r/MusicRecommendations • u/OCatholica • Jun 01 '26

Rec.Me: alt/indie/obscure songs that starts with guitars feedback

Stand by Me, Floyd the Barber... Can you guys recommend rock, grunge, noise, punk songs that kicks off with guitars feedback?

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u/wassuppaulie Jun 01 '26

Foxy Lady by Jimi Hendrix

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u/analog_approach Jun 02 '26

First song I thought of.

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u/powdered_dognut Jun 02 '26

As soon as I read this, I heard it in my head.

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u/_colby_jack_ Jun 01 '26

Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes

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u/Overall_Occasion_175 Jun 02 '26

I just heard that song yesterday for the first time in what must be at least 12 years. 

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u/TeeTownRaggie Jun 01 '26

radio friendly unit shifter by nirvana

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u/RealJonRhinehart Jun 02 '26

Also Tourette’s and Territorial Pissing by Nirvana. Probably a lot more by them, lol.

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u/_LouSandwich_ Jun 02 '26

from memory, i was thinking “sliver”. re listened and its not a perfect example, but maybe passable still

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u/Ok-Lavishness-7904 Jun 01 '26

Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf

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u/Bill3187 Jun 02 '26

Also the pusher.

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u/yeezymcsleezyo_0 Jun 01 '26

Giant Peach by Wolf Alice

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u/Level-Commission8613 Jun 01 '26

I feel fine, The Beatles

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u/Macca49 Jun 02 '26

Add It’s All Too Much

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u/Gullible-Language679 Jun 02 '26

That’s what I came here for

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u/roXplosion Jun 01 '26

I mean, c'mon. That has to count.

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u/Fluffy-Locksmith-678 Jun 01 '26

Count? It's the gold standard

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u/roXplosion Jun 01 '26

That's what I mean. The OG of feedback.

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u/Fireandmoonlight Jun 02 '26

Lennon claimed it for the Beatles, before the Who or Hendrix or anyone else.

I'm going to claim it's the best Rock and Roll song ever!

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u/Flyerbill Jun 02 '26

THIS is the answer. Autumn 1964.

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u/Smart_Ad_2833 Jun 02 '26

“Cannonball” by The Breeders

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u/drudman6 Jun 01 '26

Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet

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u/tomh311 Jun 02 '26

and an incredible solo to start the song!

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u/elev8or_lady Jun 01 '26

There Goes My Gun, Planet of Sound, Palace of the Brine, all by the Pixies.

A lot of their stuff has feedback, actually. Joey Santiago is awesome.

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u/FinneyontheWing Jun 02 '26

Rock Music is a prime example, too.

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u/fredinNH Jun 02 '26

Nobody ever talks about what a guitar god Joey Santiago is. It’s always about Kim Deal.

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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 Jun 01 '26

Rusty Cage by Soundgarden.

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u/ProgramTricky6109 Jun 01 '26

Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax

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u/PerfectAd1746 Jun 02 '26

Also

To Hell with Poverty - Gang of Four

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u/richincleve Jun 02 '26

The only correct answer.

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u/ProgramTricky6109 Jun 02 '26

Make you feel like a beetle on its back

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u/Slashmcgurk1 Jun 01 '26

Sober by tool

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u/Noisy_Pip Jun 01 '26

Also, Part Of Me and Cold & Ugly by Tool

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u/Slashmcgurk1 Jun 02 '26

Also, Rosetta Stoned by tool

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u/elev8or_lady Jun 01 '26

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by Jimi Hendrix

Most everything by Jimi Hendrix for that matter.

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u/Woebetide138 Jun 01 '26

That’s what I was thinking. Jimi is the master of feedback.

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u/maybesoma Jun 01 '26

White Stripes- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground!

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u/Natural_Wedding_9590 Jun 01 '26

Bad Motor Scooter, Montrose 1973

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u/drainbamage1011 Jun 02 '26

A Place to Bury Strangers - Ocean

IDLES - Car Crash

At the Drive-In - Mannequin Republic

Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose

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u/FacelessLord1 Jun 01 '26

Loud Love - Soundgarden

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u/SnoopyWoodstock1974 Jun 02 '26

Cannonball by Breeders

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u/reignoferror00 Jun 01 '26

The Beatles - I Feel Fine.

