Released September 21, 1999 Length 50:55 Artist Chris Cornell Label A&M Records | Recorded 1998–1999 Euphoria Morning
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Producers Chris Cornell, Natasha Shneider, Alain Johannes Genres Rock music, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Folk rock Similar Chris Cornell albums, Alternative rock albums | ||
Chris cornell euphoria morning
Euphoria Morning is the first solo studio album released by American musician Chris Cornell. It was released on September 21, 1999 through Interscope Records. Euphoria Morning sold over 75,000 copies in its first week of release and eventually sold 343,000 copies in the U.S. alone. While a large success critically, it did not sell nearly as well as Cornell's albums with Soundgarden. It is Cornell's only album between the split of Soundgarden until he formed Audioslave with members of Rage Against the Machine. The original working title of this album was to be "Euphoria Mourning" however, a typo changed the album name to "Euphoria Morning". This was confirmed by Chris Cornell at his Philadelphia show on the Songbook Tour. In 2015 the album was re-released on CD and vinyl with the title Euphoria Mourning, with Chris Cornell stating in the press release that he had originally intended for the album to be called Eurphoria Mourning. In radio interviews at the time of the album's original release, Cornell noticed that the words "morning" and "mourning" sound identical when spoken. He decided that spelling it "mourning" was confusing, so he changed it to "morning". As soon as the album came out, he immediately regretted the decision.
Contents
Chris cornell can t change me euphoria morning
Recording history
In 1998, Cornell began working on material for a solo album on which he collaborated with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven. "Flutter Girl" was an outtake from Superunknown, the 1994 Soundgarden album. During his 2007 solo tour, Cornell stated that "Wave Goodbye" was written as a tribute to Jeff Buckley, who drowned in 1997.
Musical style
According to AllMusic's Euphoria Morning is " a shaded, textured rock album," lacking the "grinding sludge and furious rock" of Soundgarden. Nevertheless, the album was described to be of a piece with Soundgarden's psychedelic-indebted 1994 album Superunknown and delves back into ’60s psychedelic melodies and acoustic ditties." Los Angeles Times' Mikael Wood described the album's style as "psychedelic folk-rock."
Reception
The album proved commercially unsuccessful although the album's single "Can't Change Me" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards. He also contributed the song "Sunshower" (a bonus track on the Japanese release of Euphoria Morning) to the soundtrack of the 1998 film, Great Expectations, and a reworked version of the track "Mission", retitled "Mission 2000", was used on the soundtrack to the 2000 film, Mission: Impossible II. In 2000, Cornell embarked on a tour in support of the album.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Chris Cornell.
Personnel
Personnel adapted from Euphoria Morning liner notes.
Songs
1Can't Change Me3:24
2Flutter Girl4:25
3Preaching the End of the World4:41