Black Hole Sun

By Soundgarden

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This page is dedicated to the song "Black Hole Sun" by the Rock Band Soundgarden.

The song was written by the Band's lead singer and frontman, Chris Cornell. It was first released in the Band's 1994 Album titled "SuperUnknown"

"Black Hole Sun" remains the most popular single on the album and Their most well-known song to date.

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Lyrics

Backstory

Chris Cornell got the idea for the song while driving home from Bear Creek Studio, near Seattle, where Soundgarden were recording a version of "New Damage" for a charity album. He recalled to Uncut magazine August 2014:

"I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35-40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that's played beneath the riff."

"I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn't forget them,"

he continued.

"I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title."

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Similarities in Popular Culture

Whenever I re-watch the Music video, I can't help but think back to The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street". Something about that "ominous normalsy" turned chaotic disorder. The story in it differs a bit from the music video, but there are similarities. The fact that both of them take place in suburbia, and by the end of both of them, they are torn apart - but this is where they differ; (Spoiler alert) it is revealed at the end of the episode that the chaos insued all because of an experiment conducted. It's very strange, But a very good watch.

“It’s a tree-lined, quiet residential American street, very typical of the small town. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders, conversing across from house to house. STEVE BRAND polishes his car parked in front of his house. His neighbor, DON MARTIN, leans against the fender watching him. A Good Humor man rides a bicycle and is just in the process of stopping to sell some ice cream to a couple of kids. Two women gossip on the front lawn. Another man waters his lawn.”

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