SOMMS Digest - 8 Jul 1998 to 9 Jul 1998 [ 9.1KB. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] There are 7 messages totalling 214 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Boot Camp - a clue to what I mean 2. This mag 3. Thanks for your patience 4. Foreshocks... (2) 5. Gosh! Those crazy guys at Student.Com say... 6. Movies & Soundgarden To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:14:00 PDT From: William Flanders Subject: Re: Boot Camp - a clue to what I mean >From the responses I got to this connection, I guess my message was cryptic. Listen to the first 10 seconds of boot camp and listen to the first 10 seconds of "No Quarter." The songs are really similar in sound and in emotion.... Not that this makes for a good discussion... I just thought it was a cool connection. Bill ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:37:37 -0500 From: David Reyes Subject: This mag http://www.clash.net/socialdistortion/images/mag.gif I found that mag at a Social D site, and came across that SG were on the cover, any one know anything about this mag, or what kinda of article was done on SG? --David _____________________________________________ Get your free personalized email address at http://www.MyOwnEmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:24:42 -0400 From: Seth Perlman Subject: Thanks for your patience As many of you know by now, I inadvertently wiped out the subscriber options for everyone on the list, so anyone who had chosen to receive the digest was switched to individual postings. I've received about 100 messages so far from people who were affected - keep them coming. The larger problem is that subscribers who unsubbed months ago have started receiving messages again (Listserv never fully deletes an address on the off chance that someone might resub in the future) - if you are one of these people, please accept my humble apologies and email me immediately to be removed from the list. Again, sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and thanks for your patience, seth listadmin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:07:07 EDT From: Tracy Thompson Subject: Foreshocks... Hey SOMMS-sters, I have been lucky enough to come across an extra copy of the promo CD Foreshocks...so I picked it up. It is only the 2nd time I have ever seen this CD. If anyone is interested in purchasing my extra copy from me, its up for sale. I bought the CD for $50...so the set price is $50. As far as I know, Foreshocks is normally priced at around $75. Sooooo, if any of you crazy Soundgarden fans out there are interested in Foreshocks...please email me privately....its a 1st come, 1st serve basis. Tracy RockGirl78@aol.com Burden In My Hand Webmaster http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/7736/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:01:22 -0400 From: Scott Hammer Subject: Gosh! Those crazy guys at Student.Com say... Just tripped over this while acting the spider & climbing the web...thought ya'll might did reading it if ya haven't found it already. L8r ~^v^OzzY^v^~ -- A friend has e-mailed you a story from Student.Com. Even if you hate it, or them, check us out at http://www.student.com; we've got one billion interesting articles and interactive features, so you're bound to find at least six things interesting enough to make you return. To see this article in bright, living color, go to: http://www.student.com/97/11/18/asides/index.phtml -- Final Tap From the ashes of a shocking breakup rises A-Sides, the definitive singles compilation that illustrates how Soundgarden exploded the limitations of grunge. BY DAN MCGARRY YALE HERALD A-Sides Soundgarden (Polygram) Near the banks of Lake Washington in a large park in Seattle sits a sculpture titled "The Sound Garden." On a high piece of land, rising above the surrounding marshland, the lean, metallic sculpture spins its horizontal arms at the wind, which plays a dissonant symphony on the pipes found on each winged arm. In 1984, "The Sound Garden" inspired the name of a new band forming around Chicago transplant and guitar-master Kim Thayil. The rest, as they say, is history. Kim went on to prove himself at the top of his league, bringing a new level of innovation to big rock guitar, from his heady roots in punk and speed-metal. The rhythm section eventually settled in as Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron, and formed one of the most taut drum and bass corps in the business. The incredible voice of Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, led this band in a charge attack on convention that led from the swamps of Poison-era glam rock to the then-uncharted heights of an alternative sound later identified with the"Seattle scene." Something as good as the music of Soundgarden and fellow Seattle |ber-bands such as Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and Pearl Jam couldn't stay alternative for long however, and that's why you've heard Soundgarden even if you haven't actually heard Soundgarden. Yet through the proliferation of imitators and the adoption of "alternative" by the MTV mainstream, Soundgarden remained a singular force, churning out an amazing catalog of the meatiest AOR to actually sell a fair number of records this decade. A-Sides explains how Soundgarden achieved this popularity, charting the band all the way from the sinewy confusion of "Nothing to Say," off their first release, to the chill accusation of "The Day I Tried to Live," representative of their later work. A-Sides is a compilation, and in this case the product is an unassailable body of singles almost too powerful to be gathered in such a tight space. But the album is also the last word, a eulogy of sorts to a band that doesn't exist as of April 1997. For diehard Soundgarden fans, who may have just been getting over the shock of such a grave loss, A-Sides is a bittersweet joy, reminding us of what we will be missing in the years to come. The last song from the last album, the divine "Boot Camp" on Down on the Upside, is just one proof of the theory that Soundgarden left the game at the pinnacle of their art--arguably the best level from which to leave. Luckily, a shrine already exists on the shores of Lake Washington to receive our homage. Dan McGarry has quit school to tour with the Spoonmen, a Soundgarden tribute band. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Student.Com, the website for college students, is either a big amorphous blob, a labor of love, or an office with an unhealthily high computer- and-takeout-container to person ratio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Check us out at http://www.student.com; you'll like us. Really. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:11:17 EDT From: Mike Gallagher Subject: Movies & Soundgarden There have been a few posts lately about SG songs popping up in movies lately. Well I just remembered another one...in Quentin Tarantino's True Romance, Outshined can be heard in the background when the maffia dudes are interrogating christian slater. Gallagwar ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:33:09 EDT From: Lance Huber Subject: Re: Foreshocks... In a message dated 98-07-08 21:10:50 EDT, RockGirl78@AOL.COM writes: << Foreshocks...so I picked it up. It is only the 2nd time I have ever seen this CD. If anyone is interested in purchasing my extra copy from me, its up for sale. I bought the CD for $50...so the set price is $50. As far as I know, Foreshocks is normally priced at around $75. >> $50 BUCKS???????????????? Jesus, I paid $10 for mine. God, 50 bucks? Sounds like someone got taken for a ride. Lance ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 8 Jul 1998 to 9 Jul 1998 **********************************************