seattle, Washington)
Producer(s): Michael Beinhome, Soundgarden
Label: A&M
Length: 70:13
Number of Tracks: 15
If you like the music featured on this episode please check out today’s episode you can get links on this episode's webpage. If you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl, abb and I
discussed the four studio album that debuted at number one
on the Billboard two hundred, selling three hundred and ten
thousand copies in its opening week. That band is Soundgarden
and the album is super Unknown. Been a crazy couple
(00:42):
of weeks, it has, it really has. You went on
vacation then lo and behold we got nominated, yeah for something.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, the wife and I took a belated anniversary team
to the beach, had a couple of good days in
the sun. I thought we were going to have an
additional one, but everybody started getting sick back home, so
we OpEd in the car, started driving back, and by
the time we got home, everbody was fine. Oh so
it was kind of unnecessary, but oh well, we got
a lot done that that extra day at home.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So that's good. That's good man. Yeah, that thing's been
for you, buddy. Just kind of crazy, yeah, kind of crazy.
Just busy work, you know, life work. We want to
talk about work, life, Yeah, I understand, you know everything. Yeah,
you know, trying to get a bunch of golf as
I can. Uh, you know, we kind of over vacation.
We got not we got nominated.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, we got on a list of I guess the
best best in Arkansas in Arkansas, and we were one
of five podcasts that were selected, nominated, nominated, and we
want to call it to uh potentially be best in Arkansas,
which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know how we got there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Thank you if somebody put us on the list, if
you just went out there, random person at the Arkansas
Democrat Caazette and looked at who has podcast in Arkansas
and found that we were one of five. Great, that's cool,
appreciate it. Thank yous and tens of listeners. Hey, we'll
take whatever we can get.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
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Speaker 2 (02:12):
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any other podcasts. I didn't either, to be honest with you,
I had no they existed. So but I appreciate everyone's support.
Seems like we've got some people that like the channel,
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(02:38):
twenty fourth. Adam will continue to spam everyone yep. So
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and we get recognized and hopefully grow the channel a
little bit more.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Maybe get a small cash prize that we can use
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Speaker 1 (02:50):
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Speaker 2 (02:53):
Cash infusions are welcome, yep. Text payable to Adam Barron's board.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Hey, so the week I picked a track. Black Keys
got a new album out. The album's titled No Rain,
No Flowers. What I have is I've been just hint
missing on the album, just kind of listening to it.
This is a track called Man on a Mission Clocks.
They have three minutes of thirty two seconds. It kind
of gave me a little bit of the old school.
(03:20):
So I don't think you're gonna like it because it's
got no base in it, okay, but got a little
funk to it. It sounds like there's a basic Yeah,
it's a little bit on the underline. This album is
a little bit different. It's broader, unless kind of raw
bluesy like some of their older albums. Still kind of
listening to it. Don't know if I'm gonna pick it
up on vinyl, but they're just expanding their sound and
(03:40):
it's got a nice groove to it, and I like
the little, uh, you know, the guitar riff. I kind
of like it. Yeah, it's not bad. This one's growing
on me. Yeah, this is pretty good, man. Yeah, it's
a little bit different. So just check out the No Rain,
No Flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, I wasn't the biggest fan of the first
Black Keys album, the Win we covered, but I kind
of dig this, man.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't check it out. It's on their new ones out.
It's on the Apple Music Spotify. So nice. It's a
good one. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go check that
one out. I'm liking the sound of this track. Yeah,
it's a little bit it's different, but in a good way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's got some low end, which, in all honesty, not
just because I'm a bass player, I like that extra.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Dimension of the low end in there. To me, it
does a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Not every band has to have it, I mean, like,
for instance, Japandroids, like they don't have low end, but
I love their stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It seems the low ends it adds. Yes, it does
add for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So all right man, Yeah, so for mine, you know,
I had to do something with a sound Garden tie
in MM. So of course it's not just because of
the fact that it's Pearl Jam, who is you know,
a fellow Seattle band and we're good friends with Soundgarden.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What was the movie Singles Singles.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Where like they both Eddie Vedder' and the movie Chris
Cornell's in the movie. Yeah, a lot of the same scenes.
But this track is actually by Pearl Jam. It's called
Grammy out of Control. It's a cover of a Jimmy
Haskell and a Gary Esher song. Those guys I think
they have Grammys between them. I mean, like they're old
school songwriters. But this was on the music for Our
(05:06):
Mother Ocean Volume one compilation, which I actually bought from
Hastings and Fayetteville, Arkansas, out on the day. Because I
saw the artist listing, I was like, there's a lot
of great artists on here. I mean there's sound Garden,
there's porners for Pyro's, a whole bunch of other like
nineties bands on there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And all of them were kind of doing little things
like that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like surfey stuff. I think this one benefited the Surfrider Foundation.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But the reason I picked this song is because the
fact that it ties in with the album that we're
covering today. Another song on that like compilation is by
Sound Garden. It's called My Wave, which is of course
track two from super Unknown. So it's funny. When I
was thinking of what to pick, I was like, you
know what, Oh, it's cool. I remember this song. I
remember My Wave was on the compilation, and I was like,
(05:52):
that's a that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, I'm you know, like this is it's on Lost Dogs.
It's on the Lost Dogs compilation. Relation. Yes, and that's
a great album to have because like that's the only
place you can get a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Songs, those old Pearl Jam B sides and such that
we're really only.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Available on the singles. Yeah, I've been thinking about next
time I see that vinyl, I'm gonna have to pick
it up just to have those B sides. Yeah, because
that's because especially and it's focused on the B sides
from the early stuff, which is I think it's really good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So if you like this Pearl Jam cover of an
old surf track, you can either get it on the
Lost Dogs compilation and released by Pearl Jam other B
sides and such, or you can get it on Music
for Our Mother Ocean Volume one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Cool. All right, are you ready? Let's do it? All right,
it's that time of the week and it's time for
another episode of Stuffed the Baron, Stuff the Baron. I
pick a random song from a random genre had them
with all of his uh semi genre specific general knowledge
music attempts to guess the artists.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The album on the Sometimes yeah, man, all right, so
let's see what you got for me there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, so good week. We are in the year nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety, okaineteen. This could be dicey for me. Yeah,
it could be.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I was listening to a lot of oldies in nineteen ninety. Oh, okay,
I think you'll recognize it. Okay, I think you'll recognize this.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
All right, it's so recognizable I'm not even going to
give you a clue. Okay, that's fine. So I think
after listening to the intro, you're like, oh, it's this.
You at least recognize the band, and I think the
but I thought it was fun came out on the
other day and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I was like, oh man, I'm not getting anything right
off the bat, but maybe as it gets a little deeper.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I know. That's why I picked this one. I mean,
it's got Primus written all over it. It is Primus.
It was used on the Guitar Hero. Do you remember
the Guitar Hero video game? I know this song. I
(08:02):
know the name of this song, Ah not come into
my mind. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It too is I've been on Primus kick lately, but
I've been listening to a lot of Jerry as a
race car driver.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it's on their debut It's on their debut album too,
dang it. I know this song. Yeah, driving me insane
that I can't think of the name of it right now. Crap.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't know why, but for some reason, I've really
been into Primus lately.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think it's because the musicianship.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
These guys, like all three of them were just amazing musicians. Yeah,
not just Less Claypool, I mean, like Brain that dude
Man and Lure both just fantastic musicians.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Crap, all right. It is the six track off their
debut album, Frizzle Fry, and it's called John the Fisherman,
John the Fisherman. John the Fisherman is the first part
of a four part story called The Fisherman's Crown, which
continued on Primus's later albums. Its immediate sequel was fish
On on nineteen ninety one Sailing the Seas of Cheese Yeah,
(09:08):
followed by the Old Diamondback Sturgeon on nineteen ninety three's
Pork Soda, and most recently the Little the track titled
Last Salmon Man, which is on two thousand and one's
Green Naga Hide. Okay, yeah, I don't think I ever
heard that one. Yeah, so this is just the beginning.
And apparently he wrote songs about fishing because his dad
(09:30):
used to take him fishing a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No, that's cool, So I got the band at least
yeh yeah, shoot yeah. As soon as I heard the bass,
I was like, that's less clapable, I can tell.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, Well I figured you'd you'd catch up in the
base game, Oh for sure. Yeah. All right, man, we're
ready to cover a super Unknown by sound Guard.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, do you mind if I hit some history about
the band before we really get cracking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Into sure before we do the track by track.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, let's do that. I feel like I'm always trying
to squeeze it in there, all right, Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, go ahead and hit the history of the band.
