From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 12 Nov 1995 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:14:04 EST Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Sunday, 12 Nov 1995 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu **listadmin note: Sorry this is so late; I just got back from out of town. Today's Topics: teen spirit and zombie dance tracks. Unsubscribing Re: teen spirit and zombie dance tracks. Idiots Sub Pop-200 Music Anthology and Questions Re: Music Anthology and Questions Re: Music Anthology and Questions SG/FNM Re: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 10 Nov 1995 Hater Web page? Re: Web page? ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Holland N B Subject: teen spirit and zombie dance tracks. I have a copy of the Smells Like Teen Spirit dance version by Abigail and it is so funny. Whilst not being quite as good as the Wierd Al piss take it still ranks up there in the top ten worst covers of all time right alongside Ace of Bass and their rather shite copy of Don't Turn Around. The Zombie dance version is actually quite good. It just appears to be a speeded up version of the original, and it is totally excellent to dance to. In a way the Teen Spirit re-mix was just a way to capitalise in the Teeny Bop market (if an unsuccesful attempt). That however does not stop it from being funny. ------------------------------ From: Askairi Williams Subject: Unsubscribing In the course of human events , it becomes necessary to unsubscribe from the best list in the world , " The Soundgarden Mailing List " . Whenever I hear certain songs , I will think of ya'll . From the virtual love nest to the flames , we at the list have been through it all . If I could , I would stay on the list , but I need to concentrate on my life and my academic career . With that , I regretfully and respectfully unsubscribe from the list . Sincerely , Askairi Williams Westminster College Fulton , Missouri williaaj@micro.wcmo.edu Also Known as College Boy & RussianSlayer ------------------------------ From: Avatar Subject: Re: teen spirit and zombie dance tracks. On Sat, 11 Nov 1995, Holland N B wrote: > I have a copy of the Smells Like Teen Spirit dance version by Abigail and > it is so funny. Whilst not being quite as good as the Wierd Al piss take > it still ranks up there in the top ten worst covers of all time... At least you can still mosh to the Wierd Al version... I nearly puked when I heard and saw the clip for the dance version. It was fucking blasphemous, 'cause I heard it a few weeks (months?) after Kurt's death. > The Zombie dance version is actually quite good. It just appears to be a > speeded up version of the original, and it is totally excellent to dance > to. The film clip is fucked though. Did you see the original clip? It actually had something to do with the song, but singing Zombie in a carwash (in the dance clip...) is just fucking pathetic... > In a way the Teen Spirit re-mix was just a way to capitalise in the Teeny > Bop market (if an unsuccesful attempt). That however does not stop it > from being funny. I think the bitch that did it should have 2 shotgun shells pumped into her skull by Curt's animated corpse. This is nothing personal against your opinion of the clip, I'm just stating another popular viewpoint... - - Avatar. "Taste is the enemy of art" - U2 ------------------------------ From: Vinnie Macchione Subject: Idiots >PLEASE, TEENY-BOPPERS STICK TO THE PEARL JAM PAGE If you had half a fucking mind you might realize that the members of Soundgarden and the members of Pearl Jam are very good friends. Besides, What the fuck is wrong with Pearl Jam? And who the hell are you to criticize them or their fans?! Get some class and give some respect to people have have the balls to speak their mind (ie. Mr. Vedder, Mr. Cobain). Just because a band refuses to live in the limelight doesn't mean that they're not a good band. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana (when they were still around) don't exactly live in the media spectrum, but still continued to make the music that's going to stand as a representation for our generation. Vinnie "The media is like a parasite, it sucks the fucking life right out of you." -Mr. Cobain "The media puts these unbelievable expectations on you, they make you look like fucking gods, just so they can crush you later." -Mr. Vedder ------------------------------ From: S0undgardn@aol.com Subject: Sub Pop-200 I just got the re-issue of the sub pop 200 cd and I was wondering if anyone had one of the original ones and knows the difference between the new one and the old one. Oh and someone a while ago said that the screaming life book was good. Whoever that was is very right. It's a great book. It has some great photos of soundgarden. ------------------------------ From: mm328995@minmet.uq.oz.au (John Grieves) Subject: Music Anthology and Questions If you don't give a stuff about guitar tab, skip to the questions below (please?) :> ... Well, I just picked up two books of guitar tablature yesterday (I've got a real impressive range for someone who doesn't yet own a guitar!), for Superunknown and Badmotorfinger. And, yes, I already knew that Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell are wizards on guitars and the whole band has an incredible sense of rhythm... but looking through the tab just blew my mind... Weirdest song I've found so far is Half (on Superunknown)...written by Ben Shepard. Wow, we're talking about a song that uses some bars with the single most weird time signature I have ever found, 11/16...now, I've played a piece of Bach in 24/16, but 11/16 smashes any time signature I have ever seen! The great thing about Half is that the remainder of the piece (except the 'outro') is in 5/8. Makes for a nice killing of any rhythmical symmetry which so many bands get into... Well, I'll be talking plenty more about the guitar tab for Soundgarden until someone tells me to shutup...now all I have to do is wait for my guitar to arrive! In case you're wondering (which you probably aren't), whilst I can't (yet) play guitar too fluently, I can read guitar tab for playing keyboard purposes, and I can play some basic guitar chords... