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"Flower" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. Featuring lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil, "Flower" was released in May 1989 as the only single from their debut album, Ultramega OK (1988). The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album, A-Sides. An alternate BBC version of "Flower" recorded on May 14, 1989, appeared on the Deluxe Edition of the band's 2010 compilation album Telephantasm. Origin and recording "Flower" features lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil. Thayil on the song: This song marks the first time I ever blew on a guitar. I put the guitar down on the ground near the amp to get a humming feedback, as opposed to a squealy one, and blew across the strings in rhythm with the drums. There's probably some obscure Mississippi blues guitarist like 'Blind Lemon Pledge' who's done that before, but "Flower" is the first time any rock band had recorded the sound of someone blowing across the strings. It sounds like a sitar. Composition Thayil stated, "On the song "Flower" from Ultramega OK, loads of people asked me how I played that so fast—they think I'm playing all these wild barre chords. It's just tuning the bottom E down to D!" Lyrics Regarding "Flower", Cornell said "it's about a girl ... who becomes a woman and basically invests everything in vanity and then burns out quick."

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Notable quotes

“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

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Overview

"Flower" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. Featuring lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil, "Flower" was released in May 1989 as the only single from their debut album, Ultramega OK (1988). The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album, A-Sides. An alternate BBC version of "Flower" recorded on May 14, 1989, appeared on the Deluxe Edition of the band's 2010 compilation album Telephantasm. Origin and recording "Flower" features lyrics written by frontman Chris Cornell and music written by guitarist Kim Thayil. Thayil on the song: This song marks the first time I ever blew on a guitar. I put the guitar down on the ground near the amp to get a humming feedback, as opposed to a squealy one, and blew across the strings in rhythm with the drums. There's probably some obscure Mississippi blues guitarist like 'Blind Lemon Pledge' who's done that before, but "Flower" is the first time any rock band had recorded the sound of someone blowing across the strings. It sounds like a sitar. Composition Thayil stated, "On the song "Flower" from Ultramega OK, loads of people asked me how I played that so fast—they think I'm playing all these wild barre chords. It's just tuning the bottom E down to D!" Lyrics Regarding "Flower", Cornell said "it's about a girl ... who becomes a woman and basically invests everything in vanity and then burns out quick."

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Flower: sexual reproductive structure found on flowering plants · 2005 single by Kumi Koda · song by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair · song by Cody Simpson

Notable quotes

“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.