Listen to the official playlist with all of the picks from this episode here: Spotify - open.spotify.com/playlist/4qM43HqPA39ZiRNE8p93N8?si=4f8b75e98cdd408e Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/playlist/hardlores-hard-songs-by-soft-bands/pl.u-yZyVWdLtd4kG1p3
You said ‘Paramore but hard’ talking about Katy Perry and that leads me to throw down my own pick “All We Know” Track One. First album. It has a legit spinkick breakdown. It’s brief but perfect. BAAA DAAA DAAA *WEEEEEEE* NYOW NYOWWW NYOW iS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED !?? DA NA NA *EEEEEEEEEEEE* IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED ??? I have ripped it off in my old hardcore bands. It rules. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
I want you (She’s so Heavy) - the Beatles. Unbelievably heavy riff and how it it just keeps getting louder and louder and then abruptly cuts out of the blue?? Unbelievable.
That outro is the sound of the world getting ripped apart. People always say they invented metal with Helter Skelter, but it doesn't even come close to this song
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Heavy bass, crazy break beat, insane vocals with screaming at 2:37, unhinged music video "I want your soul I will eat your soul Come to daddy"
White Limo by Foo Fighters goes so fucking hard. The riffage and Dave just screaming into a megaphone effect. The dropout in the last 15 seconds. Total banger.
Gotta go with I Want You (Shes So Heavy) - The Beatles. The ending ending gets heavier every time they play the riff over again. Lyrically not hard at all but the riff is hard af
Take on Me by A-ha. Chorus during the "I'll be gone" part it switches to a half time ass beater for like two bars then picks right up into two-step territory.
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream That riff has so much attitude, the whole track is a high energy 2-step with a hard solo/instrumental outro. Bonus points for pulling off a mean-ass banger that has “woohoo”s in it.
My pick for weezer would have been tired of sex personally. Low key a break down at the end. Hash pipe is hard asf tho I made this before bo shouted out pinkerton. Bo’s the man for that
Blur- Song 2 I went to their concert in 1997 while they toured with that album. My friend said, "there isn't going to be moshing!" I told him to wait and see!
No One Loves Me and Neither Do I by Them Crooked Vultures. Not a soft band but the breakdown of that song is insane and makes me want to run through a wall
Artist/band: Vincente Fernandez Album: El Idolo de Mexico Song: El Rey Reason why it’s hard: HARD Lyrics Con dinero y sin dinero Yo hago siempre lo que quiero Y mi palabra es la ley No tengo trono ni reina Ni nadie que me comprenda Pero sigo siendo el rey Translation: With money and without money I always do what I want And my word is the law I have no throne or queen Nor anyone who understands me But I'm still the king
AFI - Death of Seasons While AFI was technically considered a hardcore band, this song in the greater context of this album and stage of their career is insane.
Despite Sing the Sorrow being their "sellout" album (i love the record) it has the hardest moments in their career. The breakdown in But Home is Nowhere also goes pretty hard
Guys you have to check out more of the band Live. They go really hard most of the time even though they have all those great softer songs too and they are amazing live. But they do have of alot of heavy of harder songs check out Stage, waterboy, lakininis juice, tbd operation spirit, hero psycho dreamer, just a few. Thank me later Live is amazing.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Self-Immolate A song literally gooning so hard to set yourself on fire. Crazy time sig on this one too. This band rips like 3 albums a year of folky-experimental madness and decided to lay some pipe on us with an entire full length thrash album.
Your comment along with the story about Weezer at 33RPM reminded me of this: th-cam.com/video/7_PchtX8oAo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PsfRHwqkYzhIov8d Gaia at 33RPM goes HAAAAARD
Doesn't matter if you're a big, beardy tattooed metalhead... That's one song we can ALL agree was an absolute banger when it released, and is still a banger to this day.
Great concept. Really enjoy this format. I discover so much cool music through this and your breakdown series. I personally would like a "best of two step sections " or something like that. Always love a great two step :D
Just gotta say, I had to file for FMLA a few weeks ago due to a freak injury from doing some work on the heavy bag. The lack of an outlet, along with the social isolation has been crazy on my mental health. Gentlemen, thank you for providing some reprieve to pass the time.
