TEMPLE OF THE DOG Temple Of The Dog LP A&M1991 UK/EU orig SOUNDGARDEN-PEARL JAM
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TEMPLE OF THE DOG

Temple of the Dog was a one-album project conceived in 1990. The purpose of Temple of the Dog was to pay tribute to the late Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Mother Love Bone, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Following his death, Mother Love Bone broke up, but Wood's bandmates Jeff Ament (bass) and Stone Gossard (guitar) decided to continue working together. Before Ament and Gossard formed a new band, they assembled Temple of the Dog, recruiting Chris Cornell (vocals) and Matt Cameron (drums) from Soundgarden to form the core of the group. Temple of the Dog also featured contributions from then-unknown vocalist Eddie Vedder and guitarist Mike McCready. Temple of the Dog recorded their eponymous album in 1990, releasing it at the end of the year on A&M Records. The album received positive reviews upon its release, but didn't chart until the summer of 1992, when Pearl Jam -- a band Ament, Gossard, Vedder, McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen formed in late 1990 after the completion of the Temple of the Dog album -- had a Top Ten album with their debut record, Ten. Following the success of Ten, A&M re-released "Hunger Strike" -- a duet between Vedder and Cornell -- as a video and single, and the album quickly scaled the charts, reaching the Top Ten and going platinum before the end of 1992.

"TEMPLE OF THE DOG"

tracklisting

Side A: SAY HELLO 2 HEAVEN - REACH DOWN - HUNGER STRIKE

PUSHIN' FORWARD BACK - CALL ME A DOG

Side B: TIMES OF TROUBLE - WOODEN JESUS - YOUR SAVIOR

FOUR WALLED WORLD - ALL NIGHT THINGS

1991     LP    A&M RECORDS   395 350-1

MADE IN HOLLAND for EUROPEAN & UK MARKET    ORIGINAL PRESSING

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NOTES: This copy doesn't contain a printed inner sleeve. Recorded weekends at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, WA Nov-Dec 1990. Mastered at A&M Mastering Studios. Printed on the inner labels: ℗ 1991 A&M Records Inc, Los Angeles Made in Holland Made in West Germany by Polygram

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Barcode: 0 82839 53501 4

Label Code: LC 0485 Price Code: POL 281
LABEL: A&M - BLACK LABEL - SILVER/WHITE TEXT
Catalog on cover: 395 350-1 Catalog on labels: 395 350-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 395 350 1  S1=1  670  04  1 1 Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 395 350 1  S2=1  670  04  1 1
On labels: rim text "All Rights........Made in West Germany by Polygram"
BIEM STEMRA (boxed) ℗ 1991 A&M Records Inc. Los Angeles Made in Holland
On back cover: Tracklist + Credits ℗ 1991 A&M Records, Inc............licensees for the UK. Country of manufacture as stated on label.

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Featuring members of Soundgarden and what would soon become Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog's lone eponymous album might never have reached a wide audience if not for Pearl Jam's breakout success a year later. In turn, by providing the first glimpse of Chris Cornell's more straightforward, classic rock-influenced side, Temple of the Dog helped set the stage for Soundgarden's mainstream breakthrough with Superunknown. Nearly every founding member of Pearl Jam appears on Temple of the Dog (including the then-unknown Eddie Vedder), so perhaps it isn't surprising that the record sounds like a bridge between Mother Love Bone's theatrical '70s-rock updates and Pearl Jam's hard-rocking seriousness. What is surprising, though, is that Cornell is the dominant composer, writing the music on seven of the ten tracks (and lyrics on all). Keeping in mind that Soundgarden's previous album was the overblown metallic miasma of Louder Than Love, the accessibly warm, relatively clean sound of Temple of the Dog is somewhat shocking, and its mellower moments are minor revelations in terms of Cornell's songwriting abilities. It isn't just the band, either -- he displays more emotional range than ever before, and his melodies and song structures are (for the most part) pure, vintage hard rock. In fact, it's almost as though he's trying to write in the style of Mother Love Bone -- which makes sense, since Temple of the Dog was a tribute to that band's late singer Andrew Wood. Not every song here is directly connected to Wood; once several specific elegies were recorded, additional material grew quickly out of the group's natural chemistry. As a result, there's a very loose, jam-oriented feel to much of the album, and while it definitely meanders at times, the result is a more immediate emotional impact. The album's strength is its mournful, elegiac ballads, but thanks to the band's spontaneous creative energy and appropriately warm sound, it's permeated by a definite, life-affirming aura. That may seem like a paradox, but consider the adage that funerals are more for the living than the dead; Temple of the Dog shows Wood's associates working through their grief and finding the strength to move on...(AllMusic)







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