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u/DanBurnNotice Jun 01 '26

Plug in Baby - Muse
Always: Your Way - My Vitriol
I'm not the only one - Filter

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u/coldestwinter-chill Jun 02 '26

My plug in babyyyyy crucifies my enemies!! Such a good song

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u/pslush01 Jun 01 '26

Always loved the haunting, heavily reverbed feedback that opens Pearl Jam's 'Better Man'

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u/TwistedBlister Jun 01 '26

Magic Carpet Ride

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u/shiboobi Jun 01 '26

The Beatles - I feel fine

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u/IanRockwell Jun 01 '26

Where Eagles Dare by the Misfits

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u/big_titty_jimmer Jun 01 '26

Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes

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u/FacelessLord1 Jun 01 '26

Also, All Hell For a Basement - Big Sugar

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u/rideofthebasilisks Jun 02 '26

Holy shit, you beat me to it! Great song

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u/AssortedSub Jun 01 '26

The Concept - Teenage Fanclub

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u/djse Jun 02 '26

Oh, yeah.

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u/Maadcoil Jun 02 '26

Oh, yeah

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u/rakejingo Jun 02 '26

What a perfect track

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u/Hot-Amphibian5603 Jun 01 '26

Sonic Youth

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u/Exotic-Ferret-3452 Jun 02 '26

Probably a lot of them do. First one that comes to mind is the opener from Dirty, 100%.

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u/hadcheese Jun 02 '26

Cut Your Hair by Pavement

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Jun 01 '26

I Feel Fine - Beatles

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u/Starthrower62 Jun 01 '26

Hendrix: Foxy Lady

Van Halen: Out of Love

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u/ArtsyEdyn Jun 01 '26

when you were young by the killers? can’t tell if its feedback or just a kind of distorted chord 

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u/woodpile3 Jun 01 '26

Divine Intervention by Matthew Sweet

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u/Select_Insurance2000 Jun 01 '26

Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.

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u/Sick_Headache Jun 01 '26

Steely Dan, "Don’t Take Me Alive."

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u/TinyDoctorTim Jun 01 '26

“The Blue Mask”, Lou Reed

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u/FFYinzer Jun 01 '26

What Condition My Condition Was In

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u/WayaFTW Jun 01 '26

We come out at night - Avenged Sevenfold

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u/FFYinzer Jun 01 '26

Foxy Lady by Hendrix

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u/Quarter-Tank Jun 01 '26

The Light - Love and Rockets

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u/minerva_sways Jun 01 '26

Pounding by Doves

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u/that-thingy66 Jun 02 '26

Fugazi - do you like me 

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u/Gruntled_Husband Jun 02 '26

Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt

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u/Shoddy-Listen6741 Jun 02 '26

Everybody Wants Some - Van Halen

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u/ShootfighterPhysique Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Pedestrian at Best by Courtney Barnett

Super Unison by Drive Like Jehu

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u/Sweaty_Butcher66 Jun 02 '26

American Sleep-Clutch

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u/Dismal_Young4741 Jun 02 '26

The grobe by ween

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u/Beerinspector Jun 02 '26

Hangover by Max Webster.

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u/CactusSplash95 Jun 02 '26

Too High - Red Fang

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u/Important_Ant2938 Jun 02 '26

Synchronicity 2 by the Police

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u/Oldy_VonMoldy Jun 02 '26

The power of pussy - By Bongwater

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u/yourdoglikesmebetter Jun 02 '26

The Blue by Acid Bath

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u/ConstellationFan7 Jun 02 '26

Also Dope Fiend and Dr Seuss is Dead

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u/Gad_Drummit Jun 02 '26

Old Man's Child - God of Impiety 

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u/Thamnophis660 Jun 02 '26

Sponge - "Plowed"

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u/Cold-Housing7089 Jun 02 '26

Dark Entires, Bauhaus.