“Ring Around the Rosie” - Mother Goose. Mostly known for their child friendly nursery rhymes this one is actually about open sores, the black plague, and impending death. Extremely hard.
No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend the chorus is hard, the snare is dope, and Tony’s bass is thick as hell at 2:24 Smashing Pumpkins - Zero - one of the sickest riffs and one of their heaviest songs. God is empty just like me. Hard Soundgarden - Birth Ritual and Room a Thousand Years Wide - both songs are hard as shit, beginning to end, come on. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - dark tone and theme, insane lyrics, homie talking about cutting throats of babies. Claudio is a master. Song had me floored at 13. Paramore - My Heart - song builds and builds and then goes off at 2:37. Double bass at the end lol Hard way to close an album. Emma Ruth Rundle - Real Big Sky - the heaviest song on here, with just an acoustic guitar, that could be a doom song. witnessing someone’s pain and them waiting to die. Crushing. Emma deserves more praise.
Thankyou for mentioning the Neurosis tuning because I remember the first time I heard Given To The Rising, on headphones at that, and it completely changed the way I understood music. Completely blew my teenage mind
@@cidnemo he'll be talking about about a distinct sound across Neurosis's albums but id say for me 'Through Silver In Blood' and 'Given To The Rising' It's just oppressively heavy, Mastodon do it really well on Crack The Skye
I think one of the hardest songs by a soft band is “All these things that I’ve done” by The Killers. The palm muted chug part, if played on an Ibanez through a cranked 5150, would signal the start of the purge. It got both me (who only wanted to listen to Perseverance) and my college roommate (who only wanted to listen to Nile and Napalm Death) to both go “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” when we heard it.
Big bang live 😮 I punched a nerd in 2012 by accident when they randomly started playing that song at the union transfer in Philly . Doesn’t hit the same on the record but live …. Holy shit
So glad you guys put Into Another on here, they have to be one of the most criminally underrated bands of all-time. They actually just put out a new album at the beginning of the month and it's really incredible.
Hardest Song by a soft band: War - Don’t Let No One Get You Down Could easily be a hardcore song with the lyrics similar to Jasta or Vogel “Don't let no one, no one get you down Cause if they do, if they do I'll be around I want you near standing here by my side So my dear wipe those tears from your eyes”
My Pick: Title Fight: Head In The Ceiling Fan. You can’t not just not, that was the first song I ever heard by them and was blown away. Even if it’s soft in some parts; the lyrics just speak to you. Either your moshing or your crying. Miss you Title Fight, if you come back you’ll still have a place to call home.
Yooooooo......Going the Fleetwood Mac route...."Big Love." That riff, Lindsey Buckingham singing his heart out wanting love & you have the "Ooooohhh/Ahhhhh" at the end? HARD.
Soundgarden - 4th of July. Soundgarden is kind of a hard "soft" band, but 4th of July is probably the heaviest opening that any "soft" band has ever had. Kind of in the same realm as your AIC suggestions.
Led Zeppelin had some of the hardest shit. When the Levee Breaks, Heartbreaker, How Many More Times, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You. All of those songs could be EASILY made into full-on metal versions.
Hunger Strike is great, but "Say Hello to Heaven" is one of Chris' best vocal deliveries ever. It is simultaneously bluesy, rocking and also somber given that it was his eulogy to their passed friend Andrew Wood.
Angels Of The Silences- Counting Crows Starts with shrill feedback and a atmbol count in. Song is pretty fast and punky. Vocals kinda work thier way up to a yell at some points. I was caught off guard the first time I heard this one.
Enya - Tempus Vernum is pure evil. It may as well be on the Bloodborne soundtrack. The whole song is a 2 minute marching breakdown sung in Latin and the lyric translation sounds like a witch coven trying to summon Cthulhu.
In honor of Detroit I have to say Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground by the White Stripes. That intro riff is very spincuckable. Could be the heaviest riff out of Detroit by a notoriously not heavy band. Great list. Hope to see yall in Detroit.
