Timeless music! Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@nicholegallo1090]

My dads favorite song, he use to sing this to me when I was very young to go to sleep, I’m 21 now. I still can sing the whole song off the top of my head. Rest In Peace to the legend Chris Cornell. My childhood. My father met Bon Jovi in his life as a roadie with the band Cinderella. Rock and roll was his life and it is mine.

[@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606]

You should listen to his daughter, tori Cornell, sing a few of his songs. ❤️✊️

[@nicholegallo1090]

@@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606 I will!!

[@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606]

@@nicholegallo1090 she's talented. I hope you enjoy. Her version of nothing compares to you is great. Take care! ❤️

[@nicholegallo1090]

@@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606 thank you! ❤️

[@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606]

@@nicholegallo1090 for music: anytime 😊 😆✊️🔥 I was raised on it (my dad), so I love his version of patience... (one of my daddy songs, he passed in 1986). Music brings ppl together. Love it. Take care 🙂 💕

[@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606]

Oh I love Chris Cornell. One of the good musicians growing up, right until his passing.. "No one sings like you anymore" 💗

[@jeremeywilson2318]

It’s hard to beat “Say Hello 2 Heaven” when it comes to Chris Cornell. I can listen to that song everyday & never get tired of it!

[@pmaster1173]

The day I tried to live, Slaves and bulldozers and Shadow on the sun.

[@petschmann]

The whole album is just a masterpiece! Miss this time! Rest in peace, Chris!

[@fookorf]

Cornell reflected on the song's lyrical content to Uncut: "What's interesting to me is the combination of a black hole and a sun," he said. "A black hole is a billion times larger than a sun, it's a void, a giant circle of nothing, and then you have the sun, the giver of all life. It was this combination of bright and dark, this sense of hope and underlying moodiness."

[@Guitarisforgrins]

A black hole can be much much smaller than the sun.

[@fluffydeath9252]

that's the problem with using words that can have a dual meaning for a general non-specific amount, or size, and though size can typical mean volume, volume is typically conflated with mass. Black holes are larger (definitely in density, mathematically almost certainly in mass, given the conditions necessary to create a volume small with the mass of the sun for a sufficient density ration to form a black hole is nigh impossible in our current mathematical descriptions of the universe.) than the sun.

[@taekwondotime]

Blackhole sun is another nickname for a penis. Once you understand that, the whole song makes sense. "Won't you come". Exactly...

[@taekwondotime]

"Times are gone for honest men, sometimes far too long for snakes"....... Snake is another nickname for a penis. ie: Sexual drought.

[@ryancunningham6852]

from what i understand, a dying star (our sun being a star) eventually turns into a black hole, which is a point in space with extreme gravity. a black hole near earth would eat everything. the rain would be gone, but everything else too. cornell was suffering from depression, and i’m sure occasionally felt this was desirable

[@Entity-17]

The thing is the sun is So extremely small that it doesn't have anywhere near the mass needed to even consider turning into a black hole lol

[@nobody_special]

"No one sings like you anymore..." Gets me every time. 😢

[@matteagle117]

sang in studio for Andrew Wood, the most tragic lost of grunge scene

[@mariaklein2715]

RIP Chris…his birthday was yesterday. What an amazing talent. Miss him every day. 💔

[@jacqueline4514]

Back in the day, was at a wedding that had a band, not a DJ, and the band NAILED this song; I felt like I was at a concert 😂😂😂

[@metalmark1214]

Chris Cornell stated in a 2014 interview with Entertainment Weekly that the title came from something he heard on the news - he thought the anchor said "black hole sun," but he really was saying something else. Cornell started thinking about the phrase and decided to write a song around it, as he felt it was a thought-provoking title. He wrote the lyrics first, then composed the music based on the images he came up with

[@Sperg10]

He wrote it while he was driving

[@chellj8175]

RIP Chris Cornell !! Soundgarden was great !! I think this song like many, dealt w the depression he experienced!! Asia is very good at deciphering and figuring out meanings !! You are both awesome !!

