Hunted Down
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| Single by Soundgarden | ||
| from the album 'Screaming Life EP | ||
| B-side(s) | "Nothing to Say" | |
| Released | June 1987 | |
| Format | Vinyl record (7") | |
| Recorded | 1987 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 2:42 | |
| Label | Sub Pop | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Cornell; Kim Thayil | |
| Producer(s) | Jack Endino | |
| Soundgarden singles chronology | ||
| "Hunted Down" 1987 |
"Flower" 1989 |
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"Hunted Down" is a song by Seattle grunge band Soundgarden. It appears as the first track on the band's first release, the Screaming Life EP. The song was also released as their first single in June 1987. It was pressed on blue vinyl as a limited edition with only 500 copies made, and has since become a Soundgarden collector's item.
The song is representative of the early "grunge" sound - with its dirty guitar, dissonant atmosphere and lyrics concerning entrapment and escape.
Guitarist Kim Thayil on the song: "That song wasn't supposed to be as heavy sounding as it turned out. We just started jamming on the riff and it took on the 'noise rock' dimensions, kind of a rhythmic thing. And that solo is a noise solo. It's very dissonant. That song was also the first song on the Sub Pop "hold" music tape. You would call them up, and when they put you on hold you heard 'Hunted Down.'"
"Nothing to Say" was the b-side of the single. Oddly, this b-side, rather than "Hunted Down", later appeared on the Soundgarden compilation A-Sides.
[edit] Track listing
- "Hunted Down" - 2:42
- "Nothing to Say" - 4:00
| 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" |
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