“Superunknown” – Soundgarden
This series is about the best rock albums in history, in my humble opinion. Enjoy!
After proving they could move millions of copies on their own terms with Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden proved they could streamline their thorny, inimitable songwriting just enough to do it again on an even larger scale, with the stunning Superunknown. Sacrificing none of their mold-shattering individuality, the quartet simply fine-tuned virtually every song here — “My Wave,” “Fell On Black Days,” the title track — into a potential single. And the tunes that were actually chosen as official singles, primarily the muscular “Spoonman” and psychedelic nightmare “Black Hole Sun,” went on to define the grunge era, even as it neared its conclusion and fell on black days of its own making.