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"Spoonman" was performed in drop D tuning.The main riff was written in septuple meter, in 7 4 time. [7] [8] [9] The chorus is 44 and part of the spoon solo is in 3 4.The 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".
"Outshined" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. Written by the band's frontman Chris Cornell, the song was released as the third single from their third studio album, Badmotorfinger (1991). It became the band's first song to reach the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts, where it peaked at number 45.
The video clip of the song "Spoonman" is notable for featuring a performance by Artis the Spoonman, a street entertainer in Seattle. [25] The title of the song is credited to bassist Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. [26] While on the set of the movie Singles, Ament produced a list of song titles for the fictional band featured in the movie. [25]
Artis, known professionally as Artis the Spoonman (born October 3, 1948), is an American street performer and musician from Seattle, Washington, who uses spoons as a musical instrument. He frequents the Pike Place Market accompanying singer/songwriter and guitarist Jim Page with his collection of spoons of different shapes and sizes and ...
There are 93 songs by 85 artists on-disc for Warriors of Rock. [4] Recent games in the Guitar Hero series were found to have soundtracks that attempted to please several types of players, leading to dilution of the experience; Warriors of Rock was designed to follow the success of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock with a soundtrack that was more focused on the rock 'n roll genre, according to ...
Superunknown, released in 1994, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and launched several successful singles, including "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun". [1] In 1996, the band released its fifth studio album, Down on the Upside; while successful, the album could not emulate the precedent set by Superunknown. In 1997, the band broke up due ...
"Rusty Cage" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Rusty Cage" was released in 1992 as the second single from the band's third studio album, Badmotorfinger (1991). The song became an instant hit and was released as a single in several different formats.
Guitarist Kim Thayil said of the title track: "That's an Ohio Players song off of Honey—I've had that album since I was in high school. We thought we could take the song and make it AC/DC or something. We'd take the power chords, turn up the volume and make it heavy. "Fopp" is a good song that needed to be given its due as a "kick-ass rock song!"