bonding over music… (FIRST REACTION to Soundgarden - Superunknown)

[@theeJAYBUDshow]

Thanks to our friend Marlin for coming on! I think we changed his destiny for music after listening to this together.

[@_portis]

Marlin blended in really well ! As good as I could have hoped. Hard to enter in like that but did ace.

[@MBKiller5000]

Thanks for having me on!

[@mizzwinter28]

I fkn LOVE seeing young ones discover my favorite music 🎶🎶🎶🤘🤘🤘

[@metaphoria3]

Fun hangin w you guys Marlin the Wizard was a dope edition y’all should checkout our feat vid finally bout to drop the album got a few others were recording still a big scene here in Seattle🌲🤘

[@johncampbell756]

Bleach was 1989 and recorded on almost no budget. This album is phenomenal. Chris was my favorite singer. He also sang for Audioslave with the musicians from Rage Against the Machine. Check Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog (1991) to hear what Chris can do vocally. 😊The album is great. Pearl Jam was being created while the album was being made. 8:03 Drummer Matt Cameron is also in Pearl Jam, the last of the grunge kings. Ten (1991) is their masterpiece. The odd sound at the end of My Wave was the bass. The previous album Badmotorfinger (1992) is also mandatory. Dave Grohl (Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters singer) said about Black Hole Sun that the critics said Nirvana was punk meets The Beatles. Dave and Nirvana got to hear this album before it was released while recording In Utero. They were absolutely blown away. Dave said Black Hole Sun was grunge meets the Beatles more so than anything Nirvana ever did. A demo of spoonman can be heard in the film Singles (1992) which was set in Seattle. Soundgarden and Alice in Chains perform.in it. Chris appears. Pearl Jam act. Chris wrote music for the score. Very good sort of Rom com.

[@OfficialProdNado]

Excited as hell for Jar of Flies

[@jamesduncan-gv6wm]

yesss me to nutshell is a very sad but good song!

[@idrinkdiesel8451]

I'd cream

[@mikeharron1079]

Jar of Flies is next level!

[@ShininDays]

We need badmotorfinger it has in my opinion some of the hardest heaviest vocals in grunge

[@TerribleEnglish]

Yep, although they've already done AiC - Dirt, which is basically the same album, lol

[@Musicforsure_]

i don't necessarily agree AIC and SG have two different styles and sounds both awesome but both really essential to hear on their own

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

Unsurprisingly, I'll second that!

[@blackcrow4218]

​@@TerribleEnglish Dude so AIC was inspired by Soundgarden then cose they were first . If you are Deaf then you didn't see difference and I'm sorry for that , different sounds, voices both great albums but totally different.

[@TerribleEnglish]

@@blackcrow4218 They're really similar albums. It's not meant as a diss to either band

[@thomsevilla4956]

Kim Thayil is such an underrated guitarist imo.....

[@Bunke09]

He's great. I met him in the crowed at a Rollins Band/Tool show when Tool was touring for Opiate in 92. It was a small 300 person size club in Seattle. Amazing show!

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

Undeniably #Unique It's interesting to watch what Pete Thorn & the other dude used to come up with to cover Kim's parts when they toured with Cornell in the 2000s, because *nobody* can just learn what Kim does!!

[@SPGhettus]

He comes up with one unique riff after another, truly one-of-a-kind

[@petrilampela]

@@SPGhettus I think Cornell wrote most of their guitar riffs though? But both of them are (were) unique and great. They often used odd time signatures that didn't feel clunky at all but had a groove and flow. Thayil's leads remind me of Vernon Reid a bit, chaotic but beautiful.

[@ndesdsadfd]

Kim is a god.

[@voidwraithprime8521]

Chris Cornell also sings on "Temple of the Dog", which may be the best album of the grunge era.

[@amberbite5812]

Yeah it’s probably the most emotional and the most heart and soul put into any grunge album. My personal favorite.

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

The Temple of the Dog album is well worth a listen thru.... & as a follow-on I'd recommend watching the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel for the Seattle scene. ;)

[@blackcrow4218]

And Audioslave

[@ajayjackson7089]

Temple of the Dog was a mix of most of the biggest Grunge bands. Audioslave was Chris plus Rage Against the Machine. It feels like Grunge artists just loved mixing and matching to make some amazing bands.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

You get it. Grunge is primal, magical, and emotional, but with zero self-importance.

