22 - Soundgarden

Words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head


At number 22 is Seattle's Soundgarden. Soundgarden are another grunge band on the countdown. Not as mainstream as Pearl Jam was, not as gloomy as Alice in Chains. Juuust right.

Wiki - Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's permanent drummer in 1986 while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990.

Soundgarden was one of the seminal bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle, and was one of a number of grunge bands signed to the record label Sub Pop. Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label (A&M Records, in 1988), though the band did not achieve commercial success until they popularized "grunge" in the early 1990s with Seattle contemporaries Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam.

Soundgarden achieved its biggest success with the 1994 album Superunknown, which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman." In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. On January 1, 2010, Cornell alluded to a Soundgarden reunion. On April 5, 2010, it was announced that Soundgarden would play Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 6-8, 2010. A secret reunion concert under the name "Nudedragons" was held at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle on April 16, 2010. It was Soundgarden's first show since 1997.

As of 2008, Soundgarden had sold over eight million records in the United States, and an estimated twenty million worldwide.


Discography -

Ultramega OK (1988)
Louder Than Love (1989)
Badmotorfinger (1991)
Superunknown (1994)*
Down on the Upside (1996)
*=best album

Top 10 Soundgarden Songs -

10 - Outshined
9 - Rusty Cage
8 - Burden in My Hand
7 - Black Hole Sun
6 - Fell On Black Days
5 - Pretty Noose
4 - Superunknown
3 - My Wave
2 - The Day I Tried to Live
1 - Spoonman



next up: a band led by Chris Cornell. no, I'm not retarded. I realize that Soundgarden was led by Cornell.