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Badmotorfinger [Remastered]
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Album: Badmotorfinger [Remastered]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Rusty Cage More Info... 0:04
2)    Outshined More Info... 0:05
3)    Slaves & Bulldozers More Info... 0:07
4)    Jesus Christ Pose More Info... 0:06
5)    Face Pollution More Info... 0:02
6)    Somewhere (Feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen) More Info... 0:04
7)    Searching With My Good Eye Closed More Info... 0:06
8)    Room a Thousand Years Wide More Info... 0:04
9)    Mind Riot More Info... 0:04
10)    Drawing Flies More Info... 0:02
11)    Holy Water More Info... 0:05
12)    New Damage More Info... 0:05
 
Album: Badmotorfinger [Remastered]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Rusty Cage More Info... 0:04
2)    Outshined More Info... 0:05
3)    Slaves & Bulldozers More Info... 0:07
4)    Jesus Christ Pose More Info... 0:06
5)    Face Pollution More Info... 0:02
6)    Somewhere (Feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen) More Info... 0:04
7)    Searching With My Good Eye Closed More Info... 0:06
8)    Room a Thousand Years Wide More Info... 0:04
9)    Mind Riot More Info... 0:04
10)    Drawing Flies More Info... 0:02
11)    Holy Water More Info... 0:05
12)    New Damage More Info... 0:05
 
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  • BADMOTORFINGER was reissued briefly with a limited-edition bonus disc titled S.O.M.M.S, featuring B-sides and one live track.
  • Soundgarden: Chris Cornell (vocals, guitar); Kim Thayil (guitar); Matt Ben Shepherd (bass); Matt Cameron (drums).
  • Additional personnel: Damon Stewart (spoken vocals); Scott Granlund (saxophone); Ernst Long (trumpet).
  • Recorded at Studio D, Sausalito, California and Bear Creek Studios, Woodinville, Washington in 1991.
  • Bidding for a popular breakthrough with their second major-label album, Soundgarden suddenly developed a sense of craft, with the result that Badmotorfinger became far and away their most fully realized album to that point. Pretty much everything about Badmotorfinger is a step up from its predecessors -- the production is sharper and the music more ambitious, while the songwriting takes a quantum leap in focus and consistency. In so doing, the band abolishes the murky meandering that had often plagued them in the past, turning in a lean, muscular set that signaled their arrival in rock's big leagues. Conventional wisdom has it that despite platinum sales, Badmotorfinger got lost amid the blockbuster success of Nevermind and Ten (all were released around the same time). But the fact is that, though they're all great records, Badmotorfinger is much less accessible by comparison. Not that it isn't melodic, but it also sounds twisted and gnarled, full of dissonant riffing, impossible time signatures, howling textural solos, and weird, droning tonalities. It's surprisingly cerebral and arty music for a band courting mainstream metal audiences, but it attacks with scientific precision. Part of that is due to the presence of new bassist Ben Shepherd, who gives the band its thickest rhythmic foundation yet -- and, moreover, immediately shoulders the departed Hiro Yamamoto's share of songwriting duties. But it's apparent that the whole band has greatly expanded the scope of its ambitions. And Badmotorfinger fulfills them, pulling all the different threads of the band's sound together into a mature, confident, well-written record. This is heavy, challenging hard rock full of intellectual sensibility and complex band interplay. And with their next album, Soundgarden would learn how to make it fully accessible to mainstream audiences as well. [Badmotorfinger was re-released on CD in 2016.] ~ Steve Huey
Professional Reviews
Spin (10/91) - Highly Recommended - "..many credit the band with what has become known as the Seattle sound...[Soundgarden] stomps all over these tunes..."

Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #27 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - "The sound of the 70s hacked up and reassembled in the 90s."

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "With a more metal approach than many of their peers, it's a complex, dark piece of work..."
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