From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 24 Nov 1995 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 17:57:23 EST Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Friday, 24 Nov 1995 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: AIC Mailing List Re: Soundgarden Digest, Wednesday, 22 Nov 1995 Discussion on the new album I Awake credits Re: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 19 Nov 1995 Kyle Petty, Son of Richard Re: Discussion on the new album CD+? ------------------------------------------------------------ From: (Daniel Garrett) [I accidentally deleted his address...sorry!] Subject: AIC Mailing List I dunno about you but i'm dead jealous of those on the AIC mailing list - Angry Chair, those lucky bastards have got a brand new album to discuss, dissect, argue, agree over, what have we got?? Some CD+ with 2 unreleased dodgy songs, whether SG are better than PJ and if Chicken Fajitas are better than Burritos or something!! I just hope the new album does'nt take to long! Daniel Garrett ------------------------------ From: Jovica Popovic Subject: Re: Soundgarden Digest, Wednesday, 22 Nov 1995 Regarding The Soundgarden Digest: Wednesday, 22 Nov 1995 ------------------------------ > From: blind dog > Subject: sittin' on the dock of the bay...:) > > thread. but I'm a little more partial to the early threads, like whether > soundgarden was pop and what the lyrics to some songs meant. we seem to I remember those days... Eh... (yeah, I _do_ sound like a graying grandpa...) > have acquired some sort of reputation as a house of flame, and I'm not > sure that it's warranted. especially if you compare us to any newsgroup > that contains a bunch of differing views. That goes without saying. Mailing lists are always better content vs. rubbish wise than newsgroups. Anyone can just pop into the newsgroup, write a few BS messages and never appear again. Finding out and sunscribing to a ailing lists takes effort and time, hardly aynone who isn't genuinely interested in the mailing list topic will appear... > actually, the last flame was for that guy that felt you were a > bitch list admin, wasn't it seth? :) but back to the topic. I think Yeah, but it was unnecessary. I mean, we all know that isn't true, so why warrant the loser with a response, and just clog the list? > that if we can all find something to talk about for another three months, > we'll have a new album to talk about :) Or we'll just keep on arguing about PJ... :-) > I do have one small request though: if you don't like a thread, > and you think that it has been going for too long or is too boring or > isn't relevant anymore and never was, don't just write in saying that. I Exactly. That will only prolong the life of unwanted thread. ------------------------------ > From: Chris Mackenzie > Subject: Susan Silver = Yoko Ono? > > After reading all of these messages about Susan Silver Management. I > kept getting the idea that Susan Silver is to Soundgarden as Yoko Ono was > to the Beatles. I know Susan Silver has been with SG from the start but > this is just the way the attitude of the SOMMS list seems toward her. > Has anyone else noticed this? I did notice that, but I'm saving up my judgment. I mean, we have no real evidence as to who re-did the transcript. Let's just burry tha hatchet for a while... Maybe we could contact them officially and get their response? ------------------------------ > Subject: Re: money grab? > From: seth > > > > how much does it cost to manufacture a plastic cd? consider the millions Less than $2, actually... > i'm not quite sure they could realistically put _that_ much on one > disc. with current mainstream cd-burning techniques, the maximum is > still 75 minutes of audio or 660MB of data. if they were to use the > newest technologies (i.e., blue lasers) they could cram 10 times that > amount onto a single disc, but it would probably cost a whole lot more > than $20. 660MB of data is the maximum amount of data stored on CD, with current standards. No 'blue lasers' can increase that. You can compress the data before writing to disc (with no additional production cost), but in any case you won't get much more than 1GB. And that roughly translates to about 1000 minutes of high-quality stereo music. > i would agree, though, that they could have made an effort to include > some more useful information, such as accurate lyrics (the official > website people keep telling me that they will be adding the lyrics > soon) and guitar tabs -- perhaps soundgarden-themed accessories for > your Mac or Windows-based PC? Now, _that_ is stuff that CD ROMs are made for. I doesn't amount to much space, but it amounts to plenty of joy. > appealing...like, for example, an audio track not available anywhere > else, in place of "superunknown." Yeah! It just shows how important it was to the band. > the other thing that bothers me is that the high price does not > warrant the tiny amount of effort A&M seems to be expending to promote > the CD+. i've not seen a magazine advertisement, a poster in a record > store, or anything -- except the small bit about it on the official > website and the advertising in spinonline on aol. when i went to tower Well, let's face it, a CD+ with 20 minutes of music (none of it new) and some 'flashy' multimedia stuff really doesn't amount to much, certainly not to $20 worth (just bear in mind that a whole album of new and never-before-seen material costs less!)