Signing to a major label, Soundgarden take a step toward the metal mainstream with Louder Than Love, a slow, grinding, detuned mountain of Sabbath/Zeppelin riffs and Chris Cornell wailing. The production is quite murky, as the rest of the band tries to poke its way through Kim Thayil's guitar squall. There are some essential Soundgarden items mixed in, among them the haunting "Hands All Over," the punky "Full on Kevin's Mom," and the stereotypically macho metal stupidity of "Big Dumb Sex," whose ironic intent is often misconstrued. It's certainly worthwhile to sift through Louder Than Love, but don't expect consistency.
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This realit...
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by Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, July 20, 2007 Email this article to a friend Print this article Syria's capital, Damascus lays claim to title of the oldest, continuously inhabited city on earth. It has absorbed strangers, or been conquered since time immemorial. From the Amorites, who settled from the Arabian Peninsular in 2000 BC., the Egyptians five hundred years later, then the Hitt...
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by Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, July 20, 2007 Email this article to a friend Print this article Syria's capital, Damascus lays claim to title of the oldest, continuously inhabited city on earth. It has absorbed strangers, or been conquered since time immemorial. From the Amorites, who settled from the Arabian Peninsular in 2000 BC., the Egyptians five hundred years later, then the Hitt...
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| 1 Ugly Truth |
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| 2 Hands All Over |
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| 3 Gun |
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| 4 Power Trip |
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| 5 Get on the Snake |
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| 6 Full on Kevin's Mom |
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| 7 Loud Love |
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| 8 I Awake |
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| 9 No Wrong, No Right |
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| 10 Uncovered |
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| 11 Big Dumb Sex |
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| 12 Full On (Reprise) |
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