#240 SOUNDGRADEN - Inside The Metal

After hair metal all but destroyed heavy metal in the late 80’s and early 90’s, things were a bit grim. Grim in the same sort of way that Birmingham, England was grim in the late 60’s. Perhaps one of the silver linings to emerge out of the make-up and hairspray laden aftermath of glam was the down to earth, retro metal infused sounds emerging out of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, specifically, the “Seattle scene” which brought us an entirely new genre of metal (aka “grunge”) that served as a desperately needed palette cleanser and helped to breathe new life into the dystopian landscape which had become the world of metal.

Enter Seattle, Washington’s SOUNDGARDEN, a staple of the Seattle “grunge” scene of the early 1990’s that combined the best elements of classic Zeppelin and Sabbath built on a foundation of unpredictable & untraditional riffs chock full of heavy alternate tunings, ugly chords, and screaming vocals, conjuring a heavy 70’s infused sound which is both simultaneously retro and brutally modern.

It’s time to saddle up your “goat camel” and call the “dingo hunter” to learn more about the rich culture of “The Belgish” that goes far beyond “waffles and white beers”. Find out what used to put the “high” in high school, get ready for some “karaoke reflections” (including the best Creed impression ever) and JOIN US as we go INSIDE THE METAL with Seattle’s alternative metal mavericks, SOUNDGARDEN

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Crack into this one…”/ #healthconcerns (“Do y’all ever worry?”) #phillycheesesteak (“It’s a delicious Philly cheesesteak…it’s so delicious that every time I eat it…”) / “Eat a salad later, it’ll be fine…”/ “It’s the circle of life…”/ #metalnerderyhealthcorner / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #weanticipatesexualpussyASMR / #MrSciatica / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE AND GET STRAIGHT TO THE MEAT, GO TO #THEDOCKET ***/ #MutationBrewing #99X (“Barnes, Leslie, and Shelby…”) / “They’re credited with getting #Silverchair famous I believe…”/ #dingohunter / #theverdict (“It tastes like the kinda beer you’d drink…at a festival show…outside the camp site.”)

(06:31): “Before you get into that…a former Metal Nerd got some love.”/ “Episode 250 is gonna be big…”/ “He’s welcome every time…”/ ***Hit us up on the social media at #metalnerderypodcast, email us at metalnerdery@gmail.com or GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #whoareyou (“It’s Greg…or Craig…but probably Greg”) #newcaller regarding our 1984 episode and our 1988 #HeadToHeadDeathMatch (“One IS #TheStairwayToHeavenOfMetal …”) / #BreweryX / “My new favorite caller…”/ #myguy (“That’s like 9 people now…”) / “Mainly because he just came back from the sea…”/ “That was an impossible pick…”/ “That’s the beauty about this podcast…”/ “We can’t really (fairly) do ’90, until we do an #albumdive for #RustInPeace …”/ #RussellsReflectionsASMR and #DamageInc / “There’s some things I missed on vacation…”/ #karaoke and #MatthewsKaraokeReflections and #Creed and #Slayer (“If you can name it, I can do it…”) / “I looked and I was crossed off the list…”/ “Dude…it’s like sauce. #RainingBlood is code for #extrasauce on my pizza…”/ “There’s occasionally this fella that comes out…very high on the spectrum.” / “He did #CannibalCorpse wearing a dress…”/ “We need to open our own #metalbar …”/ “There’s spectrums upon spectrums…and a highly unpopular study.” / #vastmajority (“It’s something that nobody wants to talk about…if you don’t talk about it, we can never figure it out.”) / “It’s a very functional version…” / #goodanalogy / “Like the D&D of Risk…” / “That’ll be last Sunday when this comes out…”/ “We could make it a #Patreon …you’re allowed to say Patreon here…” / #blackdog / “She identifies as white now…like a #pinkishpeach …”/ “It’s mostly just crickets…/ #dildocream / “It is kinda funny…unless you got it.”

(25:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SOUNDGARDEN – INSIDE THE METAL / “The best elements of #Zeppelin and the best elements of #Sabbath …”/ “They sorta don’t fit in a box…”/ Remember the movie #Singles ?/ “They use alternate tunings and ugly chords…”/ “Yeah but you know what…”/ “OMG it’s cold sore boy…”/ Remember all the #glambands in the late 80’s? / #crickets / “I’m sure #GraveDigger played a million times…at #Wacken …”/ “Don’t you think that was a return to traditional heavy metal?”

