Soundgarden: Superunknown poll

I think we've done this already. The answer is Head Down.

my gut says "Fell on Black Days" but going to blast this in my car before voting.

damn it we have done it, only searched "Soundgarden"

sorry about that.

Lots of great songs to choose from, but My Wave is the best. Song has such a great vibe to it.

my wave

First it steals your mind and then it steals your... your POLL: SUPERUNKNOWN

Man, I hope I voted for 4th of July. Also a huge fan of Like Suicide, great guitar solo.

no She Likes Surprises?

this album is pretty faultless actually but imma play wildcard and say 'head down'

no She Likes Surprises?

It wasn't on the US edition. But since I'm a European it counts for me (admittedly it is a bit jarring coming after Like Suicide, but it's good to have a rock-out to lift the mood after a song like that).

MAILMAN

imo hands down the best alt-rock blockbuster of the '90s...lotta songs to choose from but today I'm going with "Fresh Tendrils"

yeah any day of the week my answer would probably be totally different

matt cameron fucking owns this record too. one of the greatest, that dude.

ah MAN i have to choose between head down and limo wreck AGAIN christ guys

AND the day i tried to live, fuck

"arguably, their best album?"

isnt that Badmotherfinger?

badmotorfinger is very good imo but this is that album in 3-D

ljagz v much OTM here ^^^^^

nothing as heavy as jesus christ pose or moving as mind riot, but this is SG's blockbuster record

and also more accessible, not always in a good way.

xxpost

would still place badmotorfinger above this one, tbh. heavier, dirtier, less streamlined.

y'know i thought so when it came out but now i think, of all those major label grunge albums, superunknown did 'becoming more accessible' with more grace and invention than any of their peers

like suicide might be as moving as mind riot in its own heroically cheesy way, and limo wreck is...wrought in the best possible way

fourth of july is as heavy as jesus christ pose btw, although maybe not as heavy as slaves and bulldozers ;)

lovelovelove all the heaviosity on superunknown louis, but jesusXpose seriously scared the living shit out of me when i bought the etched 12" at age sixteen (my first SG purchase) and can still give me the willies now more than any SG other than perhaps 'far beyond the wheel'

it has a skeletal psych skronk spook that still chills

JCP is monstrous, yeah. For some reason 'Somewhere' was always my favourite on that album but sense has struck since and Mind Riot, JCP and SAB stand above all. 'Somewhere' is still one of their better pop tracks, although 'Pretty Noose' of course wins that particular battle with ease.

This record blew my mind when it came out. The Day I Tried To Live has always been my favorite.

Down On The Upside is a good record too, although one of the most blatant examples of a CD being too damn long. There's an excellent 45 minute record in there.

'somewhere' is crazy - yeah its one of the poppiest songs on the album, but its also crazy prog, has weird time-signatures, tempo-changes, bizarro structures, false-ending, etc... i'd love to think their forthcoming reunion might deliver another great soundgarden album, though chris's work since suggests not, and in truth i really don't want matt leaving pearl jam.

haha I just put Somewhere on for the first time in maybe years and it rocked ass, still would smash those other 3 tracks just ahead of it. Chris was never the main songwriter, was he? Wasn't it Kim?

Cornell wrote most of the band's lyrics and probably about half of the music, but they were a pretty collaborative band overall, everyone got writing credits here and there

i think they all took whacks at songwriting... isn't 'heads down' by ben shepherd? i always think matt's songs for pearl jam have a particularly soundgarden-esque payfulness when it comes to his choice of chords. xpost

Originally it was Cornell and Hiro Yamamoto. When Hiro left to form Truly when Soundgarden "sold out" in 1990 (signed to A&M, opened for Guns N Roses), Cornell took over.

yeah Shepherd wrote all of "Somewhere," "Head Down," "Half," and "An Unkind," really dug his tunes

it should be noted that their version of 'into the void' absolutely shreds

yeah, Ben Shepherd had a higher awesome-song ratio than most songwriters ever ;)

eh if you actually look at the credits on the early records, there's 20 Cornell songwriting credits, 10 Yamamato credits, and 11 Thayil (xpost)

you should check out hater, ben and matt's side-project... weird garage-pop thing.

I'm gonna be lonely repping for Kickstand, but I've used it on so many mixtapes over the years—perfect length, great riff, dumb lyrics but whattaya gonna do?

when Soundgarden "sold out" in 1990

I was under the impression that they'd signed with A&M even before their debut came out on SST in 1988.

iirc this album released on the same day as The Downward Spiral. I went up to the record store with a few friends to buy them both, and we had this ongoing argument for the next year about which album was better. I chose Downward Spiral at the time, and was so annoyed by the debate that I never really got into this. In retrospect this album was better, even with Black Hole Sun and Spoonman. The Day I Tried to Live should have been the huge hit off this imo.

I voted for Limo Wreck.

I remember buying this and Downward Spiral on the same day too, now you mention it. I think I'd come down on the side of TDS over this (definitely would've back in the day), though they're not really that comparable.

4th of July, Head Down, Mailman, The Day I Tried to Live, Limo Wreck = 5 way tie for first-place.

j/k...4th of July will always reign supreme ;)

actually, looking now I think I posted exactly the same thing on the previous Superunknown poll thread...

recycling small-talk is surely a sign of mental illness, right?

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way less love for "Black Hole Sun" than last time is almost enough to justify this thread's existence

ppl not be lovin' 7-minute epic guitar ballads - they r unsophisticated and stupid obv - shame, because like suicide is massively awesome

forgot to vote, still stuck between HD, TDITTL and LW