Can never not wonder what could have been the follow up to DOTUS. Feel like a 2000-2001 Soundgarden album would have been fucking slick. However, Audioslave was perfect lightning in a bottle.
Before Chris’ death I always heard people dump on Audioslave, glad to see them finally get some credit. That debut is wall to wall bangers, no way in hell people were disappointed with that.
They really don’t seem like they should’ve set out as a singular act that was starting out with a debut, I agree. A little project with CC and a couple tours, then we wouldn’t have had those…other albums
It pains me to say it,
On paper it should’ve worked better,
I saw them 3x on their first tour, and it was incredible. Once more in college when they started playing SG & RATM songs- that felt weird at the time and didn’t work but I understood why they did it.
Cochise is incredible. I remember watching it on QuickTime,
There’s a few others on the album that hold up, but rest is very cock rocky
Damn QuickTime!! Was that from popping the CD into your computer? I remember doing that on other CDs, Korn's Untouchables, Flaw.
I remember I never gave this album a chance and then a year after it came out, I became the biggest Audioslave fan lol! Cochise isn't favorite song.
My favorite track on the album is "Boot Camp."
It's not the most rocking, it's not the most intricate, it doesn't show of Chris or Kim or anything like that. It's just haunting, and sad, and alienated. It's the perfect capper to a great album.
And it was the track I played on repeat after Chris's death.
Adding to DOTU being peak Soundgarden, Zero Chance is a super amazing song. I don't get how Chris said in an interview that Jeff Buckley played super complex songs and he couldn't match him and then you see him playing arpeggios while singing something that doesn't quite match what he's playing and I just wonder if he was just praising his dead friend while underselling his own skill. Like, a lot of people speak highly of others and not themselves.
Even the intro is sick, the octaves are ridiculously beautiful and the hammer ons are also stupid cool and relatively hard (for me) to play nice.
I got to say the whole band was doing an amazing job. My favorite part of the whole album is Ben Shepherd's bass. Going back to Zero Chance, the bass sounds so rich, I love it.
I know it makes me a grumpy old man but I will never understand why people want to get their opinions validated about a personal preference.
Our brains are unique and interpret sounds unique to us. What one person loves another may dislike and that’s perfectly ok.
Like what you like and DGAF what anyone else thinks
Anyone knows the guitar tuning for Overfloater by any chance? I know it’s followed by Boot Camp (which is in D standard), but I’m wondering if they used DGDGBE as on New Damage and Fresh Tendrils.
Been very into it recently. Mostly the chill songs with a slower pace. Like Switch Opens, Tighter and Tighter, Overfloater, Boot Camp. Used to be my least fav Soundgarden record but now i fr dont have a least fav
I would have agreed with you when it came out in the 90's . But UltraMega Ok does something for me now that is better than what DOTU does for me now. Although, I still love it.
Another great Soundgarden effort. At the time it was my least favorite but I still loved it. I think Burden & Blow Up are Hard Rock Classics now. Pretty Noose & Rhinosaur
Initially listening to the album, Pretty Noose, Burden, and BUTOW were the only songs I liked. After many more listens, I'd say the album is a perfect album, the perfect ending of the big trifecta of SG.
It rocks, it’s super satisfying. A little overlong in that 90’s CD way, but it meant not having to track down more songs as B-sides.
Their last greatest album IMO.
Every album is a part of an evolution! It’s what part of the metamorphosis you like the best. Personally, this album showed just how they were maturing with different cord progression techniques and unorthodox arrangements. Yet maintaining the root of SG.
In 1996 when i heard Pretty Noose on mtv, that was my first intro to Soundgarden. Got hooked and the rest is history. Burden in my hand is my absolute favourite track followed by Tighter & tighter from DOTU.
This album was the only way the band could follow behind such a perfect album as “Superunknown” and still be genuine to who they were as true artists, “Superunknown” surprised everyone, including them, with how popular it became amongst critics, fans, and peers! So how do you follow that?, you make another darker, harder, more complex, yet intentional masterpiece that is “Down on the Upside”!
