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Superunknown by Soundgarden (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1994.
Country:
Overall rank: 175
Decade rank: 38
Year rank: 9
Discography rank: 1 (out of 13 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 81/100 (from 1223 votes).



Tracks:
1. Let Me Drown
2. My Wave
3. Fell On Black Days
4. Mailman
5. Superunknown
6. Head Down
7. Black Hole Sun
8. Spoonman
9. Limo Wreck
10. The Day I Tried To Live
11. Kickstand
12. Fresh Tendrils
13. 4th Of July
14. Half
15. Like Suicide

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Top voted comments:

"The peak of Soundgarden's recording career. A brilliant masterpiece, one of the nineties great records. Black hole Sun, is obviously a standout, but there are a wealth of great songs here. My wave, spoonman, and, fell on black days, are all excellent. An album destined to be a classic."
- garycottier (Rating: 90/100)
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"The closest thing that commercial Hard Rock was into jazz and psychedelic heavy stuff. Not only one of the best grunge albums of all time, Is one of the best rock albums of all time.

It's a little shame that is so underrated above the other Grunge bands... The phenomenal different and weird tunings used here, and tracks like "Limo Wreck" in a 12/8 time signature would stomp the feet on all faces of that bands."
- MiltonAda99 (Rating: 100/100)
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[DommeDamian]

Damn, back to back big classics.

The cover-art; two worlds are shown, the black and the white world. But the black (dark/depressing) world fills the cover more than the other, and to be exact, it looks like it's fulfilling the white world - just look at the conversely grey cloud. That's a massive sign of the darker days taking over. Then you have Chris Cornell (I think) being trapped in the black world, screaming in pain, while both his hands illustrate a shimmering picture of being crucified - which means he is being tortured by the dark world but is simultaneously trapped (as said).

Superunknown is also one of the all-time best unvaried albums where production and lyrics match through the perfectly arranged songs, in other words, it's impeccable songwriting. You don't need to go longer than 4 songs to get my point, fx find another instrumental/melody that fits the tones of Mailman or My Wave on the album. And even though I don't love every song here (French Tendrils I'm sorry) I wouldn't consider them flawed. But if I did, it would actually make sense, because on such an emotionally apocalyptic album like this one, the purpose of consciously making mistakes is to feel even more sad to back up the courage to self-destruction and suicide. Either way, it won't affect the appealing and loneliness. It becomes apparent when Chris Cornell delivers “Stretch the marks over my eyes, burn the candles deep inside,” in the album’s first track that it'll be really something. Superunknown is subject to heavily distorted and dropped tuning guitars and soaring and blunt vocals that give it sheer brutality. Cornell beats all the great hard rockers at their own game by having human emotion to back up its exceptional rasp and screams. The slow-burning Limo Wreck directly reflects this, its self-hating lyrics and bruised atmosphere represents the record very well. Trippy and actually indescribable single Black Hole Sun is responsible for a great deal of Superunknown’s commercial success (and also a favorite track of all time), a song that drowns my words in awe. Certain things about this album still catch me off guard, like the faint sound of silverware hitting a surface in Spoonman or the stomach-churning bass line of 4th of July (shoutout to Jack Mancuso).

It's also scary to look at the booklet covers, I'm getting a clearer and clearer picture of Cornell's lyrics when he sings them right from his bruised heart. On top of the images are the lyrics. There is not a grunge album that features better and more relatable lyrics all around, even the almighty In Utero. The subject in My Wave, about yanno do whatever you want but don't involve me in your BS life, harkens back to a time when the toxicity of people's behavior wanted me involved in all drama and I couldn't stand up for myself. Spoonman features disturbing lyrics of its own; “And all my friends are skeletons, they beat the rhythm with their bones, Spoonman.” The title track I interpret as being lost in the world of your depression. But the candidate to a true lyrical breath of fresh air is The Day I Tried To Live, a song that, in a long period of time when I never cried cause of numbness, was the closest song to producing a tear. The majority of sad people get told to do something with their day and spread positivity to society and be the person that they were meant to be and blablabla, and this song tells a subtle story of a person with new life doing and working their absolute hardest and everything just naturally backfiring, exposing (to themselves) that it's all a lie. Thank you Chris, however the world does feel emptier without you.
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