Chris Cornell

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Everyone knows what a huge Cornell fan I am. Definitely check out "Euphoria Morning."
 
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argonaut4":781c6 said:
I dig Chris a lot. I think he's evolved incredibly well as a volcalist. I still dig this stuff, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ivn4UGnJE
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Duct tape shorts, FTW! :rock:
 
Layne owns Cornell...anyway you look at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb90YSIjWcQ

vocal ability, and as a key point - consistency...

I like Chris as well, just I think since he left SG he's lost a lot of appeal. Pretty Noose is one of my more favorite of his songs, but from what I know he couldn't pull it off live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfzKP80t3es
 
that's what was great about the big 90's bands..

Cornell, Vedder, Staley , Cobain...

all awesome singers that sounded completely different..but performed with a ton of emotion and conviction
 
I'm a huge fan of most of the "grunge" Seattle stuff,...AIC, Soundgarden and PJ,...I also like a lot of the Nirvana stuff. I saw Chris on is currently solo tour and he sounded fantastic as did his whole band, great show. Chris's solo work on Euphoria Morning is amazing -- one of my all time favorite records. That said I'm not really "feeling" the new solo tunes from him that I've heard, but I'm still gonna pick up the new record and give it a fair chance. His range isn't what it once was but he's still an amazing singer.

I also like most of the Audioslave stuff. :eek: :)
 
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kannibul":98d89 said:
Layne owns Cornell...anyway you look at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb90YSIjWcQ

vocal ability, and as a key point - consistency...

I like Chris as well, just I think since he left SG he's lost a lot of appeal. Pretty Noose is one of my more favorite of his songs, but from what I know he couldn't pull it off live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfzKP80t3es
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No Staley does not own Cornell. Not even close. I love Staley as well but he couldn't pull of the shit that Cornell did in the studio. Live it's a different story.

Cornell was on a path of self-destruction which Layne beat him too. He destroyed his voice. But we didn't get the opportunity to see Layne in the same situation. I doubt he would have been any better.
 
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kannibul":14b3d said:
Layne owns Cornell...anyway you look at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb90YSIjWcQ

vocal ability, and as a key point - consistency...

I like Chris as well, just I think since he left SG he's lost a lot of appeal. Pretty Noose is one of my more favorite of his songs, but from what I know he couldn't pull it off live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfzKP80t3es
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I dont think Layne Staley owned CC at all, to be honest, theyre really quite different and it comes down to preference... I love cornell like know ones business but I like Staley better and I think the major reason for that is that I liked AIC material better than Soundgardens...

Any way you slice it, those were 2 amazing singers...
 
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Everyone knows what a huge Cornell fan I am. Definitely check out "Euphoria Morning."
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Now that CD is a work of art! I love everything from the arrangements/musicians and incredible melodic hooks. I agree with Ralph on the mono thing though...it can get annoying. How does the new CD compare to that? havent heard yet...
 
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I have mixed feelings about him. When he is on..... he is on and I get the Total Chills but when he goes into that monotone drone where it sounds like he is not opening up his mouth wide enough, it ruins it for me.
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I have an acoustic bootleg of his show from Sweden when he did the acoustic leg of his tour (now on the electric leg). Its straight from the board and sounds fantastic. Its just him and his acoustic.

Here is a cover he did of Billy Jean from the bootleg I have:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AgDoru9qxdA
 
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sah5150":ef9da said:
Man... I just heard Chris Cornell do a live acoustic version of "Black Hole Sun" live in Howard Stern's studio... Incredible vocal performance. I lterally got chills listening to him sing it. Is there a more expressive vocalist that came out of the whole grunge thing? I think not...

Anybody else hear it? Amazing performance IMO...

Steve
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Layne Staley is up there for me, although I don't know if AIC is grunge.
 
Cornell's performance on "Slaves and Bulldozers" from Badmotorfinger is unbelievable as is "Call Me a Dog" from Temple of the Dog. I love Cornell, he is my daddy.
 
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I hear you about the direction they took being kinda meh. I think the first two albums (ten and vs.) are really strong, and then like I said the self titled one recently rocks pretty hard too. I like their other albums too to varying extents though. Definitely a lot of verb on 10 though haha.
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Here's where you guys are falling short; VITALOGY is a fucking work of art that goes way beyond just an "album." Nothing sounds like it, nothing. Listen to "Tremor Christ" and read the lyrics. Vedder wrote that around the time of Cobain's death.

Also, YIELD is an INCREDIBLE album; among their best material.
 
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Layne Staley is up there for me, although I don't know if AIC is grunge.
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Technically, AIC isn't grunge, their first album went up the charts before "grunge" really hit, with Nirvana leading the way.

but, since most people don't know otherwise, they get included in all the discussions as if they were. Ideally it'd be a discussions based on all the bands that came out of Seattle during 1988 to 1995 that would fit the mold :)
 
i'm trying to forget about the depressive 90's music

AIC was a good band

GREAT song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Hk1VMh7xI
 
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Technically, AIC isn't grunge, their first album went up the charts before "grunge" really hit, with Nirvana leading the way.

but, since most people don't know otherwise, they get included in all the discussions as if they were. Ideally it'd be a discussions based on all the bands that came out of Seattle during 1988 to 1995 that would fit the mold :)
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It may have went up the charts, but grunge was around in the 80's. If it came out of Seattle in the late 80's/early 90s, it was grunge. Grunge was just as much a movement as it was a sound. Go and watch the movie Singles and you'll see performances/appearances by Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, AIC; all part of the movement.

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i'd like to add that AIC was kind of like Soundgarden in that they definitely had some heavier, 80's-guitar-riff influence, the messages of their songs were very Grunge; reality, addiction, depression, etc..
 
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It may have went up the charts, but grunge was around in the 80's. If it came out of Seattle in the late 80's/early 90s, it was grunge. Grunge was just as much a movement as it was a sound. Go and watch the movie Singles and you'll see performances/appearances by Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, AIC; all part of the movement.

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i'd like to add that AIC was kind of like Soundgarden in that they definitely had some heavier, 80's-guitar-riff influence, the messages of their songs were very Grunge; reality, addiction, depression, etc..
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"Grunge" wasn't defined until Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit" became a sensation. From that point forward, all things of a similar nature was considered grunge, that came from Seattle, primarily.

Before that, they were just rock bands.

That said, Jerry's from Oklahoma. If Jerry pulled them all back here and decided to push their music out in this avenue via Tulsa and OKC, would it still have been thrown in with "grunge"?

Probably not.

Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, White Zombie's first CD - those define grunge. STP, AIC, Tool...those do not. :)
 
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