Euphoria Morning

reversedarwinism

I pulled out this great, great album today for no reason. Wow I love this album; its been too long. What a great display of vocals and amazing collections of songs. Cornell doesn't want to do the same album twice, and if not then we will always have this one. But if he ever does return to this realm of atmospheric, melloncollie sounding music he will be doing a wonderful thing. The vocals on this are truely incredible, too. I know this one is loved here, so give it up

boroff89

I love this album. This was Cornell at his best. Even better than Soundgarden. Unfortunately, his latest solo effort went in a different and uninspiring direction.

Preaching the End of the World is one of my favorite songs ever.

facepollution

I think it rates up there with anything he's ever done. It came out at a pretty messed up point in my life, and it absolutely saved me at times. Follow My Way is an incredible song, the vocals are immense.

eyedclaar

facepollution wrote:

I think it rates up there with anything he's ever done. It came out at a pretty messed up point in my life, and it absolutely saved me at times. Follow My Way is an incredible song, the vocals are immense.

Same here. I was in about the same condition (or worse) as CC was when this record dropped. Means as much to me as any record I own. I had to pick up the import version with Sunshower. At least 8 songs on that record are perfect from front to back as far as I'm concerned.

mole1985

I think some credit should go to Alain and Nastasha for the music on that album, Eleven are great. Some of my fav Cornell tracks are on Euphoria Morning. Always wanted him to do more songs like 'When i'm down'

pjtaper

one of my all time favorite albums!
ALL TIME!

Mike_Muse_Rage

Amazing album and supports the claim that Chris works best in a band situation; Alain and Natascha co-wrote at least half the songs. Also, more props for Follow My Way, so epic and one of my favourite Cornell songs of all time.

facepollution

I think Sweet Euphoria has to be one of his best songs, I would love to hear a whole album of just Chris and an acoustic guitar.

Joe2TheRevenge

facepollution wrote:

I think Sweet Euphoria has to be one of his best songs, I would love to hear a whole album of just Chris and an acoustic guitar.

Search out his Live in Sweden bootleg. it is exactly that.

it's pretty awesome stuff.

Mike_Muse_Rage

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

Search out his Live in Sweden bootleg. it is exactly that.

it's pretty awesome stuff.

It's not new stuff though is it? Plus, facepollution is a huge Chris fan, I'm pretty sure he has it.

John Briggs 2008

This is still my favorite CC material. I did not find the same pleasure from his second effort. he was very heart felt and worked with some real talents during the process of making his first solo album. It seemed to me his second album still had that vibe from Audioslave.

Mike_Muse_Rage

John Briggs 2008 wrote:

It seemed to me his second album still had that vibe from Audioslave.

I wish it even had that! It wasn't anywhere near as good as the Audioslave material.

John Briggs 2008

Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:

I wish it even had that! It wasn't anywhere near as good as the Audioslave material.

I agree. I just got that vibe that he brought some of the ideas and material from them to his solo project and didn't hit the mark like he desired.

LedZepFan

euphoria morning was the end of cornell's peak era-superunknown, down on the upside, and this are wildly inspiring to me. i liked audioslave, but it had nothing on its predecessors, and the new stuff is decidedly mediocre. i hope someday cornell can return to form, not necessarily stylistically, but in terms of quality

facepollution

Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:

It's not new stuff though is it? Plus, facepollution is a huge Chris fan, I'm pretty sure he has it.

Yep, you said it!

LedZepFan wrote:

euphoria morning was the end of cornell's peak era-superunknown, down on the upside, and this are wildly inspiring to me. i liked audioslave, but it had nothing on its predecessors, and the new stuff is decidedly mediocre. i hope someday cornell can return to form, not necessarily stylistically, but in terms of quality

Yeah I totally agree, Audioslave was good for what it was, but it wasn't his most creative music, and I really miss the darker stuff he did. Who knows what the new stuff is really going to sound like - the brief clip from the Verizon advert isn't exactly promising, but I'll hold off my judgement til we get the album. I wonder where Chris would be now if Euphoria Morning had sold what it deserved to sell?

clarefromscotland

I love Euphoria Morning, but in spite of rather than because of Eleven's contributions. Alain Johannes is a pretty good guitarist and a creative musician, but I don't personally think Natasha Shneider has much musical taste - she never seems to know when to stop with the embellishments and the effect of the arrangements can seem very overblown. I think a lot of the songs on that album would have been better in simpler arrangements.

Rhinocerous Surprise

clarefromscotland wrote:

I love Euphoria Morning, but in spite of rather than because of Eleven's contributions. Alain Johannes is a pretty good guitarist and a creative musician, but I don't personally think Natasha Shneider has much musical taste - she never seems to know when to stop with the embellishments and the effect of the arrangements can seem very overblown. I think a lot of the songs on that album would have been better in simpler arrangements.

Case in point, the Flutter Girl demo.

OffHeGoes132

clarefromscotland wrote:

I love Euphoria Morning, but in spite of rather than because of Eleven's contributions. Alain Johannes is a pretty good guitarist and a creative musician, but I don't personally think Natasha Shneider has much musical taste - she never seems to know when to stop with the embellishments and the effect of the arrangements can seem very overblown. I think a lot of the songs on that album would have been better in simpler arrangements.

Euphoria Morning in my opinion is a masterful album. And even though I'm also not totally crazy about Natasha's contributions to the album, I would sure as hell take her contributions over Timbaland's. The very little bit we've heard of the new album thus far sounds AWWWWWWFUL.

muppet

Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:

Case in point, the Flutter Girl demo.

