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Today's Topics:
 

                                  sg in ct
                                  wha - eva
                                 Re: tattoos
                              Re: Kim a judge?
                 Re: for all you "little pigs" out there...
                      Re: Duct tape and other ramblings
                                  cubs win!
                            Up and coming bands..
               sorry if i wrote this already, my memory sucks
                                burden single
                 RE: for all you "little pigs" out there...
                     Re: Searching w/My Good Eye Closed
                         Little Pig, Little pig....
                                burden single
                   Now why can't SG be more like The Cure?
                         It's Giveaway time........
                 Re: Now why can't SG be more like The Cure?
                       Searching w/My Good Eye Closed
                     Re: Searching w/My Good Eye Closed
                       Heyas!! This post has no point!
                        it's nothing I can't lick...
                                 BIMH Single
                           sunspots have faded...
                                   Byebye
                           Soundgarden's play list
                                Birth Control

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From: DashosheE <dashoshe@neca.com>
Subject: sg in ct

Anyone know if SG has any plans to come to new england in the near
future?  If its on seths page then I am sorry........
- -- 

"I am the one, a GOD with a gun
          I am LEGEND!"  
                        -White Zombie

- --

dashoshe@neca.com
http://www.neca.com/~dashoshe

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From: kortneii <bmackenzie@mindlink.bc.ca>
Subject: wha - eva

Is this where you send posts to?? Sorry but I can be really slow at times 
and I get confused easily, so you don't need to try to hard.=P 
	K, I am new here (obvously) and I don't know very many things so being 
on this list will help=) (please work with me) I was just wondering if SG 
are going to be comming to Vancouver??? They wer just here for that 
molson Canadian blind date thingie, but I am to young for thoes venues  
(I'm 16) and it was months ago, so if ya know anything, please feel free to 
share??? Hey good job to all who got tickets for the Chicago show=) Have 
fun!!!!!

KoRtNeIi				OUR COWS NAME IS SEX


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From: Cynthia Siragusa <cynsir@village.ios.com>
Subject: Re: tattoos

Moonsta693@aol.com wrote:
> 
> thought this would be a good question to ask y'all, any of you giys have
> tattoos showing your undying love for soundgarden?  I have that
> badmotorfinger circle that's on the cover of the CD.
> 
> "Love's for Everyone who isn't me"
> 
> the original preety noose

OHMYGOD!!!
That is exactly the tat I'm planning on getting put on my right 
shoulder.  Where's yours?  Cyn

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From: Cynthia Siragusa <cynsir@village.ios.com>
Subject: Re: Kim a judge?


Yes, it was KIM!  I saw it too, on ESPN (I have no life-I watch it 
24 hrs a day) LAST year when the NCAA FinAl Four hoops occurred in 
Seattle.

(OK-not SG related, so what)
I got to hangout with and partake of the blessed sacrament this past 
Tues/Wed someone whose music and mind I have idolized since age 10 ...
TODD RUNDGREN!!!  Isn't that cool?  CYN 

Scroggin wrote:
> 
> you guys are going to love this one,
> 
>         about 4 months ago (yea i know, but i just saw something that
> made me remember) i was watching t.v. and i turn on ESPN or some
> sports station. I begin to watch the collage basketball slam dunk
> thing. Now heres the kicker , there introducing all the judges and as
> you would expect there were several coaches , some sports
> comontators,and......."from the local Seattle band Soundgarden, we
> have Kim Thayil" well , i pissed myself. Needless to say he looked
> like he enjoyed it every once and a while you would see him chat with
> the other judges.
> 
> Well i hope he had fun.
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> -what is democracy????
> -i believe it has something to do with sending
> young men off to die.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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From: The Guitarist-2001 <Spoonman@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: for all you "little pigs" out there...

