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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-SEP-1989 | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| August 24, 1989 | | Studio:
| A&M | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 54 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Ugly Truth | | 2. | Hands All Over | | 3. | Gun | | 4. | Power Trip | | 5. | Get on the Snake | | 6. | Full on Kevin's Mom | | 7. | Loud Love | | 8. | I Awake - Soundgarden, McDonald, K | | 9. | No Wrong, No Right | | 10. | Uncovered | | 11. | Big Dumb Sex | | 12. | Full On (Reprise) | |
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 Menacing, irreverent and timelessMay 09, 2010
While not as varied and accessible as some of the later Soundgarden albums, all the songs share a menacing, irreverent and molten-lava quality that makes this their most consistent and memorable album. From the first song to the last, there's a heavy and pulsing purity of intention that keeps all the songs flowing together seamlessly. Especially good are Full On Kevin's Mom, Loud Love (my all-time favorite Soundgarden song), Get On The Snake, Hands All Over, Ugly Truth and Big Dumb Sex, but the other, less memorable tracks are very effective in maintaining the same kind of heavy vibe. Kim Thayil's guitaring is noticeably imaginative in the tunings, tempos and chord progressions, giving the songs an experimental quality but never getting in the way of the epic, rocking quality. The album comes together to take on a timeless quality which is present in the best rock and roll. Chris Cornell's voice is piercing, dynamic and holds your attention throughout. It's as if the band wanted to keep it's sense of humor (which was present on their earlier albums) but focus more on a relentlessly heavy vibe with every song. This album has only gotten better with time.
 Louder Than You ThinkJan 24, 2010
Soundgarden's sophmore debut is Soundgarden's major label debut and marks Soundgarden as the first grunge band to sign with a major label. Let me just say this to get it out of the way: in a creative sense it lacks in comparison to Ultramega Ok. However it would seem that some of Soundgarden's most memorable songs are on this album. Obviously the best tracks are the songs "Hands All Over", "Loud Love", and "Get On the Snake" but there are some other notable songs here. "Gun" starts with the usual grinding metal that gradually speeds up as the song progresses and then explodes into a guitar solo before slowing down again. "Big Dumb Sex" earned it a Parental Advisory sticker for it's crude but humorous lyrics that are strait foward without innuendos or downright horrendous vulgarity. It Soundgarden's most F-word riddled song until "Ty Cobb" from their final studio album Down on the Upside. "I Awake" is a song with some of Soundgarden's most cryptic and strange lyrics: "Woke up depressed/I left for work/You have a good day/I know it hurts". My interpretation of the lyrics of "Uncovered" deals with the secrets people have hidden away and "Power Trip" deals with power hungry people. The haunting track "Hands All Over" is the best track on the album (in my opinion) and bemoans humans and their enviroment killing habits (Hands all over the coastal waters/The crew men thank her/Then lay down their oily blanket) and contain's the infamous "Kill your mother" line, which refers to mother nature. The entire album is a slow grinding metal sound that is favored over the psychedelia/classic rock/hardcore punk of Ultramega Ok. Someone on here had remarked about this album of the title of their review for this album, and true to the word of that person, Louder Than Love is certainly their ugliest (Note that I was listening to this album while writing this review). It's less sludgy than Ultramega OK, but more grinding and heavy. But like their debut album, you will have listen to this album closely to appreciate Louder Than Love's music. Unfortunately like the debut album, it can easly be overlooked by newly recruited fans of the last two albums. This is Soundgarden in their Prime but not their best. Of course that's my opinion. Buy it if you want. Buy this and their debut album if you want to look into the days of Pre-Nirvana Grunge.
Great, great, great. Greater than great.Jan 06, 2010
Okay, some of the songs on this album fall flat, but even when compared to the absolutely masterful "Superunknown," this album offers a lot. I *love* the heavy, sludgy sound Yamamoto brings in with his bass. 'Gun' is about as exciting as rock music gets. 'Full On Kevin's Mom' is hilarious, and it rocks. 'Hands All Over' and 'Ugly Truth' are utter savagery, but really, really smart savages. I get shivers every time I hear them.
Even most of the lesser songs are worth hearing, except maybe 'I Awake'.
Soundgarden got more complex, and became great in a different way, but for bone-chewing, fire-breathing power, this is as good as it gets.
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1989 SOUNDGARDENSep 05, 2009
The band was hot when this record came out, they continued as a band for a few more years, putting out a few more records, but this was probably their best record, although their popularity grew with each record. Then like many bands, they broke up at the peak of their popularity. The other day I heard a rumor that they might be getting back together. It seems that Chris Cornell's solo material never matched what he achieved with Soundgarden, but Audio Slave did come close.
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Awesome albumMar 20, 2009
Truly great album on all fronts. Soundgarden is the best band to ever come out of Seattle and Cornell is one of the most amazing talents to ever grace rock music (during his time with Soundgarden that is)
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