A clear departure from what is accessible, this song introduced itself to me like a baseball bat to the teeth.

The point of this blog is to present to you music that does not suck. I'll kick off with Soundgarden's 4th of July. This was the first song that exploded my understanding of what good music was. I'd never before encountered a rif as deeply soul wrenching as the opening sequence of this song, and after I'd heard it I could never settle for anything less meaningful again.