Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 02:00:01 -0500 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 10 Nov 1997 to 11 Nov 1997 There are 10 messages totalling 274 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Rebate on SG CDs when you buy Hype! 2. Sunshower (2) 3. Keep you good eye open... 4. Trades??? 5. article 6. afraid of disappointing you all... 7. MAD 8. short stuff..... 9. yet another A-Sides review To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:44:07 EST From: saperl@ALUM.MIT.EDU Subject: Rebate on SG CDs when you buy Hype! I picked up Hype! at HMV the other night, and was pleasantly surprised to find both a bonus CD shrinkwrapped with it and a sticker on the front advertising a special deal involving SG. It turns out that you get a $3 rebate if you purchase both the Hype! videocassette and one Soundgarden CD or CD+ (Louder Than Love, Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Alive In The Superunknown, or Down On The Upside) and send in the receipt. What strikes me as odd is the fact that Screaming Life/Fopp is not included in this deal, considering the soundtrack and the sampler included with the movie are Sub Pop items. At any rate, if any of you don't have any of the SG CDs listed above, now's your chance to save big (not including the extra $20 for Hype!). -seth PS - The CD sampler includes a Pigeonhed track, but I have this feeling it's Glory Days and not the one that's on the Hype! soundtrack (Fire's Coming Down) though I don't have it in front of me right now... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:59:31 -0600 From: Barbarba Strong Subject: Sunshower I heard "Sunshower" on the radio for the first time on Friday night and when the song was over, the dj said it was the first single off of Chris Cornell's new solo release, due out shortly. I know the song was recorded for the Great Expectations soundtrack, but I thought that was it. So have any of you heard anything about this solo release and about when it's due? Or was the dj high? Please forgive me if this has been discussed and I didn't pay close enough attention. B ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:27:54 -0500 From: Jamesetta Simpson Subject: Keep you good eye open... I was just checking out CDnow and found a little note stating that one of their future contest will be a: Soundgarden Signed Guitar Giveaway! Now wouldn't that be a nice Christmas gift... Jamie (SOMMs Mom) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:57:02 -0600 From: Vikas Bhatia Subject: Trades??? If anyone out there is interested in trading Soundgarden tapes (DAT or analog) of concerts, please get in touch with me. I'm looking for some SG traders. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:14:20 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: article Picked up the Dec. '97 issue of Guitar World today. Here's the article. If you can struggle through the first revolting sentence, and the fact that this was written pre-release, there are some Kim quotes of interest. Jen Soundgarden-- Ultramega Hits Fans distraught over the abrupt demise of Soundgarden earlier this year can now dry their grungy tears-- a 16-track "best of" compilation by the Seattle grunge juggernaut is due to hit the streets just in time for the Christmas season. "Each of the band's members made up a list of songs they'd want to see included on the album," says guitarist Kim Thayil. "It'll be a sort of retrospective of our A&M stuff, from Louder Than Love through Down On the Upside. We may throw in one b-side called Bleed Together, from the Upside sessions, as a bonus track." The band is still undecided on the title of the package, but Thayil has a few ideas. "I wouldn't mind calling it The Beast of Soundgarden," he offers. Given the staggering wealth of Soundgarden material recorded over their 12-year career, it shouldn't come as too much a surprise that the band is also planning a follow-up compilation comprised of live performances, B-sides and alternate takes for release sometime in 1998. "We plan to gather up all the various odds and ends-- including rare European, Japanese and Australian releases-- and put them in one package," says Thayil. "In total, it'll probably consist of approximately 40 songs." -- Jeff Gilbert ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:03:37 -0500 From: Brian Coursen Subject: Re: Sunshower Perhaps the song will be on Chris's solo album, but I believe he is probably high. The only thing about the album I believe is that it is expected to be out in late 98'. But I want to know how was the song because I have not heard it yet? