Chris Cornell explained the song's origins: "I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35-40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that's played beneath the riff. I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn't forget them. I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title." - RIP Chris
"Hang my head, drown my fear, till you all just disappear" is one of the most beautiful lines from any piece of music or poetry that I have seen or heard.
For search purposes, these two songs she lists are from his follow-up band called Audioslave. They were a great band, if not a little bit less aggressive sounding compared to Soundgarden. I Am the Highway is another great song off their first album.
RIP Chris Cornell, a genius songwriter and excellent vocalist, Soundgarden were definitely one of the best bands from the short lived Grunge era, well worth a deeper look, I always thought this song was about wishing away from all the fake ass people, we all know more than a few of those.
I always took this song as "I am in so much pain, only a world-ending cataclysm could end my torment. Maybe if the Earth was sucked into the eye of a needle, my pain might finally be over."
90's kid here...I always took this song to be a representation of our addiction to distractions. the "black hole" is a TV or another distraction is also the "sun" that takes pain away or hides the horrors that are always going on around us. The proverbial Light in the Darkness. -----The girl eating the ice cream cone that is also melting the doll. similar metaphors could be drawn to most of the characters in the video. Chris had his own demons with depression, his black hole sun was music. Hiding his horrors with a distraction. Ultimately these distractions have sucked us in so much that we never fix the horrors.. R.I.P to one of the greatest voices of a generation.
Interesting. My sister took it as the phoniness of the world. Like the Devil is a liar type of thing. And everything we see and hear are lies. Don’t fall for it. Like Spiritual warfare. Your battling all these false things. I love that it’s a song like passages in the Bible. Completely open for one’s own interpretation. Chris was definitely a genius.
Chris Cornell was a beast of an artist! His cover of "NOTHING COMPARES 2 U" is awesome. Any of his bands (or solo stuff) are worth a listen. His cover of "PATIENCE" is another great one.
Soundgarden. Songs to check out- Birth Ritual, outshined, jesus christ pose, a room a thousand years wide, loud love, hands all over, out beyond the wheel, mood for trouble.
Hi! The "Black Hole Sun" refers to a solar eclipse, when it looks like a black hole in the sky. Notice at the beginning of the video a guy walks buy with a sign saying, "The end is nigh." Eclipses are often associated with the end of the world, etc., in a lot of traditions. It is like they are calling on the end to come, to wash away that which they find undesirable. That's why there are so many apocalyptic elements in the video, and also why the people in the video are sort of shown as hypocrites/fake, possessed (lizard-like), or decadent. Finally, the eclipse is represented like a black hole swallowing everything up -- again, indicating that an eclipse is going to trigger the end. At least, that's what I take from this! haha
I think it goes further than that, everything we were all taught by the Rockefeller school system is BS and pseudoscience, and the truth is in the title right in plane sight.
I feel like if they both like artistic feel they should go with junkhead or rain when I die but definitely start with stuff like man in the box and would to introduce them first. Even stuff like something bout you is great with funk flavor
I've always seen this song as a realization of how off, twisted, tainted and creepy this society is under the smiley, glossy surface, and how some people may want to see it all "burnt up", or to use the lyrics, washed away. For the record, I don't want to see it washed away, but it's hard not to see the twisted reality under the facade of football games, whitening toothpaste and ads, media and TV shows. You could see it in the 90s already, although now it's of course so much more evident.
"No one sings like you anymore" Still haunting to this day. A lot of people relate some of Chris's songs to death and suicide because of how he went. If you put death in the place of Black Hole Sun it fits. Put death/suicide as the reason in "Like a Stone" . It's hard to put it all in that bag but it's hard to discredit it since he dealt with depression.
The world lost one of the GOATs when Chris Cornell passed away. He did a version of Nothing Compares to You at the XM studios that will truly show the range of his talent. RIP Chris
Story Time! I was fortunate enough to see Sound Garden a few years before Chris's death. In the middle of the show, Chris points to this teenager in the crowd with a sign that read something along the lines of "Let me play Black Days with you!". So he brings this kid on stage, and tells him that Black Days isn't on the set list, but they'll do it for him. He then proceeds to hand this 16-ish year old his guitar and tells him, "Be careful with that, I wrote this song on that guitar". The kid looked nervous as all hell but got into it once the song started to get going and nailed it! I have been to 50+ shows in my lifetime and I have never seen anything like that from any other band. Not even the band, just their front man, the legendary Chris Cornell. Funny story, so for whatever reason the bassist got really pissed off when they went off the set list for the kid. He was visibly annoyed and was shouting something at Chris, but I couldn't make it out with all the noise and he didn't have a mic like Chris did. He still played Black Days and the rest of the set after that.. At the very end of the show right before walking off, the bassist threw down one of his amps behind him and stormed off. No idea what that was about, but he REALLY didn't want to play Black Days with this random teenager.
There are many songs in Chris Cornell's library of musical wonders that are must listens. Please have more polls. A good start: Temple of the dog: is a collaboration of artist from Seattle scene 90s that joined Chris Cornell to record an album in honour of the life and passing of Andrew Wood (of band "Motherlove bone" ) Chris' real good friend and roommate I believe. Out of this collab, Eddie Vedder met his future band mates in Pearl Jam. A few song from their one album: lyrics and music mostly written by Chris Cornell; "Say hello to heaven", "Times of trouble", "All night thing", etc ... Please to all who know more than I, I apologize if I got any of the previous information incorrect in any way. Please free to correct me if I'm wrong and/or inaccurate. Soundgarden: "Like suicide", "Burden in my hand", "Outshined", "Fell on black days ", etc .... AudioSlave: " Like a stone", "I am the highway ", "Getaway car", etc ... Solo: "Seasons", "Sunshower", etc... Covers: "Billie Jean ", "Nothing Compares to you ", "Redemption song", "One" Metallica done in the melody of "One" U2 - or the other way around? Etc ...
