From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 20 Jun 1999 to 21 Jun 1999 Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 2:00 AM There are 6 messages totalling 170 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. 2. Baddest Hits (5) To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:26:36 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: > but doesn't Louder Than Love largely > sound like those big hair bands SG was trying to make fun of? LTL has been criticized by some as sounding slick and a bit more mainstream. > but LTL, with Big Dumb Sex, Get on the Snake, and Loud > Love, slotted in quite nicely with some big sex rock Bear in mind Big Dumb Sex was an intentional spoof of that stuff. But on the other hand, my first SG experience was seeing Get On the Snake from the Louder Than Live video on Bomb Shelter Videos. Here was this double entendre type song (Chris insists it's about a highway, but he HAS to know what else it sounds like) and Chris and Jason banging heads and waving all that hair around. I said, oh god it's another hairy metal band. So, I was rather confused then when the next thing I heard was Flower, and after that HIV Baby. > If I > am missing the point and yes, yes, if indeed I miss the whole point of > SG's sarcasm, then are we supposed to believe that SG is totally not for > real? SG was into making a joke about a lot of things, but people didn't always get the joke. I think they were very much for real, and that LTL was written in earnest. Far and away most of the album is serious lyrically, a huge cut above metal schlock musically, and even the joking Big Dumb Sex made a real statement, and ruffled all the intended conservative feathers. If they seemed metal at times, psychedelic at times, punk at times, or whatever, I believe it was simply various facets of their talents and phases in their artistic growth. I can see "Baddest Hits" as a name they might think up, because there are layers of jokes there, but it is kind of flip and silly sounding on the surface. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:15:20 -0700 From: "J.C." Subject: Re: Baddest Hits > I can see > "Baddest Hits" as a name they might think up, > because there are layers > of jokes there, but it is kind of flip and silly > sounding on the > surface. I think 'Baddest Hits' is hilarious. Of course, like Big Dumb Sex, no one will realise they're joking. Maybe it would be better to just give it a proper title. Jay. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:41:19 PDT From: Jen Brittingham Subject: Re: Baddest Hits I can't wait for "Baddest Hits" to be released. It goes along perfectly, with the idea of mock rock that Soundgarden is known to do. Look at Sub Pop Rock City. I think everyone needs to relax and be happy that something new is coming out. Jennifer _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:59:42 -0700 From: Greg Fox Subject: Re: Baddest Hits At 12:41 PM 6/20/99, Jen Brittingham wrote: > I can't wait for "Baddest Hits" to be released. It goes along perfectly, >with the idea of mock rock that Soundgarden is known to do. Look at Sub Pop >Rock City. > I think everyone needs to relax and be happy that something new is >coming out. Something struck me when I read this post. Anyone run "Baddest Hits" through an anagram engine?? It produces some ineresting results. One example: shit ads debt! Hmm, maybe there is more to this name than meats the eye. :) If you want to look for some anagrams yourself, go to yahoo, and seaarch for anagram. It will return a few anagram engines to try out. Greg ~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~ Greg Fox Software Developer Voice Mobility Inc. http://www.voicemobility.com Phone: (250) 405-5290 gfox@voicemobility.com ~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:50:48 +1200 From: Adrian Humphrey Subject: Baddest Hits 'Baddest Hits' totally fits with all that mocking that we've seen before. Before A-Sides' name was set, Guitar World interviewed Kim and asked him what it was going to be called. He said: "I wouldn't mind calling it 'The Beast of Soundgarden'". COME ON!!!! If thats not having a jab at the big-hair, "we will make your ears bleed" establishment, then what is? Adrian. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:56:11 EDT From: Nick Boos Subject: Re: Baddest Hits In a message dated 6/20/99 8:52:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, humad571@STUDENT.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes: > 'Baddest Hits' totally fits with all that mocking that we've seen before. > Before A-Sides' name was set, Guitar World interviewed Kim and asked him > what it was going to be called. > He said: "I wouldn't mind calling it 'The Beast of Soundgarden'". > > COME ON!!!! If thats not having a jab at the big-hair, "we will make your > ears bleed" establishment, then what is? > > Adrian. Yeah and remember in another guitar world interview he wanted to call Down On The Upside, "Devil: King Of Children" -Nick ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 20 Jun 1999 to 21 Jun 1999 ************************************************