10 Greatest Screams In Rock Music History

10. Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters

Bringing intensity to rock and roll wasn't really anything new for Dave Grohl when the Foo Fighters got rolling. Even if he never said that much from behind the drumkit in Nirvana most of the time, Dave was a student of the hardcore punk scene when it was just starting out, and you can hear him wearing some of those influences on his sleeve in the first handful of Foos songs like Wattershed and Weenie Beenie. The second album whipped the band into shape though, and Dave was up to the challenge with one of the best screams of his life.

Which is strange because Monkey Wrench isn't really a super intense song by any stretch. When you take away the guitars, this is just a typical love gone wrong song about a couple that just isn't communicating properly. While most of the song reads as super power pop half of the time, the real anger comes out after the bridge, where Dave goes on a long vocal run on one note before building it up to a scream at the end, catching the next chorus at the last few seconds.

The notes might not be that hard, but this would really be a test of endurance, with no real room to take a breath in between those words and continuing to build in intensity so that you're really hitting that last scream as strong as you possibly can. Though the crowd might take the reins for Dave half the time during some of the Foos' recent shows, this one snippet from the song is just a taste of the kind of stamina that Dave has for an entire show.