1. A hit song written by the band Soundgarden on their 1994 album, Superunknown. The song was, some say, the band's big break into becoming fully mainstream. It was originally intended to be used on the soundtrack for the Cameron Crowe movie "Singles". The song's inspiration is...
2. Artis The Spoonman, a street performer from California and later Seattle, who plays music using sets of spoons. He has played with various other big names in music, such as Frank Zappa, was featured in the video for Soundgarden's "Spoonman" and has been called "Seattle's best kept secret" by Steven Tyler
"Spoonman is such a fuckin' awesome song"
"Hell yeah, I love that riff!"
Spoonman is one of the tracks found on Soundgarden - Super Unknown album, written by Chris Cornel.
The meaning behind the song title differs due to personal interpretation or even just association (from things such as heroin or even spooning???)
However, the song title came from the name of a Seattle street performer, ‘Artis the Spoonman,’ who would bang out complex patterns using spoons and other metallic objects rather than conventional percussion. Artis also performed in the Spoonman music video, which eclipsing "Black Hole Sun", became one of their most popular video/singles released at the time.