From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Wednesday, 9 Aug 1995 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 00:04:10 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Wednesday, 9 Aug 1995 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://web.mit.edu/saperl/sg/archive/archive.html Today's Topics: best & worst 666 To pop or not to pop Re: Fave Bands new album Fab bands favorite bands: Re: favorite bands: find themes what's going on List Issues Re: favorite bands: ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 02:08:04 -0400 From: LEM89@aol.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: best & worst other bands I listen to: Foo Fighters Alice in Chains Mad Season Silver Chair these are just the current faves. Get a grip, guys. Soundgarden is a very POPULAR band. What's so bad about that? They've worked very hard for their sucess and have reached a level of complex musicianship that can hold the interest of a lot of different folks - not just metalheads. If they didn't grow in their style beyond "loud love", I would never have found them. I respect them that I can trace the development of their style over the years - I just like it more and more as it gets to Badmotorfinger and then Superunknown, the best by far. Three best SG songs - that's so hard!!!! 4th of July Limo Wreck Black Hole Sun also - Superunknown, Mailman, The Day I Tried to Live, Like Suicide, Head Down... New Damage, Rusty Cage, Fluttergirl, Fresh Deadly Roses, ... Worst ones - I awake (sounds like something from This is Spinal Tap) No Wrong, No Right (ditto) most of UltramegaOK ! I didn't re-listen to everything, just did it off the top of my head, so it's not writ in stone. I agree that the all-star line up band just wouldn't jell. For desert island discs, give me: 1. Superunknown, SG 2. Ten, PJ 3. Nevermind, Nirvana 4. Temple of the Dog ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 18:16:53 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: LITTLE JOE To: soundgarden list Subject: 666 I know this post is a bit belated, but I pulled the wave files of 665 and 667 off UltramegaOK with my CDrom the other night and played them backwards, as was suggested on the list last week. Chris *really is* screaming something about Santa and Christmas. It is not very clear at the start, but at the end the words are clearly discernable. Anyone who can, should have a listen, it's really very funny. :) ps.Anyone who has Vitalogy should do the same with Pry To. Eddie is singing something about Pete Townshend. ___________________________ = ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN = =========================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 19:33:49 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: LITTLE JOE To: LEM89@aol.com Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: To pop or not to pop I guess I should put my two cents into the current debate regarding the POP status pinned on Soundgarden. I agree with the comments about the evolution of the Soundgarden style and how they have worked hard and certainly deserve any success that may come their way. Maybe some people find the 'pop' label repugnant because it destroys their image of Soundgarden as a cool, alternative band. I think that everyone becomes too pre-occupied with labelling. I guess that the whole thing stems from the 'cool' grunge image these days, it seems nobody wants to be associated with anything mainstream whatsoever. To be cool you have to be like Eddie Vedder or Kurt Cobain and be continuosly challenging authority. Everyone wants to be in some select rebellious crowd. As a case in point take a look at the alt.music.alternative newsgroups that say they cater only to bands selling less than two platinum records. Pop is what you make of it. Just because it is a word oft associated with the talentless churn that comprises much of the market these days, it doesn't mean that the quality product we are getting will be compromised at all. As long as Chris and the boys don't make the mistakes of Pearl Jam, and tamper with their sound in some futile hit out at popularity, what we get will continue to be the superb sounds they have given us in the past. Every record they have ever released has been good. I don't care what label you put on them, or how many people listen to them, what we should care about is the band, not who the fans are. If Soundgarden continue as they have started so well we should all be happy...right. ___________________________ = ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN = =========================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 08:41:05 -0230 (NDT) From: Tony Dawe To: ADAMSON RICHARD J Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Fave Bands On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, ADAMSON RICHARD J wrote: > TEA PARTY i like the tea party almost as much as i like sg! they are not the metal that sg is but songs like fire in the head and the bazzar are really great. the bands i like are: sg green day tea party offspring pearl jam jimi hendrix smashing pumpkins matthew sweet moist the hip rem hole nirvana live the cranberries ... bands i can't stand van morrison all jazz music most danse music boyz II men all clasical the artist formely known as prince ... i got an album yesterday called alternative nrg (energie) and well anyway there is a song by sg and brin may (on the same song) and they do the song new damage and is pretty cool! gotta go /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ /\Tony Dawe /\ \/gbf2033@infonet.st-johns.nf.ca \/ /\St.Johns InfoNET /\ \/"I am you, you are me, \/ /\ no one is themselves" /\ \/"I am the law" \/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:08:38 -0400 From: ThisRulz@aol.