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Date Posted: 11:39:32 04/14/06 Fri
Author: light
Subject: Re: Down on the Upside
In reply to: lakemnitz 's message, "Down on the Upside" on 10:13:54 04/13/06 Thu

"Throw away your Led Zepplin albums cuz Soundgarden is here."
and then "... Well throw away your Soundgarden records cause Kingdom Come (?) is here!"

~~between Flower and Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Seattle 9/5/88

Love that concert. Fopp sung as "Suck My Cock" is a highlight on that one.

But anyway, it's so cool you brought up the album Lake, and also Rob saying he'd choose it as his desert island SG. I've been on a big kick of playing it this week and I was thinking the same thing.

For years, I usually listened to SG in concert form, or my own mixed faves cds, so hearing the album whole sounded so fresh. At times it totally brought me back to '96 when I was in the phase of playing it constantly. Some songs will always be connected to other things though, from repeat playing in specific circumstances. I have literally played Pretty Noose, in studio and concert form, over a thousand times in the last decade, and I'm always still thrilled by the opening notes (and the whole song) every time it comes on. Blow up the Outside World too. Tighter, Boot Camp, even Ty Cobb will always be amongst my favorite songs too-- just beautiful in their own ways.

I still could say SU is the 'better' album, in terms of consistency, cohesion and majesty, (I love how it pulls your whole being into its depths-- it's the album that made me love Soundgarden), and BMF's over all rock energy might be more powerful, but DOTU has the songs that I feel are always personally relevant, expressing the bitter and the sweet of so many complex moods.

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[> Re: Down on the Upside -- 23, 15:14:15 04/14/06 Fri [1]

Superunknown may have been my favorite for quite some time, but I find myself playing DOTU much more often. It really feels like it was ahead of its time. The songs on there feel much more musically advanced (if that even makes sense) than really anything else I'm hearing today. And for some reason, they sound even better to me now than they did back in 1997. It's almost like somehow my ears weren't really ready to fully appreciate the album until they experienced everything else they've heard in the past 8-9 years to prep them for it.

Not a bad song on the whole album, lyrically or musically.

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