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- Artist(s): Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Hiro Yamamoto
- Summary: The remastered reissue of the Seattle grunge band's debut full-length features a new remix by Jack Endino and six demo tracks from 1987.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
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Mar 20, 2017As far as where Ultramega OK stands in the Soundgarden catalog, it still doesn’t hold up to later records, but it does contain some of their best songs.
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UncutMar 20, 2017This version has been remixed and remastered to beef up the sound and integrate Chris Cornell's glorious vocals more fully into the songs. ... Six demos, recorded on eight-track the previous year, give a good idea if where the band were coming from. [May 2017, p.52]
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Mar 20, 2017The early-stage versions of a few Ultramega OK tracks that round out this reissue ... add to the story by showing how much more precise the band got in the year or so after they recorded the Screaming Life EP, with the two versions of the single-chord grind “Incessant Mace” showing how that song’s brimming dread was the result of a fair amount of experimentation.
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Mar 20, 2017Six inessential demos added to the original album hardly warrant the ‘deluxe edition’ tag. But as a document of a musical sea change, Ultramega OK is indispensable.
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Mar 20, 2017Everything’s been cleaned up and beautifully balanced, and it’s for the better; the engineering is so good, in fact, it actually elevates the songs themselves. ... While nothing here [in the collection of six demos] is all that revelatory, it’s still fun to watch the band tinker with their songs.
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Apr 3, 2017
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