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SOUNDGARDEN: Ultramega OK is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Soundgarden, released on October 31, 1988 through SST Records. This album contained elements of psychedelic rock, classic rock, and hardcore punk. In 1990, the album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance.

Ultramega OK has elements of 1960s psychedelic rock, 1970s classic rock, and 1980s hardcore punk.[4] Drummer Matt Cameron said that the band tried to refine its sound while still trying to keep an edge and is the best expression of Soundgarden's early, Stooges/MC5-meets-Zeppelin/Sabbath sound, and added that it is a dark, murky, buzzing record that simultaneously subverts and pays tribute to heavy metal.

Guitarist Kim Thayil recalls "Flower" as being the first time he blew across his guitar strings, which can be heard during the song's introduction in rhythm with the drums. "Circle of Power" was one of the few Soundgarden songs to be written without any input from Cornell, as it was written by Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. It is also the only Soundgarden song on which Yamamoto performs lead vocals. "Smokestack Lightning" is a Howlin' Wolf cover. The end of the song contains samples of Sonic Youth's "Death Valley '69" from the 1985 album, Bad Moon Rising.

Three songs on the album were recorded as jokes or parodies by the band. The songs "665" and "667" are parodies of the idea of Satanic content in rock music, the idea being that if 666 is such a powerful number, then the surrounding numbers must be equally as powerful. "665", when played backwards, contains messages about Santa (such as Cornell screaming "I love you Santa, baby!" at 1:19), alluding to the alleged messages about Satan. The album's closing track, "One Minute of Silence," is a cover-song of John Lennon's "Two Minutes of Silence," excluding Yoko Ono's part. Cornell said that the band "appreciated the Lennon arrangement so much," that no instruments are played, although the band (presumably) can be faintly heard in the background. Cornell stated, "We were trying real hard to shut up, but Kim couldn't possibly shut up for a whole minute."

Track listing:

1. "Flower" (Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil) – 3:25

2. "All Your Lies" (Cornell, Thayil, Hiro Yamamoto) – 3:51

3. "665" (Cornell, Yamamoto) – 1:37

4. "Beyond the Wheel" (Cornell) – 4:20

5. "667" (Cornell, Yamamoto) – 0:56

6. "Mood for Trouble" (Cornell) – 4:21

7. "Circle of Power" (Thayil, Yamamoto) – 2:05

8. "He Didn't" (Matt Cameron, Cornell) – 2:47

9. "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) – 5:07

10. "Nazi Driver" (Cornell, Yamamoto) – 3:52

11. "Head Injury" (Cornell) – 2:22

12. "Incessant Mace" (Cornell, Thayil) – 6:22

13. "One Minute of Silence" (John Lennon) – 1:00

Louder Than Love is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Soundgarden, released on September 5, 1989 through A&M Records. The songs on this album feature a heavy rock sound with some songs featuring unusual or unorthodox time signatures.

It was the last Soundgarden album to feature the band's original bassist Hiro Yamamoto.Regarding the sessions, frontman Chris Cornell said, "At the time Hiro [Yamamoto] had excommunicated himself from the band and there wasn't a free-flowing system as far as music went, so I ended up writing a lot of it." Cornell would end up solely writing seven out of the album's twelve tracks. Cornell stated that there "was plenty of angst, anger, frustration and hell...but none of it had anything to do with Terry. He was very supportive." He said that the sessions as a whole were a "positive experience." Bassist Hiro Yamamoto would leave the band once the sessions were over. Yamamoto was becoming frustrated that he wasn't contributing much, and opted to go back to college. About the album's production, Cornell said that the band tried to avoid 1980s production techniques.[3] On the album's sound as a whole, Cornell stated that the album "was just a few degrees too produced and too clean, although I wouldn't want to change any of it."

At the time the band was trying to avoid the "heavy metal" label, with guitarist Kim Thayil stating that the band's sound was "as much influenced by British bands like Killing Joke and Bauhaus as it is by heavy metal." Cornell said that the band's sound is "enough for anyone into speed metal, but we're heavy rock...Neo-metal maybe."

Cornell said that "Hands All Over" is about how humans defile the environment, and that "Full on Kevin's Mom" is about "a friend of mine who slept with another friend of mine's mom. The guy who did it said to us, 'Yeah, full on Kevin's mom'." The lyrics of "I Awake" were originally part of a note written by Yamamoto's then girlfriend Kate McDonald. In the late 1990's, an urban legend circulated on internet message boards which stated that Yamamoto, after writing the music, penned some lyrics on the back side of McDonald's note. When Yamamoto gave the paper containing these lyrics to Cornell, Cornell looked at the wrong side of the sheet and believed McDonald's note was the lyrics to Yamamoto's song. There was less material on the album intended as humorous compared with Ultramega OK, however the song "Big Dumb Sex" was written as a parody of glam metal bands, who often metaphorically addressed sexual intercourse in their lyrics. The song was the reason the album gained a Parental Advisory sticker upon release.

Two singles were released from the album, "Loud Love" (1989) and "Hands All Over" (1990), each with accompanying music videos. "Get on the Snake" was featured in the 1989 movie and soundtrack, Lost Angels. Guns N' Roses covered "Big Dumb Sex" on its 1993 album, "The Spaghetti Incident?", as part of a mash-up with T. Rex's "Buick Mackane". In 2001, Q magazine named Louder Than Love as one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time."

The album's cover art was taken by grunge photographer Charles Peterson, and features a black and white picture of Cornell. Cornell called the album cover "the quintessential angry young man." Regarding the title, Cornell said, "It's sort of making fun of heavy metal bravado. Metal bands would say Louder Than Thunder or something. So Louder Than Love, what is Louder Than Love?" Thayil said that the band really wanted to call the album Louder Than Fuck.

Track listing: All songs written by Chris Cornell, except where noted:

1. "Ugly Truth" – 5:26

2. "Hands All Over" (Cornell, Kim Thayil) – 6:00

3. "Gun" – 4:42

4. "Power Trip" (Cornell, Hiro Yamamoto) – 4:09

5. "Get on the Snake" (Cornell, Thayil) – 3:44

6. "Full on Kevin's Mom" – 3:37

7. "Loud Love" – 4:57

8. "I Awake" (Kate McDonald, Yamamoto) – 4:21

9. "No Wrong No Right" (Cornell, Yamamoto) – 4:47

10. "Uncovered" – 4:30

11. "Big Dumb Sex" – 4:11

12. "Full On (Reprise)" – 2:42

Outtakes: The album's singles featured two B-sides from the Louder Than Love recording sessions that weren't included on the album, "Fresh Deadly Roses" and "Heretic". "Fresh Deadly Roses" was a B-side on the "Loud Love" single and was featured on the 1990 Pave the Earth compilation. "Heretic" was originally recorded for the 1986 Deep Six compilation. However, the song was re-recorded during the Louder Than Love recording sessions and this version is featured on the "Hands All Over" single and the Loudest Love EP.

Personnel

• Chris Cornell – vocals, guitar

• Kim Thayil – guitar

• Hiro Yamamoto – bass

• Matt Cameron – drums

• Terry Date – production, engineering