Badmotorfinger

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-09-18 rating:
The album that established Soundgarden
Before this album, Soundgarden were just another heavy metal band playing post-zeppelin rock. But that all changed when they released Badmotorfinger in 1991. The grunge scene was about to explode into the mainstream and this album took Soundgarden with it. Badmotorfinger established them at the top of the alternative music heap along with the likes of Alice In Chains, Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
And you can see why. It's a fast, hard, heavy rock masterpiece from start to finish. With classic tunes such as Rusty Cage, Outshined, Jesus Christ Pose, Slaves and Bulldozers. This album will rock your socks off. It's extremely accessible to both metal and traditional rock fans which makes it such an instant classic. One of the best albums to come out of the nineties.

For me this album resides alongside Dirt by Alice In Chains and Nevermind by Nirvana as the ultimate rock masterpiece of all time. If you love this album like I do (And you should! I mean, who couldn't when it's this good?) Then check out Alice In Chains. They have a similar heavy metallic sound like Soundgarden. I would throughly recommend Dirt and Facelift.

But buy this first. It's a stunner!

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review by: scottyallin date: 2007-07-06 rating:
A taste worth acquiring.
Soundgarden's breakthrough album "Badmotorfinger" was released at the height of the Seattle Sound/grunge phenomenon and is amongst the finest albums produced during that era, however those expecting an easy radio friendly ride of a record along the lines of their contemporaries such as Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam's "Ten" will find this quite a different beast. It is one of the stranger albums to have ever garnered mainstream success, but whilst it starts off as something of an acquired taste, it is well worth persisting with as once you get it you'll love it.
Soundgarden's sound on this record is a soup of Sabbath-esque 70's metal, blues, classic rock with a splash of punkier energy and some experimental noise thrown in for good measure. It's the diversity of influences and the ability of their musicianship to nail each one that makes this such an enduring and enjoyable record. Chris Cornell's peerless vocals that range from banshee screaming to whispering tenderness tower over proceeding and his lyrics are both easy to identify with and yet at times opaque and intriguing. Kim Thayil's guitars combine enormous riffs with off-the-wall leads, whilst Ben Sheppard's resonating basslines refuse to sit still for long and Matt Cameron's titanic drumming is the rock on which the whole thing is built.
Classics like "Outshined" with it's killer riff and catchy chorus, "Rusty Cage" and "Jesus Christ Pose" a hit at rock clubs despite being as far from a mainstream pop rock song as it's possible to get (sometimes atonal music is heavier than a thousand downtuned overdriven guitars and a double bass drummer can ever get close to), may already be familiar to many. Gems like "Mind Riot" (like the Temple Of The Dog album, written in the aftermath of Chris Cornell's former housemate and Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Woods' untimely death from a heroin overdose), "Rooms A Thousand Years Wide" with its insistent riff, "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and the highlight of Chris Cornell's estimable recording career as a singer to date "Slaves & Bulldozers" probably won't be as recognisable but are every bit as good.
Even the "lesser" songs on the album (in my humble opinion) such as "Face Polution", the oddly groovy "Drawing Flies" and "Holy Water" hold some impressive charms if you are prepared to stick with them. "Somewhere" meanwhile is a trippy pop classic.
All in all a top record. One of those records so distinctive that once you are a fan of it there will be times when you find yourself in the mood to listen to it and no other album will satisfy.
If you are new to Soundgarden, I highly recommend purchasing this CD and its follow-up "Superunknown" as between those two you will have most of the highlights of their impressive catalogue and two classic albums to add to your collection.

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review by: Jon date: 2007-03-15 rating:
masterpiece! superb heavy rock/grunge/metal
This is my favourite soundgarden album, it is awesome. It's got the energy of their early albums (without the 80s metal feel - although the lyrics on rusty cage are a bit cheesy!) and the inventiveness of the later ones. Most of the songs are pretty heavy, and the album has got an exciting, cathartic feel to it - it manages to be nice and heavy without being aggressive, which is cool! Also, it is of course good to hear a bunch of talented musicians, especially matt cameron (the drummer, who is definitely one of those musician rather than just timekeeping drummers) and chris cornell's vocals. His singing on slaves and bulldozers is amazing, when the pitch goes up and up but still sounds powerful - yeah man!! well cool.

To get an idea if you'd like this maybe this will help - badmotorfinger is one of my all time favourites, definitely, here are some others - the first rage against the machine album, bloodsugarsexmagik (chilli peppers, when they were good!), jimi hendrix (ultimate experience got all my favourites on)... plus i like the doors and david bowie... so for me this is at the heavy end, i not really a big metal head but i reckon any metal head with good taste will love this album! (and i would say it is more metal than grunge, though i guess you could call it either). definitely soundgarden at their peak.

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review by: Porl! date: 2007-03-14 rating:
Do NOT mess
Quite why someone would have the gall not to give this the big 5 is beyond me. Grunge, metal, heavy rock? Who cares? A PHENOMENAL album. Still sounds as fresh today in 2007 as it did then. Cornell? What a F*****' voice. Born too late for the accolades he deserves. 5 stars above a 5 star rating. I have never known how to 'position' this album. Grunge? Erm, well shall we say Nirvana and SG are the same? Sound the same? Ultramega Ok and early Nirvana, well maybe. But this. This isn't some 'off the shelf' grunge effort. This is a cross-rock boundary effort of some greatness. Well, cross-rock when talking of stupid metal, grunge, hardcore, whatever bollocks. This is one of the greatest, guitar playin', undisputed singing, rock albums ever. Your 50/60 year old dad may not say so, but his 40 year old son says so. Chris, find me a better a singer and I'll eat my...


review by: Rich date: 2005-08-14 rating:
a machine of sound
soundgarden the alternitive metal band who made great albums and chris made a great album with a band called "temple of a dog" and that album sounds a bit like this one grungy/metal and great songs with fantastic lyrics by chris..it's an hype that should get more hype because it's nearly started the grunge revolution but that was left up too nirvana too blow open all the doors and knock the poodles of there perches

this album features the excellent song "rusty cage" plus "jesus christ pose" and seeing chris with long hair is great it's a shame he didn't keep it.. oh well nevermind

soundgarden rule the airways for grunge

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