Rhinosaur

"Rhinosaur"
Single by Soundgarden
from the album Down on the Upside
A-side	Ty Cobb
Released	April, 1997
Format	CD single,
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:14
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron
Producer(s)	Adam Kasper, Soundgarden
Down on the Upside track listing "Pretty Noose" (Track 1) "Rhinosaur" (Track 2) "Zero Chance" (Track 3)

"Rhinosaur" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden on their 1996 album Down on the Upside. Despite not being released as its own single it was released as a b-side to the song "Ty Cobb".^[1][2] While "Ty Cobb" itself didn't chart, the b-side "Rhinosaur" charted at 19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks.^[3]

Reception

Chris Cornell said in an interview that whom the lyrics of "Rhinosaur" target was ambiguous and could be applied to several people or groups.^[4] "Rhinosaur" was praised for having a massive groove with "stairstep guitar riffs" said to be adored by Soundgarden's guitarist Kim Thayil.^[5] Thayil also went on to saying that the tuning of the instruments was unusual for Soundgarden. He said during an interview "Ben and I played on dropped-D, but Chris played in standard tuning. That's unusual for us. If one of us is in dropped-D, usually all three of us are."^[6] The song also received moderate airplay by rock radio stations in America.

References

External links

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics