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"Ty Cobb" was originally titled "Hot Rod Death Toll", but the lyrics reminded Shepherd of the infamous baseball player Ty Cobb. He holds the all-time career batting record (.367), but he is also well known for his womanizing, alcoholism and racism. The song is infamous for its 21 utterances of the word "fuck," second only to "Big Dumb Sex" (36 utterances) among the three Soundgarden songs containing that word. Songwriter Chris Cornell told Kerrang! about the origins of Ty Cobb:
It was basically coming from the frame of mind of some sort of hardcore pissed-off idiot, and that's why we titled it that. We weren't writing the song about Ty Cobb at all—I didn't even know anything about him. I was just thinking of a character who was a combination of a lot of people I've met and didn't like.
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