Hunger Strike (4:04)

Cover of Temple of the Dog

From Temple of the Dog and 7 other releases

“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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I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled

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