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17 May 2009, 12:03 pm

Anyone like this song? The song is pretty inaccurate however, in that the Sun is not large enough to become a black hole.



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17 May 2009, 12:12 pm

^^ I believe the song if a fun little song. I enjoy the magical flow of the song.



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17 May 2009, 1:47 pm

I just love the tones. I don't care what the words are in most songs, the underlying beat has to sound good to me or I won't listen to it. And this is an awesome song.


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17 May 2009, 2:33 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU[/youtube]

When they released the song ('94) and I heard it being played for the first couple of times on the radio I bought the CD almost right away. Listened to it obsessively for a while and I still think it's a proud standing CD, (M.O.) but I've moved on (other music) and rarely listen to it anymore.

Still a good song....



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17 May 2009, 2:52 pm

I was really into Soundgarden in the early 90s and saw them open for GnR in 92, I really liked them and this song. But like Erminea Ive not listened to them in years!



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17 May 2009, 3:36 pm

I liked the motor finger album a lot and would bang my head to the song "outshined", I like alice in chains and pearl jam too. I am sure we dont have to worry about the astro-physics of the song as the lyrics are probably metaphorical, and we know us aspies find hard to grasp artistic metaphors sometimes.



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17 May 2009, 6:15 pm

Like most grunge, I have no idea what the singer is on about. I'm pretty sure Cornell is not postulating anything about the mass of the Sun.

Superunknown is a great album, by the way.



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17 May 2009, 6:38 pm

Kill it with fire, get it off my radio already.

Not that it's inherently bad necessarily. But who'd know at this point.


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17 May 2009, 7:30 pm

Most overrated Soundgarden song EVER, even if it is a good song its still overrated.



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17 May 2009, 8:21 pm

If you like Black Hole Sun, you may also like...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt9XlVqKYhA


None of the 'official videos' I could find were embeddable. Eff youtube.



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17 May 2009, 8:34 pm

I think Black Hole Sun is a great song. Soundgarden's Superunknown album has a bunch of good songs.



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17 May 2009, 9:16 pm

Fort56 wrote:
Anyone like this song? The song is pretty inaccurate however, in that the Sun is not large enough to become a black hole.


Not yet anyway, it is slowly growing larger, and like all stars, it will supernova eventually. Also Kurt didn't specify which particular sun he was referring to.



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17 May 2009, 9:47 pm

normally_impaired wrote:
Not yet anyway, it is slowly growing larger, and like all stars, it will supernova eventually.

I'm afraid that's not the case.


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17 May 2009, 10:04 pm

kip wrote:
I just love the tones. I don't care what the words are in most songs, the underlying beat has to sound good to me or I won't listen to it. And this is an awesome song.


I agree that this has a very warped and tricky melody, one of the reasons I like it a lot. Though when someone has words this abstract you have to figure that they're latching onto something; otherwise the whole concept would just fall apart horribly (so Chris at least knew what he meant).