Soundgarden

TheProgtologist wrote: I love them,and think they were one of the best bands to come out of Seattle during that period. Chris Cornell's voice is ungodly,when I first heard Badmotorfinger I was blown away by what an amazing singer he is.

I agree, his voice is unbelievable. Now he sings in Audioslave and his voice is already good but  is not the same, he has lost his high range and when he sings high tones it doesn't sound the same as in Soundgarden. I guess he is not getting old very well.

He also has a solo album (Euphoria Morning) with great singing. His voice in "Steel Rain" from that album is incredible.

I really don't care for grunge. The gravelly vocals, and angry, depressing lyrics about broken relationships, disfuntionality and despair just irritate me, and bring me down.

I'm no expert, but the stuff I heard on the radio tended to predictability, too: acoustic opening (giving me temporary, false hope there was still some beauty/optimism left in popular music) -- loud angry part -- acoustic part -- loud and angry again, etc.

Just not my thing. After hearing so much praise, I tried to get into Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc, but I couldn't identify with it. (Still, I can understand why many, especially in these times, might like it.)

Perhaps I was just too old/relatively settled in my life, for it. Maybe I'm not "macho" enough

(I preferred the generally much more cheery/positve 80s music -- no, not the shallow "haircut" crap on the radio, either).

I fouind the 90s to be piss-poor musically. For my tastes, a fun exception was Weezer -- they rock, they've understand melody and hooks, and they don't make me want to murder people, or blow my own brains out. Good time R & R. They lift me up!

One of my least favourite popular bands today is Nickleback -- I find all their songs to be much the same. Is their singer ever NOT pissed off? Bleah!

One man's meat.... 

I really like soundgarden,alice in chains and smashing pumpkins. Chris Cornell has one of the best voices ever. Also, Kim Thayill (guitarist) is clearly influenced by Black Sabbath.

Recently i've also come to like Audioslave - mainly due to Cornell's amazing voice.

And Peter, Soundgarden's lyrics aren't mostly about broken relationships and most of their songs aren't depressing

The amazing talent of this guy has sadly gone to waste on Audioslave. I was really disappointed with both Audioslave albums, because even though they are good alt-rock albums, they don't showcase Cornell's vocals or lyrics. Except for one song- The Last Remaining Light.

Superunknown has gotta be the best 90's grunge album ever made. Black Hole Sun, The Day I Tried To Live, Limo Wreck, Fresh Tendrils, Mailman, Superunknown, Fell On Black Days, etc. And Kim Thayil is an amazing guitarist, so it just makes the album even better.

Peter Rideout wrote: lordoflight wrote:   And Peter, Soundgarden's lyrics aren't mostly about broken relationships and most of their songs aren't depressing That's good to know -- I'll give the band a good listen/another chance if I ever get the opportunity. As I said, I'm certainly no grunge expert -- I was just going by what I'd heard on the radio, and it seemed to be mostly joyless, "blame everyone else"/"other peole have f*cked up my life" music to me. A real downer. Lyrics are very important to me. Bitching and whining or macho posturing set to a beat just ain't my thing. If I need bringing down, I'll watch the news....

I too don't like all grunge and pessimistic teenage angst ridden lyrics but Soundgarden i like because 1 they arent really grunge and 2 even the songs with depressing lyrics dont sound depressing and suicidal (try Fell on Black Days).

I didnt like them at first because i had judged them on some songs which annoyed me, but then I heard Pretty Noose, The Day I tried to Live, Fell on Black Days and now i've really come like them.

Try those first when you try them again