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Most disturbing song ever?

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  • #32
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭cml387


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Anyway, I don't recall The Selector doing any heavy duty content!

    What put me in her mind is that she was interviewed recently somewhere or other.:o

    A real feelgood song here. My Mummy's Dead by John Lennon
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJmThIwnKM


  • #33
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Further to the story of The Boiler by The Specials AKA. The singer Rhoda Dhaka had co-written that song while with The Bodysnatchers, and that could well have been 1979. In 1980, her band toured with The Selector. But it was 1982 when it was recorded and released with The Specials AKA. So, I think that's where 1979 and The Selector got thrown into the mix in the original post about this song!

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #34
    y0ssar1an22
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    its kind of catchy but pretty disturbing (and apparently a true story).


  • #35
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Persuasion by Throbbing Gristle is in itself an unsettling song about persuading a girl to get involved in porn, but this trance cover by Billie Ray Martin and Spooky somehow manages to make it even more disturbing.



  • #36
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Have you seen The Twirlywoos’, ATNM? Very little “self determination” in that one.
    Yes, it came on by accident. I had to sit the child down and have a long talk about fascism.


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  • #37
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    The sound, the video, the story. It all freaks me out. A great song, though.

    As for this, it is just bizarre:


  • #38
    Tired Gardener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Tired Gardener


    Diane by Therapy?/Husker Dü

    https://youtu.be/md7SJ1kDE24 Therapy? Cover.

    https://youtu.be/VTy8GGyUgBQ Husker Dü original.

    Blood in my Eyes by Atari Teenage Riot

    https://youtu.be/NLXGZQQEOIQ (NSFW!!!)

    Kerosene by Big Black

    https://youtu.be/HuO3wwLuF0w


  • #39
    Gregor Samsa
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    Tired Gardener wrote: »
    Kerosene by Big Black

    https://youtu.be/HuO3wwLuF0w

    Also "Jordan, Minnesota" by Big Black, about a factual child abuse ring in the town. (although, apart from the repeated last line, the song itself is vague enough not to be disturbing).



    and Fish Fry, about a guy cleaning out his truck after killing a girl (again based on a true story).



  • #40
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Forced Gender Reassignment by Cattle Decapitation. The video can be found on Vimeo, not going to link to it but viewer discretion is strongly advised.

    Stripped, Raped and Strangled by Cannibal Corpse is fairly objectionable, even by their own inimitable standards.

    August Underground by Sutter Kain has some of the most brutal lyrics Ive ever heard.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr7mqI932e0


  • #41
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Kunt and the Gang also have some of the most disturbing (or hilarious depending on your sense of humour) lyrics.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduVl70kB48


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGuSqSSmyy0


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  • #42
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,403 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Disturbing. I don't know if there's much I've listened to that qualifies as disturbing. I've certainly listened to "dark" songs.

    A song from a victim of an assault, about her own assault -
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwvvDZhKVHk


    William Shatner's - yes, seriously - "song" about his wife drowning in their pool. Pretty fcking raw.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN-gyEhLX5A


  • #43
    maebee
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    More ridiculous than disturbing, imo:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIJv4iLuf3A


  • #44
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,064 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez




  • #45
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    This is pretty disturbing.
    Graphic and nonchalant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ORQYinBG4

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #46
    Wesser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    The one about hair in all the right places


  • #47
    I Am Nobody
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭I Am Nobody


    I Don't Like Mondays The Boomtown Rats

    Based on events from one of the earlier school shootings in the US and her reason behind it.Brenda Spencer was her name,very tragic family life as well.


  • #48
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    "Slide" and "Half-Jack" by Dresden Dolls are pretty unnerving. "Climbing up the walls" by Radiohead too.

    Stereophonics (of all people) have a song called Same Size Feet, and it's not disturbing exactly but there's something about it that's very affecting... it's about a woman who was having an affair with a married man but then he stops calling, basically ghosts her, then she reads in the paper that a body was pulled from a lake and she wonders if it's him because he and the body have the same shoe size. There's something very bleak about it.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Pauline Black and The Selecter have a song called "The Boiler" about date rape (1979, for those who think it's 21st century thing).

    The end just consists of her screaming. Strong stuff.

    1982. Specials AKA and Rhoda
    I played it once in a DJ set. Cleared the floor.


  • #50
    rapul
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    Anything by Type O negative, or carcass or any black or death metal band, the list goes on for waaaayyy too long


  • #51
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0x7nBHNOZI


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  • #52
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    and Fish Fry, about a guy cleaning out his truck after killing a girl (again based on a true story).


    Before I moved up to Dublin in 1991, I'd get my mother to go into Comet etc for Big Black albums and the like. She occasionally went shopping for the day with a friend. Would write them down on a list and she would pass it to the staff. She said she got looks when buying Songs About F**king.

    Kerosene on Atomizer is savage.


  • #53
    Ulmus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 187 ✭✭Ulmus


    It's mild in comparison to some of the songs listed but I was taught the dark and violent song Weela Weela Walya in primary school.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weela_Weela_Walya


  • #54
    Arghus
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    Some of Lustmord's dark ambient stuff is pretty scary if listened to in the right environment. The soundtrack of descending into hell.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW-ZbEHeICw


  • #55
    Earthhorse
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    There are rumours that this song is about Fred and Rosemary West. If true it makes the song kinda disturbing and if not I think the song isn't that disturbing at all. I think that's true about a lot of songs on the thread probably.



  • #56
    murpho999
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCORxrEgr1o


    This Idles song about his still born daugther is a hard listen. Amazing song.


  • #57
    Arghus
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Before I moved up to Dublin in 1991, I'd get my mother to go into Comet etc for Big Black albums and the like. She occasionally went shopping for the day with a friend. Would write them down on a list and she would pass it to the staff. She said she got looks when buying Songs About F**king.

    Kerosene on Atomizer is savage.

    One of the greatest tunes of all time!


  • #58
    y0ssar1an22
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    possibly anything from this fella...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin


    never listened to his music though


  • #59
    Arghus
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    y0ssar1an22 wrote: »
    possibly anything from this fella...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin


    never listened to his music though

    It's demented hardcore punk, except for when he went country. To be honest, it's more hillarious than disturbing.


  • #60
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,649 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    It's far from the most disturbing song ever but I always liked Crash Into Me by the Dave Matthews Band. The song meanders along nicely but the lyrics are a bit creepy/stalkery when you actually listen to them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7in-9E3ImQ


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Die die my darling - misfits

    I hate myself & want to die - nirvana

    Wrong way - sublime


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