[@cjmitch91]

@dudermcdudeface3674 That's the best description I've read for grunge. You get, brother. It just hits you different. I grew up with it and I always go back to it

[@ThePatchedVest]

Grunge is authenticity first, no pretentiousness.

[@tyronnemoosa4741]

@@dudermcdudeface3674 that is exactly what grunge is brother. It’s like having the friend you’ve always needed, that gets you fully. There aren’t many things that are as genuine as grunge… especially in this day and age

[@aidan673]

One thing not a lot of people mention is how brilliant a rhythm guitarist Cornell was. Dude was able to belt these insane vocal lines while playing odd time-signature riffs. blows my mind to this day

[@mattm86]

I would recommend Soundgarden's whole discography!

[@ethanhurd2652]

AUDIOSLAVE NEXT!! Listen to their self titled album. It’s Chris Cornell at the vocals, with the band members of rage against the machine. That album is absolutely phenomenal!!

[@fbad8167]

Maybe they should check RATM first if they haven't yet, and other great Soundgarden albums like Badmotofinger or Down On The Upside, then check Audioslave that it's like a perfect fusion of both bands.

[@burnttoaster431]

YES YES YES

[@BC08]

1st Audioslave album was a masterpiece

[@pedrov.8087]

if you didnt think it was "grungy" enough, listen to their previous album "badmotorfinger", way "dirtier" and aggresive. specially the track "slaves and bulldozers". still really good, though the first 5 songs on that album are my favorite sequence of songs in all of grunge

[@ninja_tony]

Definitely. Badmotorfinger is one of the best albums of the 90’s or grunge in general, hands down.

[@ThePatchedVest]

Yeah, Badmotorfinger is definitely more of that "metal grunge" they like from AIC than the "rock grunge" on this album.

[@markshaffer6447]

They should have started with Badmotorfinger

[@deckofcards87]

​@@ThePatchedVestI'd say Superunknown is more like heavy psychedelic, almost Led Zeppelin-ish, and Badmotorfinger is like a Sabbath album.

[@CoboProdz]

I told these boys that BMF was their “Dirt”. Hopefully they check it out

[@mightandlightvfx7157]

Their next album "down on the upside" is a masterpiece. Really heavy and soulfull stuff.

[@julianpottermusic]

A couple things about this album off the top of my head: - Spoonman is Artis the Spoonman, a street performer in Seattle, and the breakdown section is him playing spoons (there’s studio footage somewhere on KZbin) - Chris fried five mics while recording this album. With his voice. - 4th of July is about getting pulled over on an acid trip and thinking the lights are fireworks - Like Suicide is about a bird that flew into Chris’s window and broke its neck, and he had to put it out of its misery - Chris when asked about the meaning of Fell On Black Days: “"Fell on Black Days" was like this ongoing fear I've had for years...It's a feeling that everyone gets. You're happy with your life, everything's going well, things are exciting - when all of a sudden you realise you're unhappy in the extreme, to the point of being really, really scared. There's no particular event you can pin the feeling down to, it's just that you realise one day that everything in your life is fucked” Genuinely one of the greatest albums of all time. There will never be another like Chris

[@ShininDays]

did he fry 5 mics on this album or badmotorfinger ? cause if he managed to fry 5 mics on this one he probably destroyed 20 mics on badmotorfinger

[@PatriciaZaresh]

@@ShininDays It was in this one alone. Apparently, because they needed a very sensible type of mic to catch his whole range and texture of voice, the mics went nuts and broke, got fried. But I recall the producer also saying that his voice reverberated against the door at the studio sometimes. So... Yeah.

[@julianpottermusic]

@@ShininDays Just on Superunknown, I think they were u87s. Produce Like A Pro did an interview with Michael Beinhorn and he mentioned it

[@cyash7358]

Like Suicide was written after Chris Cornell was writing and a bird crashed into his window and paralyzed itself so chris put down the bird with a stone, it flew into the window just like suicide. My favorite closing track off of any album i’ve ever listened to

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

Nice to see folk saving me some typing! Agreed re favourite closing track btw. ;)

[@eggstu]

The acoustic version is amazing

[@user-rx9hr2ic2k]

@@badm0t0rf1nger I was just going to type this. Great song!

