From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:23:16 EST Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Sunday, 15 Dec 1996 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: i'll find myself thesedays... Hater Show/Bootleg Re: Hype! in Chicago-January 31! soundgarden`s albums dotu and bye. heroin look Re: Rolling Stone Review Re: Rolling Stone Review SOMMS/BMF FOR SALE people Re: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 6 Dec 1996 Re: SOMMS/BMF FOR SALE hi anyone got spare tickets for seattle? ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Oygar Erdal Subject: i'll find myself thesedays... it's the 3rd dae of my membership; i already have approx. 60000 bytes of SG-concerned-mail in my box... i checked me mailbox in the mornin' about 4 o'clock a.m. today; and in a hurry (i had to go out to see thAT sun thing tryin' to wake up) i read sth. about SG's last album bein' one's favourite after sometime spent on it.. it recalled the thing i felt when i got Pearl Jam's last album- NO CODe; which i guess has one of the most sincere context ever. __-'`-__ (o) (o) it seems to me that whom have actually given birth to a sound (called Seattle in deed; -reminds me of coffee 'n rain whereas my only impressions on Seattle are built on a few movies-) are pushin' this commonly-qualified sound to their *very own* frontiers. -----------> SG has always had this ritualistic sounds within their songs, but i feel that now we have very distinct melodies to hear. ..., eeaaaaaand i'm definitely pleased to be two of the various ears facin' what's to be heard. i hope THAT sun will: wash away the rain... see; Oygar. ------------------------------ From: mudgroove@earthlink.net Subject: Hater Show/Bootleg Was the HATER show in Seattle on Halloween, or any other HATER show ever taped. If so, please let me know. Thanks... Josh ------------------------------ From: Nemesis-Divine Goddess of Retribution Subject: Re: Hype! in Chicago-January 31! Does anyone know if they will be showing it at any other places? WHere is the Music Box? I've heard of it tho....what about the Suburbs, (yeah i know) will it be showing there at all? On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 gwm@starnetinc.com wrote: > An email sent to me from the Hype! webpage creator: > >The Chicago engagement will begin at the Music Box on January 31. > Dave Miller > ********************************************* > *I like to trade bootlegs. * > *Check out my Pearl Jam homepage at: * > *http://pwp.starnetinc.com/gwm/pearl.htm * > *You can find my bootlist there * > *PEARL JAM AND SOUNDGARDEN RULE! * > ********************************************* > > dstenfte_release-Release the Pearl Jam mailinglist To post to release: email dstenfte_release@indiana.edu ---To unsub: email majordomo@indiana.edu in body type only: unsubscribe dstenfte_release---email tb8@evansville.edu for help. > ------------------------------ From: "stimpy1" Subject: soundgarden`s albums hi all!!! i`m sorry i havent been on the mailing list for a while but i had a virus all over my comp so i installed every thing i had beafore once again that includes win95 and all the other win95 shit like plus and all the internet stuff :( ok any way all this time with out my comp gave me time to think about soundgarden ok what i wanted to tell you is that like DOTUS is considured soundgarden`s best album yet so lets say that soundgarden are making a new album so what i`m afraid of is that it would be like less good then the last one and then it would be like a diepontment for soundgarden and thire fans... now i know that some of you dont think that DOTUS is soundgarde`s best but for those that dose think of it as thire best (like me) would be diapointed... i just wanted to tell you that for a thinking metirial... take care now byebye then!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- This Mail Was Send By Stimpy1 Email:stimpy1@netvision.net.il - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- ------------------------------ From: Luck's Last Match Subject: dotu and bye. Welp, just finished my final final and i am gone, so don't expect mail from me til january. But to make this sg related, i have finally noticed the problems wiht dotu that others have noticed. The songs aren't as thought out and arranged as those on bmf. Also, the lyrics are way to repetitive, esp. in butow. By repetitive i mean that one line gets repeated to many times. It begins to annoy me. Now as great a lyricist as chris is, seems he could have written a few more lines if he wanted to have so much singing in the mix. welp, that's my last comment for the year. adios a todos. -j "I don't want money in payment, i want blood." -Luke Spencer, General Hospital ------------------------------ From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: heroin look If anyone thinks Chris Cornell has the heroin look, I would like to know what you're taking. He looks healthy to me. He's very thin, but he's also very tall. The weight spreads out. I'm very tall and very thin, but I eat all the time. If anyone here wants to know about the real heroin look, check out the article about former RHCP guitarist John Frusciante. The RHCP homepage is http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/2701/ That is the sad truth about heroin and the insanity it causes. Chris Cornell doesn't look like, nor think like that. May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ From: Valahovic Subject: Re: Rolling Stone Review From: Stephanie Valahovic You have to wonder if Rollingstones was being fair with Soundgarden. I understand why Rollingstone disliked DOTU, it's because they are still living in the past. Metal may not be dead but it's not a popular as it used to be. With Soundgarden, I think they are upset with the change, but Soundgarden had too. So many new and old bands are jumping on what works. The guys had to change in order to stay out of the commercialism of a set of styles or approaches they and others, such as AIC, PJ, and ST, started in the begining. For this reason and others like comparison to 70-80s' Metal/Rock bands, judging them on SU, how could they out do SU with out comming up with Superunkown II the sequel, I feel strongly that Rollingstones was just plain unfair. What is wrong with taking a more artistic approach to music. Rollingstones review Soundgarden Superunknown "Sure, there are Chris Cornell's welcome-to-Armageddon lyrics, Soundgarden's brooding stance and the marketing buzz bestowed by their Seattle birthright. But the secret to the justified chartbusting of "Superunknown" is simpler and rarely hyped: gargantuan musicianship. Of Seattle's pantheon -- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden - -- the latter flourish the fiercest skills. And that's chiefly because of their grounding in metal. From Randy Rhoads to Yngwie Malmsteen, metal thrives on (admittedly macho) chops, and Soundgarden's Kim Thayil is a stalking catalog of them: speed, dynamics, precision, texture. " Rollingstones review Soundgarden Down On The Upside "But where "Superunknown" confronted Soundgarden's perennial identity crisis by expanding the musical attack into pop and psychedelic rock, the band's fifth album heads straight for the jugular, eschewing innovation for the simpler payoff of just rocking out. " Rollingstones review Soundgarden/Screaming Trees Down on the Upside/Dust A&M/Epic "On their 94 master blast, "Superunknown," Soundgarden blew a big, black hole through the burnt-boogie angst of heavy Muzak, managing to sound both fried and alive in the fine thunder-and- color tradition of late-period Led Zeppelin. There is some quality frenzy on "Down on the Upside", but Soundgarden seem to be digging in their heels rather than kicking up dirt, relying too much on drone-y impressionism and clever (as opposed to cleaving) guitar motifs. The album is by no means a disaster. It simply lacks defining episodes of catharsis  and waffle-y lines like I think its turning back around/And I think I like it ("Dust"y) dont count. Soundgarden are capable of tearing down walls; here, theyre just rattling windows." BIDOLS@aol.com Wrote: > Hey fellow SG freaks, > > I was wondering if anybody has seen the latest Rolling Stone > with Pamela Lee, and Beavis & Butthead on the cover. This > issue reviewed several of the albums released over the past > year. SG got a less than stellar review of DOTU, saying that > the band was trying too hard to be artistic or something to > that effect ... I think I have to agree with Rolling Stone on > this one. I don't normally agree with almost all reviews that > Rolling Stone does. SuperUnknown, I think has been there pinacle > record to date, while BMF remains to be my favorite, following > behind with Superunknown, then Louder than Love, then DOTU, > then UMOK. Sorry to all those folks who disagree. > Nice page by shroomy,...You are a mad page maker. > > Mark Bidoli ------------------------------ From: Shogun Subject: Re: Rolling Stone Review At 02:31 PM 12/14/96 -0800, you wrote: >From: Stephanie Valahovic > For this >reason and others like comparison to 70-80s' Metal/Rock bands, >judging them on SU, how could they out do SU with out comming up >with Superunkown II the sequel, I feel strongly that Rollingstones >was just plain unfair. What is wrong with taking a more artistic >approach to music. I agree that Rolling Stone is being unfair. I also agree that SG moves on instead of staying the same. Like you stated before, what's the point of putting out another sequel album? Most people would get tired of such a rehashed variation. I personally like DOTU much better than Superunknown, but that's just me. DOTU feels deeper than SU, and seems like it has more meaning. I don't think that the sole judgment of music is how many different lyrics you can come up with, but a sound that can move you. