Chris Cornell

REPORT: Chris to re-work whole Scream album into Rock Album?

http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/1554/Cornell-To-Rework-Scream-Into-Rock-Album
true, false?
good, bad??
idk, i think instead of re-working Scream, he should be working in a new album.

UPDATE: Looks true, "Explore Music is reporting that musicians such as Jordan Zadorozny, from indie band Blinker the Star, have been reworking Scream's tracks to have more of a rock style."

Well at least its just a remix.
Another link: http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1564154, http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/music/article/chris-cornells-scream-tracks-get-a-rock-makeover-89219

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this "new Scream" story has been going around for days but I don't see it on any of the big music sites like mtv or rolling stone....or confirmed by CC himself. Maybe it's just another track that's been reworked like the ones he did before for other albums and writers are adding speculation of their own.

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If Chris truely is going to re-do Scream into a rock album, then it is an obvious omission that the original was a disappointment.

If Chris has the that much free time, I would imagine he would begin work on a new CD. Why would he waste time re-working a CD that has received so much more negative feedback then positive

I dont believe it is true

I am looking forward to a new CD or a Soundgarden reunion in the future (not a Scream re-make).

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Sorry Chris. Because of this I'm dissapointed in you!

I didn't know you before. Thanks to Tim you have made the best album off all time for me! If you didn't work with him I wouldn't have known you...

You should keep Scream as it is. I thought you were strong for trying something completely new. That's why I liked you so much. I've never know an artist like you...


You should make a new album, not remaking an album that was finished in your own eyes.



I hope your old fans will like the album, but I won't even listen to it.

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well i hope he does it.


maybe include a few new songs as well.

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Yea, if thats what he's gonna do, then as we all know he will n we aint gonna change his mind.I loved the never far away track - not having the end of the song/Last verse was disappointing but i think its a better track now with real instruments n some banging kit in there.Would happy buy a re-worked rock scream album so i would, i would! =)

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Just a waste of time, imo. I think there are some song on Scream that don't need to be re-worked, because they're good the way they are, and a lot of song that are terrible, but reworking won't help them... Besides, he plays rock versions of Scream songs live. So I guess it would be better just to record new albym with brand new songs, and maybe release live album with whole Scream on the Internet.

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Proof that even the man himself realizes this was an utter disappointment. Nothing wrong with experimenting with different stuff for fun, but when it comes to your profession or craft better to stick to what you do best.

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blinddogsdontbelieve wrote:
Proof that even the man himself realizes this was an utter disappointment. Nothing wrong with experimenting with different stuff for fun, but when it comes to your profession or craft better to stick to what you do best.

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If Chris were hearing right now. Please dont re-work the album.

Thank you.

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I love Scream the way it is. It shows his versitility and artistry! He has established another following and should not over look that.

I love the Rock stuff as well but he is more appealing as an artist because of this creative turn. I can't stop listening and lusting to "Part Of Me" he sounds simply delicious!!!

DON'T CHANGE OR REGRET SCREAM!!!! There are many of us out here that love it and have become fans of yours because of it.

Grow into the ecclectic and bluesy artist you're becoming. YOU STILL ROCK!!!! Don't be afraid of change that's how we all grow. Chris you rocked for over two decades!!! And as stated it doesn't take all the banging and zinging of supporting instruments because your voice is the ultimate instrument and we want to hear it!

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I think this article is fullashit. Just my opinion, but I think they saw Chris play around with a few songs and jumped at the chance to slant things their way.
I wish Chris would rework Scream now, with another Boyle, Susan.
Or maybe with the Dixie Chicks.
Or howabout with Ricky Martin?

Just to piss off people who write this stuff.

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This isn't new news, I remember seeing before Scream came out that he planned on releasing 2 versions in the first place. (The one we have now and a Rock one), I can't remember where I read it, but if these articles are rumors, then whatever I read was the source of the rumors. I think it's true, and I'll definitely buy it.

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I hope he will forget pop-discoteque SCREAM and he will work in a new rock album

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It would be nice to hear confirmation either way on this, his official site.

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HRM...idk really what to say....I mean "Scream" is a great album on it's own and doesn't have to be re-written in my opinion.

At the end of the day C.C. will just keep being the artist that does whatever he wants!