That's the first time we're doing it, and then I'll
start the dormle intro t. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So super Unknown released March eighth, nineteen ninety four Michael Beinhorn,
who had also worked with Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Ozzy Osbourne, Hole,
Marilyn Manson, and corn It was recorded at Bad Animals
Studio in Seattle, Washington, who got Chris Cornell on the
vocals and guitar, Kim Fale on lead, Ben Sheppard on bass,
and Matt Cameron on the drums. So Soundgarden was formed
in nineteen eighty four in Seattle. Originally it was Chris
(10:22):
Cornell on drums and vocals, Kim Fale on guitar, and
hero Yamamoto on bass. Cornell actually moved to rhythm guitar
in nineteen eighty five, and hero Yamamoto left in nineteen
eighty nine, which left a huge hole in the band.
I know, it kind of almost broke their hearts. So
they ended up signing with A and M Records. They
were the first grunge band to sign with a major label.
Matt Cameron joined on the drums in nineteen eighty six,
(10:44):
with Ben Sheppard joining on bass in nineteen eighty nine
after hero Yamamoto left. So here's an interesting thing. You
ever heard of Jason Everman. Yes, yeah, So Jason Everman,
original guitar player in Nirvana. He actually financed himself, like
the six hundred and six dollars it costs to record
Bleach Okay. And he was like, I think he gets
(11:05):
a credit, he gets his picture in the album artwork,
but like, I don't know that he necessarily. I think
he played on all the tracks, but anyone on the
tour after that, and I think the band fired him. Well,
he was getting ready to join No, he's getting ready
to go to the Himalayas and go hike the Himalayas
when Kim Faale called and said, hey, we need a
(11:26):
bass player. Hero left, So Jason Everman actually stepped in
went on tour with them, but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Get along with Chris Cornell and he was fired.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So after Everman was fired from the band, which it
really broke his heart because Soundgarden was his favorite band
of that era, so getting to play with them was
like a huge.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Deal for you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
After that, he actually went on to join the military
in nineteen ninety four, he became an Army airborne ranger.
I think he did that for a while, got out
of the military, and in the early two thousands was
offered the chance to join special Forces. So he went
on become a Special Forces operator for many years, and
I think he eventually went on to go to Colombia
(12:07):
and got a degree undergrad from Columbia, and then he
got a master's in military history from somewhere else. But like,
super interesting guy, Jason Everman, I wanted to talk about him.
He was on Joe Rogan's podcast a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I remember I was having a conversation about this, maybe
like a year or so ago.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, his story is really cool. Go listen to that
episode of Joe Rogan. You will not find a more
like renaissance man, almost famous kind of guy than Jason Everman.
Out there played with two of the biggest bands in
the grunge era, so back to sound Garden. They released
three studio albums Ultra Mago Okay in nineteen eighty eight,
Louder than Love in nineteen eighty nine and Bad motor
(12:43):
Finger in nineteen ninety one, before releasing the album We're
talking about today super Unknown in nineteen ninety four. So
let's hit it man.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right. Kicking off super Unknown is track one. Track
one is titled let Me Down and clocks in at
three minutes and fifty one seconds. Let me drown, let
me drown. What did I call it? Let me down?
Let me down? Yeah? Close? Well, yeah, just let me drown.
I missed my arm. That's all right, nough. That's what
I get for making notes really quick anyway. The album
consists of as fifteen tracks, five of which were released
(13:14):
as singles. Clocks in it's kind of long, seventy minutes
and thirteen seconds, Yes, little History. The Soundgarden began work
on the album two months after finishing the nineteen ninety
two Yeah. Yeah, and it comes out pretty good. I
actually don't mind it as an opening track. Yeah, so
(13:35):
I used to I have a core memory of this song. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was a swimmer in high school and my swim
coach actually worked at a restaurant that my uncle owned,
and a lot of times we'd have these swim meets
far away, and my parents couldn't take my sister and I,
so we'd hop in with him.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And every time we'd hop in his.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Car and go to like Lamar, Missouri, or Branson or
Joplin or wherever he'd pop in super Unknown and first
track is let Me Drown. So I have many memories
of leavings out Spring, Arkansas to this song. Oh that's funny, yeah, man,
I mean it's I love the breakdown section before the
solo that really caught my attention. Yea, the bass and
(14:11):
guitar and that that area are doing completely different things
and yet it works.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Works.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's really cool and it's a good song, man. Like
I think this one gets off to a good start.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It's almost like between the guitar and the bass part,
it's like a different rhythm track compared to the drum. Yeah,
and that's what I like about it. Yeah, it's like
there's something going on in the background. It works, and
you can distinctly hear it and it works. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I agree with you, like everything about this track. I
think it just like you said, works, Yeah, it works.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah. I mean so a little bit before we switch
songs here, let's.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Talk about super unknown, So it got five stars from Q,
the rolling Stone Album Guide, All Music, Blender, Spin. It
was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammys. YEP
number three hundred and thirty five on the rolling Stone
five hundred Greatest Albums of All Time, number thirty eight
on the rolling Stone Greatest Albums of the Nineties, number
eighteen on the Alternative Press ninety Greatest Albums of the Nineties,
(15:05):
number seventy on Kerreng's one hundred Albums You Must Hear
Before You Die, and included in the Believe It's a book,
The one thousand Albums You Must.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Hear Before you Die.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like you said, it went to number one on the
US Billboard two hundred, number one on the cash Box
Album Charts, and number four on the UK Albums Charts.
It went six times platinum in the US, platinum in
the UK, and over seven million.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Copies were sold worldwide.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So this album was huge, Yeah, I mean really, I
think it was most folks introduction to sound Gardens and
it was their fourth studio album. Yeah, fourth studio album,
so I mean, don't get me wrong. They had a
following for a long time, but it was a very local.
I mean, I had I knew bad motor Finger, Yeah right.
I think it was the album you heard about. You
might have even heard, No I had, but it wasn't
(15:46):
like the big album. This was their breakout, yeah, because
I had it before, uh super before Superunnown came out
and they went supernown.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But I never listened to sound Garden as intently as
I did this album. Yeah, it was there is in
my catalog. I just didn't listen to it near near
as munch as I did like Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Well,
and like a lot of the bands or even Alison
Chains and Stuntled Pilots. It was just one of those.
(16:15):
But where I really got into sound Garden was Audio Slave, Okay.
And when I started listen to Audio Slave, I went
back and really started listening to more of the catalog
of sound Gardens.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Gotcha, That's funny because I went the opposite direction.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I started with sound Garden and then eventually like oh
audio Slave okay, oh Rage and Chris Cornell.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, I mean I had, I had it, I just
never didn't listen to it as deeply as I did
something all right. The second track off the album super
Unknown is titled My Wave Clocks in at five minutes
and twelve seconds. My Wave was a promotional single on
the on the album. It was released in North America
(16:57):
and peaked at number eleven on the Mainstream Rocks chart
Mber eight eighteen on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Yeah so again.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
First time I heard this was when I when I
bought the mom compilation music for our Mother Ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I like my Wave. It's a good song. It is.
It's a really good song.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What's cool about it is that it actually alternates between
different time signatures, So it has a five to four
time during this main riff in the verses and then
a four to four time in the choruses. So that's
one thing that Soundgarden does on this album, along with
alternate tunings which give their guitars the chording a totally
different voicing than your standard bar chords. And you hear
(17:34):
it like when you listen to the guitar, it's like, man,
he's doing something different and getting these chord voicings that
I've never heard before.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right, And as he's playing the rhythm part right the riff,
Cornell's lyrics are tied with the riff and the drum.
Underlying drum beats tied with it, so you get this.
The lyrics are very punchy because the notes and everything
hit at the same everything hits together. It's like boom
boom boom. You can yep, they're all in in sequence, right,
(18:02):
and then I think that's what.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's very Yeah, it's very rhythmic in the approach vocally
and musically.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The tuning on this is hilarious to me.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's E B B B E that makes sense, which
I mean, that's what gives it that real sonic, almost
octave sound.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think whenever you hear Kim Fish, you've got two different,
two different You know that even with the sixth string
and the fi string, tune to E you've got a
deeper and then a slightly.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Higher exactly a lot of octaving in there, which I
think sounds really cool, and.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There's a lot of that on this album.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I mean, Soundgarden, you hear these unique chord voicings throughout
this album, and this is kind of our first example
of that, and you'll hear a lot more of it.
