The whole badmotorfinger album is heavy

@heatnationwpb

Жыл бұрын

It's epic

@brettkenschaft4239

Жыл бұрын

My favorite from them and would be one of my "deserted island" albums!!

@elwooddiggler

Жыл бұрын

Favorite also, LTL second

@GrogMindwhip

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Heavy as fudge.

@Psyche-ud2mn

Жыл бұрын

Their best album

The band explained that the lyrics concern the exploitation of religion for personal benefit. The song is a criticism of how public figures use religion (particularly the image of Jesus Christ) to portray themselves as being "better" than others, or as "martyrs". Chris Cornell specifically mentioned Jane's Addiction's frontman Perry Farrell as an influence on the song, explaining, "It became fashionable to be the sort of persecuted-deity guy." In an interview with Spin magazine in 1992, Cornell explained the term "Jesus Christ Pose": You just see it a lot with really beautiful people, or famous people, exploiting that symbol as to imply that they're either a deity or persecuted somehow by their public. So it's pretty much a song that is nonreligious but expressing being irritated by seeing that. It's not that I would ever be offended by what someone would do with that symbol.

@SearlesHernandez

Жыл бұрын

This ^^^ 🤙

@purplebeard1526

Жыл бұрын

Interesting.... I always took the song title as kind of being someone holding that holier than thou stance at people that they deemed less than themselves.

@willfromyadkinville

Жыл бұрын

i miss getting my Spin Magazine! they introduced me to some artist i would of never listened to on my own! just by reading their reviews of groups i had to listen to them!

@pcplayerreacts1865

Жыл бұрын

yes

@jacksmith4460

Жыл бұрын

I head a theory that it was possibly something aimed at the singer from Janes Addiction, Perry Farrell. A reference to the cover of "Ritual de lo Habitual" released in 1990. Soundgarden toured with them and did not get on well. Perry and Chris clashed. The Jesust christ pose , being depicted on the Janes Adiction album cover I dont know how true all this is and I cant remember where I heard it, but it makes sense

Matt Cameron‘s criminally underrated drumming is in the forefront of this one. Such an amazing song! Great reaction!

@mneugent7658

Жыл бұрын

He's one of the all-time greats to me. His play within the tempo and his use of toms are awesome.

@jons3808

Жыл бұрын

@@mneugent7658 he has incredible feel as well, tasty grooves.

@mneugent7658

Жыл бұрын

@@jons3808 Tasty grooves... sounds like a slogan for Ruffles. And now I want Ruffles. Thanks, Jon.

@Psyche-ud2mn

Жыл бұрын

Hes a genius

@jhamler1

Жыл бұрын

@@mneugent7658 Yes to this. Matt's odd time talents have kinda been wasted in Pearl Jam the last twenty years, I think. It's weird how drummers fit in. You think it's a fungible position (like in Spinal Tap) but PJ never sounded as good as when they had Dave Abbruzzese and same goes for Guns and Roses first drummer, I forget his name. The list probably goes on. Or maybe I'm wrong.

Hands down one of my favorite songs. This whole album is just sick! Chris is still desperately missed.

"It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich than to bury you poor" Holy crap, what a line!

@addictedtomusicandtraveling005

6 ай бұрын

This line demands a profoundly reflexive interpretation: "It doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, you'll die the same."

Grunge is actually more of a marketing label than it was a sound, though a "sound" did come out of Seattle at the time. Soundgarden were a little more metal in the first half of their career, so was AIC. Cornell probably had the best voice in rock in the late 80s and early 90s.

@avestuart

Жыл бұрын

I was 20 when this record came out, Soundgarden had two previous records to this one. Their earlier sound was actually more psychedelic. I also live in Seattle now, those I know who were in the music scene in the 80s around town also say that Soundgarden had a more spacey sound. It was bassist Ben Shepperd who helped bring the harder sound when he joined the band after Hiro left. He brought songs such as "Slaves and Bulldozers" to the band among other heavy riffage.

@RareHarmony

Жыл бұрын

Probably? He definitely did.

