Red Mosquito

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.

Must be a Central IL thing.

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

What's the deal with She Likes Surprises being on the disc. I'm pretty sure that it is on my Superunknown cd. Or is that an Australian release thing only?

Yep, an Australian bonus cut. The album actually ends on Like Suicide.

That 1st SU show ended abruptly for me. I was expecting SLS.

I've always heard a Kiss influence in She Likes Surprises. Very Ace Frehley.

Agree that BMF is in desperate need of a PROPER remix/remaster when they eventually reissue. Searching is one of my all-time favorite songs live but yeah it sounds almost lifeless on the album (from a production standpoint). The Hype version of Searching...I mean damn. BMF ranks in the top 3 SG albums for me.

zeb wrote:Yep, an Australian bonus cut. The album actually ends on Like Suicide.

But my vinyl of Superunknown has She Likes Surprises on it too....

It always irritated me that Australia was lumped with She Likes Surprises on our edition of Superunknown. I like albums to be their own contained piece, bonus tracks tacked on the end ruin that to an extent. I ended up buying a US-printed edition of the album just so it would end on Like Suicide as it should.

Yeah the local version had she likes surprises too but as a kid i had the us one; so like suicide was always my last song.

Which might be their finest song actually.

Up until today I didn't realise that She Likes Surprises shouldn't be there, so it's never bothered me.

Man kristi is fucking good.
cant believe matt is the same guy who sats behind future days.

VinylGuy wrote:Man kristi is fucking good.
cant believe matt is the same guy who sats behind future days.

I can't believe they forced Matt to sit behind the kit for the recording of Future Days even though there's no drums on the song.

Listen to that snare sound. Awesome.

I've fallen in love with Kristi. Can't believe it has gone unreleased for so long...shame on them.

I still can't determine how Karaoke is more of an oddity than Exit Stonehenge.

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

source?

zeb wrote:I still can't determine how Karaoke is more of an oddity than Exit Stonehenge.

"Karaoke" is a top 5 Soundgarden song for me.

I don't like Karaoke very much, I have to admit.

There was some interview with Ben about toning the song down to make it family-friendly.

I only just noticed that Blind Dogs is a near wholesale rip of Cinnamon Girl. Hilarious.