New Soundgarden Album?
 

Last week, Cornell spoke to Rolling Stone about Michael Jackson’s influence on a generation of rockers, and told us Soungarden have been talking — not about touring or recording, but about the band’s legacy. “The only thing that we have talked about is trying to put together an album of B sides and maybe a box set with some unreleased tracks we have,” Cornell says. “This is something we first talked about 10 years ago. We all feel it’s time to do that, and we have a lot of fans out there, and we have a lot of new fans discovering our music, and I think the catalog and the legacy of the band has been ignored by the record label and previous management, so we decided to get together, and start working towards putting something like that out.”


Cornell was steadfast in his denial that a tour would be happening this time next year, adding that such talk has been nonexistent. His main Soundgarden-related focus? Getting those B sides out. “We did so many B sides, and we were always miffed by the concept that the largest part of our audience was in the U.S., and yet, we were always churning out B sides for other territories, so they would buy the local release instead of the import. That’s what I am the most excited about, to get that collection out so every one knows its there and has access to it. I think a box set would be good, too.”


While Cornell — whose rockier Howard Benson remix of Scream track “Long Gone” is still going strong — has often said that he likes the way Soundgarden left things off, at their height and before the music started sounding forced, nowadays, he seems to be singing a slightly different tune. “I’ve always said nothing is impossible,” he explains. “I never wanted to be one of those people who tries to predict the future. I don’t want to know what I will be doing two years, five years from now. I want to be open to anything, but nothing has changed in terms of our attitude toward it. It takes somebody to really stand up and say, ‘We should do this, we have to go do this, let’s go do this,’ and so far, no one has raised their hand to do that. Still, it’s not impossible.”

Plz no thanx

no, god. no.

If they must release something, a b-side collection would be better than anything new to be sure. How sad he thinks they stopped before the music "started sounding forced".

Cornell is such a fucking asshat.

Ho ho.

Never knew there was such disdain for the band on here, cant see why. Soundgarden were one of the more creative bands of the whole grunge groups and evolved with each record. Even Down on the Upside was good, pretty noose, burden in my hand, ty cobb and blow up the outside world were way better than ANYTHING on tv or radio nowadays. This "forced" accusation is bullshit.

I don't have any disdain for Soundgarden. Badmotorfinger and Superunknown are fine albums and Kim Thayil is a pretty great guitarist. I just think Cornell is a dickhead.

Soundgarden, like Alice In Chains and to a much lesser degree Pearl Jam, was a great band whose sound has been pirated by mediocre "modern rockers".

I hope they do get back together again. Alice In Chains have a new album on the way (first person to say they should change their name because Layne Staley's dead like all the twats on YouTube gets neg rep), so it'd be great for Soundgarden to come back too, and show all the Nickelbacks and Puddles of Mudd of the world how it's done.

Alice in Chains/Soundgarden world tour FTW

alice in chains should change their name because layne staley is dead. :)

Alice in Chains should just fuck off and hope the world forgets that they ever existed.

Yep. Like take a leaf out of Layne's book.

i can't think of something more horrible.

alice "we're better without layne" in chains and soundgarden with chris "and now to get your groove on, a special timbaland remix of 'spoonman' featuring nelly furtado...kim, stop glaring at me!! remember, if you punch me you don't get paid" cornell.

Yeah, what he said. I loved both bands when I saw them in tiny clubs in Seattle before they got in the hands of big record producers who made them into overblown shit.

I remember hearing Soundgarden on KCMU's local music show in '86 and they played a couple songs that they said influenced them at the time, and they were a Chrome and a Meat Puppets tune off of II. The original tunes they were playing in those days showed those kind of influences too.

Alice on the other hand had been a butt rock band before they discovered what Green River and the like were doing and started doing cooler stuff. But they still put on a great sweaty metal/punk/pop hybrid show before the word "grunge" had stuck and all the songs on Facelift were way better in the club than when the lame slowed down and digitally pumped up album finally came out and made them superstars.

I know I suck for the "I saw them when they were good and now they suck" attitude, but the fact is, it's true. Mudhoney at least put out a few good records that got national recognition (though their major label output wasn't great either, it was at least more boring than overdone).

Get hold of the Deep Six compilation. The "Seattle Sound" was fairly represented on that. Buy the Solid Action comp by the U-men who were the best Seattle band ever. Green River's output is decent too, though always a shadow of what they were like live when Mark was tripping his brains out and rolling around in the crowd like the child of Iggy that even Iggy says he was. The best major label album by a Seattle band, Nirvana excepted of course, is probably by Heart.

Oh, I agree, but Hendrix never released an album as a Seattle act. Of course Seattle doesn't draw attention to that, but he more than had to leave to get recognized.

Whatever, dude...I'm of the age where hearing "Would?" and "Outshined" on the radio (actually I first heard that song and "Rusty Cage" in Road Rash for PSX) affected me pretty deeply.

I do have a CD compiled by Charles Peterson that came with his Screaming Life book. It has Green River, Tad, and an early Soundgarden song called "Entering"...

Sure, I feel the same way about "Don't Stop Believing" and "Juke Box Hero". However, I won't try to claim those are examples of good music...

i agree