Album Info Hide Show Artist: Soundgarden Album: Screaming Life / Fopp Released: Europe, 2013 Tracklist: Screaming Life EP A1 Hunted Down A2 Entering A3 Tears To Forget B1 Nothing To Say B2 Little Joe B3 Hand Of God B4 Sub Pop Rock City Fopp EP C1 Fopp C2 Fopp (Fucked Up Heavy Dub Mix) D1 Kingdom Of Come D2 Swallow My Pride Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Screaming Life/Fopp is the moment Soundgarden steps out of the basement and lets the room shake. Sub Pop issued this compilation in 1990, folding the bands first two EPs into one release, and it still feels like a dispatch from Seattle when everything was crackling with new electricity. The sound is raw but deliberate. You can hear the band locking in. Chris Cornell is finding that sky-splitting voice. Kim Thayil is carving riffs into slabs. Matt Cameron and Hiro Yamamoto keep the whole thing rumbling forward like an old truck that just wont stall. The Screaming Life half was recorded with Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle in 1987, and you can tell. Endinos ear for live room energy is all over these tracks. Hunted Down opens with a serrated riff and a rhythm section that feels both tight and unruly. It was an early single for the band and still sounds like a mission statement. Nothing to Say slows the tempo but throws even more weight at you, the chorus lifting on Cornells voice until it almost turns into a siren. Tears to Forget flashes their hardcore roots in two minutes of churn, then Hand of God closes with eerie atmosphere and a stretched-out, hypnotic stomp. You can almost picture the lights dimming at the old Vogue or Central Tavern when this one rolled out, heads nodding along, everyone realizing the band on stage wasnt like the others. Flip to the Fopp material and the mood tilts toward playfulness without losing any bite. Produced by Steve Fisk in Seattle in 1988, the title track takes an Ohio Players funk cut and runs it through rusted gears until it grooves in steel-toed boots. Then Fisk pushes it further with the Fucked Up Heavy Dub mix, a blown-out, echoing version that leans into space and repetition. Its a small window into how experimental the scene could be before the world showed up. Swallow My Pride, a Green River cover, ties the Seattle family tree into a neat knot. Cornell belts it like a barroom challenge while Thayil slices through with a tone that could cut rain. The band doesnt treat the source material like a museum piece. They make it theirs. Part of what makes Screaming Life/Fopp so compelling is the way it captures Soundgardens range before the major-label gloss of Louder Than Love and Badmotorfinger. Thayils love of odd tunings and modal riffs is already present, but its Cameron who keeps stealing scenes with sharp, musical drumming that never stays in one lane. Yamamotos bass lines are thick and present in the mix, less a support beam and more a second engine. Cornell is the obvious draw, yet the bands chemistry is the star. These are four players already behaving like lifers. If you came to Soundgarden through Superunknown or the singles on classic rock radio, this set feels like a trip back to the source. You can hear the blueprint for that later heaviness, but you also get flashes of punk economy and art-damaged curiosity that would never fully disappear. Critics have long pointed to these EPs as foundational documents from the Sub Pop era, and its easy to hear why. They sit right alongside early Mudhoney and Tad as a snapshot of a label documenting its neighborhood in real time. For anyone crate-digging, Screaming Life/Fopp vinyl is a satisfying pickup. Sub Pop has kept this material in circulation, and reissues have made it easier to hear these songs without paying collector prices. If you like the feel of guitars hitting air in a room, the mastering does them justice. Its the kind of record that belongs next to the later Soundgarden albums on vinyl so you can trace the arc from grime to grandeur. If you shop locally, odds are good a Melbourne record store has a copy in the bins, and if you tend to buy Soundgarden records online, this is one to throw in the cart with the A&M-era LPs. Soundgarden vinyl always moves, but this one rewards repeat plays because of how alive it feels. What lingers most is the personality. Screaming Life/Fopp doesnt just predict where Soundgarden would go. It shows who they were in a small room with big ideas, making noise that felt like a new language. Thirty-plus years on, that language still hits. Put it on, let the first riff of Hunted Down bite, and youll remember why this city, this label, and this band rewired heavy music. Product Reviews (1) Hide Show Write a Review 5 Soundgarden is one my favourite bands ever. Chris Cornell is definitely my favourite singer of all time. Their first EP/Album is good, gives you a taste as to whats to come Posted by Gabor Racz-Balog on 1st Nov 2025 Great album by a great band