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Badmotorfinger

Soundgarden
Badmotorfinger

[Album]
8 October 1991
Grunge Rock

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Library Status Complete FLAC 16bit/44.1khz CD
'Badmotorfinger' is the third studio album by Soundgarden. The band began the recording sessions for the album with new bassist Ben Shepherd in the spring of 1991. The album maintained the band's heavy metal sound, while featuring an increased focus on songwriting compared to the band's previous releases. In 1992, Badmotorfinger was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1996.

MindKiller Review
(18 August 2023)

Rating - 4 Stars

Back in the day, living country South Australia, anything outside Top 40 didn't hit the local record shop. Thank God for ABC RAGE, that did make local TV - and you know where I am heading here - 'Jesus Christ Pose'. It was played every week as I was finishing Year 12. Blew me away. I can safely say, outside of thrash metal music, this was the first record I purchased (via a trip to Adelaide), loved, and turned into a huge fan. There are two simple but valuable elements to this record - the gritty, nasty, and in parts ear piercing, guitar sound form Thayil and Cornell, and then of course the brilliance of Cornell's vox. Incredible! He is rated with his peers at the time, with Eddie Vedder being a worthy comparison. Different sounds but equally brilliant. I'd put Cornell at the top. He had amazing range - listen to 'Slaves & Bulldozers' as an example. Oh, the other thing to mention is the lyrics - he wrote or had a hand in most of the tracks on the record. Shout out to Matt Cameron on his drum work. His timing to cover the different tempos in this is amazing. Just realised in re-reading I used past tense for Cornell - continue to R.I.P., my friend.
Tracks:  
(1/1) 1.
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (04:26)
(1/1) 2.
Soundgarden - Outshined (05:10)
(1/1) 3.
Soundgarden - Slaves & Bulldozers (06:56)
(1/1) 4.
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose (05:51)
(1/1) 5.
Soundgarden - Face Pollution (02:24)
(1/1) 6.
Soundgarden - Somewhere (04:21)
(1/1) 7.
Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed (06:31)
(1/1) 8.
Soundgarden - Room A Thousand Years Wide [New Version] (04:05)
(1/1) 9.
Soundgarden - Mind Riot (04:51)
(1/1) 10.
Soundgarden - Drawing Flies (02:26)
(1/1) 11.
Soundgarden - Holy Water (05:07)
(1/1) 12.
Soundgarden - New Damage (05:38)

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