Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
Can we have any national headline with "Cornell" in it that doesn't include "suicide"?
Cornell '04, Stanford '06
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I'm thinking the David Carradine auto-erotica asphyxiation thing. At first, I was afraid it was gonna be drugs.
Given Cornell's music? C'mon man...no way.
It's staring us in the face, and we all missed it because we've gone through times in our lives where we've agreed with those songs and it was soothing. Just like Layne/Alice in Chains.
Hell, even "Dusty" - with lyrics that gave the Down on the Upside LP its name - is as stark as it gets. Manic depression.
Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
Was Cornell known to have a heroine addiction/fling at some point, or was Black Hole Sun based more upon observation and empathy? That song feels a little too intimate with the experience to simply be observation.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
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Was Cornell known to have a heroine addiction/fling at some point, or was Black Hole Sun based more upon observation and empathy? That song feels a little too intimate with the experience to simply be observation.
It's no secret that Cornell did a lot of drugs/booze in the 90s. It's been said that he quit booze and cigs as a condition of the first Audioslave album for the sake of his voice (which was quite rough on that album). Heroin, I don't know, but he's definitely admitted to doing acid during the writing/recording of Superunknown. Which explains tracks like "4th of July" and "Black Hole Sun".
Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"
I think reading into the song lyrics may be a bit of an over-reaction. Robert Smith's (The Cure) lyrics are often just as dark and twisted, and he seems to be fine. Of course, it's all just speculation, but still....
Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens
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