Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:58:37 -0500 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 24 Feb 1998 to 25 Feb 1998 There are 16 messages totalling 427 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Thayil's Project 2. Anyone who eat cheese (4) 3. Selective bastards. 4. SOUNDGARDEN EVERYWHERE!!!! (3) 5. matt cameron and the new SP album 6. On everything plus questions 7. somms 8. Collection Questions 9. Jeff Buckley/Chris Cornell blurb 10. Paul Sandhu, email me! 11. sunshower To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:51:39 -0600 From: Bill Flanders Subject: Thayil's Project I can remember reading that Thayil was working on getting b-sides on some cds... What work is involved in this anyway? Don't you just sign a piece of paper for this? Anyway... Here is my appeal to any Soundgarden member who may read the list: please release a demo set to your biggest fans. Thanks, Bill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:39:48 +1100 From: Bob Subject: Anyone who eat cheese This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01BD4164.59055A60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just wanna say to all those knobs out there who don't like "Sunshower" STICK IT UP YOUR ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cornell is a frigern legend. I don't care whether the song is soft, hard, metal, crap, brilliant or just cheese, Cornell is and will always be FUCKIN KING. A HUGE FUCKIN KING. By the way, Kim Thayil...I mean KING Thayil is the fastest guitar player on the planet. True Story. ------=_NextPart_000_01BD4164.59055A60 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I just wanna say to all those knobs out = there who don't like "Sunshower" STICK IT UP YOUR = ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cornell is a frigern legend. I don't = care whether the song is soft, hard, metal, crap, brilliant or just = cheese, Cornell is and will always be FUCKIN KING. A HUGE FUCKIN KING. = By the way, Kim Thayil...I mean KING Thayil is the fastest guitar player = on the planet. True Story.

------=_NextPart_000_01BD4164.59055A60-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:28:16 -0800 From: Jordan Snodgrass Subject: Re: Anyone who eat cheese Bob wrote: > I just wanna say to all those knobs out there who don't like > "Sunshower" STICK IT UP YOUR ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cornell > is a frigern legend. I don't care whether the song is soft, hard, > metal, crap, brilliant or just cheese, Cornell is and will always be > FUCKIN KING. A HUGE FUCKIN KING. By the way, Kim Thayil...I mean KING > Thayil is the fastest guitar player on the planet. True Story. No he's not. Tim Reynolds is. Who wants an mp3? -- bye bye -js mailto:jordans@ucsd.edu http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~jasnodgr/fm/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:56:27 EST From: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Selective bastards. In a message dated 98-02-23 03:19:28 EST, coatesr@TAUNET.NET.AU writes: << 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) ------------------------------------------------------------- >> so........................what exactly is the author trying to say here? mike. "trying though i know its wrong." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:33:11 -0600 From: Aladdin Hassanein Subject: SOUNDGARDEN EVERYWHERE!!!! Not really but I was watching Singles again the other day and I was wondering if anyone else noticed how they (they as in Chris) plays the rif of Spoonman on acoustics when they show the Citizen Dick sign being nailed up. Also, I was wondering if anyone else noticed that Microsoft Encarta 95 and 96 have a soundclip of Nothing to Say. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:41:03 EST From: Mike Gallagher Subject: Re: Anyone who eat cheese In a message dated 98-02-24 12:41:37 EST, jordans@UCSD.EDU writes: << > I just wanna say to all those knobs out there who don't like > "Sunshower" STICK IT UP YOUR ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cornell > is a frigern legend. I don't care whether the song is soft, hard, > metal, crap, brilliant or just cheese, Cornell is and will always be > FUCKIN KING. A HUGE FUCKIN KING. By the way, Kim Thayil...I mean KING > Thayil is the fastest guitar player on the planet. True Story. No he's not. Tim Reynolds is. Who wants an mp3? >> Neither of them are, Steve Howe is. Stevie Ray Vaughan was but obviously isn't anymore. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:37:02 -0500 From: Dave George-Cosh Subject: Re: SOUNDGARDEN EVERYWHERE!!!! Not really but I was watching Singles again the other day and I was wondering if anyone else noticed how they (they as in Chris) plays the rif of Spoonman on acoustics when they show the Citizen Dick sign being nailed up. Also, I was wondering if anyone else noticed that Microsoft Encarta 95 and 96 have a soundclip of Nothing to Say. Um...Singles was released in 1992 or something like that I believe, and the version of Spoonman you here is a demo version. The real version appears on Superunknown. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:58:37 -0500 From: "Steven Russell Jr." Subject: matt cameron and the new SP album http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/19980124175809news.html >Matt Cameron was used on a number of different tracks but >appears on only one on the finished record, 'For Martha'. >According to James Iha, another song Cameron initially >played on, 'Pug', started life as "a minor key blues death >march" before Corgan programmed a drum machine and >employed a number of synths. hmmm..."minor key blues death march"....would that be "4th of July part II" :-) s. -SteveCam! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:19:45 EST From: Igor Nepomnyashchiy Subject: On everything plus questions Whats the problem with other bands? We don't make it a big thing, Soundgarden is dead. Yes, the ex-members are making music, but you write about that once, you write it all. Its not coming fast. Why is it a problem if we want to knoe about other music that most of us like anyway? If you want to take out some messages, this is not to take out!!!! Take out, rather, the stupid threads with all the imaginary stuff. This list, I believe, was made for info and I guess sharing experiences and connecting with other SG fans. Well, this is also a use for it!!! If you can experience new music or find out about music you like from this list, whats the problem? Now for some Soundgarden questions: 1. I still didn't get an asnwer about what Kim Thayil is doing music-wise, other than B-Sides. At least tell me you know nothing, so I don't expect an answer. 