Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger

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The album maintained the band’s heavy metal sound, while featuring an increased focus on songwriting compared to the band’s previous releases. The focus on the Seattle grunge scene helped bring attention to Badmotorfinger, and the singles “Outshined” and “Rusty Cage”.

The Badmotorfinger logo on the cover of the album was drawn by guitarist Mark Dancey of the band Big Chief. Thayil suggested the title Badmotorfinger as a joke on the Montrose song “Bad Motor Scooter” and said, regarding the title: “It was sort of off the top of my head. I simply like it because it was colorful. It was kinda aggressive, too … It conjures up a lot of different kinds of images. We like the ambiguity in it, the way it sounded and the way it looked.”