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“Hunger Strike” is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog. Written by vocalist Chris Cornell, “Hunger Strike” was released in 1991 as the first single from the band’s sole studio album, Temple of the Dog (1991). It was Temple of the Dog’s most popular song. The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

“Hunger Strike” was written by vocalist Chris Cornell. It features a duet between Cornell and vocalist Eddie Vedder. Cornell was having trouble with the vocals at practice, when Vedder stepped in. Cornell later said “he sang half of that song not even knowing that I’d wanted the part to be there and he sang it exactly the way I was thinking about doing it, just instinctively.”

Cornell on the song:

When we started rehearsing the songs, I had pulled out “Hunger Strike” and I had this feeling it was just kind of gonna be filler, it didn’t feel like a real song. Eddie was sitting there kind of waiting for a Mookie Blaylock rehearsal and I was singing parts, and he kind of humbly—but with some balls—walked up to the mic and started singing the low parts for me because he saw it was kind of hard. We got through a couple choruses of him doing that and suddenly the light bulb came on in my head, this guy’s voice is amazing for these low parts. History wrote itself after that, that became the single.
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  • kaktus28

    Love these guys, the grunge years forever!

    Monday evening

  • fangrunge

    cornell + vedder = perfection [6]

    Thursday afternoon

  • crazzyd77

    Turn it up !!

    Wednesday afternoon

  • helenoalmeida

    grunge years! the best ever!!

    last week

  • Its_bitch

    cornell + vedder = perfection [5]

    19 days ago

  • artgriswald

    CORNELL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    19 days ago

  • elmalahierba

    Grandisimo

    19 days ago

  • elmalahierba

    great

    19 days ago

  • Iron_Bastard

    this is one goddamn awesome song !

    21 days ago

  • iTems

    Another song made epic by the voice of Eddie Vedder.

    28 days ago

  • placebobsh

    everytime i hear this song, it's sing a long time

    last month

  • hanginchili

    Got my tickets for Chris @ Manchester in June, cannot wait!

    last month

  • shivaki07

    Recenzja Klasyka! Temple Of The Dog – album debiut, specyficzny tribute, swoiste epitafium dla zmarłego przyjaciela muzyków z Soundgarden i Pearl Jam - Andrew Wooda. Ile jest takich perełek w dziedzinie rocka? Co wnosi muzyka 6-tki z Seatlle? Dowiedz się już teraz czytając recenzję w LABORATORIUM MUZYCZNYCH FUZJI! http://lamuzi.blogspot.com/2012/04/temple-of-dog-temple-of-dog.html

    last month

  • snowjam

    stealing bread........

    last month

  • Alzi_Heart

    os dois vocais fodas de bom!!!! perfeito!

    last month

  • BOARDS999

    such a great fuckin song. I was the guy blasting it in traffic with my windows rolled down... =o)

    last month

  • lslmad

    epic song

    last month

  • marina_manrique

    cornell + vedder = perfection [4]

    March 2012

  • mainedcfan

    I discovered this band because of David Cook! He covered this song and did an awesome job of it. I love both of their versions!

    March 2012

  • daniella9876

    no it does not

    March 2012
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