Good effort 
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Soundgarden’s ‘Louder Than Love’ album is fucking dope and if you don’t like it you’re stupid and tasteless.
I’d rather lick a dog shit than listen to Pearl Jam, especially ’Jeremy’.
Thanks for reading.
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This is a very poor life choice that you’ve made, next time we cross paths I will lecture you in a very patronising fashion.
These are incredible. Followed.
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Tbf lots of people (tho probably not you, I know you dig a lot deeper with music) know Soundgarden via ‘Black Hole Sun’ which I thought was MOR chod. Another beginning of the end scenario a la The Black Album; noobs loved it, OGs thought it was wack. It’s a strong pattern in music of that era.
to be fair, Superunknown is a ridiculously good album. Take away Black Hole Sun and it stands on its own easily.
Down on the Upside is also a fantastic album. Kim Thayil’s work on it is great but Chris Cornell’s songwriting in general is something else. Burden in my Hand might be my all time favourite song by any band in any genre ever
After that they’re a completely different band. Before Superunknown they were a completely different band.
Still, none of it is as good as Alice in Chains and both bands piss in Nirvana from a great height
Hot take. I’m not rising to it…
Gahhh completely wrong. In Bloom alone trumps the entire catalogue of all those bands put together
This is a perfect example to argue different people getting different things from different music.
Nirvana are less accomplished in technical ability and complex structures than Soundgarden which will be a turnoff for some listeners. They do have feel, a raw talent for simple song writing which just gets into you, content that people can relate to. They have a mystique that grabs fanatics. And more importantly (for me) an overall sound, a specific timbre that is just naturally there in everything they do so each release is cohesive. Soundgarden don’t have any of that really. They have a handful of good tunes to be picked out of disjointed releases and an image that you just don’t care about even though you could argue that their skillsets are pitched way above Nirvanas.
Or you could just say “apples n oranges innit!”
EDIT: expecting a reply with “apples n dogturds more like!”
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I don’t give a toss about musicianship etc, it either has “it” or it doesn’t. And Nevermind just has it
If it was about skill we’d all listen to classical and jazz exclusively
I know it’s all subjective but where’s the fun in agreeing to disagree? Ha
But people do listen to jazz and classical and get enormous enjoyment from it, they enjoy the skill and complexity of it all.
I’m stuck in the middle I can be turned on or off by simple or complex. I just know that everything has to have integrity and that can mean different things for different things.
If you’re forcing a hot take from a contrarian i’ll say that I find it funny that people arguing these things are more turned on by other factors with certain bands and genres than the actual music. Whatever that is, the scene, the social elements, the fashion, the attitude, the popularity, the unpopularity, the attractiveness of the artists etc etc. While some of those things can be important to build an image that is attractive to a listener it’s not actually anything about what you’re hearing. Most people only need the melody and rhythm to love a song, they don’t hear the details, they don’t need to, they have picked out the hook, the things that turn them on and that’s all they here. That’s enough, and that’s fair enough.
I do think many people miss out on alot.
Other people just love to delve in and hear everything, understand what parts when put together do what they do and make them feel how they feel.
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New one. Track 1 is a bit of a different vibe (the other 3 are the same old shit)
Warp announced yesterday that Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves is getting a re-release. Nearly died seeing the price of 35 quid before delivery if you want it on vinyl. It’s good but the prices for records these days have went mental
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Eh, it was probably about £15, £16 when it originally came out in ‘92. So it’s only gone up as much as everything else in the world
But it feels more expensive when you don’t seem to be making the money in comparison.
A bag of shopping can be £100 when you’d get a deep trolly for that not even that long ago. Different thing I know but things do feel generally too expensive.
On a similar note though. I just got my GF’s album put on vinyl for her birthday, only 2 copies for a present and they worked out at £25 each. I also did a couple of copies of an old album of mine. Not listened yet but they look the business.
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Compared to a Chomp or a Curly Wurly, vinyl’s doing alright. Imagine if you got a new Polygon Window LP and it was £68 and half the size of the original.
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I agree, in the grand scheme of things vinyl hasn’t increased in price and decreased in size the same way as other products, I read somewhere that really if vinyl had just continued andnot made a comeback, the average price would still be around £25 now
Vinyl is at the end of the day a massive luxury and when stuff gets re-released like this it’s more driven in a lot of ways by FOMO - “oh wow, it’s on clear vinyl” - this feels now like a really stupid rant on my part when people struggle to put food on their table. I will now sod off back to my first world problems
kinda want a Chomp now
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Don’t get one, you’ll be disappointed. They’re tiny and cost about a fiver
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very true. There are worse culprits. I don’t mind vinyl prices particularly. I only buy albums I really love and can play throughout. Otherwise it’s an expensive rabbit hole. I won’t bother with SOSW.
