TAYLOR MOMSEN S GRUNGE PLAYLIST= 1.

Nirvana Heart-Shaped Box All Nirvana songs are awesome, but this one in particular I ve loved forever. The lyrics are so great. Not every song has lyrics about meat-eating orchids. 2. Alice in Chains Rooster An awesome song. No, I don t know the backstory [about guitarist Jerry Cantrell s fat her and his Vietnam experiences] I m not that guy who can tell you about that. I just like the song and the lyrics. 3. Soundgarden Jesus Christ Pose Chris Cornell at his finest. The vocals are just insane. We play this backstage b efore we go on it gets us revved up. 4. Rage Against the Machine Killing in the Name This song has got one of the most amazing intros ever. You know it s coming its force is coming. 5. Smashing Pumpkins ?Disarm The production is great. The lyrics are great. The song is really well-written. I t s close to a masterpiece. 6. Soundgarden Like Suicide It s about a bird hitting a window and dying. It s so amazingly written and about som ething so simple. 7. Neil Young Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Its not technically from the grunge era, but he s known as the godfather of grunge. I m a massive Neil Young fan. He doesn t write a bad song. 8. Pearl Jam Alive It s about a guy whose dad is dead and another guy s pretending to be his dad. I think it s dark, somber, though I can see how people would think of it as uplift ing. It s like Born in the U.S.A., which is actually a protest song, but people think it s an uplifting anthem. 9. Temple of the Dog Hunger Strike One of the best songs ever written. The lyric about farming babies that s a great line, it says so much. And the very end, when Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder s voices c ome together, is great. 10. Nine Inch Nails Hurt It s a song I wish I wrote. It s a succinct, simple idea about pain done so well. And the Johnny Cash version is amazing, too.