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''Superunknown'' is the fourth album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994 through A&M Records. It is the band's second album with bassist Ben Shepherd, and features new producer Michael Beinhorn. Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, ''Badmotorfinger'' (1991). ''Superunknown'' continued a departure from the band's earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences. ''Superunknown'' was a critical and commercial success and became the band's breakthrough album. It debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200, selling 310,000 copies in its opening week and reached high positions on charts worldwide. Five singles were released from the album: "The Day I Tried to Live", "My Wave", "Fell on Black Days", "Spoonman", and "Black Hole Sun", the latter two of which won Grammy Awards and helped Soundgarden reach mainstream popularity. In 1995, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. The album has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA in the United States and has sold around 9 million copies worldwide and remains Soundgarden's most successful album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 336 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was ranked number 38 on ''Rolling Stones list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the Nineties, and number five on ''Guitar World'' magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1994. As of June 2014, the album has sold 3,794,000 copies in the U.S.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-hers-1s-blake-miranda-201941068.html )〕 ==Recording== Soundgarden began work on the album about two months after finishing its stint on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour.〔Masters, Drew. "Soundgarden". ''M.E.A.T.'' magazine. March 1994.〕 The individual band members would work on material on their own and then bring in demos to which the other members of the band would contribute.〔"Soundgarden". ''Making Music''. (ISSN 0269-2651) May 1994.〕 Frontman Chris Cornell said that the band members allowed each other more freedom than on past records.〔Thompson, Dave. "I Slept With Soundgarden and Other Chilling Confessions". ''Alternative Press''. March 1994.〕 Thayil observed that even though the band spent as much time writing and arranging as it had on previous albums, it spent a lot more time working on recording the songs.〔 After two albums with producer Terry Date, the band decided to seek another collaborator, as guitarist Kim Thayil said, "We just thought we'd go for a change."〔"Let's Make a Grunge Album!". ''Raw''. December 8, 1993.〕 Eventually they settled on producer Michael Beinhorn, who "didn't have his own trademark sound which he was trying to tack on to Soundgarden" and had ideas the band approved.〔 The album's recording sessions took place from July 1993 to September 1993 at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington, as according to Cornell "there was never a decent studio in Seattle and now there's one with a Neve console, so it seemed obvious to use it.".〔 Bad Animals' resident engineer Adam Kasper, who went on to produce Soundgarden's following albums, assisted Beinhorn on the recording process.〔 Soundgarden took the approach of recording one song at a time.〔Peiken, Matt. "Soundgarden's Matt Cameron: Breaking New Ground". ''Modern Drummer''. June 1994.〕 The drum and bass parts were recorded first for each song, and then Cornell and Thayil would lay down their parts over top.〔 Cornell said that getting to know Beinhorn contributed to the length of time Soundgarden spent working on the album.〔"Garden of the Unknown". ''Melody Maker''. November 27, 1993.〕 The band spent time experimenting with different drum and guitar sounds, as well as utilizing techniques such as layering, resulting in an expansive production sound.〔 Cornell said, "Michael Beinhorn was so into sounds. He was so, almost, anal about it, that it took the piss out of us a lot of the time...By the time you get the sounds that you want to record the song, you're sick and tired of playing it."〔"Black Hole Sons!". ''Kerrang!''. August 12, 1995.〕 Beinhorn tried to add many of his preferred musicians to mold the band's sound, in what ''Billboard'' described as "weaning the band from brute force, giving it the impetus to invest in a more subtle power". For instance, prior to recording the vocals of "Black Hole Sun", Beinhorn made Cornell listen to Frank Sinatra.〔 ''Superunknown'' lasts for 15 songs clocking on approximately 70 minutes because according to Cornell, "we didn’t really want to argue over what should be cut".〔Anderson, Stacy. ("Get Yourself Control: The Oral History of Soundgarden’s ‘Superunknown’" ). ''Spin'', June 2014〕 Soundgarden took a break in the middle of recording to open for Neil Young on a ten-day tour of the United States.〔 The band then brought in Brendan O'Brien to mix the album, as Beinhorn felt the band needed "a fresh of pair of ears"; O'Brien had come recommended by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard.〔 Thayil called the mixing process "very painless,"〔 and bassist Ben Shepherd said it was "the fastest part of the record."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Superunknown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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