A Thousand Years Wide: Soundgarden Expand “Badmotorfinger” in a Big Way
When news first broke that Soundgarden were planning a 25th anniversary edition of their third album, 1991’s Badmotorfinger, it was almost hard to imagine what extra content would be included. After all, 2014’s Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Along the Path had compiled just about all of the group’s B-sides across three discs.
Well, with the grunge explosion celebrated heavily in the Soundgarden-adjacent camp (box sets devoted to Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog are among 2016’s bigger collections), the band is ready to unleash an expanded Badmotorfinger—and what a set they’ve cooked up. At its biggest, the album will be expanded to seven discs: four CDs, two DVDs and a Blu-ray.
The grunge explosion that elevated Nirvana’s Nevermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten at the end of 1991 also lifted Badmotorfinger. “Outshined” and “Rusty Cage” earned the band their first exposure on wider rock radio and MTV, and the album became the group’s first Top 40 effort. This set the stage for 1994’s Superunknown, which hit pay dirt on alt-rock radio with “Spoonman” and “Black Hole Sun.”
Astoundingly, much of Badmotorfinger’s deluxe content has never been released before. You get the remastered album, a disc of studio outtakes (with just one released track, a version of “New Damage” with Queen guitarist Brian May), a 1992 live set at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on two CDs and a DVD, an additional DVD of live footage and music videos (including the DVD premiere of the Motorvision VHS) and the entire album newly remixed in 5.1 surround for Blu-ray.
The battery-operated(!) box set edition also comes with a 52-page book, a 12” x 12″ lenticular print, four 8” x 10″ band member photo cards, stickers and an iron-on patch. More frugal fans can opt for a 2CD deluxe edition, 2LP 180-gram vinyl or just the original album remastered on CD.
All formats are available November 18. Check out below for pre-order links and full track details!
Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger: 25th Anniversary Edition (A&M/UMe, 2016)
Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Disc 1: Original album remastered (A&M 75021 5374-2, 1991)
- Rusty Cage
- Outshines
- Slaves & Bulldozers
- Jesus Christ Pose
- Face Pollution
- Somewhere
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed
- Room a Thousand Years Wide
- Mind Riot
- Drawing Flies
- Holy Water
- New Damage
Disc 2: Studio outtakes (previously unreleased except where noted)
- Rusty Cage (Studio Outtake) +
- Outshined (Studio Outtake) +
- Slaves & Bulldozers (Studio Outtake) +
- Jesus Christ Pose (Studio Outtake) +
- Face Pollution (Studio Outtake) +
- Somewhere (Studio Outtake) +
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Studio Outtake)
- Room a Thousand Years Wide (Studio Outtake) +
- Drawing Flies (Studio Outtake)
- Holy Water (Studio Outtake) +
- Cold Bitch (Studio Outtake)
- She’s a Politician (Studio Outtake)
- Black Rain (Studio Outtake)
- Birth Ritual (Studio Outtake)
- Blind Dogs (Studio Outtake)
- New Damage (with Brian May) (from Alternative NRG – Hollywood Records HR-61449-2, 1994) +
Discs 3-4/DVD 1: Live At The Paramount, Seattle – 3/6/1992 (previously unreleased)
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed +
- Hands All Over
- Drawing Flies +
- Room a Thousand Years Wide
- Gun
- Flower
- Little Joe
- Big Dumb Sex
- Face Pollution +
- Incessant Mace
- Rusty Cage +
- Outshined +
- Mind Riot +
- Beyond the Wheel
- Into the Void (Seath)
- Jesus Christ Pose +
- Hunted Down
- Somewhere
- Slaves & Bulldozers
+ denotes bonus track on 2CD deluxe edition
DVD 2: Motorvision (A&M/PolyGram Music Video 440 089 547-3, 1992) and more (previously unreleased)
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Rusty Cage (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Outshined (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Little Joe (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Mind Riot (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Room a Thousand Years Wide (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Jesus Christ Pose (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Slaves & Bulldozers (Live @ The Paramount, Seattle – 3/5-6/1992)
- Outshined (Live @ Bronco Bowl, Dallas – 4/29/1992) *
- Jesus Christ Pose (Live @ Bronco Bowl, Dallas – 4/29/1992) *
- Rusty Cage (Live @ Roseland Ballroom, New York City – 5/9/1992) *
- Jesus Christ Pose (Live @ Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, The Netherlands – 7/8/1992) *
- Slaves & Bulldozers (Live @ Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, The Netherlands – 7/8/1992) *
- Slaves & Bulldozers (Live @ Showbox Lounge, Seattle – 7/12/1992) *
- Face Pollution (Live @ Showbox Lounge, Seattle – 7/12/1992) *
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Live @ Kitsap County Fairgrounds, Bremerton, WA – 7/22/1992) *
- Drawing Flies (Live @ Bicentennial Park, Miami – 8/22/1992) *
- Cop Killer (Live @ Bicentennial Park, Miami – 8/22/1992) *
- Room 1000 (Live @ Bicentennial Park, Miami – 8/22/1992) *
- Jesus Christ Pose (promo video)
- Outshined (promo video)
- Rusty Cage (promo video)
Blu-ray Audio
- 1 surround and stereo mixes of original album and B-sides: “Cold Bitch,” “She’s a Politician,” “Birth Ritual”
- Promo videos: “Jesus Christ Pose,” “Outshined,” “Rusty Cage”
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Wow. Seattle grunge bands sure are getting the deluxe treatment these days.