Tanya 93 said:

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AggieOO said:

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62strat said:

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if we're judging who had better mysterious cryptic lyrics, then sure Maynard wins.

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i'm not talking lyrics, i'm talking vocals. Maynard's range is off the charts.

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Are you stoned?

No freaking way are his vocals better

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If I was stoned, I'd guess my opinion would be vastly different.

PLUM LOCO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Cornell had the third greatest voice in rock history (Freddie Mercury and Steve Perry are 1 and 2).

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Uh, Robert Plant and Elvis.

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And Elvis wouldn't even be on my radar, but I guess I'm tone deaf, so disregard me.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Cornell had the third greatest voice in rock history (Freddie Mercury and Steve Perry are 1 and 2).

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Disagree. I think both Layne Staley and Dustin Kensrue are better.

62strat said:

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AggieOO said:

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62strat said:

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if we're judging who had better mysterious cryptic lyrics, then sure Maynard wins.

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i'm not talking lyrics, i'm talking vocals. Maynard's range is off the charts.

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are you talking range, like notes on the scale?
God I hope not. CC has 4 octave range. Maynard has about 2.

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Ok, you guys proved me wrong. Congrats.

But, btw, Maynard has a 4 octave range too. Feel free to look it up.

PLUM LOCO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Cornell had the third greatest voice in rock history (Freddie Mercury and Steve Perry are 1 and 2).

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Uh, Robert Plant and Elvis.

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Plant is a better front man, but I was talking about pure vocal ability, and I'd put Cornell ahead of Plant. As far as Elvis, that's a completely different style of music, so kinda hard to compare. I'm sure Elvis couldn't hit some of the notes Cornell could hit.

I am sure of that to but Elvis had an incredible voice that crossed many genres.

Cornell's voice had incredible range.

PLUM LOCO said:

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I am sure of that to but Elvis had an incredible voice that crossed many genres.

Cornell's voice had incredible range.

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Elvis really wasn't the type of singer I was trying to compare Cornell to. I was really thinking of traditional rock band singers.

AggieOO said:

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Junkhead said:

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AggieOO said:

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If you say so.

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Most everyone with ears says so.

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Good thing people can have opinions, No?

Or I guess not, since I have ears too.

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You can like Maynard more but to say he is a better singer is facepalm worthy.

Lots of memories from high school, college, and just life in general when I listen to Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, and his solo stuff. What an amazing voice. This one hurts.

You made your point. Congrats.

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I probably can't say anything that hasn't already been said in this thread, but we lost the greatest vocalist of our generation last night.

I was lucky enough to see him four times; once with Audioslave, then solo, then with Soundgarden, and finally I flew out to LA to see him perform with Temple of the Dog. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone to disagree the guy was something special with a microphone.

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I was glad to be able to see Soundgarden for the first and only time a couple of years ago in the Woodlands. It was a great show.

As a side note, I was impressed that Matt Cameron is the full time drummer for both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Both bands obviously worked their touring schedules around that.

I just can't believe this. What a terrible loss. I can't imagine the sadness welled up inside of him to take his own life, knowing the pain he will cause his family and millions of fans.

He is truly one of the great voices ever recorded. At 52, to still have the incredible range he had, was remarkable. Just so sad.

Going to listen to "Seasons" from the Singles soundtrack.

Damn.

dreyOO said:

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I'll admit when David Bowie died, I was shocked. But I wasn't that sad. Kinda preceded my time. Prince was much worse.

Hell, I wasn't that big a fan of Kurt Cobain either. I loved Staley's vocals and same for Weiland so both of those sucked.

But this one is my all-time favorite. First time I've ever felt this saddened. I want to go to a bar where his music is blasting and just get drunk.

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Sums up my thoughts as well. Bowie was the Goblin King and Under Pressure for me... Fame and his other radio hits I could give or take... But when he died I started listening to his albums and holy cow, absolutely incredible.