It's Chris Cornell. We just lost him not but 4 years ago. It ruined me for a year because he's the one i felt made it through the 90s. I grew up to these guys and we lost almost everyone. And Chris made it. And then kills himself our of nowhere in his 50s. Absolutely brutal. Hurt bad. Best vocalist of all time along with Mercury and Plant. Please check his later acoustic stuff. You'll be in awe. Nothing compares to you Billie Jean (yes that Billie Jean) Etc. Just all of his acoustic stuff. Check out Audioslave too Nirvana unplugged - Where did you sleep last night Nirvana - Live at the Paramount - Pick a song. Entire performance is amazing Pearl Jam - Black unplugged. Just to get you started Also lyrics from the 90s weren't strait to the point. They were poetry. That's why they were such great writers. It's art. And Chris wasn't even the best writer of the 90s. But still dam good
Chris Cornell is my all-time favorite vocalist and these 90s songs bring me back to my childhood and teen years (late 90s by the time I was in my beginning teens) so much.
Welcome to one of the Greatest Rock singers of all time, Chris Cornell. He's my favourite ever. Soundgarden was his first band, then he released a few solo albums when Soundgarden split, then he released a tribute album to his great friend Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone) under the name of Temple Of The Dog. And then he joined up with the guys from Rage Against The Machine (minus the singer Zach De La Rocha) to form Audioslve and release 3 albums and then Soundgarden got back together to release a new album and he continued to put out solo stuff, covering songs of many artists he admired. Chris could do it all. Soulful acoustic to the thunderous almost screaming vocal and everything in between. Chris sadly passed in May 2017. The official verdict was suicide, just a few hours after a gig he had played with Soundgarden. Soundgarden have a wonderful and rich catalogue to choose from. Black Hole Sun was their biggest hit, but far from being their best song in my opinion. Hand Of God Hands All Over Ugly Truth Flower Loud Love Jesus Christ Pose Searching For My Friend With My Good Eye Closed Mindriot Slaves & Bulldozers Spoonman Overfloater Burden In My Hand Switch Opens Fell On Black Days Fresh Tendrils Big Dumb Sex Like Suicide Tighter & Tighter And you'll get many requests outside my choices too. I hope this is another rabbit hole you feel excited to dive into. Soundgarden are my second favourite band after Tool
i think you guys would love Queens of the stone age, "no one knows". the drummer is also the nirvana drummer, and singer for Foo Fighters, not sure if you have done any Foo Fighters yet either, the "pretender" by them. you'd love both songs :)
U should check out his cover of Metallica/U2 one its genius honestly he mixed 2 songs together to make one, then u should check out his covers of prince nothing compares to you Michael Jackson Billie jean and johnny cashes u never really knew my heart,
According to an article from NASA a few years back, our sun is actually not big enough to form a black hole during the process of burning out. However... one thing NASA fails to realize is that the ultrasonic sound waves created by this track ARE large enough to do it!! :P
Yeah, Chris's voice is iconic. He was involved in several projects/bands, Soundgarden and Audioslave (Chris with Rage Against the Machine) being 2 of the biggest. Maybe check out Soundgarden "Rusty Cage or Outshined" and Audioslave Show Me How to Live or Bring Em Back Alive.
I really cannot decide between Chris Cornell and Layne Staley... Yes, Chris had much more vocal chops, but Layne though.... He can make you feel EVERY word. With that being said, I cried like a little bitch whenever i head of Chris' passing. Say Hello 2 Heaven my friend.
This song is one of the greatest songs ever, the music video is also. I was like 13 when this song came out and i loved it from the beginning. RIP Chris, a beast of an artist
One of my all time favorites. Chris Cornell is awesome...he also sang for Audioslave a band the was of Chris singing and the musicians from Rage Against the Machine...you should check that band out!
I spent 700+ hours compiling this list that has 2031 Artist/Bands and one of their hit songs for reactors to react to. These are some of the best songs ever written and recorded. I compiled all my playlist from the past 20 years, into a single playlist. This list had over 8000 songs from over 2000 artist. I went through every song, trying to find the best of the best. I spent all day and night working on this list for over 2 months. In the end I came up with 2031 songs by 2031 artist/bands. I also tried to choose songs by artist that no one reacts too. And, I still believe these are some of the best songs to ever be recorded. There is plenty of more out there, but none of these songs are bad to react to. If I could not figure out which song to choose from the artist/band I would listen to the best songs back to back by that artist/band and would eliminate the song I got tired of first. Until the last song was standing. Check out the list and react to these songs. In alphabetical order by artist/band. All Genre from the past 100 years. Every music guru should know this list. A-Z 2032 Artist with one hit song ua-cam.com/play/PLPpXqXEr01ubgZqC2WzgfmNwtEfNEUy2A.html
Chris Cornell is regarded as one of the best vocalists of all time. His suicide may have been the reason Chester Bennington from Linkin Park killed himself two months later. I wore out my Superunknown cassette tape as a kid. Everyone always recommends the same songs (making me wonder if they're even fans), but my personal favorites are Fresh Tendrils, 4th of July, Burden in My Hand, Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart, and Taree. Even the theme he made for the James Bond movies is awesome.
