Superunknown

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Superunknown
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Artist: Soundgarden
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-03-08
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
  1. Let Me Drown
  2. My Wave
  3. Fell On Black Days
  4. Mailman
  5. Superunknown
  6. Head Down
  7. Black Hole Sun
  8. Spoonman
  9. Limo Wreck
  10. The Day I Tried To Live
  11. Kickstand
  12. Fresh Tendrils
  13. 4th Of July
  14. Half
  15. Like Suicide

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Free Music Review: A great funk/grunge album by a metal band
Hit: 5 Stars

I still can't believe that this band used to be a metal band. Being from the punk rock scene in Los Angeles, I hardly ever heard about the grunge scene in Seattle. Yet, this band really amazed me with this album.

The guitar work by Thalik is incredible. Never in a grunge album have I ever heard a funky-metal-riff-heavy guitar solo as the one in "Black Hole Sun". Chris Cornell really gives one of his best performances in this album, especially in his angriest bombastic wails in "Limo Wreck". Not even the singer of Queen could match these cries.

While the work in this album is loud, it has the funkiest riff in the title track "Superunknown". In fact, I haven't ever heard a grunge song where such a complex riff was the basis of the entire song. "Superunknown" featured so many innovations in funk and grunge rock when it became a huge hit.

I was astonished by how complex this work was. And yet, I hardly even knew about Soundgarden's roots as a metal band, before punk became popular in the late 90s. Thank goodness that Chris Cornell is continuing his grunge career with the Rage Against the Machine band in the combined grunge mega band, Audioslave. After all, I think everyone in the 90s deserves some more grunge, especially after this awesome masterpiece.

I still hardly believe that the bassist is a Japanese guy. Gosh.

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"Fell on Black Days," indeed. Seattle sludge slingers Soundgarden made a living out of cathartic, woe-is-me wailing (we're talking the banshee vocals of Chris Cornell and the crypt-creaking guitar of Kim Thayil), but this wallowing in grim depression ironically proved to be the band's most uplifting career effort. When the reclusive Cornell ventures out of his shy-guy shell, it's typically via a primal scream of cathartic emotion--he might camp it up with a sophomoric "Spoon Man," but most of this vicious disc leaps straight for your jugular. Generations in the post-millennial future will one day refer to this record to discover exactly how 1990s rock & roll was done. --Tom Lanham

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