Chris Cornell Says Soundgarden Talking B Sides, Box Set Releases
7/8/09, 12:17 pm EST

The last few months, unfounded rumors of a Soundgarden reunion have been stoked by events like the convening of the Seattle bandmates (minus frontman Chris Cornell) at a Washington club. Afterwards, Cornell was asked what he made of the gig with grunge icon Tad in his place, and whether he’d reunite with the band in the future. His response: “You never know.”

Last week, Cornell spoke to Rolling Stone about Michael Jackson’s influence on a generation of rockers, and told us Soungarden have been talking — not about touring or recording, but about the band’s legacy. “The only thing that we have talked about is trying to put together an album of B sides and maybe a box set with some unreleased tracks we have,” Cornell says. “This is something we first talked about 10 years ago. We all feel it’s time to do that, and we have a lot of fans out there, and we have a lot of new fans discovering our music, and I think the catalog and the legacy of the band has been ignored by the record label and previous management, so we decided to get together, and start working towards putting something like that out.”

Cornell was steadfast in his denial that a tour would be happening this time next year, adding that such talk has been nonexistent. His main Soundgarden-related focus? Getting those B sides out. “We did so many B sides, and we were always miffed by the concept that the largest part of our audience was in the U.S., and yet, we were always churning out B sides for other territories, so they would buy the local release instead of the import. That’s what I am the most excited about, to get that collection out so every one knows its there and has access to it. I think a box set would be good, too.”

While Cornell has often said that he likes the way Soundgarden left things off, at their height and before the music started sounding forced, nowadays, he seems to be singing a slightly different tune. “I’ve always said nothing is impossible,” he explains. “I never wanted to be one of those people who tries to predict the future. I don’t want to know what I will be doing two years, five years from now. I want to be open to anything, but nothing has changed in terms of our attitude toward it. It takes somebody to really stand up and say, ‘We should do this, we have to go do this, let’s go do this,’ and so far, no one has raised their hand to do that. Still, it’s not impossible.”

That would be super cool...though I'm afraid it will be stuff I've already have.

its seems that that solo album thing didn't payoff like they told him it would huh?

There isn't a studio version of that song......is there?!?!?!?!?!?!

Chris should record all the Soundgarden material, but with Timbaland

Matt said that they recorded it but Cornell never recorded any vocals.

this corny fag isn't getting any more of my money ever. fuck his b sides and his box sets right in his behind.

Yes, during the DOTU sessions.

this is step 1 towards the 2010 Soundgarden reunion.

holy lol

I already have all their b-sides. They better put some unreleased shit out, too. Here's what's there. All from the genuine official CD/Vinyl releases and onto my iPod (for the purposes of this, I'm treating Screaming Life and FOPP as albums, so those songs don't make this list):

All Your Lies (Deep Six version)
Big Dumb Sex (Fisk remix)
Birth Ritual
Birth Ritual (demo)
Blind Dogs
Can You See Me
Cold Bitch
Come Together
Communication Breakdown
Dusty (remix)
Exit Stongehenge
Fell on Black Days (demo)
Fell on Black Days (video version-live in the studio)
Fell on Black Days (live)
Fresh Deadly Roses
Head Injury
Heretic
HIV Baby (CD release)
HIV Baby (Sub Pop 7" version-probably the same as the CD release)
Homicidal Suicidal
I Don't Care About You
I Love You
Jesus Christ Pose (live 8/93)
Kickstand (live 8/93)
Kyle Petty, Son of Richard
Kyle Petty, Son of Richard (remix)
Like Suicide (acoustic)
Motorcycle Loop
My Wave (live 8/93)
New Damage (with Brian May)
Outshined (edit)
Rhinosaur (remix)
Room a Thousand Years Wide (Sup Pop 7" version)
Show Me
A Splice of Space Jam
Spoonman (Fisk Remix)
Sup Pop Rock City
Tears to Forget (Deep Six version)
Touch Me
Toy Box
Jerry Garcia's Finger
Karaoke
Bleed Together
Into the Void (Sealth)
Girl U Want
Stray Cat Blues
She's a Politician
Slaves and Bulldozers (live)


(Bootleg stuff: Cop Killer, Thank You, Everyone's Got Something to Hide..., Blind Dogs live from Self Pollution, Fell on Black Days live from Self Pollution)

i do not want to see cornell standing in front of Kim Thayil, Cameron, Shephard.

no. i do not want to see that.

Head Injury is not a B-side.

Oh, fuck off.

There's only one version of HIV Baby, too.

Well you can just close your eyes then.

Studio Christi would be nice, but yeah, I've already got everything else

Unfortunately Kim and Chris haven't been keeping up with internet file sharing and don't realise that all of the additional material released outside of the US has been freely traded for over a decade.

It would be interesting to see what Chris said about Michael Jackson, because he said a lot of unflattering things about him while he was still alive.

Interesting. Source(s)?