![]() ![]() Soundgarden at this point were very effectual with employing the unconventional (odd signatures and even odder tunings) to make pretty catchy tunes. Still, you have the very memorable and radio-ready songs like "Outshined" whose riff power is undersold by a brazen chorus and stable structure. ![]() The alternative rock/metal of "Superunkown" is whittled down to mere snatches in tracks like "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" while the rest trots on in frenetic punky abandon or mellow psychedelic situations. ![]() Riffs are prominent but not the standard tropes of the hard rock gods, there's a dirty undercurrent here that is like the primordial traces of sludge. The music mostly hangs out at the border of metal and punk. "Badmotorfinger" saw them push the sonic boundaries they'd refined and while they would polish their quirks (while still keeping them) on the album that followed, here the essence of all that they were is raw and skillfully communicated all the way through. Soundgarden, while never being genre-specific in sound, were an all round heavy rock band at this point. The album sounds very broad and eclectic and the tasty moments it is entirely riddled with have done a lot to ensure it doesn't quite age. It is easy to forget that this record was around at the same time as the seminal albums of Nirvana and Pearl Jam and that Soundgarden perhaps laid down the aesthetics for "grunge" that later bands and the media later capitalized and expounded upon. Soundgarden's magnum opus "Badmotorfinger" has been with us for 30 years now and in that time it has remained pretty much uncelebrated and remembered only as the precursor to the phenomenal (but not flawless) "Superunkown". ![]()
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