I've been aware of this music video for some time but I don't think I ever really paid close attention to it til now, and I've got to say it is amazing. It enhances the song SO much, which is a real rarity for music videos, and has to be considered one of the greatest ever made.
You just stepped into the world of Sound Garden one of the greatest bands ever. Chris Cornell is definitely one of the best singers of all time. You need to do reaction from Loud Love album.
@@simeik True, Prince did write this song and it was on his family album, but the first single release was Sinead and even Prince said this was her song now.
This is a good song...but certainly not one of their best. Soundgarden have a pile of faster heavier songs that Lex would love! Check out Ty Cobb, Jesus Christ Pose, Rusty Cage or even Spoonman, absolute bangers!
@@robutubemacarthur outshined was on road rash on the mega drive back in the day.. And it's a great bevis and butthead tune too, they go nuts for it..😂👍🏻 Oh yeah it's a choon.🤘🤘
The big 5 of Alternative bands back in the 90's were Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam. How crazy that only one of those 5 amazing vocalists is still alive.
It's depression... In art and in the mind black hole suns can exist :) Chris Cornell committed suicide and suffered from depression all his life, which he poured into his music..
From this song its hard to imagine that your listening to "one" of the greatest singers or people that ever existed! Try "Like a Stone" from Audioslave made up of Chris and 3 members of Rage Against The Machine. "Say Hello to Heaven" & "Hungerstrike" from Temple of the Dog!!! He has an amazing cover of Micheal Jackson"s "Billie Jean" and a few others that are just as great! He is truly missed!!! A must is Alice in Chains!!!! Layne Staley is everything!!!!! Seriously everything and is also truly missed!!!! And then....Lincoln Park....Chester Bennington....another great!!! Sadly also truly missed!!!!
When stars die they can become black holes. Interestingly our sun is not a candidate to become a black hole as stars need many times the mass of our sun to make itself turn into a black hole at the end of its life.
Soundgarden is one of my favorite bands in the grunge era of rock. Sadly a lot of the singers of these bands had issues with drugs themselves. Chris Cornell, Layne from Alice is Chains, Scott W. From Stone Temple Pilots. It's a very sad thing these people are no longer with us. But they live on through the amazing music they made.
For me as an average music listener i love this song. It might not be the greatest lyrical song of them, but it's meaning, the guitar riffs and Chris' voice makes it so smooth to relax and enjoy the song, even with the sad background behind the lyrics. The video is also great. Distracting and funny at the same time. Through this song i found out about Soundgarden. So it helped them a lot to give them a brighter spotlight, which they absolutely deserved, even though Grunge was clearly not about being/getting famous.
@@CellerKind Its more like a personal opinion, for some reason its their more famous song right, the acoustic version of this song gotta be one of my favourites tho. they have so many great songs, and many of them are underrated
@@Clemente-rr7uh i always dislike comments when people sound like their opinion is the ultimate answer. Nothing personal man. I got now how you meant it and i agree overall.
I've not watched your reaction..paused it five seconds in.. Just so I can say... My favourite singer . My favourite band. My favourite song of all time.. Rest in peace Chris, I miss you brother.. 🤟🙏 Ok I now can watch you reaction, and I hope you guys love it..🤘
From what I understand, Chris just heard the mention of a black hole sun on TV and loved the thought. He mostly started thinking of the music for the thoughts he had in his head. He worked on it all week, thinking in the same vein of his imagination of a black hole sun. He got it all together in a couple of weeks of what the sound he felt should be. After that it was time for lyrics. All he did was stack a bunch of negative, morose, macabre and ill feelings about people and life together and throw them into the black hole sun. It was perfect and awesome. I love the idea!
The video is definitely showing the cracks under the surface of the idealised version of picture perfect suburban life...and I think the singer wants it all washed away, sucked away, destroyed by the blackhole sun, shining it’s dark light on that underbelly
Chris Cornell is a legend, check out his band Temple of the Dog, “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Hunger Strike”. In Hunger Strike he sings together with Eddie Vedder from before Pearl Jam.
Thanks to you guys, I finally get this song's meaning. The black hole is like a vacuum, sucking away all of the negativity. The sun is our source of life. Very artistic and powerful.
The lyrics go exactly with the theme of the melody, adding to the video clip the message is clearer than the lyrics, we add the main point of the theme and although it is true in an interview they did with Chris they asked about the song again , to which Chris replied: "that few people understand the meaning of this song" Actually the story of the song was written in a drunken state and the inspiration was when he was driving home and time to review things so significant as the unpleasant news, while listening to these news on the radio they had talked about the sun, from that moment Chris had taken the bad news and the sun as a reference, he imagined how he was going to do this combination and its theme and melody and its unavoidable lyrics, without wasting time he got home and put it with a dictaphone, the next day he recorded a small track, he gave notice to the members of the band and almost the entire structure of the song. Anción belongs to Chris and without more time he began the work of starting with the end of the song, at one point he said that he did not think in terms of success, he never imagined how the lyrics could be a hit, on the one hand the term "Black Hole Of Sun" is a billion times bigger than a sun and is a giant circle of nothing and emptiness, but with an apocalyptic degree destroying everything in its path. Opinion and Commentary The structure of the song in general goes hand in hand for having that elegance and dark magic melody that translates us to a totally dimension to which we live, the truth is that the theme is sad as we can see and hear, both in those 2 Aspects we can see that the song tries to expose the worst side of the human being everything bad in its greatest and aberrant expression within the society where we live, in the video the sick, selfish and arrogant society and full of evil are criticized, such as: animal torture, zoophilia, the mental control of the great religious and political leaders treat us like sheep and slaves, pedophilia and sexual abuse, personally the message of this video impacts me on a personal level, even more I coincide with the way Chris Cornell's thinking of this issue, today we are concerned about our appearance that human quality and intelligence, evil has reached surprising levels that we see daily in the news worldwide Unpleasant and regrettable, the new generations think that inequality and violence are normal things, depriving them in the future of the sense of empathy for others and other values learned from parents. Can we ever change? Maybe yes. This song is incredible melodically speaking and simply with the union of everything great that sounds, it just does not bore me in the least, it is a song that leaves you something thoughtful as it sounds, something strange and mysterious, within the album Superunknown is the only one Different song talking about the 432Hz tuning gives a different tonality to most musicians, which is the standard 440Hz, a great theme that Chris Cornell gives us for the whole message, true, it is totally true what happens today, in conclusion I give the song 10 stars because it is gigantic, musically speaking, all rhythmic melodic aspect, a classic of Rock & Grunge classics from the 90's.