At 10:59 PM 8/30/96 +0000, Stella wrote:
>No offense by the subject line there but...
>Just out of personal curiousity, who was kinda offended by the line 
>"...and all the little pigs have god"? I know there has to be some 
>God believing people out on this list, and I was just wondering how 
>you all felt about this.

I feel fine. I believe in God, but I also believe that everybody has the
right to their own opinion. I don't think Chris Cornell is directly being
offensive with that line, he just seems to think that it's a waste to
believe in God, that people are just sitting around wasting their time
worshipping something that doesn't exist . . . he's not saying "Anybody who
believes in God is a @%#! and I hate you all!" . . . he's just saying he
doesn't see the point . . . at least that's my interpretation of that line .
. . I'm the only member of my band who believes in God, and our singer is so
against it that he refuses to sing any song that might suggest that he did
believe in God . . . 

The Guitarist-2001
"I wonder bout his insides...it's like his thoughts are too big for his
size" - Off He Goes, Pearl Jam, No Code


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From: caryn rose <clr@nwlink.com>
Subject: Re: Duct tape and other ramblings

At 08:52 PM 8/31/96 -0700, Rachel C Jones wrote:

>K, here it is: I was flipping through my SG stuff last night, and 
>seeing as I haven't heard the '96 Rockline (sent to me by the Blessed 
>SOMMS Goddess :) interview in a while, I popped it in. Anyway, one of 
>the callers called in and went through the routine, "Guys....hey...ummm 
>I love your music..and uhh.." there wasn't anything cool about his call 
>until he started naming some of the SG stuff he'd picked up over the 
>years, and he named something that I've never heard of before (and I 
>call myself a fan <g>). It was a *duct tape* edition of Louder Than 
>Live. I'm thinking, "Ohmigod, DUCT TAPE??!!" So, is this some sort of 
>pre-wallet Chris idea?

i dunno, but that's what the 'packaging' for LTLive is -- cardboard, duct
tape and a 'bumper sticker' type thing with the "LOUDER THAN LIVE :
SOUNDGARDEN AT THE WHISKEY" text on it (black and yellow).  i had no idea
what it was and if if these guys who own a record store here who are major
sg fans hadn't told me, i NEVER would have known what it was.  the day after
they told me, i was at a record fair and spotted it for $25 and screamed and
jumped up and down like a lunatic, then paid out my $$$ asap before the
dealer had time to think about it... ;-)

never thought of the chris duct-tape wallet connection until now.  ;-)

- --caryn


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From: rea47935@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (hasswipee)
Subject: cubs win!

First of all congrats to all of you who got chicago tix, especially the ones
who have never seen them before. Hmmmmm anybody else find it particularly
weird just the announcement of two shows and that's it? Maybe the band are
just sitting around going "hmmmm ok let's just do a city wait a couple of
months then do another." they did seattle, then atlanta and now chicago.
Well they better announce some other tour dates, and for the sake of us
floridian sommsters, there better be some here. enough rambling i'll just
sit here like univited company and wait for further tour dates and till the
16th when i get to see the Screaming Trees. Oh yeah speaking of that tour
(oasis, screaming trees) i know someone mentioned going and was wondering if
they knew who the other opening act would be. e me privately if anyone
knows. thanks.


                        Raul, Hasswipee, Whatever
             "Oh look at me I'm way cool. I'm off with my way 
              cool friends to sniff floor wax." -Brian Krakow
                    http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rea49625/

 


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Subject: Up and coming bands..
From: jsimpson@mail03.mitre.org (Jamesetta Simpson)

I know there are a few (allot) of members of SOMMs who have
bands.  I'm sure most of you know about this site, but just in
case you don't check it out..  I agree, if Seth could put a page
up for sound clips or members band would be a nice personal
touch.  Maybe with the membership page.  So to make it SG related
they would have to cover a SG song!!  I know Seth you are so over
worked now..  But take heart you know we all love ya!!!!