But man, like, I love the the wad bass that
Ben Sheppard throws it occasionally as well, and this song
has some of that in there. It's just a great song, man,
I love my wave. It's one of the songs I think,
(18:57):
like one of my top three or four songs from
this album. Oh yeah, that's good, all right, man, So
on to another really good one.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah. This is a Fell on Black Days, which is
the fifth and final single, If It Will Load, was
released on the January sixteenth, nineteen ninety five. It included
several b sides Kyle Petty, son of Richard Motorcycle Loop,
and a demo of the single and a demo of
the single Fell on Black Days as well. If I
could get it to load, that would be great. If not,
(19:28):
we're gonna move on to the next one. And just
everyone should know what Fell on Black Days is because
it's wife they.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Know, oh I mean, And it's such a great song
from this album, man. I mean it starts off really
low key and then builds throughout the song and it
gets a little bit louder at each transition, which I
think is a really cool dynamic.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And again like another song and a really odd time signature.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's in six'.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
FOUR i don't know about, you BUT i remember this
song being all over the radio AND i still hear
it often to, know there's something about this song that
just kind of makes it very. Accessible it's not the
biggest hit on the, album but, no it's like an
unmistakable rift that because it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Peaked at number fifty four on its tenth. Week, yeah
it released as a, single so it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Wasn't a huge, single but it's a good freaking Good
Man creats.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Song, YES i mean when you look at, like Let
Me down was, good my, wave let me, drown, no
just let me everyone's let Me down. LATELY i think
that's What i'm focused, on is focused on. THAT i
was talking to someone like, TODAY i was, like you,
know you really let me down? Today and My wave
is pretty catchy as a, single, right and then you've
Got fell In Black, days which is another. One so you,
(20:35):
know you're you're talking at a pretty lengthy, album but
so far the tracks are pretty. Good oh, yeah, YEAH.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I mean this, song it's another one of those where
it might not have been the biggest, single but it's
instantly recognizable as soon as you hear that opening.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Rift all.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
RIGHT i think that's when something That soundgarden does really
well on this album is. Riffing, YEAH i, agree all, right,
man all, right track number, Four. Mailman it's the four
track off the, album clocks in at four minutes a
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Second great heavy. Riff, yeah it's just it's still kind
of that distinct guitar, tone. Right tuning is probably. Different
tuning IS C G D G.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
B, e so they drop it INTO c for the low,
string which you definitely hear. HERE i mean that's, yeah
very very, thick very. Thick it's very, thick and again
unique chord voicing is just like you. SAID i, MEAN
i love you have this like super deep heavy riff
and Then Chris cornell is really soulful vocals right.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Here, YEAH i mean it it doesn't seem like it should,
work but it really. DOES i, know because he comes
in it's very, dark but then you Hear cornell's vocal
breakthrough and it's almost.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Eerie, yeah and it just. WORKS i, MEAN i, agree,
Man and then he turns it up at the end
and it sounds. FANTASTIC i, mean it's a great. SONG
i think it's like that deep cut from the. Album,
yeah it's just a really good.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Song. YEAH i was really. Surprised IS i like? It
when we have A i can listen through over and
over and over. Again, yeah and this is one of.
Those was in the gym and a lot of other.
Stuff it was a good. One, yeah all. Right track
number five is Super. Unknown it clocks in in five
minutes and six seconds and it's the title, track so.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It definitely shows Off Chris cornell's vocal. Jobs, YEAH i,
mean he's got a great.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Range and this is another like when you look At
meilman and you look at even Super, unknown this, SONG i, believe,
Well mailman is probably a deep. CUT i think Super
unknown could have been a. Single, yeah it's kind of. Catchy.
YEAH i Mean i'll actually.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Say he's not musically my favorite on the, album but
vocally it's.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Great.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
YEAH i MEAN i get a little bored with the
progression personally that it's kind of back and. Forth but, again, vocally,
man he just freaking nails it on this. Song and
even to say, that like it's not my favorite, song
this is a great.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Album.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
THIS i, mean there's a few others THAT i like
even less than, this BUT i, mean, yeah it's the.
Same this one is there for. Me but it's not
like Something i'm just gonna oh. Skip, no it's not as,
skippable but it's a good. Song it's just you, know
it could hold its own as a later.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Single, sure, yeah, Yeah i'm with you there all. Right
Head down is the six track and clocks in it
just over six. Minutes this is a little bit of
a departure from the first five.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Trucks, yeah so again CGCGG e.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Tuning BUT i like how the intro comes in because
it feels like it's, building.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, well and that that acoustic actually reminds me Of
burden In My hand from the next album down on the,
upside it has that feel at the beginning. Here the
down tuning of the acoustic is what really stuck out to.
Me it really gives this a, cool heavy quality with
almost like A Middle eastern feel to. It, yeah like a, Cintaur,
yeah like a guitar type of.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Thing. Yeah, yeah definitely a little Bit zeppelin inspired for.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Sure And Matt cameron's drumming, here good, Lord, yeah he
just nails it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well the whole intro to the. SONG i think it's
really it's.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
AWESOME i, MEAN i really love this. SONG i think
this song in particular has been called out like in
the magazines and on the forums and all that is
like one Of Matt cameron's best drumming, efforts.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
AND i agree with.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
IT i, MEAN i love this song and his drumming
is definitely the standout for me on this. One, yeah
but it's just this song has got a vibe to,
it AND i love you have the heavy, guitar but
you've also got that acoustic going in the background with
thick which thickens thing is up and it just sounds. Great,
Yeah So i'm all right, Now onto a, Classic onto a.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Classic the third single off the album there was released
On may, thirteenth nineteen ninety, four is titled Black Hole
Sun Black hole sung clacks in five minutes and eighteen.
Seconds besides to this single included an acoustic version of
the fifteenth track Like, suicide and a live version of
the eleventh track off the, album Titled. Kickstand like a
lot of singles From, soundgarden this was another chart topper
(24:52):
around the, globe number one on the mainstream Rock goboard. Chart,
Yeah i'm not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Surprised, YEAH i, mean you remember when we went to
See guns And, Rows, yeah and they played Black Hole.
Sun axel pretty much nailed, it, Actually, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It was a really good. Coach it was a great
cover of the. Song, well a cool tribute To chris
Corn it really, was BECAUSE i think that was kind
of right After it was.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right around the TIME i think we Saw guns And
roses in twenty seventeen or twenty, eighteen and he had
just passed in twenty. Seventeen, SO i, mean, man this
it's hard to pick Between Black Hole sun And Spoon.
Man as to, like what's the quintessential song from this,
Album i'd argue Black Hole, sun like in a photo,
finish because it's it's hard to pick between the. Two
(25:34):
this is one of those songs that never gets old
with the creepy guitar work over the descending picked rhythm.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Line, yeah it's kind of one of. Those when it's,
on it's but to me it hasn't been oversaturated right
now play when it comes, on it's, like oh, sweet
it's a Black hole.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Song, yeah it sets a. Vibe, man it leads up
perfectly to those bombastic. Choruses that slow, PACE i, mean
another song that shows the full scope Of Chris cornell's vocal.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Register. YEP i, mean, man.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's so it isn't my Favorite soundgarden, song but it's
definitely in the top.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
THREE i like. IT i think it's a good.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Song, YEAH i mean it's a. CLASSIC i mean it
never gets. Old like you, said it was one of
those that was not so saturated on the radio THAT
i got sick of. It to this, day WHEN i hear,
It i'm, like oh, Yeah i'm gonna stick. AROUND i
love this. Song, WELL i think this one was just
a little bit saturated on the. RADIO i get in
clock it into four minutes and six.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Seconds it's the first single off the, album which is
probably why it, was, yeah you, know a little bit.
Overplayed that was released On Valentine's day in nineteen ninety.
Four THE b side of the single was Titled Cold.
BITCH i think it was funny since it was released
On Valentine's. Day we're talking about THE i think you
can tell from the first couple of notes of the,
song but It's spoonman. R it was originally written for
(26:48):
the soundtrack to the Film. Singles, yeah and it's another strong. Single.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah it Features seattle's own local artist artist the Spoon. Man.
