“Limo Wreck” is the 9th song on Soundgarden’s Superunknown. The song follows the theme of many other songs on the album, which contains a wide variety of odd-time signatures. Limo Wreck may have the weirdest one out of all, containing a time signature of 15/8.

Chris Cornell called this swirling guitar track a “shame-on-decadence song” that reminds the social elite they aren’t above mortality. He got the idea while sitting in traffic on the Los Angeles freeway and noticing the contrast between the dented Chevys and smashed-up pickup trucks driven by working-class folks versus the pristine automobiles driven by – or for – the wealthy.

He also had this to say on Songfacts:

The idea of seeing a couple of limos smashed into one another, I’d never seen that before, and I thought these people in expensive cars – especially the limos where the windows are blacked out and someone else is driving – they seem to have a feeling that they’re not susceptible to mortality,“ Cornell told Request Magazine in 1994. "During our trip down the freeway, I was talking to this guy who drove a limo, and he said that once this guy was in the back and some supposed vagrant came up and started knocking on the window. The guy opened the door like, ‘Fuck you, you can’t touch me, I’m in a limo.’ And a bunch of other vagrants came up and beat the shit out of the guy, almost killed him. The song describes that sort of decadence and this strange perception that you’re so high on the social or political ladder that you’re somehow beyond all that. But it’s not true.