— Chris Cornell 174 You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again. — TobyMac 49 Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that m...
Chris Cornell didn’t write narratives and might not have been very good at if he did; his lyrics were too abstract, too context-dependent, too much about the delivery rather than the message. “Burden in My Hand” was as close as he got to providing his own western theme; a murder b...
soaring in sound with a perfect quiet-loud balance with a momentous build bridging the two. The song itself was born out of improvisation, created onstage and worked up later by the band. Scott Stapp penned the lyrics about the power of lucid dreaming. ...
Despite succumbing to cancer in 1981, his powerful lyrics and intoxicating rhythms have immortalized him as a legend in the realm of music. Dig Deeper 18 Things Most People Don't Know About Bob Marley Also ranks #1 on The Best Political Musicians Also ranks #2 on The Greatest Musicians Who...
“Higher” is one of rock’s true anthems, uplifting in nature, soaring in sound with a perfect quiet-loud balance with a momentous build bridging the two. The song itself was born out of improvisation, created onstage and worked up later by the band. Scott Stapp penned the lyrics about...
“Higher” is one of rock’s true anthems, uplifting in nature, soaring in sound with a perfect quiet-loud balance with a momentous build bridging the two. The song itself was born out of improvisation, created onstage and worked up later by the band. Scott Stapp penned the lyrics about...
“Higher” is one of rock’s true anthems, uplifting in nature, soaring in sound with a perfect quiet-loud balance with a momentous build bridging the two. The song itself was born out of improvisation, created onstage and worked up later by the band. Scott Stapp penned the lyrics about...
Temple of the Dog was conceived as a tribute by members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam to late Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood. Many of the lyrics were penned by his former roommate Chris Cornell and the most well-known song to come out of this full album was “Hunger Strike,” a ...
folks who whistle. It just has to be melodic. The greatest singers who mumble, like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Janis Joplin, still perform a service to entertain and move you. You might not understand what they are singing, even mishearing the lyrics, but you're touched nonetheless...
It's easy to mistake Chris Cornell for a wailing electric guitar at the 2:30 mark in "Spoonman." His voice was so powerful that it occasionally broke equipment during recording sessions. "I know this because I saw bills from the studio for new condensers, for new diaphragms,"Superunknown...