10 Greatest Screams In Rock Music History

For all of the rock and roll diehards out there, there's a good chance that we will never get a band like Led Zeppelin ever again. Even though Greta Van Fleet may try their hand at that style, there's no one able to dial in that kind of intensity at the right place and time, with Robert Plant becoming one of the gods of rock just through the power of his bluesy tenor voice. Zeppelin might not be with us anymore, but Chris Cornell might be the next best thing to what Plant was tapping into.

Before the core part of Spoonman even starts though, you can tell that you're in for something big behind the mic, as Chris sings different ad libs in the intro to test the walls of his own voice. Framed much like Black Dog off of Zeppelin IV, this track is practically a showcase for Cornell's voice, with every member of the band dropping out whenever he holds out a note. As the rest of the band build that bluesy atmosphere around him, Chris sounds like he has a Marshall stack in the back of his throat, bringing a lot more bite to a song that's just about a guy who plays the spoons in Seattle.

While it's easy to single out every line on here, the best part of the song is the breakdown coming out of the solo, where Chris builds with the rest of the band before exploding into one more round of the chorus. The notes here might be straight out of the blues half of the time, but using your voice as an instrument like this is something that only Chris Cornell was able to do.