Telephantasm

The album was released in September 2010 on A&M Records following the band's reunion earlier that year. The career-spanning retrospective compilation includes an unreleased track, "Black Rain", taken from the Badmotorfinger recording sessions. In late August 2010, "Black Rain" reached No. 44 on the Canadian Hot 100 and No. 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart.

Kim Thayil explained the title Telephantasm as "an illusion at a distance, or a ghost from afar. Which I think would be an appropriate reference to what we have here — a retrospective of a band that had been inactive for thirteen years." He added that the album emerged from a project to create a "B-sides" compilation following the 1997 greatest hits album A-Sides, but the band decided to include some better-known songs because "we need to re-establish ourselves with the rock and roll audience out there, the younger audience".^[2]

The single-CD version of the album is featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, with "Black Rain" available on the disc and the remaining eleven tracks available as downloadable content alongside the release of the game.

The two-CD/DVD limited edition package includes a booklet containing a biography of Soundgarden written by Jeff Gilbert, a message from Thayil, and content credits.

The album features artwork by Josh Graham, who handles the visual arts for Neurosis as well as artwork for other musical artists.^[3]

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Single-disc version

All tracks are written by Chris Cornell, except where noted.

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No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Hunted Down" (Screaming Life EP, 1987)	Kim Thayil	2:41
2.	"Hands All Over" (Louder Than Love, 1989)	Thayil	5:58
3.	"Outshined" (Badmotorfinger, 1991)		5:11
4.	"Rusty Cage" (Badmotorfinger)		4:25
5.	"Birth Ritual" (Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992)	Cornell Thayil Matt Cameron	6:05
6.	"My Wave" (Superunknown, 1994)	Cornell, Thayil	5:13
7.	"Spoonman" (Superunknown)		4:08
8.	"Black Hole Sun" (Superunknown)		5:19
9.	"Fell on Black Days" (Superunknown)		4:39
10.	"Burden in My Hand" (Down on the Upside, 1996)		4:50
11.	"Blow Up the Outside World" (Down on the Upside)		5:46
12.	"Black Rain" (Previously unreleased, 2010)	Thayil, Ben Shepherd	5:25
Total length:			59:40

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Deluxe edition

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Disc one

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Place of origin	Length
1.	"All Your Lies" ('86 version)	Chris Cornell	Kim Thayil Hiro Yamamoto	Deep Six, 1986	3:52
2.	"Hunted Down"	Cornell	Thayil	Screaming Life EP, 1987	2:41
3.	"Fopp"	Billy Beck Leroy Bonner Marshall Jones Ralph Middlebrooks Mervin Pierce Clarence Satchell James Williams	Beck Bonner Jones Middlebrooks Pierce Satchell Williams	Fopp, 1988	3:38
4.	"Beyond the Wheel"	Cornell	Cornell	Ultramega OK, 1988	4:23
5.	"Flower" (BBC session for John Peel at the Golders Green Hippodrome, Golders Green, London, England, May 14, 1989)	Cornell	Thayil	Originally from Ultramega OK	3:28
6.	"Hands All Over"	Cornell	Thayil	Louder Than Love, 1989	5:58
7.	"Big Dumb Sex"	Cornell	Cornell	Louder Than Love	4:11
8.	"Get on the Snake" (Live at the Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA)	Cornell	Thayil	Louder Than Live, 1990	3:30
9.	"Room a Thousand Years Wide" (Single version)	Thayil	Matt Cameron	Badmotorfinger, 1991	4:14
10.	"Rusty Cage"	Cornell	Cornell	Badmotorfinger	4:27
11.	"Outshined"	Cornell	Cornell	Badmotorfinger	5:11
12.	"Slaves & Bulldozers"	Cornell	Cornell Ben Shepherd	Badmotorfinger	6:58
Total length:					52:31

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Disc two

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Place of origin	Length
1.	"Jesus Christ Pose" (Live)	Cornell	Cameron Cornell Shepherd Thayil	"Black Hole Sun" single B-side, 1994; originally from Badmotorfinger	7:13
2.	"Birth Ritual"	Cornell	Cornell Cameron Thayil	Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992	6:04
3.	"My Wave"	Cornell	Cornell Thayil	Superunknown, 1994	5:15
4.	"Superunknown"	Cornell	Cornell Thayil	Superunknown	5:09
5.	"Spoonman"	Cornell	Cornell	Superunknown	4:07
6.	"Black Hole Sun"	Cornell	Cornell	Superunknown	5:20
7.	"Fell on Black Days" (Video version)	Cornell	Cornell	Originally from Superunknown	4:46
8.	"Burden in My Hand"	Cornell	Cornell	Down on the Upside, 1996	4:49
9.	"Dusty"	Cornell	Shepherd	Down on the Upside	4:36
10.	"Pretty Noose" (Live on Saturday Night Live on May 18, 1996)	Cornell	Cornell	Originally from Down on the Upside	4:25
11.	"Blow Up the Outside World" (MTV Live 'N' Loud)	Cornell	Cornell	Originally from Down on the Upside	5:32
12.	"Black Rain"	Cornell	Thayil Shepherd	Previously unreleased	5:26
13.	"The Telephantasm" (iTunes album bonus track)	Thayil	Thayil	Previously unreleased	2:57
Total length:					65:39

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DVD

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No.	Title	Length
1.	"Flower"
2.	"Hands All Over"
3.	"Loud Love"
4.	"Jesus Christ Pose" (Original version)
5.	"Outshined"
6.	"Rusty Cage"
7.	"My Wave"
8.	"Spoonman"
9.	"The Day I Tried to Live" (Uncensored)
10.	"Black Hole Sun"
11.	"Fell on Black Days"
12.	"Pretty Noose" (Uncensored)
13.	"Burden in My Hand"
14.	"Blow Up the Outside World" (Uncensored)

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Bonus videos

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No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spoonman" (Mash-up version)
2.	"The Day I Tried to Live" (European version)
3.	"Superunknown"
4.	"Pretty Noose" (International version)
5.	"Pretty Noose" (Alternate ending)
6.	"Blow Up the Outside World" (Censored)

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Soundgarden

• Chris Cornell – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Kim Thayil – lead guitar
• Ben Shepherd – bass on tracks 3–12 (Single Disc); tracks 9–12 on CD1, and tracks 1–12 on CD2 (Deluxe Edition)
• Matt Cameron – drums
• Hiro Yamamoto – bass on tracks 1–2 (Single Disc); tracks 1–7 on CD1 (Deluxe Edition)
• Jason Everman – bass on track 8 on CD1 (Deluxe Edition)
• Scott Sundquist – drums on track 1 on CD1 (Deluxe Edition)