Yeah that's a great example. I love Flutter Girll but the demo is even better. I prefer the lo-fi songs/demos he does sometimes, like Seasons and the Flutter Girl demo. I've heard of an album called Poncier that apparently has some stuff like this but I've never heard it.

Shawn Smith Collective

clarefromscotland wrote:

know when to stop with the embellishments and the effect of the arrangements can seem very overblown. I think a lot of the songs on that album would have been better in simpler arrangements.

I'm a big Cornell fan, yet I've never been a big fan of this album and this is one of the reasons why. There are really only 3 tracks or so that do it for me, and come to think of it, they're the more minimal songs.

DiRtyFranK38

this without a doubt measures up to all the sg albums i think.
i just think this album is so fucking brilliant! the music is so psychedelic and atmospheric, the lyrics fantastic, and the vocals out of this world!

facepollution

Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:

Case in point, the Flutter Girl demo.

Ah yeah, that version is AMAZING!

clarefromscotland

OffHeGoes132 wrote:

Euphoria Morning in my opinion is a masterful album. And even though I'm also not totally crazy about Natasha's contributions to the album, I would sure as hell take her contributions over Timbaland's. The very little bit we've heard of the new album thus far sounds AWWWWWWFUL.

I'm waiting till I've heard more than eight bars from the lead-off single before I make any judgements on that!!! I'm looking forward to hearing what they've done together - Timbaland's a powerful innovator in his own field and I think both of them probably want to push themselves beyond what they're known for. I really liked the single Timbaland produced for Bjork and I'm intrigued to see where this collaboration with CC might go.

Yep - imo the Flutter Girl demo way surpassed the EM version. But then I thought the same about the solo acoustic "Like Suicide" - never could listen to the SG version any more after I heard that.

facepollution

clarefromscotland wrote:

But then I thought the same about the solo acoustic "Like Suicide" - never could listen to the SG version any more after I heard that.

:eek: Whilst I love both, I would have to go with the full band version just for that guitar solo! And I think the vocals are a little more dynamic.

Mike_Muse_Rage

facepollution wrote:

:eek: Whilst I love both, I would have to go with the full band version just for that guitar solo! And I think the vocals are a little more dynamic.

Word.

And whilst I enjoyed the contributions of Alain and Natasha, they didn't just play the music, they also wrote some of it; something I think is often overlooked. They co-wrote the music for the new version of Flutter Girl, Follow My Way and Mission. They wrote all the music for Disappearing One. Natasha wrote all the music for Pillow Of Your Bones and co-wrote Steel Rain with Chris.
I hardly think you can say that they didn't contribute positively to this album; they wrote a fair amount of it! Hence my comment that Chris works better in a band environment where ideas can be bounced off each other.

facepollution

Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:

Word.

And whilst I enjoyed the contributions of Alain and Natasha, they didn't just play the music, they also wrote some of it; something I think is often overlooked. They co-wrote the music for the new version of Flutter Girl, Follow My Way and Mission. They wrote all the music for Disappearing One. Natasha wrote all the music for Pillow Of Your Bones and co-wrote Steel Rain with Chris.
I hardly think you can say that they didn't contribute positively to this album; they wrote a fair amount of it! Hence my comment that Chris works better in a band environment where ideas can be bounced off each other.

I agree, I think he works better when he has a little guidance. Also I think the instrumentation helped to give the album a cohesive identity, something Carry On was sorely lacking. The songs on Euphoria Morning all seem to fit together, despite the varying styles, Carry On just felt like a rushed mish-mash of songs thrown together.

reversedarwinism

clarefromscotland wrote:

I love Euphoria Morning, but in spite of rather than because of Eleven's contributions. Alain Johannes is a pretty good guitarist and a creative musician, but I don't personally think Natasha Shneider has much musical taste - she never seems to know when to stop with the embellishments and the effect of the arrangements can seem very overblown. I think a lot of the songs on that album would have been better in simpler arrangements.

This album just hasn't left my player at home since made this thread. Such a great album, such great vocals. Though, I have to say I really do like the arrangements, the vibe of the whole thing. I do like Sweet Euphoria as a single song, but it really is my least favorite in the alubm and doesn't seem to quite fit in with the rest. Still, I just wouldn't change a single thing about this album. The one Cornell song I think the keyboards did ruin is called... uhh... someone to something... its a unreleased one that is often associated with Heart of honey. Thats the only one where I don't appreciate her contribution.

muppet

reversedarwinism wrote:

This album just hasn't left my player at home since made this thread. Such a great album, such great vocals. Though, I have to say I really do like the arrangements, the vibe of the whole thing. I do like Sweet Euphoria as a single song, but it really is my least favorite in the alubm and doesn't seem to quite fit in with the rest. Still, I just wouldn't change a single thing about this album. The one Cornell song I think the keyboards did ruin is called... uhh... someone to something... its a unreleased one that is often associated with Heart of honey. Thats the only one where I don't appreciate her contribution.

Someone To Die For?

I'm not a fan of that song either. It sounds like a MIDI file.

hguz73

Good album indeed, but i always wondered why "Sunshower" wasn't released in the original tracklist. I know it was released as a bonus track (along with the french version of "Can't Change Me") in the japanese version and was also included in "Great Expectations" Soundtrack. That truly is a very nice song.

No_ones_rival

Sunshower and Moon Child are two of my favorite songs ever.

The_Fixer

clarefromscotland wrote:

Timbaland's a powerful innovator in his own field and I think both of them probably want to push themselves beyond what they're known for.

I agree 100%