'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden

faroutmagazine.co.uk

11 points·walterbell··5 comments

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.

As a musician, this happens to me as well. If I hear a piece of music in a noisy environment my brain will fill in the gaps. I’ll think, “Wow, this music is really interesting.”

Then I’ll hear it in a quiet environment and realize that I preferred the version where my brain adding things to make up for what I couldn’t hear before.

I guess it’s a little like diffusion. The brain has natural denoising processes which, in an unconscious way, taps into our tastes.

Also works with visual noise & beholding.

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

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