Jamie
(Village Idiot)
 
<http://www.iuma.com> on the world-wide-web
<http://uk.iuma.com/IUMA/> on European sister site


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From: overfloater@thenexus.com
Subject: sorry if i wrote this already, my memory sucks

but speaking of chicago and sg and all that, i had a weird dream last
night... =)
welp, sg was playing in chicago, and i found out who was opening for
them, and i immediately wrote the list about it.... (disclaimer: this
was only a dream.)  hahah, i dreamed that kiss was gonna open for
soundgarden. =)  and sg had "birth control" on their setlist =)
i had another dream where shroom was inside chris cornell's body.. like
it looked like chris cornell, but talked like shroom =)  hehe it was
really odd, i guess i have to stop using my inhaler right before bedtime
=)

I wish the sg fan club would release all the stinkin tour dates, cause i
wanna find out where in NY they're playing and get tix before they sell
out.. if theyre playing albany im safe, cause theres no way in hell sg
is going to sell out in albany =)  but if theyre only playing NYC, im in
deep shit unless i can get tickets pronto... =)  argh.....

thanks for reading



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From: infinite <tdo@datasync.com>
Subject: burden single


	i thought i heard someone mention a birth ritual demo on the
burden single, isn't there one on my wave? is this one different or
what?


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From: Eliza J Polly <epolly@one.net>
Subject: RE: for all you "little pigs" out there...

>I don't think Chris Cornell is directly being offensive with that line, he >just seems to think that it's a waste to believe in God, that people >are just sitting around wasting their time worshipping something that >doesn't exist . . . he's not saying "Anybody who believes in God is a >@%#! and I hate you all!" . . . he's just saying he doesn't see the >point . . . 

I agree.... and on this subject, I read the LiveWire article this
morning and here is a very relevant blurb from KT:

LW: "What is being expressed lyrically on DOTU?"

KT: "Our interest in how people interpret a lyrical idea is mostly
their concern.  It isn't our responsibility to influence a person's
opinion about any social, personal, or political issue.  Our only
intent is to encourage individual freedom, expression and thought; to
exercise the will and confidence in the person's strength.  We haven't
consistently said or intended anything, but one of the goals of our
lyrics is to offer that kind of strength to the individual.  They
should listen to a SG song and feel strong about themselves.  They
should see things that maybe their parents, teachers or friends do not
want or encourage them to see.  We take the risk to explore the
colorful or darker elements of ourselves.  And just by having the
strength to express that, hopefully, we will allow other people to
feel the same.  We don't want to tell people how to think or feel, but
we would love to help them learn how to think more, while still being
sensitive to their feelings.  So ult!  im!  ately they will be able to
make the best decisions.  That's something we would expect of
ourselves, fans and friends."


touche...and how perfectly put, the feeling strength in ourselves
part...

- --eliza
"I recommend to anyone who wants to be a rock star, if that doesn't pan out, become a cook."  -CC

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From: "stella" <srogers@fletch.fix.net>
Subject: Re: Searching w/My Good Eye Closed

> You know, at the beginning of SWMGEC, "This is my good eye. Do you hear a
> cow? A rooster says..." Where's that from? And who's saying it?

Isn't it from those old "hear and say" toys. Remember like you would 
pull a string, and whatever the arrow landed on, it would say 
something like that. Anyways, as far as who's saying it, i think if 
you look in the liner notes, it should say who the narrator is.

hope that helped...
stellar

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From: dumo13@erols.com
Subject: Little Pig, Little pig....

Greetings!

I recently got my first digest! I'm electrified to know that there are so 
many people involved in this.  I would definitly like to send in a demo 
of our band playing SG covers.  
QUESTION: if the "compilation" is to pay for the convention, what's gonna 
pay to get the "compilation" recorded and produced (manufactured, 
marketed...) ???

As far as the pig quote refered to At 10:59 PM 8/30/96 +0000, stella 
wrote:
>No offense by the subject line there but...
>Just out of personal curiousity, who was kinda offended by the line
>"...and all the little pigs have god"? I know there has to be some
>God believing people out on this list, and I was just wondering how
>you all felt about this.

