And the top 10 grunge songs are...
10. The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Unusually intelligent rock music.
Everything about this music -- the chord progressions, the asymmetrical meter, the adventurous song structure -- shows that they're thinking things through more than most bands. This only enhances, doesn't detract from, the emotion.
9. Nirvana - All Apologies
1-chord verse + 2-chord bridge = greatness
8. Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
One of those "this is what it's all about" songs. Very straightforward, but everything just comes together here.
Don't miss the guitar solo, in which Dave Navarro reins in his virtuosity just enough to avoid glam-rock territory.
7. Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather
They're such a monumentally important and influential band that it feels wrong to pigeonhole them as "grunge." But I think this song fits in pretty well, with Kim Gordon's "I'm too lazy to sing an actual melody" ethos.
And those guitar noises!
10, 20, 30, 40...
6. Radiohead - Just
This is why Jonny Greenwood is an acclaimed guitarist. How many rock bands are even aware of the existence of the octatonic scale (a.k.a. diminished scale), let alone able to use it to such wonderfully stomach-churning effect?
Here's the famously enigmatic video:
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