After the recent thread about female singers here's another one for your input. Love songs are OK but wouldn't it be nice so see a CD released such as .....
Songs of Hate & Pain (or)
20 Songs to Rip Your Heart Apart (or)
The Best Hate Album in the World...Ever

With some songs you can feel the venom spilling out of the record. Here's a few to start with

Positivley 4th Street - Bob Dylan
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
How Do You Sleep - John Lennon
One - U2
Changes - Black Sabbath
You've Got a Nerve - Rod Stewart
Oh God - Annie Lennox
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore
Thorn In My Side - Eurythmics
Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac
Love Of My Life - Queen
Stop - Sam Brown
Nothing Compares 2U -Sinead O'Connor
Any track by Alanis Morrisette

There is a music video channel called Magic which plays nice heart warming music most of the time. I would love to set up the Tragic video channel just for this purpose

Shellac - Prayer to God

the most corruscatingly devasted pained ****ing angry song I've ever heard. It's brutal.

How about "Unhappy Birthday" by the Smiths from their final album "Strangeways Here We Come".

"Act Of War" by Elton John and Millie Jackson.

Years ago I did an occasional radio show called 4M - Mean, Moody, Miserable Music which specialised in this sort of stuff! It was great fun to put together!

Anyway, off the top of my head and without consulting old play lists....

The Johnny Cash version of Trent Reznor's 'Hurt'.
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Heart Attack and Vine - Tom Waits
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Common People - Pulp
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was / Wasted Life
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night / Ohio
Tori Amos's 'Little Earthquakes' album.
Anything from Lou Reed's 'Magic and Loss'
Throw in some Manic Street Preachers - particularly the third and fourth albums.

Mmmmm.....grim......:-)

"American Pie" by Don Mclean ...


I always thought was a most tragic song.

How about :

I'm sick of you tasting of somebody else by Marc Almond or
A lover spurned also by Marc Almond

A few more,

The Buzzcocks - What do i get?
PJ Harvey - Rid of me
Garbage - Stupid girl
Jilted John - Gordon is a moron
Radiohead - Creep
Momus - The Homosexual
The Wedding Present - Everyone thinks he looks daft
Jaques Brel - Le Moribond

Anything by Chumbawamba!

Anything by the Cheeky Girls also invokes feelings of rage, you end up thinking "God! Why the chuffing hell am I listening to this crap?!".

Always found Punk to be a rich vein to tap into in the hate and pain stakes.

Nazi Punks F**K off - Dead Kennedys
Let's wreck the party - DOA
Looking forward to Death - Dead Kennedys
Every Day (I start to ooze) - Nomeansno
Drug Me - Dead Kennedys
Sick Man - Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
Someone drowned in my Pool - Wiseblood
Hollow Man - Death Cult
My dead wife - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Trouble every day - Frank Zappa
The Boiler - Rhoda Dakar and the Special AKA
Racist friend - the specials & your racist friend - They Might Be Giants
Wash it all off - You've got Foetus on your breath
Radio Raheem - Steroid Maximus

...and listen to Gladys Knight and the Pips "Neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye" - specially after one of those long painful breakups!!! But THEN listen to Angie Stones remix of the theme called " My sunshine has come " to cheer you up (as the sunshine does always return) - they're both beautiful!! :)


Oh yes and River by Joni Mitchell is pretty crushing too......

Phan
Do you mind if I DON'T check out some of those......

I Missed one off the list

Revenge - New Model Army

phan, you forgot to mention such great punk acts such as blink 182 and new found glory

not familiar with either of those I'm afraid.

There used to be an excellent night in Hull, that started off in a city centre bar, but found its spiritual home in the Green Room Cafe on Spring Bank.

Angst Night was a subdued affair, candles, red wine, Leonard Cohen, and muted Woody Allen films. Sometimes there was poetry, mostly there was bitterness and regret.

It was hugely popular.

Surprised so far that no one has mentioned the good old classic...

Without You - Nilsson

brings a tear to the eye of anyone who listens to it.... torture especially if its the Mariah Carey version :wow:

and that other god awful track... think its called "all by myself" probably done by Celine Dion or another whining women "singer".

Not to mention the entire Radiohead back catalogue... ah music to slit your wrists to :P

Looking at some of those titles I'm glad I left pop behind in the sixties :D

But I do have one favourite...

Tomás Luis de Victoria's 'Requiem Officium Defunctorum'

It begins, 'Taedet animam meam'...In my soul I am weary of this life

Available from the central library beautifully sung by the Tallis Scholars or Westminster Cathedral Choir. :cool:

Originally posted by Mosherchik

Not to mention the entire Radiohead back catalogue... ah music to slit your wrists to :P

Heh you've just condemned yourself to an evening of Radiohead next time you visit :P

for hate -

Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

Christan Death - All The Hate - this includes a monologue from an ex-nazi general detailing what Hitler did to the people who plotted the failed assassination attempt (bomb in Hitler's bunker) on Hitler. Horrible stuff!

Originally posted by Xtro
Heh you've just condemned yourself to an evening of Radiohead next time you visit :P


Call it a cultural exchange, evening of radiohead for an evening of unadulterated...

Harry Potter :P

...with maybe a bit of the Darkness for good measure :wink:

Just a tiny selection:

Manics "You Love Us"
The Clash "Know Your Rights"
Pulp "I Spy"
Marion "Father's Day"
Only Ones "You've Got To Pay"

On some the venom is positively being spat out .....

Fabulous, all of them.

StarSparkle