Yeah so you know you hear him in there for,
sure playing spoons spoons. Before i've never played. Spoons it's
actually quite. Easy, yeah, yeah it's actually it's really. Fun
BUT i, mean i'd imagine this is a guy that's
done it for years and, years So i'm sure he's
probably like a cut above at.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It. YEAH i lived by Watching Sesmet street WHEN i was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Little, YEAH i, mean so your comment about it being,
OVERSATURATED i would, Agree but at the same, time, like
what's not to love about this?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Song, YEAH i just thought it was. Overplayed, YEAH i mean,
AGAIN i agree with, you BUT i could see as
you're pushed on album and this is when you know
they paid radio stations every time they played.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It it's a great riff into a great chorus riff
with a really cool guitar solo and spoon. SOLO i,
mean there's a lot to love about. THIS i understand
this being the lead, single it makes all the sense
in the. WORLD i, mean but, again even though it
was pretty like oversaturated on the, radio it's a. CLASSIC i,
mean it's gonna be around for a long time even,
still all, Right, homer.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Shut.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Up limo reck is The have you been in A limo?
Wreck And i've not been in A limo reck. Either
i've only been in a limo like. Once oh, Yeah,
yeah how about that important, Man i've.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Got a couple of, limos but it was like wedding you,
know wedding party. Stuff but, anyway clocking in five minutes
and forty seven, seconds it's THE nith track Titled memo.
Reck what do you think of this?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
One, okay so it definitely has A this one is
another one of those. Songs it's uniquely. Tuned, Yeah i'm
not a huge fan of this. One it's my least
favorite off the. ALBUM i found myself not gravitating towards
the chord. PROGRESSION i like the instrumental sections between, verses
but really that's about. It, yeah that's ALL i got
me on, this this particular.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Track so all, right we'll move. On, well the good
news he didn't fanboy over this? One, No, NO i did.
Not what About The DAY I tried To? Live do
you like that? One?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So i've always loved the intro riff man creepy high
pitch lead line behind. It it reminds me a little
bit of Black Hole sun in that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Respect. Yeah do you think it's real similar to Black
Hole song in a?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Way, Yeah i'd say it's got the same kind of,
Vibe maybe not as catchy and known as Black Hole,
son but at the same, time, LIKE i like the
story the song tells about attempting to choose to live
rather than given to like your darker. Thoughts, yeah and you,
know to let them drag you. Down but this intro
is just really.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Cool well in this one when in terms of kind of,
peaking it peaked at number thirteen on The Billboard Rocks Track,
chart number twenty five on The modern, chart so it
was a pretty decent. Hit. Yeah it was the second
single off the album was released To april, eighteenth nineteen ninety,
four two days before your, birthday two days before my.
Birthday but it was probably their most underperforming, single AND
(29:45):
i was trying to think why it was so underperforming
BECAUSE i really kind of like. IT i need to.
Like this is probably one of my favorite songs off the.
Album it's excellent the way the intro comes.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
In with the like how the intro comes in and
then a totally different bassline comes in to start driving
the main.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Riff. Yeah so the only THING i could think of
is maybe other, bands you, know we're releasing stuff at
the same, time or maybe just because it starts.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Slower, Yeah LIKE i mean even like Black Hole sun starts,
slow but it starts slow in a way that's very.
Memorable this one maybe is a little bit less memorable
and takes a little bit longer to get to the,
point but it's freaking, great, Man, LIKE i really like this.
SONG i, mean the day is another one of those
where it's like it's in my top five on this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Album, yeah, YEAH i, AGREE i, agree all, right kickst.
In the shortest song on the, Album One man's and
thirty four seconds comes, in blows your doors off. LEAVES
i love, it, MAN i mean it's got the punk.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Leanings, YEAH i, mean short and sweet from beginning to.
End as a punk, FAN i gravitated to it. Instantly,
man it's a fun.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Track that's. Good, yeah all, right uh kick it off
track number, twelve bucking in at four minutes in sixteen.
Seconds it's called for us ten. Drolls. Yeah SO i
like the.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
RIFF i like the clean guitar mixed in with the
rift to give it like more tonal.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Layer BUT i don't know what to make of it
as a.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
WHOLE i THINK i like parts of this, song but
not necessarily the whole.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Things, YEAH i like the overall rhythm and, vibe but
lyrically it's kind of losing something.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Formula, YEAH i can't put my finger on. It it's
just it's not gonna be in my my favorites on the.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Album.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, again another one that's tuned, differently has kind of
a different time, signature but it, just unlike some of the,
others just doesn't really grab.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Me, Yeah so not to say it's a bad, song
it's just this ONE i really dig AND i think
it's because it's. Dark. Yes the thirteenth track is Titled
fourth Of. July it's probably my favorite track off the. Album,
dude this is is. Great it's got a super low
and heavy.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Riff you know that you're hearing right. NOW i love
the unison vocals and octave. Down, Yes, ah that sounds
so freaking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Cool it's it's the five minutes and eight seconds on
the album that moody like doom sound THAT i man
LIKE i could see them playing this live and coming
in with lighting and everything like such a. Power this
would be a powerful live, performance, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
MAN i will STILL i still kicked myself THAT i
never did get to See Sound garden perform.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Live, yeah me. TOO i, mean this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Bands they were on my list and now Unfortunately i'm
never gonna get.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It, yeah there's a lot of bands THAT i kind
of regret having sound. Guards one of. Those, yeah The
Alison chains their line, Up Stone, Tiple. Pilots what was
the other one THAT i was just talking? About SO
stp is another? One? Yeah, Yeah Tom, Petty LIKE i
Miss Tom petty when he came to the up And,
man it's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Sucked but SO i like How Matt cameron keeps it
super simple on the drums.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Here it works really.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well it allows the vocals and the guitars to. Shine
this is just a freaking great. Song, Man i'm a
big fan of this. One.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
YEAH i like it. Too it's. Good all, right we're
getting down to the.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The nitty, gritty to the nitty gritty into the road
and we're at, half which is the fourteenth track of the.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
ALBUM i wonder if they should have put this at
like track. SEVEN i, mean is this actually Sat? Garden
it is just nothing like so. Weird it's kind of
like one of those weird bonus tracks you put at the. End,
Yeah like it doesn't, Belong it doesn't belong where it's.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
At. Yeah, yeah but it's written By Ben, shephard who's
kind of a weird, dude SO i Guess i'm not super.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Surprised, yeah and that's Why i'm kinda just going on
to the next. One let's. Do there's one track off
the ALBUM i would. Skip it would be half, Right,
okay all. Right wrapping up the album is track number,
fifteen Titled Like, suicide longest track up the, album locking
in at seven minutes and one. Second SO.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I tried with this. ONE i, Tried, yeah it kind
of it just drags, on. Man, yeah it moves, slowly
it feels, slow and it's. LONG i just couldn't get into.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It i'll be. HONEST i would end this album at
fourth Of. July agree with the LAST i think they
could have gone out on fourth Of july and it
would have worked very.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, yeah if you wanted to throw half in there
as like a weird little like at the fifteenth minute
of fourth Of, july you, know kind of thing like
some bands used to do back in the. Nineties, okay that's,
cool But i'm, Sorry i'm not into.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It well this, one, YEAH i JUST i have, really
it took me a couple LIKE i had really did
titually listen through the, track but then ONCE i was,
DONE i was, LIKE i don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
AGAIN i want to do it. AGAIN i did, IT
i did it. Twice it was, like, MAN i can't
do this. AGAIN i really don't want to do. It.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, so, overall kind of final thoughts On Super.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Known, yeah so obviously a. Classic, YEAH i mean you
can see why this was their breakout. Album some fantastic.
