Last week news of a 4-disc box set celebrating the career of Chris Cornell was announced. The set, titled “When Bad Does Good,” is scheduled for a Nov. 16 release and will feature songs from nearly all of Cornell’s projects including material from Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, Soundgarden and his solo career.
The box set will include 11 previously unreleased songs, the highlight of which is the solo track “When Bad Does Good.” A lyric video for the song was released last night along with additional details of the box set. The song, which was found in Cornell’s personal audio archive, was performed, recorded and mixed by Cornell. His vocals are accompanied by an organ, guitar and drums throughout the somber track. It is the first posthumous release from the late Seattle icon. Watch the lyric video below.
Cornell’s Temple of the Dog bandmate Jeff Ament did the art direction for the box set and he also contributed to the liner notes. Other liner notes contributors include Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, producer Brendan O’Brien and Cornell’s Soundgarden bandmates Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil.
The box set will be available in three versions: a 4-disc CD version, a 2LP version and a super deluxe edition. The super deluxe edition sells for $299 and includes 4 CDs, 7 LPs and 1 DVD along with a turntable slipmat, 36″x48″ poster of a Charles Peterson photo, a 66-page hard cover photo, three 12”x12” photochromatic lithographs and other items. The photochromatic lithos have ink that is activated under sunlight to display an image.
The DVD includes 24 videos including a previously unreleased edit of “Live to Rise” and previously unreleased solo performance of “Scream.” Details of the DVD are below and you can find the tracklist for the box set here.
Here are the full details of the You can pre-order all versions of “When Bad Does Good” here.
When Bad Does Good Superdeluxe DVD track listing
- Flower [Soundgarden]
- Loud Love [Soundgarden]
- Hunger Strike [Temple of the Dog]
- Outshined [Soundgarden]
- Jesus Christ Pose [Soundgarden]
- Black Hole Sun [Soundgarden]
- Fell On Black Days [Soundgarden]
- Burden In My Hand [Soundgarden]
- Can’t Change Me
- Preaching The End Of The World
- Like A Stone [Audioslave]
- Cochise [Audioslave]
- Show Me How To Live [Audioslave]
- Be Yourself [Audioslave]
- Original Fire [Audioslave]
- Arms Around Your Love
- No Such Thing
- Part Of Me (featuring Timbaland)
- Long Gone (Rock Version)
- Scream (Acoustic)*
- Live To Rise [Soundgarden]*
- By Crooked Steps [Soundgarden]
- Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart (Lyric Video)
- The Promise
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