Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 02:00:03 -0400 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 13 Aug 1997 to 14 Aug 1997 There are 23 messages totalling 747 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. KIMS' FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!! (2) 2. just a slight dis 3. LEAST favorite lyric (2) 4. More Kim stuff 5. MODERN ROCK LIVE (2) 6. Living in a SG unfriendly town (4) 7. when fallen on black days (5) 8. another sg dream 9. Reading a SG friendly List :) 10. Triple Z and a Somms Cd 11. Living in a SG unfriendly 'COUNTRY!!!' 12. Fresh & Deadly 13. Lead me to your bootlegs. To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:52:07 +1000 From: spoonman Subject: KIMS' FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BCA800.DA473F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all.=20 I was just watching a tape of the 1997 Big Day Out special the Red TV = had on a few months ago. It has spoonman live and an interview with Kim. = Anyway, Kim was in a very laid back mood and was pretty funny. Here is = his reply to the following question: What is the meaning behind your publishing company's name? (which is "in = one ear and out your mother") Kim-"Maybe what I do is a diahoretic for your parents." For those of you who don't know what diahoretic means and can't be = bothered looking it up (like me), it means "something which causes = someone to urinate". I still crack up when I just think about it. Anyway, that's my post for = today mike PS Sorry about all this coding that surrounds my messages. Does anyone = know how to get rid of it?=20 PPS Does anyone who lives in Australia have a copy of the BDO special = that was on red TV earlier this year? My copy is all fuzzy, and I would = like a clearer copy. spoonman@netlink.com.au ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BCA800.DA473F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi = all.

I was just watching = a tape of the=20 1997 Big Day Out special the Red TV had on a few months ago. It has = spoonman=20 live and an interview with Kim. Anyway, Kim was in a very laid back mood = and was=20 pretty funny. Here is his reply to the following question:

What is the meaning = behind your=20 publishing company's name? (which is "in one ear and out your=20 mother")

Kim-"Maybe what I do = is a=20 diahoretic for your parents."

For those of you who = don't know what=20 diahoretic means and can't be bothered looking it up (like me), it means = "something which causes someone to urinate".

I still crack up when I just think about = it. Anyway,=20 that's my post for today

mike

PS Sorry about all this coding that = surrounds my=20 messages. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

PPS Does anyone who lives in Australia = have a copy of=20 the BDO special that was on red TV earlier this year? My copy is all = fuzzy, and=20 I would like a clearer copy.

