Name the heaviest song a band has ever done.

Frank Sinatra "That's Life!"
This is close to things that were passed off as rock in those days and would be "heavy" for someone like Billy Joel.

Jim Morrison could have recorded this.

 

I actually think "Sway" is the Stones heaviest rocker. That opening riff is close to metal.

 

Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground

 

Don't know if these were already mentioned in this thread:

Hey Willy - The Hollies
Bad Bad Dreams - Bee Gees

 

To Cry You A Song-Jethro Tull is up on the top of the list...

 

Edgar Broughton Band.."Love I n The Rain"...

 

Hold On To Your Hat from Steel Wheels is pretty heavy.

 

I can't be sure about these, since I can't find a mention of weights in the lyrics, but...

Jethro Tull - Fat Man
Spinal Tap - Big Bottoms

 

This came up in an excellent Queen BBC documentary I watched last night, and once again, "Stone Cold Crazy" was the winner. I don't think it's even the heaviest on Sheer Heart Attack--I'd vote for "In the Lap of the Gods--Revisited," but maybe that's not enough of a song, per se.

 

Driftin' Away - Status Quo.

 

Man From Mecca-Sweet

 

Cockroach - Sweet

 

The Guess Who - Long Gone (from the album Flavours, 1974)

 

I haven't heard every Richard Thompson song but I'd bet the solo on "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" (studio) might be the heaviest he's ever done.

 

"Shoot Out the Lights" is pretty heavy.

 

The 2nd section, from around 6 mins, is calmer. Sort of.

 

Most of the debut album is pretty heavy, no? Some of it is definitely heavier than Stone Cold Crazy.

 

King's X - Human Behavior" - the drop HITS at about :38

 

I agree with you. In the documentary, they attributed it solely to May's guitar. I think "heaviest" has to take all the instruments plus vocals into account--but it's kind of a vague term anyway.

 

Fair enough i have never heard the studio stuff post Little Games.

 

I hear an axe grinding.

 

999 - Keith Richards

 

Good Call.. Although the riffage in KK Song is pretty heavy too