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♫ Soundgarden – Spoonman / 1994

As you may have heard, Soundgarden are reuniting. What is crazy about the whole thing is how little I have thought of (or listened to) them in the 12 (!?) years since they broke up. And I guess I never realized that they only had one album after their 1994 breakthrough Superunknown. Anyway, enough about the shit I didn’t know. What I do know is that “Spoonman” is still as much of a jam as it was 15 years ago and that the opening chords of “Black Hole Sun” instantly transport me back to middle school. I was never a huge Soundgarden fan but always got down with “Spoonman” on the radio and the weird ass “Black Hole Sun” video on MTV. It is weird to think that before today I had never actually chosen to listen to either of these songs yet I know them so well that I can rock along with them no problem. They were so ingrained in me during my adolescence that I will probably die having heard these songs more times then my favorite song of 2009. That era of radio just doesn’t exist anymore and it’s crazy to think about since KROQ was pretty much my best friend growing up. Yes, we now have the power to choose our own niche musical identity but there is really something beautiful in knowing that you are listening to the same jam at the same moment as thousands of other people. Anyway, some food for thought as we enter this new decade and The 90s officially becomes the Flashback era of today.

♫ Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun / 1994

Also crazy that these guys broke up so long ago that they don’t have a MySpace (that I could find). Not even a bullshit placeholder one. Just fan sites. Crazy.

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Written by: Brandon on January 5, 2010.

Tagged as: chris cornell, Soundgarden

b-more bastard

oh man i love black hole sun. i remember in middle school there was a stretch of 2 straight weeks where i would wake up to KROQ and black hole song would be playing! every single day! at the exact same time! i dont know if that was just because they played it 100 times a day or because it was scheduled for 7:00AM every day, but there it was.
Brandon @ TBE

haha, yeah, there are few songs I remember like that. I remember sitting at home working on a big project one Saturday and hearing Alanis' “Ironic” every hour. Rough times.
Cherry Sunset

I too love this song, as a matter of fact it inspired me to paint this design:

http://www.cherrysunset.com/mens-bamboo-painted-shirts/black-hole-sun/