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Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden
Badmotorfinger is an album by Soundgarden, released in 1991. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 92 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Outshined”, on 52 lists with a best position of #12.
Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden's third studio album, came out on A&M in 1991, the first with new bassist Ben Shepherd, who joined Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron for sessions that started early that year with Terry Date producing. The heavy metal weight is intact, but the songs are sharper and stranger, bent into alternative tunings and odd time signatures, with lyrics left deliberately open-ended.
Cornell's howl over grinding, lurching riffs carried "Outshined" and "Rusty Cage" onto rock radio and MTV as the spotlight swung toward Seattle, and "Jesus Christ Pose" helped push it along too. It became their highest-charting album yet, reaching number 39 on the Billboard 200, picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance and went double platinum. They took it across North America and Europe, including a stretch opening for Guns N' Roses on the Use Your Illusion Tour.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Badmotorfinger on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outshined | 52 | #12 | – | 1992–2026 | |
| 2 | Rusty Cage | 28 | #36 | – | 1994–2026 | |
| 3 | Jesus Christ Pose | 12 | #69 | – | 1991–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.