Stream Chris Cornell's God-Awful New Album Right Now
If you'd like to participate in a social experiment on how the body reacts to terrible music, head over to Chris Cornell's MySpace page and listen to his new album, Scream, which comes out tomorrow. For whatever reason, the revered ex Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman has decided to team up with pop producer Timbaland for an entire album's worth of material. Even if they'd connected on one or two songs, like the gem "Promiscuous" Timbaland produced for Nelly Furtado last year, struck gold, and moved on, that would be understandable. But to have Timbaland do your entire album is a risk, that in my opinion, is about to backfire horribly for Cornell. 
I know that dude used to be a hometown hero to a lot of people but he's not doing any Seattle music enthusiasts any favors with this one. I've been listening to the album, which you can stream in its entirety all week long, and it's incredibly bad. It's as if they both had mid-range expectations of what pop audiences would expect and didn't aim high at all. There's maybe one song on here, "Other Side of Town," that's halfway single-worthy. "Long Gone" could actually make it on pop radio as well. But the rest are just crappy, overproduced, mash-ups of one bad idea after another. I don't know, give it a shot. If your face doesn't contort after the the first few songs, then that's impressive.
4 comment(s)
H.C. says:
Ah, but where you hear failure I hear the sound of the Temple of the Dog reunion inching that much closer to becoming a reality.
Posted On: Monday, Mar. 9 2009 @ 10:52PM
rayna says:
Talking to Rolling Stone from his Paris home, a calm Cornell explained that he’s paying the early backlash little mind. “At this point, it’s all theory. It’s like when I got together with the Rage Against the Machine guys for Audioslave and there was all this talk about how it was sacrilege from Rage fans, Soundgarden fans — even old ladies on the street would come up to me and say, ‘That’s a terrible idea’! Maybe I’m an optimist or just an idiot but I really think the fans will come around to the concept,”
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rayna
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Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 10 2009 @ 2:33AM
Anonymous says:
I'm all for experimentation, self-discovery, and doing things that might interest you and be out of your general realm. Hell, the Beatles were all about this and Cornell, like all of us, must get tired of doing the same thing/different color.
However................ This is really not good. It's as some fool accidentally sent him a set of songs prepped for a Britney Spears release and he decided to sing them anyhow. I can't imagine that someone with his talent as a writer would knowingly put this out thus there can be no other explanation.
Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 12:59PM
Amanda says:
I agree completely:
"It's as some fool accidentally sent him a set of songs prepped for a Britney Spears release and he decided to sing them anyhow. I can't imagine that someone with his talent as a writer would knowingly put this out thus there can be no other explanation."
And as for the social experiment, I just listened to the entire album and it produced a feeling very remniscent of that caused by mosquitos buzzing around or being nagged. It's just irritating. Blech. I was hoping it would be a lot better than people were saying and unfairly judged, but, blah.
Posted On: Friday, May. 8 2009 @ 11:19AM