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Soundgarden - Down On the Upside

HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
edited October 2015 in Music Talk


We're a few months short of 10 years since Soundgarden's final album was released. I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius. When it came out, I actually steered clear of it as I did Superunknown. As a big fan of older Soundgarden material, I was on the rock equivalent of some backbacker ish and didn't feel like I could deal with hearing one of my favorite bands brush up so close to the expexctations of jock-rock carpetbaggeurs. Anyway a few years back I picked up a copy of Down on the Upside and I was immediately affected by it. Burden in My Hand especially...that songs reaches me on such a deep psychological level. But that's hardly it...the album is jam-packed with incredible songs. Chris Cornell for me is my generation's John Lennon...the one guy who can poetically cut right to the heart of any matter, with confrontational/escapist screams and all. Now, what say you?
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  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    i think its a good listen. some good songwriting.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?
  • drewnicedrewnice 5,465 Posts


    Picked up a cassette of this, along with Helmet's "Meantime", in 5th grade at the mall (damn, I talked about the mall twice today) the weekend before my class went to Space Camp in Alabama - this album still can't be faded.

  • Terry_ClubbupTerry_Clubbup 833 Posts




    They didn't realized that a musical genius of the current times at the niveau of Elvis Presley or John Lennon passed.




    Seriously, I will check for it. Superunknown was my schitt.
    Same people that dismissed Superunknown in the 90s are the ones
    dismissing Laffy Taffy today.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?

    So I like strong doses of Soundgarden and Black Sabbath to go along with my Spice 1 and JT tha Bigga Figga.

    But what do you think of Blow Up the Outside World?
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?

    At all times. With the top down. Even in the dead of winter.



    Or else face accusations of not being real.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?

    At all times. With the top down. Even in the dead of winter.



    Or else face accusations of not being real.

    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?

    So I like strong doses of Soundgarden and Black Sabbath to go along with my Spice 1 and JT tha Bigga Figga.

    But what do you think of Blow Up the Outside World?

    Hey man, Black Sabbath would be one of the top 5 Jeep Music artists in my private mindgarden. Never really got into Soundgarden too much, though I acknowledge Chris Cornell's (and Kim Thayall for that matter) talent.
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    I liked Soundgarden's records a lot at the time, and still do.

    Still, they were probably one of the worst live bands to ever grace a stage.
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
    I've been listening to it on cassette in my Jeep lately and damned if it isn't genius.

    jeep music: soundgarden

    club bangers: ngafsh

    Hmmm....

    Surely one who owns a Jeep as their primary source of gettin' around isn't required to bump "jeep music" (whatever that may be) at all times?

    At all times. With the top down. Even in the dead of winter.



    Or else face accusations of not being real.

    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    Now that's plain wrong.




















    I'm sure it's a Sidekick.

    Jes' playin RG.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts

    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    98 Jeep Cherokee.

    Would you like to know what kind of boxers I'm wearing as well?
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts




    They didn't realized that a musical genius of the current times at the niveau of Elvis Presley or John Lennon passed.




    Seriously, I will check for it. Superunknown was my schitt.
    Same people that dismissed Superunknown in the 90s are the ones
    dismissing Laffy Taffy today.

    NNNNooooo, I dismissed Soundgarden then and I enjoyed Laffy Taffy for what it is.

    I do like "Black Hole Sun", though. I just can't get with the Soundgarden sound, it's a tad too calculated for my taste in Rock.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I liked Soundgarden's records a lot at the time, and still do.

    Still, they were probably one of the worst live bands to ever grace a stage.

    I saw them on the Louder Than Love tour at the Back Room in Austin and then on the Badmotorfinger tour at the Coliseum in Austin...both shows were incredibly good.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts



    My favorite Soundgarden album.

    Looking back on it, Mind Riot is kinda prophetic towards 9/11 if you ask me:

    I was slipping through the cracks
    Of a stolen jewel
    I was tightrope
    Walking in two ton shoes
    Now somebody is talking about a
    Third world war
    And the police said this was normal control
    And the candle was burning yesterday
    Like somebody's best friend died
    And I've been caught in a mind riot
    I was crying from my eye teeth and
    Bleeding from my soul
    And I sharpened my wits on a dead man's skull
    I built an elevator from his bones
    Had to climb to the top floor just
    To stamp out the coals
    And the candle was burning yesterday
    Like somebody's best friend died
    And I've been caught in a mind riot
    I'm tied within
    I'm luck's last match struck
    In the pouring down wind
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    I saw them on the Louder Than Love tour at the Back Room in Austin


    Hey, I was at that show! I saw them two days before in Houston, too.

    But sadly, I know nothing of the album you posted about. Perhaps someone will up it to Real Headz?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I saw them on the Louder Than Love tour at the Back Room in Austin


    Hey, I was at that show!

    That was the same night that Buster Douglas KO'ed Mike Tyson.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    98 Jeep Cherokee.

    Would you like to know what kind of boxers I'm wearing as well?

    Joints with little Aceyalones printed all over them?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts

    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    98 Jeep Cherokee.

    Would you like to know what kind of boxers I'm wearing as well?

    Joints with little Aceyalones printed all over them?

    You read my butt.
  • the3rdstreamthe3rdstream 1,980 Posts


    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    thanx faux for giving me my only laugh of the day!
  • Terry_ClubbupTerry_Clubbup 833 Posts

    Local Black Hole Sun Experience
  • PrimeCutsLtdPrimeCutsLtd jersey fresh 2,632 Posts
    rusty cage is incredible!

    "raining icepicks on your steel shore"

  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    this thread is "wow"
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    this thread is "wow"

    You didn't know?

    Inside the realest of SoulStrut headz, there lurks a stringy haired air guitar player...
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    this thread is "wow"



    Anti-Rockist!
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    a Samurai Suzuki


  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    are we on the fringe of mourning the break-up of "temple of the dog" as well?
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
    this thread is "wow"

    You didn't know?

    Inside the realest of SoulStrut headz, there lurks a stringy haired air guitar player an open-minded music fan....

  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    are we on the fringe of mourning the break-up of "temple of the dog" as well?

    Real headz like Ross refer to it simply as "T.O.D."
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    Also, who thinks that "jeep" as used in this thread = Suzuki Samurai?

    a Samurai Suzuki




    I believe the actual lyric, as clarified by The Rap Bandit, is little son Maliky.
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