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Paul Brannigan marks the anniversary of Soundgarden’s Louder Than Love, released September 5, 1989, with a personal essay. He remembers a summer-1990 date in the Isle of Man that ended in awkward silence when the cassette in the tape deck reached “Big Dumb Sex.”
From there he argues that Soundgarden, along with Faith No More and Nine Inch Nails, was making something smarter, darker and more subversive than standard heavy metal. He makes the case that Louder Than Love marked Chris Cornell’s band for future greatness.
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