ArtistDirect.com have up another article where musicians discuss Soundgarden’s influence on them. Here is an excerpt where Shinedown frontman Brent Smith discusses memories of Soundgarden: “The first time I heard Soundgarden was “Flower”. That’s going way early. I was in ninth grade, and I was at a house party. “Flower” was playing on a record in the background. I saw the cover of Louder Than Love too at that point. A year or so went by, and I didn’t go out of my way to learn anymore. Then, of course, Badmotorfinger happened. That’s when they started working with Terry Date. I remember seeing “Jesus Christ Pose” on MTV Headbangers Ball, and I was like, “I remember that voice!” I found out more about them at the time. Then, Superunknown changed my life hands down. It’s not so much for the singles but the deeper stuff in that record. “My Wave” was a huge song for me. “The Day I Tried To Live” is a classic Soundgarden song. My favorite song on that album was probably “4th of July”. That song is almost not natural. When the second verse starts, the fact that Chris Cornell sings the main line, but there’s the third octave behind him that he’s singing, which is stratospherically high, is amazing. I never heard anyone sing like that. It changed my view on what a rock singer was supposed to convey on record. That’s a big record.”