spoonman@netlink.com.au ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BCA800.DA473F60-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:45:49 +0000 From: Fiona Thiessen Subject: just a slight dis Mike Smith wrote: > i know on the list from time to time we bash an occasional band > ,(bush,sublime,spicy chicks, match box 20, ex.) but what i wanna know, is+ > has soundgarden ever openly bashed another band? or evan been implying that > another band sucks, i know that kareokee is a slam at someone, or something, > whatever. I'm sure this is an unwanted thread, but this is from Chris on Triple R radio whilst SG were here in Australia ('97). It sprung into mind b/c I transcribed it and that tends to make *every* word and nuance in the interview stick in your head :) I think Chris and Kim are masters of subtlety. Kim's line about lemonade stands - in Hype! - is brilliant :) K is the interviewer, C is Chris. K: Yeah, that's interesting how all those boundaries seem to have dissolved, really in the last few years so much. I mean I remember when alternative music was really starting the cross over in the late 80's. C: Mmm-humm. K: Those sort of boundaries almost ceased to be relevant, didn't they? C: Yeah, mainly because that usually it's not the bands that start what can be classified as a genre, it's the bands that are influenced by it or try to copy it that end up being in that genre. Like for instance - grunge. I don't, I never think of Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Soundgarden or Mudhoney or The Melvins as grunge bands. I think of these as individual bands. To me a grunge band is Stone Temple Pilots (STP) or Silverchair or arghh... Bush. Bands that are obviously influenced by a combination of all these bands together, which suddenly creates a genre. It sounds like if you took little pieces out of all these Seattle bands, and put them together you'd have STP, and that, that's grunge to me. That's like this genre they created by borrowing. Fiona ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:22:28 +0600 From: Robin Brookeneck Subject: Re: LEAST favorite lyric > Well I was sitting here attempting to find my favorite soundgarden >lyric. I couldn't narrow it down. So I figured well since I can't pick a >favorite I would eliminate lyrics I didn't like and work from there. I still >have trouble. I have yet to find a lyric I don't like nor can I pick an >alltime favorite. If anyone out there can think of any lyric they don't like >that I might agree with please post it. I need help, soundgarden can do no >wrong. Thanks. > > >^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* >IF THIS ISN'T MAKING SENSE >IT DOESN'T MAKE IT LIES >^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* > ...for me is very difficult to think in just one lyric...but at this moment the first that comes to my mind is "Evil could be right next door"...from Blind Dogs , I just can't tell you exactly why...maybe the meaning of that short but very truth phrase, maybe the way that Chris sing it, overall I love that song... believe me this is only just one phrase that I consider one of my all favorites...but definitely not the only one... later ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:34:04 -0400 From: Catherine Veit Subject: Re: KIMS' FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!! kim can be hilarious, but matt's pretty funny too, no one ever guesses since he's usually so quiet. like in one interview i thought was really funny when the band was talking about what to name DOTU before it was released, and matt said something like " i guess they didn't like my idea of COMIN ATCHA" everyone laughs, " then there was MR. BUNCHYPANTS!" I i rewound that part over & over. -CATS4KIM&MATT mike, you sent me that one didn't you???? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:44:56 -0500 From: Like Suicide Subject: More Kim stuff Was reading through some articles on Seth's site today and found this as a great example of Kim being hilarious: "But Superunknown is a very stoner-friendly record," says Cornell, "which is funny, because none of use really do drugs. If you listen to it straight, it's great, but if you get really stoned, it can seem that the whole thing was conceived for that state of mind. I can't explain why." "In the LP version," Thayil says, "we even have a gatefold, so that the kids in the Midwest can use it to clean their pot." Being from St. Louis, and seeing all the posers in my school who go to Phish concerts for no reason and just get wasted on the weekends, heh.. Larry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:03:17 -0400 From: Charlie Mccutcheon Subject: MODERN ROCK LIVE does anybody have a tape of the sg interview from '96 on modern rock live (the radio show)? i would appreciate a response from those who do. one of the things i've noticed about SG is their lack of marketing. i mean...madonna had a doll, movie deals, cereals,etc. the new kids...ugh!!...don't get me started. how about this: SG action figures! yeah it'll be great...really. they'll have spring action power stuff like: chris w/ umm...super scream and drink&collapse nonaction. accessories: cigarette, guitar, mic&stand & removable shirt. kim w/ real (synthetic) hair & beer drinking action. accessories: bad ass guitar, amps, cigarette& beer can. ben w/power bird flipping action & super spit pump. accessories: destructable bass, amps & cigarette. matt w/ ultra drum beating action & swivel waist. accessories:drum kit & chair. mail away offer: 1) psychotic groupies 10 pac! 2) arena stage! 