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Soundgarden: King Animal

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Todd33

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Is anyone listening to it? So far it seems like a great album. Rowing sticks out as a catchy tune so far. I need more time for it to sink in, but I'm so glad they released a studio album after all these years.


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They have a single out on the radio right now that sounds like trash. The engineering on the song is pretty bad. The performance isn't even that great. These guys really should hang up the gear and try something else.
 
didn't know they were still together. used to have at least one of their cds and it was like the 1st cd i ever bought.
 
The most dynamic singer of our generation. I can't even hit some of the notes that guy hits and he does it with crazy power. He is the male Mariah Carey, without the crazy.
 
Saint Nick said:
They have a single out on the radio right now that sounds like trash. The engineering on the song is pretty bad. The performance isn't even that great. These guys really should hang up the gear and try something else.
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I wonder if it was a satellite production. Meaning, they didn't produce it normally instead eveyone tracked their own parts in their own personal studios.

While this process makes it easier to produce an album that might not otherwise be possible (because of scheduling), these productions off don't get the level of TLC that an expensive studio production gets. The 'bad engineering' could be an effect of the 'quick and dirty' production style they used.

That and more and more mastering is being done in the mix using inline plugins versus shipped off to a specialist that completely masters every individual track.

Self mastered, satellite productions are much easier to produce and get published these days. You miss some of the finer qualities that you seen in your typical big budget studio production, but sometimes the self produced method is all that's available.

Quick and Dirty - More control, self produced, quicker production time BUT it's easier to here imperfections and inbalances in the mix. For many artists this is 'good enough' and this method allows them to produce more in less time.

Studio Production - Less control, outside producer, longer production cycle, but the end result is a finer quality product.
 
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The most dynamic singer of our generation. I can't even hit some of the notes that guy hits and he does it with crazy power. He is the male Mariah Carey, without the crazy.
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I can see it.

You might like Daniel Gildenlow. He's a swedish singer from the band Pain of Salvation. He is famous in his home country for winning their equivalent of American Idol for being an amazing singer.

He can do anything, and he's kinda bat shit crazy about it too. They have soooo many songs with different styles. I tried to find one that a soundgarden fan might like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbgITz_KVY
 
It's okay. There's a few salvagable tracks and a decent amount of forgettable filler.

Blood on the Valley Floor and Eye Lid's mouth are the catchiest ones to me. Easily the ones where they felt the most cohesive and just jammed. Which is when Soundgarden is at their best. Most of the middle part of the album is very weak.

Worse Dreams has to take the title for leading you up to an awesome riff and then just falling apart. It's got this slow, groovey, dark bass line that get's filled in with KT's guitars and you feel like it's just going to erupt into a heavy song. But it just goes into this pop rock kinda chippy jam.

Eyelids Mouth is probably my favorite. It had me hooked from the start. They just gelled together the best on that track and it's the most fun track on the album.
 
after listening to amazon's preview:

meh. i will remember soundgarden the way i like them best: badmotorfinger, superunknown, and down on the upside.

especially superunknown.
 
Pr0d1gy said:
The most dynamic singer of our generation. I can't even hit some of the notes that guy hits and he does it with crazy power. He is the male Mariah Carey, without the crazy.
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Oh hell no. Michael Kiske takes that crown. He can hit those high notes and hold them for 20 seconds.

It's not about hitting those high notes either. Kiske can sing at the very highest notes and doesn't to any screaming. Just pure control.
 
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NikolaeVarius said:
Oh hell no. Michael Kiske takes that crown. He can hit those high notes and hold them for 20 seconds.

It's not about hitting those high notes either. Kiske can sing at the very highest notes and doesn't to any screaming. Just pure control.
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Except for the fact I had to Google him to figure out who he was not saying he can't be the better signer but can't say he is the equivalent to our generation male Mariah Carey if he is pretty unknown...
 
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josh0099 said:
Except for the fact I had to Google him to figure out who he was not saying he can't be the better signer but can't say he is the equivalent to our generation Mariah Carey if he is pretty unknown...
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He was the singer of one of the pioneering power metal bands that basically spawned the entire genre and sang in one of the most critically claimed metal albums of all time. So I would say he is pretty well known.
 
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I haven't heard it but I wiki'd Audioslave to see what they'd been up to which lead to Chris Cornell which lead back to Audioslave which led to Tom Morello which led to RATM which led to Zack De La Rocha which led back to RATM and now I'm listening to Killing In the Name Of.

You know how it is with Wikipedia.
 
NikolaeVarius said:
He was the singer of one of the pioneering bands of power metal and sang in one of the most critically claimed metal albums of all time. So I would say he is pretty well known.
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Still isn't the right comparison Imo I don't follow power metal, he has to be known by people that follow rock to be the male equivalent to Mariah Carey... I am sure someone can pull some female signer in a obscure genre that can blow her away but at the end of the day she is still mainly unknown. So still he is not a generational idol like Chris Conrnel is to mainstream rock vocalist...
 
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