Superunknown

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Superunknown
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Artist: Soundgarden
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-03-08
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
  1. Let Me Drown
  2. My Wave
  3. Fell on Black Days
  4. Mailman
  5. Superunknown
  6. Head Down
  7. Black Hole Sun
  8. Spoonman
  9. Limo Wreck
  10. Day I Tried to Live
  11. Kickstand
  12. Fresh Tendrils
  13. 4th of July
  14. Half
  15. Like Suicide

Music reviews of Superunknown

Music Review: Full Circle to the Superunknown
Rating: 5 Stars

Almost six years after releasing their debut album, Ultramega OK, the band had come full circle back to the punkish fusion of 70's classic rock and 60's pschedelic rock merged together seamlessly. But it seems that the band has picked up many tricks while going around the bend as well as a new bassist. Also it would seem that the murky, sludgy, and buzzing sound of Ultramega OK has become refined and sharpened to create a smooth, but dark guitar sound. When you look at both albums from a certain perspective, it would seem that Ultramega OK and Superunknown are not that different. Both have a single track that has vocals sung by the bassist ("Circle of Power" in Ultramega OK and "Half" in Superunknown) but the former has horrendous vocals that remind me of William Hung. The band seems to have returned to the psychedelia that topped off their debut album, although it could be said that in the psychedelia department the group had focused on The Beatles psychedelia rather than The Butthole Surfers. The main difference is that back in 1988, the band was young, inexperienced and they enjoyed goofing off. But this album is on the dark side of the moon compared to Ultramega Ok. Everything that was goofy and unfocused in the first album is now serious, dark, depressing, and completely focused. Tracks like "Let Me Drown", "My Wave", "Superunknown" have a kind of upbeat tempo that would seem uncharacteristic in this album but the lyrical content would say other wise. The best and most memorable tracks of this album and Soundgarden's entire catelog are "Black Hole Sun", "Spoonman", and "Fell on Black Days". But there are some of Soundgarden's better songs that are worth getting this album for. These include "My Wave", "The Day I Tried To Live", "Head Down", and "4th of July". Tracks like "Mailman", "4th of July", and "Like Suicide" have a slow grinding groove that reminds me of Louder Than Love, but they have that pschedelic blend that goes so well. The overall album is the band at their peak. Even if you arent a Soundgarden fan, but want to hear something that sounds like a blend of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and a bit of The Beatles then this album is for you. It doesn't get any better than this.

Description of Superunknown

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
"Fell on Black Days," indeed. Seattle sludge slingers Soundgarden made a living out of cathartic, woe-is-me wailing (we're talking the banshee vocals of Chris Cornell and the crypt-creaking guitar of Kim Thayil), but this wallowing in grim depression ironically proved to be the band's most uplifting career effort. When the reclusive Cornell ventures out of his shy-guy shell, it's typically via a primal scream of cathartic emotion--he might camp it up with a sophomoric "Spoon Man," but most of this vicious disc leaps straight for your jugular. Generations in the post-millennial future will one day refer to this record to discover exactly how 1990s rock & roll was done. --Tom Lanham

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