Landing in the fall of 91 just as hype around the Seattle sound was ramping into overdrive releasing the same day as Nirvanas Nevermind, no less Badmotorfinger suggested Soundgarden were the most versatile of grunges Big 4.

Its a record where weird-metered moto-metal freakouts exist amid Zeppelin-huge arena rockers and Western Hemlock-toppling stoner stomps. And it caught on quick. Though Chris Cornell howled that he was feelin Minnesota on the iconic Outshined, the rest of the world started imagining a plaid-clad existence in the Pacific Northwest.