Most disturbing song ever?

Dyr · 23-07-2020 07:32PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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.

Jaysus I havent heard that track since the mid 90s, cracking tune

I kind guessed you'd get people piling in with Whitechapel, Psychic TV and all that stuff.

All a bit up its own arse for my liking tbh

Pkiernan · 23-07-2020 07:34PM

Any song by GG Allin

Adyx · 23-07-2020 08:06PM

I Am Nobody wrote: »

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.

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People is also about school shootings, although not any one particular incident apparently.

Truthvader · 23-07-2020 09:19PM

Bodies

Sex Pistols

Porklife · 23-07-2020 09:22PM

More than words...seems romantic but if you actually listen to it...it's horrible

JupiterKid · 23-07-2020 09:33PM

Aisha by Death In Vegas (1999) - featuring Iggy Pop on Vocals - is pretty disturbing. About a serial killer.

Also Come To Daddy by Aphex Twin (1997) - very, very disturbing, f*cked up video.

Plenty more but these two come to mind initially...

Gloomtastic! · 23-07-2020 09:37PM

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.

I was going to nominate this song. Hauntingly powerful

https://youtu.be/2FV2DNdNseM

JupiterKid · 23-07-2020 09:42PM

Another pretty disturbing song is "Bad Wisdom" by Suzanne Vega. It is about a young girl who has been sexually abused singing to her mother.

Grim stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEz5il1Syhc

Vega also had a huge hit in 1987 with Luka, a song about a child victim of domestic violence.

JupiterKid · 23-07-2020 09:44PM

Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ827lkktYs

I Am Nobody · 23-07-2020 09:46PM

Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun

About a daughter abused by her father.

Doctors room ghost · 23-07-2020 09:50PM

Linda martins cover version of the song “get lucky”on the Saturday night show.
Scared the living sh1te out of me.

Harry Palmr · 23-07-2020 09:53PM

Everyone's Gone to the Movies - a happy sounding song about teenagers being corrupted by an older man in the neighbourhood. Steely Dan (named after a mechanical dildo after all!) had a great way of penning toe tapping tunes about the worst of people.

Kids if you want some fun
Mr. LaPage is your man
He's always laughing, having fun
Showing his films in the den
Come on, come on
Soon you will be eighteen
I think you know what I mean
Don't tell your mama
Your daddy or mama
They'll never know where you been

Everyone's gone to the movies
Now we're alone at last

Feisar · 23-07-2020 09:58PM

I know it's a bit old but what do I win?

Gloomtastic! · 23-07-2020 10:04PM

Feisar wrote: »

I know it's a bit old but what do I win?

Jesus, shoot me now! :eek:

Insect Overlord · 23-07-2020 10:06PM

Ulmus wrote: »

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

I think I was 6 or 7 when my dad taught me that song. :pac:

Keeping it Irish, "Liver" (by Limerick band, The Hitchers) is pretty gruesome. They push it far enough to make it comedy though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSDvo93mtf4

John_Rambo · 23-07-2020 10:10PM

The Eels. Susan's house. Thought it was cool till I had kids!

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+eels+susan%27s+house&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Church on Tuesday · 23-07-2020 10:42PM

E mac · 23-07-2020 10:47PM

Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology.
For the chorus alone....

Gregor Samsa · 23-07-2020 10:59PM

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..

My dad went into Sound Cellar once to buy me a record for Christmas. Came back ranting about what a death trap it would be if there was a fire. He was furious. I never sent him record shopping for me again after that.

I remember him flicking through my records when I was about 16, and finding Songs About ****ing. He brought it in to my mother and ranted about the filth I was listening to. She just said “you’ve no right to go through his stuff”, and he put it back and never said anything to me. She told me about it years later.

When Carcass “Symphonies Of Sickness” came out, the Sunday World had a headline “BAN THIS VILE SEX DEATH RECORD” on the front page. We were out for a family picnic at Powerscourt waterfall and my dad takes out the paper, reads the front page and looks at me - to see me wearing a Carcass “Symphonies Of Sickness” T-shirt. He just shook his head.

Sorry about that · 23-07-2020 11:04PM

Weile Waile.
"She stuck the penknife in the baby's heart, (altogether now), A weile weile waile"
Haven't sung it since I was a kid.

ilovemuffin · 23-07-2020 11:16PM

Pitbull - Timber ft. Ke$ha

It's not what I deem creepy, just cheesy and crass and everytime I hear it, I can safely say we live in a very weird world

guitarhappy · 23-07-2020 11:25PM

"Happy Birthday"

Especially the "How Old Are You Now" part

When I hear this I could just give up and die.

Tired Gardener · 23-07-2020 11:29PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

My dad went into Sound Cellar once to buy me a record for Christmas. Came back ranting about what a death trap it would be if there was a fire. He was furious. I never sent him record shopping for me again after that.

I remember him flicking through my records when I was about 16, and finding Songs About ****ing. He brought it in to my mother and ranted about the filth I was listening to. She just said “you’ve no right to go through his stuff”, and he put it back and never said anything to me. She told me about it years later.

When Carcass “Symphonies Of Sickness” came out, the Sunday World had a headline “BAN THIS VILE SEX DEATH RECORD” on the front page. We were out for a family picnic at Powerscourt waterfall and my dad takes out the paper, reads the front page and looks at me - to see me wearing a Carcass “Symphonies Of Sickness” T-shirt. He just shook his head.

Haha! Brilliant.

Psychodrama by Ultraviolence.

https://youtu.be/rtm3IT92z0g

pipelaser · 23-07-2020 11:33PM

Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus is up there

https://youtu.be/X_DVS_303kQ

Quantum Erasure · 23-07-2020 11:44PM

Wesser wrote: »

The one about hair in all the right places

Yeah, I'm going bald too...

byte · 24-07-2020 12:05AM

From the same stable as Aphex Twin's "Come To Daddy" and "Windowlicker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxbFWY2Hsc

I remember it being a video on a PlayStation magazine cover-disc, many moons ago.

RichT · 24-07-2020 02:18PM

MacArthur Park - Richard Harris

Harrowing Stuff...

"Someone left the cake out in the rain"

and if that wasn't bad enough...

"I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it"

and the final twist of the knife...

"And I'll never have that recipe again Oh, Noooooo"

The Brave can listen to it here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rsaawY28c

bnt · 24-07-2020 03:12PM

A song about the ones who remain behind: disturbing for what it does not explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5mWzKlhQY

gerrybbadd · 24-07-2020 03:22PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6krWVfN8I

Surprised to see this hasn't been posted yet.

"People think Daddy was written because my dad ****ed me up the ass, but that's not what the song's about. It wasn't about my dad or my mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did **** about it. They didn't belive it was happening to their son." - Jonathan Davis

smilerf · 24-07-2020 03:24PM

I spy by Pulp

Most disturbing song ever?

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