Kate Mccannon by Colter Wall is INCREDIBLY heavy! The lyrics are about gunning down your lady after finding her cheating AND that riff as the song crescendos?! HARD
3eb self titled was my favorite album of all time for most of my life. The line in how's it gonna be where he belts out "wanna taste the salt on your skin, the, slow dive of, oblivion" gives me chills and makes me tear up just thinking about it. Can't even play this album anymore. Too good.
Right, I have a stupid/controversial pick and an actual pick. Actual pick is Back Pack, by AJJ. Just the hardest, most vicious lyrics over indie folk instrumentation, but even that is the hardest version of that possible, an acoustic has never sounded so great and menacing. Stupid pick is Dyers Eve by Metallica. Yeah, I know they're not really a soft band per se, but like, to me nothing else they've done has been as hard as that track, and definitely not in the same way. "I've outgrown that fucking lullaby"? Thats hard as fucking diamond, dude. Super underrated track.
Belinda Carlisle- Mad About You A hardcore band should cover that jam. I’m serious. It has that nice slow bridge that could be worked into a slow mosh, plus the backup singing lends to sing alongs. Could be epic Others… Aha- Take on Me Kansas- Carry on My Wayward Sun Lastly… Queen- Under Pressure… that “breakdown” part is so dope
Listen to the official playlist with all of the picks from this episode here:
Spotify - open.spotify.com/playlist/4qM43HqPA39ZiRNE8p93N8?si=4f8b75e98cdd408e
Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/playlist/hardlores-hard-songs-by-soft-bands/pl.u-yZyVWdLtd4kG1p3
Colin's wearing sleeves...shit's about to get serious
Must be laundry day 😂
Shirt just got serious lol
Colin just looking at Bo like a teacher looking at a student who didn’t understand the assignment
Bands: soft
Lore: hard as fuck
The lady Gaga intro was top tier
What If by Creed, the breakdown is INSANE and it's Scott Stapp's most angry performance
And it's on the Scream 3 soundtrack which is hard.
My own prison
Solid choice 💯
song fucking riiiiips
Glad to see this getting the love it deserves and always has
Huge points to Colin for Coheed’s No World for Tomorrow. As a longtime fan of them and hardcore, hearing that breakdown made me so happy.
Patti Smith - Because the Night goes h a r d. Bonus points to the 10,000 Maniacs live cover featuring a whole ass orchestra
Green Day - Take Back
I still remember that song catching me off guard at first listen
platypus on that album too.
You said ‘Paramore but hard’ talking about Katy Perry and that leads me to throw down my own pick
“All We Know”
Track One.
First album.
It has a legit spinkick breakdown. It’s brief but perfect. BAAA DAAA DAAA *WEEEEEEE* NYOW NYOWWW NYOW
iS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED !??
DA NA NA *EEEEEEEEEEEE*
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED ???
I have ripped it off in my old hardcore bands. It rules.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
if there's anyone that deserves to go to tied down after this comment section it's you, because JESUS CHRIST this song rules
Amen brother
I want you (She’s so Heavy) - the Beatles. Unbelievably heavy riff and how it it just keeps getting louder and louder and then abruptly cuts out of the blue?? Unbelievable.
This is what I was gonna comment with! That part goes so hard
YES
exactly the song i was going to comment
That outro is the sound of the world getting ripped apart. People always say they invented metal with Helter Skelter, but it doesn't even come close to this song
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Heavy bass, crazy break beat, insane vocals with screaming at 2:37, unhinged music video
"I want your soul
I will eat your soul
Come to daddy"
Aphex Twin isnt soft on any planet.
@@tmw3489I get what he means though, electronic is not usually known for being in the realm of insanity like Aphex
They put alice in chains there
White Limo by Foo Fighters goes so fucking hard. The riffage and Dave just screaming into a megaphone effect. The dropout in the last 15 seconds. Total banger.
