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Well I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
Yeah
But it's on the table
The fire's cooking
And they're farming babies
The slaves are all working
Blood is on the table
The mouths are all choking
But I'm goin' hungry
Yeah
I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
But it's on the table
The fire is cooking
And they're farming babies
The slaves are all working
And it's on the table
Their mouths are all choking
But I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
Yeah
But it's on the table
The fire's cooking
And they're farming babies
The slaves are all working
Blood is on the table
The mouths are all choking
But I'm goin' hungry
Yeah
I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
But it's on the table
The fire is cooking
And they're farming babies
The slaves are all working
And it's on the table
Their mouths are all choking
But I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 09:20 I'm going bonkers! Temple of the Stone Dog Temple Pilots. How does one spell m-o-n-o-t-o-n-o-u-s?? |
| Easyrider (Catania,Sicily,Italy) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 09:18  Cracking tune,thanks RP |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 09:15 I beg to differ Boy_Wonder wrote: Awful! |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 05:55 Awful! |
| handyrae (Zero Point Field) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 12:11 Someone please give this man a sandwich! |
| michaelgmitchell (Stirling, ON) | Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 18:56 Well, young man, you're NOT going to getting any grub by simply yelling all the time. |
| Nadine | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 11:11 Euskadita wrote: It's more the historical value of this band than its quality... totally. "Temple of the Dog was started by Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who had been a roommate of Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Wood died on March 19, 1990 of a heroin overdose, the day Cornell got back from a tour. As he went on to tour Europe a few days later, he started writing songs in tribute to his late friend. The result was two songs, "Reach Down" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven," which he recorded as soon as he got back from touring." "Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. The line-up included Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder providing lead and backing vocals." |
| ShirleyEva | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 10:09 Wawo Radio Paradise THANK YOU!!! for all the good music! |
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 10:11 It's more the historical value of this band than its quality... |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 10:09 dwlangham wrote: Insufferable crap. go crawl back under your rock |
| AndreaSuePJ (Lima, Perú) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 00:20 randyblew wrote: I always thought this song pretty good, though don't need to hear it often. However, watching Cameron Crowe's excellent recent doc PJ20, and listening to Eddie, Cornell et al talk about the song and that period of time - gave me anew appreciation for the music and the period and where I was at then as well, as music is always about the personal in the end, I think. Watch PJ20 when you can - outstanding.
Outdtanding documental! I love PJ, and Cameron did just and amazing job. Agree, everyone should watch it. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 13:10  |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 07:45 Insufferable crap. |
| Larry_Rosenow (Bend, OR) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 13:36 Makes the foot tap and the leg twitch, guess I like it. |
| tphord (Up 'ere) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 13:36 God what trivial, repetitive tripe... and love the wailer repeating repeating repeating... mute |
| randyblew (Raleigh, NC) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 13:35 I always thought this song pretty good, though don't need to hear it often. However, watching Cameron Crowe's excellent recent doc PJ20, and listening to Eddie, Cornell et al talk about the song and that period of time - gave me anew appreciation for the music and the period and where I was at then as well, as music is always about the personal in the end, I think. Watch PJ20 when you can - outstanding. |
| Smitix (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) | Posted: Jan 15, 2012 - 19:22  and my ears hurt now... |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: Jan 15, 2012 - 19:19 This disc was in my player for 2 years after it came out. Good stuff, Maynard!  |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 15, 2012 - 19:17 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| omersegev | Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 01:40 The greatest 2 voices of rock music |
| obstetricus | Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 19:16 Just doesn't do it for me...sorry |
| hiorgos (Matrix) | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 21:58 Remember the 90s? Lots of fun.. |
| sronis | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 21:57 7:55 am, just got into work, first song of the day - painfully brilliant! perfect 10. how can some of you guys not like it?  |
| tphord (Up 'ere) | Posted: May 08, 2011 - 07:27 click OFF now ... |
| swoeller (Royal City) | Posted: May 08, 2011 - 07:27 Indulgent nauseating reminder of the great poverty of the 90's Cynaera wrote: omersegev wrote: Ohhhhh Come on, I disagree. While I've recently started loving Pearl Jam and Eddie's solo work, and Chris Cornell can carry a tune and hit some amazingly high notes, I wouldn't class either of them as the BEST voices in the rock industry. Talented, yes.Vedder and Corrnell are the best voices in the rock industry! GREAT Song I simply can't seem to love this song as ardently as other people. The shrill caterwauling grates on my nerves, much like Geddy Lee's voice does. If someone's going hungry, they don't have the pipes to scream out (repeatedly) that they're going hungry. I guess I just have to be in the right mood for it. Coming right after one of my favorite John Hiatt songs probably stacked the deck against "Hunger Strike" for me. Sorry. Perhaps in a different set, it might smack me in the forehead with a revelation. For now, it just makes my temples throb as if they'd been smacked with a baseball bat...  |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 16:20 omersegev wrote: Ohhhhh Come on, I disagree. While I've recently started loving Pearl Jam and Eddie's solo work, and Chris Cornell can carry a tune and hit some amazingly high notes, I wouldn't class either of them as the BEST voices in the rock industry. Talented, yes.Vedder and Corrnell are the best voices in the rock industry! GREAT Song I simply can't seem to love this song as ardently as other people. The shrill caterwauling grates on my nerves, much like Geddy Lee's voice does. If someone's going hungry, they don't have the pipes to scream out (repeatedly) that they're going hungry. I guess I just have to be in the right mood for it. Coming right after one of my favorite John Hiatt songs probably stacked the deck against "Hunger Strike" for me. Sorry. Perhaps in a different set, it might smack me in the forehead with a revelation. For now, it just makes my temples throb as if they'd been smacked with a baseball bat... |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 16:13 If this song were the only food in the world i'd rather be GROWING HUNGRYYYYYY YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 16:12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_the_Dog_(album)#Personnel |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 16:11 Great story of how all this came together in the wake of a tragedy - Look for the book about 1990 at http://www.twofeetthick.com/ |
| Weaselchops | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 04:49 Ahh this song instantly transports me to my youth! Happy times :) Thank you Bill! |
| schayler (Denver) | Posted: Jan 02, 2011 - 13:38 This is such a fantastic song. Thanks, Bill, for dragging it out of the basement. It just never gets old. |
| kcar | Posted: Dec 01, 2010 - 22:53 lemmoth wrote: That howling background singer?????? The brilliant Chris Cornell — This is rock and roll people - give me a break Bosami wrote: I'm with you on this one, brother. Sometimes these comments pages are baffling. Hope I don't baffle you more, but Chris Cornell is the best thing this song has to offer. Way, way overplayed in my neck of the woods. Not quite as bad as Alice in Chains' "Rooster", but pretty close. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 15:27 choderama wrote: He's not howling, Cornell is great. However, although this isn't bad (it's actually pretty good), I don't think this is his best work at all. There are some pretty amazing Soundgarden songs that show off Cornell's talent alot better. Hear hear!  |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 14:56 Oh, somebody, please offer the man a sandwich or a bag of potato chips! He's hungry.  |
| waggpj | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 14:54 very very nice!!!!!!!!!! to hear it now... |
| choderama (Nanaimo, BC, Canada) | Posted: Aug 28, 2010 - 15:10 He's not howling, Cornell is great. However, although this isn't bad (it's actually pretty good), I don't think this is his best work at all. There are some pretty amazing Soundgarden songs that show off Cornell's talent alot better. |
| musickat (Lake of the Ozarks) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 18:18 lemmoth wrote: That howling background singer?????? The brilliant Chris Cornell — This is rock and roll people - give me a break Your right, this song ROCKS! |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 05:41 lemmoth wrote: That howling background singer?????? The brilliant Chris Cornell — This is rock and roll people - give me a break I'm with you on this one, brother. Sometimes these comments pages are baffling. |
| Cruzan (AUSTIN, TX) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:43 lemmoth wrote: That howling background singer?????? The brilliant Chris Cornell — This is rock and roll people - give me a break Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones are what I call rock and roll. This? not so much.... the singer is just so grating. not powerful, grating...... but oh well, different strokes. fortunately RP plays enough good music to make up for this and a couple other clunkers. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:33 Cruzan wrote: Me too just awful.......... you could get past that howling background singer if he didn't repeat that howl/yowl so many times........ the rest of it is passable. That howling background singer?????? The brilliant Chris Cornell — This is rock and roll people - give me a break |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:33 sirdroseph wrote: I like this song, even though they let Eddie sing, the song is otherwise so good it overcomes this deficit. You are truly from Outer Mongolia. Eddie is one of the finest vocalists in the history of rock and roll. |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:31 I like this song, even though they let Eddie sing, the song is otherwise so good it overcomes this deficit. |
| omersegev | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 00:13 Ohhhhh Come on, Vedder and Corrnell are the best voices in the rock industry! GREAT Song |
| Cruzan (AUSTIN, TX) | Posted: Jan 18, 2010 - 14:46 handyrae wrote: I'll chip in. Me too just awful.......... you could get past that howling background singer if he didn't repeat that howl/yowl so many times........ the rest of it is passable. |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Jan 18, 2010 - 14:45 Please, somebody feed him! |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Jan 18, 2010 - 14:41 Don't care what anybody says. When it came to the 90s, these two guys were just killing it. Great collab. |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 05:09 lemmoth wrote: When they performed this in LA recently (check out You Tube) 20,000 were shouting. This is fantastic, classic, brilliant, amazing.....wonderful I checked it out and I saw they were shouting with glee!  |
| Errowen (Small town Ontario Canada) | Posted: Nov 16, 2009 - 19:27 Lyric is drivel none of the group bothered to think about during the writing process, or since. Performance attempts to pass off caterwaulling as passion, or art, or — most likely— "Sumpin' me and the boys is working on." Really, really bad. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Nov 16, 2009 - 19:09 jagdriver wrote: Ugh! It might be OK save for the shouting being passed off as singing. When they performed this in LA recently (check out You Tube) 20,000 were shouting.This is fantastic, classic, brilliant, amazing.....wonderful |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Nov 16, 2009 - 19:08 a2 wrote: Dude screams too much. Dude (a2) is clueless |