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: new album i heard that this was supposed to come out this fall, but now it's supposed to come out next summer!?! i know it's hard for a band to to come up with songs(believe me i've been there) and they're busy touring europe (which i thought they did already) but i think they're waiting alittle to long. ------------------------------ Subject: Fab bands From: jsimpson@mail03.mitre.org (Jamesetta Simpson) To: somms@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 09:42:24 -0400 OK, bands I like (other than Soundgarden): Life long loves: Led Zepplen Deep Purple Thin Lizzy Taste (Rory Gallaher) Zephyr (Tommy Bolin) Three Man Army Band Nazareth Bad Company (early) Present day: Mother Love Bone (gone but not forgotten) Hater Bush Alice in Chains Mad Season (hope they do another CD) Live Stone Temple Pilots (mainly for the DeLeo brothers - we all need a little sugar now and then) Sorry this note is posted so late, but we have had a black out for two days. Jamie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 19:11:00 -0400 From: JUNKGUNF@aol.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: favorite bands: My favorite bands: acdc, aerosmith, alice in chains, anderson, wakeford, bruford and howe, arrested development, atomic playboys, bachman turner overdrive, bad company, badlands, the band, bangles, beastie boys, beatles, beck, belly, pat benetar, big star, david bowie, black crowes, frank black, blood sweat and tears, blue murder, boston, james brown, jeff buckley, butthole surfers, cars, cheap trick, the church, eric clapton, the clash, john coltrane, alice cooper, coverdale/page, robert cray, ccr, crowded house, cry of love, the cult, the cure, deep purple, def lepperd, depeche mode, devo, dinosaur jr., dire straits, doobie brothers, the doors, dread zeppelin, drivin n cryin, the eagles, ebn, melissa ethridge, donald fagen, firehose, firm, fixx, foghat, foo fighters, peter frampton, the front, peter gabriel, genesis, guess who, guns n roses, buddy guy, julianna hatfield, jeff healey, heart, jimi hendrix, 1000 homo dj's, john lee hooker, hothouse flowers, house of lords, howlin wolf, ian hunter, billy idol, inxs, jane's addiction, jesus and mary chain, jesus jones, jesus lizard, jethro tull, steve jones, junkyard, bb king, kingdom come, kinks, lenny kravitz, krokus, led zeppelin, john lennon, live, living colour, ll cool j, london quireboys, love and rockets, loverboy, luscious jackson, lynyrd skynyrd, machines of loving grace, 10,000 maniacs, marilyn manson, bob marley, masters of reality, mazzy star, ministry, minuteman, eddie money, van morrison, mother love bone, motley crue, mott the hoople, muddy waters, mudhoney, jimmy dale gilmore, alannah myles, night ranger, nine inch nails, nirvana, aldo nova, ohio players, jimmy page, robert palmer, alan parson project, pavement, pearl jam, tom petty, pink floyd, robert plant, porno for pyros, possum dixion, pretenders, primus, public enemy, queen, queensryche, rage against the machine, bonnie raitt, ramones, red hot chili peppers, rem, replacements, rolling stones, rush, sam and dave, joe satriani, scorpions, screaming trees, sidewinders, paul simon, frank sinatra, skid row, smashing pumpkins, smithereens, the smiths, snoop dogg, sonic youth, soul asylum, soundgarden, spinal tap, ringo starr, steely dan, rod stewart, stone roses, izzy stradlin, styx, sugarcubes, sundays, superchunk, supertramp, matthew sweet, swervedriver, tad, talking heads, james taylor, temptations, terminator x, tesla, george thorogood, edgar winter, tragically hip, truimph, truly, us3, u2, steve vai, van halen, stevie ray vaughn, wasp, mike watt, whitesnake, chris whitley, wings, the who, world party, xtc, yes, neil young, zebra, zz top, elastica, filter, portishead, soul coughing, oasis, joy division, sebadoh, kents, hazel, hater, temple of the dog, afghan wigs, l7, anthrax, asia, bang tango, basehead, beat happening, jeff beck, chuck berry, big audio dynamite II, black foot, blind melon, blondie, blue oyster cult, blue rodeo, blues brothers, breeders, byrds, catherine wheel, chicago, my life with the thrill kill kult, course of empire, cracker, cream, jim croce, curve, cypress hill, d.a.d, dada, dangerous toys, drive like jehu, duran duran, fear, figgs, fishbone, fleetwood mac, john fogerty, foreigner, free, fugazi, georgia satellites, gin blossoms, golden earring, grandmaster melle mel, great white, greatful dead, green day, green river, gumball, sammy hagar, herbie hancock, miles davis, pj harvey, havana 3am, helmet, john hiatt, hindu love gods, the honeydrippers, ice-t, body count, cheech n chong, iron maiden, chris isaak, mick jagger, colin james, billy joel, eric johnson, robert johnson, judas priest, kickaxe, kiss, kmfdm, the law, lemonheads, huey lewis, kate bush, thomas dolby, missing persons, katrina and the waves, lotion, lucy's fur coat, lush, lynch mob, paul mccartney, meat puppets, megadeth, metallica, the melvins, kim mitchell, moby, montrose, motorhead, nazareth, ted nugent, the offspring, parliament/funkadelic, paw, police, pop will eat itself, the posies, psychadelic furs, babes in toyland, quicksand, mad seasons, our lady peace, treble charger, ratt, radiohead, red rider, the knack, squeeze, steeler's wheel, rev. horton heat, revolting cocks, paul rodgers, the rollins band, pogues, david lee roth, sex pistols, damned, exploited, billy sheehan, sloan, small faces, louie armstrong, bruce springsteen, billy squier, steppenwolf, stray cats, surgery, victoria williams, thin lizzy, the time, prince, trouble, pat