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that there's no connection between the music they have put out in the past and DOTU, but that DOTU has a new spin. It's just my thoughts. Thanks for your time. Matt ------------------------------ From: ddba@pop.mindspring.com Subject: SOMMS/BMF FOR SALE the SOMMS/BMF god has once again shined down on me...i have located another set... I'll sell this set for $20...which will include postage... unfortunately, i recently (2 months ago) mailed to Brian Burns a superunknown disk he requested and never received payment...so i am gonna have to ask that i recieve the payment before i mail out the disk...sorry to do this, i hate that i was burned by a fellow sommster... anyway, mail me by Wed Dec. 18, 1996 12 midnight EST...i'll draw for who gets to buy this disk.... ******************************************************************************** Dee Dee Bradshaw-Autry "Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing..." TOOL "This is what it looks like, this is what is feels like, this is what it tastes like...this is what you've done to me..." Stabbing Westward "Be careful with me...I am fragile. Im a bitch babe...and Im on fire" Garbage http://www.infochase.com/ent/deedee/index.html ******************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: people From: art.underwood@compudata.com (ART UNDERWOOD) Hey everyone! How's it hanging. Only a week and three days. Well anyway I have a question for you guys. Is there anyone out here from New Jersey? Or am I the only SG freak around here. I hope not! One last question..Has anyone from the SG fan club gotten any mail recently? just wondering! *~PAM~* (a true SG freak) ------------------------------ From: Kristine Campbell Subject: Re: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 6 Dec 1996 Toobad you all had no moshing at all these shows.....Seattle rocks because it's still one of those places that all of us "old people" (read: over 25 but under 30) can still enjoy watching all the 13 year olds get the shit beaten out of them...by the way, 10th and 11th shows cxld cuz of Chris' "laryngitis". Due to see them re-sked'd on 17th & 18th at Mercer (the real Seattle Arena!!!!! Fuck KeyArena!!! Whatever happened to the Coliseum?????) Arena. Enjoy....... On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Shanna Moore wrote: > Hello every one, > I don't normally write in, but after going to the sunday dec.1 > show in L.A., I decided that I would say a little something. First of > all, were there's a will, there's a way. Although my comrades and I had > mezzanine seats, we managed to fanagel wrist bands out of a guy in > Operations and introduced ourselves to the pit. (This is the second SG > show I've done hts at so I'm starting to feel a message here.) There was > also no moshing aloud at this show as well, or at least they kept > breaking it up. We were in the pit for about ten minutes watching this > dumb hootchie bitch and her pimp cavort on a towel on the floor ( I kid > you not), when I see a guy wearing a sticker that says "Backstage Pass". > I'm thinking, clean cut guy, looks nice and friendly, so I ask him were > he manged to acquire such a desired piece of property? He says he has a > friend who works there. Hmmmmm. After a little pleading and a few > friendly smiles, my friends were smiling, passes sticking to their > shirts. I unfortunately, had a test that following Monday, so when the > concert was over I had to go to the airport to return to school. Oh well, > I've met them twice before, but I must admit, this was the best > Thanksgiving I ever had. > > > > Smokey5 :) > ------------------------------ From: Stella Rogers Subject: Re: SOMMS/BMF FOR SALE put my name in the hat stella On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 ddba@pop.mindspring.com wrote: > the SOMMS/BMF god has once again shined down on me...i have located another > set... > > I'll sell this set for $20...which will include postage... > > unfortunately, i recently (2 months ago) mailed to Brian Burns a > superunknown disk he requested and never received payment...so i am gonna > have to ask that i recieve the payment before i mail out the disk...sorry to > do this, i hate that i was burned by a fellow sommster... > > anyway, mail me by Wed Dec. 18, 1996 12 midnight EST...i'll draw for who > gets to buy this disk.... > > > > ******************************************************************************** > Dee Dee Bradshaw-Autry > > "Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A > non-functioning > mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing..." TOOL > > "This is what it looks like, this is what is feels like, this is what it tastes > like...this is what you've done to me..." Stabbing Westward > > "Be careful with me...I am fragile. Im a bitch babe...and Im on fire" Garbage > > http://www.infochase.com/ent/deedee/index.html > > ******************************************************************************** > > ------------------------------ Subject: hi From: rhino_saur@juno.com (Ben J Schmerr) hi i just got on the sg mailing list thanx bye ME,BEN FROM THE LIKES OF HER TO THE TIME OF ME LIKE THE MOON TO EARTH OR THE SKY TO SEA ONLY WE'RE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BE. (SOUNDGARDEN)(BADMOTERFINGER)(SOMEWHERE) ------------------------------ From: caryn rose Subject: anyone got spare tickets for seattle? now that the band has kindly rescheduled their shows here to fit *my* schedule (;-)), i of course am out of tickets since i sold mine since i wasn't here this week! any of the people from chicago or salt lake wanna get rid of tickets??? fed ex would get them here in time... i think i'm okay for tuesday, actually, so i'll try for a wednesday ticket... thanks - --caryn (no, not on the list, just posting) ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 2 Issue 331] ****************************************