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Post by Glass Joe on Feb 21, 2022 21:25:31 GMT -5
The song that comes to mind for being the heaviest song to make it to the Top 40 is most likely:
- "Enter Sandman" by Metallica.
- I think that song might still be a little heavier than "Smells Like Teen Spirit" even though they are both in the Hard Rock / Metal genre.
I will say some other songs that are pretty close, but still not quite as heavy as "Enter Sandman."
- Both "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence and "Headstrong" by Trapt are pretty close, but not quite.
- Also,it should be mentioned that there are 2 songs that actually contained screaming during the bridge before the final chorus, but most CHR and Top 40 radio stations cut that part out. Those are "Scars" by Papa Roach and "Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
Are there any others you can think of that give "Enter Sandman" a run for it's money?
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2022 0:18:09 GMT -5
For the '70-'88 'Casey Era', I'd go with "Smoke On the Water".
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 22, 2022 1:56:17 GMT -5
I'll stretch your time parameters and go with "Back in Black" by AC/DC and "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n' Roses.
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 22, 2022 2:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 22, 2022 7:13:16 GMT -5
Another Motley Crue song is heaviest: "Girls, Girls, Girls".
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Post by cdman71031 on Feb 22, 2022 7:57:39 GMT -5
I would say the heaviest song to ever make American top 40 in any erra Is "One" By Metallica. It may not start off heavy but the end rifts are very heavy. Might not have got much airplay but it got played on American top 40 several weeks in 1989. I also consider this one of the darkest records to make American top 40 in its history.
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Post by Mike on Feb 22, 2022 9:04:19 GMT -5
For CT40, Green Jelly's "Three Little Pigs" (three weeks in May/June 1993, two of them at #38) would have them all beat with an 8. |
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 22, 2022 10:07:12 GMT -5
I would concur with "Three Little Pigs". Just heard one of those shows with it at #38 last week. Funny thing, it was not on the AOR tracks chart, at least in the week corresponding to the show. I usually browse through the R&R issue of that week when I am listening to the show. Guess it was too heavy for that format.
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Post by Hervard on Feb 22, 2022 10:13:38 GMT -5
I would say the heaviest song to ever make American top 40 in any erra Is "One" By Metallica. It may not start off heavy but the end rifts are very heavy. Might not have got much airplay but it got played on American top 40 several weeks in 1989. I also consider this one of the darkest records to make American top 40 in its history. That last statement was actually something like what I, at first, thought Glass Joe meant by "heavy" - as in heavy subject matter of a song. |
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Post by woolebull on Feb 22, 2022 10:24:51 GMT -5
I was all about "One" being the heaviest, until I heard "DOA" by Bloodrock 😳. It might not be the "heaviest" music per se, but the lyrics take the music up a few notches for sure.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2022 10:52:58 GMT -5
That last statement was actually something like what I, at first, thought Glass Joe meant by "heavy" - as in heavy subject matter of a song. In that area, I nominate "D.O.A." by Bloodrock, 1971. |
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Post by Mike on Feb 22, 2022 11:44:59 GMT -5
I would concur with "Three Little Pigs". Just heard one of those shows with it at #38 last week. Funny thing, it was not on the AOR tracks chart, at least in the week corresponding to the show. I usually browse through the R&R issue of that week when I am listening to the show. Guess it was too heavy for that format. Probably didn't help that the song is basically a re-telling of the Three Little Pigs story - not exactly content that AOR would really go for.  |
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2022 12:16:52 GMT -5
For the '70-'88 'Casey Era', I'd go with "Smoke On the Water". No one agrees, huh? I just remember that hot summer of '73 thinking how 'acid rock' (as we called it back then) this sounded for an 'AM' top 10 (#1 in my area) hit. That unmistakable 'heavy' intro: 'Dut dut dah, dut dut da dah..."  |
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Post by matt on Feb 22, 2022 13:03:24 GMT -5
I would say the heaviest song to ever make American top 40 in any erra Is "One" By Metallica. It may not start off heavy but the end rifts are very heavy. Might not have got much airplay but it got played on American top 40 several weeks in 1989. I also consider this one of the darkest records to make American top 40 in its history. Without a doubt -- "One" is as heavy of a song I can think of ever hitting AT40, and yes very dark (I'm not sure I could ever bring myself to ever watch the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" after just seeing the footage in the video). "Welcome To the Jungle" definitely fits in this category, and maybe so does GnR's "You Could Be Mine". One other I would nominate for this honor is "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin -- a song that always seemed pretty heavy to me, especially for 1970. |
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Post by at40nut on Feb 22, 2022 13:35:44 GMT -5
All great selections, but I agree that "One" by Metallica was the first song that I thought of in terms of "heavy" rock and it's subject matter.
The 70's brought us "DOA" by Bloodrock, which I agree with. Only if Van Halen released "You Really Got Me" with "Eruption" as a double sided simultaneous hit could have fit the bill
As far as GN'R and Motley Crue, "You Could Be Mine" by GN'R gets my nomination while Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart" is what I would pick.
1993's "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly (Originally known as Green Jello-trademark issues) was really a novelty song, and a bad one at that. Sorry folks, I'm was a bit of a metal head back in the day.
Too bad that Warrant's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" didn't make the Top 40. That would have definitely made my list in terms of subject matter.
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