CHRIS CORNELL Shares SOUNDGARDEN’s Journey Into Superunknown On InTheStudio
June 17, 2014, 10 years ago
North American syndicated Rock radio show and website InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands celebrates a ‘90s classic arriving at its 20th anniversary, Soundgarden Superunknown, with singer/guitarist/songwriter Chris Cornell.
When it came time for Soundgarden to enter the studio for Superunknown, the song stash was empty, a daunting creative challenge to main songwriter Chris Cornell. All of the ripe musical fruit had been harvested for the series of singles and EPs on Sub Pop and the SST album Badmotorfinger, but Chris found the untilled earth liberating, fertile musical ground.
The result was the uncanny way in which songs such as “Spoonman”, “Fell on Black Days”, “Black Hole Sun”, “My Wave”, “The Day I Tried To Live”, “Like Suicide” and “Superunknown” somehow bridged the evolution of rock over the twenty-five year period 1969 to 1994. The band’s effort would be rewarded with a # 1 album, two Grammy Awards and millions of fans.
Chris Cornell shares with InTheStudio host Redbeard how he viewed the process of writing and recording Soundgarden’s Superunknown.
“I look at Superunknown as kind of Soundgarden’s first (Beatles) White Album in a sense, where we were sort of all going in separate directions and taking music that we all liked separately, and (add) our own personal influences that didn’t necessarily spill out into the other members, and bring these influences back into the band and make this record.”Listen to the stream at InTheStudio.net.