Um, yeah... my take on this would be that everyone seems to "have God" no 
matter what their morals may be.  Everyone seems to have God on their 
side.  Example 1. "holy war"  Example 2. "after raping and killing three 
teenage girls, after being sentenced to the death penalty, Billy Joebob 
has found Jesus and has embraced the Lord"
I think the message is that people who run around using God as an excuse 
are full of shit.  Atleast that's how I feel.  
AND  that just about anything can be offensive if taken out of context.
That's my two cents.

Chris

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From: overfloater@thenexus.com
Subject: burden single

TD>	i thought i heard someone mention a birth ritual demo on the burden single,

Yah, the Birth Control demo =)  It's the same one as the one on the My
Wave single, they just decided to throw it on Burden In My Hand as
well...


I've got the 'burden' single in my hand =)



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From: ASDrum@aol.com
Subject: Now why can't SG be more like The Cure?

Went to see The Cure Friday night.  Wasn't too thrilled with their last
album, but still love 'em.  The show was good, but they were better in '94.
 ANYWAY, what impressed me most, was they encored with their older tunes -
Boy's Don't Cry, Killing an Arab, and 10:15 Saturday Night (the drip drip
song).  These songs were released in 1979 and written when Robert Smith was a
mere youngster.  So what does all this have to do with Soundgarden?????   Is
it not apparent?  WHY CAN'T SG PERFORM SOMETHING RELEASED BEFORE BMF????  Oh
sure, they'll do an occasional 'Hands All Over' live......big deal.  It's not
as if the songs from Screaming Life/Fopp and UOK are not good songs.  So they
were written when the band was young and still a little green.  SO WHAT?
 They're still good songs.  If they were to play Hand of God (!) - I would
think I had died and gone to Heaven - no pun intended.  Perhaps they feel
they have changed as musicians - progressed, matured - and just don't want to
revisit their past.  But that's the thing - it was a natural progression from
Screaming Life to DOTU - there were no drastic changes in musical direction
(The Cult being prime example).  I have heard Robert Smith say he was almost
embarrassed by the simplicity of a song like '10:15 Saturday Night' - but he
still performed it live Friday night.  SG should be proud of what they've
accomplished.    Songs like Little Joe, Head Injury, Beyond the Wheel, and
Nothing to Say - IMHO anyway - would play EXCELLENT live right alongside JCP
or Rusty Cage or Mailman or BHS.  

So what's stopping them from performing an old tune once in a while???  Maybe
they don't want to alienate a lot "fans" who think Black Hole Sun if their
greatest achievement?  But that doesn't sound like the SG I know and love.
 The recognition factor could have something to do with it....imagine their
horror if they played Toy Box and nobody knew what it was.  But I'd be
willing to bet that there are a lot more of US (you know, the SG elite) in
the audience then they realize.

<sigh>

Forgive my ramblings - I'm upset - and trying to figure out
"WHY...WHY...WHY???!!!!


"We're Frowngarden.  We frown upon everything."  -  C.Cornell


Ciao Babies.......

Ang    

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From: ASDrum@aol.com
Subject: It's Giveaway time........

I picked up an extra CD single - German release of Outshined.  Five songs:
Outshined (album & edit), Girl You Want, Show Me, and Into the Void (Sealth).

Anyone that would like it, drop me an e-mail.  I'll draw a name at random
September 4th.


Ciao babies.....

Ang

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From: caryn rose <clr@nwlink.com>
Subject: Re: Now why can't SG be more like The Cure?

