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Chris Cornell (Audioslave, Soundgarden) has died

Ristifer

Ristifer

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Just listening to Superunknown again and it's as if the lyrics are just jumping out at me more than they used to. So many eerie lyrical passages on this album given what's happened today.

Ugh.
 
Andrew Korenchkin

Andrew Korenchkin

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While we're on the topic of his music, anybody else fucking LOVE Fresh Tendrils? One of my all time favorite Soundgarden songs ever, his vocals are so good on that one.
 
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Dracula's Nether Region

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Now I know why you've been shaking Chris, Rest in Peace. Thanks for getting me to pick up a guitar for the first time, it helped my life immeasurably.

Tragic that such deep depression is partly what inspired such relatable lyrics, I wish he had just faked the sadness for sales...
 
Livingskeletons

Livingskeletons

If I pulled that off, would you die?
Andrew Korenchkin said:
While we're on the topic of his music, anybody else fucking LOVE Fresh Tendrils? One of my all time favorite Soundgarden songs ever, his vocals are so good on that one.
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Absolutely. Tremendous vocal power displayed in that track. One of the best riffs in their catalogue bar none.
 
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bebop242

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Ristifer said:
Just listening to Superunknown again and it's as if the lyrics are just jumping out at me more than they used to. So many eerie lyrical passages on this album given what's happened today.

Ugh.
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I got the same feeling when I listened to badmotorfinger earlier today.
 
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Bandit1

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Andrew Korenchkin said:
While we're on the topic of his music, anybody else fucking LOVE Fresh Tendrils? One of my all time favorite Soundgarden songs ever, his vocals are so good on that one.
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Yep, I love Fresh Tendrils. It's funny, Superunknown was my first Soundgarden album and I bought it having only heard the songs that played on the radio: Black Hole Sun, Fell on Black Days, and Spoonman. So I already liked those songs, and I picked up on My Wave and Superunknown pretty quick. But I didn't really like Limo Wreck, The Day I Tried To Live, Fresh Tendrils, 4th of July, and Like Suicide. I was about 15 at the time and I don't know, I thought they were weird or creepy or something. But the more I listened to the album, the more these "weird" songs grew on me. Eventually my love for the songs I found to be strange at first surpassed that of the songs that were initially my favorite. And it always seemed that way as I kept buying Cornell's albums. There would a few songs on an album that I would like almost immediately, and a few songs that I would be put off by. But almost always, the songs I didn't like at first would end up being some of my favorites on the album the more I listened. I think it's a testament to Cornell (who wrote the music and lyrics to most of the songs in Soundgarden and Audioslave) that there must have been something deeper, or layers, or something I can't explain that made his music so intriguing and engaging, and just plain amazing. I don't think any musician will top him in my book.
 
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AlteredBeast

Fork 'em, Sparky!
Superunknown was the first CD I ever bought when my brothers finally bought our family's first CD player. It was Summer of 1994 and I remember cranking it and listening to the CD front to back over and over and over.

Really tragic news.
 
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malfcn

Member
Damn, what a loss.
This song hit the feels after another loss and does now.

Fear Factory - Final Exit

Lyrics on case anyone interested
Your Life no longer has any value
Let them tell you what your own life is worth
There is no compassion as life fades away
This self deliverance the choice you have made
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
The pain in your life I cannot perceive
Crimes of humanity I see and believe
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Like the knife that cuts through me
Stabbing uncertainty
It bleeds my life I know
Draining my heart my soul
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Goodbye

RIP.
 
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AcridMeat

Banned
Cold Bitch
AlteredBeast said:
Superunknown was the first CD I ever bought when my brothers finally bought our family's first CD player. It was Summer of 1994 and I remember cranking it and listening to the CD front to back over and over and over.

Really tragic news.
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Yep I'm still rocking a handmedown CD. Alice in Chains' Dirt and Superunknown, quite an incredible duo of CDs for a middle schooler to get into.
 
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Turin

Banned
Mind Riot

Pretty sure I'm just listening to Chris for a good week.

Any newbies with Spotify/Apple, I implore you to start at the Soundgarden page and raid that whole thing from top to bottom.
 
Premium Quality

Premium Quality

Member
Grunge rock changed my life growing up, so hearing of his death was pretty rough.
During my lunch break at work today, the song "Say Hello 2 Heaven" started playing on the radio, and it was really tough to keep my composure.
It's been more than 12 hours later, and I'm still bummed. :(
 
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Black Mamba

Member
Man, it's a day later and it's still quite hard to process.