(30:18): Ultramega OK (1988) / FLOWER #killeropener (“That’s pretty heavy…”) / “It was un-unleashed…”/ SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING (#HowlinWolf cover) / “What else has the #cokelines ?”/ BEYOND THE WHEEL (“That sounds doomy… #Doomgarden ) / “I don’t think they were into that…”/ “That’s some interesting guitar textures there…”/

(35:42): Louder Than Love (1989) / “This is when people started talking about #Soundgarden …”/ “You should just call the band that…” / #cokelinefever / “Sex is kinda dumb…wouldn’t it be weird if sex was just hitting your elbows together…and then when you orgasm you just laughed?” / #aliensextentacles UGLY TRUTH #killeropener (“Those drums sound like you’re IN the room…”) / “Even the dog likes it…”/ HANDS ALL OVER (“Their riffs are very unpredictable…”) / “What a fucking song title…”/ FULL ON KEVIN’S MOM (“I wonder if she was nude?”) / “It sounds like this…”/ BIG DUMB SEX (“Hey…harmonies…and layered vocals.”)

(44:17): Badmotorfinger (1991) / This is like their first real metal album / RUSTY CAGE #usethoseheadphones / “Does it say anything about the video game?”/ #skoobitiboosh / “Did we ever determine where that came from?” / #RoadRash / #uhhkay / SLAVES & BULLDOZERS (“This has got Sabbath written all over it…”) / “That’s so fucking metal…”/ “Just the title…that’s a big room.” / ROOM A THOUSAND YEARS WIDE / “They have the most untraditional riffs…”

(51:43): Superunknown (1994) / “We’ve gotta do a dive on this one at some point…”/ SUPERUNKNOWN (“Has a very retro sound to it…”) / “We don’t have to play the #MTV songs…”/ MAILMAN #balls (“They’ve got a weirdly, modern 70’s sound…”) / “Gotta do it, because it’s an American holiday…that’s the month America gets.” 4TH OF JULY (#bouncingscrote) #balls #straightupballs / “Of the three…the #MTVSongs …”/ FELL ON BLACK DAYS (“Even that riff is kinda Zeppelinish…”)

(1:01:04): Down On The Upside (1996) / “Is this their Load?” / “You probably know more than you think you know…”/ BLOW UP THE OUTSIDE WORLD (“It sounds Beatlesish a little bit…”) / #textures / PRETTY NOOSE (“This and Superunknown are kinda connected…”) / Reviewing the #tracklisting for heaviness…(NOTE: The dog one was called Never Named) / NEVER THE MACHINE FOREVER / “Lets jump over and do BIRTH RITUAL…” (from the Singles Soundtrack) / “You cannot tell me that’s NOT a metal riff…”/ #andbegin #getsome / “They’re big in Belgium…you know they’re known for waffles…and white beers…”/ “Are Belgian people known as #Belges ?” #Belgish

(1:10:21): King Animal (2012) / The last official Soundgarden studio album / “Sometimes you just gotta go…”/ “Well I don’t drink 800 beers…”/ BEEN AWAY TOO LONG (“Its 16 years…”) / “What’s the #cokelineinventory look like?” / ROWING (“Sounds kinda gospely…”) / HALFWAY THERE (“Sounds like…Euphoria Morning.”) / BY CROOKED STEPS (“I can feel the balls comin’…”) / “That’s a weird riff…they definitely had psychedelic elements…”

(1:19:02): “I always wondered if they did a Zeppelin cover…”/ “That sounds like an STD…”/ “I did see Chris Cornell live one time…”/ THANK YOU (“This is like 7 in the morning…”) / “I think he had the most soul of any white man on the planet…”/ “Just ‘cos it’s #tangentional pull up the new #PearlJam single…” / DARK MATTER (“What about #KingDiamond ?”) / “That sounds like Soundgarden with Eddie Vedder singing…”/ #whatisprobrem? / “Nothing else sounds like Ten…”/ “It’s like going from Justice to everything else…it’s exactly the same thing.”/ “It was pretty close, dude…I’m in a Pearl Jam cover band…”/ #goatcamel / “I hate the term #DevilsAdvocate but…”/ “As a real quick palette cleanser…” / #TempleOfTheDog PUSHING FORWARD BACK / “The neuropses and the synapses…”/ “I didn’t do it in the 80’s…”/ “I was never one of those dudes…”/ “One time, and this is no bullshit…he gave me a Now & Later…” / #triptapes / ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!*** #untilthenext / ***COME GRAB YOUR METAL NERDERY PODCAST GEAR AT metalnerdery.com/merch AND MAKE A PURCH OF SOME MERCH!!!*** / #outroreel