88. Karaoke vs. Obscured

Post by **stip** » Sat August 26, 2017 11:50 am

Karaoke vs. Obscured

Post by **stip** » Sat August 26, 2017 11:51 am

This needs a listen, but obscured for now

doone · Post by **doone** » Sat August 26, 2017 1:09 pm

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat August 26, 2017 3:41 pm

Easily Karaoke. A great Soundgarden song, a real hidden gem in their collection.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sat August 26, 2017 3:45 pm

A very difficult one. I went with Obscured.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Sat August 26, 2017 4:12 pm

VinylGuy wrote:A very difficult one. I went with Obscured.

Iholdthepain · Post by **Iholdthepain** » Sat August 26, 2017 5:00 pm

PHATJ wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:A very difficult one. I went with Obscured.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat August 26, 2017 8:51 pm

You guys are surprising me. I hope those who think Karaoke is a great song actually vote here, so it can deservedly progress.

Bruce Pavitt once likened grunge to “the sound and look of fresh money,” and truer words were never spoken; the Alternative Nation is full of Foreigners, playing secondhand, sugarcoated grunge-by-numbers. Such Bush-league copycats even inspired Soundgarden to write a song called “Karaoke,” although the tune failed to make it onto Down on the Upside.

“It seemed like there was a real cool, aggressive shake-up in rock, and really quickly they homogenized it and repackaged it,” declares Thayil. “Nirvana came along and they were a really cool thing, and Pearl Jam were really cool, but it just seems like everything now has the edges rounded off. When Pearl Jam ceased making videos, they got all these second-rate, B-grade Pearl Jams to make videos.” In Thayil’s view, “It’s all Top 40 shit and probably won’t exist a year from now. There are only so many teenagers and their limited funds and resources to sustain the careers of all these bands.”

Jammer XCI · Post by **Jammer XCI** » Sun August 27, 2017 3:16 am

Karaoke is pretty legit, but Obscured has this in the bag for me.

Post by **stip** » Sun August 27, 2017 11:52 am

Open another day

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Mon August 28, 2017 5:54 am

I'm just a regular man
Now I'm a regular mess
Doesn't matter how you dress
Doesn't matter how you fit
I'm gonna show you someday
You can hear it in the air
You can feel it in your bones
You can have it for your own
May not miss you when your gone

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Mon August 28, 2017 11:09 am

Karaoke was produced by Matt Cameron. Found that interesting.

Karaoke (Non LP Track)
Engineer [Assistent] – Matt Bayles
Producer – Matt Cameron
Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Adam Kasper
Producer, Mixed By, Written-By – Chris Cornell

VinylGuy wrote:
Anders wrote:I really like the song Karaoke. Surprised it's so unknown, and unused by Soundgarden.
It such a great song. Its actually a demo with only Chris and Matt.

Possible retracking of DOTU:

LetMeSleep wrote:
zeb wrote:DOTU Retracked

Switch Opens
Dusty
Burden In My Hand
Pretty Noose
Zero Chance
Never The Machine Forever
Tighter & Tighter
Ty Cobb
Karaoke
Overfloater
An Unkind
Boot Camp
Here it is Trag.

Post by **stip** » Mon August 28, 2017 11:25 am

open another day

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Mon August 28, 2017 11:42 pm

Fuck this

EJ · Post by EJ » Mon August 28, 2017 11:48 pm

I voted Obscured. That information should sway those still on the fence.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Tue August 29, 2017 1:24 am

I have rediscovered Pisces Iscariot during this tournament and it should have been better represented moving forward. Did every song lose now? If so, that sucks. A lot of these SP B-sides are throwaways, but most of PI is pretty fucking great.

Iholdthepain · Post by **Iholdthepain** » Tue August 29, 2017 4:16 am

Pumpkins vote... but only to protest the Starla defeat.

Red Mosquito