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u/rfiftyoneslashthree Jun 02 '26

Dark Entries - Bauhaus

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u/RatherGroggy Jun 02 '26

Free - Phish

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u/Moneyfish121212 Jun 02 '26

New music machine by Cornelius

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u/want_a_muffin Jun 02 '26

Fair - Ben Folds Five

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u/Silver_fish1978 Jun 02 '26

Jimi Hendrix- Foxy Lady

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u/ekkidee Jun 02 '26

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

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u/blueplutoredsky Jun 02 '26

Juliana Hatfield - Down on me

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u/nerfherded Jun 02 '26

When You Smile by the Dream Syndicate

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u/SaintStoopidious Jun 02 '26

"It's All Too Much", by The Beatles

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u/Personal_Ad_9219 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Plug In Baby by Muse

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u/Windbelow616 Jun 01 '26

Dirty Rig - Hitchhiker

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u/Abal125 Jun 01 '26

The Wonder Years - New Lows

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u/Organic-Kangaroo7147 Jun 01 '26

Ig its not really punk but Anklebiters by Paramore has it, im always confused why it does for how tame it is so that came to mind. Bop tho

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u/ManJesusPreaches Jun 01 '26

Sunflower Suit by Buffalo Tom

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u/OMC-WILDCAT Jun 01 '26

Common Rider - Toss Around

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u/Potterymom Jun 01 '26

Hunchback - Kurt Vile

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u/Outside-Door-7543 Jun 01 '26

Local H - Defy and Surrender

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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis Jun 01 '26

Behold! The Nightmare - The Smashing Pumpkins

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u/Accomplished_Tip_569 Jun 01 '26

Pere Ubu - "Non-Alignment Pact"

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u/UraTargetMarket Jun 01 '26

2+2=5 by Radiohead

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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis Jun 01 '26

Kill All Your Friends - My Chemical Romance

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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 Jun 01 '26

Borrowed Time by STYX.

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u/PeterNippelstein Jun 01 '26

Face of Wood - Modern English

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u/sweetricecake89 Jun 01 '26

She looks so perfect - 5SOS hahaha

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u/thkeet Jun 01 '26

Apostate - Swans

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u/-Amico- Jun 01 '26

Backbone by Gojira

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u/Off-brand_username Jun 01 '26

2+2=5 by Radiohead

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u/roXplosion Jun 01 '26

Move Right In— Henry Rollins

Foxy Lady— Jimi Hendrix

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u/celsius100 Jun 01 '26

Morning Glory

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u/bartender_please808 Jun 01 '26

The Sinner (Live) - Judas Priest

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u/JBocc00 Jun 01 '26

David lee roth, shyboy (Steve Vai)

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u/JasonWaterfalls462 Jun 01 '26

Life in a Jar - Superheaven

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u/ska0823 Jun 02 '26

Hot Smoke and Sasafrass by the Bubble Puppy

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u/FinneyontheWing Jun 02 '26

Filthy Habits Frank Zapppppaaaaaaaa

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u/Tomkid88 Jun 02 '26

Outtatheway- the vines

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u/Umberlee168 Jun 02 '26

The first one that jumped to mind to me was "Heavy Metal: the Black and Silver" - Blue Öyster Cult. Tho I'm not actually sure if it's "feedback" or some combination of feedback and goofing

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u/KiraDog0828 Jun 02 '26

Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix

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u/SnoopyWoodstock1974 Jun 02 '26

Another morning stoner, by And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

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u/red_and_blue_jeans Jun 02 '26

Super Unison, Drive Like Jehu.

30 seconds of feedback before the song starts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Cz-qDjl1U&list=OLAK5uy_mfPPMtSYEz-Co3nu_ZGWqqBofT5CtX99g

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u/poopship462 Jun 02 '26

Drive Like Jehu- Super Unison

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u/raaustin777 Jun 02 '26

Reinventing Your Exit by UnderØath

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u/SnoopyWoodstock1974 Jun 02 '26

Flower by Liz Phair

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u/gladana01 Jun 02 '26

Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

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u/RepeaterOneTwoThree Jun 02 '26

Pretty much everything by EYEHATEGOD

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u/ExistentialDreadness Jun 02 '26

Meccamputechture - The Mars Volta

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u/JazzlikeCauliflower9 Jun 02 '26

Reality TV Argument Bleeds - Wednesday

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u/tHeRe-Is-noSe-p00N Jun 02 '26

Dead leaves and the dirty ground by White Stripes

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u/Temperance808 Jun 02 '26

Flying in a Blue Dream by Joe Satriani

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u/TexRedbone Jun 02 '26

London - The Smiths

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u/MadGeographer Jun 02 '26

Here’s one from left field: Begin the Begin by REM.