2. What are the lyrics to She's A Politician? Who wrote "Girl U Want"? I heard Girl U want in Tank Girl, but I don't know if that was the original, and if it was, I still don't know who sings it. For those of you who don't have it, these two songs are from SOMMS. Thank you for the info in advance and for listening to me blabbering. Everyone has an SG quote here, so I'll start putting one in too. "Every word I say is what I mean, Everything I gave is what I need" Igor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:59:35 -0500 From: Deborah Servey Subject: Re: Anyone who eat cheese Couldn't resist once someone mentioned Steve Howe. If you all really must know, Trevor Rabin, formerly of YES, is king. In fact he's God. On guitar, on keyboards, in the studio, in production..... This could be a fun string for a change! > KING. A HUGE FUCKIN KING. By the way, Kim Thayil...I mean KING > > Thayil is the fastest guitar player on the planet. True Story. > > No he's not. Tim Reynolds is. Who wants an mp3? >> > >Neither of them are, Steve Howe is. Stevie Ray Vaughan was but obviously >isn't anymore. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:34:59 -0600 From: Aladdin Hassanein Subject: Re: SOUNDGARDEN EVERYWHERE!!!! Um...Singles was released in 1992 or something >like that I believe, and the version of Spoonman you here is a demo >version. The real version appears on Superunknown. > >Dave I know it wasn't the real version. Chris does some of the musical score for the music. For example when the main character is walking down the street thinking about that one girl, the musical score is the intro Seasons. When they show the arm hammering up the Citizen Dick sign, Chris plays the spoonman riff. It goes to show that Chris Cornell has had that riff for a while (At least since 1991). -----Original Message----- From: Dave George-Cosh To: SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 3:16 PM Subject: Re: SOUNDGARDEN EVERYWHERE!!!! >Not really but I was watching Singles again the other day and I was >wondering if anyone else noticed how they (they as in Chris) plays the rif >of Spoonman on acoustics when they show the Citizen Dick sign being nailed >up. Also, I was wondering if anyone else noticed that Microsoft Encarta 95 >and 96 have a soundclip of Nothing to Say. > >Um...Singles was released in 1992 or something >like that I believe, and the version of Spoonman you here is a demo >version. The real version appears on Superunknown. > >Dave > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:47:48 +0100 From: Da Honest And Hardhitting Hardcore Detective Subject: somms umm, what is somms? dumbly /hans ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:54:05 -0500 From: "Michelle A. Leco" Subject: Collection Questions Hi all, Ok. Since sooooooo many people were cool enough to answer my Q. about the value of the vinyls, I have some more ques. for you all. I just received some CD's and vinyls in the mail today & I want to make sure I know what I have. I have the Burden in My Hand UK promo single. For those of you with the discography from KOTST, I think this is the one that says "Limited edition club promo individually numbered 300 copies." Anyone else own one of these? My disc says Burden2. Anyone have a different number? Or is what I have something totally different (although, I don't know what!) I also have the Louder than Love pre-released band picture CD. On the discography, it says limited press. Anyone know how many of these there are? I also have the LTL album on Red Vinyl. This is also supposed to be 'limited'. Anyone know how many? One more question.... I have the UK single promo JCP 12" vinyl (JCP, Stray Cat Blues, Into the Void, Somewhere). On the discography, it says there are 2 types. One is "Etched Disc" the other is "Poster Bag". Mines the 2nd. So what does poster bag mean? And what should be etched on it? My album doesn't have anything that looks like it would be called a 'poster bag', but it does have AMY DJ 862 (album #) etched into it. As a side note, I also got the Sunshower promo with the radio edit version and the album version on it as well. It sucks that I had already bought the GE soundtrack a while ago since I thought that was the only place that I could get my hands on the song. Oh well. Anyway, thanks for your help and thanks for bearing with me and all of my questions! Michelle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:49:05 EST From: Audrey Hillyard Subject: Jeff Buckley/Chris Cornell blurb This from the 2/20 edition of Cybersleaze (http://www.metaverse.com/vibe/sleaze/sleaze.02-20-98.html): BUCKLEY'S FINAL ALBUM: JEFF BUCKLEY fans will able to hear the last of his studio sessions made just before he drowned accidentally last year. COLUMBIA RECORDS are to release a two-CD set called SKETCHES (FOR MY SWEETHEART, THE DRUNK). Buckley's mother assembled the songs and she also enlisted the help of Buckley's group and his friends, including SOUNDGARDEN's CHRIS CORNELL. Buckley's body was found last May in Memphis. At the time of his death, Buckley was working on a follow-up to his breakthrough album, GRACE. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:46:28 -0500 From: Deborah Servey Subject: Paul Sandhu, email me! Sorry to do this list, but this guy's addie keeps bouncing for me as host unknown! Paul, please email me RE: vinyl you wanted to buy from me! Many thanks! deb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:48:00 PST From: Mandy Crook Subject: sunshower Hi all, just got this from a friend............. _______________________________________________________________ FYI, we have just been advised that Atlantic has obtained singles rights to the Chris Cornell song "Sunshower" from "Great Expectations". this includes international rights. Atlantic plans to release this here in the U.S. to pop radio next week (it has already gotten a great deal of airplay here as an album cut). Video plans right now are TBD. _______________________________________________________ cheers mandy ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 24 Feb 1998 to 25 Feb 1998 ************************************************