Some of you might have guessed from the topic that yeah, those two are names of Soundgarden songs. I've been wondering the story about them, wikipedia didn't really help. I know that Ty Cobb was a notorious player, but does anyone have any idea why Soundgarden would do a song about Kyle Petty? Is there some story about him?
Baseball and especially Nascar are barely followed around here so it's pretty vague to me..
Cobb was a notorious hardass, so that somewhat explains that song:
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Supposedly "Ty Cobb" was originally titled "Hot Rod Death Toll," but the title was changed when one of the members said it reminded him of Ty Cobb (played baseball with the Detroit Tigers in the early 1900s; still has the all-time highest lifetime batting average (.367)). The song showed up in some of Soundgarden's live performances before the album was released, most notably the 1995 Reading Festival. It features a 20-second intro written by Ben Shepherd and includes mandolin and mandola performances by him and Chris Cornell.
As for the other, I think it deals with having to live up to your name before you're even born due to an overly successful and famous father, thus making your life harder and less significant than it otherwise should be at the onset. Kyle has to (or had to, I think he's dead now) live up to his father's legacy, and thus was judged (perhaps unfairly) by what his father accomplished and not necessarily by his own merits.
Cobb was a notorious hardass, so that somewhat explains that song:
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Supposedly "Ty Cobb" was originally titled "Hot Rod Death Toll," but the title was changed when one of the members said it reminded him of Ty Cobb (played baseball with the Detroit Tigers in the early 1900s; still has the all-time highest lifetime batting average (.367)). The song showed up in some of Soundgarden's live performances before the album was released, most notably the 1995 Reading Festival. It features a 20-second intro written by Ben Shepherd and includes mandolin and mandola performances by him and Chris Cornell.
As for the other, I think it deals with having to live up to your name before you're even born due to an overly successful and famous father, thus making your life harder and less significant than it otherwise should be at the onset. Kyle has to (or had to, I think he's dead now) live up to his father's legacy, and thus was judged (perhaps unfairly) by what his father accomplished and not necessarily by his own merits.
That's my take anyway, so it might not be gospel.
Kyle is not dead.
But he isn't a very good race car driver, now Adam on the other hand.
Adam was Kyle's son, and he was going to be an awesome race car driver like his grandfather, but he was in a horrific race car crash.
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