I remind myself of how people reacted to the deaths of guys like Michael Jackson and Prince and Bowie. Artists I too loved and admired. And I saw how devastating it was for some people when their deaths came to pass. And there's been other deaths, specifically in grunge (Weiland, Staley...to some extent Cobain but I was still so young).

Cornell is my Michael Jackson. My David Bowie. My Prince.

Superunknown was the very first album I bought. I saved my money to grab it.

Cornell's lyrics and Soundgarden's music was so immensely instrumental in my upbringing. Superunknown was by far and away the most played album through my teenage years. I could recite every lyrics back to front. I'd fall asleep to Badmotorfinger.

Cornell's lyrics and voice tapped into what I felt as a young teen growing up in the mid 90s. It was the perfect music for my time. He felt like my friend there to comfort me.

I can't believe he's no longer with us. No longer there comforting us. I wish he could have gotten the help he needed. I wish it didn't have to end like this. I wish I had a way to comfort him the same way he comforted me for years.

He was a gift to the world. Nothing can ever take that away. And while we mourn, as we should, we should also remember all the good he did for so many people. So many of us owe so much to him.

One day, hopefully a long time from now, I will attend a concert at the pearly gates. And Cornell, Staley, Weiland, Cobain, and others will be there playing all the music that made my life so much more satisfying.
 
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Martinski43

Member
So it was his depression that took him in the end?

This makes me very worried about Springsteen, he has been very open about his lifelong depression as of late though. And he views his long concerts as some sort of therapy for himself as he often cant stand being in his own head for too long. But damn you depression if you take him from us when Bruce aint able to perform shows anymore.. :/
 
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innervision961

Member
He didn't seem right during the last show, I have to wonder if he was on something, perhaps that influenced his state of mind leading to the end? Rest in piece Chris, thank you for sharing your gift with us man. :(
 
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TuXx

Member
Damn... Cornell contributed to some of the most memorable songs of the past 20 years.

Why do the great ones always leave so early?
 
Necro900

Necro900

Member
I'm still pretty bummed, so I figured out I might as well post my favourite SG song.

I think this one, albeit one of their shortest songs, really embodies Chris' way of thinking and rebellious attitude towards life as the average man is "supposed to live it": no questions asked, follow the rules and be content with living according to what has been established for you.

It ends their pre-disbandment record on a really powerful and meditative note. It always struck me, as I too tend to feel really out of place sometimes, and unable to cope with how everyone around me is rushing through their lives with no doubts whatsoever, following that seemingly inescapable routine until the end.

I must obey the rules
I must be tame and cool
No staring at the clouds
I must stay on the ground
In clusters of the mice
The smoke is in our eyes
Like babies on display
Like angels in a cage
I must be pure and true
I must contain my views
There must be something else
There must be something good
Far away
Far away from here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQiS6ml0eDo

Whatever it is, I hope you've found something good far away, Chris. Cause it's pretty shitty here right now.
 
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MosquitoSmasher

Member
Martinski43 said:
So it was his depression that took him in the end?

This makes me very worried about Springsteen, he has been very open about his lifelong depression as of late though. And he views his long concerts as some sort of therapy for himself as he often cant stand being in his own head for too long. But damn you depression if you take him from us when Bruce aint able to perform shows anymore.. :/
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Jesus, he said that? And here I thought that man was happy as can be. But then again, that's based on how he is during his shows and interviews. He lives when on stage and you can be in a completely different mind state during a interview but just not showing it.

Depression is nothing to take lightly and is very very serious.

Rest in peace Chris.
 
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Mascot

Member
Sad, sad news. My first thoughts after hearing how he was found was that it might have been autoerotic asphyxiation like Paula Yates claimed about Michael Hutchence's suicide (and debunked by the coroner), but it seems that's already been ruled out?

Black Hole Sun is legendary and Casino Royale is my favourite Bond theme.

Depression is an evil, evil disease.

RIP.
 
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Aytumious

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MosquitoSmasher

Member
Aytumious said:
Then think about the mental anguish you'd need to be in to do that.
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Hold on....the way he described this it looks like he took he own life? But it's unclear yet? But even then, it's very true what you said.

I feel that at times people are way too quick to jump to conclusions and even call people that decide they don't want to live anymore cowards and what not. NOT saying that about anyone here, a different forum when a Dutch celebrity died and he had taken his own life.
 
Patrick S.

Patrick S.

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Mascot said:
Depression is an evil, evil disease.
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Yes it is. I've just come back from the doctor diagnosing me with a medium degree depression and putting me on antidepressants. I had beaten it a few years ago, but my life has been so full of negative that it has come back, and I've been suffering for more than two years now, and today was the day that I decided to try and fight it again.
 
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