Blow Up the Outside World

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""Blow Up the Outside World""
""Blow Up the Outside World"" cover
Single by Soundgarden
from the album 'Down on the Upside'
Released November 1996
Format CD single
Recorded 1996
Genre Grunge
Alternative Rock
Length 5:47
Label A&M
Writer(s) Chris Cornell
Producer(s) Soundgarden
Chart positions
  • #1 US Mainstream Rock Charts (4 weeks)
  • #8 US Modern Rock Charts
Soundgarden singles chronology
"Burden in My Hand"
1996
"Blow Up the Outside World"
1996
"Ty Cobb (single)"
1996

"Blow Up The Outside World" is a song by Seattle band Soundgarden. It appears as the sixth track on their final album Down On The Upside, released in 1996. The band released "Blow Up The Outside World" as a single in the fall of the same year. Among other songs, this single contains a previously unreleased song entitled "A Splice of Space Jam". The song became a hit, topping the US mainstream rock charts for 4 weeks.

The music video for the song features frontman Chris Cornell being tied down to a chair and forced to watch a film depicting life in general, along with scenes of Soundgarden performing. It was directed by Devo bassist Gerald Casale.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

[edit] European CD #1 and 7"

  1. Blow Up The Outside World
  2. Dusty (Moby Mix)

[edit] European CD #2, Australian CD

  1. Blow Up The Outside World
  2. Gun (Live)
  3. Get On The Snake (Live)
  4. A Splice Of Space Jam

[edit] Promo

  1. Blow Up The Outside World
  2. Blow Up The Outside World (Edit)


Soundgarden
Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd
Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman
Discography
Studio albums Ultramega OK | Louder than Love | Badmotorfinger | Superunknown | Down on the Upside
EPs: Screaming Life | Fopp | Loudest Love | Songs from the Superunknown
Compilations: Screaming Life/Fopp | A-Sides
Singles: "Hunted Down" | "Flower" | "Loud Love" | "Hands All Over" | "Room a Thousand Years Wide" | "Jesus Christ Pose" | "Outshined" | "Rusty Cage" | "Spoonman" | "Black Hole Sun" | "Fell on Black Days" | "My Wave" | "The Day I Tried to Live" | "Superunknown" | "Pretty Noose" | "Burden in My Hand" | "Blow Up the Outside World" | "Ty Cobb" | "Bleed Together"
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