![]() “‘Black Hole Sun’ wasn’t safe as milk, but it wasn’t glass in someone’s eye either. It was a thought-provoking phrase, and it became that song. … fter that I thought, ‘Well, he didn’t say it, but I heard it,’ and it created this image in my brain and I thought it would be an amazing song title. “I wrote the song thinking the band wouldn’t like it,” Cornell told Rolling Stone about Soundgarden’s most iconic song, “then it became the biggest hit of the summer.” Cornell wrote Soundgarden’s most iconic song in about 15 minutes, telling Rip magazine about its Magical Mystery Tour-esque lyrics: “It’s just sort of a surreal dreamscape, a weird, play-with-the-title kind of song,” and later clarifying to Entertainment Weekly, “I had misheard a news anchor, and I thought he said ‘black hole sun,’ but he said something else. Image Credit: Karjean Levine/Getty Images ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ means more like the day I actually tried to open up myself and experience everything that’s going on around me as opposed to blowing it all off and hiding in a cave.” … A lot of people misinterpreted that song as a suicide-note song. ![]() “It’s actually, in a way, a hopeful song. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone. “It’s about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. “It’s about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I’ve always had a problem with,” Cornell told Rolling Stone in 1994. ![]() It felt sort of celebratory,” Cornell told Reflex in 1991.įrom a band that went through great pains to deny Led Zeppelin’s influence on their music, here comes Chris Cornell’s most operatic, vein-throbbing, lung-bursting vocal performance ever to soar on a Soundgarden single. The song opens 1991’s Temple of the Dog, a document of the supergroup-in-waiting that helped cement Seattle as the epicenter of what was then known as “modern rock.” “It didn’t feel like a morose project. In its finished form, “Say Hello 2 Heaven” is mournful and thick, with Cornell’s voice slowly building to a searching yawp as the guitars gently weep around him. I remember thinking, ‘Is this okay?'” Cornell gave the demos to Jeff Ament, the bassist in Mother Love Bone, who fell for the songs instantly, and who, along with Mother Love Bone guitarist Stone Gossard, worked with Cornell to flesh them out. didn’t seem to make sense for Soundgarden. After Wood’s 1990 death from a heroin overdose, Cornell channeled his grief into two songs, the grinding hymn “Reach Down” and the elegiac “Say Hello 2 Heaven.” The writing, Cornell told David Fricke last year, “came so quickly that I barely remember the thought process. Andrew Wood, the witchily flamboyant frontman of the Seattle gutter-glam outfit Mother Love Bone, was a close friend of Cornell’s – the two were roommates for a year and Wood’s early project Malfunkshun had appeared alongside Soundgarden on the early Seattle-scene comp Deep Six.
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