Landing in the fall of ’91 just as hype around the Seattle sound was ramping into overdrive — releasing the same day as Nirvana’s Nevermind, no less — Badmotorfinger suggested Soundgarden were the most versatile of grunge’s Big 4.
It’s a record where weird-metered moto-metal freakouts exist amid Zeppelin-huge arena rockers and Western Hemlock-toppling stoner stomps. And it caught on quick. Though Chris Cornell howled that he was “feelin’ Minnesota” on the iconic “Outshined,” the rest of the world started imagining a plaid-clad existence in the Pacific Northwest.
