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The Smashing Pumpkins: Drown

July 23rd, 2007

From the soundtrack Singles (1992) This song is among the earliest in The Smashing Pumpkins catalog, recorded in 1992 for the motion picture soundtrack Singles. The film takes place in Seattle and heralds the coming of that city's grunge music, using the local scene as a persistent backdrop the personal and professional turmoil of a bunch of twenty-somethings. Allusions and references to the burgeoning scene abound within the movie. Soundgarden ...

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Soundgarden: The Day I Tried To Live

June 27th, 2007

From the album Superunknown (1994) One of the best songs from one of the 90s best albums (a 4.51/5 on my scale). The Day I Tried to Live is Chris Cornell and company at the tip-top of their game on an album that delivers smash after smash. It's not as frantic as Spoonman or as sour as Fell on Black Days, but more steadfast and determined in its manner of storytelling. ...

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One Hundred Sixty-Eight Songs (that’s 17 albums) in 3 days.

April 29th, 2006

the flaming lips [ego tripping at the gates of hell] the faint [danse macabre remixes] david bowie [earthling] the clebanoff strings [exciting sounds] saint etienne [finisterre] they might be giants [factory showroom] chris cornell [euphoria morning] cq soundtrack nobukazu takemura [finale: ...

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