Number 14

Song & Artist: Aneurysm - Nirvana
Album & Date: B-Side to Smells Like Teen Spirit - 10 September 1991 or From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah - 1 October 1996 (I used  1991 for the stats below)
Nationality of band: American
Members at release: Kurt Cobain (Vocals/Electric Guitar - America); Dave Grohl (Drums - America); Krist Novoselic (Bass Guitar - America)
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My rant;

For me, this is the ultimate grunge track. It's the old story, but if you look up grunge in the dictionary, you will hear this song graunching along in a fucked off way. The opening minute is just gorgeous in its 'in your face' tenacity and rawness.

And when the lyrics start, my ears start to bleed, but I feel the pain that is in the voice and words. I am drawn into the darkness, the total depressing darkness that must have been in play for a track like this to have come into existance.

Luckily for me, when the 4.5 minutes are over, I can switch back to reality a wee bit. But this is a truly haunting song that epitomises the grunge era for me.

There are whole websites devoted to figuring out the lyrics of this song (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4910) but I am really not interested in getting into that, I am all about the whole package, how the track feels and how the music and lyrics mesh and the time it was released and what it meant at that time and to that time.

And for me, this song is a perfect storm.

My number one memory of this track is sitting in my car in the rain trying to convince a mate of mine named Roger that it was the greatest grunge track of all time. He didn't get it. And he said he liked Coldplay, I got out of my car and walked away.

Bands: (multiple band entrys ARE counted twice)

7 - America
7 - England

Band Members Country of Origin: (multiple band entrys ARE counted twice)

29 - England
25 - America
2 - Germany
1 - Tanzania

Decade Released

10 - 90's
2 - 70's
2 - 60's

Year Released

2 - 1994
2 - 1997
2 - 1993
2 - 1995
2 - 1991
1 - 1975
1 - 1965
1 - 1979
1 - 1968

Genre:

4 - Alternative
4 - Grunge
2 - Rock
1 - Punk
1 - Glam Rock
1 - Post Grunge
1 - BritPop(Rock)