A black hole is a billion times larger than a sun, it's a void, a giant circle of nothing, and then you have the sun, the giver of all life. It was this combination of bright and dark, this sense of hope and underlying moodiness
Alice In Chains " Man In The Box" live at The Moore 1990 Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the first of the grunge era to make it before Nirvana and Pearl Jam. R.I.P Layne and Chris
Chris Cornell explained the song's origins:
"I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35-40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that's played beneath the riff. I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn't forget them. I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title." - RIP Chris
Interesting man, thanks for saving me the trouble of lookin it up 🤘
The mind of a creator.....
Sometimes artists write lyrics that just sound good. Not all songs have meanings. This is one of those songs, IMO
Cornell damn well knew what this song was about. Its about the plasma apocalypse. Literally.
true dat
"Hang my head, drown my fear, till you all just disappear" is one of the most beautiful lines from any piece of music or poetry that I have seen or heard.
Just remember: there's no rule anywhere that says a song has to mean something. It only needs to sound good to somebody somewhere.
If it sounds good to someone, it means something to that someone.
Exactly.... they should react to "I am the Walrus"
Yes, check out Debussy's "tone poems. Music for music's sake.
true
Yes brother 👍💪💪😈
"Times are gone for honest men, sometimes far too long for snakes." That line always stuck with me ever since I first heard this song in the 90s.
Seems prophetic in it's observation. They don't make bands like that anymore.
Chris is a legend. .. please do Like A Stone.. and Cochise.
Like a Stone is just amazing. His voice!!!
Yup really need to do Cochise
And show me how to live
Say hello to heaven
For search purposes, these two songs she lists are from his follow-up band called Audioslave. They were a great band, if not a little bit less aggressive sounding compared to Soundgarden. I Am the Highway is another great song off their first album.
RIP Chris Cornell, a genius songwriter and excellent vocalist, Soundgarden were definitely one of the best bands from the short lived Grunge era, well worth a deeper look, I always thought this song was about wishing away from all the fake ass people, we all know more than a few of those.
I was thinking the same thing. Very similar to Aenema by Tool. "Wanna wish it all away"
I always took this song as "I am in so much pain, only a world-ending cataclysm could end my torment. Maybe if the Earth was sucked into the eye of a needle, my pain might finally be over."
90's kid here...I always took this song to be a representation of our addiction to distractions. the "black hole" is a TV or another distraction is also the "sun" that takes pain away or hides the horrors that are always going on around us. The proverbial Light in the Darkness. -----The girl eating the ice cream cone that is also melting the doll. similar metaphors could be drawn to most of the characters in the video.
Chris had his own demons with depression, his black hole sun was music. Hiding his horrors with a distraction. Ultimately these distractions have sucked us in so much that we never fix the horrors..
R.I.P to one of the greatest voices of a generation.
Interesting. My sister took it as the phoniness of the world. Like the Devil is a liar type of thing. And everything we see and hear are lies. Don’t fall for it. Like Spiritual warfare. Your battling all these false things. I love that it’s a song like passages in the Bible. Completely open for one’s own interpretation. Chris was definitely a genius.
Soundgarden-“Blow up the outside world “&”Rusty Cage”Everything Chris touched was gold.Soundgarden/Audioslave/Solo🤘
There aren't a lot of "Blow up the outside world" reactions, so they would have one of the few if they did it.
Temple of the Dog…..Hunger Strike. Pure Chris…..and Vedder. But Chris clearly rules that song.
Chris Cornell was a beast of an artist! His cover of "NOTHING COMPARES 2 U" is awesome. Any of his bands (or solo stuff) are worth a listen.
His cover of "PATIENCE" is another great one.
I love his cover of Billie Jean.
His daughter also did a cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" which is extremely sad to listen to.
Patience is so good. Most of Chris's live stuff can move mountains.
@@BrokenGodEnt Got a link?
No one sings like you anymore. So much love for you, Chris. You were the most amazing voice in my lifetime. :(
You want to hear a song about a societal cleansing, listen to Aenima by TOOL.
Yeah
I second this!
YES
Love that song. Fuck all these gun toting hip gangster wanna be’s 😂
Rest in peace Chris .. your voice among the greatest rock voices of all time
Check out Chris Cornell's rendition of Nothing Compares to You live. Y'all might like it
If they listen to that track, they may have tears in their eyes. I know I did. 🤘🏾
@@OGMrWayne ditto. Possibly my favorite cover EVER. Amazing performance
Yes-- I mentioned that one too. It was a cover of Prince's rendition.
