![]() ![]() Cornell later claimed that “4th Of July” was written about a vivid acid trip where he saw a figure in a red shirt and a figure in a black shirt talking behind his back, and yeah, that totally checks out. While it might run counter to some people’s thinking, it’s my belief that outside of one track which you’ll catch above, the best song from Superunknown resides comfortably near the very end of the record, a discordant wall of sludge and grime titled “4th Of July.” Though it was never released as a single and pales in popularity to many other tracks from that album, there’s just something so utterly engrossing about Cornell’s disembodied voice crooning away over that elephantine riff, both of which ultimately explode out into a supernova of volume and chaos. ![]() Many of its songs remain forever enshrined amongst the immortals in the larger canon of alternative rock. It’s a towering monolith of dark lyrics, twisted guitars, barbaric bass lines, and ferocious drumming. ![]() Superunknown is without question one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. ![]()
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