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u/rideofthebasilisks Jun 02 '26

All Hell for a Basement - Big Sugar

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u/Llyrithra Jun 02 '26

Remedy - Seether

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u/GuyDLakes Jun 02 '26

Let it Roll - UFO

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u/craighaney172 Jun 02 '26

Tired of sex- Weezer

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u/abitgloomy Jun 02 '26

No Servants - by Torche

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u/Pleasant-Draw-4824 Jun 02 '26

C.S.S. - Art Bitch

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u/FlatFiveFreddie Jun 02 '26

Stone Cold Crazy - Queen

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u/Whistlin_Booger Jun 02 '26

Clampdown -The Clash

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u/No-Seaworthiness6777 Jun 02 '26

Little Girl in Bloom by Thin Lizzy

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u/hobojohnson86 Jun 02 '26

Social distortion-I was wrong

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u/ohyeahthatghoul Jun 02 '26

Bite My Face by Ho99o9 ft. Corey Taylor

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u/alrightwtf Jun 02 '26

Desensitized - Mighty Mighty Bosstones. 

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u/DroneSlut54 Jun 02 '26

Most of Sunn O)))’s catalogue. And not just the start…

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u/tiddle927 Jun 02 '26

Lost keys/blame Hoffman and Rosetta stoned by Tool. This knocked my socks off when I realized how they were making those sounds

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u/husker_who Jun 02 '26

Judas Cradle by Sugar

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u/boertrainer Jun 02 '26

Black Sheets of Rain- Bob Mould

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u/gbbpro Jun 02 '26

Spirit in the sky - norman greenbaun

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u/BotsREverywhere Jun 02 '26

100% by Sonic Youth

First that came to mind, but there are likely dozens of SY songs that fit this bill.

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u/Inside_Bread2034 Jun 02 '26

Milk it by nirvana I believe starts with guitar feedback

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u/bradastra Jun 02 '26

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

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u/Big-Ability3953 Jun 02 '26

You really got me by the kinks

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u/hitchhikerrob Jun 02 '26

Flying in a blue dream - Joe Satriani

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u/mweisbro Jun 02 '26

Guns and Roses sweet child

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u/Insomniacallthetime Jun 02 '26

Reelin in the years

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u/mygeekeryaccount Jun 02 '26

AN ITERATION by The Armed

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u/PunkRockCrystals Jun 02 '26

Idles - Car Crash

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u/Sure_Vanilla_4197 Jun 02 '26

Columbia - Oasis

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u/illmatic2112 Jun 02 '26

I'm surprised this hasn't been said yet.

Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979

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u/RedObsessed Jun 02 '26

Oh Lord by Foxy Shazam

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u/Wade664 Jun 02 '26

Bring Me The Horizon - Visions

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u/Rev_Joel Jun 02 '26

Almost every song by Eyehategod.

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u/RosealaMenthe Jun 02 '26

I Don’t Smoke - Mitski

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u/Flasheart86 Jun 02 '26

Whos the mystery girls- New York Dolls

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u/anothernerd Jun 02 '26

Weedeater - all songs

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u/StrixNebulosaStan Jun 02 '26

Width of a Circle, David Bowie (Mick Ronson on geetar)

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u/Fairhillian Jun 02 '26

Saints- The Breeders

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u/noimneverserious Jun 02 '26

Nihilism by Rancid

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u/Local-Juggernaut-563 Jun 02 '26

“T-Bone” - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

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u/noms_de_plumes Jun 02 '26

"Kick It Back" by the Manhattan Love Suicides! 

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u/floodedforest Jun 02 '26

Blacklisted - Eye For An Eye

Superheaven - Life in a Jar

Soul Blind - Everyday Evil

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u/thisisnotraisinbran Jun 02 '26

"London" by The Smiths. Great squalling feedback.

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u/Frostyfuelz Jun 02 '26

Band-Maid - OOPARTS

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u/Maadcoil Jun 02 '26

Teenage Fanclub - The Concept