As I get older

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  • water_boy
    water_boy Posts: 74
    alliw719 wrote:
    Chris Cornell's singing, particularly in Temple of the Dog and Soundgarden, remindes me of standing outside in a thunderstorm screaming out loud while the rain is pouring down and cleansing me at the same time.
    wash my blood...
    Jordan
  • water_boy
    water_boy Posts: 74
    Yamamoto's not in the Family Tree - thats Bullshit
    Jordan
  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    bburpee wrote:
    Chris' ability to create an interesting word picture has really gone south over time. I used to think it was all the "I this" and "I that" in Audioslave songs, but I just think he's overthinking the whole lyric thing. His Soundgarden lyrics are excellent - some of them just amazing works that resonate in how interesting they fit together. His AS lyrics are very predictable... you could probably ask a newcomer to fill in the blanks, and they could do it.

    Nobody's predicting these lines:

    "Pale in the flare light
    The scared light cracks & disappears
    And leads the scorched ones here
    And everywhere no one cares"

    "I was crying from my eye teeth and bleeding from my soul
    And I sharpened my wits on a dead man's skull
    I built an elevator from his bones
    Had to climb to the top floor just to stamp out the coals"

    "Bit down on the bullet now
    I had a taste so sour
    I had to think of something sweet
    Love's like suicide
    Safe outside my gilded cage
    With an ounce of pain
    I wield a ton of rage
    Just like suicide"

    Yep. Great stuff.

    WOW! Thank you for posting this! I was OBSESSED with this record in middle school. Bought it the day it came out it was all I listened to for a very long time but damn, I don't think I ever really stopped and took in those lyrics. And I'm a very lyric-driven person! It's been years since I've listened to that song and I just played it now and I'm blown away.

    I'm happy to read this thread and go back to some of those old songs. For me I never really gave Cornell much credit as a lyricist. I was always just more into his abilities as a singer. I wrote his lyrics off a lot thinking they were too much "this vs this, that versus that" kind of thing. Almost like he would find a theme or convention and fill in the blanks. I don't know if that makes sense. I'm enjoying going back and listening again.
  • water_boy
    water_boy Posts: 74
    Who else didnt make the cut?
    Jordan

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