POLL it to hell and gone: DOWN ON THE UPSIDE

WE ARE NOT DROPPING LIMO WRECK

also 'i'm here to fuck you all' is better than 'hard-headed fuck you all'

cigarette hair, sock in the mouth, tell me what to say

but also with more texture maybe than Superunknown

it does have a lot more, thayil and cornell (assuming it's ever him) have a lot more wailing-out time, and the lines in general are just a lot more hairy, less streamlined than superunknown - but the production is really flat and hollow, does a disservice to the texturizing

'Never the Machine Forever' is still my favourite thing on this. Wish Thayil had written more stuff towards the back end of the original run. Shepherd's handprints are all over this record - not that this is a bad thing of course, but he seemed to be (by this stage) a dominant creative force in the band along with Cornell, whereas Thayil just kinda faded into the background songwriting wise.

I'm here to fuck you all
I'm here to fuck you all
I'm here to fuck you all

Man do I love the drumming in the chorus of "burden"

I'm relistening to my shortened version w/ "Bleed Together" and "Karaoke" swapped in and it sounds real good. and I stand by my Superunknown statements

fp

is there a reliable way to tell cornell and thayil's parts apart on record? i read something about 'tighter and tighter' that implied that cornell was the soloist through the end, which surprised me, so i guess aside from the more sonic youth string-disturbance bits that i usually attribute to thayil, i still have no idea what thayil's part playing sounds like, and not always soloing either

http://bravewords.com/news/trouble-s-bruce-franklin-pays-tribute-to-chris-cornell-with-cover-of-soundgarden-s-tighter-tighter-video

it's interesting to hear a slightly undercooked performance of this by a competent peer, it really highlights how important every single person's contributions were to their sound

it's a bit long but this is my favourite SG album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upC4NytWCLI

i read something about 'tighter and tighter' that implied that cornell was the soloist through the end, which surprised me

live at least - uploader sez 'first live tighter & tighter', tho cornell's stage banter suggests they played it live during the DOTU touring - thayil takes the theme the whole time he's not soloing, and he takes all the solos, and when he solos cornell usually covers the theme, but shakier than thayil does. which seems typical for all their performances i've seen, for other songs. thayil tends to shift back and forth depending on what the song needs to be covered by one main part, with cornell picking up slack.

I' M HERET OFUCK YOUALL

AS YOUR HEAD OF STATE! YEAH YEAHYEAH

YEAHYEAH YEAHH!!!!!

HARDHEADED FUCK YOU ALL