'black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
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The HN item shares a Soundgarden song, 'Black Hole Sun', sparking a discussion about the band's style and influence, with some commenters praising their work and others criticizing it as pompous.
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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.
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
> 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