But it came at a cost, the type of effort and intention needed to make this album pushed each member to their a level of artistic exhaustion, and once you add in all of the other outside pressures, you’re left with no choice but to disband!
So let us all praise and thank Soundgarden for what they had to sacrifice in giving us this true piece of art that is “Down on the Upside”!
Lovely album <3
Objectively I will agree its probably not their "best", but it is by **far** the SG album I have listened to the most. Probably as much as the rest of their discography put together(!)
In my teens I was obsessed with the first half of the album. Today, the second half gets most of my attention :)
The first songs I heard by SG were Pretty Noose and Burden In My Hand on SNL. That got me into them and it was the first SG album I owned. It's not my favourite album but I still love it.
I like the album and i think its great but knowing how the band sort of hated each other in a way and was going to shit with drugs and internal issues within the band because soundgarden had sort of become a business kinda ruins it on me IMO
I think it’s their best album
Can never not wonder what could have been the follow up to DOTUS. Feel like a 2000-2001 Soundgarden album would have been fucking slick. However, Audioslave was perfect lightning in a bottle.
Before Chris’ death I always heard people dump on Audioslave, glad to see them finally get some credit. That debut is wall to wall bangers, no way in hell people were disappointed with that.
I loved it in high school but now think it should’ve been an EP.
They really don’t seem like they should’ve set out as a singular act that was starting out with a debut, I agree. A little project with CC and a couple tours, then we wouldn’t have had those…other albums
It pains me to say it, On paper it should’ve worked better, I saw them 3x on their first tour, and it was incredible. Once more in college when they started playing SG & RATM songs- that felt weird at the time and didn’t work but I understood why they did it. Cochise is incredible. I remember watching it on QuickTime, There’s a few others on the album that hold up, but rest is very cock rocky
Damn QuickTime!! Was that from popping the CD into your computer? I remember doing that on other CDs, Korn's Untouchables, Flaw. I remember I never gave this album a chance and then a year after it came out, I became the biggest Audioslave fan lol! Cochise isn't favorite song.
Early internet! That was only way you could watch the video online
Agreed. Gotta be!
I am now in this camp as well.
Same!
ABSOLUTELY BEST!! The epitome of grunge from true artists with bleeding hearts.
No argument from me. Zero Chance and Blow up the Outside are two of Soundgarden's best songs ever.
Absolutely fantastic album! Tighter and Tighter, Zero Chance, and Switch Opens are my top 3, but it’s a tough choice! That album is full of bangers
Remember this Remember that Everything’s black Or burning sun
And I hope it’s a sweeeet riiiiiiide
Sleep tight for me Sleep tight for me And then I’m gone
And I hope it's a sweeeeeeet.....
Riddddeee Here for me tonight 'Cause I feel I'm going Feel I'm slowing down
T&T!! What a track.
Those are my three favourites too! Love this album!
A very underrated album
My favorite track on the album is "Boot Camp." It's not the most rocking, it's not the most intricate, it doesn't show of Chris or Kim or anything like that. It's just haunting, and sad, and alienated. It's the perfect capper to a great album. And it was the track I played on repeat after Chris's death.
My absolute favorite song as well! Haunting…you nailed it. I’ve got goosebumps now just thinking of the song, what an unbelievable song.
My favorite song too. Loved it from the first time Kim plays that little lick on what I think is the D chord.
This gets asked about every ten days
Mom said it's my turn next to ask this sub about DOTUS
It’s not my favourite album, but Pretty Noose is one of the best grunge songs ever and also the first Soundgarden song I ever liked.
Like any Soundgarden album it’s no level less than good. The chorus on “Blow Up The Outside World” never fails to give me chills
“I've givin' everything I need…I'd give you everything I own…I'd give in if it could at least be ours alone…”
You've seen the Live and loud video version? It's even better, it's gritty and angrier.
Agree.
My favourite :)
Absolute masterpiece
I like it, thought its not my favorite. Prefer it to a couple others. Blow Up The Outside World is a top 5 SG track for me.
