Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

[VinylGuy]

Its out of print?

[Rangi Guy]

There's still vinyl copies floating around in a few stores here, but I just can't really bring myself to drop $300 on it

[Birds in Hell]

What's the deal with the Echo of Miles boxset (on CD)?

I still haven't picked it up but it seems it's unavailable anywhere online (except for inflated prices). Did it really go out of print that quickly?

I think they only pressed so many copies and used that as an excuse to charge really high prices. The 3 CD set was going for $60 on their website when they released it. This is why I didn't buy it. I wish I had, but I figured the price would come down.

I was wrong.

Me too in that case! Bummer.

[matt reeder]

What's the deal with the Echo of Miles boxset (on CD)?

I still haven't picked it up but it seems it's unavailable anywhere online (except for inflated prices). Did it really go out of print that quickly?

I think they only pressed so many copies and used that as an excuse to charge really high prices. The 3 CD set was going for $60 on their website when they released it. This is why I didn't buy it. I wish I had, but I figured the price would come down.

I was wrong.

Me too in that case! Bummer.

For reference, Yo La Tengo's 3 CD best-of/rarities compilation sells for under $20 on Matador's website. Loath as I am to admit it, it's pretty clear Soundgarden (like so many other artists) is trying to milk as much money as possible out of their reunion. I know that's the way things work, but it's still a big bummer for me.

[zeb]

I think that boxset was filed under the Clothe and House Ben Shepherd fund wasn't it?

[matt reeder]

I think that boxset was filed under the Clothe and House Ben Shepherd fund wasn't it?

I assumed that was why they toured without Matt Cameron last summer, something for which I might never forgive. Opening for NIN with a different drummer? There's absolutely no way that wasn't about making loads and loads of filthy lucre.

[zeb]

Chris and Matt may continue to live comfortably but the other half of the band could quite realistically be much worse off. And in that context I can't really blame them, especially if their decisions don't harm their artistic direction. I can live with a $$$ tour every so often, that's for sure.

[lecherouslittlestump]

What's the deal with this Cornell solo album? It's supposed to be coming out next month and we haven't even had a single yet.

[Kevin Davis]

What's the deal with the Echo of Miles boxset (on CD)?

I still haven't picked it up but it seems it's unavailable anywhere online (except for inflated prices). Did it really go out of print that quickly?

I think they only pressed so many copies and used that as an excuse to charge really high prices. The 3 CD set was going for $60 on their website when they released it. This is why I didn't buy it. I wish I had, but I figured the price would come down.

I was wrong.

Me too in that case! Bummer.

Still looking?
http://m.ebay.com/itm/SOUNDGARDEN-ECHO- ... nav=SEARCH

If you don't mind ordering from Poland...

[Rangi Guy]

What's the deal with this Cornell solo album? It's supposed to be coming out next month and we haven't even had a single yet.

Can here a 30 second clip of the first single here. Apparently the full track is on Beats or something. What I heard seemed pretty cool - looking forward to hearing the rest
http://www.supraphonline.cz/album/10773 ... Id=1332575

[zeb]

Chris Cornell discussed Soundgarden’s 1997 break up, what he learned from it, and the current status of the band in a new interview with Zane Lowe’s on Beats 1, as transcribed by Alternative Nation.

Lowe asked Cornell if it feels like there’s an open door when it comes to Soundgarden, and if they can come back whenever they want, and if they’ve already crossed that bridge.

“Yeah, we’re already doing that. I guess this is where I started with this conversation was the fact that I can do an album like Higher Truth, and these acoustic tours to support it, and the songwriting that is on it. There’s no confusion between that, and what we do in Soundgarden, and how I write with those guys, or by myself for Soundgarden, there’s no confusion between the two. You can be a fan of one and not the other, or the other and not the one, or both, and it’s OK.”

“Mostly good things came out of the hiatus, but I did learn a lesson, which is there is no need to make the statement of broken up.”

He added, “There’s no point in it. The thing about a solo career, and solo album, ongoing solo projects, is that can’t break up.”

Cornell also discussed the ups and downs of Soundgarden’s live show. “There’s an element to Soundgarden that I maybe didn’t even really understand until we had 12 years off and got back together, it was like the first day in a rehearsal room, suddenly I remembered, that there was this sort of swirling chaotic quality that ends up just starting to happen in the room. It reminded me of shows in the past where if there was too much of it, it was bad, and if there wasn’t any of it, that was even worse, really. Because then all of a sudden it is just sort of these clean rock songs, and there’s nothing special. Then live, we sort of push it even further, where I won’t start singing when I’m supposed to, then the rest of the band takes that as a cue to sort of go off and do whatever, and then we all kind of don’t really worry about how it comes back. When you do that in front of people, when you are completely lost in front of an audience, and they see that, and they see you kind of come back, they are sort of part of it.

[Rangi Guy]

Nice to see Matt on Guitar

[VinylGuy]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[LetMeSleep]

I'd love to rummage through those snares. Those Keplinger ones on SUK are tasty.

[Birds in Hell]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The prospect of a new Soundgarden record in 2016 is absolutely delicious.

[VinylGuy]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The prospect of a new Soundgarden record in 2016 is absolutely delicious.

Yeah, those guys belong together.

[VinylGuy]

Listening to king animal for the first time in a long time.
i really enjoy it. Strong album.

[Norah]

I have to take my statement back, actually -- seeing Band of Horses open for PJ a few years ago definitely made me a fan of them. I also fell head over heels for Joanna Newsom after seeing her open for Will Oldham in 2004, but it ended up being a one-album fling.

I had never heard of The Mynabirds when I saw them open for Bright Eyes.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

"Kristi" totally lived up to the expectations.

[Birds in Hell]

Yeah, it's incredible they sat on that recording at the time.