More Gardening Sound: Superunknown by Soundgarden
I love the name sound garden, and it fits here, because by calling it that I can actually say I did some gardening this weekend… smiles…. – DV
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I love music with off beats. Being a wanna-be drummer I tend to find myself drawn to “drum songs”. I noticed that once while making a CD mix for a friend while I was really getting into drumming. Most of the songs on it had really interesting and some extremely different beats. I actually put a link to a list of songs with off beats in my post on the Rush Concert. When I reviewed there were two songs on that list that were on the CD. Wild huh?
While drawn to these off-beat music I found myself listening to an album I just have really enjoyed: “Superunknown” by Soundgarden. There are lots of cool beats on that album. As I reacquainted myself with the tunes on the album, a lyric gained my attention. I began to realize that the title track, besides being a punchy number with a great beat, that the lyrics were all about non-duality. My brain must be working over time on this stuff. See for yourself (well you should really give it a listen).
Superunkown by Soundgarden
If this isn’t what you see
It doesn’t make you blind
If this doesn’t make you feel
It doesn’t mean you’ve died
Where the rivers high
Where the rivers high
If you don’t want to be seen
You don’t have to hide
If you don’t want to believe
You don’t have to try
To feel alive
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind
And then it steals your soul
If this doesn’t make you free
It doesn’t mean you’re tied
If this doesn’t take you down
It doesn’t mean you’re high
If this doesn’t make you smile
You don’t have to cry
If this isn’t making sense
It doesn’t make it lies
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind
And then it steals your soul
Get yourself afraid
Get yourself alone
Get yourself contained
Get yourself control
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind
And then it steals your soul
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Great tune. Pretty strong in the “rocking” department.
I was lucky enough to see Soundgarden twice before they broke up. Perhaps I put away this album out of grieving the end of such a talented band. They really were just great to see live. Just great. They were so good that when I saw them in the worst venue for sound I had ever been in, I mean it was so bad it was like being in a big tin can with corrugated aluminum smashing together the whole show, and no lie, I held my fingers in my ears the WHOLE show, it was still a great show. My other half, who also now has ear drums the size of his index fingers because of it, thought the show was just awesome.
No, we were not high.
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Now, I will be looking for more songs written by other artists that have themes like non-duality, impermanence, etc… Do you think this one was a stretch?
I really wonder what the guys were considering when they wrote this… and no I don’t think every rock song is about drugs, so please refrain from recommending that reasoning, unless, of course, you were in the band Soundgarden and can identify yourself with a sperm sample.
- DV
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