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Soundgarden — Spoonman
Album: A Sides
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Total ratings: 1765









Released: 1997
Length: 4:05
Plays (last 30 days): 1
Ooh
Feel the rhythm with your hands (Steal the rhythm while you can)
Spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own (Speak the rhythm all alone)
Spoonman

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, yeah
Save, oh

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

Oh, ooh
Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me
Save
Save me
Save me, yeah
Save

With your (come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on)
With your, with your hands
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Yeah

Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off
Come on when I get off

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me
Save, yeah
Save me
With your, with your hands
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can
Spoonman
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Always loved this song, great band. 
Always loved the drums in this one. 
it's great, just one of their lessers, imo. there are so many better soundgarden songs that william should look into playing. especially since he plays a lot of audioslave anyway. more soundgarden, please. 
Hella great thumpin' rock track. 
Nice
Artis the Spoonman performed at my highschool in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1990 or 1991, I didn't really know what to make of it at the time, he looked pretty out of place. He performed to some Joe Satriani track but he commented that he actually preferred Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien' album.
 rpdevotee wrote:

I like Soundgarden and this song but those gifs are hilarious! Hahaha



 barbpratt16 wrote:


Actually, ode to a spoon-playing street musician, Artis the Spoonman, check out the Wikipedia article.  To me it's like a great, updated, grunge version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man (lyric-wise).  



Great tune!
 calypsus_1 wrote:
~
Chris Cornell 10 by ~Satanarchist
©2007-2010 ~Satanarchist


u r 3rd rike hike 


 barbpratt16 wrote:


Actually, ode to a spoon-playing street musician, Artis the Spoonman, check out the Wikipedia article.  To me it's like a great, updated, grunge version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man (lyric-wise).  



 benfitch523 wrote:

Ode to a heroin dealer. How cool is that?



Actually, ode to a spoon-playing street musician, Artis the Spoonman, check out the Wikipedia article.  To me it's like a great, updated, grunge version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man (lyric-wise).  
Yeah!
Another of the RamFish favorites to play on Rockband, now firmly 'back in the day' though I've been thinking of re-upping on whatever the current PS4 version is these days....LLRP and RamFish!!
 orthomd wrote:
Would have been nice if hip hop was short lived and quickly faded out instead of grunge...RIP CC
 
Why should one be at the expense of another? 
Ode to a heroin dealer. How cool is that?
Great rock and roll. Maximum drumming thumping thunder. To the initiated, if played at high volume, it could well cause a massive headache. I say, crank it up! 
 orthomd wrote:
Would have been nice if hip hop was short lived and quickly faded out instead of grunge...RIP CC
 
Hip hop & rap are a revolution in music and rhythm.

Grunge was always a great evolution of existing Rock forms.
Would have been nice if hip hop was short lived and quickly faded out instead of grunge...RIP CC
Now...what could this song be about? Rest In Peace Chris. Thank you for this gem of a song.
 oldmanmind wrote:
Metal? Is this Paradise lost? : )
 

Beato got his hands on the stream.
 oldfart48 wrote:
{#Yell}{#Wall}
 
I like Soundgarden and this song but those gifs are hilarious! Hahaha
A little cowbell would work wonders.
NICE tribute set Bill. Great choices! {#Yes}  Feelin' the love.
Not enough drums. 
 DaMoGan wrote:

RIP Chris

 
{#Cheers}
thanks Bill

RIP Chris


AWESOME
Whenever I see a spoon, there is about a 33% chance that this song will start playing in my head.
I might have played this album one too many times.
 torino390 wrote:
Chris Cornell best rock vocalist ever?? gotta be up there. {#Dancingbanana_2}

 
Was just thinking how great that voice is...
 Stingray wrote:
REAL GOOD - REAL SEXY!
 "9" 

 

 {#Yes}
Metal? Is this Paradise lost? : )
 GeorgeMWoods wrote:
Slightly less painful than a root canal. Only slightly.