@mylarus

Жыл бұрын

@@RareHarmony Agreed and IMO still unsurpassed. Maybe Brian Johnson from ACDC comes close.

@anniesthesia

Жыл бұрын

Cornell was one of the greatest singers of modern music period. However, I personally think Mike Patton from Faith No More surpassed him as he has a 7 octave range that rivals Freddie Mercury for quality and ability.

@connexionnature4583

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget the thugs, french band signed on sub pop. One of the best rock sound of this years. Nirvana and Thugs are neighbours. It's always the same kiff to hear them. They work also with Albini. And they are not commercial ...

Time to do "The day I tried to live" or "Fell on Black Days"......amazing songs from Soundgarden!!

@antonytheolddog8626

Жыл бұрын

I actually wrote (before e mail) to lady V on headbangers ball on MTV to play the video too fell on black days.. And they did, got a shout out from her and she said, this is just for you.... I nearly passed out😁 Probs about 95ish many years ago..😎🐐

@bchops4537

Жыл бұрын

The day I tried to live is one of their best !!!

@Nakturnal_1

Жыл бұрын

I really wish they would react to Limo Wreck. An underappreciated song and one of their best, IMO

@RockChalk263

Жыл бұрын

I had forgotten about The Day I Tried to Live. That's a great song.

@SEANBANOG4

Жыл бұрын

great choices.....I would add Like Suicide

This song restored my "faith" in rock. Rock was dead, then it wasn't.

@eldenjr

5 ай бұрын

👍👍 Soundgarden and Alice In Chains.......

Man, Chris Cornell could scream beautifully! This was a great throwback song to my college days…thanks for reacting to it.

@kwantoon

Жыл бұрын

That dude was the greatest rock vocalist of all time, and that's just not debatable.

@bchops4537

Жыл бұрын

@@kwantoon Yup. And let's not forget the master piece "Temple of the Dog". His singing and songwriting is just unbelievable!!!

@kwantoon

Жыл бұрын

@@bchops4537 Absolutely!!

@murphster737

Жыл бұрын

@@kwantoon 100%

This is EXACTLY what grunge is - it's not a sound as much as it's an era or time period! If you compare, say, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam, three of the biggest grunge bands, they really don't sound very 'similar'. And, Soundgarden is DEFINITELY one of the most metal influenced grunge bands for sure, a lot of '70s rock & metal at the foundation of their sound for sure. Nirvana on the other hand was much more punk & college/indie/garage rock influenced. We definitely need more SG - like 'Limo Wreck'!

@the.wayne.b

Жыл бұрын

i was really into this album the day it released. i absolutely thought they were metal for years, this song especially made me think that, then superunknown came out, and i realized they were in that scene too. this is the soungarden i liked most tho.

@Torthrodhel

Жыл бұрын

I mean, grunge was one of a few genres (like nu-metal and shoegaze, and hell even punk) that basically began as a snobbish music writer's insult toward groups they want to feel like they're taking down a peg because they aren't doing things how they reckon they're supposed to be done. And so that's how it begins - indeed not a genre at all - and concentrated roughly in a specific location also due to that. That's how it begins, but over time the sounds those groups tend to make do combine into meaning, roughly, a genre - because of course it's not the snobs that began the term who end up using it mostly, instead it's the fans who actually like the stuff they're talking about. They see it written as-if it's a genre, whether it was actually one or not, and gradually turn it into one in the process of reclaiming the term. Basic hate-term reclamation (not nearly as strong on the 'hate' part as the kind of hate terms you see applied to people, but still just a milder thing along the same scale, so still a similar practical thing naturally happens via the normal development of language... just quite quickly, in this case). So yeah it wasn't a genre back then, but it is a genre by now. And with that meaning, you can absolutely say that a band like Soundgarden didn't always make grunge songs - Badmotorfinger being a good album-length example of when they don't.

Im astonished brad liked this song so much but its awesome!