3) bar stage w/ hecklers! just a thought... charlie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:22:24 -0400 From: Dan Carbo Subject: Living in a SG unfriendly town I decided to try and find some SG merchandise today. Now, I don't have to many posters or shirts, In fact the only things hanging on my wall are pictures from magazines, and stuff that I made or my friends made. Trying to find real posters, shirts, bootlegs, and other stuff is hard. I really have to search my local music stores, and when I do I usually come home with nothing. I hear all you guys buying posters and shirts, but in my town they just have nothing. I live in a town that isn't a SG friendly town. However today I bought a shirt. It has the CD of Pretty Noose LP version on the back, and its black. It was shoved all they way in the back of a t-shirt rack. Out of hundreds of shirts, this was the only one I found. Is this a common shirt anywhere else? Am I the only one living in a town that doesn't care about SG? Is there a catalogue I can get so I can order stuff? Please help. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:32:55 -0400 From: Pam Underwood Subject: when fallen on black days Hello everyone Well yesterday was one of those black days. Ever have on of those? Me and my best friends are in a huge fight and I couldn't bring myself to listen to soundgarden cause he introduced me to real music(used to be a club child years back). So I guess my question is Was/is there ever a time you cant listen to SG? L8R LiKe SuiCiDe *~PAM~* ______________________ Looking for the person selling the somms shirts I lost your addy. Wanted to know if you got the $$ yet. ____________________________________________- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:51:48 -0700 From: James Bartlett Subject: another sg dream I had another sg dream last night. They were playing in what resembled the Punchline (a comedy club in San Francisco). I think I had took the place of Kim because I was onstage with Chris and Ben. I didn't see Matt but I saw my friend who's a drummer freaking on the drums. Ben was fooling around with his bass, playing it in an unorthodox manner. This seemed to have a deeply troubling effect on Chris. He gave Ben a few dirty looks as if to say, "stop dickin' around you fourdollar crackwhore," but Ben was having fun and paid no attention. So Chris reached over grabbed his bass and began to play it along with his guitar. It was a distrubing, yet strangely entertaining dream. -Jimi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:11:46 -0400 From: Robbie Strickland Subject: Re: Living in a SG unfriendly town > I decided to try and find some SG merchandise today. Now, I > don't have to many posters or shirts, In fact the only things > hanging on my wall are pictures from magazines, and stuff that I > made or my friends made. Trying to find real posters, shirts, > bootlegs, and other stuff is hard. I really have to search my > local music stores, and when I do I usually come home with > nothing. I hear all you guys buying posters and shirts, but in > my town they just have nothing. I live in a town that isn't a SG > friendly town. > However today I bought a shirt. It has the CD of Pretty Noose > LP version on the back, and its black. It was shoved all they > way in the back of a t-shirt rack. Out of hundreds of shirts, > this was the only one I found. Is this a common shirt anywhere > else? Am I the only one living in a town that doesn't care about > SG? Is there a catalogue I can get so I can order stuff? Please > help. > > Dan I have that shirt. it's not a common shirt, but it's not uncommon either.. kind of inbetween. SToNeTeMPLe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:18:06 -0400 From: Robbie Strickland Subject: Re: LEAST favorite lyric > Well I was sitting here attempting to find my favorite > soundgarden lyric. I couldn't narrow it down. So I figured > well since I can't pick a favorite I would eliminate lyrics I > didn't like and work from there. I still have trouble. I have > yet to find a lyric I don't like nor can I pick an alltime > favorite. If anyone out there can think of any lyric they don't > like that I might agree with please post it. I need help, > soundgarden can do no wrong. Thanks. > > > ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* > IF THIS ISN'T MAKING SENSE > IT DOESN'T MAKE IT LIES > ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* My LEAST favorite lyric would be big dumb sex (entire song) for obvoious reasons. SToNeTeMPLe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:18:50 -0400 From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: Re: MODERN ROCK LIVE On November 15, 1995, Chris and Kim were on SpinOnline and SG action figures were discussed. Here's what was said. PrttyVcan: After the CD+, what's next, a line of Soundgarden action figures? SownGardn: Anatomically correct action figures. And we're gonna make a female Soundgarden figure without a head, also anatomically correct. So there you have it! :) May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:44:15 -0600 From: "Jason S. Lewis" Subject: Re: Living in a SG unfriendly