 
Here's hoping you get them all done.
{#Jump} {#Jump} {#Jump} {#Jump}
Chris Cornell best rock vocalist ever?? gotta be up there. {#Dancingbanana_2}
What a rock voice!!

 hayduke2 wrote:

rp got me in the right frame o' mind today woooooo-fukkin'-hoooooohoooo!!! time to light one up : )

 
Cool.  Even though it's August, a fire in the fireplace would be great right now.  That's what you meant, right?

Surprised I like this so much... almost feel guilty. But why?
 lily33 wrote:
soundgarden is one of my alltime favorite bands. however, i am shocked that it is being played on RP. just doesn't seem to fit in at all. i'm blown away. i am willing to bet this doesn't go over well here.
i used to play this entire cd when i was cleaning my house. or, was that the badmotorfinger cd? well, no matter. one must be in the right frame of mind to listen to soundgarden, i think.
 
rp got me in the right frame o' mind today woooooo-fukkin'-hoooooohoooo!!! time to light one up : )

One of my least favorite Soundgarden songs.  They were a good band all the way through, but definitely started out stronger than they finished.  1st album rocks your socks off man!
REAL GOOD - REAL SEXY!
 "9" 
I love the syncopated beat to this!  I've had it on my iPod for some time.


{#Dancingbanana}
Slightly less painful than a root canal. Only slightly.
Nice!!!!!!!!
{#Yell}{#Wall}
Nice Throw back!   Thanks
A little kick your ass Rock and Roll never hurt anyone. 
Hate it cause of the overplay, but I must admit it sounds good on Radio Paradise
~
Chris Cornell 10 by ~Satanarchist
©2007-2010 ~Satanarchist



ghrup1 wrote:
Never expected to hear this on RP. Good Tune. Let's hear something off Badmotorfinger
Agreed. Searching With My Good Eye Closed, Holy Water, Drawing Flies. I love those songs and I don't think a single one of them ever hit the airwaves
I am sure that I\'ve lost some hearing due to playing this CD too loud at home, in the car, and at work wearing headphones. Love the energy of the whole thing. Haven\'t dusted it off for a while - might be time when I get home :)
Originally Posted by nigeltufnel: so who/what is "the spoonman"?
Nothing mysterious. He's a semi-famous spoon player, who goes by the name Artis.
Originally Posted by lordcruloze: This rules. Cornell back in the day ('88-92) could flatten a room with his voice. He started blowing it by the time this was recorded (93). Badmotorfinger has some vocals on it that are not even human - I love that stuff.
you are a person after my own heart. badmotorfinger is something else. i can't much listen to any of their stuff after that...well, here and there. and cornell imho is a god. did you know he helped work on jeff buckley's Sketches of My Sweetheart The Drunk? he and jeff's mom did a lot of the song choices etc. pretty cool.
Very cool to hear stuff on RP that rocks as hard as this. One of my complaints about regular radio is they\'ll play the anemic \"Better Man\" by Pearl Jam, but none of the tunes that made them what they are. Not sure if Soundgarden has anything that wimpy to play on corporate radio, but it\'s great to hear some of the real grunge here.
ROCKIN! (pimp)
i've always considerd this song somewhat irritating. i do like some of soundgardens tunes, it's just the heavy leanings grate on me.
This rules. Cornell back in the day (\'88-92) could flatten a room with his voice. He started blowing it by the time this was recorded (93). Badmotorfinger has some vocals on it that are not even human - I love that stuff.
Not a great song, but it does rock. Got me to turn my volume up.
YEAH! The best soundgarden tune. Surprised to hear it on RP. But happy, nonetheless
I saw \"the spoonman\" when I was in high-school in Indonesia back in \'92, was quite surprised to see him appear in a Soundgarden song and video afterwards.
If it rocks, I\'m happy to hear it. This rocks.
rock on !!! Spoon solo !! :D
Originally Posted by featherriver: Doesn't fit the rp format.
RP has a format? I thought that was the point? Maybe i'm missing something...
Upon further listening, I really don\'t like the vocals but I do like everything else. The music is tight. The vocals really do go well with the music, but they are just a little too harsh for my ears. I definitely would have liked this in high school though :)