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35-559: Louder Than Live features five live tracks filmed during the Louder Than Love tour, namely, "Get on the Snake", "Gun", "I Awake", "Big Dumb Sex", and a medley of Spinal Tap 's "Big Bottom" and Cheech & Chong 's "Earache My Eye", with footage from both concerts mixed together. The home video also includes the previously released music videos for the songs " Loud Love " and " Hands All Over ", both also directed by Kerslake. Chris Cornell

70-521: A North American tour that went from December 1989 to March 1990. On this tour the band served as the opening act for Voivod on the band's Nothingface tour, with Faith No More and The Big F also serving as opening acts at the beginning and end of the tour. Cornell's roommate, Andrew Wood , the lead singer of Mother Love Bone , died on March 19, 1990, of a heroin overdose , the day Cornell got back from touring in support of Louder Than Love . As Cornell went on to tour Europe with Soundgarden

105-508: A promotional mini-album , featuring the same title, in CD format (May 1990) and on 12" blue translucent vinyl (July 1990). The CD came in a thick cardboard packaging wrapped in silvery gray duct tape, and labeled with a yellow sticker that reads "Soundgarden: Louder Than Live! at the Whisky" with uppercase black letters. In addition to the five live tracks from the video, the CD includes the songs "Beyond

140-464: A database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created,

175-467: A feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which

210-552: A few days later, he started writing songs in tribute to his late friend. The result was two songs, "Reach Down" and " Say Hello 2 Heaven ", that he recorded as soon as he got back from touring. The two songs would eventually lead into the Temple of the Dog project. Bassist Jason Everman was fired immediately after Soundgarden completed its promotional tour for Louder Than Love in mid-1990. Thayil said that "Jason just didn't work out", and that

245-400: A medley with T. Rex 's " Buick Mackane ". The cover artwork of the 2020 single " Deep Set " by Greg Puciato is an homage to Louder Than Love . In 2001, Q named Louder Than Love as one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time." In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Louder Than Love as 69th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.' In 2010, Soundgarden released

280-441: A music video for the song "Get on the Snake". The album's cover art, photographed by Charles Peterson , features a black and white picture of Cornell. Cornell called the album cover "the quintessential angry young man". Regarding the title, Cornell said, "It's sort of making fun of heavy metal bravado. Metal bands would say Louder Than Thunder or something. So Louder Than Love , what is Louder Than Love ?" Kim Thayil said that

315-476: A negative review, stating that it is "covertly conceptual, arty in spite of itself, and I bet metal fans don't bite". Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered Louder Than Love "a limiting, slightly safe record despite daunting rhythmic explorations, one that plays too close to the vest, too tight and faithful to external perceptions of what the band should be and too damn slow!" Three singles were released from

350-414: A record with 'Fuck' in the title." That's where Louder Than Love came from. A month before touring for Louder Than Love commenced, Yamamoto left to go back to college. Cornell stated, "It seems an odd time to quit. We're doing real well. We've got a touring budget now. We don't haul amps or do such long van rides any more." He was replaced by Jason Everman , formerly of Nirvana . The band embarked on

385-441: Is about "a friend of mine who slept with another friend of mine's mom. The guy who did it said to us, 'Yeah, full on Kevin's mom'." The lyrics of "I Awake" were originally part of a note written by Yamamoto's then girlfriend Kate McDonald. In the late 1990s, an urban legend circulated on internet message boards which stated that Yamamoto, after writing the music, wrote some lyrics on the back side of McDonald's note. When Yamamoto gave

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420-815: Is featured on the "Hands All Over" single, the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack , and the Loudest Love EP. A Cameron penned instrumental entitled "Twin Tower" was recorded during the sessions, but not released until it appeared on Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path . AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG ) is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991,

455-412: Is seen wearing silver duct tape shorts. The bassist for these performances was Jason Everman . AllMusic writer Greg Prato gave it two and a half out of a possible five stars; he stated, "for fans of early Soundgarden, Louder Than Live is still recommended." Louder Than Live was released on VHS only, with no official DVD version available. In addition to the home video, A&M Records released

490-455: Is the second studio album and major-label debut by American rock band Soundgarden . It was released on September 5, 1989, by A&M Records . After touring in support of their debut album, Ultramega OK (1988), Soundgarden left SST , signed with A&M and began work on their first album for a major label. The songs on the album featured a metal -leaning grunge sound with some songs featuring unusual or unorthodox time signatures. Due to

525-814: The Billboard 200 album chart in 1990. It was the band's first album to chart on the Billboard Top 200. Louder Than Love spawned the Loudest Love EP and the Louder Than Live home video, both released in 1990. Rolling Stone staff writer J. D. Considine wrote that "Chris Cornell has the sort of soaring, muscular voice Ian Astbury can only dream of, while guitarist Kim Thayil comes across like The Edge with an attitude". He stated that "the songs on Louder Than Love are mean, lean and fighting fit", but he criticized Cornell's lyrics, observing that "much of what

560-511: The Louder Than Love recording sessions that weren't included on the album, "Fresh Deadly Roses" and "Heretic". "Fresh Deadly Roses" was a B-side on the "Loud Love" single and was featured on the 1990 Pave the Earth compilation. "Heretic" was originally recorded for the 1986 Deep Six compilation. However, the song was re-recorded during the Louder Than Love recording sessions and this version

