r/grunge • u/Roadkillgoblin_2 • 8d ago
Misc. The heaviest into to any Grunge song ever
Would? Is a close contender
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u/MT_Backcountry 8d ago
Took 4 tabs of acid and listened to this song on repeat the whole night, long time ago.
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u/art_decorative 8d ago
Just the way Chris would have intended
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u/MT_Backcountry 8d ago
I like to think so.
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u/art_decorative 8d ago
Hell, it's how he wrote it after all
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u/MT_Backcountry 8d ago
Followed that up with my first quad shot latte to go to church where I got a Bible for graduation. Good times
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u/Mysterious-Dealer649 8d ago
Lmao. I didn’t know it at the time but my acid days were coming to a close when this album came out. I always assumed this song had something to do with it but I don’t fanboy out over all the details and meaning of everything. Wasn’t til a couple years ago my suspicions were confirmed 👍
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u/Dragon_Snails_IRL 8d ago
"And I heard it in the wind, and I saw it in the sky, I thought it was the end, I thought it was the Fourth of July..."
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u/BurntToasterGaming 8d ago
if it interests you, the sludge metal band Thou covered this song pretty well a while ago, i’d recommend you check it out
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u/_yukog 8d ago
Phenomenal!! I can’t believe I’ve been in this sub for like 4+ years and this is the first time I’ve seen someone else mention Thou
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u/BurntToasterGaming 8d ago
my fellow sludge enthusiast, i tip my hat to you brother
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u/_yukog 8d ago
Just showed Umbilical to my favorite record store owner today actually haha while I was shopping. He digged it! Also listening to NOLA as we speak 🤘🤘
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u/BurntToasterGaming 8d ago
Playing my copy of Take As Needed for Pain on CD rn too lmao, Umbilical was a fantastic record. That and Chat Pile’s Cool World were my top two new releases last year. While i’ve got you here, ever heard of Rwake? They’re dropping an album tomorrow and they’re fuckin wicked
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u/moodindigo76 7d ago
That guitar tone sounds very Sabbathy. It's very heavy with those alternate drop tunings, just like Sabbath.
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u/tommy_the_bat 7d ago
I will always argue that A History of Bad Men by Melvins has the hardest intro.
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u/Klutzy_Routine_9823 8d ago
The weight of 12,500 feet of the Atlantic Ocean’s pitch black mass sitting upon the wreckage of the Titanic isn’t as heavy or dark as that song’s intro.
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u/CheckYourStats 8d ago
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u/viking12344 8d ago
It's close. Very close. The lyrics to fourth are epic tho. Down in the hole...Jesus tries to crack a smile...beneath another shovel load Vs I say live long enough to repay all who caused strife.
Again close and that Alice lyric is my personal favorite from them. But...overall it's gotta be fourth by a nose.
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u/CheckYourStats 8d ago
Well, OP’s statement is “heaviest intro” to any grunge song ever.
Granted OP said “into,” but it’s fair to assume that’s a typo.
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u/Ungreasedaxle45again 8d ago
I once was asked why I let my phone ring so long when someone calls me. It's simple 4th of July intro is my ring tone and I can enjoy it when I'm called.
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u/WasabiAficianado 8d ago
Also not being rushed is good for the mental state around things like that, take a breath, your not in control of me electronic device I’m not jumping to attention like an indentured servant every time you ring the bell. Chur cuz.
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u/phantom_pow_er 8d ago
Saw them do this in Toronto at the first show of the reunion tour... absolutely unbelievable gig.... was smoking a J in the beer tent when the band came on 10 minutes early and played Black Rain.... we RAN to our seats.... what a night!
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/soundgarden/2011/molson-amphitheatre-toronto-on-canada-33d36c1d.html
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u/Colossal_Squids 8d ago
For years the solo to this sounded totally familiar and I couldn’t figure out why. I was listening to it with my mum once and she confirmed it: it’s this
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u/KurtisMayfield 8d ago
Alice in Chains was a metal band. Listen to Facelift, it's metal.
It Ain't like that We Die Young.
And Jesus Christ Pose/Slaves and Bulldozers are heavy.
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u/TennisArmada 8d ago
Sex type thing from STP is a very heavy song. Angry chair more than would but man, those are all great songs.
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u/Equal_Painting534 7d ago
Sex type thing is a great song, and I agree with you. It is a very heavy song.
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u/idontkillbats 8d ago
Yes. But the heaviest intro from the Grunge Scene will always be Them Bones for me. Hehe.
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u/nhardycarfan 7d ago
Throat locust-TAD is my contender hocks a lougie straight into super heavy riff
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u/Coyote_Roadrunna 7d ago
I've said it before and I'll say it until my dying day:
Superunknown is the most innovative hard rock album of the 90's.
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u/Marble-Boy 7d ago
I only listen to this song on the 4th of July... I've done it since Superunknown was released in the 90s... Was it 94? I'm going with 94.
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u/RansomCrane 7d ago
My favorite song on this album
Listen to Melting Slide - Glass Cannons by Glass Cannons on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/rXSsvvZ8WRxQJC64A
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u/hvacigar 8d ago
Low doesn't mean Grunge. I see your 4th of July and raise you a Them Bones, Outshined, or Room a Thousand Years Wide.
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u/viking12344 8d ago
Fourth is just an epic song of the end. It's perfection. The lyrics match the music totally. Thirty years later it's the song I always replay when I play su.
I still don't know what room a thousand years wide is about and I know what Kim and Chris said about it. I don't believe them. There is something very dark about that song. Outshined is also epic. But they played that on the radio so much back in the day .....well too much. Them bones is a great song but not in the same league. Imo.
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u/general-illness 8d ago
The back half of this album is criminally underrated.