“Hair of the Dog” by Nazareth

The title track of Nazareth's 1975 album Hair of the Dog is Scottish hard rock at its most leering: a slow, grinding riff from Manny Charlton, with Pete Agnew and Darrell Sweet locked into a stomp you could set your watch by, and Dan McCafferty snarling over the top in a voice like a gravel pit. All four share the writing credit, and Charlton, who also produced, smears a streak of synthesizer into the sludge.

Alongside "Love Hurts", it's the song Nazareth are best remembered for. Guns N' Roses covered it on "The Spaghetti Incident?" in 1993, after Nazareth had turned down Axl Rose's request to play at his wedding, and Slash credited Rose, who could match McCafferty's rasp, with getting him hooked on the band.

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