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"Black Hole Sun" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell , the song was released in May 1994 by A&M Records as the third single from the band's fourth studio album, Superunknown (1994).
Soundgarden used alternate tunings and odd time signatures on several of the album's songs. "Spoonman", "Black Hole Sun", "Let Me Drown" and "Kickstand" were performed in drop D tuning while "Fell on Black Days" was performed in standard tuning. Some songs used more unorthodox tunings: "Superunknown" and "Fresh Tendrils" are in DGDGBe tuning ...
Considine criticized "Black Hole Sun" and "Half", stating that the former is "not a very good song", while the latter "is the virtual definition of a B-side." [ 51 ] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that " Superunknown actually tries to broaden its audience by breaking heavy-metal genre barriers that Soundgarden used to accept."
'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden Widely considered Soundgarden's signature song, the 1994 grunge staple "Black Hole Sun" features enigmatic, abstract lyrics that are largely open to interpretation .
The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and number nine on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. A remixed version of the song by Steve Fisk appears on the "Black Hole Sun" and "My Wave" singles. The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album A-Sides and the 2010 compilation album Telephantasm.
"Fell on Black Days" reached the top 50 in the Netherlands and in Ireland it was a moderate top 20 success. In 2017, Billboard ranked the song number one on their list of the 15 greatest Soundgarden songs, [7] and in 2021, Kerrang! ranked the song number three on their list of the 20 greatest Soundgarden songs. [8]
He led Soundgarden, in many ways the best of the grunge bands, even if and perhaps because they were the slightly quieter of the genre, a hair more measured, and had, in Cornell, the sweetest ...
"The Day I Tried to Live" was released as a single in 1994, but was rather underpromoted when compared to "Spoonman" or "Black Hole Sun" from the same album. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 25 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.