[@cactustactics]

It's really clever writing too, "she lived like a murder" sounds like it's describing someone who grabbed life by the throat, but once you know it's about a bird you get the "murder of crows" double meaning as well. (Honestly I liked the song a lot more once I knew what it was about, if you take it all literally it's a bit uhhh)

[@jmillz713]

​@@eggstuThe night Cobain died Chris closed SG's show with the acoustic version of Like Suicide. Backstage and at the hotel the band trashed everything and got dead drunk just to numb the pain.

[@landenmcmullen5215]

Ten next definitely

[@michaelromano1153]

He was actually sober for a decade or so when he died. He was on anxiety or depression meds which may have altered his mood/thoughts on that night it was out of left field and extremely unexpected for everyone

[@bobmaget5956]

Ativan can cause people to forget they've taken their previous dose and overdose. Same thing almost killed Matthew Good (lead singer of '90s Canadian alternative rock band) in the mid 2000s.

[@tyronnemoosa4741]

4th of July is, in my opinion, the greatest grunge song ever made

[@soundgardengods]

Agreed. My favorite song of all time. Soundgarden could fuckin doom

[@tyronnemoosa4741]

@@soundgardengods that song alone changed my whole taste in music. It shuffled on as I was doing work, when they got to the part where Cornell sings over himself with the words “Pale in the flare light, the scared light cracks and disappears” I stopped whatever I was doing, turned up the volume and said to myself WHAT THE F*** IS THIS. I’d never heard anything like it before. Since then I’ve been a huge soundgarden fan and grunge has become my favorite genre. But as much as I love other grunge bands, no one does it like soundgarden

[@tyronnemoosa4741]

It’s a huge shame the genre’s dying out

[@kx4tee]

​@@tyronnemoosa4741 right. and especially for some of us that never got to experience it in its prime :/

[@tyronnemoosa4741]

@@kx4tee 1000% brother.. can you imagine being in your twenties, in the early 90’s, living in Seattle. Having the chance to experience these 4 great bands redefine what a rockstar is, literally just bleeding their souls to the world… being able to experience them at live events… hearing albums like Dirt, Superunknown and Ten as they were released… and seeing how they influenced a whole generation of people. It really breaks my heart to see that there’s no one trying to reignite this beautiful genre, but It also makes me more appreciative for what these guys did throughout the 90’s, how many lives they saved just by being themselves and making music that you can tell is from the heart and not this pretentious b*llsh*t we’re getting today

[@brodybarlowe965]

Once you guys do Ten you 100% need to do Core by Stone Temple Pilots or of course Jar of Flies by AIC

[@SupernaturalPontiac]

Boys I gotta tell ya I'm a little cooked off an edible but when I close my eyes it's like I'm sitting on the back porch with my buddies just jamming and chilling and damn that's cool

[@reanimated]

I swear I had forgotten even Mailman slaps

[@bryanjacobsen5005]

Old dude here! Was luckier than s#@% to be at uni in Seattle when the grunge scene was growing. Was able to go see bands like Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Tad, Gruntruck, etc, etc on weeknights for $4-5 bucks. Absolutely one of the greatest music scenes of alltime. Chris Cornell was a god of vocals. Check out the likes of Slaves & Bulldozers, Jesus Christ Pose, or Beyond the Wheel if you want your mind completely blown.

[@cjmitch91]

Alive in the Superunknown 🎵 First it steals your mind, and then it steals your soul 🎵

[@ShininDays]

​​Superunknown iis like 6/7 on the heavy scale and Badmotorfinger is like an 11 both of them are great but they are super different

[@markshaffer6447]

Yeah, Badmotorfinger made them and this album was overproduced and made to appeal to chicks, a sharp drop off in my opinion

[@morehoops]

​@markshaffer6447 holy shit you're a burnout

[@DomDizzler5053]

@@markshaffer6447 overproduced my ass

[@PatriciaZaresh]

Mailman. Without spoiling much, is because he's going postal. And because he's going postal.. Mailman.

[@kloe8642]

You guys will absolutely LOVE Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder has incredible vocals.

[@Bunke09]

Spoonman was a streat performer(playing spoons as percussion instruments) in Seattle. He's in the official music video.

