Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

[joostone]

https://blabbermouth.net/news/truly-fea ... m-and-tour

[zeb]

I kinda think SG only have 2 albums worth listening to. SU and DOTU of course.

C'mon.

[Kalevi]

Although some are better than others the only 4 SG albums I've heard are all good. BMF thru KA

[Ello Sailor]

The production is too shitty pre-BMF. The songs are fine, obviously.

[fyfe79]

The production is too shitty pre-BMF. The songs are fine, obviously.

Have you heard the 2017 Jack Endino remix of 'Ultramega OK'? The original 1988 release was a tough listen due to the lifeless production but the re-release effectively gave it new life. Definitely worth a listen.

1989's 'Louder Than Love', imo, has some of their best material on it. I would agree though that this could definitely do with a freshening up. It's the only album, along with 1996's 'Down on the Upside', which has yet to get the "deluxe reissue" treatment.

[VinylGuy]

I love all their albums and their respective productions. Yes, both SU and DOTU are the big swing in terms of sound and songwriting but the overall menacing post punk feel of Louder Than Love is untouchable for me.

Kinda like Ten, were maybe there was a moment when it felt dated and then for me right now its just unbeatable. Or Jane´s Nothing Shocking.

[joostone]

[96583UP]

thanks for posting!

Love Kim could listen to him all day

wish the interviewer asked less about music 'labeling' / 'terms' though ... these guys usually dgaf about the 'names' of genres

[wease]

Great interview. Kim’s a G’n’R fan.

[coptheriotact]

Growing up I never listened to pre-badmotorfinger stuff, but now I actually think louder than love and a few songs off screaming life have my favourite production/mixes of all their songs

Especially ugly truth and nothing to say

[VinylGuy]

agreed 100%.

I would include Hunted Down, Flower, Hands All Over and many other stuff.

Those early albums are great.

[Self]

fuckin uncovered dude

[fyfe79]

Growing up I never listened to pre-badmotorfinger stuff, but now I actually think louder than love and a few songs off screaming life have my favourite production/mixes of all their songs

Especially ugly truth and nothing to say

There are some great songs on those early albums, although some live versions from later years eclipse them.

Nothing to Say - love the "Screaming Life" version but the live version on "Live on I5" from 1996 is actually better (if you ignore the canned crowd noise added in post-production).

Beyond the Wheel - the live version from 1993 on the BHS single is the best version out there.

Flower, Hands All Over & Gun - there's a pro-shot video from Germany in 1990 with these tracks as the opening 3 songs of the set. They're incredible.

From the albums themselves, can't go wrong with these;
All Your Lies, Mood for Trouble, Circle of Power, Ugly Truth, I Awake, Loud Love etc. Toy Box is a great b-side too, was on the Flower single.

[VinylGuy]

I love the Nothing To Say live version from I5. Its fucking menacing and Cornell sounds like a wolf about to eat a prey. He even barks at the end. Its incredible.

[fyfe79]

Exactly. The band sounds heavy as fuck and Chris' vocals are phenomenal. His vocals were kinda shot throughout 1996, it was probably the first time his vocal quality came into question, but he was on fire that night on 'Nothing to Say'... plenty to say, it would seem!

[Leatherhead]

Alright, alright, alright.... I'll dive deeper.

[zeb]

Soundgarden taught me how to play guitar. The way I play guitar now - the open tunings, etc. - I have to give almost 100% credit to Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. I had a buddy of mine give me one of those thick Soundgarden tab books as a kid because it was just way too advanced for him. It was this old book he had lying around. That’s really how I learned guitar.

They had a real synergy of sounds that created something truly unique. It was like this underworld. Cornell was such an underrated guitar player, not just in terms of the parts he played, but also the fact that he had so many different tunings and was able to remember all those chords in those tunings and sing all those lyrics.

A lot of people just sit around and plug away on a G chord and that gets them through. There’s nothing wrong with that, but he was doing something really special, and I don’t just mean with his voice. And he was writing these enigmatic songs. ‘Limo Wreck’ and ‘Fourth of July’ are two of my favorite songs, speaking of that harmonic, perfect... I guess what you’d call synergistic dissonance happening at the same time. It was so trippy and so heavy, but so enjoyable.

I think they were real sonic visionaries, and I don’t think they quite got appreciated for that aspect. The guitar stuff they were doing, that would be fresh as hell right now. If you had some 16-year-old kids playing like that in their garage, people would lose their minds.

https://holler.country/feature/intervie ... t-made-me/

[96583UP]

awesome

and can’t wait for the new album

[Stickman]

[armogi]

Anyone here ever received the last ben shepherd star chief release? How is it?
Seems like it’s impossible to buy/listen anywhere