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Jesus Christ Pose really sucks.

DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
edited April 2007 in Other Music
There, I said it.

LOVE Soundgarden, don't really love JCP. At all. And the video is terrible. Everyone's always saying how great it is and how it's a masterpiece and how Kim Thayil is a bad-ass mofo. I disagree!

Who's with me?

(Disclaimer: yes, I'm trying to stir people up. But really, the song is pretty bad, IMO.)
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  • Marie CurieMarie Curie Posts: 1,250
    Really? I love that song!
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    You're crazy. Mindblowing vocals and a helll of a groove to it.

    The video sucks though I'll agree with you there.
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  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    I don't think you're going to find much support here. People in this forum love licking Cornell's testicles, especially while he sings a song like this.

    edit: Personally I think it's alright, but Slaves & Bulldozers is way better.
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    gleemonex wrote:
    Slaves & Bulldozers is way better.
    And how.
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  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    If by "sucks" you mean "rocks", then you are correct :D
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    gleemonex wrote:
    edit: Personally I think it's alright, but Slaves & Bulldozers is way better.

    Yes sir. JCP is one of my least favs off of Badmotorfinger, with Slaves and Bulldozers probably being my favorite.

    [EDIT] I mean, there's just no melody to it. It's all just loud noise. I hate to sound like that Pinkpop interviewer from 1992 saying it's "loud all over," but it's true. I love my music loud and rockin', but it needs to have some kind of glue to hold it together, which is something that Soundgarden is best at... yet at the same time, it's missing from one of their trademark songs.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    DOSW wrote:
    There, I said it.

    LOVE Soundgarden, don't really love JCP. At all. And the video is terrible. Everyone's always saying how great it is and how it's a masterpiece and how Kim Thayil is a bad-ass mofo. I disagree!

    Who's with me?

    (Disclaimer: yes, I'm trying to stir people up. But really, the song is pretty bad, IMO.)

    not me.

    but i agree with you about slaves and bulldozers. love belting that one out. :)
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    There's tons of melody in JCP!

    It's certainly not their best in that respect though.

    Just close your eyes, focus on Cornell's shrieking and let the bass and drum lines rattle your spine..
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I've never heard it and I cannot get it to play on amazon.com.

    i've tried in two different browsers.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,935
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    focus on Cornell's shrieking

    Cats shriek when they are tossed into swimming pools.


    I like the guitars and the fast space of this song. one of my favorite Matt Cameron tracks. but I don't like Cornell's vocals on it at all.
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Sorry DOSW, love the song, and OMG! LOVE the vid!! :D

    Not a huge fan of their other stuff, well Loud Love because of the vocal, but yeah, if YOU don't like it you don't like it. And fair enough. :)
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  • Marie CurieMarie Curie Posts: 1,250
    iluvcats wrote:
    I've never heard it and I cannot get it to play on amazon.com.

    i've tried in two different browsers.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsHll4ZdKiU

    I love the drumming in this song, kicks so much ass, even more live
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Marie Curie wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsHll4ZdKiU

    I love the drumming in this song, kicks so much ass, even more live

    thanks :)
    my bud emailed the song to me and I loved it. I loved the music....could not understand the lyrics but I liked his screaming. It better not be advocating satan or I'll never listen again. I love JC.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    danny72688 wrote:
    If by "sucks" you mean "rocks", then you are correct :D


    Your not in hiding anymore from other posts dan.

    Jcp not only is everything forementioned praised.

    It is on the more technical side for Soundgarden. The bass and drums are very differant from most of their other great work.

    And his lyrics are cool in that song.
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  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    The drumming is pretty cool and has a pretty cool groove, but I don't love the guitar or Chris' singing/shrieking too much on this one.

    Edit: I couldn't even watch the video the whole way through, it was so fuckin' annoying.
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  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    DOSW wrote:
    Yes sir. JCP is one of my least favs off of Badmotorfinger, with Slaves and Bulldozers probably being my favorite.

    [EDIT] I mean, there's just no melody to it. It's all just loud noise. I hate to sound like that Pinkpop interviewer from 1992 saying it's "loud all over," but it's true. I love my music loud and rockin', but it needs to have some kind of glue to hold it together, which is something that Soundgarden is best at... yet at the same time, it's missing from one of their trademark songs.