[@user-rx9hr2ic2k]

I moved visited Seattle in the early 1980's and move to Seattle area in 1985 and I remember seeing Spoonman down on the waterfront doing his act. Pretty cool they wrote a song and had him perform in the studio.

[@SPGhettus]

You did your listen on the 20th??? Seriously?!? The twentieth of July would have been Chris Cornell's 60th birthday. I kid you not.

[@YoAnge1221]

I’m obsessed with watching you guys take in the music of my childhood! I was born in ‘83 & my exposure to grunge in middle school was nothing short of life-molding, especially as a girl with a twin brother who had ALL the albums on CD & I would take them & play them & try to return them before he noticed 😅😂❤

[@elduderino4579]

To answer your questions guys, I’m 41 this year, born in 83. Grunge blew up all over tv and the radio when I was a kid. It’s my first real memories of music and it’s by far my favourite scene. Kids and teenagers thought grunge was just straight up badass! Lots of attitude and had their own rebellious look. I feel like they took what bands did in the 70s and went dirtier/heavier and made it their own. I remember as a teen in the late 90s going to house parties and all the dudes had long hair and grunge being cranked on the stereo and bong smoke being blown all over the place. The best memories 🤣🍻🤘

[@MusicSolplus]

We need Temple of the dog ! And Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger !

[@AprilLaRae]

I was 12 y/o in ‘92, on my way from Florida to England to live, dad was in the Air Force 🇺🇸 my uncle handed me 2 cassette tapes for my Walkman, Alice In Chains-Dirt and Stone Temple Pilots-Core to listen to on the plane ride. Changed my entire life. I didn’t discover Chris Cornell until I heard him and Layne on the song ‘Right Turn’ on AIC ‘Sap’ Ep. 🤘🏼 The next time I saw my uncle when I was back stateside in 2001 he played TOOL Lateralus for me, and I have “spiraled out” ever since!

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

Definitely some Seattle-ish weather for you here in the UK to match the music on those 2 cassettes! LOL (I know STP are from San Diego, but you wouldn't have guessed by listening to "Core"!) Sounds like an uncle with great taste tho tbh. :)

[@w4rm_]

I have your same age. Im a november 1980. I really have some cristal clear memories of what was tò listen album like this back in days. It still get with me and bring me joy.

[@koleratliff4527]

I'm glad to have a mother who listens to bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, and so many other great grunge bands.

[@cyash7358]

4th of July is literally a song about being fucked up on acid during 4th of july and Cornell thinking the world was ending 💀

[@Itz_Babbitz]

No the real story is that the 4 members of the band just wrote random thoughts and then they compiled it into a song. Chris had a bad prescription drugs addiction

[@lisajohnson521]

@@Itz_Babbitz Chris told the story of him being on acid and having a bad trip. He said that from his own mouth.

[@Vaping-AnxietyPT]

Soundgarden is up on top, every album is good but Badmotorfinger has a special place in my soul.

[@kathyedleman633]

Check out their album Badmotorfinger.❤

[@edoardostarace]

chris voice is something that really grows on you with time, he's so unique you have to like understand it first🤣

[@BC08]

Depends on what you listen to. Listen to Temple of the Dog or Euphoria Mourning and you realize this dude was like a Top 5 - 10 rock vocalist of all time. Some of the earlier, scream heavy stuff I agree but Chris Cornell’s discography is so diverse I can’t get on-board with your take

[@edoardostarace]

@@BC08 those albums are pure classic and that’s totally true, also just listening to beyond the wheel from 1990 at Düsseldorf is enough to tell how goated he is

[@lisajohnson521]

@@BC08 100 million percent agreed!

[@nickkleiber8636]

Pearl Jam Ten and STP core next up

[@XxxX_VRT]

Can’t do Layne, Kurt and Chris without listening to Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)

[@carsondixon2919]

Fax, ten is a must after this

[@phantomPayne14]

OR SCOTT WEILAND FROM STP

[@martinwhite3559]

This is a great Album. I am not sure which I like better, this or Badmotorfinger. Both masterpieces.

[@rangersbaseball2]

personally i gravitate more towards Badmotorfinger, a lot more raw and just full of unbridled energy

[@_portis]

Great that two albums are so great like those and hard to pick a fav

[@fbad8167]

After Badmotorfinger I hope they also check Down On The Upside, very underrated album.