This song was from their 1991 album "Bad Motor Finger" which was more metal than their future albums but still was different that the other kind of metal that dominated the 80s. This had some of the harder metal guitar sounds but the riffs and song composition were a lot more "alternative." They got more "Grunge" in "Superunknown" and "Down on the Upside". (The guitarist wanted to stay more metal which may explain why they fell apart in 1996 and disbanded... "creative differences".)

@independenceltd.

Жыл бұрын

Same reason Hiro Yamamoto left after "Louder than Love". He thought the band was going "too metal".

@gizzy2403

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they weren't getting along @ all on DOTU. That's why that album wasn't great & very incoherent

@tjmair761

Жыл бұрын

Soundgarden was already grunge. In fact, they're, perhaps, the original grunge (they started in the early '80s). Yes, they're heavier than other grunge acts, and yes, they got lighter before they broke up, and it could've been about creative differences regarding, as you posit, the heaviness of the music, but it was never metal vs. grunge.

@Psyche-ud2mn

Жыл бұрын

Their best album

@jonlate4581

Жыл бұрын

The original and only true 'grunge' band was Mudhoney. Grunge was a stupid term that journalists pinned on all those bands even though none of them sounded remotely alike.

This was actually about rock stars, in particular Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction, adopting christ like imagery and acting like they are somehow their listener's saviour.

@buzzbomb67

Жыл бұрын

Also Michael Hutchence from INXS

Brad you're killing me... "I like this sound right here".... As you point to the screen, heavy metal rock slash grunge blasting...lol

Still smacks hard after all these years! Off my fave Soundgarden album too.

One of the rare Soundgarden songs where all four band members were given writing credits, and it feels that way.

I still remember the day I first heard this song. I was driving home from work and this came on the radio and I was thinking this might be the best song I've ever heard!! Thirty one years later I still think this might be one of the best songs ever recorded.

Brad's interpretation, and Lexi's look, had me LMAO 🤣

Birth Ritual is an awesome early Soundgarden song that was in the Singles film which you should also watch at some point. I think it's Soundgarden's best sounding song and if you like the vocal style in this song I think you'll enjoy that one as well...Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains are all in the Singles film that takes place in Seattle in the early 90s...

Can’t believe you guys actually reacted to this song. Almost no one does. Underrated song imo! Love this song and album!!! CHRIS CORNELL FOREVER!!

Brad swaying at the beginning with no music. Incredible.

I’d like to recommend ‘Rusty Cage’ if y’all haven’t heard it yet!🖖🏼

@brettkenschaft4239

Жыл бұрын

I think they did that one.

Still missing that guy. Such a unique and powerful voice! Great song choice, this whole album kicks ass!!

Spot on, Brad. Soundgarden were most certainly clumped into a convenient box called "Grunge", but they were doing so, so much more than that. They were a true Heavy Metal Rock and Roll band.

There is a spectrum of grunge vocals, and he was one of the idols.

Hell of an album.

This is my Sound Garden favorite song it was in the movie Singles when the whole grunge scene started.

Omg my 12 years old I fall in love of Chris … the grunge is like that of the begining

Yes Brad there’s a spectrum of grunge. There couldn’t be more difference between “grunge “ bands of that time. Nothing but exceptional talent

Most bands that came out of the Seattle scene were influenced by both metal and punk. It was their interpretation of both that came to be known as what people call grunge.

@mpmlopes

Жыл бұрын

This. I'm really confused about what is it that they associate with gunge.

There's an incredibly wide array of sounds from the main four Seattle bands considered "grunge". Four very different bands, too. Soundgarden and Alice have tons of metal in their music. Nirvana's Bleach album has a lot of punk/metal on it. PJ slants more classic rock.

@grogueQ

Жыл бұрын

Very accurate assessment.

@DerEchteBold

Жыл бұрын

Haha, yeah, it's interesting that the four biggest Grunge bands aren't really the best examples of Grunge.

@drillbit8280

Жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold Grunge was more or less a movement/aesthetic that those bands helped push

@DerEchteBold

Жыл бұрын

@@drillbit8280 Not around here were I am, here it was just music, sudden fashion trends had much less impact on smalltown areas back then. My friends and I were mostly into Metal/Punk/Hardcore since the mid 80s and it was just great fun to have all those guitar bands break into mainstream.

