3 Eternal Grunge Songs That Are Especially Fun To Sing Along To

Grunge music isn’t exactly known for offering the types of songs that people want to gather around the campfire and sing along to. Usually, the heavy, sludgy tracks are for head-banging and getting out all those darker emotions via big, buzzy guitars and emotive choruses. But there are occasionally some songs within the genre that are impossible not to belt along with.

Here below, we wanted to explore three such offerings. A trio of tracks from the genre of grunge that just lead music fans to open their mouths and sing, sing, sing. Indeed, these are three eternal grunge songs that are especially fun to sing along to.

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“Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden from Superunknown (1994)

Written by lead vocalist Chris Cornell as he was driving home from the Bear Creek recording studio outside Seattle, this song is both confusing lyrically and supremely satisfying to sing. The verses are a bit odd—what with their boiling sun and snakes—but it’s the chorus that just makes a person want to sing along at the top of their lungs. The vivid image of a black hole sun simply conjures a gang vocal the likes that most grunge songs never muster. Indeed, on that chorus, the banshee singer Cornell offers,

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won’t you come
Won’t you come
Won’t you come

“Hunger Strike” by Temple of the Dog from Temple of the Dog (1991)

This was the hit single off the 1991 tribute album to the late grunge icon Andrew Wood, who was also a former roommate of Chris Cornell’s in Seattle. As Cornell and others like guitarist Mike McCready were recording the track, a little-known vocalist named Eddie Vedder offered his services and made the track that much more compelling with his low, polished vocals. Combine those with Cornell’s dualistic screechy and droning vocal sound and you have a hit—especially thanks to the chorus on which the two vocal icons sing,

I’m goin’ hungry (goin’ hungry)
I’m goin’ hungry (goin’ hungry)
I’m goin’ hungry (goin’ hungry)

I’m goin’ hungry (goin’ hungry)
I’m goin’ hungry (goin’ hungry)

“Even Flow” by Pearl Jam from Ten (1991)

Eddie Vedder was in Seattle in 1991 as his band Pearl Jam was getting going, which is why he was able to hop on the Temple of the Dog recording sessions. But he wasn’t some side act. No, he was a main draw, too, along with Cornell and other grunge stars at the time. As evidenced by this industrial-sounding rock tune from Pearl Jam’s 1991 LP Ten. It’s another track that showcases a big chorus that is fun to sing along with. Indeed, on the number Vedder belts,

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don’t know, so he chases them away
Oh, someday yet, he’ll begin his life again
Life again, life again

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