Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 02:00:01 -0500 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 22 Dec 1997 to 23 Dec 1997 There are 5 messages totalling 151 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=2DSides_in_Canada=09?= 2. =?iso-8859-1?Q?SoundScan_Yet_again=09?= 3. mods 4. Chris (2) To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:30:01 -0500 From: Dave George-Cosh Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=2DSides_in_Canada=09?= Hey there, I was scanning te 'net for neat stuff and I found SoundScan (Canada's = version of Billboard, but only better ) and Soundgarden is 21 in = Canada's top Alternative albums. You can check it out at: http://www.canoe.ca:80/JamMusicCharts/ALTERNATIVE.html Enjoy. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:43:44 -0500 From: Dave George-Cosh Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SoundScan_Yet_again=09?= Well, I'm still on SoundScan, and lo, and behold, there are like 7 more SG articles if you wanna look at them. The site might already have them, but it's nice to look at them, for nostalgic reasons. The address is: http://www.canoe.ca:80/JamMusicArtistsS/soundgarden.html Now, you might have known all the stuff they put already, but its reporting from a Canadian point of view, which is pretty cool... Dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:33:54 +0100 From: Anders B-N Nergaard Subject: mods Though I've tried for some time now, I've been unable to find any SG mods on the net. I've found heaps of mods of other bands, but not a single one of SG. Can anybody help me out here? Andy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:18:04 -0600 From: Kathie and David Subject: Chris I've been thinking alot about Chris lately -- Ah, I hear a collective groan from those who know me: "Yeah, so what else is new" -- but anyway... I really like Sunshower and now I can't wait to hear his album. The other night I was watching Louder Than Live and I was wondering what it must be like to be Chris Cornell, now, as he continues to age as we all must. Now, I think Chris is absolutely gorgeous, both inside and out, but I still hear some people who long for the "long-haired" version of Chris (read: the younger Chris). I wonder if that bothers him at all. I keep thinking about Michael Hutchence....wonder if it bothered him. Anyway, it must really be hard for someone who looked like Chris in the early days of SG to get old. I mean even I do a double take when I see pictures of myself as a teenager, and I was far from a sex-symbol, "was I really that thin?, was my hair really that long?", etc. Is it hard for him to age? Chris seems to be a pretty together person, and I've always admired his dignity and integrity, so maybe he doesn't care when people wish he still looked and acted like he was 22....but he's also pretty sensitive. It just must be hard to live your life in the public eye, and try to grow older with dignity and grace (which is how I feel he's doing it) while some people pine for the *younger you*. I hope this doesn't sound too stupid, but I've just been waxing a bit philosophical lately. I'd love to hear what the rest of you think. Kathie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:46:47 -0500 From: NIKI FREER Subject: Re: Chris wax on, sister. = ) i've never really sat down and pondered that, but i think i'll end up doing it now. i do think, god- he's 33 now... i watched a Lolla 92 video today (trying to put the finishing touches to the way i play BDS) and it was amazing to see them all that young. even matt looked young. it's so funny, almost. but yeah, aging in the public eye has the be terrible. look at someone like Liz Taylor...she's had how many face lifts to stay as pretty as she was when she was young... (no, it hasn't really worked, but that's the point i guess, you can't fool time) Chris, chris is now letting his hair kind of grow back out. Mid-life crisis? Chris? hell, maybe. maybe that's why he was no longer comfortable inside the term "soundgarden" and had to get out and be Chris Cornell, not SG's CC anymore. i can see that happening. i can see him leaving the band for that reason. It's all a possiblity. As he does seem pretty settled into himself, i can see him thinking that maybe he's just not going to be respected anymore, maybe the whole public eye towards him will change, maybe it'll increase and be sweeter to him than it was to SG. maybe it'll be worse. you've heard the "another morrissey" comments. (at least, i have and it makes me want to heave.) Maybe he's just worried about his future now, how he's going to age peacefully. maybe that's why he's hitting the solo Cornell stage of his musical life, and maybe personal life as well. He just needs to, perhaps. Maybe it's all a faze, maybe it's just a recent state of mind, but then again maybe it's who he's been all along. Now i'm waxing all over the place and i don't think it's made any sense. = ) but kathie, i agree strongly. i look at my younger pictures (hell, i'm only 18, but even looking at 2 years ago, even a year ago is weird for me) and think that same, "wow, did i really think i looked normal there?" wow, was i really that geeky, wow was i this, was i that... ect. ect. ect. He was asked in an online chat once what he thought when he looked at younger photos of him and all he said was "I see a younger me." So maybe we're just running around yelling stuff like street corner preachers that no one cares about and is totally wrong anyways. or maybe we're right on the button... Either way, i think he's doing just fine. and that's my .02 for today... thanks for posting kathie. mind riot ____ and if i'm condemned let me rest on my pillow dream of those moments so few and if i'm blessed i'll be chasing your shadow there i go, nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S O U N D G A R D E N 1 9 8 4 - 1 9 9 7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 22 Dec 1997 to 23 Dec 1997 ************************************************