I thought this but couldn’t say foo fighters was a soft band. But for a pop band it is hard hard. And stacked actors
Foo Fighters - FFL
Is also a hard track. Bonus song on In Your Honor.
Also Lemmy is in the music video
Foo Fighters are hard rock though. They have poppy hooks, but the sound is heavy enough.
Weenie Beenie is the hardest Foo Fighters song and I'll die on that hill. I could 2step to that shit all day
Saves The Day was the low key hardest band in the Jersey hardcore circuit back in the day. Every show was a bloodbath.
Gotta go with I Want You (Shes So Heavy) - The Beatles. The ending ending gets heavier every time they play the riff over again. Lyrically not hard at all but the riff is hard af
Criminal by Fiona Apple
“What would an angel say? The devil wants to knowwwwwwww”
Hard AF.
San Quentin - Nickelback also has the hardest intro 100% spin kickable
Take on Me by A-ha. Chorus during the "I'll be gone" part it switches to a half time ass beater for like two bars then picks right up into two-step territory.
I’ve always acknowledged this. I explain it every time too! Haha
Check out the a-ha Limmy sketch. Hard band for sure.
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream
That riff has so much attitude, the whole track is a high energy 2-step with a hard solo/instrumental outro. Bonus points for pulling off a mean-ass banger that has “woohoo”s in it.
“XYU” by Smashing Pumpkins
Frantic, emotional, and yes.. HARD!
My pick for weezer would have been tired of sex personally. Low key a break down at the end. Hash pipe is hard asf tho
I made this before bo shouted out pinkerton. Bo’s the man for that
Maladroit is an underrated Weezer album with plenty of awesome riffs. Fall Together, American Gigolo, Take Control.
My pick is:
Sh!t Luck by Modest Mouse
This song always has people moshing at their shows 🤘🏽
I said Bury Me With It lol
The Toy Machine ad in Zero's Misled Youth put me on to that one. It wouldn't be till years later till I got into their other stuff.
Damn wish I thought about this song, but yes very hard song
What People Are Made Of goes hard as well.
Blur- Song 2 I went to their concert in 1997 while they toured with that album. My friend said, "there isn't going to be moshing!" I told him to wait and see!
Militarie Gun played it recently in Atlanta on their tour and it went hard af.
No One Loves Me and Neither Do I by Them Crooked Vultures. Not a soft band but the breakdown of that song is insane and makes me want to run through a wall
Artist/band: Vincente Fernandez
Album: El Idolo de Mexico
Song: El Rey
Reason why it’s hard: HARD Lyrics
Con dinero y sin dinero
Yo hago siempre lo que quiero
Y mi palabra es la ley
No tengo trono ni reina
Ni nadie que me comprenda
Pero sigo siendo el rey
Translation: With money and without money
I always do what I want
And my word is the law
I have no throne or queen
Nor anyone who understands me
But I'm still the king
AFI - Death of Seasons
While AFI was technically considered a hardcore band, this song in the greater context of this album and stage of their career is insane.
Despite Sing the Sorrow being their "sellout" album (i love the record) it has the hardest moments in their career. The breakdown in But Home is Nowhere also goes pretty hard
@@craigjames8569 It's also their best album
Live - Throwing Cooper has bangers on it for sure. Great choice!!
Guys you have to check out more of the band Live. They go really hard most of the time even though they have all those great softer songs too and they are amazing live. But they do have of alot of heavy of harder songs check out Stage, waterboy, lakininis juice, tbd operation spirit, hero psycho dreamer, just a few. Thank me later Live is amazing.
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
The drums are heavy and the song is about a volcano erupting
Future by paramore, the last song on the self titled, as a teenage emo kid, was the heaviest thing I've ever heard still to this day
This
Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work. Hardest shit ever. The atmosphere will crush anyone’s soul.
👌
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Self-Immolate
A song literally gooning so hard to set yourself on fire. Crazy time sig on this one too. This band rips like 3 albums a year of folky-experimental madness and decided to lay some pipe on us with an entire full length thrash album.
