My Wave
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| "My Wave" | ||
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| Single by Soundgarden | ||
| from the album Superunknown | ||
| B-side(s) | "Birth Ritual (Demo)" | |
| Released | 1994 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 5:11 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Cornell; Kim Thayil | |
| Producer(s) | Michael Beinhorn; Soundgarden | |
| Soundgarden singles chronology | ||
| "Fell on Black Days" (1994) |
"My Wave" (1994) |
"The Day I Tried To Live" (1994) |
My Wave is a song by Seattle grunge band Soundgarden. It appears as the second track on their 1994 album Superunknown, and was released as a single in Australia. A music video was made for the song, largely consisting of performance footage filmed in Calgary, Canada.
"My Wave" as a musical piece is very typical of Soundgarden's style. Predominantly in 5|4, a particularly irregular time signature for rock music, the song changes and intersperses time signatures freely. The effect created is both authoritively erratic and characteristic of the band, even classically so. The song also regularly interchanges the keys of E minor and B Mixolydian.
The song also appears on the 1996 compilation album MOM (Music For Our Mother Ocean). This was released to benefit the Surfrider Foundation, a "non-profit environmental organization working to preserve oceans, waves, and beaches". It later appeared in the trailer for Endless Summer II.
[edit] Track Listing
PROMO CD
1. My Wave
AUSTRALIAN CD
1. My Wave 2. Spoonman (Steve Fisk Remix) 3. Birth Ritual (Demo) 4. My Wave (Live)
| Soundgarden |
| Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd |
| Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman |
| Discography |
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| Albums and extended plays: Screaming Life | Fopp | Ultramega OK | Flower | Louder than Love | Screaming Life/Fopp | Badmotorfinger | Superunknown | Songs from the Superunknown | Down on the Upside | A-Sides |
| Singles: "Hunted Down" | "Flower" | "Loud Love" | "Hands All Over" | "Room a Thousand Years Wide" | "Jesus Christ Pose" | "Outshined" | "Rusty Cage" | "Spoonman" | "Black Hole Sun" | "Fell on Black Days" | "My Wave" | "The Day I Tried to Live" | "Superunknown" | "Pretty Noose" | "Burden in My Hand" | "Blow Up the Outside World" | "Ty Cobb" | "Bleed Together" |
| Related Articles |
| Temple of the Dog | Singles | Grunge music | Audioslave | Pearl Jam | Alice Mudgarden | Hater | Wellwater Conspiracy |
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