Super Deluxe Edition include the remastered album, a disc of studio outtakes (newly mixed from the multi-tracks) and the complete Paramount Theatre Concert from March 6, 1992 (across two CDs).
Bidding for a popular breakthrough with their second major-label album, Soundgarden suddenly developed a sense of craft, with the result that Badmotorfinger became far and away their most fully realized album to that point. Pretty much everything about Badmotorfinger is a step up from its predecessors — the production is sharper and the music more ambitious, while the songwriting takes a quantum leap in focus and consistency. In so doing, the band abolish the murky meandering that had often plagued them in the past, turning in a lean, muscular set that signaled their arrival…
…in rock’s big leagues. Conventional wisdom has it that despite platinum sales, Badmotorfinger got lost amid the blockbuster success of Nevermind and Ten (all were released around the same time). But the fact is that, though they’re all great records, Badmotorfinger is much less accessible by comparison. Not that it isn’t melodic, but it also sounds twisted and gnarled, full of dissonant riffing, impossible time signatures, howling textural solos, and weird, droning tonalities. It’s surprisingly cerebral and arty music for a band courting mainstream metal audiences, but it attacks with scientific precision. Part of that is due to the presence of new bassist Ben Shepherd, who gives the band its thickest rhythmic foundation yet — and, moreover, immediately shoulders the departed Hiro Yamamoto’s share of songwriting duties. But it’s apparent that the whole band has greatly expanded the scope of its ambitions. And Badmotorfinger fulfills them, pulling all the different threads of the band’s sound together into a mature, confident, well-written record. This is heavy, challenging hard rock full of intellectual sensibility and complex band interplay. And with their next album, Soundgarden would learn how to make it fully accessible to mainstream audiences as well.
1. Rusty Cage (Album Version) [04:24]
2. Outshined (Album Version) [05:09]
3. Slaves & Bulldozers (Album Version) [06:54]
4. Jesus Christ Pose [05:49]
5. Face Pollution (Album Version) [02:22]
6. Somewhere (Album Version) [04:19]
7. Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Album Version)[06:29]
8. Room a Thousand Years Wide (Album Version)[04:04]
9. Mind Riot (Album Version) [04:48]
10. Drawing Flies (Album Version) [02:25]
11. Holy Water (Album Version) [05:05]
12. New Damage (Album Version) [05:38]
13. Rusty Cage (Studio Outtake) [04:29]
14. Outshined (Studio Outtake) [05:11]
15. Slaves & Bulldozers (Studio Outtake) [07:04]
16. Jesus Christ Pose (Studio Outtake) [05:41]
17. Face Pollution (Studio Outtake) [02:24]
18. Somewhere (Studio Outtake) [04:20]
19. Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Studio Outtake)[06:59]
20. Room a Thousand Years Wide (Studio Outtake)[04:06]
21. Drawing Flies (Studio Outtake) [02:34]
22. Holy Water (Studio Outtake) [05:30]
23. Cold Bitch (Studio Outtake) [05:22]
24. She’s a Politician (Studio Outtake) [01:51]
25. Black Rain (Black Days) (Studio Outtake) [04:56]
26. Birth Ritual (Studio Outtake) [05:28]
27. Blind Dogs (Studio Outtake) [07:19]
28. New Damage [05:18]
29. Searching with My Good Eye Closed (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[04:26]
30. Hands All Over (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[06:04]
31. Drawing Flies (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[02:28]
32. Room a Thousand Years Wide (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[03:45]
33. Gun (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[06:02]
34. Flower (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[03:35]
35. Little Joe (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[04:54]
36. Big Dumb Sex (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[05:30]
37. Face Pollution (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[02:39]
38. Incessant Mace (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[08:50]
39. Rusty Cage (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[06:01]
40. Outshined (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[05:43]
41. Mind Riot (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[03:54]
42. Beyond the Wheel (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[07:12]
43. Into the Void (Sealth) (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[07:29]
44. Jesus Christ Pose (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[06:25]
45. Hunted Down (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[03:07]
46. Somewhere (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[04:22]
47. Slaves & Bulldozers (Live at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle / 1992)[15:50]