KEY LYRIC: All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown and red, spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, spoonman
Album: Soundgarden – ‘Superunknown’
Year: 1994
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Mixed by: Brendan O’Brien
NOTES: The biggest single off Superunknown. I always thought the second part of the lyrics above went: ‘all my friends are scared to dance/to feed the rhythm with their bones.’ Cornell’s one of my fave lyricists ever, but I still like my version better! I also had the good fortune of spending 3 days with the band at Bad Animals during the mixing of this record, working on an article for Raw magazine.
Below is a recent peformance of the song at the Crocodile in Seattle featuring a line-up of Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Tad Doyle, Tom Morello, and Ben Shepherd
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