... The only sadness we have now is the loss of Soundgarden as a band but listening to Temple of the Dog is a great reminder of both bands together at their best!
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This 1991 Seattle supergroup brought together Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron of ... more
Soundgarden with the surviving members of Mother Love Bone (Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard) and Eddie Vedder, later of Pearl Jam. The experiment worked. Cornell shines, seeming ...
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Advantages: best of both bands Disadvantages: one-off album, Soundgarden are no more
...has created the ultimate classic combination which will be appreciated for a long long time. The only sadness we have now is the loss of Soundgarden as a band but listening to Temple of the Dog is a great reminder of both bands together at their best!
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During the winter of 1990 just prior to Pearl Jam bursting out into the world, the ultimate grunge album was being created in Seattle. Band members from both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were making beautiful music together as a therapy to overcome the death of their close friend, Andrew Wood. Andrew was the lead singer of Mother Love Bone (Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament’s previous band before Pearl Jam) who had recently died of an overdose. Chris Cornell was Wood’s flatmate at the time and became the instigator of creating the songs in tribute to the singer.
The result is an absolutely breathtaking album combining everyone’s supreme talents. The majority of the music and lyrics were penned by Cornell and the first 2 tracks, ‘Say Hello 2 Heaven’ and ‘Reach Down’ were written for Andrew, from that Chris, Stone, Jeff, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron recorded the songs. Both songs are played with raw emotion illustrating the sadness of his death,”he came from an Island, and he died from the street”. The intensity and power of Cornell’s voice throughout the album is truly amazing, this combined with the music and the spine-tingling guitar solos – no words can describe it! The other 8 songs were created together spontaneously as a mega jammin’ session without record company pressure – they made it for themselves.
On an album so amazing, it’s hard to have favourites but one I would have to mention is ‘Hunger Strike’. This features additional vocals from the one and only Eddie Vedder. He had only recently come together with the others and sang with Chris. The song is filled with emotion and brings out the listener in goosebumps.
‘Times of Trouble’ was written by Stone and lyrics by Chris but for the mega Pearl Jam fans out there the song was also given to Vedder who wrote his own lyrics which became,’Footsteps’, same music, different song, both outstanding!!
Each song is equally beautiful, emotionally intense, or all out rocking grunge style at its best. The singing and guitar sounds really are shockingly brilliant.
The magic produced by 2 great bands at a time of sadness has created the ultimate classic combination which will be appreciated for a long long time. The only sadness we have now is the loss of Soundgarden as a band but listening to Temple of the Dog is a great reminder of both bands together at their best!
Advantages: Some brilliant songs, Eddies vocals, talented musicians. Disadvantages: not many.
Chili Peppers, and the influence really shows on this song.
This is a real funky little number, which shows a complete different side to Pearl Jam's music.
Musically this is full of funky guitars and some nicely placed drum beats.
The vocals by Ed are just plain cool, with a mixture of the RHCP funk sound and his usual emotive singing.
A top song, which really deserves some airplay.
---FOOTSTEPS---
This song dates back to the TEN album, and was part of the trilogy of songs that Ed wrote as the story about a serial killer, the other two songs being Once and Alive.
The music was actually from a track the rest of the band did on an album called Temple of the Dog, which was a tribute to the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone, the Temple of the Dog version was written and sung by Chris Cornell, formerly of Soundgarden and now ...
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Product details
Title
Temple Of The Dog
Performer
Temple Of The Dog
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Grunge
Release Date
06/1992
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1992
Label / Distributor
A&M / Universal Music
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
82839535021
Catalogue Number
3953502
SPAR code
ADD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Temple Of The Dog: Chris Cornell (vocals, banjo, harmonica); Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Matt Cameron (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Rick Parashar (piano, organ). Producers: Temple Of The Dog, Rick Parashar. Recorded at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington from November to December, 1990. On the eve of up-and-coming Seattle rockers Mother Love Bone's full-length major label debut (1990's APPLE), singer Andrew Wood succumbed to a drug overdose. Longtime friend Chris Cornell, the singer of Soundgarden, wrote several songs in Wood's memory. These were rooted more in classic rock than his full-time band's metallic sound. Cornell recorded them with ex-members of Mother Love Bone guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron, and then-unknowns Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder, in a project called Temple Of The Dog. The project's self-titled 1991 debut fell on deaf ears. While such songs as the sullen album opener "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and the epic jamfest "Reach Down" have lyrics that deal with Wood's passing, most of the tracks deal with other topics, such as the album's high point "Hunger Strike," as well as the organic-sounding "Wooden Jesus," the hard rocker "Your Saviour," and the drowsy album closer "All Night Thing." A year after its initial release, the Seattle rock scene exploded and the massive success of the members of Temple Of The Dog prompted A&M to re-release both the album and the video for "Hunger Strike." Both were immediate hits the second time around.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/21/00, p.175) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...One of the 1st smash hits of the Seattle explosion....it codified, with heart and muscle, the heavy angush of the Puget sound....proof that the angst that defined Seattle rock inthe 1990s was not cheap sentiment..." Musician (7/91) - "...offers a potent distillation of Seattle's sonic sludge, with plenty of slow-mo riffing and louder-than-life guitar. It backs that sound with songs so potent and emotional that they tower over most of today's hard rock. Well worth hearing..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Say Hello To Heaven
2.
Reach Down
3.
Hunger Strike
4.
Pushin' Forward Back
5.
Call Me A Dog
6.
Times Of Trouble
7.
Wooden Jesus
8.
Your Savior
9.
Four Walled World
10.
All Night Thing
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