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Been a Long Time

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I just ripped OK Computer onto my computer at work today. It’s been so long since I’ve listened to this album, but it is one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. Amazing album. Thom’s vocals are perfect for this rock/electronic/air-y sound. Chris Cornell could probably do a decent job at singing this album, but nowhere near the perfection that Thom Yorke achieves.

Speaking of Chris Cornell singing other peoples’ songs, my bro-in-law and I were talking about Audioslave the other day, and he mentioned that they are playing Rage and Soundgarden songs at their live shows. Obviously Chris can pull off Soundgarden songs, and the rest of the band could probably do a decent job of achieving the Soundgarden sound, but there is NO WAY that Chris will ever be able to pull off anything that sounds like Zack de la Rocha. Zach is…well…Zach. Chris is too rock sounding to be able to pull off the anger, passion, and general pissed-off-ness that makes Zach sound how he does. I’m trying to imagine how Bulls on Parade or Bombtrack would sound with Chris singing it, and it just seems funny.