Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

[Birds in Hell]

Song fucking delivers.

Does it ever!

Without wanting to raise expectations too dramatically, I'd love to see the band throw Kristi and/or Storm into some of the setlists on the upcoming Oz/NZ dates.

[LetMeSleep]

I think Zeb just had to loosen his belt.

[zeb]

I would be ecstatic if either of those were aired down here.

[Dev]

the production is too clean

[Dev]

It's growing on me, but I still think it was left off as a b-side for good reason.

[DeLima]

I do get the argument that it wouldn't have fit on DOTU. Lyrically it's maybe the most brutal thing they've ever done.

[Revelator]

After a few listens I can't see it really fitting on DOTU either, but still can't believe it's taken this long to unearth the studio version. I miss this kind of Cornell.

[bada]

DOTUS

No.

I'm just waiting for the day one of these slips by you.

[zeb]

If it's in this thread it's not going to happen.

[Fuzzcharger]

Echo of Miles is on Spotify and I'm digging it right now.

[Acidfuel]

Kristi is amazing.....
The Down on the Upside era is pure gold

[Simple Torture]

Surprised I won't get a chance to blow ~$120 or so on a vinyl version of the rarities collection. Thanks for making the decision for me, Soundgarden!

[ilpazzo]

Yeah, where would you have tracked this on DOTU? If you sub it in for Never Named that makes one hell of an end to side 1: Burden => BOTUW => Kristi

THAT could be the way it fits onto DOTU. Just have it come in crushing after BUTOW...
Damn... Might have to make a playlist tracked like that.

[Fuzzcharger]

The originals disc on this set SLAYS.

[DeLima]

Yeah the sequencing is pretty good huh. It's a little too bad Live To Rise is on there but whatever.

[zeb]

What's the story behind "Kristi"?

Well, I'm shocked it didn't pop up on Down on the Upside, but that's probably another story [Laughs]. It was recorded and tracked then. There were things about the guitar performances I wasn't that happy with, but I could live with at the time. There were things about the vocal performances Chris wasn't happy with. However, Ben loved it, Matt loved it, and Adam Kasper, our producer, loved it. It's one of Matt's favorite songs and one of Adam's. We hemmed and hawed. We never got around to mixing it. We just left it uncompleted. There wasn't enough enthusiasm to have it make it to the album with all of the material we had and were working with. I was a little bit bummed because I wrote the music and Chris wrote the lyrics. I think I only had one song on that album, which was a bit frustrating and disappointing, but here you go! This is probably one of the strongest songs that didn't make the record and certainly is probably stronger than many of the songs on the record. Once Adam got around to mixing it in the past year, we realized how solid it was. Matt has always kept it in the forefront of his mind and would always mention it to us. So would Adam. They'd say, "That's a special song. We have to do something with that". It was a weird oversight due to self-criticism and self-conscious that we chose to look away from it. Given time, we realize what a gem it was.

[zeb]

That quote comes from a great little article here.

[Birds in Hell]

That quote comes from a great little article here.

Kim is the best.

[Birds in Hell]

Looks as though a cut down, single disc edition of the rarities box is also being released, Echo of Miles: Originals.

1. Heretic
2. Fresh Deadly Roses
3. HIV Baby
4. Cold Bitch
5. Show Me
6. She's A Politician
7. Birth Ritual
8. She Likes Surprises
9. Blind Dogs
10. Bleed Together
11. Black Rain
12. Live To Rise
13. Kristi (Previously Unreleased)
14. Storm (Previously Unreleased)

[bada]

There are a couple of catalog releases coming down the line. One is remix and reissue of Ultramega OK.

oh momma!