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I'm glad to see that Chris got all the "pop-ish " stuff completely out of his system. None of it shows in this album; this is pure, 100% unadultered Soundgarden.

And yes, you've been away too long , guys. Welcome back.
POSTED: 11/13/2012 05:53am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:53:48 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_2 POSTED: 11/13/2012 06:14am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:14:36 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_3 totally worth making!

That aside, love this album except for Halfway There, which is a blatant leftover from Cornell's solo snoozefests.
POSTED: 11/13/2012 06:20am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:20:04 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_4 POSTED: 11/13/2012 06:22am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:22:29 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 11/13/2012 07:40am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:40:23 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_6 POSTED: 11/13/2012 11:34am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:34:51 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_7
Bones of Birds is almost there, but they managed to do something interesting with it. The chord progression in the chorus might as well have been a Cornell pop song though. Can't complain about the rest of the album though, and I still like tunes like Bones and Black Saturday, but those two and Halfway There are definitely the Chris Cornell pop contributions.
POSTED: 11/13/2012 02:14pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:14:43 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_8 POSTED: 11/13/2012 02:21pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:21:41 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_9 POSTED: 11/13/2012 03:17pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:17:47 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_10 POSTED: 11/13/2012 03:27pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:27:20 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_11 POSTED: 11/13/2012 04:09pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:09:34 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_12 POSTED: 11/13/2012 04:35pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:35:13 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_13 POSTED: 11/13/2012 06:21pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:21:05 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_14 POSTED: 11/13/2012 08:45pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:45:25 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_15 POSTED: 11/13/2012 09:57pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:57:33 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_16 POSTED: 11/13/2012 10:33pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:33:07 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_17 POSTED: 11/13/2012 10:49pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:49:57 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_18 POSTED: 11/14/2012 01:38am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:38:19 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_19
That being said, I plan to listen to this whole album and see what it's like. "Non-State Actor" has given me a bit of hope that this will be another great Soundgarden album...
POSTED: 11/14/2012 03:27am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:27:28 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_20 POSTED: 11/14/2012 03:29am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:29:38 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_21 POSTED: 11/14/2012 03:48am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:48:21 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_22 To me, they come from the same place as songs like "Burden In My Hand ", for example, and not Cornell's pop vein .

Also, i don't feel they ruin the pacing of the album. At all.


On a side note, the only recent Soundgarden song that i feel suffers from "Chris Cornell's pop contributions", as you put it, is "Live To Rise ".
I really like the guitars in the main riff and chorus, but the vocals overall aren't quite what i expected from Soundgarden -- but a solo work from Cornell instead.
And the verses. My god, those verses are hard to digest.
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POSTED: 11/14/2012 10:25am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:25:40 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_24
The new album sounds nothing like Audioslave. I like the first two Audioslave albums. This sounds like Soundgarden. The construction of the songs is completely different directionally... I think the Audioslave comparisons are due to hearing Cornell's haggard voice. It's still great in it's own way, but he's a different singer post Down on the Upside... that's the only common theme I hear... maybe a touch where it's obvious it's a Cornell written acoustic part, but that's it.
POSTED: 11/14/2012 10:44am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:44:41 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_25 POSTED: 11/14/2012 10:48am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:48:48 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_26
I mean, if you don't hear it fine, but I don't really think I'm giving you one man's take for another. You said the album was 100% pure Soundgarden with anything that resembles Chris Cornell's solo stuff, and that's really not true. When you compare the songs he's solely credited for to songs like Kim Thayil is credited for (Blood on the Valley Floor, A Thousand Days Before) you get two-three songs that actually have more in common with an album like Carry On, vs 2 solid tracks that represent two different sides of their music. Hell, A Thousand Days Before has more in common with Burden in My Hand than songs that share most of the hallmarks of Chris' solo work.
POSTED: 11/14/2012 01:24pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:24:07 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_27 POSTED: 11/14/2012 05:12pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:12:11 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_28 POSTED: 11/14/2012 05:16pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:16:00 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_29
Good to know that none of them let the ball drop after all these years (especially Chris, after his watered down experiment with pop music).
POSTED: 11/14/2012 11:11pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:11:53 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_30 POSTED: 11/14/2012 11:15pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:15:05 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_31 POSTED: 11/14/2012 11:23pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:23:34 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_32 POSTED: 11/14/2012 11:26pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:26:28 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_33 POSTED: 11/14/2012 11:43pm]]> Comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:43:23 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_34
POSTED: 11/15/2012 12:48am]]> Comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:48:56 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_35 POSTED: 11/15/2012 12:52am]]> Comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:52:20 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_36 POSTED: 11/15/2012 11:17am]]> Comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:17:08 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_37 POSTED: 11/15/2012 11:53am]]> Comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:53:21 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_38 POSTED: 11/15/2012 11:05pm]]> Comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:05:12 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_39 POSTED: 11/16/2012 06:00am]]> Comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:00:10 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_40 POSTED: 11/18/2012 04:04pm]]> Comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:04:38 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_41
And Live To Rise sounded like Audioslave with a better drummer. I liked it a bit, but it wasn't a Soundgarden song.
POSTED: 11/19/2012 02:20pm]]> Comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:20:47 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_42 POSTED: 11/19/2012 05:27pm]]> Comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:27:20 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_43 POSTED: 11/20/2012 12:05am]]> Comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:05:41 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_44
But, I do like a four or five songs on the album. I'll even go as far as saying that the song "Rowing" is absolutely one of my favorite songs from the past decade of music. Rowing shocked me because it has an electronic feel with killer solo's and bass lines strewn throughout. I feel like Cornell wanted to conjure up his "Scream" influences for one song on this album while keeping it sounding like a Soundgarden song.

