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SOUNDGARDEN A SIDES
Recording Time 78 minutes
Label A&M (USA)
Orig Year 1997
Format:Flac
Ten years after crawling from the muck and mire of the Seattle grunge scene, Soundgarden's farewell compilation hits all the high points of an impressive career. Nirvana may have taken grunge public, but Soundgarden got there first. Starting with the grinding of Screaming Life's "Nothing To Say," A-Sides demonstrates the band's evolution from muscular musical brutes to a unit whose might was tailored by an innovative use of hooks and melodicism.
This collection finds them journeying all over the musical map, utilizing a more percussive assault ("Spoonman"), delving into the depths of psychedelia ("Black Hole Sun"), and even bringing their trademark aggressive style to the decidedly un-rock mandolin on "Ty Cobb," a song the Ramones might have written had they grown up in Kentucky instead of Queens. A-Sides stands to prove that throughout their career, Soundgarden remained fervently ambitious in their musical endeavours.
Tracklist
1.Nothing to Say
2.Flower
3.Loud Love
4.Hands All Over
5.Get on the Snake
6.Jesus Christ Pose
7.Outshined
8.Rusty Cage
9.Spoonman
10.Day I Tried to Live, The
11.Black Hole Sun
12.Fell on Black Days
13.Pretty Noose
14.Burden in My Hand
15.Blow Up the Outside World
16.Ty Cobb
17.Bleed Together
Personnel: Chris Cornell (vocals, guitar); Kim Thayil (guitar); Ben Shepherd, Hiro Yamamoto (bass); Matt Cameron (drums, percussion).
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