Yeah if they remaster it right one day I may consider it over SU
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
listening to it now, Louder than Love kinda strikes me as a strangely by-the-numbers cock-rock anomaly amidst a bunch of interesting, unusual, and occasionally abstract records.
― charlie h, Sunday, 8 June 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
The tune by Soundgarden I was always obsessed with was "Room a Thousand Years Wide". It's got such a cool drony sound and that riff is very hypnotic.
― earlnash, Sunday, 8 June 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Ultramega > Badmotor > Louder > SOMMS > Loudest Love >> Screaming Life/Fopp >> Superunknown >>>> King Animal >>>>>>>Down
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 8 June 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i love Room a Thousand Years Wide. the voluminous sound & presence of the song reinforces the implications of the title in a metaphysical kinda way.
back listening to Superunknown now. never noticed before how Jane's Addiction-y Half is.
― charlie h, Sunday, 8 June 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
can't believe i let you guy trick me into listen to Louder Than Love...
anyways the one Soundgarden track that was always my secret personal fav was the one off of the Basketball Diaries soundtrack, "Blind Dogs"
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 8 June 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
Can anyone explain the Soundgarden/Jesus Lizard beef
Seems Yow and co really hated them
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 8 June 2014 05:21 (ten years ago) link
I think Soundgarden may be ILX's favourite grunge act, threads on them are always overwhelmingly, enthusiastically positive.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 8 June 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
so overwhelmingly enthusiastically positive that i feel like talking about how much i've grown to like king animal
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 June 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
how did you know that this would be your fate?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 June 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
this song rules so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcqghwWu2Vs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 June 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah it was not bad. i really just wish they never broke up and had half a dozen more Down On The Upside/King Animal-quality decent albums, i would've been fine with those kind of diminishing returns as much as i am with Pearl Jam. better that than Audioslave and Scream, anyway.
― some dude, Sunday, 8 June 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
they're a band that sound great together, they could put out hookless whatevers forever and i'll be down. was surprised that my favorite songs on king animal are all cornell-written though
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 June 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
i think he probably missed playing with people that could handle the weird tunings and time signatures and had a whole bunch of ideas saved up that he couldn't really put to much use for a decade.
― some dude, Sunday, 8 June 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
bones of birds def my favourite off king animal
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Sunday, 8 June 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
is 'black days' the best song ever to have used 'whatsoever' in a lyric
― j., Saturday, 27 September 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
it's the only best song to use "whatsoever" in a lyric
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 September 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
undisputed champion
― j., Sunday, 28 September 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
also scores big in the whomsoever category
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 28 September 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Am utterly confused by how unremarkable album track "Fell On Black Days" has won this tbh.
― leigh exodus (country matters), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:50 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
During this song I always feel like I'm just waiting for Mailman to start (I don't like to skip tracks)
― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
srsly
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Mailman is the one I really came around to
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
Man, 4th of July was robbed, such a massive song. Idk how that track was received at the time but it's weird to me hearing something so doomy on a relatively mainstream rock album.
― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
my friends and i were teenagers, we just took it all ine
*nedlike flip of the hair*
― j., Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
uug relentlessly otm rn
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
yes!! fresh fucking tendrils!!
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:01 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, June 30, 2013 5:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:29 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 7:48 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
hi brad
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Fresh Tendrils getting one vote is insane.
― 29 facepalms, Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
AND THE WRECK OF YOU
― j., Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
WHILE THE REST OF YOU HARVEST GOLD
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
WHILE THE REST OF YOU HARVEST THE SOULS
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, September 28, 2014 3:39 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
cuz i fell awwwwnnnnnnnnn
― j., Friday, 17 April 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
4th of July best song they ever did. Best album is Badmotorfinger. Drawin flies and face pollution baby.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 18 April 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
yes fresh fuckin tendrils
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link
/sponeman/
― j., Monday, 3 August 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1745&context=etd_hon_theses
Exploring the Superunknown: Composition and the Music of Soundgarden
― j., Friday, 24 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:50 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Fell on Black Days winning is as weird to me now as it was four years ago
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
25 YEARS
― j., Friday, 8 March 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
Wow. I just started listening to this album this week. I had always had something against SG when I was a kid that I never got over (excepting the Singles soundtrack songs), but I finally found my way in. 25 years too late I guess.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2034893/17-essential-songs-in-74/franchises/ultimate-playlist/
respeckt to whiney
― j., Friday, 8 March 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
me: i have a lot of different drumming inspirations but i wonder who my favorite drummer of all time is
*listens to superunknown*
me: oh, it's matt cameron
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Man, I feel bad for Mailman - what a monster tune!
― chap, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I swear the echo on the vocals on the title track sound just like Nilssons jump in the fire
― calstars, Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
also 30 years old today
still really long
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:27 (six months ago) link
I rate LTL higher but this is a close second When you’re really alone, you’re superunknown
― calstars, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:36 (six months ago) link
I remember polling this album too, I'm such a screw up. Such a monster album, this with Alice in Chains were probably unmatched. If you take out Nirvana.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 March 2024 03:31 (six months ago) link
Listened to it earlier this week with no idea it was the 30th anniversary, still their pinnacle for me. Head Down probably my favourite now, but Fourth Of July, Limo Wreck and The Day I Tried To Live all contenders too.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Saturday, 9 March 2024 11:01 (six months ago) link
Let me drown > my wave is a hell of a twofer to open an album
― calstars, Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:29 (six months ago) link