Outshined
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| ""Outshined"" | ||
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| Single by Soundgarden | ||
| from the album 'Badmotorfinger' | ||
| Released | 1991 | |
| Format | vinyl record (12") | |
| Recorded | 1991 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 5:11 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Producer(s) | Terry Date | |
| Soundgarden singles chronology | ||
| "Jesus Christ Pose" 1991 | "Outshined" 1991 | "Rusty Cage" 1992 |
"Outshined" was the second track on Soundgarden's 1991 album, Badmotorfinger. It is also their second single off the album.
"Outshined" was an instant favorite from Badmotorfinger, featuring a crunching opening riff and one of the most memorable and repeated Soundgarden lyrics, "I'm looking California, and feeling Minnesota." The lyric even inspired a movie called "Feeling Minnesota" in 1996, though Soundgarden is not featured on the soundtrack.
The video for "Outshined" was produced by Johnathan Dayton and Valeria Faris and is a fan favorite, yet the band themselves didn't like it. The guitar solo was also cut out to make the song shorter.
"All I can remember is that they cut the guitar solo to make the video 'single-length.' I thought that was a stupid thing. Here we are, a guitar band, and the guitar solo -- it may not be a great guitar solo -- was edited out just for the video. That's ridiculous. It was a heavy song and our most popular video, even though it was a crap video. It never kicks in or explodes; there's no dynamics. The band never loosens up and explores the riff because the solo was taken out." --Kim Thayil
| Soundgarden |
| Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd |
| Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman |
| Discography |
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| 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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