[@MikeB12800]

Hard to describe how big this song was! It was EVERYWHERE!! Video on heavy rotation on MTV and the radio! Anywhere you went, it was playing on some speaker, somewhere.

[@loadedorygun]

yeah the weird perspective cam that made them all like 9 feet tall lol

[@kldawson53]

Yup. I consider this an important song on the soundtrack of my life. Everyone listened to it ... even if this wasn't their style of music. I remember listening to it between races at swim meets. 😅

[@ranman1708]

I saw them Jan. 1990 in Montreal opening for Faith No More and Voivod. Great show!

[@kathyk5319]

Music is art; it's open to interpretation.

[@rolandomotta7093]

100%

[@Erica-wy8zx]

Love this song. The video creeped me out. Kim Thayill on the lead guitar. Chris Cornell had one of the voices in music. “No one sings like you anymore”.

[@kristinewhitfield4110]

No one had a voice like Chris. ❤️‍🔥 It was truly one of a kind.🥲

[@scottmenser3930]

One of the very greatest rock voices ever IMHO...my favorite rock vocalist of all time. He could sing ballads or any kind of hard driving rock. His gutteral screams would give me chills. Please check out "Cochise" and "Like a Stone" from when he was with Audioslave. Thanks and you guys are the greatest!

[@wendymessina4462]

Soundgarden has so many great songs Fell on black day Outshines The day I tried to live Blow up the outside world Burden in my hand .....so many Please do more And Chris has so many solo songs that are great as well Audioslave and temple of the dog Endless great music

[@timothybush9633]

Hi Asia & BJ, A Great Singer gone to soon (RIP), which by the way it was his Heavenly Birthday yesterday. Many great songs with Sound Garden and his cover of Princes (RIP) Nothing Compares To You and others

[@I.am.Iain-81]

Man, this song takes me back to my teens hanging with my friends. If you haven't already check out RadioHead - Creep. Another song that my friends and I vibed too in my youth 🤘

[@markvanderstelt8999]

CREEP_ STP.

[@pauldavis7362]

THEN....watch the Prince cover....it was a masterclass

[@darkphyn]

"no one sings like you anymore" always gets me.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

One of the best 90s grunge songs! ♥

[@SEANBANOG4]

RIP Chris Cornell I will never forget you man.....and that Voice!!!!!

[@colonelb]

Chris Cornell was an absolute legend.

[@russellsearch7925]

What makes this song great is the vocal. Insanely brilliant. RIP Chris Cornell.

[@rachel.en3101]

Honestly he could've sang anything and I would've enjoyed it. His singing voice is so unique, and I love it. 🖤

[@chellj8175]

Agree!! Gone too soon !!

[@jdbroders64]

Chris suffered from depression his whole life and unfortunately he killed himself during a very dark period of his suffering. For what it's worth, I believe this song was about his struggle with depression and his "black" days. I know something about this from a family loved one's perspective.

[@yvonnewinters6387]

I believe it doesn’t specifically mean anything (according to Chris Cornell who wrote the song). He heard it in a newsitem on the radio and thought it sounded great and he wrote a song around it in a short period of time.

[@ronstoner1823]

Chris Cornell was a very talented individual. He was a lead singer for 3 very successful bands that I know of. Well worth your time looking into! 👍👍👍 What I was told in school was, a black hole is a tear in the KNOWN universe caused by a sun's supernova, and the draw from the black hole can swallow whole solar systems. Don't quote me on that, it's just something they told me because they didn't know either.

[@user-hk8yp7cw1v]

5:05 that's the ominous way he ended his life, about two decades later.

[@dannycasson1551]

“Fell On Black Days.”

[@jenbush7735]

Chris Cornell is one of my ALL time favorites, up there w Robert Plant. His vocal range was amazing.

