The happiest-sounding song with the grimmest subject matter?

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I guess The La's "There She Goes" is an obvious one...

― some guy, Friday, 25 July 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

70's reggae

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Music which makes you feel different than the emotions conveyed in the lyrics.

I always say "Please Release Me" by Willie Nelson and Ray Price for this. Maybe I should think of another one, though.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

speakin of 70s reggae, "Starvation" by the Pioneers sounds like they're really happy about dying of malnutrition

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Today" and "Rocket" by the Smashing Pumpkins (both about suicide, though the lyrics aren't very explicit)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 25 July 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"My Boyfriend's Back" by some 60's girl group. It's a happy pop song about a psycho boyfriend who has returned to kick ass.

― David Allen, Friday, 25 July 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"It's My Party"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Curse of Millhaven," Nick Cave
"Just to See My Holly Home," Bonnie Prince Billie
"Slow Descent Into Alcoholism," New Pornographers
"Country Death Song," Violent Femmes
"Turn the Lights Down Low," Moonshine Willy
Practically every song by the Ramones

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

speakin of 70s reggae, "Starvation" by the Pioneers sounds like they're really happy about dying of malnutrition

theres a bit in a dick hebdige book which takes from alex haileys roots (both of which are seriously discredited, i know!)
which talks about african slaves singing apparently happy songs with grumbling/fighting words to fool their masters

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Every song by the Shangri-Las except "Give Him a Great Big Kiss".

― Sloan Kohler, Friday, 25 July 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

wha?
you can never go home doesn't sound happy to me. nor does past present and future...

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It was kind of a tongue-in-cheek comment about their mostly overly happy sounding melodramas. There are, of course, some other exceptions and apologize for generalizing their songs/sound like that.

― Sloan Kohler, Friday, 25 July 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Wave of Mutilation and Billiard Player Song

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wish You Were Here!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Well that song always made ME happy, but i'm probably the only one!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Suppose They Close the Door" by Sloan-- at least the chorus is happy-sounding. This song is really interesting, if you haven't heard it you should check it out.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think kids take lyrics very literally and thus are not deceived by happiness of music. For inst. when I heard my Gran singing 'Please Release Me' I took it literally and felt the what I conceived of as the pain an adult feels trapped in a horrible relationship. And when adults sing 'You Are My Sunshine' to kids, do they not notice that the words say 'I dreamt I held you in my arms - When I awoke, dear - I was mistaken - So I held my head and I cried'? As for Rock-A-Bye-Baby, is that not the 'Towering Inferno' of lullabies?

― x, Friday, 25 July 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

PS I know that 'Please Release Me' is 'literally' a sad song, what I meant was I took it literally as applying to my Gran's life eg she was speaking her situation

― x, Friday, 25 July 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Lefty Frizzell's "I Never Go Around Mirrors"

Country music owns this thread.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"enola gay," omd

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

uncorrected personality traits by robin hitchcock

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

x it seems like a lot of people know that song, a few months ago I passed a Dominican guy from the flat-tire fixit place around the corner and he was whistling it! I never really heard anything but that Willie and Ray Price version at first, and the song's so jaunty I never really listened to the words too much. The snatches that I noticed I fit into the way the music made me feel, and I ignored th rest. "I have found a new love, dear" "Her lips are warm" "release me" all sounded vaguely positive to small Tracer. It really wasn't till forever later that I clocked the story. Maybe it's because I was lucky to grow up in a family that didn't have the feelings that are in the song, or at least not that they let on to me about. Or maybe I was just a lazy listener. In any case if I HAD clocked the lyrics before hearingf that bouncy duet version, it might have leant a new character to the song, made me rethink what the lyrics implied. Instead of a sad but firm Dear John letter, it's already two steps ahead of itself, anticipating the relief to come, like when you're going on vacation and two days before you leave you're already OUTTA THERE in your mind, like "whew" "thank god that's done with and i can get on with feeling good!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 July 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pale Saints - "Half-Life, Remembered"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 July 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths to thread.