At 07:19 PM 9/1/96 -0400, ASDrum@aol.com wrote:

>So what's stopping them from performing an old tune once in a while???  Maybe
>they don't want to alienate a lot "fans" who think Black Hole Sun if their
>greatest achievement?  But that doesn't sound like the SG I know and love.
> The recognition factor could have something to do with it....imagine their
>horror if they played Toy Box and nobody knew what it was.  But I'd be
>willing to bet that there are a lot more of US (you know, the SG elite) in
>the audience then they realize.

one, i think it's incredibly arrogant to consider us "the sg elite".  there
are probably HUGE fans out there who don't have internet access.  

two, why can't they?  did you ever stop to consider that they're TIRED of
that material??? that for a long time they had a very limited amount of
material to perform, and so that was all they COULD perform?

why aren't sg like the cure?  with all due respect, how can you compare one
of the most vital, talented bands of the 1990s to a has-been, washed up
bunch of anachronistic retreads who once made some interesting music, but
who haven't had ANYTHING to contribute in *years*?  of COURSE the cure has
to play their old 'hits' -- that's the only way they can attract an audience
to come see them!  who wants to hear their new material???? who cares about
it?  it's not worth listening to, let alone buying!

contrast that to soundgarden, who are still a strong, vital musical
*collaboration*, not robert smith and a bunch of people who have nothing
better to do with their time but play music another band wrote a long time
ago.  soundgarden have excellent NEW material that is every bit as vital and
interesting as their older material.

if you're a band, what would you rather play:  newer music which is more
interesting to you, because it's truer to the mental and musical space you
are in now, or older stuff written a long time ago when you were a different
person, i a different space, were not as talented or proficient as you are
now?  have you ever stopped to consider that an audience's insistence that a
band that they go see must ALWAYS play every old song they want to hear is
extremely limiting to the band?

i went to see kiss last night, and yeah, they played all the old hits.  it's
a good thing too, or i wouldn't have bothered to go!  that's the point of
the tour!  kiss' new songs SUCK.  

and i'm going to see the who, probably my FAVORITE band of all time, next
month.  to hear them do my favorite album live, one that i never ever heard
them do live.  when we were on line buying tickets, we were talking about
the band and the tour and naming all of the who's sucky albums, the ones
released from 1980 onward.  if they were going on tour with a new album
(perish the thought) or dared to do material from 'it's hard' or 'face
dances', no one would bother to go see them!  i wouldn't -- i didn't go see
them from 1982 onward because of that reason.

r.e.m didn't tour behind two incredibly successful albums because they
wanted to wait until they had enough material in order to play a full show
without having to go back and play material from the first 5 albums.  they
did huge, massive tours back then and that was all they had to play.  they
played it to death.  they had no interest in going back out and having to
rehash material from 'murmur' and 'reckoning' yet AGAIN.  they DID that.

back to soundgarden:  i don't think you can judge them based on their lolla
sets -- they tried to introduce rarer stuff at the beginning, but then they
got smart:  the crowd coming to see them wanted to hear the material most
familiar to them.  so they made the experience, already painful enough,
easier for themselves as a band by not trying to challenge the audience
unduly.   and i say, good for them.

if there is older material that sg still feels they can play with the same
energy and enthusiasm as their newer material, i say go for it.  otherwise,
why bother?  i'mgoing to see pearl jam in two weeks and i hope to HELL i
don't hear 'jeremy' or 'black' or any of that 'ten' garbage.  why?  they are
NOT that band any more.  so why should they continue to pretend to be?

- --caryn


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From: vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu (Vasant Ramamurthy)
Subject: Searching w/My Good Eye Closed

You know, at the beginning of SWMGEC, "This is my good eye. Do you hear a
cow? A rooster says..." Where's that from? And who's saying it?