[@ericsmith6615]

Wife here..WOW.., Such a popular grunge era song..!!!..Definitely one of the most memorable imo..(a little depressing and confusing).., but alot of Grunge was supposed to open our eyes.(Gen X and others)..to Environmental as well as other Societal problems..Love Your Awesome Selections and Reactions!!!

[@chrispate2696]

I remember getting this album back in the day on cassette tape for my Birthday.

[@Robot666House]

My mom's favorite band ever but she never listened to them again after dad died, made her too sad.. well one day on the anniversary of his death years later I was looking for her and couldn't find her then I went outside and she was in her car listening to this and sobbing..

[@markdussault8590]

Greatest voice of all time. RIP Chris

[@battmale]

Peter Frampton performs a very good cover of this song, and played it live in his concerts.

[@bluetopguitar1104]

An amazing voice. Guitar licks from every rock style. Intense

[@kalohaggard1729]

I would have thought it was the sun as it appears behind our dismal grey / black clouds here in the Pacific Northwest and the gloomy feeling that comes with it, but I think it's just an exercise in free association along with great vocals and musicianship .

[@calvingreen5202]

Great reaction!! Many of Soundgarden's lyrics are metaphors and plays on the ironic...opposites and double negatives. It's poetic genius. You should check out Billie Jean, Sunshower and The Day I Tried To Live. See what you think...

[@MarkTitus420]

A true classic 90's Alternative Banger - never gets old

[@dimedraweriv258]

RIP Chris Cornell. You're wonderful voice is very missed.

[@jonathangraves7503]

Y'all should have watched the video with it. The music video for Black Hole Sun is, in my opinion, the coolest and creepiest videos ever made. Ever that or Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box. Awesome video. Back when videos were actually cool. 😎

[@barscotch]

I loved it too, and always felt weird about that when I read that Cornell didn't like the video.

[@bryansproles2879]

If you haven't reacted to it yet, you should DEFINITELY check out a band Chris Cornell was in later called Audioslave. Check the original video for the song "Cochise", it's wild, and trust me, you'll be able to hear Chris' FULL growling range in this one 😎

[@bloodravenstalkwolf8917]

In a way it's about depression, wither your entering in the state or trying to climb out of it. It does have a double meaning. Not sure if that's what Chris true thought about when writing it but either way it came out that way

[@wheelmanstan]

when this came out, very shortly after there was a song called "asshole son", y'all remember that one? find it, it's damn good, it played on the radio when this song did

[@loadedorygun]

Sound garden came up while I was a DJ in college and I liked them but I liked a lot of grunge. I actually liked screaming trees better. But reflecting on them now they’re really underrated. Not only Chris Cornell but the legendary Kim thayil on bass. I was friends with the Richmond va band fudge and their bassist had hair almost as long as Kim’s and would thrash it around like him. Loved watching both of them

[@adambainbridge1708]

If you ever get the chance Norah Jones covered this song a week after Chris died at the venue of their last gig, it is one of the most beautiful performances I have ever heard.

[@b.slocumb7763]

If you’ve ever been witness to the Totality of a solar eclipse, a “black hole sun” is exactly what it looks like, and it is about as surreal as reality can get, and this song is perfect to play while you watch the Totality happen!

[@Gordy63]

I don’t know what the song is about, but I do know the singer, Chris Cornell, was a tortured soul and died from an overdose. He wrote a lot of dark lyrics and you can feel his conflict from within.

[@barscotch]

A black hole is what happens when a star (AKA a sun) collapses in on itself. It stops being a source of light and warmth and instead swallows everything, even light. It becomes a destroyer of light and warmth. The lyrics seem to be lamenting the decline of humanity and our civilization ("Times are gone for honest men") and asking for the end of the world to come. Rain is water, which is a source of life, but ironically, it can also lead people to think of gloom and depression; so, as a poetic image, it's kind of a paradox. The chorus asks the sun to collapse and become a black hole that washes away both the life that the rain renews and the depression that the rain makes people feel. It's fascinating poetry in my opinion.