Prince I had the honor of getting to see live and so he'll always be one of my favorites, but again he really wasn't part of my childhood from a music sense and i only fully appreciated his talent what he did as I got older. But I appreciated his talent far more than I did his actual music -- not that I didn't like his music, but a Prince B-side wouldn't do a whole lot for me.

Cornell was my teenage years though. I remember hanging out in my older sister's room trying to be cool when I was young and watching MTV (she had cable in her room, I got the modem) and Black Hole Sun and Spoonman videos really introduced me to modern rock. When I had PIT for Springsteen in The Woodlands a handful of years back, many raced to get a spot on the stage in front of The Boss, I went for the spot on the stage by Morello because while Springsteen is my favorite, Audioslave was my college years. Two worlds colliding.

Thankful I got to see him last year in Dallas, sad that I am no longer going to get to see him next week.

HeadGames said:

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Soundgarden's Superunknown was one of my first CDs I bought. My sister told me that it is one album you can listen all the way through and not skip a song. I was hooked! I probably listened to Burden in my hand from down on the upside everyday during high school.


One year my sister bought me an artist print of Chris Cornell for my birthday, with the artists' autograph and the 2007 date of when Chris sang at Stubbs in Austin. I had many chances to see Chris Cornell or Soundgarden, but I always passed on the chance because I figured "He'll be around for awhile, there will be another chance". That mindset was quite naive of me. Now I'll never get a chance to see one of my all time favorites. As for that Chris Cornell print, it still hangs in my room without his signature on it, now reminding me not to pass up on things. You may not get a second chance.

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Yeah, that was dumb. Should have made an attempt to see them.

Luckily, I got to see soundgarden and audioslave. Had a chance to see Cornell's solo tour for that god-awful album and skipped it. Almost wish I'd seen th at too. Almost.

The 'discussion' of the greatest singers of our generation reminded me of another guy who died too young and happened to be really close friends with Cornell: Jeff Buckley. I think if Buckley had stayed around through the 90s the two of them would have continued to have a lot of influence on each other's music.

One other thing that got me thinking while driving around today and hearing nonstop SG and Audioslave on the radio:

For you lifelong diehard Soundgarden fans who (like me) are old enough to have started listening at the beginning, how did you feel about Audioslave?

by the time of Audioslave came out I hadn't listened to SG in a while so I didn't really have any context for where Cornell's music was just prior to that, but just curious whether it was something a real SG fan enjoyed or not.

re: audioslave, I didn't give a sheet. But I always looked for an excuse to find his voice/music in any of the outlets. Didn't think of Audioslave as anything more than another outlet. Same for temple of the dog, etc.

Professor Frick said:

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One other thing that got me thinking while driving around today and hearing nonstop SG and Audioslave on the radio:

For you lifelong diehard Soundgarden fans who (like me) are old enough to have started listening at the beginning, how did you feel about Audioslave?

by the time of Audioslave came out I hadn't listened to SG in a while so I didn't really have any context for where Cornell's music was just prior to that, but just curious whether it was something a real SG fan enjoyed or not.

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That would be me. I rejected Audioslave for the longest time. After a while they grew on me because everything else seemed like pure *****.. other than Foo Fighters, who also took some time.

I liked Rage and SG, so Audioslave was great.

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I liked Rage and SG, so Audioslave was great.

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I guess that was kind of what I wondered. To me, they were so much less than the sum of their parts. Now, I'm only going by the AS radio hits, maybe the deep cuts sound something like Rage and something like SG.

Actually, I'm just now remembering Cochise. That was pretty legit. I guess my idea of Audioslave is colored mostly by 'Like a Stone' and 'Be Yourself'. To me those aren't necessarily bad or anything, just very bland, which Cornell never seemed to be in SG.

I love Cornell's voice, but the music he played was never to my taste. Drop D tunings, weird chord structures, grunge, minor keys, etc. I would love to have heard him front a classic, blues based rock band like Ac/Dc or Guns n Roses.

He did a lot of covers that are more traditional rock that are now almost tear inducing. I've heard versions of Imagine and I Will Always Love You that few others could match.

What a huge loss to the Rock world.