10 Alt Rock Songs That Are Impossible To Play On Guitar

Out of every guitarist to come out of Seattle, Kim Thayil may have been the most original musician out of them all. Even though some of the sounds on songs like Louder Than Love and Badmotorfinger may have been a little tough to take in all at once, you were never going to mistake Kim's guitar tone for anyone else in Washington, having the right mix of metallic fire and melodicism to keep things engaging. And while Spoonman was technically a hokey song about a guy playing the spoons, the guitar solo feels like the most advanced thing in the world.

Structured very much like Led Zeppelin's Black Dog with the constant stop start vocals, the guitar solo practically feels like a song by itself, starting off with a lyrical guitar line that would have come out of George Harrison's lick library until finally exploding, almost creating a barrage of notes around you and grouping the notes so strangely where you never exactly know where the beat is while you're playing it.

Compared to the more technically minded guitar players that have come and gone in rock history, Kim almost sounds like he's trying to tame his guitar here, as it gets more and more out of hand and finally bringing it to a stop before Matt Cameron's drum break anchors everything back down again. Grunge was always indebted to the heavier side of rock, and a solo like this feels like the child of Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, and Frank Zappa all at the same time.