LetsSingIt the internet lyrics database
en
1
picture

"Temple Of The Dog" album lyrics

5.0 / 5
Album updated, review now!
album info:
Verified yes
Discs1
Rank
Released1991-04-16
Record labelA&M Records, Polygram Records
Charts
Added
Last updatedJanuary 31st, 2017
AboutTemple of the Dog is the only studio album by the American rock band Temple of the Dog, released on April 16, 1991 through A&M Records. The album is a tribute to Andrew Wood, the former lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, who died on March 19, 1990 of a heroin overdose. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States.

The recorded material was slow and melodic; much different musically from the aggressive rock music Cornell had been doing with Soundgarden. The songs bear the street-rock flavor of Mother Love Bone's music. Steve Huey of Allmusic said that the "record sounds like a bridge between Mother Love Bone's theatrical '70s-rock updates and Pearl Jam's hard-rocking seriousness...Keeping in mind that Soundgarden's previous album was the overblown metallic miasma of Louder Than Love, the accessibly warm, relatively clean sound of Temple of the Dog is somewhat shocking, and its mellower moments are minor revelations in terms of Cornell's songwriting abilities."

All of the lyrics on the album were written solely by Cornell. "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and "Reach Down" were written by Cornell in direct response to Andrew Wood's death. Lyrically, the rest of the songs on the album cover a variety of topics. Cornell stated that the lyrics for "Hunger Strike" express "somewhat of a political, socialist statement."

Albums you may also like

Temple of the Dog
Similar genre
Popular on LetsSingIt
New on LetsSingIt
show all Temple of the Dog albums
show more albums with similar genre
show this week's top 1000 most popular albums
show all recently added albums

Contributors

leaderboard
activity

Comments (0)