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"Spoonman" is a song by the American band Soundgarden. Written by the band's frontman, Chris Cornell, "Spoonman" was released on February 14, 1994, as the first single from the band's fourth studio album Superunknown (1994). "Spoonman" is credited as one of the songs that launched Soundgarden's career into the mainstream.
Soundgarden used alternate tunings and odd time signatures on several of the album's songs. "Spoonman", "Black Hole Sun", "Let Me Drown" and "Kickstand" were performed in drop D tuning while "Fell on Black Days" was performed in standard tuning. Some songs used more unorthodox tunings: "Superunknown" and "Fresh Tendrils" are in DGDGBe tuning ...
In April, Soundgarden announced the release of a box set titled Classic Album Selection for Europe, containing all of their studio albums except for Ultramega OK, and live album Live on I-5. [120] On May 5, just before The Offspring began playing their set, the band appeared as a special guest at the 20th annual KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine ...
Soundgarden’s best-selling album, the dizzyingly diverse 70-minute opus 'Superunknown,' was released 30 years ago last week. ... Singles like “Outshined” and “Spoonman,” and a formative ...
In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. Soundgarden has sold 14 million records in the US, [2] and an estimated 30 million worldwide. [3] Cornell announced Soundgarden's reunion on January 1, 2010, [4] The band's first studio album in 16 years, King Animal, was released on November 13, 2012. [5]
"Fell on Black Days" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Fell on Black Days" was released as the final single from the band's fourth studio album, Superunknown (1994). The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
4 time, an unorthodox meter which the band would also later use in "Spoonman". [3] Guitarist Kim Thayil has said that Soundgarden usually did not consider the time signature of a song until after the band had written it, and said that the use of odd meters was "a total accident." [4]
In 2017, Billboard ranked the song number nine on their list of the 15 greatest Soundgarden songs, [8] and in 2021, Kerrang ranked the song number eight on their list of the 20 greatest Soundgarden songs. [9] "Rusty Cage" was part of the soundtrack of the 1994 bike racing game, Road Rash, [10] which received 3DO's 1994 "Soundtrack of the Year ...