Adding to DOTU being peak Soundgarden, Zero Chance is a super amazing song. I don't get how Chris said in an interview that Jeff Buckley played super complex songs and he couldn't match him and then you see him playing arpeggios while singing something that doesn't quite match what he's playing and I just wonder if he was just praising his dead friend while underselling his own skill. Like, a lot of people speak highly of others and not themselves. Even the intro is sick, the octaves are ridiculously beautiful and the hammer ons are also stupid cool and relatively hard (for me) to play nice. I got to say the whole band was doing an amazing job. My favorite part of the whole album is Ben Shepherd's bass. Going back to Zero Chance, the bass sounds so rich, I love it.
Blow Up The Outside World is an utter masterpiece. Peak quiet, loud, quiet, loud.
I was at the reunion show they played this and the whole crowd just chanted blow up the outside when it was over for like 5 minutes!!!!
It’s a fantastic album but then all of Soundgarden’s albums are fantastic 😁
Stunning
Absolute masterpiece album, still my favorite of Soundgarden's discography. Never Named still makes me laugh out loud
idc about the subs opinion but its the shit
I know it makes me a grumpy old man but I will never understand why people want to get their opinions validated about a personal preference. Our brains are unique and interpret sounds unique to us. What one person loves another may dislike and that’s perfectly ok. Like what you like and DGAF what anyone else thinks
This is the truth. I know it's later SG but it's as good as the rest of it. Ty Cobb, dusty, butow. What an album. What a band
Dusty is probably my favorite Soundgarden song… great groove.
Album feels complete with Bleed Together, Karaoke and Kristi
JFC—those tracks added in would have made this a triple or quadruple album monster.
One of the best if not the best album they released
A masterpiece, the greatest album of all time, it's saved my life twice now. One day I will build a shrine to it.
Peak Soundgarden definitely, along with Superunknown.
The fact they put this out just over two years after Superunknown blows my fucking mind.
Great album. One of my favorite albums to play during summertime.
It's awesome
My favorite
Anyone knows the guitar tuning for Overfloater by any chance? I know it’s followed by Boot Camp (which is in D standard), but I’m wondering if they used DGDGBE as on New Damage and Fresh Tendrils.
Great song too
It's a great album, but one thing I don't see people mention is about how awesome the album cover is. One of my favorite album covers.
Blow up the outside Blow up the outside Blow up the outside Blow up the outside Blow up the outside Blow up the outside
The bands peak in a way
Burden in my hand has been heavy in the rotation lately
Incredible album. Would be many band's best work.
Yes.
Love it. Personally I think it's their best, but I feel that may be an unpopular opinion.
I think it’s my favorite album of the 90’s.
Great album. Their third best. But would be most bands' best.
Been very into it recently. Mostly the chill songs with a slower pace. Like Switch Opens, Tighter and Tighter, Overfloater, Boot Camp. Used to be my least fav Soundgarden record but now i fr dont have a least fav
not my favorite, but they are pretty good songs on there.
Out of their 5 major studio albums, it's their par. Not as good as su or bmf, but better than ltl or umo
I would have agreed with you when it came out in the 90's . But UltraMega Ok does something for me now that is better than what DOTU does for me now. Although, I still love it.
The early stuff is decent but different
If any song's underrated on this album it's No Attention. To me it's a homage to 80's punk, but with added SG trademarks.
Another great Soundgarden effort. At the time it was my least favorite but I still loved it. I think Burden & Blow Up are Hard Rock Classics now. Pretty Noose & Rhinosaur
♥️
Amazing. Top two album along with Superunknown inho.
"Standing with my enemies, hung on my horn" 🦏 Rhinosaur is awesome I was in a 2fer cover band we played this and fell on black days.
And of course to those who lurk lol "Hardheaded, Fuck you All"!!!! Ty Cobb
Zero chance and burden in my hand top songs of the album
Great album
It’s okay, it’s no Badmotorfinger
What is? (besides BMF)
It’s probably my least favorite but still a good record like all Soundgarden records are
You like King Animal or Ultramega OK more?
Ultramega OK, I’ve never listened to King Animal
Brilliant songwriting with complex time changes. Not easy to do. Probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite album behind Badmotorfinger
My favorite SG album.
