Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 02:00:02 -0500 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 3 Nov 1997 to 4 Nov 1997 There are 10 messages totalling 236 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Tape Trading Page 2. sg tattoos 3. Supermainstream 4. new song 5. Over Here! 6. Videos 7. A-Sides (2) 8. Kerrang! 11/1/97 (2) To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:45:07 -0500 From: Arie Elmaleh Subject: Tape Trading Page Hi guys, Can anyone send me the address to the Soundgarden tape trading page? I lost it, and I'm on it. Talk about absentmindedness. Thanks, Michelle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:45:19 -0500 From: Taylor Subject: sg tattoos Hey all I am getting the BMF wheel tattooed on my ankle on Wedsnesday, and it got me wondering who else has SG-related tattoos. Forgive me if this thread has been discussed before, I was away for a few months. Taylor -- "Sleep tight for me, I'm gone..." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:38:59 -0500 From: Scott Hammer Subject: Supermainstream I gots a flavor to ask. Anybody have a copy of this on disk and a CD-R? Contact me privately, pllleeeasssee Eddie. Tanx ~^v^OzzY^v^~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:38:57 -0500 From: Rachel Potter Subject: new song In a message dated 97-11-03 02:00:46 EST, you write: << Tonight on the radio on 105.3 in San Diego, after playing Bleed Together, the DJ said that they'll be getting in a "new" soundgarden song soon... I hope it's Exit Stonehenge. >> Does that mean that there's more then one "new" soundgarden song on this cd? Does anyone know what songs are on it? I can't wait till tomarrow!!! -Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:53:08 EST From: Moonsta693 Subject: Over Here! HEY PUPILS! All I have to say is CONGRATS MATT! I'm so happy for you! Wellwater Conspiracy is just an awesome CD. I love it. i think it really shows what is going on in garages across America. It has that independent sound to it. Nothing to pull it down, no over producing or mixing envolved. It sounds like it was recorded live. Anthem? Undeniably Jesus Christ Pose! It was scandolous, It is powerful, It involves the writing of everyone in the band. How can it be beat? The original pretty noose ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:58:05 -0600 From: Moon Druid Subject: Videos Bill's post said something like... >Or do you think that there was some video producer somewhere who had this >video put together as a script and idea and sold it to the band afterwards? Bands don't go to directors with the ideas... the director goes to the band. Whatever her name is didn't come up with the idea to be dressed up like the Michelin man, and odds are that Soundgarden collectively liked the guy, liked the idea, and went with it. That's how it works most of the time. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:14:46 EST From: saperl@ALUM.MIT.EDU Subject: A-Sides The artwork, etc., is on the site. Thanks to Deborah Baker for the scans. More images and text coming shortly. http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/releases/asides.html -seth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:08:08 -0500 From: "Freer, Nicole A." Subject: Kerrang! 11/1/97 sommsters, as much as i respect and love Kerrang! and know what a great publication they are, they really blew me away with this article. I know it's on seth's site, but i realise not everyone is going to have time to get to seth's page. so, for those of you that don't (and sorry to those of you that do) i'm gonna give you all the article. there's just something about this piece, i think it's that final paragraph about the word "asides" that really gets me. it has to be one of my favorite soundgarden articles that i've ever read. enough of my babbling, here it is: MINISTRY OF SOUND by Morat Soundgarden / A-Sides It might sound crazy, but somehow it felt right when Soundgarden split up. They had become everything they ever set out to be,achieved everything quietly and without fuss, evolving into oneof the biggest and best bands on the planet, and towards the end they were playing like gods. The split stopped them spoiling that, and ended it all on a high note. That is, of course, purely a selfish view, but no more selfish than those who would have liked them to stay together, even though it wasn't right anymore. Whatever, Soundgarden have gone and it's unlikely that they'll ever be back. It's what they left behind that counts now - and that legacy, as 'A-Sides' proves beyond doubt, is immense. Y'see, despite the pointless grunge tag, Soundgarden wrote timeless music. The kind of music that gets better and better the more you listen to it, like one of those tunes that you didn't really like or understand the first time you heard it, yet it becomes your favourite. Soundgarden had a habit of doing that. As such, 'A-Sides' - the tracklisting of which was picked by the band - is entirely representative of Seattle's finest (and, yes, I know exactly where Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains were/are from). Sure, there are tracks missing - notably 'Mind Riot' and 'Face Pollution' from 'Badmotorfinger', or 'Big Dumb Sex' from 'Louder Than Love' - but it's the overall feel that counts here. And besides, if the album contained everyone's favourite songs, wouldn't it have to be a five-CD box set? Instead, we get everything from the early Sub Pop single 'Nothing To Say' through the likes of 'Flower', 'Hands All Over' and 'Loud Love' right up to 'Jesus Christ Pose', 'Fell On Black Days' and 'Ty Cobb'. And then there's 'Bleed Together', a track that only saw the light of day as a B-side. All of it shows how their genius evolved, both lyrically and musically. Of course, their own influences shine through occasionally -Killing Joke, Black Sabbath and The Beatles all being part of the equation - but the end result was something totally unique. Somehow, after hearing all that, mourning their loss really doesn't seem appropriate, just like 'Blow Up The Outside World' wasn't a sad song. It's all their to make you stronger. You might be wondering about the title, too -calling the last testament to an awesome band 'A-Sides' , when it's obviously not. But look in a dictionary: Asides - " to be at one side away from the main part of the group. Words spoken so that only certain people will hear." In a word, Soundgarden. isn't that just beautiful??? well, at least i think so... it's definately something i would have written, and i'm glad someone else did. mind riot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:22:16 -0800 From: "S. Kutz" Subject: Re: Kerrang! 11/1/97 I'm glad it was such a good review! when they broke up my school newspaper totally killed them and went on about how they were becoming a tired old guitar band and it was a good thing they finally shut up. it pissed me off 'cos they wrote it the day after the news broke! how untasteless is that?! anyway, i wrote 'em a letter and told the newspaper off and it got published. i felt pretty good about that, defending one of the best bands ever. =) but anyway, my point is that i'm glad it wasn't some stupid review about how it was a crappy idea to put out a compliation album. okay, i'm done blabbing. =P sarah =) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 00:16:05 -0600 From: tonerkin Subject: Re: A-Sides At 10:14 PM 11/3/97 EST, Seth wrote: >The artwork, etc., is on the site. Thanks to Deborah Baker for the >scans. ALL HAIL THE SCANNER QUEEN!!! I'm going to buy it tomorrow...The girl can't help it!!!!! toni ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 3 Nov 1997 to 4 Nov 1997 **********************************************