DeLima wrote:matt reeder wrote:DeLima wrote:Ah, go ahead, liking Live to Rise never hurt anyone.
I do like that Ben slagged it off after they released it though
I'll never argue that it's a great song but I do like it. But I'm a weird SG fan -
Badmotorfinger is probably my least favorite SG album, and I'm probably the only SG fan who feels that way.
Yeah that's a tough position to hold given the first 4 songs on that album
Well, it's easy for me given every song after the first four - the only song after those I really love is "Searching With My Good Eye Closed". The problem I have with
Badmotorfinger is the production. I absolutely despise it. It makes it difficult for me to even listen to the studio album. It's so dry, flat and lifeless (to me), and the drums sound like garbage. It also has a lot of songs that don't really do a lot for me, like "Face Pollution" and "Holy Water". The studio version of "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" is AWFUL - I mean, AWFUL. Given how it sounds like, it's painful for me to even listen to the studio version. They should have never agreed to record it in a different tuning - it just sucks the life out of the song. Even "Slaves and Bulldozers" gets old after awhile - I remember that the last time I saw them, they closed with it again and while I loved the shit out of it, I was bummed that I'd seen them four times and still hadn't heard "Like Suicide", which I was really hoping they would play.
But again, this is like saying which child is my least favorite. I still love it. I'd just rather listen to their other albums (and I'm not counting
King Animal, which has to be held to a different standard). I'm a huge fan of early Soundgarden, probably much more than most people. I just love songs like "Entering" a lot more than I'm going to love, say, "Face Pollution". It's all subjective.
My ranking:
Superunknown
Down on the Upside
Screaming Life
Louder Than Love
Ultramega OK
Badmotorfinger
King Animal