Soundgarden. Songs to check out- Birth Ritual, outshined, jesus christ pose, a room a thousand years wide, loud love, hands all over, out beyond the wheel, mood for trouble.
Hi! The "Black Hole Sun" refers to a solar eclipse, when it looks like a black hole in the sky. Notice at the beginning of the video a guy walks buy with a sign saying, "The end is nigh." Eclipses are often associated with the end of the world, etc., in a lot of traditions. It is like they are calling on the end to come, to wash away that which they find undesirable. That's why there are so many apocalyptic elements in the video, and also why the people in the video are sort of shown as hypocrites/fake, possessed (lizard-like), or decadent. Finally, the eclipse is represented like a black hole swallowing everything up -- again, indicating that an eclipse is going to trigger the end. At least, that's what I take from this! haha
As good an interpretation as any.
Gives a Patrick Bateman monologue and ends with tee hee 🤷♂️
I think it goes further than that, everything we were all taught by the Rockefeller school system is BS and pseudoscience, and the truth is in the title right in plane sight.
You guys can't go wrong reacting to "Temple of the dog ", "Soundgarden " or "Audioslave " all fronted by Chris Cornell
Also "You Know My Name" - a solo song by Cornell that was the theme song to James Bond "Casino Royale" movie and a great banger.
"...To me it [Black Hole Sun] was that perfect meeting of the Beatles and Black Sabbath." - Dave Grohl
Rip chris and Chester two legends gone 😔❤️
If you guys don’t listen to Alice In Chains your missing out. Best grunge band and IMO layne the singer and Chris are the best singers of their era
Try Them Bones or Man in the Box first for a taste of Alice In Chains before you need to go down the rabbit hole....
By far the best grunge band! 🙌🏻, And I completely agree with the singer statement!
While they're at it they s check out Jerry Cantrell My Song. 🤟😝
I vote down in a hole , mtv unplugged. Lex says she likes to feel the song. She will feel that 1
I feel like if they both like artistic feel they should go with junkhead or rain when I die but definitely start with stuff like man in the box and would to introduce them first. Even stuff like something bout you is great with funk flavor
This one will soon be relevant.
Soundgarden 4th of july
Criminally underrated song, my favorite on the album.
Omg yes
I've always seen this song as a realization of how off, twisted, tainted and creepy this society is under the smiley, glossy surface, and how some people may want to see it all "burnt up", or to use the lyrics, washed away.
For the record, I don't want to see it washed away, but it's hard not to see the twisted reality under the facade of football games, whitening toothpaste and ads, media and TV shows. You could see it in the 90s already, although now it's of course so much more evident.
The great thing about this song is that it makes you come up with a meaning. And you get to be right!
"No one sings like you anymore" Still haunting to this day.
A lot of people relate some of Chris's songs to death and suicide because of how he went. If you put death in the place of Black Hole Sun it fits. Put death/suicide as the reason in "Like a Stone" . It's hard to put it all in that bag but it's hard to discredit it since he dealt with depression.
Most of their songs were obviously about death.
Living Colour - Cult of Personality . If you haven't heard it yet.
Fight the fight, Type, Open letter to the landlord, Nothingness...
Black Hole Sun is a certified Grunge classic!
Love Lex, she has a wonderful ability to interpret the lyrics. Y’all make a fantastic team
The world lost one of the GOATs when Chris Cornell passed away. He did a version of Nothing Compares to You at the XM studios that will truly show the range of his talent. RIP Chris
I keep circling back to you two, first experiences into songs of my childhood radio... makes me feel old and yet, validated
Story Time!
I was fortunate enough to see Sound Garden a few years before Chris's death. In the middle of the show, Chris points to this teenager in the crowd with a sign that read something along the lines of "Let me play Black Days with you!". So he brings this kid on stage, and tells him that Black Days isn't on the set list, but they'll do it for him. He then proceeds to hand this 16-ish year old his guitar and tells him, "Be careful with that, I wrote this song on that guitar". The kid looked nervous as all hell but got into it once the song started to get going and nailed it!
I have been to 50+ shows in my lifetime and I have never seen anything like that from any other band. Not even the band, just their front man, the legendary Chris Cornell.
Funny story, so for whatever reason the bassist got really pissed off when they went off the set list for the kid. He was visibly annoyed and was shouting something at Chris, but I couldn't make it out with all the noise and he didn't have a mic like Chris did. He still played Black Days and the rest of the set after that.. At the very end of the show right before walking off, the bassist threw down one of his amps behind him and stormed off. No idea what that was about, but he REALLY didn't want to play Black Days with this random teenager.
Cool story.
Steele Panther brings a lot of people on stage
R.i.p. to Chris he was one of a kind
There are many songs in Chris Cornell's library of musical wonders that are must listens. Please have more polls.
A good start:
Temple of the dog: is a collaboration of artist from Seattle scene 90s that joined Chris Cornell to record an album in honour of the life and passing of Andrew Wood (of band "Motherlove bone" ) Chris' real good friend and roommate I believe. Out of this collab, Eddie Vedder met his future band mates in Pearl Jam. A few song from their one album: lyrics and music mostly written by Chris Cornell; "Say hello to heaven", "Times of trouble", "All night thing", etc ... Please to all who know more than I, I apologize if I got any of the previous information incorrect in any way. Please free to correct me if I'm wrong and/or inaccurate.