... - --- 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: e9328995@student.uq.edu.au (John Grieves) Subject: Discussion on the new album Everyone's hanging out for the next Soundgarden Album, right? But I'd be interested in hearing some of your thoughts on the following: 1. What would you like to call this album? 2. What do you want on the album? 3. What do you think will actually be on the album? 4. How do you think this album will compare to previous efforts - will it be a more "polished" sound, will it be "grungier", will we hear a drum solo from Matt Cameron for two minutes, will Kim Thayil start playing a Flying-V shaped $50 guitar with bass strings for the lower three strings and tuned to E,Ab,C#,D,Fbb,H ? Come on everyone, be expressive! And when the Real McCoy comes out, you'll be able to compare your thoughts to the release... All opinions welcome... Jackhammer. ------------------------------ From: e9328995@student.uq.edu.au (John Grieves) Subject: I Awake credits The music for the song I Awake (on Louder than Love) is credited to Hiro Yamamoto - fair enough - but the lyrics are credited to Kate McDonald. Pardon me if I've been napping, but could someone tell me who Kate McDonald is? Thanks in advance... Jackhammer. ------------------------------ From: JPOIRIER@TrentU.ca Subject: Re: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 19 Nov 1995 KATE!! I am a big fan of PJ and SG, but i would really love to be on a PJ list as well, or find a PJ site...Can you give me some info? Thanks, Jenny ------------------------------ From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: Kyle Petty, Son of Richard I think Motorcycle Loop should be the intro to Kyle Petty, Son of Richard. It sounds more like 500 horsepower stock cars racing around a track than a motorcycle. The echo especially helps, but liten carefully, it sounds like more than one car passing the listener. >>>-------------------------------> Geoff Kleemola gkleemol@io.uwinnipeg.ca U of Winnipeg Psychology student http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~gkleemol <-------------------------------<<< ------------------------------ From: Neale Grant Subject: Re: Discussion on the new album On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, John Grieves wrote: > Everyone's hanging out for the next Soundgarden Album, right? Yes indeed. > But I'd be interested in hearing some of your thoughts on the following: > 1. What would you like to call this album? I'd love to see Soundgarden do an album called "Pearl Jam Sucks". B-) (Please note the smiley, and imagine it in six feet high characters. I have no wish to restart that thread now that it's died down. It was a joke, okay, a joke!) > 3. What do you think will actually be on the album? Music. (With a bit of luck, I have now made a completely accurate prediction, and won't be disappointed when the album comes out.) I've a feeling they might go in a similar direction to the recent Alice In Chains release. I thought the new AiC album actually had quite a Soundgarden-esque sound in places, and I can easily imagine SG doing something quite a lot like it. The problem with liking bands like AiC and Soundgarden, though, is that every album tends to sound very different. It would have been much easier to predict the sound of the new Iron Maiden album than it was the AiC. > Come on everyone, be expressive! And when the Real McCoy comes out, you'll > be able to compare your thoughts to the release... Well, if my thoughts hadn't been quite so vacuous, perhaps... Neale Neale Grant | Finger for GeekCode | neale.grant@univ.ox.ac.uk University College | The Quatermass Experiment is a top SF short story Oxford | diskmag: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~univ0155/tqe.html OX1 4BH, UK | "I'm not fine, fuck pretending" - Alice In Chains ------------------------------ To: Somms List Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I sure wish there was a Tower Records store in my area. I went to SEVEN different computer and record stores today and NONE of the clerks had any idea what I was talking about when I asked for _Alive in the Superunknown_. For those of you who have it, is it worth the $20? BDM "If there's a higher power at work here he either has a weird sense of humor or way too much time on his hands." --R. Green ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 1 Issue 110] ****************************************