Superunknown was a breakthrough in many ways. Not only did the album bring Soundgarden a new audience, it dramatically expanded their vision, as well as their accomplishments. If Down on the Upside initially seems a retreat from the grand, layered textures of Superunknown, let it sink in. The sound of Down on the Upside is certainly more immediate, but the band hasn't returned to the monstrous, unfocused wailing of Louder Than Love. Instead, they've retained their ambitious song structures, /p>
eo-psychedelic guitar textures, and winding melodies but haven't dressed them up with detailed production. Consequently, Down on the Upside is visceral as well as cerebral -- "Rhinosaur" goes for the gut, while "Pretty Noose" is updated, muscular prog rock. Down on the Upside is a deceptive album -- it might seem like nothing more than heavy metal, but a closer listen reveals that Soundgarden haven't tempered their ambitions at all.
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Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92. Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-o...
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One of my favorite Soundgarden songs:
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This last album from the Gods doesn't get the love as the two that came before it, and I really can't understand why. It has lots of deep, sad, foreboding songs on it already knowing the time was short for the boys in the band, too bad we didn't see it then, and it has my favorite by them on it, too...
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At work the other day a fella who is twice my age told me how that when someone thinks they aren't a writer they should just start writing how they talk. It seemed to me he had some thing going on with what he was saying, and the thing he had going on reminded me of this story I once wrote when I was in a mood to tell a story, but not a mood to write a story. It is a true story, and it follow...
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| 1 Pretty Noose |
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| 2 Rhinosaur |
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| 3 Zero Chance |
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| 4 Dusty |
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| 5 Ty Cobb |
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| 6 Blow up the Outside World |
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| 7 Burden in My Hand |
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| 8 Never Named |
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| 9 Applebite |
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| 10 Never the Machine Forever |
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| 11 Tighter & Tighter |
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| 12 No Attention |
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| 13 Switch Opens |
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| 14 Overfloater |
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| 15 An Unkind |
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| 16 Boot Camp |
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