Vasant

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From: RKCNDY <rkcndy@premier1.net>
Subject: Re: Searching w/My Good Eye Closed

At 05:26 PM 9/1/96 +0000, you wrote:
>> You know, at the beginning of SWMGEC, "This is my good eye. Do you hear a
>> cow? A rooster says..." Where's that from? And who's saying it?
>
>Isn't it from those old "hear and say" toys. Remember like you would 
>pull a string, and whatever the arrow landed on, it would say 
>something like that. Anyways, as far as who's saying it, i think if 
>you look in the liner notes, it should say who the narrator is.
>
>hope that helped...
>stellar
>
>
actually awhile ago they had a trivia on the radio about who that
was....it's a former employee of KISW...a seattle radio station...but i
forget his name
Ryan


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From: ShRooMGrLz@aol.com
Subject: Heyas!!  This post has no point!

     Jeez, I was just hanging out in the living room trying to watch some
quality television programming (3rd Rock from the Sun... don't ask me, I'd
never heard of it before ten minutes ago).  Anyway, my padre was sitting in
there talking on the phone to one of our truck drivers, Noble.  Noble is
about 24 years old, and has a bunch of friends who are music impersonators.
 Of course, I heard Padre talking to him about it... so I butted in with my
"Does he know any Chris Cornell look-alikes??"  So Padre asks Noble... and
Noble says that he has never heard of Soundgarden.  How is that possible??
 Padre was like "You mean you've NEVER heard of 'The Soundgarden Band'??
 Even I'VE heard of 'The Soundgarden Band'!!!  I've heard every song they've
ever made!!  You don't know that Chris Cornball guy??"  AAUUGGHHHH!!!!  "The
Soundgarden Band"  You may just shoot me now, thanks.  Ummm... what was the
point of this post?  Well, I'm starting to feel the effects of my cold
medicine... and I realized that I hadn't posted about Chris' sexy body in
awhile.  Gee... Chris sure does have a sexy body, doesn't he?!?  Ummm... just
thought I'd share that with you.  ;-)  Love me, bye-bye...
                      <kisskiss>
                                         Shroom
                               Red Haired Devil-Hootchie,
               Proud member of the Kim Thayil Mercenary Squad,
                                            and 
                    Seattle-bound-obsessed-SOMMS-psycho
                       (See you in October, Chris and Matt!!!)

"Hey Shroom... guess how many licks it takes ME to get to the center of a
Tootsie Roll Pop??  Want me to show you?" ~ Chris Cornell
 (Words not necessarily said in that order...)  <~~~ my disclaimer

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From: blind dog <s325961@student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: it's nothing I can't lick...

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Jamesetta Simpson wrote:

> And as long as I'm talking, have to tell you all I really love
> "Karaoke", it must have been really hard for them to leave it off
> DOTU..  I love the beginning, I love the drums..  I want to see

	<listening to matt's crooning on sad mcbain>

	as good a song as karaoke is, I'm not sure that it would have been
too difficult to leave off the dotu lineup. it doesn't really sound (imho) 
like a song that would fit comfortably anywhere in the flow of the record. 
there just doesn't seem to be any really obvious place to put it. perhaps
it could slide in between an unkind and boot camp, but I'm (of course) in
no position to even suggest something. I think all four guys take great
interest in carefully placing the songs on all their albums - except maybe
screaming life - in a certain order, so the moods have room to breathe,
and so the "story" of the album isn't garbled.

	but having said that, I think it was important to the band that
they let us hear karaoke. chris is obviously trying to say something (I
really love the play on the fourth of july lyrics), and the track was
mentioned quite a few times before the record proper was released. at any
rate, it fits rather nicely on the burden single :) 

                       -----------------------------------
                        a thousand doors, a thousand lies
                           rooms a thousand years wide 
			      - words by kim thayil
                       -----------------------------------



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From: Gemma Lewis <gemmalewis@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: BIMH Single

Are the B-sides on BIMH any good as i've only heard people talk 
about one...or is there only one.  See i'm a sad git who lives in 
the UK and they don't release it over here until Sept 17th (i've 
heard)..just before I go to see them in concert on the 19th.

            Kite
                   : )
                          xx


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From: blind dog <s325961@student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: sunspots have faded...