Soundgarden: "Like suicide", "Burden in my hand", "Outshined", "Fell on black days ", etc ....
AudioSlave: " Like a stone", "I am the highway ", "Getaway car", etc ...
Solo: "Seasons", "Sunshower", etc...
Covers: "Billie Jean ", "Nothing Compares to you ", "Redemption song", "One" Metallica done in the melody of "One" U2 - or the other way around? Etc ...
It's Chris Cornell. We just lost him not but 4 years ago. It ruined me for a year because he's the one i felt made it through the 90s. I grew up to these guys and we lost almost everyone. And Chris made it. And then kills himself our of nowhere in his 50s. Absolutely brutal. Hurt bad.
Best vocalist of all time along with Mercury and Plant. Please check his later acoustic stuff. You'll be in awe.
Nothing compares to you
Billie Jean (yes that Billie Jean)
Etc. Just all of his acoustic stuff. Check out Audioslave too
Nirvana unplugged - Where did you sleep last night
Nirvana - Live at the Paramount - Pick a song. Entire performance is amazing
Pearl Jam - Black unplugged.
Just to get you started
Also lyrics from the 90s weren't strait to the point. They were poetry. That's why they were such great writers. It's art. And Chris wasn't even the best writer of the 90s. But still dam good
Chris Cornell, RIP , had the most beautiful, soulful voice in the business.
Chris Cornell is my all-time favorite vocalist and these 90s songs bring me back to my childhood and teen years (late 90s by the time I was in my beginning teens) so much.
What I love about Lex is how smart she is when it comes to lyric interpretations. Thank you.
RIP CC. Awesome your music still reaches and will forever.
One of the best voices..he will be missed for an eternity!
Welcome to one of the Greatest Rock singers of all time, Chris Cornell. He's my favourite ever.
Soundgarden was his first band, then he released a few solo albums when Soundgarden split, then he released a tribute album to his great friend Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone) under the name of Temple Of The Dog. And then he joined up with the guys from Rage Against The Machine (minus the singer Zach De La Rocha) to form Audioslve and release 3 albums and then Soundgarden got back together to release a new album and he continued to put out solo stuff, covering songs of many artists he admired. Chris could do it all. Soulful acoustic to the thunderous almost screaming vocal and everything in between.
Chris sadly passed in May 2017. The official verdict was suicide, just a few hours after a gig he had played with Soundgarden.
Soundgarden have a wonderful and rich catalogue to choose from. Black Hole Sun was their biggest hit, but far from being their best song in my opinion.
Hand Of God
Hands All Over
Ugly Truth
Flower
Loud Love
Jesus Christ Pose
Searching For My Friend With My Good Eye Closed
Mindriot
Slaves & Bulldozers
Spoonman
Overfloater
Burden In My Hand
Switch Opens
Fell On Black Days
Fresh Tendrils
Big Dumb Sex
Like Suicide
Tighter & Tighter
And you'll get many requests outside my choices too.
I hope this is another rabbit hole you feel excited to dive into. Soundgarden are my second favourite band after Tool
i think you guys would love Queens of the stone age, "no one knows". the drummer is also the nirvana drummer, and singer for Foo Fighters, not sure if you have done any Foo Fighters yet either, the "pretender" by them. you'd love both songs :)
Better living through chemicals...
It's a great video too.
"Blow Up The Outside World".
My favorite Soundgarden song....by far!
RIP Chris Cornell. The greatest "rock" vocalist ever.
Audioslave be yourself its same singer anything by Chris Cornell is gold honestly
U should check out his cover of Metallica/U2 one its genius honestly he mixed 2 songs together to make one, then u should check out his covers of prince nothing compares to you Michael Jackson Billie jean and johnny cashes u never really knew my heart,
What a voice, brings a tear to the eye. RIP Chris. At least him and Chester arent suffering anymore and are reunited. God I miss those guys :(
Just to clear up a slight bit of ontological confusion - stars can turn into black holes.
That's where black holes are generally thought to come from.
Well hello, fellow Tool fan. I see you.
According to an article from NASA a few years back, our sun is actually not big enough to form a black hole during the process of burning out. However... one thing NASA fails to realize is that the ultrasonic sound waves created by this track ARE large enough to do it!!
:P
Say Hello 2 Heaven is a must!!!!
I love this song, very groundbreaking in Grunge Rock, I think Brad is going to enjoy Fell on Black Days!
I remember listening to this all summer long in 1994 on hot summer days. It has been my favorite song ever since.
You guys should do say hello to heaven, it’s a tribute to his friends death and I think his best vocals ever recorded.
The "wash away the rain" is the song. The shift that occurs specifically at those lyrics is enough
Yeah, Chris's voice is iconic. He was involved in several projects/bands, Soundgarden and Audioslave (Chris with Rage Against the Machine) being 2 of the biggest. Maybe check out Soundgarden "Rusty Cage or Outshined" and Audioslave Show Me How to Live or Bring Em Back Alive.
Love your reaction, both. What a great track by an absolutely brilliant band. RIP Chris Cornell.
I really cannot decide between Chris Cornell and Layne Staley... Yes, Chris had much more vocal chops, but Layne though.... He can make you feel EVERY word. With that being said, I cried like a little bitch whenever i head of Chris' passing. Say Hello 2 Heaven my friend.
