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Images of chris cornell songbook12/28/2023 There's a distinct absence of wildlife or astronauts on Lowell electronica quartet Bearstronaut's latest release. The notion that regional musical flavors exist independently in American cities is quickly becoming an archaic truism, seeing as how the world really is a stage these days, at least in the digital sense. Various Artists | Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010.Girl-group records are great and everything, yet the countless compilations out there were becoming a little hit-or-miss until 2005, when the great Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found box set finally gave this diverse genre a proper taxonomy. Various Artists | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966–1970.More than three years in the making, the most recent installment of Rhino's legendary archival garage-rock series offers an amazingly comprehensive excavation of an absurdly fertile scene. Various Artists | Where the Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 - 1968.What Day Is It Tonight? covers the DC-area band’s 20-year history with high-quality, high-energy live cuts taken from their many tours. Trans Am are distillers of guilty pleasures, mixing fat AOR riffs with sleazy electronic accents and a propulsive attitude typically reserved for arcade soundtracks. Trans Am | What Day Is It Tonight? Trans Am Live, 1993 - 2008.Trans Am | What Day Is It Tonight? Trans Am Live, 1993 - 2008, Various Artists | Where the Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 - 1968, Various Artists | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966–1970, More The song choices are a bit predictable, especially since gems like "Sunshower," "Seasons," and "Mind Riot" - which joined covers of Syd Barrett, the Beatles, and Mother Love Bone on the road - are omitted here. The buzz has been about the inspired takes on Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" and John Lennon's "Imagine," but the highlight is the first appearance on an official release of "Cleaning My Gun," a haunting track about a narrator who reflects on the fleetinginesss of relationships and life in general while his lover sleeps. That patented caterwaul is in fine form Cornell easily hits all the notes on "All Night Thing," "Fell on Black Days," and "Wide Awake" - even a pair of tracks from Scream work in the bare-bones setting. Songbook is the colorful sonic snapshot of that jaunt, and it has a little bit of everything - Audioslave, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and solo material. ![]() Chris Cornell's reaction to the critical lynching his Timbaland-produced debacle Scream took in 2009 was to grow his hair back out, reunite with Soundgarden (currently in the studio), and embark on a solo tour stripped down to just an acoustic guitar.
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