Soundgarden - Superunknown

I’m pretty sure I fell asleep to Soundgarden at the Big Day Out in the 90s.  It wasn’t to do with the band though.  Let’s just say that I’d had a very big day out myself.  It’s actually remarkable that I did fall asleep to them, because they are a super loud and engaging band. 

To lump all the Seattle bands under the Grunge banner was doing them quite a disservice.  This album is as different to Pearl Jam and Nirvana as those bands are to Def Leppard and Guns N Roses. 

Superunknown is a mix of hard rock with a dash of psychedelic and a little bit of Led Zeppelin influence thrown in.  They take some of the core elements of rock and put their own spin on them, making something truly unique.  There are some really great singles on this album - Spoon Man, My Wave, Fell on Black Days and the incomparable Black Hole Sun. 

Overall, this album is one of the pillars of the grunge era.  No wait.  It should be considered one of the pillars of music, no matter what the genre.