And while that shriek cements his reputation as one of the best ever rock singers, Cornell’s more subdued moments were often even more powerful. Cornell could wail like an air raid siren, and the Soundgarden material here (a studio version of “Birth Ritual” and a live take used in the film both thunderous, both essential) reveals him at his most formidable. God, that voice could do anything, it seemed.
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If people imagined Seattle as a city full of musical wizards sitting among piles of excellent songs, Cornell’s writing for Singles was all the confirmation they’d need. His first official solo track, “Seasons” appears on the original soundtrack, as does Soundgarden’s “Birth Ritual.” He wrote nearly half of the songs on the second disc, including the four tracks that, with “Seasons,” make up the much-sought after Poncier EP, the fake demo that the film’s Cliff Poncier (Matt Dillon) was selling after his band broke up. Evidently, he provided Crowe with a massive amount of material: solo and Soundgarden songs, demos, incidental music, instrumentals.
The prolific, versatile Cornell captured on the soundtrack’s deluxe edition personifies that same sense of possibility. When those of us facing a ‘90s adulthood listened to the Singles soundtrack, we heard possibility. And if that meant celebrating anger or going a little darker now and then, well, the honesty was plenty worth it. The young bands on its soundtrack, like the young urbanites onscreen, promised to rewrite popular culture into something more earnest and true than the shiny but hollow ‘80s had offered. Singles hit theaters just as its major elements-Generation X, grunge, Seattle-dominated popular media.
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So, regardless of whatever trite plaid-flannel-colored nostalgia trip Legacy Recordings might have had in mind when they compiled it, the Singles reissue will forever serve as Cornell’s memorial. And really, that’s the review I wish I could write.īut less than 48 hours before the two CD deluxe edition was to hit shelves and whatever passes for shelves in the streaming/downloading world, Chris Cornell died. Any other week, a review of the reissue of the Singles soundtrack would open with a nod to the ‘90s, maybe something about pagers or Friends or Cameron Crowe’s streak of decidedly average movies that delighted white people all over America.
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