    It has their timing in it. As quick as it is it still has the breakdowns
    and they go back and forth well. So its not as blah as you are making it sound. Their is deffinatly structure to it.
    Face pollution is somewhat in the directioin you are describing. And thats a good song.
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    iluvcats wrote:
    thanks :)
    my bud emailed the song to me and I loved it. I loved the music....could not understand the lyrics but I liked his screaming. It better not be advocating satan or I'll never listen again. I love JC.
    It's not. The JC pose reference is someone with their 'arms held out' trying to 'save' you... could be a whole lot of things, but it's not sacrilegious. :)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    It's not. The JC pose reference is someone with their 'arms held out' trying to 'save' you... could be a whole lot of things, but it's not sacrilegious. :)

    thanks because I really do like soundgarden :)
    what rocks so much in that song? is it the bass or the drums?
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    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    nowayimfaithfull wrote:
    Jcp not only is everything forementioned praised.

    It is on the more technical side for Soundgarden. The bass and drums are very differant from most of their other great work.

    And his lyrics are cool in that song.
    I love the drumming, and that filthy sounding bass, so grungy ;)
    The guitar I think is perfection, not overpowering, but still slaps you in the face.

    I love the lyrics if they mean what I think they do.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    iluvcats wrote:
    thanks because I really do like soundgarden :)
    what rocks so much in that song? is it the bass or the drums?
    it's the bass AND the drums!

    Cornell is the high point though.. and all you nay sayers of him can eat it.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    this is spooky....I got Face Pollution to play on amazon but the JC song would not....
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    iluvcats wrote:
    this is spooky....I got Face Pollution to play on amazon but the JC song would not....
    Try to listen to Room a Thousand Years Wide. That's the critical point on the album. I'll send it to you if you can't. Nobody should die without hearing it.

    Face Pollution is a sweet one though!
  • larslars Posts: 524
    DOSW wrote:
    There, I said it.

    LOVE Soundgarden, don't really love JCP. At all. And the video is terrible. Everyone's always saying how great it is and how it's a masterpiece and how Kim Thayil is a bad-ass mofo. I disagree!

    Who's with me?

    (Disclaimer: yes, I'm trying to stir people up. But really, the song is pretty bad, IMO.)
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  • eclecticeclectic Posts: 244
    Prefer Spoonman but JCP is def in my top 5 songs of theirs,so no support from me.
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    danny72688 wrote:
    Try to listen to Room a Thousand Years Wide. That's the critical point on the album. I'll send it to you if you can't. Nobody should die without hearing it.

    Face Pollution is a sweet one though!
    I agree. RATYW and Searching With My Good Eye Closed are the pinnacle of Badmotorfinger.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • Marie CurieMarie Curie Posts: 1,250
    iluvcats wrote:
    this is spooky....I got Face Pollution to play on amazon but the JC song would not....


    just get Badmotorfinger and listen to the whole thing :)
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    it's the bass AND the drums!

    Cornell is the high point though.. and all you nay sayers of him can eat it.


    he is always the highpoint.

    but lets get focussed chris and rock for more than 2 tours
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  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    iluvcats wrote:
    this is spooky....I got Face Pollution to play on amazon but the JC song would not....


    i will burn you the whole cd its great
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  • nowayimfaithfullnowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    danny72688 wrote:
    Try to listen to Room a Thousand Years Wide. That's the critical point on the album. I'll send it to you if you can't. Nobody should die without hearing it.

    Face Pollution is a sweet one though!


    my good eye into that

    purely my fav 2 songs ever
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  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    nowayimfaithfull wrote:
    It has their timing in it. As quick as it is it still has the breakdowns
    and they go back and forth well. So its not as blah as you are making it sound. Their is deffinatly structure to it.
    Face pollution is somewhat in the directioin you are describing. And thats a good song.

    You'll probably hate me even more for saying this, but I think JCP and Face Pollution are the two worst tracks on the album, and they're back to back. I sometimes still listen to JCP, but I really don't like Face Pollution.
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