Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

[zeb]

What a great interview, cheers zeb.

np spen

[VinylGuy]

Kim is such a well articulate guy, he is really good at explaining how this band works.
I wont hold my breathe for that b sides compilation though.

[Birds in Hell]

Giving King Animal a very enjoyable spin this AM.

[EJ]

Giving King Animal a very enjoyable spin this AM.

Listened to it at the gym today. Its still got legs for me.

[bada]

Nice article. Someone needs to ask him about Christi.

[Mojopin]

Yep, Nice read!!

[Birds in Hell]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... t-20131125

There's also the possibility of a collection of unreleased material. Will this upcoming set be just strictly B-sides, or also include some unreleased songs?

This is almost exclusively – there might be one or two exceptions – released material, focusing on original Soundgarden released and published material that has never been compiled on a Soundgarden album. Things from compilation records, like "Sub Pop Rock City," for instance, might have been on the B-sides album.

I recall around the time of Badmotorfinger, a lot of non-album cover songs were issued overseas, like Devo's "Girl U Want" and Budgie's "Homicidal Suicidal."

Those are covers, but if we focus on originals, there's certainly enough for another album-plus. Around Badmotorfinger, we did the song "Cold Bitch," which was an original. We did "Birth Ritual," which was in the movie soundtrack for Singles. "Birth Ritual" we put out on the Telephantasm album, but that's a compilation of already released songs. But as far as compiling an album's worth of original material that hadn't been compiled on other Soundgarden albums, this would be like another studio album.

So originals such as "Heretic" and "Toy Box" will be included?

Yeah, "Heretic," maybe "Toy Box." "Toy Box" was recorded during the Screaming Life period, eight-track with Jack Endino. There might be some interest in putting that together with other material from that period of time.

What's next for Soundgarden?

Right now, a couple of guys are committed to other tours – Chris is doing a solo acoustic tour and Matt [Cameron] is out on the road with Pearl Jam. So this year [2014] is going to be kind of tough for touring. But I will be tending to the catalog, compiling the B-sides record, which I first announced back in 1995 . . . it's been almost 20 years of backburner neglect. The past four years, I've taken some action toward getting the ball rolling. Now it's just a matter of working with Jeff Fura at A&M Records and getting this thing going. And of course, the reissue of Screaming Life, and the eventual remixing and re-release of Ultramega OK.

Would you like to see a follow-up to King Animal?

Yeah, the band has talked about that. That's something that we'll look at in the next two years.

[zeb]

Kim, we already have all that stuff. Give us something we can use.

[Birds in Hell]

Yeah, though he does say perhaps one or two might be previously unreleased.

I guess it depends on how much completed, releasable work is sitting around.

That a remixed Ultramega OK is in the works is really good news.

[Kevin Davis]

I am totally into the idea of a round-up of previously released but scattered B-sides and rarities. All bands should pay their discography the service of a collection like that, honestly.

[Birds in Hell]

Agreed, I'm definitely looking forward to it regardless of whether it contains anything I haven't heard before.

[zeb]

I agree with you both on the value of such a collection.

I should note, thought, that whenever Kim talks about this stuff it is always a) from a very US-centric standpoint and b) ignores the existence of the internet.

A remixed UOK would be very welcome.

[oasisfan35]

I am totally into the idea of a round-up of previously released but scattered B-sides and rarities. All bands should pay their discography the service of a collection like that, honestly.

[Revelator]

I am totally into the idea of a round-up of previously released but scattered B-sides and rarities. All bands should pay their discography the service of a collection like that, honestly.

[LetMeSleep]

A mate was talking about Hit So Hard and the whole drummer debacle that producer Michael Bienhorn seems to create and I found this MC 1994 Modern Drummer article. There are a few great insights into the recording of SU, especially from a drummer's perspective.

Half': "I turned up the bass drum on its side so it faced up, like a symphonic drum, and I used a snare drum with the snares off. I also did a cabasa part and used one cymbal. I wanted to play that song like a pianist or an orchestral percussionist would, just laying everything flat so I could stand up and play it with mallets. The drums were the last thing to go on that song, which was kind of neat. But there's a whole second half to that song that didn't make it on the record. It was this completely different rock section that we just couldn't get right on tape. There were tempo fluctuations going from part A to part B that we tried to overcome with studio wizardry (laughs), but it would have been a little too obvious."

http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/art ... 6-94.shtml

[zeb]

That's my transcription.

[LetMeSleep]

I won't mention the couple of typos then.

Good work

[zeb]

You lie!

[LetMeSleep]

Was it the Superunknown sessions and Matt that said Beinhorn worked on just the kick sound for nearly a fortnight? The production and the sounds are so amazing on that album I have often wondered why other bands like PJ didn't work with MB.

[zeb]

Some bands or band members think that Beinhorn goes overboard. In the case of Superunknown I'm completely happy with the outcome.

Except for that weird skronk in 4th of July.