The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Written by their late, great frontman Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's existential grunge juggernaut "The Day I Tried To Live" strikes a universal chord, employing churning dissonant guitars, shifting time signatures, explosive hooks, and vivid imagery brought to life by Chris Cornell's powerhouse vocal ("The day I tried to win / I wallowed in the blood and mud / With all the other pigs" and ) to convey a fatalistic mindset and create the kind of misanthropic anthems that the group became famous for. Reaching Number 13 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and Number 25 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, "The Day I Tried to Live" is one of the standout tracks on the Seattle behemoths' quintessential 1994 album, Superunknown, which also featured megahit "Black Hole Sun" and represented a stadium-sized move towards a slightly cleaner and bigger but still wholly impactful sound, opening the grunge heroes up to a universe of mainstream success.