Rowing, to me, is well worth buying this album for. It sounds like classic Soundgarden and Cornell's lyrics are great.
POSTED: 11/20/2012 10:27am]]> Comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:27:56 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_45 POSTED: 11/20/2012 05:24pm]]> Comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:24:57 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_46
That's what I feel this is - an average album. I wouldn't exactly call it an average Soundgarden album, though, because it's the first album of theirs that I don't particularly like any one song. With that taken into consideration, I think a 5 might be a little generous, and a 4 would be more realistic.

The album overall gets a little boring; the songs kind of blend together and at least half of them are pretty samey. I found the standout tracks for me were the ones that most of you are complaining about (even though they barely stand out among the rest), but I realized a few years ago that all of the Soundgarden songs I like best are credited solely to Chris Cornell. However, I don't even really like the ones that only he is credited for this time around. Strangely enough, I'm not a fan of most of his solo material, but when he writes the songs and the whole band plays them, that's when Soundgarden is at their best.

All in all, I wouldn't get mad if this album was playing in the background, but I won't be the one to turn it on.
POSTED: 11/20/2012 07:06pm]]> Comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:06:11 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_47
It really isn't even as good as the official Jerry Cantrell solo albums, and most wouldn't dare compare those to the original Alice in Chains albums. It's basically the same band as the first Jerry Cantrell album, minus special guests and plus the occasional backup vocal from 'lead' singer William DuVall (I know he's the lead singer live, but on that album, he was a glorified backup singer/rhythm guitarist. I also realize that Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley commonly shared lead/backup duties, but Jerry Cantrell is indubitably the lead singer on that album).

The material just wasn't good to me, as well as having little to no feeling. It sounds like an apathetic version of some leftover ideas for AiC songs that Layne Staley never got a chance to have any input on. To me, he was what made Alice in Chains. He gave the songs feeling. The combination of him and Jerry Cantrell was just excellent - songwriting and performance-wise. William DuVall may be able to do some justice to future material if they give him a chance to shine, but I don't know if his songwriting is up to par with AiC standards.
POSTED: 11/20/2012 07:25pm]]> Comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:25:54 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_48
Turn the bass up and drop the high end some and you will see what I mean.

Your right about Rowing sloan. It also has that temple of the dog funk/soul feel. His sweep picking on the bass is very nice and he has to be using some odd tuning. Also a nice blues feel as well.

This certainly pushes Shepherd up on my list of best bass players a few notches. Grade A stuff.

This album is good but I feel its missing just a little something though. A little more raw aggression is what it needs. It also seems to be missing some of the wonderful guitar harmonics. Songs like limo wreck had.

All and all. This is a very solid and well made album and is certainly worthy of the name soundgarden.

Hell_March
POSTED: 11/21/2012 01:14pm]]> Comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:14:00 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_49 POSTED: 11/21/2012 03:37pm]]> Comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:33 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_50 POSTED: 11/22/2012 12:15pm]]> Comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:15:55 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_51 POSTED: 11/24/2012 06:01am]]> Comments Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:01:02 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_52 POSTED: 11/26/2012 10:38pm]]> Comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:38:32 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_53 POSTED: 11/28/2012 06:58am]]> Comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:58:30 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_54 POSTED: 12/14/2012 07:59am]]> Comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:59:21 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/soundgarden/king_animal/index.html#u_55 POSTED: 01/04/2013 09:10am]]> Comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:10:39 -0500