[@2869may]

AUDIOSLAVE (Chris C) ~ "SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE".....!!!

[@user-h1ank0v]

Black holes suck the matter (even light as we know) and since everything that goes into a black hole is gone forever (at leaset scientists believe so) it could metaphorically "wash away the rain". The black hole is referred to a "Sun", because the Sun as we know it is a star and when a star explodes there are two possible conditions from this stage: to become a black hole or a dwarf star. Hope the the lyrics are more clear now :) Thank you for your reaction!

[@kerodelkigh]

wow being awake these lyrics hit very different

[@spharion1941]

It's called Black Hole Sun, because that's the way sun like large stars die. They turn into supernovas and then into black holes, after a mega explotion.

[@americanzombie1802]

My interpretation of the song is that someone in deep depression or emotional pain wants a black hole “sun” to come up and suck everything away and end the misery. Bringing death would end it all

[@jamessomers8808]

I don't know, I mean a sun turns into a black hole when it dies, so that was always my main thought about this song, So when the sun dies it washes away everything, including the pain. Which is addiction.

[@Erica-wy8zx]

Chris’ birthday was yesterday. 🥀

[@blackwolf6082]

This song sold me on this group. Chris Cornell is a genius writer

[@ryanjacob3338]

When I look into the sun directly, the brighter it is, the longer I look, the more of a black spot appears once I look away. No?

[@Beeker255]

This album is a masterpiece one of the best or the best albums of the 90's.

[@jam1870utube]

Y'all should watch the official music video of this song. It is a funny, dark, visual mind warp, but highly entertaining.

[@jenshansen2698]

There is a video that explains what the song is about Fantasy :)

[@michaelburkett3582]

Wow this brings back good old memories 😆 I'm 51 used to listen and PARTY TO THIS BACK IN THE DAY WITH friends gsh where has time gone

[@1nintool]

This song defines that era for me...Classic

[@Iang343]

Grunge one of my favorite areas of rock

[@sixslinger9951]

the best group to come out of the grunge era.

[@monsieur-ministre]

The lyrics aren't easily decoded, for sure. But given that Chris had a long history with depressions, I just interpret it as a death wish, for some sort of destruction to come and wash all misery away. Which of course is an eerie concept, especially as it is set in such a beautiful piece of music. (The video hints at an end-of-the-world event, although we probably shouldn't place too much weight on the director's vision).

[@NowVs1980s]

Rest easy Chris✨💜

[@sealdrup]

When you get a chance to, watch the official video to this. It is trippy for sure!

[@Immrtal1]

You really need to check out their video…it totally adds to this song! 👍🏼😉

[@tkremarkTK]

My wife, who mostly likes R&B, loves this song and then proceeds to rock to this song and calls herself a "Black Rocker Chick" LOL

[@jackgilchrist]

Often "grunge" lyrics are difficult to interpret. It's poetic lines or verses that create an overall impression or feeling that's open to some interpretation, rather than a straightforward message. The more scientific explanation is that stellar black holes are formed by large collapsing stars (and stars are of course suns), so you could say a "black hole sun" is a sun that has become a black hole, i.e. a stellar black hole. It would certainly wash away the rain. And everything else.

[@kylo_bess23]

Good interpretation

[@terryross1032]

He gets it. It's the music that's important. The music is the whole thing here.

[@terryross1032]

One of the best songs ever and i am 65 years old whatever that means.

[@rickyjustin5846]

you need to check Audioslave - I am the Highway, Chris Cornell - Preaching the End of the World, Moonchild his singing abilities are exceptional in this songs.

[@Brought2ubuyCarlsjr]

This is a song you need to watch the video for. Best part of the song.

