Ultramega OK
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Ultramega OK, released in 1988,(see 1988 in music) was the debut album by Soundgarden. It was nominated for a Grammy.
The songs "665" and "667" are parodies of the idea of Satanic content in rock music, the idea being that if 666 is such a powerful number, then the surrounding numbers must be even more powerful. "665" contains backwards messages about Santa.
"Smokestack Lightning" is a Howlin' Wolf cover. The end of the song is a sample from Sonic Youth's "Death Valley '69" from the album Bad Moon Rising.
The music video for Flower received limited MTV airplay.
"One Minute Of Silence" is a "cover" of John Lennon's "Two Minutes Of Silence" with Yoko Ono's part cut out.
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1988. Soundgarden would win a Grammy for Black Hole Sun in 1995 and be nominated for Pretty Noose in 1997.
Track listing
- "Flower" (Cornell/Thayil) - 3:25
- "All Your Lies" (Cornell/Thayil/Yamamoto) - 3:51
- "665" (Cornell/Yamamoto) - 1:37
- "Beyond The Wheel" (Cornell) - 4:20
- "667" (Cornell/Yamamoto) - :56
- "Mood For Trouble" (Cornell) - 4:21
- "Circle Of Power" (Thayil/Yamamoto) - 2:05
- "He Didn't" (Cameron/Cornell) - 2:47
- "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) - 5:07
- "Nazi Driver" (Cornell/Yamamoto) - 3:52
- "Head Injury" (Cornell) - 2:22
- "Incessant Mace" (Cornell/Thayil) - 6:22
- "One Minute Of Silence" (Lennon) - 1:00
| Soundgarden |
| Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd |
| Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman |
| Discography |
|---|
| Albums and extended plays: Screaming Life | Fopp | Ultramega OK | Flower | Louder than Love | Screaming Life/Fopp | Badmotorfinger | Superunknown | Songs from the Superunknown | Down on the Upside | A-Sides |
| Singles: "Hunted Down" | "Flower" | "Loud Love" | "Hands All Over" | "Room a Thousand Years Wide" | "Jesus Christ Pose" | "Outshined" | "Rusty Cage" | "Spoonman" | "Black Hole Sun" | "Fell on Black Days" | "My Wave" | "The Day I Tried to Live" | "Superunknown" | "Pretty Noose" | "Burden in My Hand" | "Blow Up the Outside World" | "Ty Cobb" | "Bleed Together" |
| Related articles |
| Temple of the Dog | Singles | Grunge music | Audioslave | Pearl Jam | Alice Mudgarden | Hater | Wellwater Conspiracy |
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