RIP Chris Cornell
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I love the live version of Searching with my Good Eye closed so much (the live version feels 10x better than the studio version).
It's the one that sticks out to me from the Gorge 2011 show. I keep listening to the version on Live on I5 alot. It rocks so hard.
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NWOntario said:facepollution said:NWOntario said:facepollution said:NWOntario said:I wrote this just now:
https://snjohns.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/no-one-sings-like-you-anymore/
I still can't believe he's gone.NWOntario said:I wrote this just now:
https://snjohns.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/no-one-sings-like-you-anymore/
I still can't believe he's gone.
I'm right there with you - weirdly enough, today was the day I started listening to his music again too. I still don't want to touch TOTD, or Seasons (my favourite song ever), but I put Superunknown on, and the emotions weren't as bad as I feared. It was almost like I was listening to it for the first time - my overwhelming feeling was absolute awe of what a masterpiece they really made, records of this depth just don't seem to be made anymore.
Still a huge struggle to comprehend the fact he's no longer with us, I find myself thinking about it frequently. I google his name daily to see if there's any news or insights into how this could have happened. I don't know what all the stages of grieving are, and I know some people would question how you could grieve for someone you never really knew, but this feels as genuinely crushing as any of the losses I've experienced - the added sadness being that it was his music I turned to in those times of grief.
It's comforting (wrong word, but the best I've got right now) knowing we're all right there with one another. We'll be processing this for a long time.
Cornell's death sent me off a cliff and into an OCD lapse (I'd been symptom-free for almost a year when he died). Ironically, his death also motivated me to make the final push towards "full" recovery that I'd been actively avoiding for years. I don't mean to suggest I'm thankful for the push, but it's a small silver lining I've been clinging to.
Yeah I think a lot of people feel the same, your words totally resonated with me. It's hard to discuss it with friends to be honest. I went to see Guns 'n' Roses a few weeks back, and they covered Black Hole Sun, I was pretty drunk, but man, I cried my eyes out. I don't think music has been such a big crutch to my friends, so while they see it as really sad, I think I'm dealing with it on a whole other level.
I know what you mean about his death making you reevaluate your own issues, it's done the same for me, I've been living as a functionally depressed person for a very long time now, and music has been the main thing I've turned to in times of despair. With Chris' passing it feels like music isn't enough - and rightly so, whilst it can be an enormous comfort, I've realised that there has to be something more.
The first show I saw after Chris died was Tool. I cried at fucking TOOL. However, when we saw U2 a couple weeks ago, they played "Bad," and it turned me into a puddle. It's a song that's meant a lot to me for a long time anyway, but hearing it just over a month after Chris' death felt like a hammer blow. I was literally sobbing. This is going to take a long while.
Yeah they were still using You Know My Name as the closing music, it was kind of hard to hear once everybody was leaving though.
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facepollution said:
I totally agree.... this is beyond perfection.All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives,.....choosing the shiny ones instead,......0 -
Brisk. said:
Heartbreaking.Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022 | Philadelphia I & II 20240 -
^^ Wow! That shit is really heavy now, the Chris & Chester + the Chris & Joy. Just, wow.<hr>
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NWOntario said:Brisk. said:
Heartbreaking.
Been going through stuff from Chris's entire career lately and there's no doubt that he was one of the greatest and most versatile rock singers of all time.Post edited by Edved82 on"...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."0 -
Not sure if this was posted. Great rendition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgvqXbNs94#t=205.371957287
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Chris's daughter Toni sings tribute to her father and Chester Bennington this morning on Good Morning America- Here is the link. That was beautiful Toni!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/chris-cornells-daughter-12-performs-tribute-late-father/story?id=49024365
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OMGkatwoman said:Chris's daughter Toni sings tribute to her father and Chester Bennington this morning on Good Morning America- Here is the link. That was beautiful Toni!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/chris-cornells-daughter-12-performs-tribute-late-father/story?id=49024365Post edited by PP193448 on2006 Clev,Pitt; 2008 NY MSGx2; 2010 Columbus; 2012 Missoula; 2013 Phoenix,Vancouver,Seattle; 2014 Cincy; 2016 Lex, Wrigley 1&2; 2018 Wrigley 1&2; 2022 Louisville0 -
OMGkatwoman said:Chris's daughter Toni sings tribute to her father and Chester Bennington this morning on Good Morning America- Here is the link. That was beautiful Toni!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/chris-cornells-daughter-12-performs-tribute-late-father/story?id=49024365
"...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."0 -
when you see her poise and strength it gives me the encouragement to persevere with her. Thanks Toni. i see him in you!!
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The hurt subsided enough, I can think of you again at lastI wish I could just be tough and I keep hoping it will soon passThe why why why burns my gut. How did it happen so fast.I wish I could give some to you, but I guess I'll have to do , just try to breath I guess.As george taught us, all things must passWhen Nobody told me there be days like these but John I learned it fastI hoped you'd show me a way to relax.with me I'd hoped to live and let live but alas...I wish you didn't have to goI wish I'd told u so.But now we'll never knowWould that wishing, made it so0
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I've been wandering sideways, stare straight into the sun
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OMGkatwoman said:Chris's daughter Toni sings tribute to her father and Chester Bennington this morning on Good Morning America- Here is the link. That was beautiful Toni!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/chris-cornells-daughter-12-performs-tribute-late-father/story?id=49024365"A beacon on dry land"0 -
Too tough to watch.www.cluthelee.com0
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