Yes, we're a day late with this week's SOTW (Raj apologizes), but we think that this week's selection is well worth the wait.
Before Chris Cornell grew old and crotchety and severely lame (we're talking crime-against-humanity-lame), way back before he was yearning for black hole suns and spoonmen, even before he was feeling outshined, he was just the shirtless, turpentine-throated frontman for a heavier-than-thou rock band from Seattle, wailing his balls off in abandoned warehouses for a couple dozen twenty-something slackers (oh how I envy those slackers). This was a couple years before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" fire-bombed MTV and grunge blitzed high schools and colleges nationwide.
At this time, Soundgarden released their second full-length, 1990's Louder Than Love. The album is full of raw, grooving, alt-metal anthems driven by Kim Thayil's methodic, looping guitar riffs droning into oblivion, and punctuated by Cornell's distinctive (and notably youthful) shriek. The lead track is the best example of this sound, and arguably the album's best song. Check it below, and best of luck not being entranced by Thayil's guitar assault.
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