Soundgarden is an easy YES, and that song in particular is an even easier one (even though I’m pretty sure I’ve already spun it).
And to @Maxx the only genre you need to keep away from is hip hop/gangsta rap. That’s a hard sell in these parts. Even country gets a better response 
Yes
Yes yes yes love that
Yes
I like quite a lot off this album.
Yes.
Oh, don’t get me wrong - so do I. It’s just that it’s a rung below Superunknown and Badmotorfinger. It was the first time they sounded a bit… I dunno… “tired” in parts, and some of the songs seemed a bit underdone.
It was 1996, grunge didn’t know what to do with itself.
I like this album more than, say, No Code which is from the same year. (Azza may not like that view!) Although Tiny Music is the best album of that lot that came out that year
I do really like ‘Burden in my hand’ as a song
Yes
I remember eagerly awaiting the follow-up to Superunknown and then finally Pretty Noose dropped on radio. My immediate reaction was “oh”. It wasn’t bad - not by a long chalk (in fact, these days it’s held up quite well) - it just didn’t wow me, in the same way things like Outshined, Rusty Cage, Spoonman and Black Hole Sun did. This song, however, very much DID…
Given the latest headline I heard about revs maybe they’re still spinning it.
The good tracks on Upside stand alongside some of the best Soundgarden ever did, but there’s a few misses that miss badly IMO.
No Code is much stronger front to back (although I wouldn’t have had this opinion in 96).
I’ve actually just chucked it on now to drown out the noise in the office.
I don’t remember it having 16 tracks, and farked if I remember much past track 7 (Burden in my hand).
I just never took to No Code, but haven’t listened to it since probably the 90’s. Maybe if I go back I might find it different .
TBH it took me a long while to “get” No Code. It definitely wasn’t where my tastes were at as an 18 yr old.
I appreciate it a lot more these days.
I always struggled getting into some of this alternative stuff that was in this time period.
Never understood the setting or when to play it.
Stoned sitting in a bean bag
Well that’s the thing about music, or any art form. Things speak to different people for different reasons and you like what you like. Everyones opinion is valid.
Except for swoodleys.
On that note…No Code is very average (like most of Pearl Jam’s stuff after Vitalogy)
I did this once in about 1995… my blood was pumping in time to Jesus Christ Pose… fun times
Exhibit A
So true. I guess I just never understood the how or why.
I’ll rip a few scoobies and sit back in the hammock.