Soundgarden – Part 2
A deep dive into the first half of the discography of grunge band Soundgarden!
This week's Is This Song Good? podcast features the Soundgarden deep cut 4th of July from Superunknown (1994). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91rHFP0OtTE
For whatever reason, I never really got into earlier Soundgarden albums including Badmotorfinger. I don't know why I never connected to it, but it took Johnny Cash covers to bring me around, I guess. Sometime in 1994, Black Hole Sun hit the airwaves and the MTV. I was hooked and while I hadn't amassed a huge CD collection yet, this album entered the chat.…
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRtEdQHS6eQDelNLJkQMXGccT904lvrub&feature=share Here is the complete playlist from our second season of Is This Song Good? This season we discussed cover versions of 15 different songs. This playlist includes the cover version.
Shortly after the attack on September 11th, 2001 the media monstrosity Clear Channel sent out a memo to all of its radio stations. In the memo was a list of over 164 songs that had "questionable lyrics" and the stations were told not to play any of them. I think my favorite listing was "every song in Rage Against the Machines catalogue." This playlist…
This week's episode of the Is This Song Good? podcast takes on Johnny Cash's cover of Rusty Cage, originally by Soundgarden. Will Cash's thick voice be able to deliver the same force as Chris Cornell's luscious rock vocals? Tune in to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrBqRb3VGM
This playlist has just one theme: Grunge. Whether you think grunge is just dirty classic rock, ambivalent punk, or the greatest music genre of the last century is up to you, youre not wrong. Enjoy some of my favorites from this brief moment in music perfection. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ID_xbWhWjHp58oGcMC7jIBdcnQStvSn
This playlist doesnt really have a specific theme. Its just a collection of 11 songs that I like and think flow together well. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ID_xbWhWjEHkGURaCXkEhYj251eBEKG