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 overfloater@thenexus.com wrote:

> Yah, the Birth Control demo =)  It's the same one as the one on the My
> Wave single, they just decided to throw it on Burden In My Hand as
> well...

	I sometimes dream that things weren't this way.  at night, my
feverish imaginings have the band putting more effort into their bside
releases; actually producing something new (even in the event of it really
being old) for each single they release.

	take spoonman, for instance. ok, I almost fainted right in the
store when I saw it on the shelf a full two weeks before the release of
superunk. but the bside was more than a let down.  cold bitch again?  I
know it's a great song, but it was already backing my outshined single.  a
song (outshined, that is) that was preceded the release of spoonman by
over two years.

	what I am dancing around is that sometimes (imho) the recycling of
old bsides is more than irritating. now I know full well that the band has
more important things to do than stand around recording new material for
me. I'm sure touring and everything else doesn't permit them to record
huge amounts of extra-curricular music. but once in a while, why not give
us something extra?

	by this I mean new songs. as good as jcp and beyond the wheel
(which I am listening to as I type) are live, and as interesting the steve
fisk remix of spoonman was the first couple of times, they certainly
aren't as valuable to me as songs like kyle petty, bleed together and show
me are. if it were up to me, I would perhaps put some covers on there; the
band have a long history of this, why stop now? there must be more
releasable music in their collective den. they talk of having over thirty
songs for dotu, and I wonder what happened to the stuff that didn't make
the boat (anxious? kristin?). hell, I positively salivate when thinking
about what is on ben's four track, or dream about hearing polished
versions of chris' solo work. 

	so, for those of you who may care, how do I grade the first two
releases from the up and down dotu? pretty noose was good. unlike
spoonman, it included two songs (other than pn itself) which were going to
be on the eventual release of dotu. the interview is also cool, giving a
little insight into each track.  the burden single is a bit of a mix. it
includes the well-worn birth ritual demo, which is a bummer. but that is
offset by two ultra-cool new songs, karaoke and bleed together.

	in the end, the band strikes a balance between alice in chains
(who sadly have very few bsides to rub together) and the pumpkins (who
have three new songs ready to go for every single). I suppose this is
good. I just hope they aren't censoring good music because they don't see
it as being "soundgarden music". I know that probably isn't the case,
taking into account half, applebite and jerry garcia's finger.  and I know
that as a band you wouldn't want to release absolutely everything you had
ever produced, good or bad, just for the sake of putting it out.  that
would stink. but if I never see a soundgarden single with either cold
bitch or birth ritual again, I'll be a happy listener :)


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                        a thousand doors, a thousand lies
                           rooms a thousand years wide 
			      - words by kim thayil
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From: minaret@ix.netcom.com (Rachel C Jones)
Subject: Byebye

K, I'm heading off to Florida for a week, you think after ALL summer, 
I'll finally get a tan :)
Seth, if my mail gets too full (I have no idea how much this account 
holds) you can unsub me until Sept. 9
Everyone else, have fun. To all you Chicagoers---I hate you all. Just 
kidding. Congrats Toni and Vasant and Brian and whoever else, have 
fun!!

~Flutter~

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From: Thilini <itgldn@globalnet.co.uk>
Subject: Soundgarden's play list

To the universe and beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anyone know the Soundgarden play list, for the European dates?. 
......Or at least, know of the most recent list.

Oh yeah!  
Who are "& special guests" for the Brixton Academy Gig on the 19th of
September??????????


Tilly


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From: "Greg Dunbar" <greg@cbl.com.au>
Subject: Birth Control

I've got the Australian cardboard sleeve Burden single and it says 
'Birth Ritual'. I guess there might be a few rare misprints that says 
Birth Control. With those with the Birth Control single, does it have 
a sticker on it like mine does saying what songs are on it?
"HAR HAR"

Nelson from The Simpsons
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                               greg@lin.cbl.com.au

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