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Post by woolebull on Feb 22, 2022 15:08:58 GMT -5
Speaking of Van Halen, "Black and Blue" is a pretty solid contender. I also would put out there The Offspring and "Come Out and Play" from 1994. And not from a guitar point of view, but man the bass in "Mind Playing Tricks From Me" still jars me to this day.
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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 22, 2022 16:44:36 GMT -5
From the early days of AT40, I nominate Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and Frigid Pink's "House of the Rising Sun."
Also BTO'S "Roll On Down the Highway".
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2022 16:54:11 GMT -5
From the early days of AT40, I nominate Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and Frigid Pink's "House of the Rising Sun." Mountain's 'heavy' song was indeed heard on the first five AT40s, but Frijid Pink's acid-rock Animals remake was gone from the 40 (and the Hot 100) after the week ending May 2, so it missed AT40 by two months.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Feb 22, 2022 17:10:50 GMT -5
'Immigrant Song' by Led Zeppelin
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Post by Glass Joe on Feb 22, 2022 19:39:38 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. I, at first, was only talking about heaviest in sound as in most crunching guitars and such. But now that you mention the other definition of heavy, you could also include songs with heavy subject matter too.
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Post by Glass Joe on Feb 22, 2022 19:41:17 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. Great point! I actually change my response on this to "One" being the heaviest because the ending guitars are almost at thrash metal levels. At least "Enter Sandman" has a more commercial sound that made it more geared towards radio stations. I cannot at all say the same thing for "One."
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 22, 2022 20:00:02 GMT -5
From the early days of AT40, I nominate Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and Frigid Pink's "House of the Rising Sun." Mountain's 'heavy' song was indeed heard on the first five AT40s, but Frijid Pink's acid-rock Animals remake was gone from the 40 (and the Hot 100) after the week ending May 2, so it missed AT40 by two months. I'd say it's OK to keep Frijid Pink. "House of the Rising Sun" certainly is part of AT40 history, ranking at #60 on the Top 80 of 1970. Meanwhile, here's a movie scene flashback indirectly tied to the topic. Doc Brown to Marty McFly…“There’s that word again, heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?”
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 22, 2022 20:01:31 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. I, at first, was only talking about heaviest in sound as in most crunching guitars and such. But now that you mention the other definition of heavy, you could also include songs with heavy subject matter too. Their other top 40 hit is their power ballad "Nothing Else Matters". Saw them on the concert tour promoting their self titled album (the black album as it is referred to). They never played that song but 2 or 3 times played a few chords from it. They knew that the heavy sound was what their fans wanted and nothing less! Oops I quoted the wrong post. Meant to quote the previous post about Metallica.
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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 22, 2022 20:36:28 GMT -5
From the early days of AT40, I nominate Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and Frigid Pink's "House of the Rising Sun." Mountain's 'heavy' song was indeed heard on the first five AT40s, but Frijid Pink's acid-rock Animals remake was gone from the 40 (and the Hot 100) after the week ending May 2, so it missed AT40 by two months. Thanks mga707. Guess I'm confusing early AT40 with some of Joe's Cashbox countdowns from the early 70s By the way, let's not forget the ladies. "Barracuda" would be a good place to start, although Nancy Wilson recently admitted that Heart "borrowed" the signature riff from the Nazareth song "This Flight Tonight".
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Post by LC on Feb 22, 2022 20:45:23 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. Yep. One was the first song that crossed my mind when I saw the thread title. As for subject matter, I don't know...the plane crash victim bleeding to death in DOA or the war-scarred quadriplegic who can't communicate in One? It's a tossup. Or maybe the (implied) cannibalism of Timothy by the Buoys?
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Post by Glass Joe on Feb 23, 2022 2:02:55 GMT -5
I forgot about the Living Colour. They are definitely worth mentioning. They had some headbanger songs.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 23, 2022 3:27:45 GMT -5
I always thought Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns n Roses was a heavy song.
Two Led Zeppelin songs come to mind, as well, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 23, 2022 7:28:16 GMT -5
and Derek & The Dominos with Layla.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 23, 2022 20:41:55 GMT -5
This predates AT40, but Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer certainly stood out among the Top 40 in early 1968. I am sure many stations segued into Love Is Blue or Honey out of that song, or vice versa, and it must have been jarring.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 23, 2022 20:51:47 GMT -5
This predates AT40, but Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer certainly stood out among the Top 40 in early 1968. I am sure many stations segued into Love Is Blue or Honey out of that song, or vice versa, and it must have been jarring. That Blue Cheer version of Eddie Cochran's classic 1958 song is sometimes cited as the first glimmering of 'heavy metal'. Their follow-up, "Just a Little Bit", from that summer of '68, is every bit as 'heavy', if not more so. It only reached #92. "Blues", perhaps surprisingly, got to #14. As for the band's name, it supposedly came from a type of LSD, which in turn was named after the Proctor & Gamble laundry detergent. The band's other claim to fame was that they were alleged to be the loudest band in concert, when measured by decibel meter.
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