My favourite band.

That was a bit sudden.

The details are somewhat sketchy so far so I won't speculate, but whatever the reason it's sad to see the world lose such a talent.

Superunknown was the first album I ever bought.

He had an incredible voice. A loss to music.

Best rock vocalist in my lifetime. Fuck.

My favourite vocalist too, amazing voice. Devastated to hear this when I got up this morning.

Tragic

Only Eddie Vedder left of the 'big 4' grunge lead singers.

Animavore wrote:Only Eddie Vedder left of the 'big 4' grunge lead singers.

Ugh.
Like Soundgarden and Nirvana. Loathe Pearl Jam with a passion.

As an aside... same day as Ian Curtis

felltoearth wrote:

Animavore wrote:Only Eddie Vedder left of the 'big 4' grunge lead singers.

Ugh.
Like Soundgarden and Nirvana. Loathe Pearl Jam with a passion.

As an aside... same day as Ian Curtis

The big four are those 3 and Alice in Chains.

Only really liked Superunknown and Screaming Life, but man are those records amazing. What a set of pipes on that guy, really the only singer from that era worthy to take the torch from Robert Plant, surpassing him in many ways IMHO.

Nothing makes a 90's kid feel old like all your grunge guys dying

The latest is that the police are investigating it as a possible suicide; between that and drugs overdoses that's a sadly typical way for a grunge singer to go. There haven't been a lot taken from us by natural courses over the years, that's for sure.

You'd think having made it 20 years later would mean you're out of the grunge woods. Guess not.

I actually liked him better in Audioslave.

I even liked his Bond theme.

One of the best on Superunknown.

I got laid to Superunknown once. Not because it was the guy's fave or anything but because my Dad had his copy of the album in the house and we needed to drown out any noises.

It was a bad enough memory and now that Chris Cornell's dead it's even worse.

Soundgarden played a gig just last night in Detroit.

https://twitter.com/FoxTheatreDet/statu ... evealed%2F

One of the bands that I was in in my youth was accused on more than one occasion of being "Soundgarden wannabees". Our singer had a fake ID with the name "Christopher T. Cornell" on it. So yeah, you could say that we were Soundgarden fans.

I always felt that the "grunge" label was a bit unfair to Soundgarden. They were a bit more technical and precise than the other grunge bands, and they were actually somewhat competent musicians unlike the others. Their frequent use of unconventional time signatures also set them apart. They weren't quite metal either though...

So Cornell dies at 52, and the hate peddler and serial harasser Ailes makes it to 77. Shit ain't right.

The drum roll at the beginning of Hands All Over is ridiculous.

I remember the first time I heard Louder Than Love I had the volume at a level my ma wouldn't give out about. The first song played fine then Hands All Over, the second song, came on. When the drums hit, and shook the house, my mother flew out of the sitting room and roared up the stairs to, "Turn that shit down."

Funnily enough I didn't have to lower it at all. The rest of the album went back to normal.


She was a narky, hot-headed woman.

BBC news is saying he hanged himself. So sad.
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