[@Burke17]

Love this song. Love your videos! 🤙🤙Would you guys consider The Tragically Hip - In View or Nautical Disaster by The Hip.

[@alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606]

Oh they have too many. Almost any... lol. I think they covered wheat kings and Canada watching the last concert.. but, it's hard to remember lol...

[@zzz7zzz9]

38 years old, nautical disaster. but really, the hip are a category of their own, and could fill weeks of videos. love their set they did on SNL. would be kool to react to 'it's a good life if you don't weaken', and then also do their version with Feist singing, after gord passed. she killed it.

[@hanklutcavich2468]

RIP Chris Cornell, plz check out his cover of "Nothing Compares To You" or "Patience". Did you do Temple of the Dog- "Hunger Strike" with members of Pearl Jam. Awesome reaction guys.

[@roadkill7314]

If you really want to see how great he was checkout his live cover of Michael's Billie Jean!

[@ashleydixon4613]

YES! Of course Michael’s version is great, but it doesn’t literally give you chills, like Chris’s version does.

[@tinahairston6383]

The late Chris Cornell said there was no real meaning. He was just playing around with words for words sake so it means different things to different people but like Asia said, it is a sad song but some people think it's chipper.

[@scottvanhille5688]

Great song guys! It's a perfect one to karaoke lol.

[@Eowyn187]

Oh man, what a vibe you just jumped into!! Can't wait to see you with this. With the worst funks I get in, only Chris or Layne Staley can get me out of. Ps.. their voices and the music! Idgaf about the words 😆

[@christikirk7265]

I agree...I miss Layne Staley and Chris.

[@caracoidwren944]

Thank God someone decided to review this song without that stinkin' video. (And remember, the lyrics should be looked at as poetry with each person's experience determining what they mean . . . as they were written.)

[@thebluemarvel1111]

I love Chris Cornell

[@MobiusBandwidth]

yeah it's a sad song, he ended his own life. he had everything anyone could want, a voice anyone would die to have, good looks, a loving family, worldwide adulation, proof money can't buy happiness, tragic that he succumbed to depression, it's such a terrible disease, and can affect anyone, no matter how good their life looks from the outside. what a loss, he was such an incredible artist.

[@art2736]

A Black hole sun is total destruction. Calling for a black hole sun to wash away the rain ( depression) is basically saying "put me out of my misery."

[@ajm25100]

You have to watch Halile Rinehart on Post Modern Jukebox cover of this song it's great.

[@room22-1]

A black hole, I believe, is an exploding sun (or star). Or whats left of it

[@peterwalsh2470]

a black hole swallows everything that comes near it, matter, light, everything. also watching the video clip would help you to understand the song better.

[@fryloc0034]

Fell on Black Days is in my top 3 from SOUNDGARDEN. Take it or leave it

[@dogsevenfive]

You should watch the actual video, its trippy.

[@robinschulze934]

The singer Chris Cornell has a song featuring Timbaland call “ Part Of Me “ !!!! I think u guys would love it!!!

[@johnmcelwain9302]

I loved this reaction 🔥🔥🔥💯

[@johnkelley7868]

Im with ya asia chris wrote some pretty heavy lyrics i admit didn't always understand but i don't care he could sing the damn phonebook and it would be great i recommend Say Hello the Heaven is absolutely genius RIP chris miss you buddy.

[@echopryme]

it dont get much better than THAT! 💯

[@lesliescott4491]

If you like this singer he also sang for the band rage against the machine but change the name to Audioslave so if you like this singer and if you like rage against the machine listen to some Audioslave some real fantastic songs

[@SIXX2772]

I WORE the CD out in the mid 90's....

[@wendymessina4462]

I still listen to it daily

[@fagingreen8002]

May be wrong, but it appears you all haven't done "Outshined" by Sound Garden. If not....You really haven't heard Sound Garden yet. Great show as always.

[@williamweiss6128]

Makes me sad every time I hear Chris now. Amazing talent. Miss him.