Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Tomcats Screaming Outside [Import]
Beethoven: Diabelli-Variations [Box set]
Buxtehude: Organ Works, Vol. 6
Music: Take Me to the Land of Jazz
Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings [Cast Recording]
Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28; Cantabile; Nocturnes; Contredanse
Blam [Explicit Lyrics] [Import]
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"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 --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Album Description
European pressing of the 1994 album. Soundgarden's finest hour, Superunknown is a sprawling, 70-minute magnum opus that pushes beyond any previous boundaries. Soundgarden had always loved replicating Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath riffs, but Superunknown's debt is more to mid-period Zep's layered arrangements and sweeping epics. Their earlier punk influences are rarely detectable, replaced by surprisingly effective appropriations of pop and psychedelia. This pressing features the bonus track 'She Likes Surprises'. Sony. 2005. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.