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This song was written by John Lennon
John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed this song live with Chuck Berry on the Mike Douglas Show in 1972: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kgu71d81U
Lemmy of Motorhead was the narrator for the B movie "Tromeo and Juliet," and Motorhead and Superchunk both appeared on the soundtrack
Bob Mould name-checks this song. The Suicide Commandoes is the subject of a book detailing the 1974-1984 Minneapolis punk music scene, and the song title has also been taken for the title of the book by Cyn Collins.
The Replacements were also a subject of Cyn Collins' new history of the birth of the Minneapolis punk rock scene, "Complicated Fun"
Paul Westerberg was the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of The Replacements
This song, originally featured in Cameron Crowe's film "Say Anything," didn't make it onto the official soundtrack, but was used and featured on the "Singles" soundtrack, on which Soundgarden featured heavily.
Chris Cornell wrote this song as a tribute to his roommate, Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood, who at the time had recently died of a heroin overdose. "Right after Andy died, we [Soundgarden] went to Europe, and it was horrible, because I couldn't talk about it, and there was no one who had loved him around. I wrote two songs, 'Reach Down' and 'Say Hello 2 Heaven.' That was pretty much how I dealt with it. When we came back, I recorded them right away. They seemed different from what Soundgarden naturally does, and they seemed to fit together. They seemed like music he would like. I got the idea to release them as a single, and to get at least Stone and Jeff, or all of Love Bone, to play on it. I had the idea for a couple days, then, with an artist's lack of self-confidence, I decided it was a stupid idea. Somehow those guys heard the tape, and they were really, really excited. Stone and Jeff and our drummer, Matt, had been working on a demo for what ended up being Pearl Jam, so we had the idea that we would make an EP or a record, and maybe even do some of Andy's solo songs."
Chastity Belt re-made the “Hunger Strike” music video for this song. Matthew Simms produced this album, due out June 2nd on Hardly Art. Incidentally, Hardly Art is celebrating Night #2 of their 10th anniversary tonight at Chop Suey, with Shannon and the Clams headlining.
Guitarist Matthew Simms joined Wire in 2010 and produced Chastity Belt's I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone.
This song was the subject of controversy as a result of its blatant similarity to Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba." A judgment resulted in an out-of-court settlement and the credits were rewritten.
M.I.A. was roommates with Justine Frischmann, the lead singer of Elastica who helped M.I.A. write her first album.
A riff from this song was sampled by M.I.A. for "Paper Planes."
Audioslave covered "White Riot" by the Clash, and this album was produced by Rick Rubin, who introduced Chris Cornell to Rage Against the Machine to form what would become Audioslave.
Rick Rubin, along with Russell Simmons, co-founded Def Jam, Public Enemy's record label.
The first major single from Goo, featuring vocals from Chuck D. Soundgarden also sampled Sonic Youth’s “Death Valley ‘69” on their version of “Smokestack Lightning.”
Car Seat Headrest, with Naked Giants, covered this Talking Heads song at KEXP's Little Big Show at the Neptune.
Bernie Worrell plays keys on this song; he also played with Talking Heads, and passed away last year in Bellingham, WA.
George Clinton, of Parliament, appeared on the track "Wesley's Theory" on Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly.
Adams' 1989 was covered in its entirety by Taylor Swift. In turn, here is Ryan Adams and the Cardinals covering Alice in Chains' Down in the Hole, from Dirt.
This song features Mark Arm (Mudhoney) and Chris Cornell (Soundgarden), the two jointly credited as "Alice Mudgarden" in the liner notes. This track was also used in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.
"Touch Me I'm Dick" was performed by fictional band Citizen Dick from the Cameron Crowe film "Singles," featuring members of Pearl Jam.
Seattle supergroup featuring Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Barrett Martin, and Mark Arm at Pike Place Market. Soundgarden also covered “TV Eye” and “Search and Destroy.”
This song features not only Mike McCready on guitars, but also as the producer!
This song, winner of the NME Award for Best Single, was eventually covered by Mike McCready and Thunderpussy at Flight to Mars benefit show.
Duff McKagen, also in Levee Walkers and Guns'nRoses, was in The Fastbacks.
During a European tour, a fight between Ken Stringfellow and Mike Musburger prompted Mike to leave the band, who then joined long-running Seattle punk band The Fastbacks, and was later a member of both Love Battery and Supersuckers. Also, Ken Stringfellow was previously married to The Fastbacks' bass player Kim Warnick.
Bumbershoot, September 1990. The Posies were supposed to open for Psychedelic Furs, who needed to cancel, so Soundgarden stepped in to headline instead, and played this Spinal Tap cover while the Spinal Tap skull was slowly lowered from the rafters.
This album features guest appearances from the Dap-Kings, Chris Ballew, Jack Endino, Holly Deye (the bassist from Lillydale), Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, and Jim Horn & the Muscle Shoals Horns.
Chris Ballew, also Caspar Babypants and lead singer and 'basitarist' of Presidents, was a member of The Saturday Knights.
Mike Nesbitt of the Monkees founded MTV, and the first video ever aired on the network was the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star."
Ben Gibbard wrote a song for The Monkees for their last album.
Telekinesis' Rebecca Cole also plays in Wild Flag, and this album was produced, mixed, and engineered with the help of Chris Walla (guitarist for Death Cab For Cutie).
An American four-piece supergroup based in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. which consisted of Carrie Brownstein (vocals, guitar), Mary Timony (vocals, guitar), Rebecca Cole (keyboards, backing vocals) and Janet Weiss (drums, backing vocals), who are ex-members of the groups Sleater-Kinney, Helium and The Minders.
Featuring members Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss; Brownstein and Weiss were in Wild Flag.
Today would have been Joey Ramone's 66th birthday.
A cover of the Ramones, which first appeared on Rocket to Russia (1977).
Kim Thayil on the song's origin: "[It] was definitely a jam at rehearsal. I think Ben was just jamming up this loud and blurry, detuned bass line flopping around there. And Matt starts making it precise and coherent; Matt's drum part is insane – it's so fast and coordinated. And I picked up my guitar, thinking, "What the hell are they doing?" It took me a while to figure out what's going on rhythmically and where to punctuate the one, so what I start hearing is that swirling, kamikaze bat [guitar] sound at the beginning. And that was a groove. Then I revisit the feedback and beneath-the-bridge guitar squeals that I used to do in '84 and '85. I did that mostly out of necessity because I really didn't understand what it was Ben and Matt were playing; it was just too fast and involved.
Eventually, Matt and Ben lost each other, so we recorded it. Chris takes it home. We loved the groove, the action and dynamic of it. So Chris takes a recording home and works lyrics and around the lyrics finds a chorus. So he writes a couple other sections to help flesh out the arrangement dynamic and give room for the vocals. He brought that to rehearsal and we're like, "Holy shit, this crazy, insane car wreck is now a song."
Chris Cornell has said Perry Farrell was the inspiration for “Jesus Christ Pose.”
Produced by Dave Sitek, who's also worked with Jane's Addiction, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals, Celebration, Little Dragon, and most recently Beady Eye.
This song features guest vocals from Santigold! Sadly, this was also the last Beastie Boys single released before the death of Adam Yauch.
Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna was married to Adam Keefe Horovitz, perhaps better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock.
As well as Seattle, Nirvana and Soundgarden shared another key factor: Sub Pop. Here is Chris Cornell covering Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" in Sweden, the exact sentiment we all feel for Chris Cornell, and everything he's contributed to the world of music. Another connection: Jason Everman played 2nd guitar on Bleach, then joined Soundgarden on bass in 1989.