So good
Invade the rats nest is such a good record
Your comment along with the story about Weezer at 33RPM reminded me of this: th-cam.com/video/7_PchtX8oAo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PsfRHwqkYzhIov8d
Gaia at 33RPM goes HAAAAARD
Oasis - morning glory
That intro is heavy as fuck
Badass track, maybe their best. And makes for some excellent 90s nostalgia.
High Vis covered it at Outbreak and it went OFF
Cigarettes and alcohol would be my pick
Bring it on downnnn
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreets Back)
Insane riff
Sabotage too. That bassline makes me want to punch a baby
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave? (you are correct)
And the music video is Thriller-esque
yeah, that bass riff is a straight rip from Alice Cooper's Eighteen, and it's a brilliant rip.
Doesn't matter if you're a big, beardy tattooed metalhead... That's one song we can ALL agree was an absolute banger when it released, and is still a banger to this day.
MCR is sick and they do rock, indeed
The editing on this episode goes crazy hard
Nick Cave - Stagger Lee
From the album Murder Ballads. Both lyrics and song goes hard as fuck and the outro has the snare from stanger in it
Nick Cave rules
Stagger Lee doesn't even make the top 20 of hardest Bad Seeds songs
the whole skeleton tree album is brutal lyrically
DUDE THE MOUNTAIN GOATS LFG
Disintergration - The Cure
Converge cover is so good
@@robotomassi2011didn’t know this at all Wtf🤦🏽♂️🙏🏽
@@Bleepbloop123geniunely one of the best covers ever
Great concept. Really enjoy this format. I discover so much cool music through this and your breakdown series.
I personally would like a "best of two step sections " or something like that.
Always love a great two step :D
Jane’s Addiction Mountain Song. A song so heavy that my favorite Judge riff is Jane’s Addiction Mountain song
Outfield “Your Love” is hard. The way the drum work against the riff? Delicious.
Also Tori Amos “God” is basically a NIN song.
Soft band: Alien Ant Farm
Hard song: Wish
Just gotta say, I had to file for FMLA a few weeks ago due to a freak injury from doing some work on the heavy bag. The lack of an outlet, along with the social isolation has been crazy on my mental health.
Gentlemen, thank you for providing some reprieve to pass the time.
No Ordinary Love by Sade why do they use that guitar tone it goes so crazy
Not sure if you’re into the deftones but they do a better than decent cover of no ordinary love.
The drums from Bjork’s Amy of Me are taken from Jon Bonham in When the Levee Breaks 🤘🏻
Muse - Stockolm Syndrome has some serious breakdowns for a soft band
Muse has SO many awesome heavy parts throughout their discography. Absolutely love that band.
Straight up. The end is soooo heavy.
Knights of Cydonia was my pick
Colin: The song is called Jizzlobber --
*TH-cam ad cuts to a BetterHelp therapy commercial*
Hum-Stars
I feel like hum is heavy rather than hard
hum is hard af
Hum is soft as babyshit
Yeah bro... Hum was pretty hard as fuck.
There is literally nothing hard about hum
“Ring Around the Rosie” - Mother Goose. Mostly known for their child friendly nursery rhymes this one is actually about open sores, the black plague, and impending death. Extremely hard.
No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend
the chorus is hard, the snare is dope, and Tony’s bass is thick as hell at 2:24
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero - one of the sickest riffs and one of their heaviest songs. God is empty just like me. Hard
Soundgarden - Birth Ritual and Room a Thousand Years Wide - both songs are hard as shit, beginning to end, come on.
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - dark tone and theme, insane lyrics, homie talking about cutting throats of babies. Claudio is a master. Song had me floored at 13.
Paramore - My Heart - song builds and builds and then goes off at 2:37. Double bass at the end lol Hard way to close an album.
Emma Ruth Rundle - Real Big Sky
- the heaviest song on here, with just an acoustic guitar, that could be a doom song. witnessing someone’s pain and them waiting to die. Crushing. Emma deserves more praise.
Emma Ruth Rundle - Protection would be my choice, but I’m so pumped someone else mentioned her
Thankyou for mentioning the Neurosis tuning because I remember the first time I heard Given To The Rising, on headphones at that, and it completely changed the way I understood music. Completely blew my teenage mind
do you know what Song Bo is talking about?