My second time ever consuming cannabis, I must have been 17. I smoked way more than I was ready for, decided to listen to my ipod, put this song on, and had a borderline religious experience. Song hit me like a ten ton truck and immediately became my favorite Soundgarden song.

🤣😂🤣 Well that's one way to spin this one Brad!!🤦‍♀I've seen and heard Chris in many interviews, talking about the meaning of these lyrics and it's definitely far deeper than your take, but honestly... I don't wanna ruin for ya! lol!!😜 Music/Art is subjective and a song can mean many different things to many different people. That's the beauty of it to me!!😊 SOOOO all I'll say is.... loved that you loved this one!! Chris was one in a million and so are you guys!!!👊❤

This is the song that introduced me to Soundgarden. To this day my favorite song of theirs and the era I will always remember them from… long before the wine-fest era of Black Hole Sun.

Yeah, back then Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) & Alice In Chains (Facelift) definitely had a Metal sound. This is one of Soundgarden's best songs. I strongly recommend Birth Ritual & Room A Thousand Years Wide also.

@Psyche-ud2mn

Жыл бұрын

Rusty cage

@noodle_fc

Жыл бұрын

@@Psyche-ud2mn They did Rusty Cage: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3iH28ShaKi-kZs.html

@addictedtomusicandtraveling005

7 ай бұрын

​@@Psyche-ud2mnSlaves & Bulldozers is also a banger.

@Psyche-ud2mn

7 ай бұрын

Yes@@addictedtomusicandtraveling005

Matt Cameron murders the drums on this song from the beginning to the end. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

“Pretty good vocals” - understatement of the century. 😂 Soundgarden was 100 percent grunge, but they were far more experimental than the other Big 4. They’ve been my favorite band for over a decade (tastes changed a lot in my early 20’s), and that isn’t changing any time soon (or ever).

This is one of the few videos that Chris really liked. MTV banned this video from playing certain times of the day. I remember seeing it on headbangers ball.

I'd actually forgotten about this but how vivid it came back watching the video

An abolustly seminal song from my youth. The clubs used to go off to this song. Soundgarden were there own thing and really only got lumped into Grunge becuase they were from the same time and city. RIP Chris.

Soundgarden is metal.

This is alt-grunge. The drums are incredible. I watch them play this live and I still can't get over watch Matt Cameron playing the drums to this song. If you like this Soundgarden sound check out Get Off My Wave and the incredible Searching With My Good Eye Closed.

you should have left the part where chat makes fun of Brad for "nailing" this one 😂😂 chat was all jokes hahaha!

Brad. Your analysis at the end killed me bro. I’m dead.

RIP- Chris Cornell. Your music is outstanding. Rock on Brad & Lex

We keep telling yall! Grunge was a silly term the national media gave these groups (Washington, Oregon, Pacific Northwest) back in the days. Just call it alt rock with heavy distortion. It's basically stripped down rock music, it's like if punk rock and sludge metal had a baby = grunge. Slower, heavier than typical punk rock music. This is your typical early grunge (late '80s-'90s) . Raw and heavy. And yall are correct. Different spectrum of "grunge". Some are very punk rock like Nirvana, Toadies, Dinosaur JR, etc Then you had ones that are more metal like AIC, Soundgarden, etc. Also, post-grunge is where it kind of got watered down (typically much slower and whinier) late '90s-'00s. See Nickleback, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Candlebox, Three Days Grace, Live, Temple of the Dog, etc. Most of the bands started sounding very similar to each other like country rock music. And they wanted to sound like marbles in your mouth/mush moth Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) . See Brad's imitation of Vedder, lol! He's right. Also many of the songs can be pretty depressing.

Beyond the Wheel live at their 2010 reunion gig is a must watch.

Love Matt Cameron's drum groove on this one.

@toolshed7652

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIaBy8iJh6acZMY.html Beast mode activated 😎

At 65 I feel this might be the GOAT of "Hard" rock albums. A little metal, grunge, and a little thrash all blended into The SoundGarden.