595-493: The metal mainstream" with "a slow, grinding, detuned mountain of Sabbath / Zeppelin riffs and Chris Cornell wailing". At the time the band was trying to avoid the "heavy metal" label, with guitarist Kim Thayil stating that the band's sound was "as much influenced by British bands like Killing Joke and Bauhaus as it is by heavy metal". Cornell said that the band's sound is "enough for anyone into speed metal , but we're heavy rock  ... Neo-metal maybe." Some songs on

630-564: The Wheel" and " Hunted Down ", while the vinyl disc includes all the live tracks from the video in addition to "Beyond the Wheel". This album has been bootlegged on black vinyl; genuine copies can be distinguished by the A&;M logo. These recordings were also temporarily available for streaming under the title "Gun (Recorded live at Whisky a Go Go 1990)" through Spotify . Additional editing by Mark Miremont Louder Than Love Louder Than Love

665-425: The album feature unusual or unorthodox time signatures. "Get on the Snake", for example, is played in 9/4. "I Awake" uses 4/4, 6/4, 9/8, 11/8, and 14/8. "Gun" features varying tempos, which speed up and slow down over the course of the song. A lot of the songs on the album are tuned down to drop D tuning . Cornell said that "Hands All Over" is about how humans defile the environment, and that "Full on Kevin's Mom"

700-518: The album, " Loud Love ", "Hands All Over" and the radio-only "Get on the Snake", each with accompanying music videos . "Get on the Snake" was featured in the 1989 movie and soundtrack, Lost Angels . "Loud Love" was featured in the 1992 film Wayne's World . Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett revealed that he was inspired to write the riff to " Enter Sandman " after listening to Louder Than Love . Guns N' Roses covered "Big Dumb Sex" on its 1993 album, "The Spaghetti Incident?" , as part of

735-459: The band "didn't need to go find someone better than him; we needed to find a kindred spirit that we'd hang out with anyway". The band later released the video compilation Louder Than Live , which was filmed at the Whisky a Go Go in 1989. All lyrics are written by Chris Cornell , except where noted; all music is composed by Cornell, except where noted The album's singles featured two B-sides from

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770-406: The band has to say is clichéd, confused or generally incomprehensible". He ended his review by saying that "even when his lyrics are as dumb as rocks ... Cornell delivers them with such full-throated intensity that they actually sound impressive." AllMusic staff writer Steve Huey stated that "too much of the album drifts along without focus or variety." Critic Robert Christgau gave the album

805-514: The band really wanted to call the album Louder Than Fuck . The album's graphic designer, Art Chantry said about the title on the 2009 book Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music : They didn't have a name for the record. We were talking about it and joking – I said, "You should really call this record 'Louder Than Shit.' They go, "That's a great name!" I go, "No... call it 'Louder Than Fuck'" "Oh, that's great!" And [Soundgarden manager] Susan Silver goes, "My band isn't putting out

840-471: The database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as

875-502: The dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave

910-621: The industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired

945-566: The music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left the company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where

980-401: The nature of some of the lyrics (particularly "Big Dumb Sex"), a Parental Advisory sticker was placed on the album packaging. Louder Than Love would become the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200 , peaking at No. 108. The band supported the album with tours of North America and Europe. It was the last Soundgarden album to feature the band's original bassist, Hiro Yamamoto . It

1015-441: The paper containing these lyrics to Cornell, Cornell looked at the wrong side of the sheet and believed McDonald's note was the lyrics to Yamamoto's song. There was less material on the album intended as humorous compared with Ultramega OK . However, the song "Big Dumb Sex" was written as a parody of glam metal bands, who often metaphorically addressed sexual intercourse in their lyrics. The song, with its many uses of " fuck ",

1050-517: The sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes

1085-533: The sessions as a whole were a "positive experience." Bassist Hiro Yamamoto left the band once the sessions were over and went back to college, frustrated that he was not contributing much. Regarding the album's production, Cornell said that the band tried to avoid 1980s production techniques. On the album's sound as a whole, Cornell stated that the album "was just a few degrees too produced and too clean, although I wouldn't want to change any of it". Steve Huey of AllMusic said that Soundgarden took "a step toward

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1120-407: The staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of

1155-409: The time Hiro [Yamamoto] had excommunicated himself from the band and there wasn't a free-flowing system as far as music went, so I ended up writing a lot of it." Cornell would end up solely writing seven out of the album's twelve tracks. Cornell stated that there "was plenty of angst, anger, frustration and hell ... but none of it had anything to do with Terry. He was very supportive". He said that

1190-467: Was later reissued on January 25, 2002. The album's recording sessions took place from December 1988 to January 1989 at London Bridge Studios in Seattle , Washington . The band worked with producer Terry Date . The album was mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero at both Mediasound , New York, and House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey. Regarding the sessions, frontman Chris Cornell said, "At

1225-454: Was the reason the album gained a Parental Advisory sticker upon release. Before the official release, a US promo-only picture disc without a picture sleeve or insert was released on July 12, 1989. Because of some of the song lyrics, most notably on " Hands All Over " (the " kill your mother " line) and "Big Dumb Sex", the band faced various retail and distribution problems upon the album's release. Louder Than Love peaked at number 108 on

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