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- Posted: 03/30/2017 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2313): Down On The Upside by Soundgarden
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Today's album of the day
Down On The Upside by Soundgarden (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1996.
Country: 
Overall rank: 1,912
Average rating: 74/100 (from 159 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Pretty Noose
2. Rhinosaur
3. Zero Chance
4. Dusty
5. Ty Cobb
6. Blow Up The Outside World
7. Burden In My Hand
8. Never Named
9. Applebite
10. Never The Machine Forever
11. Tighter & Tighter
12. No Attention
13. Switch Opens
14. Overfloater
15. An Unkind
16. Boot Camp
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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CA Dreamin
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- Posted: 03/30/2017 21:54
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Nothing
Seems to kill me
No matter how hard I try
Haunting lyric from the great Chris Cornell. Does it bother anyone else Down on the Upside is down at 1,912? It's similar to Superunknown. It doesn't live up to it (which very few albums do), but it's a pretty good album on its own right. My top tracks are Pretty Noose, Burden in My Hand, and Never the Machine Forever.
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LordMark
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Age: 36
Location: Ontario
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- Posted: 03/30/2017 22:13
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I haven't heard the rest of the album, but I love the singles. "Blow Up The Outside World" might be my favourite Soundgarden song.
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pearljammer13
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Location: Massachusetts
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- #4
- Posted: 03/30/2017 22:33
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| StreetSpirit wrote: | Nothing
Seems to kill me
No matter how hard I try
Haunting lyric from the great Chris Cornell. Does it bother anyone else Down on the Upside is down at 1,912? It's similar to Superunknown. It doesn't live up to it (which very few albums do), but it's a pretty good album on its own right. My top tracks are Pretty Noose, Burden in My Hand, and Never the Machine Forever. |
Completely agree, vastly underrated both in Soundgarden's canon and overall. The singles are some of their best, and lesser known tracks such as Never The Machine Forever, Zero Chance, Tighter & Tighter, etc. display the continued excellent songwriting from one of the best bands of the 90's. I think a lot of people were initially turned off by the less heavy sound compared to former outings, but I like the more balanced approach of it and I think it's stood the test of time extremely well.
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- Posted: 04/05/2017 15:35
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Soundgarden is one of those band I could never get into, even though I absolutely adore Cornell's voice. This sounds like a nice excuse to give them another listen.
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RoundTheBend
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- Posted: 04/06/2017 02:30
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| Daydreamer wrote: | | Soundgarden is one of those band I could never get into, even though I absolutely adore Cornell's voice. This sounds like a nice excuse to give them another listen. |
I agree.
I prefer Cornell in Audioslave, but that's likely because I'm a Rage fan and not so much a Soundgarden fan.
Even if I'm not crazy about Audioslave - he fit well in the band's sound.
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Fischman
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- Posted: 04/06/2017 14:44
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| Daydreamer wrote: | | Soundgarden is one of those band I could never get into, even though I absolutely adore Cornell's voice. This sounds like a nice excuse to give them another listen. |
Interestingly, Soundgarden is the one Seattle band I could get into. Alice in Chains is hit or miss, I can generally pass on Pearl Jam, and I have no use for Nirvana whatsoever. Soundgarden has some real moments for me. Badmotorfinger is one of my all time faves.
But I seemed to lose interest in them after that. After (what I considered to be) the end to end greatness of Badmotorfinger, I found (so unlike the rest of the world) Superunknown to be relatively weak and uninteresting, so I pretty much abandoned the group.
Sounds like I may have to give this one another go.
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