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On tracks like 'Outshined' and 'Jesus Christ Pose', Soundgarden figured out how to balance their messianic metallic tendencies with both a sizable helping of self-awareness and a fondness for off-kilter time signatures. Even better, Cornell's learned that the nuclear option works just as well as an implied threat- and that makes his shriek that much more effective when it's let off the leash. By now,В Kim Thayil's thick yet fluid guitar leads meet up with an equally heavy and flexible rhythm section to create a menacing backdrop that's perfect for Cornell's ungodly holler. Thankfully, the Telephantasm compilers (mostly) get out of their own way when picking what to include from 1991's Badmotorfinger- they simply run with the album's first four tracks, and it's by far the best stretch of music on Telephantasm's first disc. Group those two tracks with a half-decent live version of the half-decent 'Get on the Snake' (speaking of cock rock) and a sloppy pre- Badmotorfinger take on 'Room a Thousand Years Wide', and that's a third of Telephantasm out of the way without much of note happening.

A track like 'Hands All Over' has Cornell and friends striking the sort of po-faced martyrs' pose they'd later mock mercilessly, while 'Big Dumb Sex' (the 'I wanna fuck fuck fuck fuck you' song) seems to confuse being a parody of overblown cock rock with being the real thing. When Soundgarden did issue their A&M debut, 1989's Louder Than Love, they were still trying to figure things out.

The potential displayed in their early years, coupled with the group's impeccable pedigree- not many bands can say they released records on both Sub Pop and SST- made that major-label jump a foregone conclusion. This new career-spanning collection comes in a few packages-В the woefully skint single-disc version that will be packaged with copies of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the collector-baiting 2xCD/DVD/3xLP/book-and-pictures version, and a 2xCD version that serves as a somewhat serviceable overview of Soundgarden's career.В For most people, the one to consider is the 2xCD version, and if there's one thing it doesВ better than its best-of predecessor (1997's now-deleted A-Sides), it's acknowledging that the band released a fair amount of music before signing with A&M Records. And yet, getting to hear songs like these- and, more importantly, to hear the band hit its stride onВ 'Hunted Down' (from the Screaming Life EP) or 'Beyond the Wheel' (from their first full-length, Ultramega OK)-В alongside the alt-rock standards, is a big part of the hook for Telephantasm.

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Letting it run free on the sludgy metal-punk of 'All Your Lies' or faking the funk on a cover of the Ohio Players' 'Fopp' were baby steps. Cornell's apocalyptic shriek is the sort of weapon of mass destruction that needs to be implemented with care and precision. The problem wasn't so much that the band was trying to find its own voice, but that Chris Cornell wasn't always sure how to best utilize his. Unlike a fair number of their PacNW peers, Soundgarden suffered through some growing pains.