Tracks they will be listened to for years to. Come,
YEAH i mean they're gonna appreciated for a long. Time,
sure there are some stuff on this one THAT i
wasn't as into as a lot of the singles and
single worthy, tracks But i'll still recommend this album to
anybody that's interested in. Hearing soundgarden is a great like starting,
(35:02):
Point and as a result of, THAT i kind OF
i was wavering between like an eight and eight and a. Half,
Yeah i'll settle on eight and a half out of,
ten mostly just because there's like three songs or so
out of the fifteen THAT i wasn't so into AND
i kind of used the law of percentages there and, that,
yeah puts me in about an, eight But i'm gonna
(35:22):
be nice and give it an eight and a.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Half, YEAH i kind of focused on an. EIGHT i
thought that was appropriate based on the SONGS i, liked
based on the SONGS i didn't. Like that's kind of
Where i'm at if.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You want to talk about, LEGACY i, mean it's a
ten out of ten just because of the fact that
it really Broke Sound garden into the. Mainstream it brought
them to the worldwide audience as opposed to just like
The West. Coast, yeah and you know alternative.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Audio that was a.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Good, mainstream great mainstream, Debut, yeah, yeah one hundred percent
and set them up nicely for Like down on The
upside later and Then King animal several years after. That,
SO i, mean, man but though great, album you, Know
Black Hole sun Spoon man fell On Black days, kickstand
(36:07):
fourth Of, july the DAY i tried to.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
LIVE i, mean a lot of great, Stuff, yeah a
lot of great, stuff all, right. Buddy hey with, that
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On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl, abb and I
discussed the four studio album that debuted at number one
on the Billboard two hundred, selling three hundred and ten
thousand copies in its opening week. That band is Soundgarden
and the album is super Unknown. Been a crazy couple
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we OpEd in the car, started driving back, and by
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for you, buddy. Just kind of crazy, yeah, kind of crazy.
Just busy work, you know, life work. We want to
talk about work, life, Yeah, I understand, you know everything. Yeah,
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I can. Uh, you know, we kind of over vacation.
We got not we got nominated.
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want to call it to uh potentially be best in Arkansas,
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Speaker 1 (02:58):
Hey, so the week I picked a track. Black Keys
got a new album out. The album's titled No Rain,
No Flowers. What I have is I've been just hint
missing on the album, just kind of listening to it.
This is a track called Man on a Mission Clocks.
They have three minutes of thirty two seconds. It kind
of gave me a little bit of the old school.
(03:20):
So I don't think you're gonna like it because it's
got no base in it, okay, but got a little
funk to it. It sounds like there's a basic Yeah,
it's a little bit on the underline. This album is
a little bit different. It's broader, unless kind of raw
bluesy like some of their older albums. Still kind of
listening to it. Don't know if I'm gonna pick it
up on vinyl, but they're just expanding their sound and
(03:40):
it's got a nice groove to it, and I like
the little, uh, you know, the guitar riff. I kind
of like it. Yeah, it's not bad. This one's growing
on me. Yeah, this is pretty good, man. Yeah, it's
a little bit different. So just check out the No Rain,
No Flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, I wasn't the biggest fan of the first
Black Keys album, the Win we covered, but I kind
of dig this, man.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't check it out. It's on their new ones out.
It's on the Apple Music Spotify. So nice. It's a
good one. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go check that
one out. I'm liking the sound of this track. Yeah,
it's a little bit it's different, but in a good way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's got some low end, which, in all honesty, not
just because I'm a bass player, I like that extra.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Dimension of the low end in there. To me, it
does a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Not every band has to have it, I mean, like,
for instance, Japandroids, like they don't have low end, but
I love their stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It seems the low ends it adds. Yes, it does
add for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So all right man, Yeah, so for mine, you know,
I had to do something with a sound Garden tie
in MM. So of course it's not just because of
the fact that it's Pearl Jam, who is you know,
a fellow Seattle band and we're good friends with Soundgarden.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What was the movie Singles Singles.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Where like they both Eddie Vedder' and the movie Chris
Cornell's in the movie. Yeah, a lot of the same scenes.
But this track is actually by Pearl Jam. It's called
Grammy out of Control. It's a cover of a Jimmy
Haskell and a Gary Esher song. Those guys I think
they have Grammys between them. I mean, like they're old
school songwriters. But this was on the music for Our
(05:06):
Mother Ocean Volume one compilation, which I actually bought from
Hastings and Fayetteville, Arkansas, out on the day. Because I
saw the artist listing, I was like, there's a lot
of great artists on here. I mean there's sound Garden,
there's porners for Pyro's, a whole bunch of other like
nineties bands on there.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And all of them were kind of doing little things
like that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like surfey stuff. I think this one benefited the Surfrider Foundation.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But the reason I picked this song is because the
fact that it ties in with the album that we're
covering today. Another song on that like compilation is by
Sound Garden. It's called My Wave, which is of course
track two from super Unknown. So it's funny. When I
was thinking of what to pick, I was like, you
know what, Oh, it's cool. I remember this song. I
remember My Wave was on the compilation, and I was like,
(05:52):
that's a that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, I'm you know, like this is it's on Lost Dogs.
It's on the Lost Dogs compilation. Relation. Yes, and that's
a great album to have because like that's the only
place you can get a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Songs, those old Pearl Jam B sides and such that
we're really only.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Available on the singles. Yeah, I've been thinking about next
time I see that vinyl, I'm gonna have to pick
it up just to have those B sides. Yeah, because
that's because especially and it's focused on the B sides
from the early stuff, which is I think it's really good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So if you like this Pearl Jam cover of an
old surf track, you can either get it on the
Lost Dogs compilation and released by Pearl Jam other B
sides and such, or you can get it on Music
for Our Mother Ocean Volume one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Cool. All right, are you ready? Let's do it? All right,
it's that time of the week and it's time for
another episode of Stuffed the Baron, Stuff the Baron. I
pick a random song from a random genre had them
with all of his uh semi genre specific general knowledge
music attempts to guess the artists.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The album on the Sometimes yeah, man, all right, so
let's see what you got for me there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, so good week. We are in the year nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety, okaineteen. This could be dicey for me. Yeah,
it could be.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I was listening to a lot of oldies in nineteen ninety. Oh, okay,
I think you'll recognize it. Okay, I think you'll recognize this.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
All right, it's so recognizable I'm not even going to
give you a clue. Okay, that's fine. So I think
after listening to the intro, you're like, oh, it's this.
You at least recognize the band, and I think the
but I thought it was fun came out on the
other day and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I was like, oh man, I'm not getting anything right
off the bat, but maybe as it gets a little deeper.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I know. That's why I picked this one. I mean,
it's got Primus written all over it. It is Primus.
It was used on the Guitar Hero. Do you remember
the Guitar Hero video game? I know this song. I
(08:02):
know the name of this song, Ah not come into
my mind. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It too is I've been on Primus kick lately, but
I've been listening to a lot of Jerry as a
race car driver.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it's on their debut It's on their debut album too,
dang it. I know this song. Yeah, driving me insane
that I can't think of the name of it right now. Crap.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't know why, but for some reason, I've really
been into Primus lately.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think it's because the musicianship.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
These guys, like all three of them were just amazing musicians. Yeah,
not just Less Claypool, I mean, like Brain that dude
Man and Lure both just fantastic musicians.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Crap, all right. It is the six track off their
debut album, Frizzle Fry, and it's called John the Fisherman,
John the Fisherman. John the Fisherman is the first part
of a four part story called The Fisherman's Crown, which
continued on Primus's later albums. Its immediate sequel was fish
On on nineteen ninety one Sailing the Seas of Cheese Yeah,
(09:08):
followed by the Old Diamondback Sturgeon on nineteen ninety three's
Pork Soda, and most recently the Little the track titled
Last Salmon Man, which is on two thousand and one's
Green Naga Hide. Okay, yeah, I don't think I ever
heard that one. Yeah, so this is just the beginning.
And apparently he wrote songs about fishing because his dad
(09:30):
used to take him fishing a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No, that's cool, So I got the band at least
yeh yeah, shoot yeah. As soon as I heard the bass,
I was like, that's less clapable, I can tell.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, Well I figured you'd you'd catch up in the
base game, Oh for sure. Yeah. All right, man, we're
ready to cover a super Unknown by sound Guard.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, do you mind if I hit some history about
the band before we really get cracking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Into sure before we do the track by track.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, let's do that. I feel like I'm always trying
to squeeze it in there, all right, Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, go ahead and hit the history of the band.
That's the first time we're doing it, and then I'll
start the dormle intro t. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So super Unknown released March eighth, nineteen ninety four Michael Beinhorn,
who had also worked with Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Ozzy Osbourne, Hole,
Marilyn Manson, and corn It was recorded at Bad Animals
Studio in Seattle, Washington, who got Chris Cornell on the
vocals and guitar, Kim Fale on lead, Ben Sheppard on bass,
and Matt Cameron on the drums. So Soundgarden was formed
in nineteen eighty four in Seattle. Originally it was Chris
(10:22):
Cornell on drums and vocals, Kim Fale on guitar, and
hero Yamamoto on bass. Cornell actually moved to rhythm guitar
in nineteen eighty five, and hero Yamamoto left in nineteen
eighty nine, which left a huge hole in the band.