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:52:01 -0600 From: Barbarba Strong Subject: afraid of disappointing you all... Okay, so quite a few people have asked me what "Sunshower" sounded like, and I am so sorry to all of you who emailed me, but I can't give you a really detailed review. Call me worthless. I was in the middle of LA traffic with three other people in the car and the radio was on at an almost whisper. The song had played for probably about 2 to 2.5 minutes before I heard that familiar voice and cranked the volume, then there was the 10 seconds of excited screaming from me before I could actually listen, with repeated interruptions of telling my fellow passengers to shut the hell up and fuck you I am not obsessed. So what I remember is thinking how different he sounds without the rest of the boys. I don't remember hearing any other voices, so whoever asked, no Natasha wasn't singing with him. It wasn't loud or hard or fast, it was more of a romantic song, in the literary sense (not mushy i love you kiss kiss sense), so it will fit well with "Great Expectations". But it wasn't ter! ri! bly slow either. Chris sounds a little sad and desperate (can you imagine?) but from what I could hear it had like a "don't give up on yourself" kinda theme. I guess I didn't concentrate (slap Barb) because I was so damn happy to hear that man's voice on the radio again. All I can tell you is, LA area SOMMSters, tune in to KROQ, they played it once, maybe they'll play it again. Of course, you'll have to put up with hours of Jewel and Sugar Ray... If I hear it again, I promise I will be a good fan and listen harder. B ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 22:23:54 -0500 From: Fletcher Subject: MAD How disturbing the world today is.... My (I hope) infamous Soundgarden art site has a brand new, disturbing addition. Visit the misc page and view an outtake from MAD magazine. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/7769/misc.html The text is as follows: In 50 or 60 years, the weekly sing-along sessions at old folks' homes and retirement communities will consist of "Black Hole Sun," "Gangsta Gangsta," and "Head Like A Hole." For the full effect, go witness the scanned illustration at my site. ~~Laura "What you see before you, I MADE IT" ~WWC~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:56:19 PST From: Wing'd Mentos Vermin Subject: short stuff..... 1] i'm baack....... [like anyone noticed i was gone.....] 2] A- sides New Zealand release date '14 November' ..... that's Friday but i'd probably be sometime after that.... ..is it the same as the Australian Release date? 3] anyone heard that " Instrumental Driving Music For Felons " thingee yet? it's gotta be good fur yar.... 4] "Bleed together" is on maximum rotation on 96.1 in Auckland, the station has no ad's either....good shit if anyone's possing thru the earth's nether regions ].... no nicotine and no soundgarden vinyl make vermin go crazy.... nonicotineandnosoundgardenvinylmakevermingocrazy..... NoNicotineAndNoSoundgardenVinylMake Vermin GO CRAZY!........ ..... vermingocrazy...... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 01:34:08 -0500 From: rita Subject: yet another A-Sides review From the Toronto Sun: GO TO TODAY'S MUSIC NEWS Sunday, November 9, 1997 Soundgarden, Lisa Loeb both worth a listen By JANE STEVENSON Soundgarden A-Sides A&M 4 STARS (OUT OF FIVE) If you've had it up to here with Steve & Eydie's version of Black Hole Sun on the recently released Loungeapalooza, now's your chance to revisit the beloved original on this much-anticipated career retrospective of the Seattle band that quietly called it quits last year. If anything, this 17-track collection proves once and for all that after a dozen years together, Soundgarden put out some pretty amazing music -- a hybrid of metal, punk and psychedelia -- even if they weren't always given due credit. In fact, Seattle-based Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman, who writes the record's liner notes, hints that may have been part of the reason for their surprisingly low-key break-up: "Even though their releases eventually sold millions the world over, Soundgarden always seemed to be under-recognized." This collection begins with Nothing To Say, the first single from their first Sup Pop EP, Screaming Life, and ends with the previously unreleased Bleed Together -- the fast-paced European B-side to Burden In My Hand the sessions for their last album, Down On The Upside. In between is Rusty Cage, which was memorably covered by Johnny Cash, the Grammy-winning Spoonman and the truly great Fell On Black Days. Singer Chris Cornell will soon be heard on the upcoming A Very Special Christmas 3, singing a surprisingly straight-ahead version of Ave Maria -- so get those Robert Plant-like versions out of your head. Cornell is also working on a solo album. Meanwhile, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd briefly hooked up for a project called Well Water Conspiracy, while guitarist Kim Thayil is keeping a low profile. Thayil, however, is the only Soundgarden member quoted [Image] in the A-Sides press material as saying he's keen on compiling a band video collection, as well as "every B-side, live recording, alternate or demo mix, and non album track" his former band every recorded. In other words, there's more Soundgarden on the way. ~*~* ha ha, I liked that get that Robert Plant image out of your head regarding Chris solo ;) ~rita ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 10 Nov 1997 to 11 Nov 1997 ************************************************