Been one of my favorites since I was young...even my Mom who was a Motown loving woman loved Soundgarden and Nirvana
This song is one of the greatest songs ever, the music video is also. I was like 13 when this song came out and i loved it from the beginning. RIP Chris, a beast of an artist
the glow of all the stuff swirling around the black-hole "drain" is what lights our planet. Thats how I would see it. lol
Chris Cornell was one of the greatest rock singers of all time
He was its heartbreaking that he died
So many great tunes, Room a Thousand Years Wide, Birth Ritual, Been away too long, OutShined, Burden in my hand... and on and on and on
The album this song was on "Superunknown" was epic. So many worthy songs to react to.... I think Lex will particularly like "Spoonman."
Bringing me back to high-school! One of the most amazing voices. He will be missed.
One of my all time favorites. Chris Cornell is awesome...he also sang for Audioslave a band the was of Chris singing and the musicians from Rage Against the Machine...you should check that band out!
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I also tried to choose songs by artist that no one reacts too. And, I still believe these are some of the best songs to ever be recorded. There is plenty of more out there, but none of these songs are bad to react to. If I could not figure out which song to choose from the artist/band I would listen to the best songs back to back by that artist/band and would eliminate the song I got tired of first. Until the last song was standing. Check out the list and react to these songs. In alphabetical order by artist/band. All Genre from the past 100 years. Every music guru should know this list.
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Chris Cornell is regarded as one of the best vocalists of all time. His suicide may have been the reason Chester Bennington from Linkin Park killed himself two months later. I wore out my Superunknown cassette tape as a kid. Everyone always recommends the same songs (making me wonder if they're even fans), but my personal favorites are Fresh Tendrils, 4th of July, Burden in My Hand, Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart, and Taree. Even the theme he made for the James Bond movies is awesome.
That's a decent list imho. ;)
I've been aware of this music video for some time but I don't think I ever really paid close attention to it til now, and I've got to say it is amazing. It enhances the song SO much, which is a real rarity for music videos, and has to be considered one of the greatest ever made.
You just stepped into the world of Sound Garden one of the greatest bands ever. Chris Cornell is definitely one of the best singers of all time. You need to do reaction from Loud Love album.
in my youth I pray to keep.....gives me chills
You should do Chris Cornell's version of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U". He's got an amazing voice ^^
Dude... it's not a Prince song. U never heard of Sinead O'Connor?? Go listen to the original
@@melissam9656 "Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song written and composed by Prince - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_2_U
@@simeik True, Prince did write this song and it was on his family album, but the first single release was Sinead and even Prince said this was her song now.
Mad Season “River Of Deceit” ✌🏼
This is a good song...but certainly not one of their best. Soundgarden have a pile of faster heavier songs that Lex would love! Check out Ty Cobb, Jesus Christ Pose, Rusty Cage or even Spoonman, absolute bangers!
I would go early....
Hands all over....
They all look so young.
And Chris is just friggin awesome in the video...
A proper rock god...
Outshined
@@robutubemacarthur outshined was on road rash on the mega drive back in the day..
And it's a great bevis and butthead tune too, they go nuts for it..😂👍🏻
Oh yeah it's a choon.🤘🤘
4th of July - might be their heaviest song ever
Yeah I like this better than any of those.
The big 5 of Alternative bands back in the 90's were Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam. How crazy that only one of those 5 amazing vocalists is still alive.
Chris Cornell is the goat yall should react to Audioslave- show me how to live
Long Live SoundGarden. R.I.P, Chris, he was a true legend. 🤘🏾On
cool reaction ! time for Alice in chains I think : nutshell, rooster, bleed the freak ... you can't go wrong :)
Spoonman by SoundGarden is my fav of theirs
It's depression... In art and in the mind black hole suns can exist :) Chris Cornell committed suicide and suffered from depression all his life, which he poured into his music..
Reminds me of summer school in Queens NYC 1994. Listening to this in my Walkman on the city bus back and forth as a result of my truancy
From this song its hard to imagine that your listening to "one" of the greatest singers or people that ever existed! Try "Like a Stone" from Audioslave made up of Chris and 3 members of Rage Against The Machine. "Say Hello to Heaven" & "Hungerstrike" from Temple of the Dog!!! He has an amazing cover of Micheal Jackson"s "Billie Jean" and a few others that are just as great! He is truly missed!!! A must is Alice in Chains!!!! Layne Staley is everything!!!!! Seriously everything and is also truly missed!!!! And then....Lincoln Park....Chester Bennington....another great!!! Sadly also truly missed!!!!
You mentioned three of the greatest vocalists of all time and what a tragedy they are all gone
Soundgarden also has a song called Blow Up The Outside World. Ending the world was a bit of a repeated theme with them.
I say do some Clutch but you'd probably lose your minds trying to figure out the lyrics.
That would be amazing! I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to Clutch.
As soon as Lex asked "What if we had a blackhole instead of the sun?" Brad and I said the exact same thing at the exact same time 🤣
When stars die they can become black holes. Interestingly our sun is not a candidate to become a black hole as stars need many times the mass of our sun to make itself turn into a black hole at the end of its life.
Soundgarden is one of my favorite bands in the grunge era of rock. Sadly a lot of the singers of these bands had issues with drugs themselves. Chris Cornell, Layne from Alice is Chains, Scott W. From Stone Temple Pilots. It's a very sad thing these people are no longer with us. But they live on through the amazing music they made.
This song is not one of their best..either way. You guys should check "audioslave-Show me how to live" (Audioslave is Chris Cornell other band)
For me as an average music listener i love this song. It might not be the greatest lyrical song of them, but it's meaning, the guitar riffs and Chris' voice makes it so smooth to relax and enjoy the song, even with the sad background behind the lyrics. The video is also great. Distracting and funny at the same time. Through this song i found out about Soundgarden. So it helped them a lot to give them a brighter spotlight, which they absolutely deserved, even though Grunge was clearly not about being/getting famous.