I know, it kind of almost broke their hearts. So
they ended up signing with A and M Records. They
were the first grunge band to sign with a major label.
Matt Cameron joined on the drums in nineteen eighty six,
(10:44):
with Ben Sheppard joining on bass in nineteen eighty nine
after hero Yamamoto left. So here's an interesting thing. You
ever heard of Jason Everman. Yes, yeah, So Jason Everman,
original guitar player in Nirvana. He actually financed himself, like
the six hundred and six dollars it costs to record
Bleach Okay. And he was like, I think he gets
(11:05):
a credit, he gets his picture in the album artwork,
but like, I don't know that he necessarily. I think
he played on all the tracks, but anyone on the
tour after that, and I think the band fired him. Well,
he was getting ready to join No, he's getting ready
to go to the Himalayas and go hike the Himalayas
when Kim Faale called and said, hey, we need a
(11:26):
bass player. Hero left, So Jason Everman actually stepped in
went on tour with them, but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Get along with Chris Cornell and he was fired.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So after Everman was fired from the band, which it
really broke his heart because Soundgarden was his favorite band
of that era, so getting to play with them was
like a huge.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Deal for you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
After that, he actually went on to join the military
in nineteen ninety four, he became an Army airborne ranger.
I think he did that for a while, got out
of the military, and in the early two thousands was
offered the chance to join special Forces. So he went
on become a Special Forces operator for many years, and
I think he eventually went on to go to Colombia
(12:07):
and got a degree undergrad from Columbia, and then he
got a master's in military history from somewhere else. But like,
super interesting guy, Jason Everman, I wanted to talk about him.
He was on Joe Rogan's podcast a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I remember I was having a conversation about this, maybe
like a year or so ago.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, his story is really cool. Go listen to that
episode of Joe Rogan. You will not find a more
like renaissance man, almost famous kind of guy than Jason Everman.
Out there played with two of the biggest bands in
the grunge era, so back to sound Garden. They released
three studio albums Ultra Mago Okay in nineteen eighty eight,
Louder than Love in nineteen eighty nine and Bad motor
(12:43):
Finger in nineteen ninety one, before releasing the album We're
talking about today super Unknown in nineteen ninety four. So
let's hit it man.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right. Kicking off super Unknown is track one. Track
one is titled let Me Down and clocks in at
three minutes and fifty one seconds. Let me drown, let
me drown. What did I call it? Let me down?
Let me down? Yeah? Close? Well, yeah, just let me drown.
I missed my arm. That's all right, nough. That's what
I get for making notes really quick anyway. The album
consists of as fifteen tracks, five of which were released
(13:14):
as singles. Clocks in it's kind of long, seventy minutes
and thirteen seconds, Yes, little History. The Soundgarden began work
on the album two months after finishing the nineteen ninety
two Yeah. Yeah, and it comes out pretty good. I
actually don't mind it as an opening track. Yeah, so
(13:35):
I used to I have a core memory of this song. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was a swimmer in high school and my swim
coach actually worked at a restaurant that my uncle owned,
and a lot of times we'd have these swim meets
far away, and my parents couldn't take my sister and I,
so we'd hop in with him.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And every time we'd hop in his.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Car and go to like Lamar, Missouri, or Branson or
Joplin or wherever he'd pop in super Unknown and first
track is let Me Drown. So I have many memories
of leavings out Spring, Arkansas to this song. Oh that's funny, yeah, man,
I mean it's I love the breakdown section before the
solo that really caught my attention. Yea, the bass and
(14:11):
guitar and that that area are doing completely different things
and yet it works.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Works.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's really cool and it's a good song, man. Like
I think this one gets off to a good start.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It's almost like between the guitar and the bass part,
it's like a different rhythm track compared to the drum. Yeah,
and that's what I like about it. Yeah, it's like
there's something going on in the background. It works, and
you can distinctly hear it and it works. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I agree with you, like everything about this track. I
think it just like you said, works, Yeah, it works.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah. I mean so a little bit before we switch
songs here, let's.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Talk about super unknown, So it got five stars from Q,
the rolling Stone Album Guide, All Music, Blender, Spin. It
was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammys. YEP
number three hundred and thirty five on the rolling Stone
five hundred Greatest Albums of All Time, number thirty eight
on the rolling Stone Greatest Albums of the Nineties, number
eighteen on the Alternative Press ninety Greatest Albums of the Nineties,
(15:05):
number seventy on Kerreng's one hundred Albums You Must Hear
Before You Die, and included in the Believe It's a book,
The one thousand Albums You Must.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Hear Before you Die.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like you said, it went to number one on the
US Billboard two hundred, number one on the cash Box
Album Charts, and number four on the UK Albums Charts.
It went six times platinum in the US, platinum in
the UK, and over seven million.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Copies were sold worldwide.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So this album was huge, Yeah, I mean really, I
think it was most folks introduction to sound Gardens and
it was their fourth studio album. Yeah, fourth studio album,
so I mean, don't get me wrong. They had a
following for a long time, but it was a very local.
I mean, I had I knew bad motor Finger, Yeah right.
I think it was the album you heard about. You
might have even heard, No I had, but it wasn't
(15:46):
like the big album. This was their breakout, yeah, because
I had it before, uh super before Superunnown came out
and they went supernown.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But I never listened to sound Garden as intently as
I did this album. Yeah, it was there is in
my catalog. I just didn't listen to it near near
as munch as I did like Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Well,
and like a lot of the bands or even Alison
Chains and Stuntled Pilots. It was just one of those.
(16:15):
But where I really got into sound Garden was Audio Slave, Okay.
And when I started listen to Audio Slave, I went
back and really started listening to more of the catalog
of sound Gardens.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Gotcha, That's funny because I went the opposite direction.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I started with sound Garden and then eventually like oh
audio Slave okay, oh Rage and Chris Cornell.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, I mean I had, I had it, I just
never didn't listen to it as deeply as I did
something all right. The second track off the album super
Unknown is titled My Wave Clocks in at five minutes
and twelve seconds. My Wave was a promotional single on
the on the album. It was released in North America
(16:57):
and peaked at number eleven on the Mainstream Rocks chart
Mber eight eighteen on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Yeah so again.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
First time I heard this was when I when I
bought the mom compilation music for our Mother Ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I like my Wave. It's a good song. It is.
It's a really good song.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What's cool about it is that it actually alternates between
different time signatures, So it has a five to four
time during this main riff in the verses and then
a four to four time in the choruses. So that's
one thing that Soundgarden does on this album, along with
alternate tunings which give their guitars the chording a totally
different voicing than your standard bar chords. And you hear
(17:34):
it like when you listen to the guitar, it's like, man,
he's doing something different and getting these chord voicings that
I've never heard before.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right, And as he's playing the rhythm part right the riff,
Cornell's lyrics are tied with the riff and the drum.
Underlying drum beats tied with it, so you get this.
The lyrics are very punchy because the notes and everything
hit at the same everything hits together. It's like boom
boom boom. You can yep, they're all in in sequence, right,
(18:02):
and then I think that's what.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's very Yeah, it's very rhythmic in the approach vocally
and musically.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The tuning on this is hilarious to me.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's E B B B E that makes sense, which
I mean, that's what gives it that real sonic, almost
octave sound.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think whenever you hear Kim Fish, you've got two different,
two different You know that even with the sixth string
and the fi string, tune to E you've got a
deeper and then a slightly.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Higher exactly a lot of octaving in there, which I
think sounds really cool, and.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There's a lot of that on this album.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I mean, Soundgarden, you hear these unique chord voicings throughout
this album, and this is kind of our first example
of that, and you'll hear a lot more of it.
