Beyond the POLL: ULTRAMEGA OK

So you voted for Beyond The Wheel? Think I'll go for Circle Of Power then. I assume some others will vote Flower (or it will end up with 0 as everyone thinks the same)

heh... I haven't voted yet... but come awn...

Went with "Flower." First song of theirs I ever heard (I bought this album because the cover was great - I had never heard of them before) and it made me a fan.

beyond the wheel is indeed crushingly great, but my heart belongs to flower.

Another vote for Flower here, although Nazi Driver and Head Injury are pretty good too. I recently revisited this one after a few years left on the shelf, and it still sounds quite fresh.

This album was also my gateway to SST; if it wasn't for the lil' paper catalogue inside I might never have discovered the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Husker Du et al.

euros please listen to this on spotify and VOTE

http://open.spotify.com/album/6oNkbP6cn6n7p6dfzMfXM7

that clip is awesome. I want to see the video of it

btw I really hope you do a poll on http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hPfrHfS4Usk/ScGL3grtwNI/AAAAAAAAAIs/yGrBIZs9208/s400/Screaming_Life.jpg&imgrefurl=http://theoryofvitalogy.blogspot.com/2009/03/soundgarden-screaming-life-ep-1987.html&usg=__L7VoUpSPPSBzGXRso0sNgenY6tw=&h=280&w=280&sz=17&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=lLCiOue32MwI8M:&tbnh=114&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsoundgarden%2Bscreaming%2Blife%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

http://image.maniadb.com/images/album/186/186309_1_f.jpg

or even the 2eps together on one cd
http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/fopprw1.jpg

I was going to do screaming life/fopp, but it may just be the two of us in there ;_;

Do it! Polls generally do make double figures in voting, there's far more lurkers who vote than post on every poll.

I have Ultramega OK on vinyl (and screaming life too) everything else on cd. I'd love that ultramega ok on red vinyl that Kreation records are selling but you can bet they want several hundred dollars for it.

Know what would be great? if soundgarden reformed and didn't give a fuck about selling millions of a record and just expanded on the ultramega ok template like badmotorfinger did and just make a really good heavy doom album with some weird shit. I'm sure they're capable as long as they let Kim/Matt take control and tell cornell to fucking sing!

oh and Ben too.

What's Kim doing these days anyway? Last thing I heard by him was his guesting on a Sunn o))) album.

i'd love to think they could still cut a killer record, but who knows? i know I'd be happy if they went with ultremegadoomsludge or dotu classicrockadelia or anything in between.

i really just <3 the fuck out of what these these guys did together.

(so much so that I'm paying money to go see cornell's current solo nostalgia act)

i really hated what i heard of Cornells pop single. Do what you do best Chris!

http://www.sludgeswamp.blogspot.com/ has a 1988 bootleg up!

He writes:

"I can't find my original disk that I got this from but the quality is not bad. This is a rip at 320 from a burned copy of the disk.
It's a bootleg show from '88, I think. Sorry, no art on this one. But it's a nice one to have because of the time period. It's when Hiro was still in the band and there's a lot of Ultramega OK material on the set list. Even "Circle Of Power" with Hiro on vocals. I was gonna say signing but that wasn't exactly what he was doing..."

disk 1

1 Hunted Down

2 All Your Lies

3 Mood For Trouble

4 Gun

5 Thank You

6 Flower

disk 2

7 Awake

8 Kingdom Of Come

9 Head Injury

10 Circle Of Power

11 Incessant Mace

12 Earache My Eye

Yeah Soundgarden were a really different band with Hiro, at least to my ears. Anyone else here like his next band Truly? I still play their first album occasionally, it's like psych-pop filtered through a heavy-as-fuck machine.

I never got round to Truly but i remember Kerrang liking them. I think the Roadburn festival wanted Truly to play.

That bootleg on sludgeswamp is really good. I recommend you all grab it.

Love love love this record. Voting All Your Lies.

This poll should include "Toy Box" too, for the heck of it.

Probably vote "Incessant Mace", tempted to vote "Mood For Trouble". Was that the only appearance of an acoustic guitar on a Soundgarden track (even if only for about 10 seconds?) I love the spacey parts led into by Cornell's big wail, the tempo slows and the thick, ringing arpeggios. I got to see them do "Incessant Mace" once, when my buddy Miguel and I road-tripped from eastern Michigan to Chicago to see that leg of the 1990 Danzig/Soundgarden/Corrosion of Conformity tour at the Riveria. They encored with it. When we saw 'em a week later in Detroit, they didn't play it. rest of the set list was the same.