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Hey I'll buy it!
But, actually, I'm surprised he decided to do this.
It's all good :)

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Yeah, Mozart should have reworked all of his symphonies so that the masses in the 21st century could comprehend them better. Maybe some overdrive on the the guitar amp. Or even layer 10 guitar tracks then of course his music would have been better ear candy for some "rock" fans.

Andrea

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andrea hawes wrote:
Yeah, Mozart should have reworked all of his symphonies so that the masses in the 21st century could comprehend them better. Maybe some overdrive on the the guitar amp. Or even layer 10 guitar tracks then of course his music would have been better ear candy for some "rock" fans.

Andrea

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Well - whatever he chooses to do - it WOULD be nice if, while he's at it, he also incorporated the numerous secret/hidden/missing tracks that we got a taste of ?
Y'know?

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A remix/reworking of an album seems like a quick project in comparison to a new album. I'm going to use this to add to SG reunion rumors. A rock version of this album would make a better bridge into a SG reunion then going from Scream to SG. And this is a quick project that Cornell could get in quickly before ending his solo career, he wouldn't have time to do a whole album of new material if he was interested in SG, and I don't think he wants to end his solo career on a highly experimental album. A "Rock" scream provides decent closure keeping fans from wondering "Where was he ever going with this?"


Personally, I like Scream, and I think an alternate version of every song would be nice to have.

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"I like Scream, and I think an alternate version of every song would be nice to have"

here here!

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andrea hawes wrote:
Yeah, Mozart should have reworked all of his symphonies so that the masses in the 21st century could comprehend them better. Maybe some overdrive on the the guitar amp. Or even layer 10 guitar tracks then of course his music would have been better ear candy for some "rock" fans.

Andrea

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Scrunch Muppet wrote:
It's funny, becuase that's pretty much what Cornell's career has being about up until Scream - but now he's genre jumped, 'rock' seems to be an inferior form of music suited only for kids.

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{q a=[[clarefromscotland]] Of course not. As far as I can see, there is nothing out there to suggest that "Scream" is about to be released as a "rock" album - just one rearranged song and a load of rumours from an over-imaginative press pack.
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I hope this is true - and I prefer CC to work on a new set of songs, Why would he want to rework a previous album to please a few fans?
Scream has been over and done - he should be moving on. It'll be nice to have a live album released, but then leave it at that.

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clarefromscotland wrote:

Scrunch Muppet wrote:
It's funny, becuase that's pretty much what Cornell's career has being about up until Scream - but now he's genre jumped, 'rock' seems to be an inferior form of music suited only for kids.

Hmmm, don't know about that - kids have always been a major part of the audience for music of many kinds - but personally I don't think CC has ever "genre-jumped". Given how various his recording career has been right the way through, I think it's fairly unhelpful to pigeonhole him. Is "Beyond The Wheel" really the same kind of music as "Fell On Black Days" or "Sweet Euphoria"? Were Soundgarden and Audioslave really anything like each other? What genre are you going to put his cover of "Billie Jean" into?

He's always taken a typical musician's delight in recasting songs, anyway - giving them a new set of clothes, a bit of a makeover. Anyone who's seen CC live recently will know that the songs from Scream work just fine within a classic rock band format: CC is a strong songwriter and strong songs tend not to fall apart when they're re-imagined. The last time I was at a live show, he even gave the audience a few ad hoc bars of an acoustic "hillbilly" Jesus Christ Pose. ;)

When CC rehashed "Arms Around Your Love" with Ryan Tedder, did everyone assume he was going to re-record the whole of "Carry On" with piano and string orchestra? Of course not. As far as I can see, there is nothing out there to suggest that "Scream" is about to be released as a "rock" album - just one rearranged song and a load of rumours from an over-imaginative press pack. That would be the same press pack who were so sure he'd be (a) joining Led Zeppelin, (b) playing Coachella with Soundgarden last year (c) jamming with Pearl Jam, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen the other night in Philly.

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Re-working and re-recording an entire album is VERY time consuming. It depends on the artists whether or not they have the ability and time to do them. A re-worked version of Scream as a rock album would be nice. However, the original version of the album is sufficient for most fans. I personally think that Chris Cornell should just move on by working on all new materials with a different producer.

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Nobody on here knows the reasons as to why Chris Cornell is having the music reworked for his album called Scream. People are assuming he has regrets, which is doubtful. To the people that got pissed off at me when I flat out said that Scream was a commercial failure, I call you hypocrites. You'll have TWO versions of Scream instead of one version.

I applaud Chris Cornell for making this happen. He's giving people like myself a second chance; furthermore, he's admitting he made a mistake in a sense. It takes a big man to admit his failures. Scream was a commercial failure, and career suicide. This is an attempt to right a wrong, and I commend him for doing so.

- Dave

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Bah, caving is bad.

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I don't think he is admitting failure.
I don't think he is caving.
I don't think this is going to happen.

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Someone mentioned that Chris made a mistake with SCREAM. When I was in line in Atlanta for the show last spring, some kid told me that he listened to the first 30 seconds of SCREAM and refused to listen to it. That's the kind of ignorance that is running wild in the "Rock" fan base. Albums that were trashed when they came out and now are legendary:

What's Going On - Marvin Gay - Barry Gordy said "Why do you want to ruin your career" to Marvin Gaye - Now it's in the top ten of all time greatest albums period. Rock/Pop/R&B
Who's Next - The Who - Everyone said it's not "Tommy". Now it's in the top ten of all time greatest albums period. Rock/Pop/R&B Pete Townsend used a sythesizer for the first time in Rock History the album and rock fans trashed it.
Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys - "Its Not License to Ill" "Its too R&B" Now its the "Sweetheart" album for The Beasties'
The Doors LA Woman - Fans - "Its too bluesy."

I could go on - but I won't.
Andrea

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clarefromscotland wrote:
That would be the same press pack who were so sure he'd be (a) joining Led Zeppelin, (b) playing Coachella with Soundgarden last year (c) jamming with Pearl Jam, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen the other night in Philly.

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andrea hawes wrote:
Someone mentioned that Chris made a mistake with SCREAM. When I was in line in Atlanta for the show last spring, some kid told me that he listened to the first 30 seconds of SCREAM and refused to listen to it. That's the kind of ignorance that is running wild in the "Rock" fan base. Albums that were trashed when they came out and now are legendary:

What's Going On - Marvin Gay - Barry Gordy said "Why do you want to ruin your career" to Marvin Gaye - Now it's in the top ten of all time greatest albums period. Rock/Pop/R&B
Who's Next - The Who - Everyone said it's not "Tommy". Now it's in the top ten of all time greatest albums period. Rock/Pop/R&B Pete Townsend used a sythesizer for the first time in Rock History the album and rock fans trashed it.
Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys - "Its Not License to Ill" "Its too R&B" Now its the "Sweetheart" album for The Beasties'
The Doors LA Woman - Fans - "Its too bluesy."

I could go on - but I won't.
Andrea

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Major Props ClairefromScotland! :-)

Andrea

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I was on a roadtrip with a good friend of mine recently...and he is a HUGE fan of electronic/hip-hop/Timbaland music...so I decided to play the entirety of "Scream" for him on the trip without telling him who composed or produced it.

His "reviews" of the album were anything short of "to die for." He loved the album...the lyrics and composition. He said he has never heard of such a great album and he instantly wanted a copy of it. He was shocked to find out the story behind Chris Cornell and how it was received by most fans...he didn't even figure out it was Timbaland who produced it...he just knew it had to be somebody "big." lol

So with regards to all the talk about Radiohead's albums that relied on "non-real instruments"...it is pretty fair to say that Scream is perhaps some of the best work done by Chris Cornell, yet it was not given even a 30 second listen by most fans.

The "30 second listen" is quite strange considering the "eery intro" lasts about 47 seconds? That is definitely a "fail" for whoever said that lol.

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clarefromscotland wrote:
As far as I can see, there is nothing out there to suggest that "Scream" is about to be released as a "rock" album - just one rearranged song and a load of rumours from an over-imaginative press pack.

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http://www.babelgum.com/3018765/exploremusic-with-alan-cross-chris-cornells-album-sucks-u2-world-tour.html

Interesting video cheers for posting Storming. This was definitely recorded before the Howard Benson version had been released,
Sorry to say I feel like Alan Cross still asking myself the question 'why?' It's a big change for a man with an illustrious past to suddenly go 'mainstream' and the worse he could do now is to re-record the same tracks as a rock format.

Noelsaac's friend may have liked Scream because he follows that music and the reason why it was a dismal failure is that Scream hadn't been advertised to it's target audience - hip hop fans. Noel's friend had never heard of it and that surprised me reading this.

