Influential grunge rockers Soundgarden - set to take center stage at Lollapalooza this weekend - have announced a new compilation due for a fall release.
Telephantasm: A Retrospective, as it's called, will feature songs from all of the band's albums and EPs, plus a new vault track, "Black Rain," recorded during the Badmotorfinger sessions in 1991. The set will be included as a bonus disc with the upcoming video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, to be released September 28, and will be available individually on October 5 in both standard and deluxe (double CD and DVD) packages. This is the band's first product since 1997's A-Sides, a compilation quickly assembled after the band's breakup earlier that year. Lead singer Chris Cornell went on to head Audioslave and work on his own solo career before reuniting with his bandmates earlier this year.
UPDATE: Thanks to Anth for pointing us toward the track listing from Spin. Check it out after the jump.
Soundgarden, Telephantasm: A Retrospective (A&M/UMe, 2010)
Standard Edition (single disc)
- Hunted Down
- Hands All Over
- Outshined
- Rusty Cage
- Birth Ritual
- Black Hole Sun
- Spoonman
- My Wave
- Fell On Black Days
- Burden in My Hand
- Blow Up the Outside World
- Black Rain
Track 1 from Screaming Life EP (Sub Pop, 1987)
Track 2 from Louder Than Love (A&M, 1989)
Tracks 3-4 from Badmotorfinger (A&M, 1991)
Track 5 from Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic, 1992)
Tracks 6-9 from Superunknown (A&M, 1994)
Tracks 10-11 from Down on the Upside (A&M, 1996)
Track 12 is a previously unreleased outtake from the Badmotorfinger sessions
Deluxe Edition
Disc 1
- All Your Lies
- Hunted Down
- Fopp
- Beyond the Wheel
- Flower (John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1 - recorded 5/14/1989) *
- Hands All Over
- Big Dumb Sex
- Get on the Snake (Live @ the Whisky a Go Go, December 1989)
- Room a Thousand Years Wide (Single Version) *
- Rusty Cage
- Outshined
- Slaves & Bulldozers
Tracks 1 and 4 from Ultramega OK (SST, 1988)
Track 2 from Screaming Life EP (Sub Pop, 1987)
Track 3 from Fopp EP (Sub Pop, 1988)
Track 5 previously unreleased
Tracks 6-7 from Louder Than Love (A&M, 1989)
Track 8 from Louder Than Live promo disc and video (A&M, 1990)
Track 9 from a Sub Pop single, 1990
Tracks 10-12 from Badmotorfinger (A&M, 1991)
Disc 2
- Jesus Christ Pose (Live @ Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, South Dakota - 8/11/1993)
- Birth Ritual
- My Wave
- Superunknown
- Spoonman
- Black Hole Sun
- Fell on Black Days (Video Version)
- Burden in My Hand
- Dusty
- Pretty Noose (Live on Saturday Night Live - 5/18/1996) *
- Blow Up the Outside World (Live on MTV Live 'N' Loud - 11-26/1996) *
- Black Rain *
Track 1 was a B-side from the "Black Hole Sun" single (A&M, 1994)
Track 2 from Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic, 1992)
Tracks 3-6 from Superunknown (A&M, 1994)
Track 7 from Songs from the Superunknown EP (A&M, 1995)
Tracks 8-9 from Down on the Upside (A&M, 1996)
Tracks 10-11 previously unreleased - original versions from Down on the Upside
Track 12 is a previously unreleased outtake from the Badmotorfinger sessions
DVD
- Flower
- Hands All Over *
- Loud Love *
- Jesus Christ Pose (Original Version)
- Outshined
- Rusty Cage
- My Wave *
- Spoonman
- The Day I Tried to Live (Uncensored) *
- Black Hole Sun *
- Fell on Black Days *
- Pretty Noose (Uncensored)
- Burden in My Hand
- Blow Up the Outside World (Uncensored)
- Spoonman (Mash-Up Version)
- The Day I Tried to Live (European Version)
- Superunknown *
- Pretty Noose (International Version)
- Pretty Noose (Alternate Ending)
- Blow Up the Outside World (Censored)
* denotes track or video previously unreleased on CD/DVD
Anth says
There's a tracklist here:
http://grungereport.net/2010/08/03/tracklisting-revealed-for-soundgardens-telephantasm/
A number of rare tracks included on the deluxe set, although as a huge fan I must say I'm mostly perplexed by the track selection.
Uwe Boll says
This is pretty superfluous, considering they already have a compilation, A-Sides, on the market that's about as good a Soundgarden primer as could be constructed. If they'd recorded a few new songs for this one, however...
Bill B says
This looks like it's worth getting just for the DVD.
I'm glad "The Day I Tried To Live" made it into the mix somewhere.
Am I missing something??? What's the significance of the asterisk after several titles? I assume it means never before released but it isn't clear.
Mike Duquette says
You're quite right. The asterisks are for tracks never-before-released on CD (the single version of "Room a Thousand Years Wide" was vinyl-only).