Love this album, it was basically my gateway into indie/underground music. As a kid, i was a total Led Zep geek and would buy any album that drew comparisons to Zep. I remember at some point in '88 or '89 reading a Rolling Stone that had a "college band roundup" or some shit. pictures of "new bands" with little one paragraph blurbs. Soundarden was in there and the writer dropped the magic words, so I scoured the record stores and turned up a used cassette of 'Ultramega OK' at Wazoo's in Ann Arbor. as soon as "Flower" came over the speakers I knew I had a new favorite band. I used to smoke pot and listen to this in my truck every day after school obsessively. started buying everything else on SST and Sub Pop.

That setlist for that boot looks amazing -- can't wait to download it. One of my biggest regrets in life is that I never got see the band with Hiro. They had Everman on bass the first three or four times I saw 'em.

Why did hiro leave?

I think he wanted to go back to school. To become a physicist or something of that nature.

'Truly' worth checking out?

I bought the first EP when it came but I remember being disappointed. Band also had Mark Pickerel from the Trees on drums, right? I only listened to it a couple times and can't remember a thing about it. Maybe I should try to find it again! (been re-listening to a lot of stuff from this era so who knows)

Fast Stories... From Kid Coma was the album wasn't it? I remember it got 5 K's in Kerrang and I think made their albums of the year but I never heard it.

I see it's on Spotify though so I may give it a go.

What's Hiro up to now?

This album was also my gateway to SST; if it wasn't for the lil' paper catalogue inside I might never have discovered the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Husker Du et al.

yeah SST catalog inserts in all their CDs were mindblowing for me at a young'n as well

I was lucky, when I got into Nirvana/grunge in 1991 I quickly got into Screaming Trees,Husker Du, Black Flag, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr etc via Missing Records in Glasgow. It was a brilliant shop back then, they stocked all the SST stuff. What they didn't have/were sold out of I could find in Tower Records round the corner. Magical times for a young pfunkboy!

actually the very FIRST thing I ever bought on SST might have been the Sonic Youth "Master=Dik" 12", when that came out. I had heard it on a college radio station. I assumed that's what they always sounded like!

and yeah, the catalog that came with it was fascinating to someone at that time had heard of maybe two or three of the other bands. a whole new world opened up

I got Ultramega OK on vinyl 2nd hand in 92 from Missing Records. I remember getting Louder Than Love and the latest Mudhoney cd (piece of cake)for xmas 92.

cant find the Truly ep on blogs. Guess i gtta hop on ye olde sou1s33k

nothing there. search sucks as ever

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

come on we can make double figures!

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/entertainmentnews/story/866329.html

haha wow

Been listening to this for the first time since a car trip in '92. Surprised how 80s sounding it is- particularly the fast ones. "Circle of Power" is like the Hickoids or something. "Head Injury" is all Bad Brains.

do you like it though?

Oh yah, like it tons

Good! you should dig out Screaming Life and FOPP next in preparation for the next poll.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i approve this poll's results

Yeah good result. Poor old john lennon "cover" didn't even get a vote from Geir ;)
You have to do a Screaming Life/Fopp poll now.

I hope plenty of people check out this album because of the results.

gonna put on screaming life now

Screaming Life/Fopp poll?

I'm too short baby but you're too POLL: SCREAMING LIFE/FOPP

I just broke down and bought an LP Custom for teh rawk and I blame this series of polls.

hurrah

it was you who started all the polls!

yes, i kinda fuxx0red myself there. i thought I'd be okay b/c Custom Lites are pretty much impossible to find and S-1s are fugly.

but no. at least it's a sweet MIJ copy for indie cred.

i have no idea about guitars (or any musical instrument) btw

ah, you're better off for it. at least the having any idea about guitars part.

it's like this:

http://www.oppositerecords.com/boris/bIMG_0686.jpg

i recognise that band!

kinda figured you might!

and those amps too!

Is this album that only heads rate? Because I don't get how more people aren't already on it.

*Is this an album that etc.

the true head http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22986-ultramega-ok/

This was a new reference to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQv6ibM2IY

LZ - Lemon Song (intro) - Live Fillmore West 1969 (not Death Valley 69 lol)