“Heel Over Head” by Puddle of Mudd

"Heel Over Head" was the second single from Puddle of Mudd's Life on Display, hitting radio in February 2004, and it's the band doing what it does best: a heavy post-grunge chug with a chorus that's all frustration. Wes Scantlin has said it came out of his early days in Los Angeles, and a woman named Elena, a friend of Rick Rubin, who would drop by, flirt and tease but never let things go further.

John Kurzweg, who had produced their debut Come Clean, was back behind the board, with Fred Durst and Jordan Schur as executive producers and Andy Wallace mixing. The result is thick, compressed and radio-ready, with enough sting left in it to land the band a top-10 hit on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.