town At 02:22 PM 8/13/97 -0400, you wrote: >I decided to try and find some SG merchandise today. Now, I don't have to >many posters or shirts, In fact the only things hanging on my wall are >pictures from magazines, and stuff that I made or my friends made. Trying to >find real posters, shirts, bootlegs, and other stuff is hard. I really have >to search my local music stores, and when I do I usually come home with >nothing. I hear all you guys buying posters and shirts, but in my town they >just have nothing. I live in a town that isn't a SG friendly town. > >However today I bought a shirt. It has the CD of Pretty Noose LP version on >the back, and its black. It was shoved all they way in the back of a t-shirt >rack. Out of hundreds of shirts, this was the only one I found. Is this a >common shirt anywhere else? Am I the only one living in a town that doesn't >care about SG? Is there a catalogue I can get so I can order stuff? Please >help. > >Dan > Ironicly, I bought that shirt on a monday, two days before the break up. I had planned to wear it wednesday so I could wear some nike shirt on tuesday. Well when wednesday came I wore it to school and came home to find 500 depressed sommsters posting all at once about the break up (OK, maybe not that many) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:50:45 PDT From: Matt Busse Subject: Re: Living in a SG unfriendly town >common shirt anywhere else? Am I the only one living in a town that doesn't >care about SG? Are you kidding? No one here has hardly even heard of Soundgarden, and if they have they think they're dumb. There's on ly two people in my high school who like Soundgarden are my best friend, and one other kid. It really sucks living in a small town in Wisconsin. My parents started listening to my Soundgarden Cd's and now they (half kiddingly) think I worship the devil. Just because it's "heavy metal crap". Well, enough of my wining. ******************************************88 Words you say Never seem to live up to the ones inside your head ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:54:24 -0500 From: Richard E Horner Subject: Re: when fallen on black days <> Pam, everyday at school. Umm, I got Spoonman the other day, and I don't know if that is Kimster on Exit Stonehenge, but it doesn't sound like Chris to me. There isn't the Chris addative to the tone of the vocals. BTW there aren't any liner notes for Exit Stonehenge like there are for the other three songs. Hey! We all know Soundgarden and Metallica are mutual fans of each other, right. So I found a SG reference on Megadeth's first album KIMB. During Skull Beneath the Skin, Dave wails out, "Screaming for liiiiiiiiiiiife" This album was put out in 85 so you think Megadeth could have been some of the FIRST SG fans? California isn't that far from Washington. Didn't SG tour with Megadeth, or at least play a couple shows together? Rich "Dying on your feet for Honest Abe" Soundgarden, Metallica, and Megadeth, Injustice for All http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/4984 .' `. .'/ __ ___ ______ _ _ _ __ \`. .'/ \/ || _||_ _/ /|| | | | | | / \ | `\. ' / /\/| || |_ | | / || | | | | |/ /\_\| |\\` / / | || _| | | /_||| | | | | || _ | _ \ / / | || |_ | | / || |_ | |_ | |\ \/ /| | \ \ / / | ||___| |_|/_/|_||___||___||_| \__/ | | \ \ / / |/ \| \ \ /.' `.\ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:46:06 -0400 From: Elric&Dagny Subject: Reading a SG friendly List :) Hi guys! I want to respond to this current thread of people complaining about the lack of SG fans where they live. I live in a small Southern town, and if I ever come across ANYONE that even likes SG I'll probably give them a huge hug whether they're a stranger of not. I do not know anyone else in the flesh who even enjoys their music except my husband. (He's a good sport. :) HOWEVER, I know about 500 people on this List that love SG. Some (not all) of the most interesting conversations that I have are with you guys, the other subscibers. My radio station (I only have 1 to choose from) doesn't play the greatest music either. That's why I listen to cd's ALOT. My collection of music is more interesting than what the DJ would play anyway. I guess what I'm trying to say is for those people that are bummed about not knowing any other SG fans, be happy that you've got Somms. I am!! Most of us are in the same situation you're in. I think it was on Launch that Chris said something about it taking a certain amount of taste to enjoy their music for more than 30 seconds. Not that I'm a snob (well, maybe about SG I am), but I really don't want to be into something that most everyone else is into. I wish that SG could have sold 50 million copies of each record just to line their wallets, but they knew they would only appeal to a certain number of fans. If it was cool with them, then it's cool with me. Be glad you're one of the select few!! Life Rules! Dagny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:25:54 -0500 From: Wyn Subject: Triple Z and a Somms Cd Well Yesterday I got to see a Somms Cd in Brisbane the catch was that it was in the ZZZ Libary (A Community Radio Station). I went in to harrass a friend of mine who works there curently doing the Wedesday Drivetime slot. So I played Into the Void a couple of weeks ago when I was in there I played the live version of Salves and Bulldozers