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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (5:18)

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Black Hole Sun is a song by the American alternative rock band Soundgarden. It was the third single released from the album Superunknown (1994). It is without question the band’s most recognizable and most popular song. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It would later appear on the band’s greatest hits album A-Sides and the 2007 Chris Cornell compilation The Roads We Choose - A Retrospective. Its guitar solo was ranked 63 in Guitar World’s “100 Greatest Guitar Solos”

The song was written by frontman Chris Cornell. Cornell said that he wrote the song in about 15 minutes. Cornell came up with the song while using a Leslie speaker. Kim Thayil said that the Leslie speaker was perfect for the song as “it’s very Beatlesque and has a distinctive sound.” The song was performed in drop D tuning. Matt Cameron called the song “a huge departure.”

Cornell stated, “It’s just sort of a surreal dreamscape, a weird, play-with-the-title kind of song.” He also said that “lyrically it’s probably the closest to me just playing with words for words’ sake, of anything I’ve written. I guess it worked for a lot of people who heard it, but I have no idea how you’d begin to take that one literally.” In another interview he elaborated further, stating, “It’s funny because hits are usually sort of congruent, sort of an identifiable lyric idea, and that song pretty much had none. The chorus lyric is kind of beautiful and easy to remember.
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  • sebadagostino

    Great song!

    4 hours ago

  • Footshac

    Awesome song !! i remember it when i was a child.

    Wednesday afternoon

  • nick_honest

    excellent

    21 days ago

  • listen-lastfm

    Yes, it was a legendary period. I remember :)

    27 days ago

  • Inquisitor83

    Its not just a great song, its what the teens nowadays call "epic". Id say its a legendary period.

    last month

  • progtrance7

    damn this shit hornifies me

    last month

  • minigol

    chris cornell .... nobody else!

    last month

  • juanbrujox

    Totally reminds my adolescence

    last month

  • childhoodmemory

    Lindeza.

    last month

  • supersteveme

    wierd video

    last month

  • nola872

    classic sound garden will always be a favorite of mine !

    last month

  • heuffel

    Black hole Sun, won't you come and wash away the rain.. Great

    March 2012

  • qwerty_azerty

    This song reminds me of being at university. Every lunchtime, without fail, someone would put it on the jukebox in the Student's Union bar at UMIST. Great song.

    March 2012

  • tartonka

    GREAT SONG!

    March 2012

  • Wumbologic

    Classic song!

    March 2012

  • papitadorada

    BLACK HOLE SUN Y U NO COME?

    February 2012

  • lord_of_beer

    Truly a song to stand the test of time.

    February 2012

  • thosch71

    so powerful!

    February 2012

  • DanniLuna

    ♥

    February 2012

  • niceverdict

    It's supposed to be crazy.. the video, I mean. It's symbolic... and metaphorical. lol I don't know..... hehehe All I know is that this song is awesome!! may it be in acoustic or in original version.

    February 2012
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