Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog [25th Anniversary Edition] (2016)

2CD deluxe edition features new mix of the album by longtime Pearl Jam associate Brendan O’Brien, plus three alternate mixes from the original multitracks by Adam Kaspar plus seven demos (including unheard songs “Angel of Fire” and “Black Cat” plus five newly mixed outtakes by Kaspar.
Temple of the Dog only released one self-titled album in the spring of 1991 to relatively little fanfare. But by the end of the year, when critics started to take notice of the tidal wave of rock bands from Seattle and lighting the fuse on an eventual grunge explosion, people began to take notice.
And how could you miss them, with the lineup they had? Temple of the Dog, conceived as a tribute to the late Andrew Wood, frontman of Seattle group Mother Love Bone, featured two musicians who…

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…played in that band (rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament); lead guitarist Mike McCready, from Gossard and Ament’s new band Pearl Jam (frontman Eddie Vedder also guested on the album); and Wood’s friends, singer Chris Cornell and drummer Matt Cameron, both of whom earned recognition with Soundgarden that same year. (Cameron currently is the drummer for both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam!) The album, featuring the mainstream rock hits “Hunger Strike” and “Say Hello 2 Heaven,” went Top 5 in America and sold more than a million copies. The band never toured at the time, but made sporadic appearances together in the quarter-century since Temple of the Dog was released.

CD 1: New remix of original album by Brendan O’Brien (released as A&M Records 750 215 350-2, 1991)

1. Say Hello 2 Heaven
2. Reach Down
3. Hunger Strike
4. Pushin’ Forward Back
5. Call Me a Dog
6. Times of Trouble
7. Wooden Jesus
8. Your Savior
9. Four Walled World
10. All Night Thing
11. Say Hello 2 Heaven (Alternate Adam Kaspar Mix) *
12. Wooden Jesus (Alternate Adam Kaspar Mix) *
13. All Night Thing (Alternate Adam Kaspar Mix) *

CD 2: Demos and outtakes (previously unreleased except for Track 1, from Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack – Columbia/Monkeywrench 88697 96035-2, 2011)

1. Say Hello 2 Heaven (Demo)
2. Reach Down (Demo)
3. Call Me a Dog (Demo)
4. Times of Trouble (Demo)
5. Angel of Fire (Demo)
6. Black Cat (Demo)
7. Times of Trouble (Instrumental Demo)
8. Say Hello 2 Heaven (Outtake)
9. Reach Down (Outtake)
10. Pushin’ Forward Back (Outtake)
11. Wooden Jesus (Outtake)
12. All Night Thing (Outtake)