but the pity is I never actually get to here the song properly since there are always songs being cued to interupt it, I also went and found the Hater Cd in there and played a song off that and found that the cd had barely been played at all the sleeve was in perfect condition, probably due to the note on the case that "Much fuss was had by all sounds nothing like Soundgarden" refering to the featuring members of Soundgarden sticker. Well fellow Brisbanites you can ring them up and ask for requests off it and know that they will get played the only failing would be if the announcer is slack. Bronwyn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:32:44 +1000 From: Cronky Subject: Re: Living in a SG unfriendly 'COUNTRY!!!' It's pretty hard being a Soundgarden fan in Australia, let me tell you guys that much. Very few people really like them, musics shops have next to nothing, and because we are so far away from the states (and everywhere else) it is hard to trade too! Still, they did play one of their last concerts here in Oz, which was cool. Nuffsed. Cronky. P.S. Why is Fresh Deadly Roses so low down on the fav SG song poll. It is such a cool song. ---------------------------------------------- - Simon Cronk (Cronky) - - E-mail: scronk@ecr.mu.oz.au - - http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~scronk/ - - SOUNDGARDEN & POWDERFINGER - - RULE FOREVER - ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:41:00 -0400 From: Jentje Subject: Re: when fallen on black days A >So I guess my question is Was/is there ever a time you cant listen to SG? > There was only one time in my whole life that I couldn't bring myself to listen to SG. It was when my best friend got into a car accident, for awhile the quacks (*err, I mean doctors) were about to take her off life-support. For some reason I heard MIND RIOT at that time and at the part "and somebody's best friend died..." it just really hit me. I couldn't listen to Soundgarden for a bit after that. But I've more than made up for the time I lost. Toodles!! ~>Jentje "And the police said This was normal control I've been caught in A mind riot...." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:47:10 -0500 From: Like Suicide Subject: Fresh & Deadly Well, I managed to snag a copy of Fresh Deadly Rarities today, and after hearing Come Together, I have decided that SG has that inherent ability to cover a song and make it sound cool, exspecially since I'm not a big Beatles fan. And for anybody who doesn't have this boot, pick it up, it's great. Larry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:16:32 -0500 From: NIKI FREER Subject: Re: when fallen on black days Pam asked: > Was/is there ever a time you cant listen to SG? well, here's an obvious answer. the day they broke up, i was so infuriated that i could not even look at the pictures of them. i couldn't listen to them, i couldn't even hear them on the radio or i would have had a total fit. the only other time i couldn't listen to SG was... well... hmmm. i can't remember really having any type of time in my life that i couldn't listen to them. they've helped me get through everything. the only time i had a problem with their music was April 9, but i think i put on SU, programmed in the "sleepy songs" and cried myself to sleep. so, my answer would be i had a few hours after hearing the bad news that i couldn't listen to them, but that's about all. (shrugs) mind riot ____ i must be pure and true i must contain my views ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOUNDGARDEN 1984-1997 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:54:15 -0400 From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: Lead me to your bootlegs. If anyone has the Reading '95 audio or video boot or the 11/13/96 Toronto video boot and is willing to trade or do a 2:1 trade, please email me. I usually don't single out particular boots, but I REALLY want these boots. I have a pretty long list of audio boots that I'm MORE than willing to copy for someone. Someone please respond!!! :) :) :) May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 01:21:40 -0400 From: Robbie Strickland Subject: Re: when fallen on black days > Pam asked: > > > Was/is there ever a time you cant listen to SG? > > well, here's an obvious answer. the day they broke up, i was so > > infuriated that i could not even look at the pictures of them. i > > couldn't listen to them, i couldn't even hear them on the radio > or i would have had a total fit. > the only other time i couldn't listen to SG was... well... > hmmm. i can't remember really having any type of time in my life > that i > couldn't listen to them. they've helped me get through > everything. the only time i had a problem with their music was > April 9, but i think i put on SU, programmed in the "sleepy > songs" and cried myself to sleep. so, my answer would be i had a > few hours after hearing the bad news that i couldn't listen to > them, but that's about all. > (shrugs) > > mind riot > > ____ > i must be pure and true > i must contain my views > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SOUNDGARDEN > 1984-1997 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the 9th, I listened to them all night.. SToNeTeMPLe ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 13 Aug 1997 to 14 Aug 1997 ************************************************