Soundgarden - Birth Ritual

Singles Movie Soundtrack 1992
The Cameron Crowe film Singles includes cameos from key bands from the Seattle music scene of the time, such as Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Eddie Vedder, all members of Pearl Jam, have small parts as members of Matt Dillon's character Cliff Poncier's fictional band Citizen Dick. Their parts were filmed when Pearl Jam was known as Mookie Blaylock. Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has a cameo as the guy who comes out to listen to a car radio. He also appears in a later scene with Soundgarden performing the song "Birth Ritual". The members of Alice in Chains also appear in the film as a bar band, playing the songs "It Ain't Like That" and "Would?".
The film was shot at a number of locations around Seattle and includes scenes at Gas Works Park, Capitol Hill, Jimi Hendrix's grave at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton and Pike Place Market. Additional concert footage was shot in the now-defunct RKCNDY bar.
Most of Matt Dillon's wardrobe in the movie actually belonged to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. During the making of the film Ament produced a list of song titles for the fictional band, Citizen Dick. Chris Cornell took it as a challenge to write songs for the film using those titles, and "Spoonman" was one of them. An early acoustic version of the song was created and can be heard in the background during a scene of the film. Citizen Dick's song name "Touch Me, I'm Dick" is a word play on the song "Touch Me, I'm Sick" by the Seattle band Mudhoney. Also, in the inside cover photo of the soundtrack, there is a Citizen Dick CD with the track listing on the CD itself. One of the songs is called "Louder Than Larry (Steiner)", a wordplay on the Soundgarden album, Louder Than Love. The band name Citizen Dick is a play on the Seattle band Citizen Sane, which itself is a play on the 1941 film, Citizen Kane.
The film received positive reviews, and rode on the heels of Seattle's grunge music boom. The success of and buzz around the film's soundtrack largely eclipsed the film itself. Singles has been credited with inspiring a wave of films marketed towards a Generation X audience, spawning numerous imitators (most notably Reality Bites and Threesome).
The Singles soundtrack was released on June 30, 1992 through Epic Records and became a best seller three months before the release of the film. The soundtrack included music from key bands from the Seattle music scene of the time, such as Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell and Soundgarden. The Soundgarden song "Birth Ritual" and Chris Cornell's solo song "Seasons" appear on the soundtrack.

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[nobledestro]

this song kills.

[onceisenough17]

I love that you have the full version WITH the intro! Thanks for putting it up, man.

[meinchains146]

why does nobody credit tad in singles?

[1965cyclone39]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!



[Dragon45348]

Only 800 views :smh:

[9eyeh8chu9]

some of those flyer lineups are outrageous