Louder Than Love

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1989 Major Label Debut Newly Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes by Bob Ludwig

Louder Than Love,Soundgarden’ssecond full-length studio album and major label debut (after the independently released, Grammy-nominated Ultramega OK), was originally released by A&M Records on September 5, 1989, and was the last to include bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Recorded with producerTerry Dateat Seattle’s London Bridge Studios, it announced the arrival of a major force on the emerging Pacific Northwest rock scene, later to include Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

The album peaked on the Billboard chart at #108, yielding the singles, “Loud Love,” “Hands All Over” and the radio-only promo “Get on the Snake,” the latter of which was featured in the 1989 movie Lost Angels. Guns N’ Roses later paid tribute to the band by covering “Big Dumb Sex” on their 1993 album,The Spaghetti Incident?as part of a medley with T. Rex’s “Buick MacKane.”Q magazinenamed the album one of the “50 Heaviest Albums of All Time” in 2001.

Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Bob Ludwig, UMe is pleased to reissueLouder Than Loveon180-gram vinylin August 2016 complete with an accompanying digital download card for 320kbps MP4 AAC audio.

1. Ugly Truth
2. Hands All Over
3. Gun
4. Power Trip
5. Get on the Snake
6. Full on Kevin’s Mom
7. Loud Love
8. I Awake
9. No Wrong No Right
10. Uncovered
11. Big Dumb Sex
12. Full On (Reprise)