From: somms@MIT.EDU To: somms-digest@MIT.EDU Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Monday, 7 Aug 1995 Reply-To: somms@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:03:33 EDT Sender: saperl@MIT.EDU The Soundgarden Digest: Monday, 7 Aug 1995 Today's Topics: Re: Re[2]: Not Pop! test Allan Mills (Where do I find Ultra Mega OK?) Re: Favourite bands Re: Favourite bands network tv sucks Soundgarden of Coarse Re: SG is a pop band + Other good bands Re: (fwd) Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 00:03:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Mills Subject: Re: Re[2]: Not Pop! To: Combustion Rulz Cc: somms@MIT.EDU where in the hell can you find the album Ultramega OK. I fuckin' love soundgarden, and I got all but one album, Ultramega OK. so whoever gets this fill me in here, I'm fuckin' dyin' here. thanks Alan Mills a035883t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Combustion Rulz wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 1995 MoonDruid@aol.com wrote: > > > One thing that's very intresting is that I listened to Soundgarden's Black > > Hole Sun on MTV, and I really liked it, it was my favorite song. Then, I went > > and bought the album. I started thinking, UGH! ! ! WHY did I buy this? I > > listened to it again, and it was my favorite CD. I never took it out of the > > player the entire summer. Then, I started listening to more Soundgarden, > > Badmotorfinger. I like Soundgarden as an ALTERNATIVE/HARD ROCK band...but > > with Badmotorfinger I like them even more as a metal band. I now have every > > album except Ultramega OK. > > Dude, you are missing out... IMO Ultramega OK is one of the best albums > that they have put out. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Justin Akehurst - akehurst@tahoma.cwu.edu - aka Combustion Rulz "Fire! Fire!" > Auxiliary Productions, CWU - Homepage at http://tahoma.cwu.edu:2000/~akehurst > > > > L L > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 03:56:22 EDT From: AFNJ84A@prodigy.com (MR CASEY C CAUGHRON) To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: test - -- [ From: Casey Caughron * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- Hello everyone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 03:56:17 EDT From: AFNJ84A@prodigy.com (MR CASEY C CAUGHRON) To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Allan Mills (Where do I find Ultra Mega OK?) - -- [ From: Casey Caughron * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- A great place to find GREAT music is INSOMNIA Records. You can order right on the net too. There address is WWW.insomnia.com I checked and they do have Ultra Mega OK. While your on-line with them order the new SHINER 7" It kicks ass. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 16:21:07 +0100 To: mm328995@minmet.uq.oz.au (John Grieves), somms@MIT.EDU From: nunpuncher@easynet.co.uk Subject: Re: Favourite bands >what other bands do soundgarden fans like? Hi folks. I've been lurking for a week or two and this is my first posting. Anybody going to the Reading Festival? See ya there! Favourite bands: SG Smashing Pumpkins Rage Against the Machine Nirvana Green Day Metallica The Jam Led Zep Jimi Hendrix Jane's Addiction The Cult The Clash The Damned L7 Thin Lizzy X-Ray Spex The Ramones 999 Motorhead Mudhoney Living Color Killing Joke Guns 'n' Roses Dead Kennedys The Fall The Buzzcocks The Beatles Stay Cool! Nunny. It is better to regret something you have done than something you have not! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 14:16:13 -0400 From: BluMijit@aol.com To: nunpuncher@easynet.co.uk, mm328995@minmet.uq.oz.au, somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Favourite bands hi! if anyone should be intersted in online chatting via AOL, look for me under efgyof4gtn..... as for favorite bands: SG nirvana suffocation fear factory morrissey nail bomb sepultura crucifix foo fighters hole jimi hendrix led zep obituary disincarnate jane's addiction etcetcetceteetcetcetetc........and so on! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:41:17 -0400 From: LEM89@aol.com To: Somms@MIT.EDU Subject: network tv sucks that "in concert" show totally sucked, it was awfull, there was no live concert footage worth taping, and they played all the same old vids with some chirpy DJ talking over them. Ugh! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 18:04:46 -0400 From: reedc@vivanet.com Subject: Soundgarden of Coarse To: somms@MIT.EDU Yo everyone, I was alittle confused when I got my first TRUCK load full of email Well since where on the topic of favorite bands mine: SG PJ NIN SP and the rest is all jumbled up, but consists of: Filter Foo Fighters Magnificent Bastards Nirvana Letters from Cleo Bjork etc etc Charlie Reed Rochester NY reedc@vivanet.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:14:25 +1000 (EST) From: Alex Lyberopoulos To: Paul Van Rompay Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SG is a pop band + Other good bands On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Paul Van Rompay wrote: > Someone asked a good question a little while back - What other bands do we, > SG fans, listen to? I'm really pretty shocked by the response. The bands > I saw listed I could have easily predicted based on stereotypes or > whatever. e.g. Pearl Jam, FNM, Primus, Alice in Chains - They're all pop > bands, including SG. By pop I mean popular, NOT pop-sounding. Musical > styles are so screwed up now-a-days that some bands like SG wouldn't really > belong anywhere if the same ones that existed 10 years ago were still used. > Some people try though. What's popular defines what is pop music now. > > POP now-a-days is just that - whatever is popular. Lots of "Alternative", > "Metal", and "Grunge" is pop, even if you don't understand why. I admit SG > is pop, but they're still a great band. We'll see how they handle it with > their next album. It could be good, good and popular, or just popular. > > Whatever . . . what I was surprised to see was that the other bands you > guys like are all POP. I was hoping to see some GOOD, unknown (i.e. > non-pop) bands - maybe even some I haven't heard of that I would then check > out. > > But NO. > > So, here's my list of good non-pop bands - albums worth checking out in (). > (I still very much like pop bands AiC, FNM, Primus, Metallica, Nirvana). > > **Kyuss ("blues for the red sun", "sky valley") > **Mule (any) > **Fugazi - semi-pop (any & all) > **Godflesh (any) > **Bullet Lavolta ("swandive" & others) > Voivod (any) > Fudge Tunnel (any) > Monster Magnet (any) > Hater > Chucklehead ("big wet kiss") > Bim Skala Bim (any) > Danzig - OK, pop (#1) > Boss Hog > Thumper > ** Please do yourself a favor & give these bands a serious listen. > > How many have heard of these bands? > OK, enough talk. What bands (pop & non-pop) do you like? > > Adios, > -Paul- > > > > Pop bands would include the usual favourites: Metallica, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Led Zepellin, Pantera, Black Sabbath (old), Faith no More, Tool, Live, ACDC, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, the Doors, John Lee Hooker, the Beatles. There are not many groups i like that are unknown except maybe local acts that only aussies would know. Therapy?, Powderfinger, Tumbleweed, Nitocris, Hardware, Downtime, I mother Earth, Quadbox. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:19:13 +1000 (EST) From: Alex Lyberopoulos To: Muhammad Lee Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: (fwd) Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days Subtract Hole and it would be even better. On Sat, 5 Aug 1995, Muhammad Lee wrote: > > > > Daniel and Everyone interested, > Soundgarden is playing at the reading festival in england. Along with > Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and Bjork. Subtract green day and you > have got a damn good concert. Either way it should be pretty awesome. Wish > I lived in england right now. > Clown in Possession of Bazooka > > ****************************************** > Tears Of The Feeble > Hands Of The Slaves > Skin Of The Mothers > Mouths Of The Babes > Building The Towers > Belongs To The Sky > When The Whole Thing > Comes Crashing Down > Don't Ask Me Why -Soundgarden > ******************************************* > > > ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 1 Issue 7] **************************************