Sass Jordan - Pissin' Down

What this video is

Released in March 1994 on MCA Records, 'Pissin' Down' emerged during a seismic shift in rock music when grunge and alternative rock were displacing hard rock from mainstream airplay. The track, a candid blues-rock meditation on loving someone battling heroin addiction, was notably banned on US radio due to its title — a censorship episode that illustrates the conservative broadcast standards of the era even as…

Why it matters

As a track from Sass Jordan's critically acclaimed 'Rats' album, 'Pissin' Down' represents the blues-rock undercurrent running through 1994 Canadian hard rock — a genre moment where post-hair-metal grit met alt-rock rawness. The song's frank subject matter (a partner's heroin addiction) and its US…