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

Badmo is the energetic puppy who grew into his peak form as Superunknown, then mellowed slightly as Down on the Upside. ;)

[@markshaffer6447]

Badmotorfinger is a perfect album, this is 4 songs marketed to the chick-rocker market and the rest is album filler BS

[@MaddoxRossMusic]

A Reaction That’ll be Perfect for y’all… Temple of The Dog (Chris Cornell Side Project) & Mad Season (Layne Staley Side Project) arguably my Favorite Albums of the Two 🤘🏼😎

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

As a random Scotsman who is old enough to remember buying Badmotorfinger & Superunknown on day of release, I'm thankful to the invasive algorithm for popping this up in my recommendeds! Always nice to see some young'uns appreciate some quality music rather than the sh!t the industry seems to fill the charts with these days. :) I reckon y'all would enjoy the Temple of the Dog album. The quick over-simplified story is that Chris Cornell was sharing a house with Andrew Wood, singer of another Seattle band called Mother Love Bone. Sadly he died of a drug overdose. Cornell basically wrote the Temple of the Dog album as a send-off for Andy. Remaining members of MLB got together to record the songs with Cornell, new singer Eddie Vedder, & Matt Cameron of Soundgarden on drums. Those musicians (minus Cornell & Cameron) went on to be a band called Pearl Jam. Some truly great moments thru the Temple of the Dog album. If y'all are interested in knowing more, I recommend the PJ20 film - it's great for getting a feel of that Seattle scene & these events, as well as loads more about Pearl Jam thru the next 20years. ;)

[@TheMultiStanKpopFan]

I like this trio idea. It was nice having a different vibe added to your mix. Stay as 3!!

[@JesseLJohnson]

Jason Everman played guitar with Nirvana then when he was pushed out ended up playing bass for Soundgarden for a period then went on to be an Army Ranger. He actually put up the money to record Bleach. Chris Cornell's first wife Susan Silver was Soundgarden's manager she also managed Alice in Chains and some other Seattle bands. Matt Cameron is the drummer for Pearl Jam he was also Soundgarden's drummer and Temple of the Dog. He is in a new band now named 3rd Secret that has Krist the bass player from Nirvana, and Kim Thayil the guitar player from Soundgarden in the band.

[@tripthemillipede1988]

this is how i felt in the 90's. it's wonderful to see others enjoying the same. absolute love.

[@rov411]

Tell marlin he's a cool cat

[@jchabo82]

Being 42, I find this hilarious and inspiring at the same time. Definitely dig into older music guys. So much great stuff. That's what I did as a teen in the 90's.

[@JimmyBramlett]

This album and Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" were released the same day. NIN was 2nd while this album was 1st on the Billboard charts. And I was 15 when this album came out, and it was quite the time to grow up listening to music.

[@user-rv5di3gt2x]

Couple of weeks later Pantera went Number One

[@rov411]

Please listen to Purple or Core by stone temple pilots

[@ninja_tony]

Bro, EXACTLY what I was about to type when i saw your comment. They NEED to do both of those albums for sure.

[@grungemetalhd1668]

Purple

[@adulation1353]

Core by Stone Temple Pilots is *A MUST*

[@jamesduncan-gv6wm]

rip chris cornell

[@NathanThurberMusic]

Hell yeah. I wore this CD out as a kid! You guys need to check out the album Frogstomp by the band Silverchair. They were like 15 when they recorded it and it's a grunge classic.

[@martinwhite3559]

I just had a craving for more Soundgareden after listening to this album. I just finished listening to Badmotorfinger. This is up their with one of my fav albums of the 90s and possibly all time. It is much more upbeat and heavy than Superunkown. If you had to go in to battle or needed an energy boost then this is the album I would choose. Is it grunge, is it hard rock, is it metal. Answer is yes. It is a mix of alot of different types of rock with with element of grunge and metal thrown in. Best vocal performance on any album period. Each Soundgarden album is different from the next. Just because you listen to one Soundgarden album does not mean you know their core sound. Down on the Upside is their follow up to Superunknown and it is one of their least sounding grunge albums. Still has some classic songs on it. I hope you do more Soundgarden as their sound is so varied. Most bands can't even pull off one masterpiece let alone 2 like Soundgarden did in the 90s.

