RIP Chris Cornell

[surveyor]

I first heard STP during the Core album and liked it enough to purchase "Purple". Kinda dropped off after that.

[Spiritof96]

Sorry he is dead.

I disliked Soundgarden.

Of the Seattle bands, I really liked Nirvana, liked and tired of Pearl Jam, though the Screaming Trees were fine, and had no use for AIC, STP, Soundgarden, and the rest. Rightly or wrongly I thought they were dirivative. (except AIC which I simply didn't like)

[Joneslab]

Alice in Chains' unplugged record is pretty good. I've always liked the version of "Nutshell" on that album.

Also really got into Pearl Jam's Vitalogy in high school. One of the CD's I played so much I think I warped it. I liked how odd it was. It would have these bizarre noise-filled songs juxtaposed with stuff that was pretty straightforward grunge fare.

"Immortality" is maybe my favorite Pearl Jam song.

(I also got into the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack in high school. We used to put it on a boombox and put the boombox in the backseat of my friend's Dodge Shadow and drive around.)

[surveyor]

I'm older than most of you pukes so I didn't follow any of them with any fervor. I'd probably not have gone to a concert but would have selections that I liked saved on an ipod. Cornell was one I really liked because his music seemed to evolve with age and still be interesting.

Ultimately, with the grunge bands there was a narrow window of stuff that I liked.

[George]

Downes, say what you will about thee rest of their discography, but Purple by STP is too fun, varied and awesome to come from a "Poison of grunge." Might be my favorite album, front to back, of the grunge era.

Not saying I never enjoyed an STP song. Hell, I saw them live once or twice. But the fact remains that they were always a pre-fab Grunge band concocted purely to crank out singles. Nothing wrong with that, but I never saw their work as the stuff of Grunge legend.

[George]

Alice in Chains' unplugged record is pretty good. I've always liked the version of "Nutshell" on that album.

Also really got into Pearl Jam's Vitalogy in high school. One of the CD's I played so much I think I warped it. I liked how odd it was. It would have these bizarre noise-filled songs juxtaposed with stuff that was pretty straightforward grunge fare.

"Immortality" is maybe my favorite Pearl Jam song.

(I also got into the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack in high school. We used to put it on a boombox and put the boombox in the backseat of my friend's Dodge Shadow and drive around.)

I'm not sure a better soundtrack exists.

It also introduced me to Green Jelly, a band which happened to feature Danny Carey, the drummer for TOOL.

[Joneslab]

There was nothing better than the feeling of rolling down Highway 27 with "She don't eat meat...but she sure like the bone!" blaring out the windows.

It also helped that it was 1995 and I had nothing planned for the next day but baseball practice and finishing my Timothy Zahn novel.

[surveyor]

There was nothing better than the feeling of rolling down Highway 27 with "She don't eat meat...but she sure like the bone!" blaring out the windows.

Near same experience for me with Van Halen's Diver Down album. Windows open blaring "Full Bug". One day in Pizza Hut I played that on the jukebox in `82 while parents dining with their kids. A few pauses and looks around to see who would have played it.

[Catsrock]

Loved Cornell with Soundgarden, Audioslave, AND Temple of the Dog. I believe I remember Temple of the Dog was a compilation between Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and was put together as a tribute to Mother Love Bone--who I know nothing about. I'm sad to have lost Chris Cornell and Charlie Murphy this month.

[Joneslab]

John Mulaney has a good bit about repeatedly playing Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat" on a jukebox as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkrL42R7gk

[surveyor]

Preliminary word is Cornell's death appears to be a suicide.

https://www.good.is/articles/chris-cornell-last-tweet?utm_content=inf_10_81_2&c=tse1&tse_id=INF_b8f4ddc03bee11e785b761b07d40d40a

Damn........

[Blue Heaven]

And Queens of the Stone Age is the best working band that nobody ever talks about.

hate Tool. Like... actively despise that band. I have friends that rave and rave and rave about their technical brilliance and maynards songwriting. They even dragged me to a Tool show. I have never been so bored in my life. Dreadfully sludgy, melody-less, soulless crap. Unpopular opinion, I know.

BASPHEMER! Just kidding man, but Tool is great. I hate the die hard fans but absolutely love their music. I liked them well before Aenema, which is one of the best hard rock albums to ever exist. I remember buying the cd and putting on the headphones. Wow what an experience.

[Blue Heaven]

Late to the Cornell talk but I was a huge Soundgarden fan. I agree with Downes about Superunknown. Just a fantastic album with no bad songs. That whole grunge period will never be duplicated. It was more than the music. It was the time, the culture, your age at the time. I loved all those bands but AIC and PJ are still my faves. FWIW, the besg concert I ever saw was STP at Louisville Gardens. I was never a huge Nirvana fan. Nevermind was great but I liked them less and less after that. But I do agree about the Unplugged album. FREAKING FANTASTIC and it still gets regular rotation as does the AIC Unplugged which was their last performance. Give Mad Season a try if you like AIC. Their only album Above is an underrated masterpiece.

[TrueblueCATfan]

I must be the one person who has no clue who this guy is......sorry that he died though

[KCKUKFan]

I must be the one person who has no clue who this guy is......sorry that he died though

Surely you've heard this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9************