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QUESTIONS Now, the question for everyone is, is that Chris Cornell singing with some very strange FX processor on top of his voice during Half? Have Soundgarden ever played Half live? If so, how did it compare with the album version? Thanks, and as always, all opinions are welcome... Jackhammer Self-Appointed Music Anthologist (don't get me started on Faith No More anthologies, or suffer the consequences of an avid FNM fan going right off :>) ------------------------------ From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: Re: Music Anthology and Questions In response to your question about whether SG have played Half live, I would have to say yes. They played it on the SuperUnknown tour here in Winnipeg. There were no lyrics! But at the end there were a whole lot more drums. I think Chris and some of the crew joined Matt for an extended version of that drum part at the end. It was pretty cool. ------------------------------ From: mm328995@minmet.uq.oz.au (John Grieves) Subject: Re: Music Anthology and Questions At 12:58 AM 11/12/95 -0600, Geoff Kleemola wrote: >In response to your question about whether SG have played Half live, I >would have to say yes. They played it on the SuperUnknown tour here in >Winnipeg. There were no lyrics! But at the end there were a whole lot >more drums. I think Chris and some of the crew joined Matt for an >extended version of that drum part at the end. It was pretty cool. That's incredible! Now, if only I could see them live.... It just struck me as one of those songs that would be difficult to pull of live! Thanks for the info! Jackhammer ------------------------------ From: Star Killer Subject: SG/FNM dgarrett@bcs.org.uk (Daniel Garrett) said: >The only connection with SG I can think of is that SG opened for G n'R >in 92' and FNM went on second. > Also for the better part of a year they toured with Voivod and either Prong, or FNM. Plus, they have played together a number of times before that. Both bands are quite good friends with each other. Jon - -- Jon Hilgreen - Standard Disclaimer - PGP Key Available Upon Request! - PO Box 804, Buffalo, NY 142130804 - 716.441.4536 URL=http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~aa114 ------------------------------ From: Jovica Popovic Subject: Re: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 10 Nov 1995 In reply to The Soundgarden Digest: Friday, 10 Nov 1995 ------------------------------ > From: Avatar > Subject: *Warning! Assholes in immediate vicinity!!!* > > Gee Seth, Imagine how long it must've taken poor 'ol Julius to learn > enough words to type this letter! He nearly remembered the grammar and > punctuation! ... > (maybe we could send him a CC of each letter we type as we send it, so > he'll get masses of mail. Hope he has to pay for it!) No. The best way of dealing with sad and demented creatures like this one is to ignore them. They desperately need attention, so leaving them alone with themselves is the greatest punishment by itself... ------------------------------ > From: ringram@mail.novaaccess.com (Russ Ingram) > Subject: Re: Mailing list suggestion > > I know what it's like. I'm stuck out here in Nova Scotia, and the > only notable bands that we've gotten here are Weird Al (great Gig), Green > Day (puke), and D.O.A. (for those Heavy Metal people). Well, you should try living in Croatia... The only notable bands to play here were... Come to think of it... There were none notable bands that played here... :-( - --- jpop@fly.cc.fer.hr --- Sit back and watch my divine spark flash... -- jovica.popovic@fer.hr -- Disclaimer: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do - Jovica Popovic - it, can't prove anything! ------------------------------ From: Jennifer C Graham Subject: Hater I was supposed to be studying earlier and I found an article in a Rolling Stone magazine for a compilation disc. It was called HEMPILATION and it had a song from Hater entitled "convicted". I've never heard anything by hater and I am wondering if this is on their CD. Could someone please give me some info on this? Thanks! Jenn ------------------------------ From: Jennifer C Graham Subject: Web page? Seth, I have a quick question. What do you mean when you ask for the web page on the homepage information? I plan on sending a picture in but I want to be sure about all of the information. When are the pages going to be posted? I CAN'T WAIT!!! Thanks. Jenn ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Web page? From: seth > I have a quick question. What do you mean when you ask for the > web page on the homepage information? I plan on sending a picture in but > I want to be sure about all of the information. When are the pages going > to be posted? I CAN'T WAIT!!! Thanks. I just want to know if YOU have a homepage that we can all look at... seth ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 1 Issue 98] ***************************************