Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:15:22 -0500 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 23 Feb 1998 to 24 Feb 1998 There are 7 messages totalling 184 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Soundgarden Ate My Balls 2. gripe 3. Selective bastards. 4. Random things. (3) 5. Fwd: gripe To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:25:14 -0800 From: Jordan Snodgrass Subject: Soundgarden Ate My Balls For those of you who have not yet witnessed, or who need another laugh, let Soundgarden eat your balls! Go to: http://www.meticulous.com/bobo/soundgarden/ You will be enlightened! -- bye bye -js mailto:jordans@ucsd.edu http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~jasnodgr/fm/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:47:34 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: gripe (gritted teeth) grumble... this is not a Scott Weiland or Jerry Cantrell list...grumble...grumble...if a former SG-er is not on their albums, I don't wanna hear about them here.... Jen (bitching again, true to form) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:44:16 +0900 From: fluttergirl Subject: Selective bastards. Taken from the January issue of 'Select', ------------------------------------------------------------- SOUNDGARDEN A-Sides A & M (Self-explanatory contract-fulfilling final release from the now-defunct Seattle grinders.) Despite their relative latecoming to grunge-based notoriety, it's Soundgarden you can blame for an entire American generation sounding like Black Sabbath. It's a shame that a basically benign group should leave such an uncomfortable legacy: Soundgarden were an intelligent but unashamedly heavy metal band who were, perhaps, never meant to receive the amount of attention they did. That they have now split is testament to the evolutionary strains that success forced on them. Their none-more-Ozzy swamp-rock, complete with throaty screeching from Gen X pin-up Chris Cornell, reached its peak with their third album 'Badmotorfinger'. From there on in, it was the haircuts and inexplicable Beatles influences which did them in. As such, this singles retrospective is unrepresentative of their output. Five of the 17 tracks come from the strip-mined 'Superunknown' album, the first step into the abyss of short-haired 'maturity' which was to devour them. The fact that the first three albums only muster five tracks between them is probably good news to the casual browser - as is the presence of the hits 'Jesus Christ Pose', 'Spoonman' and 'Black Hole Sun'. However, the over-reliance on the more conservative later years does an injustice to one of the most riff-excessive rock bands in recent memory. (3 stars out of 5) ------------------------------------------------------------- 'A basically benign group' -I'm sure this echos all our thoughts here on the list. Lily. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:13:26 EST From: Matt Hammons Subject: Random things. First and most importantly, I came to this realization: For those of you worried if Chris will use Eleven on his album, remember how USA Today said Sunshower won't be on his album, well maybe that's because Eleven won't be recording with him. Second, I'm warning everyone ahead of time: This April when discussion of "One Year Ago.....Blah, blah,blah" Occurs, could we possibly have a code word to put in the subject of the letters, so some of us can skip over all the breakup stories? Thanks, Matt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:51:25 EST From: Matt Artis Subject: Re: Random things. I have an idea for a codeword. How bout breakup? :) And yes, the number of pointless posts like this has increased dramatically since the "Is SOMMS dead?" post, but that's ok. Most of them have been humorous. ~Matt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:22:23 EST From: Troy Black Subject: Re: Random things. Well, I have to say, even if there is fewer messages these days the quality of them has generally improved. I really don't mind a fleeting remark or short post about Cantrell or Weiland. Last time I was on the SOMMS mailing list the latest string had to do with Chris' nipples if I remember correctly. Troy "Your eyes will water/Your guts will splatter" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:59:58 PST From: Holly Winkler Subject: Fwd: gripe >From owner-somms@mitvma.mit.edu Mon Feb 23 00:00:16 1998 >Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (206.241.12.19) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1b) with SMTP id <3.A7FF9227@VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM>; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 2:53:56 -0500 >Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8c) with > NJE id 7542 for SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:54:54 -0500 >Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail > V1.2b/1.8b) with BSMTP id 3562; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:52:44 -0500 >Received: from main.citynet.net (206.101.104.67) by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP > V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 23 Feb 98 02:52:39 EST >Received: from default (hunt-26s.citynet.net [206.101.127.41]) by > main.citynet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA05931 for > ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:39:59 -0500 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Message-ID: <34F12996.62A2@citynet.net> >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:47:34 -0500 >Reply-To: jenny grover >From: jenny grover >Subject: gripe >To: SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > >(gritted teeth) grumble... this is not a Scott Weiland or Jerry Cantrell >list...grumble...grumble...if a former SG-er is not on their albums, I >don't wanna hear about them here.... > >Jen (bitching again, true to form) > You seem like a rather closed minded person. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 23 Feb 1998 to 24 Feb 1998 ************************************************