Soundgarden - Screaming Life / Fopp (CD)

Before Louder Than Love and Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden made two EPs for Sub Pop: Screaming Life (1987) and Fopp (1988). This 2013 reissue puts both on one disc, remastered by Jack Endino, who recorded the original sessions, and adds "Sub Pop Rock City" from the Sub Pop 200 compilation. It's the sound of Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Hiro Yamamoto and Matt Cameron figuring out what Seattle rock was going to be, from "Hunted Down" to their heavy take on the Ohio Players' "Fopp."