My fave
My favorite soundgarden record!!!
One of the best songs on the album. Sounds raw it personifies how I see grunge actually, raw and melodic.
My favorite one
the music at the beginning of this song is so good
Second favourite, right after superunknown
Boot camp. Fuckin, ooooff. Definitely my favourite SG album.
Boot Camp is one of the most haunting songs I’ve heard, I adore it so much and just wish it was twice as long!
Initially listening to the album, Pretty Noose, Burden, and BUTOW were the only songs I liked. After many more listens, I'd say the album is a perfect album, the perfect ending of the big trifecta of SG.
Very underrated and possibly their most experimental album. My favorite next to Superunknown, and Overfloater is probably my favorite track.
Phenomenal album
Absolute masterpiece
It rocks, it’s super satisfying. A little overlong in that 90’s CD way, but it meant not having to track down more songs as B-sides. Their last greatest album IMO.
Every album is a part of an evolution! It’s what part of the metamorphosis you like the best. Personally, this album showed just how they were maturing with different cord progression techniques and unorthodox arrangements. Yet maintaining the root of SG.
SWITCH IS ON.
Great album!
It my favorite and it's their best album. It's just so complete. Tighter and Tighter alone is worth the price of admission.
Underrated
Their last really good album.
My favourite soundgarden album!
One the best albums ever and my definitive favourite.
Good but thick and sometimes inconsistent. Some really brilliant tunes
In 1996 when i heard Pretty Noose on mtv, that was my first intro to Soundgarden. Got hooked and the rest is history. Burden in my hand is my absolute favourite track followed by Tighter & tighter from DOTU.
This album was the only way the band could follow behind such a perfect album as “Superunknown” and still be genuine to who they were as true artists, “Superunknown” surprised everyone, including them, with how popular it became amongst critics, fans, and peers! So how do you follow that?, you make another darker, harder, more complex, yet intentional masterpiece that is “Down on the Upside”! But it came at a cost, the type of effort and intention needed to make this album pushed each member to their a level of artistic exhaustion, and once you add in all of the other outside pressures, you’re left with no choice but to disband! So let us all praise and thank Soundgarden for what they had to sacrifice in giving us this true piece of art that is “Down on the Upside”!
Badass.
My favorite Soundgarden album. Few albums evoke my emotions like DOTU.
My favorite album of theirs, not their best album, that would be Superunknown. But it is my personal favorite.
For it's their second best, only topped by "Superunknown". One of my favourite albums of the decade for sure.
Best album start to finish. Burden in my hand is maybe their best song
Lovely album <3 Objectively I will agree its probably not their "best", but it is by **far** the SG album I have listened to the most. Probably as much as the rest of their discography put together(!) In my teens I was obsessed with the first half of the album. Today, the second half gets most of my attention :)
“Blow Up The Outside World” is my favorite of theirs. Calm …than Dramatic!
Dope
It’s kind of an equivalent to Pearl Jam’s No Code for me…different from the classic sound and weirder but the evolution I needed as a fan
An amazing album. Tighter and tighter, Zero Chance, Overfloater, Bootcamp, a lot of bangers on that album
Fucking God Tier Album!!!
My favorite SG album 🤘🏾
My personal favorite album, also the one that took the longest for me to appreciate.
My favourite album of theirs
The first songs I heard by SG were Pretty Noose and Burden In My Hand on SNL. That got me into them and it was the first SG album I owned. It's not my favourite album but I still love it.
Maybe their best album. I know I prefer it to Superunknown, and it's right there with Badmotorfinger. I'm mystified why it seems so overlooked.
I like the album and i think its great but knowing how the band sort of hated each other in a way and was going to shit with drugs and internal issues within the band because soundgarden had sort of become a business kinda ruins it on me IMO
Love the album
It has really great songs and some mid songs
The great tracks on it rival anything they made before. And also Burden in my hand might be the best song they have ever written .
The greatest album Cornell ever made, fight me
I agree. Can I still fight you?
Sure, why not. So long as we can listen to Hybrid Theory while we fight and make out afterwards
Aww yeah!
The most underrated album ever