10 Alt Rock Songs That Are Impossible To Play On Guitar

10. Zero - Smashing Pumpkins

In the era when grunge rock was king, Smashing Pumpkins were a bit of a rare breed of bands that actually seemed like they wanted to be famous. All of the songs off of Siamese Dream tended to sound like they were ready for the arenas, and Billy Corgan even seemed more than happy to embrace the cultural leader role that Kurt Cobain probably didn't want around the same time. Songs like Today and Disarm were the palette cleanser though, and Mellon Collie was when things kicked up a notch.

Aside from all of the weird conceptual pieces that went into the production of this double album, Zero is one of the more aggro singles to come out of the project, driven by metal sounding guitars and different trashy harmonics that sound like they're ripped right off of a Pantera record. For all of Corgan's prowess on the instrument though, James Iha takes the solo here, with different bends and whammy bar dives that will have you wondering how the hell he even managed to get the version that we hear on tape.

Chances are that even James probably couldn't recreate it exactly how it's supposed to go either though, sounding more like a piece of magic made up on the spot when they decided they needed to cut to a guitar solo. The alternative movement may have been arena size, but there was still a punk attitude towards everything, with anti solos like these leading the charge.