But man, like, I love the the wad bass that
Ben Sheppard throws it occasionally as well, and this song
has some of that in there. It's just a great song, man,
I love my wave. It's one of the songs I think,
(18:57):
like one of my top three or four songs from
this album. Oh yeah, that's good, all right, man, So
on to another really good one.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah. This is a Fell on Black Days, which is
the fifth and final single, If It Will Load, was
released on the January sixteenth, nineteen ninety five. It included
several b sides Kyle Petty, son of Richard Motorcycle Loop,
and a demo of the single and a demo of
the single Fell on Black Days as well. If I
could get it to load, that would be great. If not,
(19:28):
we're gonna move on to the next one. And just
everyone should know what Fell on Black Days is because
it's wife they.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Know, oh I mean, And it's such a great song
from this album, man. I mean it starts off really
low key and then builds throughout the song and it
gets a little bit louder at each transition, which I
think is a really cool dynamic.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And again like another song and a really odd time signature.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's in six'.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
FOUR i don't know about, you BUT i remember this
song being all over the radio AND i still hear
it often to, know there's something about this song that
just kind of makes it very. Accessible it's not the
biggest hit on the, album but, no it's like an
unmistakable rift that because it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Peaked at number fifty four on its tenth. Week, yeah
it released as a, single so it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Wasn't a huge, single but it's a good freaking Good
Man creats.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Song, YES i mean when you look at, like Let
Me down was, good my, wave let me, drown, no
just let me everyone's let Me down. LATELY i think
that's What i'm focused, on is focused on. THAT i
was talking to someone like, TODAY i was, like you,
know you really let me down? Today and My wave
is pretty catchy as a, single, right and then you've
Got fell In Black, days which is another. One so you,
(20:35):
know you're you're talking at a pretty lengthy, album but
so far the tracks are pretty. Good oh, yeah, YEAH.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I mean this, song it's another one of those where
it might not have been the biggest, single but it's
instantly recognizable as soon as you hear that opening.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Rift all.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
RIGHT i think that's when something That soundgarden does really
well on this album is. Riffing, YEAH i, agree all, right,
man all, right track number, Four. Mailman it's the four
track off the, album clocks in at four minutes a
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Second great heavy. Riff, yeah it's just it's still kind
of that distinct guitar, tone. Right tuning is probably. Different
tuning IS C G D G.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
B, e so they drop it INTO c for the low,
string which you definitely hear. HERE i mean that's, yeah
very very, thick very. Thick it's very, thick and again
unique chord voicing is just like you. SAID i, MEAN
i love you have this like super deep heavy riff
and Then Chris cornell is really soulful vocals right.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Here, YEAH i mean it it doesn't seem like it should,
work but it really. DOES i, know because he comes
in it's very, dark but then you Hear cornell's vocal
breakthrough and it's almost.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Eerie, yeah and it just. WORKS i, MEAN i, agree,
Man and then he turns it up at the end
and it sounds. FANTASTIC i, mean it's a great. SONG
i think it's like that deep cut from the. Album,
yeah it's just a really good.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Song. YEAH i was really. Surprised IS i like? It
when we have A i can listen through over and
over and over. Again, yeah and this is one of.
Those was in the gym and a lot of other.
Stuff it was a good. One, yeah all. Right track
number five is Super. Unknown it clocks in in five
minutes and six seconds and it's the title, track so.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It definitely shows Off Chris cornell's vocal. Jobs, YEAH i,
mean he's got a great.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Range and this is another like when you look At
meilman and you look at even Super, unknown this, SONG i, believe,
Well mailman is probably a deep. CUT i think Super
unknown could have been a. Single, yeah it's kind of. Catchy.
YEAH i Mean i'll actually.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Say he's not musically my favorite on the, album but
vocally it's.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Great.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
YEAH i MEAN i get a little bored with the
progression personally that it's kind of back and. Forth but, again, vocally,
man he just freaking nails it on this. Song and
even to say, that like it's not my favorite, song
this is a great.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Album.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
THIS i, mean there's a few others THAT i like
even less than, this BUT i, mean, yeah it's the.
Same this one is there for. Me but it's not
like Something i'm just gonna oh. Skip, no it's not as,
skippable but it's a good. Song it's just you, know
it could hold its own as a later.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Single, sure, yeah, Yeah i'm with you there all. Right
Head down is the six track and clocks in it
just over six. Minutes this is a little bit of
a departure from the first five.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Trucks, yeah so again CGCGG e.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Tuning BUT i like how the intro comes in because
it feels like it's, building.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, well and that that acoustic actually reminds me Of
burden In My hand from the next album down on the,
upside it has that feel at the beginning. Here the
down tuning of the acoustic is what really stuck out to.
Me it really gives this a, cool heavy quality with
almost like A Middle eastern feel to. It, yeah like a, Cintaur,
yeah like a guitar type of.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Thing. Yeah, yeah definitely a little Bit zeppelin inspired for.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Sure And Matt cameron's drumming, here good, Lord, yeah he
just nails it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well the whole intro to the. SONG i think it's
really it's.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
AWESOME i, MEAN i really love this. SONG i think
this song in particular has been called out like in
the magazines and on the forums and all that is
like one Of Matt cameron's best drumming, efforts.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
AND i agree with.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
IT i, MEAN i love this song and his drumming
is definitely the standout for me on this. One, yeah
but it's just this song has got a vibe to,
it AND i love you have the heavy, guitar but
you've also got that acoustic going in the background with
thick which thickens thing is up and it just sounds. Great,
Yeah So i'm all right, Now onto a, Classic onto a.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Classic the third single off the album there was released
On may, thirteenth nineteen ninety, four is titled Black Hole
Sun Black hole sung clacks in five minutes and eighteen.
Seconds besides to this single included an acoustic version of
the fifteenth track Like, suicide and a live version of
the eleventh track off the, album Titled. Kickstand like a
lot of singles From, soundgarden this was another chart topper
(24:52):
around the, globe number one on the mainstream Rock goboard. Chart,
Yeah i'm not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Surprised, YEAH i, mean you remember when we went to
See guns And, Rows, yeah and they played Black Hole.
Sun axel pretty much nailed, it, Actually, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It was a really good. Coach it was a great
cover of the. Song, well a cool tribute To chris
Corn it really, was BECAUSE i think that was kind
of right After it was.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right around the TIME i think we Saw guns And
roses in twenty seventeen or twenty, eighteen and he had
just passed in twenty. Seventeen, SO i, mean, man this
it's hard to pick Between Black Hole sun And Spoon.
Man as to, like what's the quintessential song from this,
Album i'd argue Black Hole, sun like in a photo,
finish because it's it's hard to pick between the. Two
(25:34):
this is one of those songs that never gets old
with the creepy guitar work over the descending picked rhythm.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Line, yeah it's kind of one of. Those when it's,
on it's but to me it hasn't been oversaturated right
now play when it comes, on it's, like oh, sweet
it's a Black hole.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Song, yeah it sets a. Vibe, man it leads up
perfectly to those bombastic. Choruses that slow, PACE i, mean
another song that shows the full scope Of Chris cornell's vocal.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Register. YEP i, mean, man.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's so it isn't my Favorite soundgarden, song but it's
definitely in the top.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
THREE i like. IT i think it's a good.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Song, YEAH i mean it's a. CLASSIC i mean it
never gets. Old like you, said it was one of
those that was not so saturated on the radio THAT
i got sick of. It to this, day WHEN i hear,
It i'm, like oh, Yeah i'm gonna stick. AROUND i
love this. Song, WELL i think this one was just
a little bit saturated on the. RADIO i get in
clock it into four minutes and six.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Seconds it's the first single off the, album which is
probably why it, was, yeah you, know a little bit.
Overplayed that was released On Valentine's day in nineteen ninety.
Four THE b side of the single was Titled Cold.
BITCH i think it was funny since it was released
On Valentine's. Day we're talking about THE i think you
can tell from the first couple of notes of the,
song but It's spoonman. R it was originally written for
(26:48):
the soundtrack to the Film. Singles, yeah and it's another strong. Single.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah it Features seattle's own local artist artist the Spoon. Man.
Yeah so you know you hear him in there for,
sure playing spoons spoons. Before i've never played. Spoons it's
actually quite. Easy, yeah, yeah it's actually it's really. Fun
BUT i, mean i'd imagine this is a guy that's
done it for years and, years So i'm sure he's
probably like a cut above at.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It. YEAH i lived by Watching Sesmet street WHEN i was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Little, YEAH i, mean so your comment about it being,
OVERSATURATED i would, Agree but at the same, time, like
what's not to love about this?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Song, YEAH i just thought it was. Overplayed, YEAH i mean,
AGAIN i agree with, you BUT i could see as
you're pushed on album and this is when you know
they paid radio stations every time they played.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It it's a great riff into a great chorus riff
with a really cool guitar solo and spoon. SOLO i,
mean there's a lot to love about. THIS i understand
this being the lead, single it makes all the sense
in the. WORLD i, mean but, again even though it
was pretty like oversaturated on the, radio it's a. CLASSIC i,
mean it's gonna be around for a long time even,
still all, Right, homer.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Shut.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Up limo reck is The have you been in A limo?
