Temple Of The Dog – Temple Of The Dog (Vinyl)

Having long since passed into legend, 1991’s Temple Of The Dog is a rare beast indeed, a genuine rock’n’roll unicorn. An album with its genesis rooted in tragedy – the heroin-overdose death of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood – its original 10 tracks were a kind of catharsis through music.

Wood’s close friend Chris Cornell wrote two tracks to begin with, Say Hello 2 Heaven and Reach Down, before the tribute turned into a full album with Mother Love Bone’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron and Eddie Vedder all contributing.

Recorded with no commercial expectations over a handful of weekends at the end of 1990, it’s music made purely for the sake of it – stress-free and simple. It captured a nascent Pearl Jam before Ten shot them to stardom, and before Soundgarden went stratospheric with Badmotorfinger, and still represents some of the finest music those bands ever recorded.
    
Three sided Remastered Reissue with etched fourth side. Gatefold, 180 Gram

Tracklist:
A1        Say Hello 2 Heaven
A2        Reach Down
B1        Hunger Strike
B2        Pushin Forward Back
B3        Call Me A Dog
B4        Times Of Trouble
C1        Wooden Jesus
C2        Your Savior
C3        Four Walled World
C4        All Night Thing