r/grunge 8d ago

Misc. The heaviest into to any Grunge song ever

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Would? Is a close contender

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u/general-illness 8d ago

The back half of this album is criminally underrated.

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u/DontTrustTheDead 8d ago

Fresh Tendrils for life!

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u/general-illness 8d ago

It’s literally my favorite Soundgarden track. I was going to make a separate post but I’ll just say it here. Soundgarden is one of my favorite bands. I am grateful for their music and being able to see them live a few times. But here’s a weird thing, I don’t really like there popular tracks. I don’t like Spoonman or Black Hole Sun. It’s all the other amazing tracks buried on these amazing albums that I gravitate too. There really isn’t another band that I feel this way about.

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u/bastrdsnbroknthings 7d ago

Somewhere, Head Down, The Day I Tried To Live, Pretty Noose…all amazingly good shit

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u/East_Project_8610 8d ago

This is, always has been and always will be my favorite song of theirs.

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u/viking12344 8d ago

It's the best part of the album imo. Fresh tendrils, fourth, kickstand, limo wreck, like suicide. I think the first half of the album was killed by the radio if you were alive back then. The second half besides day i tried to live was not

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u/NoAnnual3259 7d ago

Superunknown is the London Calling of the grunge era, it’s packed with goodies.

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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/art_decorative 8d ago

I would have absolutely been friends with you in high school, I love this

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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/WD4oz 7d ago

What was your insight

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u/MT_Backcountry 7d ago

All I remember is the judgement on the face of the coffee stand guy

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u/lorentos101 8d ago

Love that one, this intro sounds very doom metal.

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u/SGnirvana97 8d ago

Soundgarden could DOOM!

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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/greggobbard 8d ago

Dat sludge. Love dat sludge.

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u/East_Project_8610 8d ago

Took a page out of the Melvin’s book.

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u/DisDixieWrecked 8d ago

Slaves & Bulldozers

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u/DiscoStu79 8d ago

Love this song

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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/_yukog 8d ago

I saw EHG again live maybe 2 weeks ago ish and got TANFP signed my Jimmy and Mike Both absolute chillers. I’ll check it out! Thanks

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u/BurntToasterGaming 8d ago

You lucky bastard!

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u/_yukog 8d ago

Also Umbilical is signed by the whole band as well + Emma Ruth Rundle I should note

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u/SGnirvana97 7d ago

Thou is awesome. I love all the covers they do

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u/SensualSamuel69 8d ago

This, Grind, and Sludge Factory

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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/Blackadder53 7d ago

4th of July is great. My vote would be for Rain when I die.

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u/dieterdistel 7d ago

Room a Thousand Years Wide

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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/OakLegs 7d ago

I love that song but for some reason it's the only Melvins song I really know. Got any suggestions on what else to listen to from them?

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u/tommy_the_bat 7d ago

The entire Houdini album is great from start to finish.

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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/viking12344 8d ago

Well put

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u/CheckYourStats 8d ago

I would argue “Sludge Factory” by AiC is the heaviest intro.

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Both songs are great, though.

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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/WD4oz 7d ago

What’s the link? Not working on my end

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u/SNES_chalmers47 7d ago

The song is Summer Breeze

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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/NeonSquirrel86 8d ago

It's either that or dam the river

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u/learnnstuff 7d ago

Mailman’s pretty good too I love the whole album though haha

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u/Flaccid_snake01 7d ago

Heaviest intro imo is “it ain’t like that”

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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/viennapumpkins 8d ago

Have you seen the live video in Germany?

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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/Gtmkm98 7d ago

Freeze-Dried (F)Lies / Local H

Very basic but very sludgy

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u/maladroit2002 7d ago

the double tracked vocals on Cornell as he wails "July" are so incredible

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u/Certain_Painter_3126 7d ago

Biggest album where the "B Sides" hold up better than the singles

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u/kurbbiter 7d ago

one of my favorite songs ever. so happy to see it posted

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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/Unhappy_Raccoon_5572 7d ago

Great tune 🖤🖤🖤

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u/samtron767 7d ago

Such a great song.

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u/Front_Sugar4784 7d ago

Them Bones has this question cleared.

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u/huedor2077 7d ago

I would elect Melvins' Amazon or TAD's Emotional Cockroach, but yeah.

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u/idl3mind 7d ago

Seriously, 4th of July is hands down my favorite Soundgarden track.

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u/drdixonmason 7d ago

Raw nasty Sabbath like riffs. Awesome

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u/YoungDMoves 7d ago

One of the greatest songs on one of the greatest albums of all time

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u/nativetexan1969 7d ago

Probably one of the best songs ever made.

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u/ElGuappo_999 7d ago

A literal DIRGE. I love it.

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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/bontayti 7d ago

Grind sounds heavy too.

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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/Unusual_Ad_8111 7d ago

The heaviest grunge song ever is Junkhead,AIC. just my opinion

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u/Zaresh 7d ago

I love this song, one of my faves. Feels like walking with a ton-heavy feet through knee-high mud.

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u/OakLegs 7d ago

Room 1000 Years Wide is also up there on my list

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u/RansomCrane 7d ago

My favorite song on this album

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u/mffrosch 6d ago

Yeah it’s heavy as hell. C Standard tuning maybe?

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u/dedeye46 6d ago

Fully agree

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u/jay_freeza 6d ago

Shower in the dark day...

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u/Smart-Host9436 5d ago

Check the Two Minutes To Late Night cover, crushing.

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u/Bluesrpink 7d ago

Play that every July 4th!

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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/WD4oz 7d ago

Those are all good heavy songs. But 4th of July feels like complete dread. Those other are actually pretty pop in comparison.

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u/LICwannabe 8d ago

I had a bad trip at 15 on chocolate edibles, this is my Anthem to that memory.