Wreck And i've not been in A limo reck. Either
i've only been in a limo like. Once oh, Yeah,
yeah how about that important, Man i've.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Got a couple of, limos but it was like wedding you,
know wedding party. Stuff but, anyway clocking in five minutes
and forty seven, seconds it's THE nith track Titled memo.
Reck what do you think of this?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
One, okay so it definitely has A this one is
another one of those. Songs it's uniquely. Tuned, Yeah i'm
not a huge fan of this. One it's my least
favorite off the. ALBUM i found myself not gravitating towards
the chord. PROGRESSION i like the instrumental sections between, verses
but really that's about. It, yeah that's ALL i got
me on, this this particular.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Track so all, right we'll move. On, well the good
news he didn't fanboy over this? One, No, NO i did.
Not what About The DAY I tried To? Live do
you like that? One?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So i've always loved the intro riff man creepy high
pitch lead line behind. It it reminds me a little
bit of Black Hole sun in that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Respect. Yeah do you think it's real similar to Black
Hole song in a?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Way, Yeah i'd say it's got the same kind of,
Vibe maybe not as catchy and known as Black Hole,
son but at the same, time, LIKE i like the
story the song tells about attempting to choose to live
rather than given to like your darker. Thoughts, yeah and you,
know to let them drag you. Down but this intro
is just really.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Cool well in this one when in terms of kind of,
peaking it peaked at number thirteen on The Billboard Rocks Track,
chart number twenty five on The modern, chart so it
was a pretty decent. Hit. Yeah it was the second
single off the album was released To april, eighteenth nineteen ninety,
four two days before your, birthday two days before my.
Birthday but it was probably their most underperforming, single AND
(29:45):
i was trying to think why it was so underperforming
BECAUSE i really kind of like. IT i need to.
Like this is probably one of my favorite songs off the.
Album it's excellent the way the intro comes.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
In with the like how the intro comes in and
then a totally different bassline comes in to start driving
the main.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Riff. Yeah so the only THING i could think of
is maybe other, bands you, know we're releasing stuff at
the same, time or maybe just because it starts.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Slower, Yeah LIKE i mean even like Black Hole sun starts,
slow but it starts slow in a way that's very.
Memorable this one maybe is a little bit less memorable
and takes a little bit longer to get to the,
point but it's freaking, great, Man, LIKE i really like this.
SONG i, mean the day is another one of those
where it's like it's in my top five on this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Album, yeah, YEAH i, AGREE i, agree all, right kickst.
In the shortest song on the, Album One man's and
thirty four seconds comes, in blows your doors off. LEAVES
i love, it, MAN i mean it's got the punk.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Leanings, YEAH i, mean short and sweet from beginning to.
End as a punk, FAN i gravitated to it. Instantly,
man it's a fun.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Track that's. Good, yeah all, right uh kick it off
track number, twelve bucking in at four minutes in sixteen.
Seconds it's called for us ten. Drolls. Yeah SO i
like the.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
RIFF i like the clean guitar mixed in with the
rift to give it like more tonal.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Layer BUT i don't know what to make of it
as a.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
WHOLE i THINK i like parts of this, song but
not necessarily the whole.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Things, YEAH i like the overall rhythm and, vibe but
lyrically it's kind of losing something.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Formula, YEAH i can't put my finger on. It it's
just it's not gonna be in my my favorites on the.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Album.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, again another one that's tuned, differently has kind of
a different time, signature but it, just unlike some of the,
others just doesn't really grab.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Me, Yeah so not to say it's a bad, song
it's just this ONE i really dig AND i think
it's because it's. Dark. Yes the thirteenth track is Titled
fourth Of. July it's probably my favorite track off the. Album,
dude this is is. Great it's got a super low
and heavy.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Riff you know that you're hearing right. NOW i love
the unison vocals and octave. Down, Yes, ah that sounds
so freaking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Cool it's it's the five minutes and eight seconds on
the album that moody like doom sound THAT i man
LIKE i could see them playing this live and coming
in with lighting and everything like such a. Power this
would be a powerful live, performance, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
MAN i will STILL i still kicked myself THAT i
never did get to See Sound garden perform.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Live, yeah me. TOO i, mean this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Bands they were on my list and now Unfortunately i'm
never gonna get.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It, yeah there's a lot of bands THAT i kind
of regret having sound. Guards one of. Those, yeah The
Alison chains their line, Up Stone, Tiple. Pilots what was
the other one THAT i was just talking? About SO
stp is another? One? Yeah, Yeah Tom, Petty LIKE i
Miss Tom petty when he came to the up And,
man it's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Sucked but SO i like How Matt cameron keeps it
super simple on the drums.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Here it works really.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well it allows the vocals and the guitars to. Shine
this is just a freaking great. Song, Man i'm a
big fan of this. One.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
YEAH i like it. Too it's. Good all, right we're
getting down to the.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The nitty, gritty to the nitty gritty into the road
and we're at, half which is the fourteenth track of the.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
ALBUM i wonder if they should have put this at
like track. SEVEN i, mean is this actually Sat? Garden
it is just nothing like so. Weird it's kind of
like one of those weird bonus tracks you put at the. End,
Yeah like it doesn't, Belong it doesn't belong where it's.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
At. Yeah, yeah but it's written By Ben, shephard who's
kind of a weird, dude SO i Guess i'm not super.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Surprised, yeah and that's Why i'm kinda just going on
to the next. One let's. Do there's one track off
the ALBUM i would. Skip it would be half, Right,
okay all. Right wrapping up the album is track number,
fifteen Titled Like, suicide longest track up the, album locking
in at seven minutes and one. Second SO.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I tried with this. ONE i, Tried, yeah it kind
of it just drags, on. Man, yeah it moves, slowly
it feels, slow and it's. LONG i just couldn't get into.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It i'll be. HONEST i would end this album at
fourth Of. July agree with the LAST i think they
could have gone out on fourth Of july and it
would have worked very.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, yeah if you wanted to throw half in there
as like a weird little like at the fifteenth minute
of fourth Of, july you, know kind of thing like
some bands used to do back in the. Nineties, okay that's,
cool But i'm, Sorry i'm not into.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It well this, one, YEAH i JUST i have, really
it took me a couple LIKE i had really did
titually listen through the, track but then ONCE i was,
DONE i was, LIKE i don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
AGAIN i want to do it. AGAIN i did, IT
i did it. Twice it was, like, MAN i can't
do this. AGAIN i really don't want to do. It.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, so, overall kind of final thoughts On Super.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Known, yeah so obviously a. Classic, YEAH i mean you
can see why this was their breakout. Album some fantastic.
Tracks they will be listened to for years to. Come,
YEAH i mean they're gonna appreciated for a long. Time,
sure there are some stuff on this one THAT i
wasn't as into as a lot of the singles and
single worthy, tracks But i'll still recommend this album to
anybody that's interested in. Hearing soundgarden is a great like starting,
(35:02):
Point and as a result of, THAT i kind OF
i was wavering between like an eight and eight and a. Half,
Yeah i'll settle on eight and a half out of,
ten mostly just because there's like three songs or so
out of the fifteen THAT i wasn't so into AND
i kind of used the law of percentages there and, that,
yeah puts me in about an, eight But i'm gonna
(35:22):
be nice and give it an eight and a.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Half, YEAH i kind of focused on an. EIGHT i
thought that was appropriate based on the SONGS i, liked
based on the SONGS i didn't. Like that's kind of
Where i'm at if.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You want to talk about, LEGACY i, mean it's a
ten out of ten just because of the fact that
it really Broke Sound garden into the. Mainstream it brought
them to the worldwide audience as opposed to just like
The West. Coast, yeah and you know alternative.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Audio that was a.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Good, mainstream great mainstream, Debut, yeah, yeah one hundred percent
and set them up nicely for Like down on The
upside later and Then King animal several years after. That,
SO i, mean, man but though great, album you, Know
Black Hole sun Spoon man fell On Black days, kickstand
(36:07):
fourth Of, july the DAY i tried to.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
LIVE i, mean a lot of great, Stuff, yeah a
lot of great, stuff all, right. Buddy hey with, that
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