This song is for me the best Soundgarden song of their catalog that I've heard, it's personal for me. I never thought of this song as a sex song because it represents a very specific time in my life. This song represents my mom (I love her dearly, but....) from when I was 19 until I was 22. I'm 51. My mom was, and still can be sometimes, a very judgmental woman from an Irish Catholic background and I was not exactly a saintly son. Whenever she would be disappointed in me, she stared at me in her "Jesus Christ Pose" as she judged me. She is no longer like this and it took a blow out between her and I, after not speaking except at holidays for 3 years, for us to mend our relationship. She finally realized after said blow out that I was never going to be what she thought "her little boy" should be and finally accepted me for me. She and I have had a great relationship since. I can see where you would think that Brad, but to me this song is one person judging another harshly. Great reaction, though! 👍

Man what a singer!!! He really belted that one out! Shades of Brian Johnson's back in black, me thinks...

Matt Cameron is a BA drummer. This is a great example of his prowess.

Grunge had many diverse influences. Apart from (hardcore) punk, folk and alternative rock also doom metal. The members of Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were metal fans, so a lot of their work features considerable amounts of metal elements and vibes. If you listen to Nirvana's debut album "Bleach" and their b-sides/unreleased songs compilation "Incesticide" you'll finds plenty of doom metal influence, too. Way more than in their later work. Check out their songs "Big Long Now" and "Paper Cuts". Those are basically doom metal songs.

Brad...I love your "grunge" voice! LOL Always get a kick outa you doing it! lol

Badmotorfinger was my intro to soundgarden, that whole album is full of hard guitar riffs, crushing vocals and is some of their best work.

Just thinking about y’all preparing for the baby. Hope Lex is ok, and Brad is handlin’ up. We love you guys!

Chris Cornell had such an amazing voice. One of my top 5 favorite male voices in Rock, for sure. He was also the epitome of the Hot Grunge Guy all us grunge gals in the 90's were into.

@africanfartingfrog

Жыл бұрын

He's about the only hot grunge guy I can think of. Most of them were fugly

Much Laughter AND Love, Woman perked right up when He appears

Grunge = (the) MELVINS

Slaves and Bulldozers is the best on this album imo

@addictedtomusicandtraveling005

6 ай бұрын

🎶 "Now I know why you've been shaking Now I know why you've been shaking Now I know why you've been shaking Now I know why you've been shaking So bleed your heart out There's no more rides for free, yeah Bleed your heart out I said what's in it for me? What's in it for me?..." 🎶 Dope song, dope lyrics.

Now that was Garden of Sound.

Dude, I've never even thought of that interpretation of this song, and I think you may be right. Wow, good insight man.

92' Lollapalooza Miami 🤘

"Definitely not shower music ..." I'd laugh and shout if I heard my neighbour screaming this in his shower - apartment building. :)

The man in black actually covered this Soundgarden tune! Can you imagine! Just wow!

This song is it. So powerful. It is one of my all timers.

Soundgarden went through phases and have a wealth of sounds beyond Grunge.

One of favorite Soundgarden songs. Love it.

I've got my messiah impression nailed down. I kinda like Brad's interpretation too. "No one sings like you anymore" ✌️

This one took a while to grow on me but now I love it. Awesome album

Always great reactions! 😜 Love the streams❤️

Great song. Great band 🏆👏 Brad your interpretation was hilarious, love it! I'm going with your version 🙌😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥😍❤️🔥🔥🔥 in the Jesus Christ pose 👏🔥😍😍😍🏆 😂🙌 Drive the nail🔥🔥🔥

This was my favorite video in the world when it first came out but then it got banned, BUT I had already recorded it off MTV with my VCR so I was set. lol. Grunge was named after bands like Soundgarden, so the word grunge really wasn't really a genre when it was first coined. It was mostly just about all the great rock bands coming out of Seattle during that time frame. People tried to explain it as a genre after that. My favorite song off this album is Slaves and Bulldozers, but it has to be a live version. It was often their encore song at concerts and they play it different every time, and different than the studio version. It's also the very last song Chris Cornell performed the night he died. Slaves and Bulldozers - LIve Artists Den is probably the best youtube recording.

