Cornell haters.

pjtaper

LOVE HIS VOICE! LOVE HIS SONGS!!!
But I think he is an ASSHOLE, and I won't listen to his music anymore...
He does wear some nice designer jeans! I also wish I had the time to give myself such perfect facial hair, he must spend hours on it daily...
he's a DIVA with a disease that's GREEN!
G-R-E-E-D!

lowlight10

soulsinging wrote:

this is why im a cornell hater... middle aged women creaming their skirts becos he's so gorgeous and dresses so nice.

its too bad that you let what other people think and do affect your enjoyment of the arts.

he's simply awesome. great songs, great voice, and most of the time has had some stellar musicians behind him. i dont love every song he's ever done, but you can easily make 1 amazing disc out of the 3 Audioslave albums. EM is incredible, and the last 2 soungarden albums are probably in my top 10.

redrock

pjtaper wrote:

and I won't listen to his music anymore...

We know :rolleyes:

muppet

redrock wrote:

I think you'll find most are far from middle-age.. more like late teens/early twenties.. if that.


Didn't PJ fans do the same kind of thing for some stupid best band thing on some unknown website?

Looking at the profiles on the CC official forum, it looks as if the majority of posters are female between 30-50 years old. Of course, they only make up a small percent of Cornell's fans.

As for that best band ever thing, I don't know, I was never round for that. Stuff like that is completely ridclious. Let the artists win because of their talent, not because of some obsessive fans who want to cram their favourite band down everyones throat.

You get this "they can do no wrong!!!" attitude with every band, I suppose. I just think some Cornell fans take it way, way too far.

wavescamecrashing

soulsinging.

i think you're tone deaf

soulsinging

lowlight10 wrote:

its too bad that you let what other people think and do affect your enjoyment of the arts.

he's simply awesome. great songs, great voice, and most of the time has had some stellar musicians behind him. i dont love every song he's ever done, but you can easily make 1 amazing disc out of the 3 Audioslave albums. EM is incredible, and the last 2 soungarden albums are probably in my top 10.

i was unimpressed with cornell long before i knew how retarded his fans were. i have soundgarden's a-sides and that's about all i need from the man. the only song it's missing is my wave and the 3 good songs off totd.

facepollution

soulsinging wrote:

eh, i've never been all that much more impressed by his lower key stuff either. that's what im saying. even aside from the cringe-inducing shrieks, i don't get what's so genius about him. his songs aren't anything to write home about and when he's singing in the lower registers his voice seems no different to me than ed singing thumbing my way.

Yet Ed wouldn't get anywhere near the high notes that Cornell can do. It's ok, I get it, you don't have any particular respect for people who have vocal talent. That's cool, some people don't find five minute, lightning-speed guitar solos impressive either.

And seriously, you say his songs are nothing to write home about, have you even read any of his lyrics? Here's Like Suicide for your perusal:

Heard it from another room
Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep
Loves like suicide
Dazed out in a garden bed
With a broken neck lays my broken gift
Just like suicide

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

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

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How shed fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died
Just like suicide



You should also read pretty much all the lyrics to Temple of the Dog - few people have conveyed heart-ache like Cornell does on that record.

lowlight10

soulsinging wrote:

i was unimpressed with cornell long before i knew how retarded his fans were. i have soundgarden's a-sides and that's about all i need from the man. the only song it's missing is my wave and the 3 good songs off totd.

ridiculous. i'm not a huge fan of BMF, but slaves & bulldozers, rusty cage and outshined are masterpieces.

black hole sun is the only song from Superunknown that I would leave off of a greatest hits.

and Down on the Upside...where do I begin? Overfloater, Boot Camp, Zero Chance...just incredible.

Strangest Tribe

who's Chris Cornell???

Tangerine

Cornell was and is a great singer. I think cancelling those shows sucked (but who really knows what happened?). Personally I much prefer Ed's voice to Cornell but I like them both. Yes, the women on his Message Board are absolutely, unbelievably obsessed...much more so than the female Ed fans on here of which I include myself (which is why I'm just asking this here instead of there)...But does anyone that's been to a recent show know if cameras are allowed? We're going to see him tomorrow at the BOA Pavillion and the tickets say No Cameras but it seems that pics/videos are still popping up everywhere. I really just want to take one in to get pics of my son at his first concert but I don't want it to be confiscated, if it possibly will be I'll just take in a disposable and hope for the best.

Sorry, I know this is off the topic of the "Great Debate" but I didn't want to start yet another Cornell thread ; )

bookmuse

Tangerine wrote:

Cornell was and is a great singer.