@@CellerKind Its more like a personal opinion, for some reason its their more famous song right, the acoustic version of this song gotta be one of my favourites tho. they have so many great songs, and many of them are underrated
@@Clemente-rr7uh i always dislike comments when people sound like their opinion is the ultimate answer. Nothing personal man. I got now how you meant it and i agree overall.
I always took this song as the coexistence of pleasure and pain. Happiness and sorrow. Positive and negative.
I've not watched your reaction..paused it five seconds in..
Just so I can say...
My favourite singer .
My favourite band.
My favourite song of all time..
Rest in peace Chris, I miss you brother..
🤟🙏
Ok I now can watch you reaction, and I hope you guys love it..🤘
Yes I agree with the last comment.. Audioslave like a stone is a great song. It is Chris Cornell and Rage against the machines band 🦾🦾🦾
From what I understand, Chris just heard the mention of a black hole sun on TV and loved the thought. He mostly started thinking of the music for the thoughts he had in his head. He worked on it all week, thinking in the same vein of his imagination of a black hole sun. He got it all together in a couple of weeks of what the sound he felt should be. After that it was time for lyrics. All he did was stack a bunch of negative, morose, macabre and ill feelings about people and life together and throw them into the black hole sun. It was perfect and awesome. I love the idea!
The video is definitely showing the cracks under the surface of the idealised version of picture perfect suburban life...and I think the singer wants it all washed away, sucked away, destroyed by the blackhole sun, shining it’s dark light on that underbelly
Chris I'm so sorry you suffered with your demons and did finally overwhelmed you but were loved by your family and fans rip chris
I remember coming home from school in the 90s and turning on MTV, back when they played music and thinking this video was so cool
Cornell was so awesome! No auto tune back then. Dudes pitch is crazy awesome!
Chris Cornell is a legend, check out his band Temple of the Dog, “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Hunger Strike”. In Hunger Strike he sings together with Eddie Vedder from before Pearl Jam.
Thanks to you guys, I finally get this song's meaning. The black hole is like a vacuum, sucking away all of the negativity. The sun is our source of life. Very artistic and powerful.
Soundgarden - Outshined
Which ya boy Chris Cornell
The lyrics go exactly with the theme of the melody, adding to the video clip the message is clearer than the lyrics, we add the main point of the theme and although it is true in an interview they did with Chris they asked about the song again , to which Chris replied: "that few people understand the meaning of this song" Actually the story of the song was written in a drunken state and the inspiration was when he was driving home and time to review things so significant as the unpleasant news, while listening to these news on the radio they had talked about the sun, from that moment Chris had taken the bad news and the sun as a reference, he imagined how he was going to do this combination and its theme and melody and its unavoidable lyrics, without wasting time he got home and put it with a dictaphone, the next day he recorded a small track, he gave notice to the members of the band and almost the entire structure of the song. Anción belongs to Chris and without more time he began the work of starting with the end of the song, at one point he said that he did not think in terms of success, he never imagined how the lyrics could be a hit, on the one hand the term "Black Hole Of Sun" is a billion times bigger than a sun and is a giant circle of nothing and emptiness, but with an apocalyptic degree destroying everything in its path.
Opinion and Commentary
The structure of the song in general goes hand in hand for having that elegance and dark magic melody that translates us to a totally dimension to which we live, the truth is that the theme is sad as we can see and hear, both in those 2 Aspects we can see that the song tries to expose the worst side of the human being everything bad in its greatest and aberrant expression within the society where we live, in the video the sick, selfish and arrogant society and full of evil are criticized, such as: animal torture, zoophilia, the mental control of the great religious and political leaders treat us like sheep and slaves, pedophilia and sexual abuse, personally the message of this video impacts me on a personal level, even more I coincide with the way Chris Cornell's thinking of this issue, today we are concerned about our appearance that human quality and intelligence, evil has reached surprising levels that we see daily in the news worldwide Unpleasant and regrettable, the new generations think that inequality and violence are normal things, depriving them in the future of the sense of empathy for others and other values learned from parents. Can we ever change? Maybe yes.
This song is incredible melodically speaking and simply with the union of everything great that sounds, it just does not bore me in the least, it is a song that leaves you something thoughtful as it sounds, something strange and mysterious, within the album Superunknown is the only one Different song talking about the 432Hz tuning gives a different tonality to most musicians, which is the standard 440Hz, a great theme that Chris Cornell gives us for the whole message, true, it is totally true what happens today, in conclusion I give the song 10 stars because it is gigantic, musically speaking, all rhythmic melodic aspect, a classic of Rock & Grunge classics from the 90's.
Lex...you said it all. IN ART ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. there doesnt have to be a meaning in any of it...its art.
Chris....one of the best voices in rock.
One of the greatest voices in rock. And Kim Thayill has to me the perfect look (and sound!) for a grunge guitarist.
A black hole is a billion times larger than a sun, it's a void, a giant circle of nothing, and then you have the sun, the giver of all life. It was this combination of bright and dark, this sense of hope and underlying moodiness
This was awesome. Great to hear him sing... Legends never die.
i grew up with this kind of Music, what can i say, was the best time of my Life
Alice In Chains " Man In The Box" live at The Moore 1990
Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the first of the grunge era to make it before Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
R.I.P Layne and Chris