@@cidnemo he'll be talking about about a distinct sound across Neurosis's albums but id say for me 'Through Silver In Blood' and 'Given To The Rising' It's just oppressively heavy, Mastodon do it really well on Crack The Skye
Live and Let Die - Wings
when it kicks in its a borderline two step part
I think one of the hardest songs by a soft band is “All these things that I’ve done” by The Killers. The palm muted chug part, if played on an Ibanez through a cranked 5150, would signal the start of the purge. It got both me (who only wanted to listen to Perseverance) and my college roommate (who only wanted to listen to Nile and Napalm Death) to both go “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” when we heard it.
Cursive - A Gentleman Caller
Heavy riff with heavy lyrics
so many cursive picks for me too, maybe cursive is just a hard fuckin band.
@@masterofnull9695true I started thinking and so many came to mind after
I was thinking Cursive and Trail of Dead. Both indie soft bands but I think undeniably hard lyrics and hard parts
Burst and Bloom is full of breakdowns
Big bang live 😮 I punched a nerd in 2012 by accident when they randomly started playing that song at the union transfer in Philly . Doesn’t hit the same on the record but live …. Holy shit
So glad you guys put Into Another on here, they have to be one of the most criminally underrated bands of all-time. They actually just put out a new album at the beginning of the month and it's really incredible.
Song: The Con
Band: Tegan and Sara
Headwalkable
i probably bedroom mosh to this song more often than any other song
Band: The Vanilla Fudge
Song: You Keep Me Hangin’ On
Whole into goes so hard, one of the oldest bands I’ve seen using double bass back in 1967.
Bloodborne OST - Ludwig the accursed & the holy blade
The classical song Bo is asking about is “Night On Bald Mountain” composed by Modest Mussorgsky. N64 Earth Worm Jim OG’s know what’s up! 47:43
A little band called Toto-hold the line
LAAAARG-OVE ISNT ALWAAAYS ON TI-YIIIME
Jizzlobber is definitely the hardest FNM song, super cool Colin mentioned it
Name by The Goo Goo Dolls. Sickest non hardcore skank/two step for the chorus
That entire record
Hardest Song by a soft band:
War - Don’t Let No One Get You Down
Could easily be a hardcore song with the lyrics similar to Jasta or Vogel
“Don't let no one, no one get you down
Cause if they do, if they do I'll be around
I want you near standing here by my side
So my dear wipe those tears from your eyes”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star
The Stroke by Billy Squire, "put your right hand out, give a firm hand shake" GUNG GUNG. It's heavy.
nick cave - red right hand
My Pick:
Title Fight: Head In The Ceiling Fan.
You can’t not just not, that was the first song I ever heard by them and was blown away. Even if it’s soft in some parts; the lyrics just speak to you. Either your moshing or your crying. Miss you Title Fight, if you come back you’ll still have a place to call home.
Dinosaur Jr. Sludgefeast
Seeing J play it live in front of three full stack Marshall’s is insane. One of the loudest bands I’ve ever seen of any genre
Pat Benetar has a killer voice, she could've done harder music with that voice if she wanted to
Sugar Ray - Breathe
Idk, man. I think Dance Party USA goes pretty hard. That breakdown is insane
Lemonade & Brownies has some legit heavy songs. You could pit to Mean Machine or 10 Seconds Down.
@@ccoletti81 I was in the pit at a Sugar Ray
Burnin’ And Lootin’- The Wailers
Yooooooo......Going the Fleetwood Mac route...."Big Love." That riff, Lindsey Buckingham singing his heart out wanting love & you have the "Ooooohhh/Ahhhhh" at the end? HARD.
the youth of benatar crossover needs to happen at all costs
Pat of Today
Soundgarden - 4th of July. Soundgarden is kind of a hard "soft" band, but 4th of July is probably the heaviest opening that any "soft" band has ever had. Kind of in the same realm as your AIC suggestions.