But does anyone that's been to a recent show know if cameras are allowed? We're going to see him tomorrow at the BOA Pavillion and the tickets say No Cameras but it seems that pics/videos are still popping up everywhere. I really just want to take one in to get pics of my son at his first concert but I don't want it to be confiscated, if it possibly will be I'll just take in a disposable and hope for the best.

Sorry, I know this is off the topic of the "Great Debate" but I didn't want to start yet another Cornell thread ; )

Yes, cameras are allowed as long as you don't use a flash.

soulsinging

facepollution wrote:

Yet Ed wouldn't get anywhere near the high notes that Cornell can do. It's ok, I get it, you don't have any particular respect for people who have vocal talent. That's cool, some people don't find five minute, lightning-speed guitar solos impressive either.

And seriously, you say his songs are nothing to write home about, have you even read any of his lyrics? Here's Like Suicide for your perusal:

Heard it from another room
Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep
Loves like suicide
Dazed out in a garden bed
With a broken neck lays my broken gift
Just like suicide

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

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

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How shed fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died
Just like suicide



You should also read pretty much all the lyrics to Temple of the Dog - few people have conveyed heart-ache like Cornell does on that record.

holy shit! you're right! ive been way off base this whole time... those are the best lyrics i've ever read in my entire life... he IS a god!

oh wait... nope, still don't care for him. "A" for effort though.

Tangerine

bookmuse wrote:

Yes, cameras are allowed as long as you don't use a flash.

Thank you : )

Techno Ted 33

pjtaper wrote:

LOVE HIS VOICE! LOVE HIS SONGS!!!
But I think he is an ASSHOLE, and I won't listen to his music anymore...
He does wear some nice designer jeans! I also wish I had the time to give myself such perfect facial hair, he must spend hours on it daily...
he's a DIVA with a disease that's GREEN!
G-R-E-E-D!

I am pretty much in agreement with pjtaper... I am huge Soundgarden/TOTD fan and liked some of the hard Audioslave stuff, and I look for old SG bootlegs, but these days the guy is a $hitclown. It is too bad that he needs to be tormented by demons and addictions to produce amazing music; which he is no longer capable of.
Kim Thayil owns his soul.

PJGARDEN

facepollution wrote:

Yet Ed wouldn't get anywhere near the high notes that Cornell can do. It's ok, I get it, you don't have any particular respect for people who have vocal talent. That's cool, some people don't find five minute, lightning-speed guitar solos impressive either.

And seriously, you say his songs are nothing to write home about, have you even read any of his lyrics? Here's Like Suicide for your perusal:

Heard it from another room
Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep
Loves like suicide
Dazed out in a garden bed
With a broken neck lays my broken gift
Just like suicide

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

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

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How shed fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died
Just like suicide



You should also read pretty much all the lyrics to Temple of the Dog - few people have conveyed heart-ache like Cornell does on that record.

have you heard the acoustic version of like suicide? it really shows how beautiful his low register is. i dont agree with him canceling the shows but i still love his music. seeing him again wed and cant wait!

muppet

Posting lyrics to a song isn't going to change somebodys mind. In fact, nothing is. Guess what, music is subjective.

facepollution

soulsinging wrote:

holy shit! you're right! ive been way off base this whole time... those are the best lyrics i've ever read in my entire life... he IS a god!

oh wait... nope, still don't care for him. "A" for effort though.

dude, do you even know what the song is about? Nice condescending tone there though, I'd love to go for a beer with you some time, you must be such fun....

Tek Money

muppet wrote:

Posting lyrics to a song isn't going to change somebodys mind. In fact, nothing is. Guess what, music is subjective.

This guy has it right.

soulsinging

facepollution wrote:

dude, do you even know what the song is about? Nice condescending tone there though, I'd love to go for a beer with you some time, you must be such fun....

just responding to your own condescension. this is textbook why i get so pissed about the cornell love around here. i say i dont care for him and there are 10 people telling me "clearly you never listened to *insert personal fav song here* cos if you had you'd know him." it IS possible that he doesn't turn various people's cranks. half the shit i listen to would be ripped to shreds by people around here. that's cool. it's all subjective.

Brisk.

soulsinging wrote:

just responding to your own condescension. this is textbook why i get so pissed about the cornell love around here. i say i dont care for him and there are 10 people telling me "clearly you never listened to *insert personal fav song here* cos if you had you'd know him." it IS possible that he doesn't turn various people's cranks. half the shit i listen to would be ripped to shreds by people around here. that's cool. it's all subjective.

what are you into except black crowes and pearl jam?