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Most disturbing song ever?

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What is the most disturbing song you've ever heard?

For me it's '4st 7lb' by the Manic Street Preachers. On an album that is choc-full of disturbing content (The Holy Bible), I think this song about anorexia stands above the rest. The fact that the author himself suffered from eating disorders and would go missing a year later, never to be found, adds to the grim nature of the song.

The lyrics are from the standpoint of a teenage girl who aims to reach the milestone of 4st 7lb; the lowest weight at which a human can survive. The music tracks the girl's descent, being at first loud and resolute, and finishing with a slow waltz.

'Frankie Teardrop' by Suicide is another one that creeps the hell out of me.

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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

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!

y0ssar1an22

its kind of catchy but pretty disturbing (and apparently a true story).

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.

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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.

HalloweenJack

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

As for this, it is just bizarre:

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

Gregor Samsa

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).

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

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

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

maebee

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

mrcheez

iamstop

This is pretty disturbing.
Graphic and nonchalant

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

Wesser

The one about hair in all the right places

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.

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.

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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.

rapul

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

PhilOssophy

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

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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.

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

Arghus

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

Earthhorse

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.

murpho999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCORxrEgr1o

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

Arghus

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!

y0ssar1an22

possibly anything from this fella...

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

never listened to his music though

Arghus

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.

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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Die die my darling - misfits

I hate myself & want to die - nirvana

Wrong way - sublime