Band, Steppenwolf. Song, Born to be Wild. 3 word “Heavy Metal Thunder”. RIFFS
Led Zeppelin had some of the hardest shit. When the Levee Breaks, Heartbreaker, How Many More Times, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.
All of those songs could be EASILY made into full-on metal versions.
Wanton Song, main riff is hard
Hunger Strike is great, but "Say Hello to Heaven" is one of Chris' best vocal deliveries ever. It is simultaneously bluesy, rocking and also somber given that it was his eulogy to their passed friend Andrew Wood.
Reach Down also has insane vocals from Chris and some mad insane solo as well
Angels Of The Silences- Counting Crows
Starts with shrill feedback and a atmbol count in. Song is pretty fast and punky. Vocals kinda work thier way up to a yell at some points. I was caught off guard the first time I heard this one.
When Doves Cry - Prince
Opening riff goes hard but also about being left alone…..in a world so cold
Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast is one of the best 2 steps of all time and its the whole song. Tough as nails
Weekend Nachos cover of tired of sex is so good and does that part so good.
Edit because I worded it dumb.
Oasis - " F*ckin' in the bushes", off their 4th album, but can be found on the "Snatch" movie soundtrack (also awesome)
@21:40 the “bomb string” goes hard. If you enjoy Torche, don’t forget to check out their previous band Floor.
Enya - Tempus Vernum is pure evil. It may as well be on the Bloodborne soundtrack. The whole song is a 2 minute marching breakdown sung in Latin and the lyric translation sounds like a witch coven trying to summon Cthulhu.
In honor of Detroit I have to say Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground by the White Stripes. That intro riff is very spincuckable. Could be the heaviest riff out of Detroit by a notoriously not heavy band. Great list. Hope to see yall in Detroit.
Kate Mccannon by Colter Wall is INCREDIBLY heavy! The lyrics are about gunning down your lady after finding her cheating AND that riff as the song crescendos?! HARD
what an amazing episode this is
3eb self titled was my favorite album of all time for most of my life. The line in how's it gonna be where he belts out "wanna taste the salt on your skin, the, slow dive of, oblivion" gives me chills and makes me tear up just thinking about it. Can't even play this album anymore. Too good.
Dear God by xtc. The bridge is so incredibly hard. Also when the little kid sings.
Love Is a Fast Song by Copeland
super soft band but the riff and the song just builds into like a HEAVY HARD like emotional breakdown.
Hella Good-No Doubt
Such a hard riff throughout the entire song
The Beatles - She's So Heavy (outro)
Lankum - The Wild Rover (outro)
Lankum - Go Dig My Grave (outro)
Carl Orff - O Fortuna (Botch even covered it)
I can't believe Colin didn't pick Toto - "Hold The Line"
Under the cover of darkness -the strokes.
This song is hard as fuck and there’s a legit breakdown
The Joy Formidable - “Whirring”
(make sure it’s the long 6:47 version)
you’re welcome
I have to say “Hell Is For Children” is the hardest Pat Benatar song.
That drum breakdown in "I hope, I think, I know".... fuck it's awesome.
Right, I have a stupid/controversial pick and an actual pick.
Actual pick is Back Pack, by AJJ. Just the hardest, most vicious lyrics over indie folk instrumentation, but even that is the hardest version of that possible, an acoustic has never sounded so great and menacing.
Stupid pick is Dyers Eve by Metallica. Yeah, I know they're not really a soft band per se, but like, to me nothing else they've done has been as hard as that track, and definitely not in the same way. "I've outgrown that fucking lullaby"? Thats hard as fucking diamond, dude. Super underrated track.
Belinda Carlisle- Mad About You
A hardcore band should cover that jam. I’m serious. It has that nice slow bridge that could be worked into a slow mosh, plus the backup singing lends to sing alongs. Could be epic
Others…
Aha- Take on Me
Kansas- Carry on My Wayward Sun
Lastly… Queen- Under Pressure… that “breakdown” part is so dope
I came here to say Mad About You for the double kick alone
also from Collective Soul - WHERE THE RIVER FLOWS