[@mizzwinter28]

Oh, you're going to enjoy Pearl Jam!!! 🔥🔥🔥 I'm pretty certain that TEN altered my reality when I first listened to it. It's phenomenal, start to finish. 💯💯💯💯💯 I was 19 in 1990, so I was thrilled with & completely immersed in Grunge. I hope you'll soon discover/stream UNDERTOW by TOOL, 1993. If u haven't already; I'll have to go look. Enjoy your journey into Grunge!! 🎉🎉🎉 P.S. Drummer Matt Cameron played for and toured with both Soundgarden AND Pearl Jam simultaneously!! #badass

[@AmonRa1081]

Being a teen in the 90s was amazing for music. You look at the many thriving genres and everyone had their opportunity to shine. That's what makes our generation so eclectic. Loved that time.

[@Macdaddy22713]

We need more MBKILLER5000!!!!!

[@lukesmusic]

I saw Soundgarden just 2 weeks before he died. I could tell he was off and even mentioned it as we were leaving. Then he was gone.

[@jmoneyp4p]

Like suicide is about a bird who flew into Chris Cornell’s glass sliding door and killed its self like suicide. Spoon man is about a street performer who played the spoons, I also think imo (my theory) that it has some metaphors for heroin use. People obviously cook it in spoons. “All my friends are brown and red” -the heroin and blood in the needle? “All my friends are skeletons” -the heroin addicts

[@bryangroves9607]

If you guys ever have the need for a 40 something year old guy just randomly jamming out, mouthing the words of every song of every reaction you do... I'm your guy. Literally every reaction you do, i could be that guy.

[@pcplayerreacts1865]

my biggest fucking flex bro is having the guitarist signature guitar bro like fuckkkk man this band and chris cornell bro saved my dam life

[@parlamedia]

4th of July is the song I always return to. It's glorious.

[@coolmule]

Fantastic album. Love Soundgarden, it was cool to see your reactions to it!

[@pcplayerreacts1865]

mannnnn love the fact yall did this .... learned this entire album on thr guitar in higschool and ill never fucking forget it man even the slightest smell takes me back to those days afterschool blasting this nonstop

[@ShininDays]

What are you guys' top 3 songs from Superunknown ? Mine are (probably): -Limo Wreck -Mailman -The day i tried to live

[@diasspeed]

Oh wow guys! You are just like I was with my cousin and my best friend almost 30 years ago hearing this amazing album for the first time! You bring me nostalgia. I loved Soundgarden so much during my teens!

[@JoeThibadou]

The Spoonman was a guy back in the day who used to busk by playing the spoons in Seattle. He's playing a spoon solo in the track if you happen to listen to it again. Shout out to Spoonman and Tubaman Seattle legends.

[@charliemac64]

TUBAMAN!!! ❤❤❤ RIP

[@PastaDon_]

Back in the day, it was summer '94, head down blasting and some window pane tabs.. if you know, you know..

[@pcplayerreacts1865]

the thing about soundgarden is their literally a garden of sound man especially love dude ... the band jss bounces off eachother so fucking well and kim thayil and his disonnance and random licks like man .... i have a story for every last song on here

[@acs1569]

Ten. Pearl Jam. Temple of the dog.

[@pcplayerreacts1865]

to this day man black hole sun is such a hard song for me to play on guitar .... the memories behind tht song are just something that cant be explained dawg .

[@jmillz713]

So glad you guys are absorbing these classics. There will never be someone else like Chris Cornell. He was a comet in the sky. RIP

[@neemkeez2085]

Another banger good shit. This is what happens when grunge doesn't mind to be a lil technical, jazzy, and psychedelic. Most songs are not in 4/4 which is kinda crazy for a "mainstream" alt rock album. And it's still fucking grunge -- its has that indescribable vibe and some of the most devastating lyrics of any grunge album. An amazing record all around.

