It’s the nostalgia, the familiarity, and sometimes just hearing one of your current favorite bands rip through a classic perfectly that brings a smile to your face on a covers record. And that’s just the kind of feels Magnetic Eye Records has conjured on their companion record to Superunknown (Redux), Best Of Soundgarden (Redux). It’s almost like Soundgarden’s jams were made for the Desert Rawk/Doom crowd and regardless of the group gathered here covering these, that fact alone is kind of a revelation unto itself if, like us, you grew up with the Grunge icons.
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We remember it like it was yesterday. March of 1994. It was a glorious month for what would become some of the most groundbreaking (Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven, NIN’s The Downward Spiral) or talked about/divisive (Motley Crue’s lone Vince Neil-less/John Corabi-fronted self-titled outing) records of all time. We were there for each new release Tuesday (Back in our day records were released on Tuesdays) and, teetering on that pinnacle Grunge before the wheels would soon come off, were especially excited for Soundgarden’s follow up to Badmotorfinger, Superunknown. Like its’ predecessor, Superunknown is pretty much a banger yielding two of Soundgarden’s biggest songs to date and now Magnetic Eye Records is celebrating the album with this newest entry into their Redux series!
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Whew! Glad the 2016 retrospective is finally over. Now we can get to some reviewin’ and interviewin’ and stuff….wait, we’re doing a 2017 preview, too? UGH! WHY????? Then I guess without further adieu, the top 17 albums that may or may not surface in ’17: [Read more…]