I haven't seen Scream advertised anywhere apart from Classic Rock magazine who gave it shining reviews, but I can't see a classic rock fan touching it with a barge pole.
As CC's fans are mainly rockers Scream wouldn't appeal to them at all. Alan Cross, Woods and their Toronto buddies are rockers - the chap next to Cross had The Bronx t-shirt and hosts a punk show. Obviously not Scream fans.
During the past year I heard too much negative response from rockers and CC listeners who loved his previous music - it was a shock to the hard core base.

Scream should be well left alone, perhaps releasing a live album for the rockers - but I advice to start again with a different set of songs.

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Davidsatan wrote:
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http://www.babelgum.com/3018765/exploremusic-with-alan-cross-chris-cornells-album-sucks-u2-world-tour.html

This was definitely recorded before the Howard Benson version had been released,

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stormingheaven wrote:

clarefromscotland wrote:
As far as I can see, there is nothing out there to suggest that "Scream" is about to be released as a "rock" album - just one rearranged song and a load of rumours from an over-imaginative press pack.

Yeah but it looks to me like all the rumours of a new Scream are coming from one place - ExploreMusic. All the other little music blogs picked up the story from there. This guy Alan Cross is also writing stuff in other Canadian papers attacking Timbaland & saying Canada should claim credit for "rehabilitating" CC, it's pretty weird. Also sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me, CC has shown a lot of respect for Timbaland right the way through so if something like a new Scream was gonna happen or CC was gonna disown the original album it would be big news & we'd have heard a lot more about it by now, like on MTV.com or something. Looking round the ExploreMusic site I also found this video from a few months ago where this same writer totally slags off CC saying stuff like he must have been drunk when he made Scream which made me wince considering everyone knows CC's a recovered alcoholic etc. At the end he actually throws the CD across the studio.

http://www.babelgum.com/3018765/exploremusic-with-alan-cross-chris-cornells-album-sucks-u2-world-tour.html

But if what he wants is rock versions of the songs, it's weird he doesn't mention the alternative version of "Long Gone" which Howard Benson did.

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hear4cc wrote:

stormingheaven wrote:

clarefromscotland wrote:
As far as I can see, there is nothing out there to suggest that "Scream" is about to be released as a "rock" album - just one rearranged song and a load of rumours from an over-imaginative press pack.

Yeah but it looks to me like all the rumours of a new Scream are coming from one place - ExploreMusic. All the other little music blogs picked up the story from there. This guy Alan Cross is also writing stuff in other Canadian papers attacking Timbaland & saying Canada should claim credit for "rehabilitating" CC, it's pretty weird. Also sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me, CC has shown a lot of respect for Timbaland right the way through so if something like a new Scream was gonna happen or CC was gonna disown the original album it would be big news & we'd have heard a lot more about it by now, like on MTV.com or something. Looking round the ExploreMusic site I also found this video from a few months ago where this same writer totally slags off CC saying stuff like he must have been drunk when he made Scream which made me wince considering everyone knows CC's a recovered alcoholic etc. At the end he actually throws the CD across the studio.

http://www.babelgum.com/3018765/exploremusic-with-alan-cross-chris-cornells-album-sucks-u2-world-tour.html

But if what he wants is rock versions of the songs, it's weird he doesn't mention the alternative version of "Long Gone" which Howard Benson did.

Sort of like Scream being one of the worst albums of the decade came from one story, too.
It was all over the net, but it came from one place.

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stormingheaven wrote:
Looking round the ExploreMusic site I also found this video from a few months ago where this same writer totally slags off CC saying stuff like he must have been drunk when he made Scream which made me wince considering everyone knows CC's a recovered alcoholic etc.

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clarefromscotland wrote:

stormingheaven wrote:
Looking round the ExploreMusic site I also found this video from a few months ago where this same writer totally slags off CC saying stuff like he must have been drunk when he made Scream which made me wince considering everyone knows CC's a recovered alcoholic etc.

He's hardly Paul Morley, is he? Hard to take someone seriously who can't tell the difference between Italian and German.

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Guapito1973 wrote:

clarefromscotland wrote:

stormingheaven wrote:
Looking round the ExploreMusic site I also found this video from a few months ago where this same writer totally slags off CC saying stuff like he must have been drunk when he made Scream which made me wince considering everyone knows CC's a recovered alcoholic etc.

He's hardly Paul Morley, is he? Hard to take someone seriously who can't tell the difference between Italian and German.

Paul Morley is a cock as well