Bidding for a popular breakthrough with their second major-label album, Soundgarden suddenly developed a sense of craft, with the result that Badmotorfinger became far and away their most fully realized album to that point. Pretty much everything about Badmotorfinger is a step up from its predecessors -- the production is sharper and the music more ambitious, while the songwriting takes a quantum leap in focus and consistency. In so doing, the band abolishes the murky meandering that had often plagued them in the past, turning in a lean, muscular set that signaled their arrival in ock's big leagues. Conventional wisdom has it that despite platinum sales, Badmotorfinger got lost amid the blockbuster success of Nevermind and Ten (all were released around the same time). But the fact is that, though they're all great records, Badmotorfinger is much less accessible by comparison. Not that it isn't melodic, but it also sounds twisted and gnarled, full of dissonant riffing, impossible time signatures, howling textural solos, and weird, droning tonalities. It's surprisingly cerebral and arty music for a band courting mainstream metal audiences, but it attacks with scientific precision. Part of that is due to the presence of new bassist Ben Shepherd, who gives the band its thickest rhythmic foundation yet -- and, moreover, immediately shoulders the departed Hiro Yamamoto's share of songwriting duties. But it's apparent that the whole band has greatly expanded the scope of its ambitions. And Badmotorfinger fulfills them, pulling all the different threads of the band's sound together into a mature, confident, well-written record. This is heavy, challenging hard rock full of intellectual sensibility and complex band interplay. And with their next album, Soundgarden would learn how to make it fully accessible to mainstream audiences as well.
Nick Licata and the rest of the Seattle City Council are making pedestrian safety a top priority. He says he's consulted with the city's ethics commission and follows its directions for keeping city and family concerns separate(Josef Robinson was injured three years ago.)Seattle City Council President Nick Licata, whose stepson was seriously injured on a city street, wants Seattle to become a ...
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...'cause it's the middle of the day, kid...if you're feelin' a little "Minnesota" right about now...pump your fist to this:...and I'll top that off with a litte "A/C" video which holds one of the baddest vocal taglines for the last song on dark-assed LP: "Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?"...that's still hot, yo......two of my favorite albums to this day....
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I am figuring Los Angeles out more and more e everyday...such a unique town, this city of angels.I have noticed that most of the pharmacies here close at 5 or so...but I have seen MULTIPLE car washes that are open 24hrs a day here...remember, in Hollywood it's now how you feel, but how you look!
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If your daughter's Barbie doll has been scalped or beheaded and you know her brothers are not to blame this time do not be alarmed. It turns out that when girls outgrow their Barbie dolls, torturing them is commonplace.That's the peculiar conclusion researchers at Great Britain's University of Bath reached after questioning approximately 100 children about their attitudes to a range of products...
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Nick Licata and the rest of the Seattle City Council are making pedestrian safety a top priority. He says he's consulted with the city's ethics commission and follows its directions for keeping city and family concerns separate(Josef Robinson was injured three years ago.)Seattle City Council President Nick Licata, whose stepson was seriously injured on a city street, wants Seattle to become a ...
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By Lee Romney and Scott Gold, Times Staff Writers4:44 PM PDT, March 21, 2007 Inside Atascadero State HospitalTwo Atascadero State Hospital patients have killed themselves and four others have attempted suicide since early February--an alarming spike in such incidents at the Central Coast psychiatric facility that comes as it is rapidly losing key staff to more lucrative jobs in the prison syste...
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*BOW TO THE MOG GOD*the electric church of rock-n-roll wants to rock your soul
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Outshined used to be the hardest song for me to sing of any that I cover with my band, "chaingarden":http://www.chaingarden.com. I am happy to say that it is no longer the hardest, because now we are covering Show Me How To Live by Audioslave. Gotta hand it to Chris Cornell, he keeps setting that bar higher and higher...
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| 2 Outshined |
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| 3 Slaves & Bulldozers |
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| 4 Jesus Christ Pose |
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| 5 Face Pollution |
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| 6 Somewhere |
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| 7 Searching with My Good Eye Closed |
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| 8 Room a Thousand Years Wide |
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| 10 Drawing Flies |
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| 11 Holy Water |
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| 12 New Damage |
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