10 Grunge Songs That Are Insanely Heavy

In the history of grunge bands, Stone Temple Pilots tend to get a bit of a raw deal. Although their songs may have killed on the stage and made them darlings of MTV, there were a lot of grunge purists that thought they were riding the bandwagon of the genre, especially when they found out they came from San Diego. Even if they weren't in the trenches with this sound though, they at least had the chops to pull it off all the way back on their debut.

Even though songs like Plush and Creep may be more indicative of what STP were at the time, Crackerman is the hardest song on their record Core, almost having an old school rock and roll swagger to it. Then again, you can kind of see the problem right there, as the riff fits somewhere between the harsher side of Pearl Jam and the stadium rock of Guns N Roses. You could see the influence, but Scott Weiland wasn't afraid to get weird either, breaking out the megaphone on the track and making for one hell of an opener whenever they played the song live.

If anything, this is the type of song that showed the range that grunge had beyond just Seattle, which the band would keep pushing against when they went full glam rock on albums like Tiny Music later down the road. As much as people may have liked to cover their ears at the time, this song has lasted a lot longer than some of the naysayers might have hoped.