Chris should have added " its not as if Pearl Jam do anything,save a handful of live reunion dates each year.....that's not what Soundgarden are about,we are a real band."
I'm fired up to hear the great NEW material tomorrow night.....I say the same thing about DMB...I love the NEW stuff....Soundgarden's music is relevant... I haven't said that about PJ since.......?......Avocado ?...that was good....certainly not great,and it tanked......Backspacer ?....good to very good.....EVs solo songs made the release...it died a slow death.........Riot Act ?....hell no...Binaural ?....solid tunes..very very good live.... it died a quick death on the charts,as did most of the aforementioned albums.......not since Yeild,have PJ produced an album of great music,I say that because the sound sucked on Yeild..no doubt EVs influence there.."make it sound dead Brendan"......and Matt didn't even play on that release...that's a pretty fucking long time gentlemen......could anyone picture Soundgarden playing the Fixer ???
Listening to Iam the Highway..acoustic gem off Songbook.....this man has pipes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been "preparing" over the past few days for Saturday (and will continue to do so) by listening to some of SG's older material, as well as King Animal. Admittedly, I didn't start listening to them until BMF and never really got into their earlier stuff aside from the stuff from Louder than Love and UltraMega OK that made it onto A-Sides - oh, and "Heretic" as I knew it from that Christian Slater movie, Pump Up The Volume.
I got into Soundgarden in '92..when I saw Singles in the theater...I was like "who the hell is that guy?" Meaning Cornell....they played Birth Ritual...and Chris sung Seasons.....2 great tunes......I was hooked....so I actually got into Soundgarden before PJ....damn,that means I'm as old as these guys....LOL
Birth Ritual is a great tune - maybe a bit long but the riff is fantastic.
It was the intro (and the end) of Jesus Christ Pose that really got me into these guys.
In preparation for the concert, I made a relatively short playlist that includes songs of theirs from the early albums...it includes:
Flower
Beyond The Wheel
Incessant Mace (if only because I know they've been playing it)
Hunted Down
Nothing To Say
Ugly Truth
Hands All Over
Get On The Snake (deadpan haha)
Gun
Loud Love
Matt,wasn't Temple of the Dog released before 10 ?....Hunger Strike was huge.....I think I bought Temple's album before 10.....I don't think I got into PJ until Jeremy....that was late 92 I guess....when the video exploded.....and then of course,Vedder was like..we ain't doing that again.....the Jeremy video was amazing....I showed it to my twins,when they were accused of bullying a fellow 5th grader in school..... its safe to say,seeing the video worked...its still very powerful 20 yrs on....
TotD may have been released before Ten but I wasn't aware of it until afterwards.
"Jeremy" was indeed a big video - and a well done one, too. That said, I've generally never been too fond of music videos aside from maybe the one for "Even Better Than The Real Thing" and a few of the funny ones by The Beastie Boys.
I suppose the red-blooded male in me also appreciated some of the videos by Motley Crue and Aerosmith - but now I'm getting off topic.
I was into Temple before PJ because of the Singles flick,I became a fan of anything Cornell was doing then.....I bought the soundtrack,and didnt get into the PJ tunes ....I remember after PJ broke,I went back to these songs and I was like "how come I didnt like thes 2 songs ?"