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"Burden in My Hand" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Burden in My Hand" was released on September 18, 1996, as the second single from the band's fifth studio album, Down on the Upside (1996). The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent five weeks at number one.
Soundgarden used alternative tunings and odd time signatures on several of the album's songs. For example, "Never the Machine Forever" uses a time signature of 9/8. [24] "Pretty Noose" and "Burden in My Hand" were written in C-G-C-G-G-E tuning. [25] The overall mood of the album's lyrics is not as dark as on previous Soundgarden albums. [26]
Soundgarden's debut full-length album Ultramega OK features cover versions of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" and John Lennon's "Two Minutes Silence" (under the title "One Minute of Silence"). Soundgarden released a recording of The Beatles song " Come Together ", written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney , as a B-side to " Hands All Over ...
The album was released in 1997 on A&M Records and was Soundgarden's last official release for 13 years, until 2010's Telephantasm. It debuted at number 63 on the Billboard 200 album chart. A-Sides has sold over 500,000 copies in the United States [ citation needed ] according to Nielsen SoundScan and over 700,000 copies worldwide, [ citation ...
"Blow Up the Outside World" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Blow Up the Outside World" was released on November 18, 1996, as the third single from the band's fifth studio album, Down on the Upside (1996).
The album spawned several singles, including "Pretty Noose", "Burden in My Hand", and "Blow Up the Outside World". "Pretty Noose" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1997. [64] The album did not match the sales or critical praise of Superunknown. [2]
Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records.Produced by Michael Beinhorn and the band themselves, Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of their previous album, Badmotorfinger (1991).
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 ...