Nasty songs are fantastic things, don't you think?

ShanesTeeth can keep his love songs, I like my music with a bit of an edge. So, can we collect together some dark, ugly, brutal songs that reflect the desperate nature of the human condition?

Dig around in the darkest corners of your black, black hearts and post your darkest tunes.

I'll let Mr Costello start us off. With a Leon Payne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJaZrf8FLA) classic.

You can't beat a good serial killer related ditty.

Mad, bad and dangerous to know?

Sounds like Nick cave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chF244LWWqg) bludgeoning Kylie's brains out :)

I Want You - Elvis Costello.
Oh my baby, baby I love you more than I can tell
I don't think I can live without you
And I know that I never will
Oh my baby, baby I want you so it scares me to death
I can't say any more than "I love you"
Everything else is a waste of breath

I want you
You've had your fun you don't get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
Be careful darling you might fall...
Going on seven minutes of pathological longing. A stalker's deranged anthem. Splendidly covered here by Fiona Apple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOmhOumh-w), in full-on twitchy loon mode.

I little bit of sadomasochism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c).

Stan by Eminem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLZFdqwh7E

the chariot - daggers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05weZYExPU

If we are talking dark songs and serial killers - Suffer Little Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLJxoR1tH4)

If we are talking dark songs and serial killers - Suffer Little Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLJxoR1tH4)

No serial killers here, but despair aplenty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZPTTgMGCk&feature=related)

Goodbye Earl - Dixie Chicks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDWSYfAfJ8M).

A bouncy ditty about domestic violence and murder.
Goodbye Earl
Those black-eyed peas
They tasted all right to me, Earl
You're feeling weak
Why don't you lay down and sleep, Earl?
Ain't it dark
Wrapped up in that tarp, Earl?

A bouncy ditty about domestic violence .

It will fade from purple to violet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVOvaz2n1Vc)

Kate Bush - The Wedding List (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymxgS4XHRA). Not sure whether it's the lyrics or the 70s video that's more disturbing.

On the theme of revenge, Costello's How To Be Dumb shoved the knife into Bruce Thomas pretty effectively, following the latter's publicaton of The Big Wheel. Thomas was still playing with the Attractions in '91, when Mighty Like a Rose came out. He must have loved strumming along to this one.

Can't find a video. Here's a snippet of the lyrics:
I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration
While you were living like a saint
And all the time the very one you trusted was washing off somebody else's paint

Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation
Every fleeting thought is a pearl
And beautiful people stampede to the doorway of the funniest ****** in the world ...

Trapped in the House of the Perpetual Sucker
Where bitterness always ends so pitifully
You always had to dress up your envy in some half-remembered philosophy

Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius
Whose ever bad intention has been purged
You could've walked out any time you wanted but face it you didn't have the courage
I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite or some kind of twisted dilettante
Funny though people don't usually get so ugly 'til they think they know what they want

Scratch your own head, stupid
Count up to three
Roll over on your back
Repeat after me

Nicholas van Hoogenstraten is a bit of a shady figure. Carter immortalised him in song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM__XvVDvH4)

Some reading (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3301361.stm) for those who aren't familiar with him.

Girl asks to go see boyfriend; daddy says no; girl goes anyway; daddy follows and stabs them both. Pretty tune though.

Kate Rusby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYClOgRyvLs) welcomes you to the world of the murderous folk song.