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Euphoria Morning (1999)

Where the lyrics of Euphoria Morning take you, and where it was really made.

The album was released as Euphoria Morning in 1999, but in 2015 it was reissued as Euphoria Mourning, the title Cornell says he had wanted from the start.

Key places

Recorded and mixed at 11 AD Studios (1999)

Recording site Motown Recording Studios — Discogs credits list 11 AD Studios in Los Angeles as the place where the album was recorded and mixed. Wikipedia describes the recording as taking place at the Los Angeles home studio of Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Euphoria Morning: the first solo studio album by Chris Cornell
• Originally titled Euphoria Morning; the 2015 reissue used the modified title Euphoria Mourning
• Released 21 September 1999 through A&M Records
• Released between the end of Soundgarden and the formation of Audioslave, Cornell's only album from that period
• Cornell toured in support of the album in 2000
• Lead single: Can't Change Me
• Re-released on CD and vinyl on 14 August 2015 with the changed title

Background

• Cornell began work on solo material in 1998
• Collaborators were Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven
• The original release was overseen by manager Jim Guerinot, who was involved in choosing the spelling Morning
• Cornell later said Mourning was the title he had originally intended

Recording

• Discogs credits say the album was recorded and mixed at 11 AD Studios in Los Angeles, California
• Discogs notes that track 9 was recorded at home
• Credited production, engineering and mixing: Cornell, Johannes and Shneider
• Mastering: Dave Collins

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Christopher John Cornell (1964–2017) was an American musician, best known as lead vocalist of Soundgarden and Audioslave.
• He was a key figure of the 1990s grunge movement, with a nearly four-octave vocal range.
• Soundgarden formed in 1984 in Seattle; their Superunknown (1994) became their breakthrough, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Audioslave formed in 2001 after Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine; their debut album reached triple platinum status in the United States.
• Cornell released four solo studio albums: Euphoria Morning (1999), Carry On (2007), Scream (2009), and Higher Truth (2015).
• He wrote and performed "You Know My Name" for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale.
• He founded Temple of the Dog, a one-off tribute project to his late friend Andrew Wood, whose 1991 album was a hit.

Legacy

• Cornell sold 14.8 million albums in the U.S. alone and was nominated for 18 Grammy Awards, winning three.
• He was ranked number 9 on Rolling Stone's list of the best lead singers of all time.
• He died by suicide on May 18, 2017, in Detroit. In 2025 he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Soundgarden.

Reception

At release

• The album was well-received by critics
• Critics described it as psychedelic folk-rock with links to 1960s psychedelic melodies and acoustic songs
• Some critics described it as a shaded, textured rock album, less heavy than much of Soundgarden's music, yet still of a piece with Superunknown
• Lead single Can't Change Me was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards

Reappraisal

• Cornell's own later comments on the album stress its dark lyrics and the difficult period of his life when it was made
• The title change in 2015 gave the album a second public discussion

Records

• Debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 in its release week
• Sold over 75,000 copies in its first week of release
• Has sold over 393,000 copies in the U.S.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Wave Goodbye was written as a tribute to Cornell's friend Jeff Buckley, who died in 1997.
• Flutter Girl was an outtake from Soundgarden's 1994 album Superunknown.
• A reworked version of Mission, retitled Mission 2000, appeared on the soundtrack of Mission: Impossible 2.
• Moonchild is about Cornell's then-wife Susan Silver.
• The song Preaching the End of the World inspired the title of Lorene Scafaria's 2012 film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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