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Seattle, United States (1990 – 1992)

Temple of the Dog was formed in 1990 by Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell as a tribute to the late Andrew Wood, frontman of Seattle, Washington rock group Mother Love Bone after Wood died of a heroin overdose. Cornell, Wood’s close friend and roommate, helmed the project, which took its name from a lyric in the Mother Love Bone song, “

Man Of Golden Words. ” The band would also include Soundgarden’s drummer Matt Cameron, Wood’s former bandmates Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, and lead guitarist Mike McCready . Eddie Vedder, at the time auditioning for the position of vocalist in Pearl Jam, also provided co-lead and background vocals on several songs. One song Vedder provided co-lead vocals on was

Hunger Strike, which became the band’s biggest hit. Ament, Gossard, McCready, and Vedder would go on later to form Pearl Jam, not long after recording for Temple of the Dog. Interestingly, Cameron went on to become Pearl Jam’s drummer over half a decade later.

The album was originally released on April 16, 1991 to little fanfare, only selling around 70,000 copies, but in the summer of 1992, the album received new attention. Though the album had been released more than a year earlier, A&M Records realized that they had in their catalog what was essentially a collaboration between Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, who had both risen to mainstream attention in the months since the album’s release due to the growing popularity of grunge music, which both bands were associated.

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cebula90 wrote:
yesterday evening

so which in your opinion is better ??

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macijikralj wrote:
Thursday evening

Best grunge album... No way!!!! It's good,...but far from the best ....!!!!!!

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osmangenc wrote:
Thursday evening

maybe the best grunge album ever...

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Squ88 wrote:
18 days ago

They were so amazing...

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DonnieSTFU wrote:
last month

I JUST noticed the Saint Vitus shirt in the pic.

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EvilMathew wrote:
last month

I thought their album will be good and it will be good to check it. I was wrong. It's not good. It's absolutely beautiful and oh god I don't know english so good to write how outstanding this album is.

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ppanas wrote:
last month

5 star album

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Kamahl16 wrote:
last month

Absolutely amazing album.

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Raptor08 wrote:
last month

esta es para vos hotwater!

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travestyrecords wrote:
last month

The guy holding the camera shakes more than Michael J. Fox. There's a better quality vid in this article: http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=137&csid2=844&fid1=41714

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Seversen3 wrote:
last month

Temple of the Dog reunited: http://grungereport.net/2009/10/07/temple-of-the-dog-reunite-at-last-nights-pearl-jam-show/

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hotwaterbrogden wrote:
last month

im fuckin hungryyyyyyyyyyyy

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FunkyNunRiot wrote:
September 2009

oh eddie!

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Yi_Sun-sin wrote:
September 2009

Now you're just being silly.

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Yi_Sun-sin wrote:
September 2009

Yes it is.

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Coffinwood_Mill wrote:
September 2009

This is NOT better then Pearl Jam.

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SimonMagnus wrote:
September 2009

I dunno I think I like this more also than PJ, defiantly not better than Soundgarden though

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callmesnake wrote:
September 2009

Superspearhead: you're a dumb

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Harmonicskillz wrote:
September 2009

even though i like this, im glad they separated. i mean we got soundgarden and pearl jam that way.

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austisrocker wrote:
September 2009

Absolute milestone, need to say?

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