[@pluckinmageetar]

I'm 60. I grew up on A.M. Radio in the 70s where they played "Top 40" music. Radio stations back then played ALL genres, Rock, Soul, Funk, Country, RnB, Pop, Folk, Soft Rock, Hard Rock... Radio format (and the music) changed in the 80s (after holding our noses through the Disco era) and Radio stations were broken up into genres where they played the "hits" only in a specific genre. Over and over and over......by then I was an Official headbanger. Zep, Scorpions, Priest, Styx, Boston, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Van Halen..... Hair Metal and shred came along and was okay in spots but it watered down the rock a little. After four of the greatest Rock/Metal albums were released in the mid to late 80's (Operation Mindcrime, Master of Puppets, Appetite for Destruction, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska) for me and many others around my age, we felt Rock died a little. It was certainly in flux, not knowing where it would go next. I think I can comfortably say that most boomer and Gen X Rock n metal lovers felt as though "the Seattle Sound" (Grunge) gave Rock new life and was definitely a "breath of fresh air" for the stagnate Rock scene, as we were quite done with glam, hair, shred and just couldn't quite get into the gutteral drone of the death metal scene. The 90's grunge and rock scene produced some of my favorite Rock albums of all time. Ten - Pearl Jam Superunknown - Soundgarden Throwing Copper - Live Black Album - Metallica Melon Collie...and Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera Dirt - Alice in Chains Nirvana...not so much.🤷 Gotta throw in one of the greatest albums ever that was produced in the 90s but hardly grunge. Jeff Buckley's Grace. A masterpiece!! So yeah, the grunge scene REVIVED Rock for most of us in the boomer and X generations. Keep Rocking.🤘😎

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

*Always* nice to see someone showing appreciation for the mighty King's X in the comments.... shows a refined taste imho! :)

[@pluckinmageetar]

​@@badm0t0rf1ngerThank you, sir. "Kings X".. One of the GOATs and perhaps the most underrated Rock band ever. Thanks for the Kudos and right back at ya, brother.🤘😎

[@SPGhettus]

People's tastes are a funny thing. Also 60 as of 3 weeks ago, love most of the Ten to Dirt list, but I did enjoy Nirvana, though not as much as PJ and SG, while Pantera does nothing at all for me. He goes so over the top with the vocals it makes me feel like he's doing a parody of a metal singer or something, and maybe because he's already lost me, most of the music feels like fury without purpose. Still, the early nineties were soooo much better than the late 80's, it was a like huge breath of fresh air. BTW, if you were born in 64, that's me, you and Chris Cornell.

[@pluckinmageetar]

@@SPGhettus I was indeed. October '64. And yes, if there is one thing about Pantera I didn't like was Anselmo's voice. But the sound was fresh and Dimebag's thrashy groove and guitar work were infectious. Again, it was a much needed "rebirth" of sorts for the heavy rock genre. I didn't hate Nirvana at all, just didn't buy into the hype of Nevermind, which was a solid album. Still think we have enough in common to declare common musical tastes. Long Live RnR ! 🤘😎

[@SPGhettus]

@@pluckinmageetar I eventually did come to the same conclusion, that Nevermind was a bit too smoothed, but when it first came out, it seemed so raw compared to the Def Leppard, Poison etc. that had been dominating FM radio, I couldn't see it yet. BadMotorFinger was a damn good start, though. BTW, I knew Cornell's birthday off the top of my head because I was exactly 2 weeks old when he was born. Keep Rockin'

[@lucazeppegno8256]

(Spoonman was a street artist in Seattle who made his show using many spoons as rythm tools, he's the one playing the spoon you can hear in the song)

[@johnathoncamp5915]

You guys gotta run it back quick with another Cornell album whether it’s soundgarden, Audioslave, temple of the dog, or his first solo album euphoria mourning bc this reaction was fantastic and he has nothing but amazing music

[@rue8929]

I've been meaning to deep dive into Soundgarden's discography for literal years now and this was the perfect gateway. I've listened to Spoonman and Black Hole Sun more times than I can count, but songs like Superunknown and Limo Wreck were songs I never knew I needed to hear!

[@cactustactics]

Shoutout to the editor, those cuts during the music are clean as hell

[@picnicgrove8896]

From what I understand the song spoonman was about a guy called the spoonman who made music with spoons in Seattle at the bumbershoot festival.

[@tireshredderjoe8894]

You three guys react very good together. Definitely great chemistry!

