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Temple Of The Dog formed in 1990.It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of the bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam was a member of the band.

Pearl Jam formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament. The band's fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron (also of Soundgarden), who has been with the band since 1998. This CD is from Cheryl Water's personal collection!

The new, deluxe, 25th edition of the 'Singles' soundtrack, has an entire extra disc of new material that includes Chris Cornell's 1992 EP Poncier and 14 tracks not included on the original soundtrack album, seven of which are previously unreleased tracks from Cornell, Mudhoney, Mick McCready (Pearl Jam), and Paul Westerberg. Significantly, although it featured tracks by Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, and even Jimi Hendrix, the Singles soundtrack did not have a Nirvana tune. Read more at www.stereophile.com

'Hootenanny' is the second studio album by The Replacements, released on April 29, 1983 by Twin/Tone Records and you all know that Paul Westerberg is a founding member, don't cha? Don't cha?

The I Don't Cares features two familiar voices — Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield

The Lemonheads were first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. Since its formation, recording and touring lineups of the band have included co-founders Deily and Peretz, John Strohm (Blake Babies), Doug Trachten, Corey Loog Brennan, Byron Hoagland (Folks On Fire), Ben Daughtrey (Squirrel Bait), Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies), Nic Dalton (Godstar, Sneeze, The Plunderers), David Ryan (Fuzzy), Patrick "Murph" Murphy (Dinosaur Jr), Josh Lattanzi, Bill Gibson (The Eastern Dark), Mark 'Budola' Newman, Kenny Lyon, Vess Ruhtenberg, Devon Ashley, Karl Alvarez and Bill Stevenson (Descendents), P. David Hazel and various others.

See how we went from a Simon & Garfunkel cover by The Lemonheads to a Simon & Garfunkel tune? That's how six degrees days go...but be careful if you try this at home, it could go very.very.wrong.

Little known fact - before he had a successful solo career, John Lennon was in a band called The Beatles...

John Lennon's son, Sean, was a member of Cibo Matto and played electric bass, synth bass, drums, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, synth, vocoder, and vocals,

Butter 08 was a short-lived musical side-project whose members consisted of Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rick Lee of Skeleton Key and director Mike Mills.

As mentioned previously, Butter 08 band member, Russell Simins, is the drummer for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion so we zigged here...where are we gonna zag next?

Boss Hog features the husband and wife duo of Jon Spencer (guitar) and Cristina Martinez (vocals). Can you guess which one is in The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion? And, no, this isn't an open book quiz.

This album was produced by Steve Fisk (who also produced Boss Hog's second album 'Boss Hog) and is a Mudhoney cover

did somebody say Mudhoney? Here's the video of them playing on top of the Spaceneedle. Only from KEXP www.youtube.com

Mudhoney was paid $20,000 to record this song for the Singles soundtrack. Mark Arm said they spent about $164 to record the song, and pocketed the rest.

Alice In Chains' Layne Staley also sang lead vocals for Mad Season

This version is sung by Chris Cornell, and here's Rolling Stone's review of this very special night www.rollingstone.com

'Uncle Anesthesia' was produced by Terry Date and Chris Cornell.

and, of course, Mark Lanegan was in Screaming Trees

'It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land' is the second studio album by English production team Soulsavers & the album features Mark Lanegan as primary vocalist.

You know who else has sung on Soulsavers' albums? David effin Gahan, that's who! gosh, I wonder what's coming up?

You didn't see Depeche Mode coming, did ya? Oh, you did? Ok, no more hints then, you listeners are too damn smart! so what's next smarty pants?

Yaz broke up in 1983 and in early 1985, Clarke put an ad in Melody Maker for a singer, and one applicant was Andy Bell, who was a fan of his earlier projects. He teamed with Bell to form the group Erasure, and the duo became one of the major selling acts in British music with international hits like "Oh L'amour", "Sometimes", "Chains of Love", "A Little Respect", "Drama!", "Blue Savannah", "Chorus", "Love to Hate You", "Take a Chance on Me" and "Always".

This cover by Franz Ferdinand is on the B-side of LCD Soundsystem's original version of "All My Friends"

In 2015, it was announced that Franz Ferdinand and Sparks had formed the supergroup FFS. The two released the album FFS in June 2015.

Sparks was formed in Los Angeles in 1972 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals), they originally named their band Halfnelson, formed in 1968. Sparks were so adored by Smiths vocalist Morrissey in his younger days that he allegedly used to steal bits of the bread rolls they had for breakfast. The Mael brothers returned the favor with this song. Russell Mael told Q magazine: "The song is about a guy telling himself that if Morrissey would lighten up he would maybe stand a better chance with this girl (who was obsessed with him). We wanted to head any possible misunderstanding off at the pass and we got Morrissey a copy of it early on. He loved it and was apparently playing it before some of his shows."

Did we mention that Morrissey is a YUGE Sparks fan? The lyrics for this song are reportedly inspired by Nevil Shute's novel 'On the Beach', about a group of people waiting for the fallout cloud from a nuclear holocaust in Melbourne, Australia. C'mon Morrissey, lighten up!

Steven Street is one of the producers on this album and he also produced albums for The Smiths and...wait for it...Morrissey! #KEXP6Degrees

Damon Albarn is the lead singer of the British rock band Blur and co-founder, vocalist, instrumentalist and principal songwriter Gorillaz.

We did it! Gorillaz track featuring De La Soul and now the Friday song featuring De La Soul's Pos!

Prior to Mudhoney, Mark Arm and Steve Turner were in Green River along with Stone Gossard

After leaving Green River, Stone Gossard went on to Mother Love Bone and from there he joined a little known band named Pearl Jam.

This track is from the 25th Anniversary version of the "Singles" soundtrack which was re-released today. It features a lot of unreleased music and this track by Chris Cornell is one of them. noisey.vice.com

At a 2013 show, Chris Cornell got inventive with a mash-up of two famous songs with the same name: U2 and Metallica's respective hits titled "One." He sang Metallica's lyrics over U2's music, creating a mesmerizing acoustic performance that united two very different aesthetics.

Chris Cornell's U2/Metallica mashup leads us to this classic U2 album produced by Brian Eno on beautiful crackley vinyl. you love it, don't ya baby?

And Brian Eno also produced this album. Not only did he produce it, he also added bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, & vocal arrangements

And Eno co-wrote "Heroes" with David Bowie which was inspired by the sight of Bowie's producer / engineer Tony Visconti embracing his girlfriend by the Berlin Wall, the song tells the story of two lovers, one from East and one from West Berlin. Bowie's performance of "Heroes" on June 6, 1987 at the German Reichstag in West Berlin was considered a catalyst to the eventual fall of the Berlin Wall. Following Bowie's death in January 2016, the German government thanked Bowie for "helping to bring down the Wall", adding "you are now among Heroes"

Classic Bowie cover by local Seattle band Nirvana

Nirvana's cover of Devo's "Turnaround". Originally the B-side band's biggest hit, "Whip It" (as "Turn Around"), this headlong sneer was recorded for Nirvana's 1990 Peel session, and reappeared as the opening track of their Hormoaning tour EP. Dave Grohl was clearly having a blast channeling Devo drummer Alan Myers' "human metronome" technique, and Kurt gets to affect a clipped accent that's not too far off from what Carrie Brownstein would later adopt as her singing voice in Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag. www.rollingstone.com

"Turn Around" was the original B-side of "Whip It"

Soundgarden's cover of the Devo classic