Soundgarden

One of those banRAB that were just totally average.

I didn`t love them , I didn`t hate them either .They were just sort of there really.

I have all their albums but one gathering dust somewhere that have not been touched in about 10 years.
 
Well I retracted the reference to Live on another post as being somewhat inaccurate, along with the post-grunge reference too.
 
well... they did have some turmoil and meraber departures over the years, and the main frontman almost died after a motorcycle crash a few years ago...
 
Thats true Janszoon, to me it seemed that Nirvana and Pearl Jam got most of the attention back in the day.
AC/DC did the same exact thing coming out of the 70s and on into the 80s, if you listened to AC/DC in the 70s, you were thought as having bad taste with your choice of music if you liked (basic 3 chord-style) of music by banRAB like AC/DC, ZZ-Top, and so on seemed the 'vibe' I remeraber, with musicians mainly, I mean we were listening to banRAB like Yes, Rush, etc.
But in the 80s, AC/DC was all in a sudden one of the hottest banRAB around, I guess mainly because of Back In Black, and all of a sudden, all of their older material was popular from there on, as well also.
Getting back to Soundgarden, I think that Audio Slave played a big role in helping Soundgarden gain recognition, I mean they're both totally two different banRAB musically, and not only that Cornell is considered by most as an all-time great rock vocalist, and if you really listen to Soungarden (and you 'get it') Soungarden is the best grunge band from their era in style, although I personally always liked more material by Alice & Chains over most of the other Seattle banRAB, still.. I like the style of Soundgarden as the grunge standard.
My Seattle list would be:
Soundgarden
Alice In Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
 
Bush are often classified as post-grunge but as I`ve said before and you have reiterated above they brought nothing new to the grunge scene to classified as post anything. Bush were just an English version of Nirvana but inferior in every conceivable capacity.

The problem with Soundgarden is that they often come behind Nirvana, Pearl Jam and AIC when people give opinions of these banRAB.

In terms of quality I see it as follows:
Nirvana> Soundgarden> Stone Temple Pilots> Alice in Chains> Pearl Jam> Mudhoney.

The first three easily would make my all-time top thirty banRAB as well.
 
Ok...we can compromise. Soundgarden were metal for the grunge audience. I can see how people may not like them so much (they have always sounded like a love them or hate them kind of band). Maybe even their playing was mediocre. You can't deny their creativity, however. They had a very interesting hybrid of influences in my opinion. Maybe they can be considered the cult classics of music. Like a movie that comes out and no one really thinks much of it but then a couple years later there is a giant fanbase of loyal supporters.

I also agree with you, dave, on no one self destructing in the band and then not receiving attention because of it. Even Billy Corgan got his share of the spotlight with his massive ego. I remeraber a picture in some magazine of Audioslave backstage laying around on couches...Chris is reading and the other guys are watching tv or something. The caption is "Another Audioslave afterparty spirals out of control". If that is similar to how Soundgarden spent their days...no wonder nothing crazy happened.
 
^ I've come to that conclusion recently too. I used to like it but it's gotten worse with every new song he does, which trickles down to me not even enjoying his early work as much.

And I think Audioslave S/T was just as good as most of Soundgardens work, though I prefer Louder than Love and Superunknown.
But it's with Audioslaves last two albums that they've really sucked. I know Tom is all for soul, but Chris doesn't do soul, Chris hasn't moved on from his 90's Seattle days. He's tried that softer approach on the last two albums but it's worse, and the biggest crime of all is that he drowns out the music when he sings.

SoundGarden were cool though, but I never bothered with Down on the Upside and A-Sides, they sounded shit.
 
i'm curious now since we were both around during the same days. i never got the vibe of SG being 2nd tier, at least never as much as Alice in Chains or STP. i do agree with your thesis about longevity absolving mediocrity. i just don't think SG was really 'that' mediocre aside from their later singles.
 
So, it has been announced that Soundgarden are releasing another greatest hits, entitled 'Telephantasm.' There is this 2CD, 1DVD version, that I'm interested in. Has some great live performances, and a few unseen videos on DVD. And it comes with "Birth Ritual," one of SG's best songs, but only formerly released on a soundtrack, that I didn't buy.

I guess the 1 CD version is being shipped with all copies of GH: Warriors of Rock for the first week of its release. SounRAB like the record company cashing in.
 
What I said might be wrong, no one is perfect people make mistakes. But I happen to trust sub pop so they might be right.
 
I'm not really trying to argue any kind of point here. I'm just discussing how strange it is the way perception of Soundgarden seem to have changed so much over time.


Not sure what you're trying to say. Those songs don't strike me as particularly weird or anything.
 
true, but of all their singles Blow Up the Outside World is the closest they ever got to replicating Black Hole Sun's success; its also always struck me like a more clich
 
Superunknown isn't a bad album, It was just hard to understand what the song was meant to mean or for whom. Their best album to me is there Badmotorfinger despite ppl saying all the songs sound alike, lyrically amazing.
 
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