https://variety.com/2025/music/news/soundgarden-kim-thayil-o...
> Five members of Soundgarden - Thayil, Cameron, bassists Yamamoto and Shepherd and, posthumously, Cornell - will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday [8 Nov 2025].
1994 video (300 million views), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg
"it came to me as a microsleep misinterpretation of a radio news broadcast" feels like the most tech thing, to me. this is always where the best ideas seem to come from, a misinterpretation that gets fixed up into an enhancement.
Always found this a pompous mid track.
Nirvana brought the fun indie/punk spirit back to the whole mainstream rock thing, and then Soundgarden had to go add pompous neo-Zeppelin tones, and Pearl Jam to bring in sucky hippie-grunge vibes