[@Shammrock62]

Kim T is a very underrated guitarist. Nothing like watching him live ad play against feedback on "Far Beyond the Wheel"

[@mellano3]

My favourite quote "I get that, but this is ACTUAL music"😂 it is rare for us older people who grew up with this as the only music, to be able to explain the concept to young guys like you...thank you for educating the younger generation and sparking new interest in these masterpieces of the past ❤

[@ayden99]

react to some stone temple pilots

[@ninja_tony]

Yeah, they HAVE TO check out Core and Purple at the very least. They will absolutely love Scott Weiland.

[@caucajunsaint1474]

32:09 speaking for someone who turned 15 in 1995, it was pretty great! But we didn’t realize how great until we could compare it to the next 30 years.

[@awbayes09]

Grunge was literally back to back to back to back killers records with great guitar and amazing lead singers for about three to five straight years.

[@DomDizzler5053]

First day of Freshman year, I was listening to the song Superunknown as I ran through the halls packed with hundreds of kids, trying to get to my class that I was late to. Easily one of the most memorable experiences of that year

[@areyouserious7080]

I'm 67 and a metal head. Still love the old and new stuff like Tool. So Grunge buried glam rock, Thank God. It needed to be killed. We had real rock back in the 90's

[@user-rc7ni7cf5z]

Grew up in the 80s - high school /college drop out 93->>> Grunge is the historical musical movement before the internet destroyed the soul of man. That’s why they all had depression- life as we knew it was about to never be the same. We went to shows to thrash and rock out hard -- no cell phones -- it was the culmination of Rock.. Metal.. Punk and New Wave -- it was EPIC to be alive at that time….. Please 🙏🏼 check Jane’s Addiction - Dinosaur Jr-- Mudhoney -- Stone Temple Pilots

[@matikaandrickyself4308]

I was lucky enough to have ecclectic parents so I heard all of the grunge and nu metal growing up. Still amazing to this day...

[@mondegreen9709]

Fun fact: this album was released on the same day as 'The Downward Spiral', 8 March 1994. Soundgarden won out and debuted at #1, NIN at #2.

[@Ekklo]

I was in 6th-7th grade when this came out. I bought the cassette and listened to it until breaking. Such an influential album in my life. Rest in Peace, Chris.

[@stepinthebox1945]

Go back and listen to Mother Love Bone. Then tie it together with Temple of the Dog. Finish with some Pearl Jam. Amazing how these 4 bands are tied together.

[@carlosmartinez-nf5xn]

Pearl Jam TEN, hell yeah!!!!! enyoing so much these grunge albums.

[@swankiw_]

One of my favorite albums of all time!

[@MrLilgiblet]

Stone Temple Pilots - Core some people dont consider them grunge but they had the spirit

[@brettrobertleasure]

this has been fun watching you dudes discover this. i was born in 1980 and grew up listening to classic rock throughout the 80s, and then become a teenager listening to all of this stuff. the 90s were such a great time to be that age. you can imagine how upset we were when the late 90s became all about TRL and pop music. but, i digress.

[@jamesduncan-gv6wm]

rust in pieces by megadeth its thrash but its a good album some goood music

[@voidwraithprime8521]

I was 18 in 1995. It was a great time to be young. Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam (Check out their album "Ten") Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden ("Badmotorfinger" is just as good), Temple of the Dog,.Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Blood Sugar Sex Majik") and Faith no more (both "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust" are amazing). It's great watching you discover it all...

[@kevinVersus]

Chris’s voice crushes all others

[@mmumambientsounds-timers]

Back in 94 this album blew my teenage mind apart! Have been my favourite band since. Privileged to have seen them 4 times, just the greatest

[@MusicSolplus]

Please before you do your ratings of the best singers you got to do badmotorfinger ... his vocals there are so much heavier ... he was just pushing the breaks on superunkown because it would probably not fit the vibe of the album

[@Iheartjoegatto]

Live through this by hole,amazing album

[@alexman26]

All these albums are part of my playlist on the way to work, now I'm missing Pearl Jam's TEN album, which also has Eddie Vedder as vocalist and thank God he's still alive The drummer for Soundgarden at that time is Matt Cameron, now on Pearl Jam I recommend the Pink Pop show, Ben Shepherd the bassist is an animal

[@eatingsound373]

I believe 'Mailman' is about a spate of postal workers going on shooting rampages that happened in the 90's which spawned the term 'going postal'.