travers, urban dance squad, erics trip, coil, fetus, prick, big chief, paul westerberg, joe walsh, suzanne vega, whale, white zombie, dead milkman, the yardbirds, warren zevon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 21:23:04 EDT From: mrl5@Lehigh.EDU (ClownWithBazooka) Subject: Re: favorite bands: To: JUNKGUNF@aol.com, somms@MIT.EDU JUNKGUNF, Subtract about 80 from that list, add about 3 or 4 and you'll have the complete list of my music tastes as well. However, I thought the list was supposed to be short and concise, your all time favorite bands, not all your favorites. Just my worthless opinion. Clown With Bazooka ****************************************************************************** ......Shower in the dark day Clean Sparks Diving Down Cool in the water way Where the Baptized Drown Naked in the Cold Sun Breathing Life like Fire Thought I Was The Only One But That Was Just a Lie...... -Soundgarden ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 22:26:52 -0400 From: LEM89@aol.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: find themes I would like to pursue the topic of themes in the lyrics of Chris Cornell. Everyone could please contribute to this: Theme #1: Catholic Stuff Jesus Christ Pose Holy Water "I'm going to the Holy Land" (Drown me in you) Your Savior (temple of the dog) etc, etc and my personal favorite, Tears, rain & water: "the wreck is going down, get out before you drown" "Drown me in you" "holy water's rusting me" "And we fall like a tear falling to the ground" "in the pouring down wind" "Soundgarden is a tear in an eye dreaming" "won't you come and wash away the rain" can you add to my lists? think of any more themes?? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:43:48 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: LITTLE JOE To: soundgarden list Subject: what's going on I just read my email, there are more messages asking to be unsubscribed than actually talking about Soundgarden. If you want to unsubscribe you should mail Seth directly [saperl@mit.edu] rather than clogging up our boxes with that stuff (he is the list manager). If you subscribe to a mailing list you should expect to get a lot of messages, this list only gets a moderate load compared to some i've been on. Anyway to all you real Soundgarden fans out there let's keep on posting so this thing doesn't die like the last one. ps. Seth, I hope that it was the right thing to do, telling them to post to you..If not, sorry. ___________________________ = ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN = =========================== ------------------------------ To: somms@MIT.EDU Reply-To: saperl@MIT.EDU Subject: List Issues Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 22:47:29 EDT From: seth Just a few things I feel I should clear up for those who seem not to know: 1. Unsubscribe requests should NOT be sent to the list. I seriously doubt that anyone besides me really cares that you want to get off the list. SEND ALL SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO SAPERL@MIT.EDU AND I WILL DEAL WITH THEM. 2. Many people have chosen to unsubscribe due to the large quantity of email that fills their inboxes each day. Well, the list is available in DIGEST FORM, which means that you will get only ONE piece of email each day, containing all of the day's messages. Other advantages of the digest form of the list: -I don't include unsubscribe requests that are sent to the list -starting tonight, I plan to strip the headers from all messages before sending the digest, making it easier to read -if you really don't want to read it, it's only one piece of mail to delete And it figures, just as I'm writing this, Little Joe sends email to the list saying basically the same exact thing, and he's 100% correct in everything he says. seth (listadmin) ------------------------------ To: somms@MIT.EDU Reply-To: saperl@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: favorite bands: Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 23:16:00 EDT From: seth My list isn't quite so long, and doesn't encompass nearly as broad a range of musical tastes, but here goes: Beastie Boys, Breeders, The Clash, Concrete Blonde, Curve, Faith No More, Luscious Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Sinead O'Connor, Primal Scream, Scrawl (the only non-"pop" band on the list, it seems), Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Coughing, Soundgarden, and Suede. Of the above artists, I have seen the Beasties, Breeders, Luscious, Pumpkins, and Suede live. I have also seen Soundgarden one time, in New York, when they opened for Guns N' Roses in 1991. I thought they sucked, but I realized that one live performance is not necessarily an adequate representation of a band's ability, so I bought _Badmotorfinger/SOMMS_ in the summer of 1992 and have been hooked ever since. I added to my collection today with the purchase of two 7" bootlegs: "Incescent Mace"/"Loco Mosquito" on red vinyl, and "Earache My Eye (live)"/"Big Bottom (live)." I also listen to "classical" music, probably more than I listen to "popular" music. My favorite composer is Shostakovich, and I also thoroughly enjoy Barber, Bach, some Beethoven, Orff, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner. As for performers, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, and the Kronos Quartet do it for me. On top of that, film music is of particular interest to me; current favorites include anything by John Williams and the scores for "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Needful Things." seth ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 1 Issue 9] **************************************