Hands All Over

Album: Louder Than Love
Year: 1989

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Here’s a thing I was wrong about in the late 1980s: Soundgarden. Hoo boy, was I wrong!!!

I think that part of it was that I was pretty much convinced that the pre-punk hard rock I loved as a #teen — Zep, Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen et al — had pretty much run its course. And furthermore, what had replaced it — thrash, hair metal, death metal and Van Hagar — wasn’t for me. The fact that I loved Guns n’ Roses & Living Colour and liked Jane’s Addiction felt like they were outliers, when in fact they were harbingers.

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