First Time Reaction | Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun | Reaction 

As a 70s rocker I was glad to see 90s grunge save rock and roll.

“Outshined” has to be next! their breakout song that put them on the map. heavy, groovy, soulful and a classic to this day

“ Outshined “ gotta be next my guy.. Such a deep and heavy riff and another banger

Chris wrote the song with The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band album. So it sounds Psychedelic because his favorite bands were Th Beatles. Steppenwolf. Black Sabbath. Pink Floyd.

This song is a banger/111 Love Soundgarden!! Love Chris Cornell..May he finally rest in Peace!!! His struggles with depression is millions of people's struggle world wide....Love this song!!!

Chris was also lead for Temple of the Dog. Say Hello to Heaven was Chris alone with Temple. Hunger Strike was Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam). Chris also did a version of Nothing Compares to You. So much music out there from Chris, but you had to follow all the bands he was in plus his solo projects to keep up.

Keep it up, man. Loving your approach. Dig deeper into Soundgarden. You've been watching the later, more polished material. Go back to where they started. "Jesus Christ Pose", "Rusty Cage", or "Outshined" need to be on your list. Be safe, man.

I completely agree with the comment about Outshined! I’m a Soundgarden fan from the ‘old days’ and Outshined is still my favourite song of theirs! It rocks so hard!

Always appreciate your analytical and emotional reactions. This happens to be my favorite Soundgarden song. The chords and the tempo are definitely on the dark side. (back in the day it was called HEAVY rock) But the perfection of this recording is uplifting to me. You don't need more suggestions, Señor. I'm just gonna listen.

Love your channel. Your willingness to listen, explore and understand the meaning behind the music takes you and your channel to the next level. Thanks for your work. Sincerely appreciating your insights.

Love Chris Cornell's voice. If you get a chance check out his covers of the songs Billie Jean and Nothing Compares To You. Both are amazing. I prefer them over the originals. Great reaction!! 🙂

I like how you are quick to understand lyrics and I like your way of thinking in regards to lyrics in general!

❤everything Chris did! Usually deep lyrics but this one came to him while driving a in a car. Check out Slaves and Bulldozers, Burden in My Hand, The Day I tried to Live. He did a lot of acoustic stuff to which is my favorite. He’s best live. 😊

Looking back now, Chris Cornell was always struggling w/ depression even back in his career w/ Soundgarden... 'Black hole Sun' was a huge hit on MTV and radio in 1994/ '95 and the album 'Superunknown' sold 6 million copies in the US alone. I think the song is about a black hole destroying everything in armageddon... He is basically wishing for the end... The other songs on the record also carried the topic of bleak perspective - 'The day I tried to live' ... 'Like suicide' ... 'Let me drown' ... 'Fell on black days'... It was perfect for the 90's grunge rock scene, which was lyrically morbid, from Nirvana to Pearl Jam to Soundgarden to Bush...

Great reaction. Next up please Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand

I like how you do your homework about the artists n all that, you go the extra mile, instead of just reacting to a song n move on you show appreciation for the artists that way, that's awesome. Since you respect n like Chris I'd recommend the songs, with Audioslave, I am the Highway, Show me how to live (this one specially shows Chris' vocal power)

To stay in the Soundgarden lane, Spoonman was a super hit from the album.

Chris said the lyrics don't really have a meaning, it was just stream of consciousness and word play for the sake of making it fit within the song. The title came from a news story he misheard, but thought it'd make a cool song title. Keep exploring everything Chris Cornell, you won't be disappointed.

More Chris! Please and thank you.

♥ Think this song's bout depression. The video is just a trip

Keep up your research!🤘🏻 He is of Blackfoot Nation decent. He has the range of an operatic vocalist. He is so very missed. "Jesus Christ Pose" or solo work; all brilliant. "Pillow of Your Bones" and "The Promise" causes a lot of ugly crying,no lie. *black hole sun often slang reference for a syringe hole from drug use;usually heroin*

A brilliant, but troubled musician. Thanks for your reaction.

Good stuff, man. Now that you've gotten the more polished, radio-friendly songs under your belt you need to hit up Rusty Cage and Outshined and hear these guys go off!

you definitely have to listen outshined

My thoughts were always that it was someone wishing for the end of the world. It definitely has a sad song with happy sound thing going on. Maybe it's someone learning to "dance in the rain," to borrow from a Megadeth song.

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DUUUUUUUDE, you should ABSOLUTEY dive into ANYTHING by Chris Cornell!! He is irreplaceable and a rock lord. 🙌

Outshined pls from soundgarden. Tnx

Check out Chris' solo stuff,, start with Billie Jean,,, and so on....

I think you nailed it in your reaction. Although Chris kinda claimed it was something of a word salad that he played around with, that didnt mean all that much. i think the reality is what you were alluding to. Like all great songwriters, Chris Cornell might have been playing with words but his inspirations ran deep, so he drew from these inner places inside himself. He had claimed that he wrote this song quickly... basically threw the bulk of it together in one day after hearing something misquoted on the radio that gave him his initial inspiration. Yeah it is depressing, as are quite a few of his songs.. however I hope that doesnt dettur you from checking out more. This was still rather early in his career and he evolved more as a singer, songwriter as time went on, and a lot of his accoustic work is fantastic , Euphoria Mourning Album, Higher Truth and some of his Song Book stuff is different. Ive learned to appreciate his ability with musical araingement as well... although many of his songs might seem simple.. the way he designed them for his own vocal ability i find amazing..along with the lyrical meanings. Believe it or not he started out as the Drummer for Soundgarden! and that was his inspiration. He had a troubled youth for a while there, suffering with agoraphobia not leaving the house for a couple years, but his mom helped him out by buying him a single snare drum!

If you want a more upbeat Soundgarden song listen to Spoonman

You want a more upbeat song? Hit up, Spoonman.

You need to go back further too “Rusty cage”

This song was deeper than I thought. It was featuring strange democrat behavior.

I (0's music was very good but very very depressing and this is why I did not follow 90's music. There is always that undertone dark element of society being fake and not authentic and living in denial!!! That was the theme of 90's music!!! However, the music was very Top Tier!!!

Mfers need to quit playing with Soundgarden and start eating Soundgarden