Badmotorfinger

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Badmotorfinger

Studio album by Soundgarden
Released	October 8, 1991
Recorded	March - April 1991 in Seattle, Washington
Genre	Grunge
Length	58:47
Label	A&M
Producer(s)	Terry Date, Soundgarden
All Music Guide Image:4.5 stars.svg link Robert Christgau (B-) link
Soundgarden chronology
Screaming Life/Fopp (1990)	Badmotorfinger (1991)	Superunknown (1994)

Badmotorfinger is the third album by the band Soundgarden. It was released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). The album was nominated the Grammy for Best Metal Performance that same year. Guitarist Kim Thayil jokingly suggested the name Badmotorfinger as a joke on Badmotorscooter.

A limited edition of the album was released in 1992 with a second CD, Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas (or SOMMS). For their cover of "Into The Void", Ben Shepherd had noticed that the words of protest against the white man by Chief Sealth fit the metre of the song. The song was nominated for the Grammy for Best Metal Performance that year. The full SOMMS title is a palindrome (it reads the same forward and backwards), alleged to be the longest such at the time.

"Room a Thousand Years Wide" was released as a single, but not to promote the album. It was released (with "HIV Baby") as a 7" through Sub Pop's Single Of The Month club.

In 2004 the song "Rusty Cage" was featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, albeit the version was shortened.

The album was ranked number 45 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.[1]

1 Track listing
2 Track listing: SOMMS
3 Chart position
4 Credits
- 4.1 Soundgarden
- 4.2 Additional Musicians

[edit] Track listing

#	Song	Length	Credits
01	"Rusty Cage"	4:26	Chris Cornell
02	"Outshined"	5:11	Chris Cornell
03	"Slaves & Bulldozers"	6:56	Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
04	"Jesus Christ Pose"	5:51	Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil
05	"Face Pollution"	2:24	Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil
06	"Somewhere"	4:21	Ben Shepherd
07	"Searching With My Good Eye Closed"	6:31	Chris Cornell
08	"Room A Thousand Years Wide"	4:06	Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil
09	"Mind Riot"	4:49	Chris Cornell
10	"Drawing Flies"	2:25	Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell
11	"Holy Water"	5:07	Chris Cornell
12	"New Damage"	5:40	Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil

[edit] Track listing: SOMMS

#	Song	Credits
01	"Into The Void (Sealth"	Black Sabbath
02	"Girl U Want"	Devo
03	"Stray Cat Blues"	Rolling Stones
04	"She's A Politician"	Devo
05	"Slaves & Bulldozers (Live)"	Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

[edit] Chart position

Albums
Year	Chart	Position
1991	Billboard Heatseekers	1
1992	Billboard Top 200	39

Singles
Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	"Outshined"	Modern Rock Tracks	8
1992	"Rusty Cage"	Modern Rock Tracks	19

[edit] Credits

[edit] Soundgarden

Chris Cornell - Vocals, Guitar
Kim Thayil - Guitar
Ben Shepherd - Bass
Matt Cameron - Drums

[edit] Additional Musicians

Terry Date - Producer
Scott Granlund - Saxophone
Ernst Long - Trumpet
Damon Stewart - Narration
Ron St. Germain - Mixing
Howie Weinberg - Mastering

Discography
Soundgarden
Chris Cornell \| Kim Thayil \| Matt Cameron \| Ben Shepherd
Scott Sundquist \| Hiro Yamamoto \| Jason Everman
Albums and extended plays: Screaming Life \| Fopp \| Ultramega OK \| Flower \| Louder than Love \| Screaming Life/Fopp \| Badmotorfinger \| Superunknown \| Songs from the Superunknown \| Down on the Upside \| A-Sides
Singles: "Hunted Down" \| "Flower" \| "Loud Love" \| "Hands All Over" \| "Room a Thousand Years Wide" \| "Jesus Christ Pose" \| "Outshined" \| "Rusty Cage" \| "Spoonman" \| "Black Hole Sun" \| "Fell on Black Days" \| "My Wave" \| "The Day I Tried to Live" \| "Superunknown" \| "Pretty Noose" \| "Burden in My Hand" \| "Blow Up the Outside World" \| "Ty Cobb" \| "Bleed Together"
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