Such a sick vocal performance and song

"Definitely not shower music!" ❤ You got that right, Lex! 😄 Might lose a shower curtain or two.

If nobody has ever suggested Gruntruck Crazy Love, it's another heavy "grunge" sound.

glad yall get to hear this yo ima check out more of yalls vids yall dope 🙏

You guys should react to more Soundgarden… "Fell On Black Days", "Loud Love", "Blow Up The Outside World", "The Day I Tried To Live", "Pretty Noose", "Birth Ritual", "Hands All Over", "Tighter & Tighter", "Flower", "Toy Box", "Never The Machine Forever" 🎸🤘

@sandalwhich

Жыл бұрын

Hands all Over is my favorite Soundgarden song. Ugly Truth is good too

Grunge and Stoner Rock, Two of the best music forms ever.

My favourite song from Badmotorfinger is "Rusty Cage" Fucking awesome

BADMOTORFINGER......Still the BEST Grunge Album ever !.....I saw them Live at this Tour and damn,the Crowd and the Band went absolutely CRAZY!.....One of the Best Concerts in my Life !

This could be considered Acid Rock. Sound Garden had a wide range of styles.

Give SHE WANTS REVENGE "Tear you apart" a listen. Brad will definitely dig it.

The call and response of Chris's voice and the guitar are amazing in this song. It's, by far, my favorite Soundgarden song.

Love this song. One of my favorite Soundgarden songs!

They played this at lalapalooza 92..... i was 17 .... getting ready to join the navy and travel the world..... damb i love this song

Picture it... small town I mean like small small town Mississippi, Saturday night, Country music and old rock was about it for radio stations but in town my old bronco with a decent system scan onto a college station that just started new programming and this was the first song I heard and it blew this country boys mind. Sunday I drove 60 miles to the cd store and bought badmotorfinger and like 10 other bands I heard that night.

Soundgarden was always a lot harder than most grunge . for example loud love or rusty cage are 2 great heavier songs by them.

Soundgarden was always the heaviest out of all of those coming out of Seattle.

What a voice . Hard Rock.

Soundgarden treaded the line between hard rock and heavy metal on early records... they did embody what became known as the 'Seattle sound' in the 90's, despite the fact that they sounded nothing like Pearl or Nirvana. But when their 1994 album 'Superunknown' became a massive hit record, the band would distance themselves from the 'heavy metal' tag for whatever reasons metal was "not cool" in the 90's. When Chris Cornell went solo in 2000 and then joined Audioslave in 2002, he embraced more diverse musical influences.

I like Brads interpretation.. 🖋🔨😂

nice P J Harvey t shirt Brad...I wasn't aware you'd seen any of her videos...there's a great clip of her performing Rid Of Me in Sydney 2001...I think you'll enjoy it, especially Lex

Definitely one of their better songs (IMO) and Badmotorfinger is full of bangers. As for the meaning... I don't think it's sex. I think it's more about him confronting someone who is some kind of self righteous "oh poor me" manipulative type. They act like they are all innocent and good when they are just trying to manipulate him/society. Quite possibly aimed at televangelist types, who will open their arms like Jesus and ask for money. "It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich than to bury you poor."

@nettiemac

Жыл бұрын

This.

Awesome video. The frenetic editing matches the intensity of the song.

Apparently, he DID need to be saved.

I was 17 when this came out. I first heard and saw this video with a few mates at my parents place. Some of us ate Hash Cookies (my first time) an hour or so prior. I still remember (30 and a bit years later) sitting and then backing away from the TV while this was playing. Three quarters of the way through the song I looked around and we were all pushed up against the far lounge wall. That chisel though the TV still weirds me out :)

This was my introduction to Soundgarden back in the day.

One of the best songs Chris ever belted! \m/

This was banned from MTV rotation back in the day