"Cemetery Gates"
"Bigmouth Strikes Again"
"Sheila Take a Bow"

Oh, hell... most of 'em.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 25 July 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Chemical Bomb" by the Aquabats

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 25 July 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, while we're on the ska-punk tip, Sublime's "Wrong Way"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 25 July 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always found "Skulls" by the Misfits to be a peppy little ditty.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

maxwells silver hammer - beatles

― jesse, Friday, 25 July 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Geto Boys "Mind of a Lunatic"

― dave q, Friday, 25 July 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Beatles - Ticket to Ride

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"People killin' people dyin' / Children hurt and you see them cryin' / When you practise what you preach? / When you turn the other cheek? / Father father father help us need some guidance from above / Cos all this conflict got me questioning / Where is the love?"

(It might not be 'conflict' - this is from memory)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Judy's Turn To Cry", by Lesley Gore

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

austrailia - msp.

― piscesboy, Friday, 25 July 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants own this thread. Some of the lyrics to their supposedly "happiest" songs:

"Nobody in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful."

"Did a large procession raise their torches as my head fell in the basket, and was everybody dancing on the casket? Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want, or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

'sad eyes' by Crowsdell

happy, bouncy, sunny, a graphic account of child sexual abuse. YAY!

― I'm on a roll now (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"How Beautiful You Are" by the Cure: a jaunty, spirited song with a sad, sad story in it, and an even bleaker message. Just think: It starts with "You wonder why I hate you, I'll try to explain..." and ends "no-one can ever truly love or know another."
Yeah....thats cheerful. Riiiight.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ABBA's Happy New Year especially because it appears on so many Christmas/Party albums. Ph34r the Scando gloom-mongers!

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway...

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I brought this up before in another thread, but it bears repeating.
REM's "The One I Love" is not a happy song. The narrator calls his woman "a simple prop/ to occupy my time". So, please, if anyone you know dedicates this song to a loved one. Sterilize or euthanize them so they don't breed.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"American Pie", duh.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 July 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Sashi Riddim" is happy as fuck but had all those anti-fassyman versions most notably "Chi Chi Mon" by TOK where the huge anthemic chorus runs "fire in a chi chi man camp/give me fire mek we bun dem!!!".

― sean g, Friday, 25 July 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Want to Die" by the Deadly Snakes

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Dubstar own this thread... 'Not So Manic Now', a rather jaunty pop song about, er, the random and unprovoked murder of an OAP.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramrod-Bruce Springsteen
The Gash-Flaming Lips

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Timothy," by the Buoys ownz this thread.

― J (Jay), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ABBA's "Happy New Year" never sounded happy to me. It's worth noting that the song is kind of hopeful, though.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Easy!!:

Nena, "99 Luftballons" (about nuclear war and destruction of the entire human race except one person, more or less)

― chuck, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno Chuck, what's grimmer: global thermonuclear war or cannibalism?

― J (Jay), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nuclear was and the destruction of the human race except for one person is a BAD thing?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

But "Timothy" by the Buoys does not sound happy! (And ABBA almost NEVER sound happy; they're gloomier than Joy Division, most of the time! Please refer to the "Flashdancing Through Nowhere" and "Roman Catholic Pagan Ritual Rock" chapters of my second book.)

― chuck, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Timothy" is a howl from the Alfred E. Packer Donner Party abyss!!!

― chuck, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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I'm not a big Depeche Mode fan or nothin' (read in Matt Stone/Orgazmo voice), but I've always thought that "Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead", the b-side of theirs on that Sire "Revenge of the Killer B's" collection, was pretty sweet. It's got the happiest little synth riff, and, although I've never paid close attention to the lyrics, the title says it all.

Also, a good 10% of all good mash-ups to thread. I'm especially thinking of "Cleaning Out My Ketchup" and "Just Can't Get Enough Pills".

And, as the last surviving Carter U.S.M. fan in captivity, I think this is one of the main qualities than initially attracted me to them. "Let's Get Tattoos" being a prime example of this.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

as the last surviving Carter U.S.M. fan in captivity

As long as Tom and Pete are around -- and, uh, me -- you cannot make this claim.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby Bitch - ween

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 1 September 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell band did that 80's hit, "I don't like mondays." Really peppy. It's about a californian girl who did a shooting spree in her high school, which she explained with the title reason.

― sucka (sucka), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That was Bob Geldolph(sp?), I think.

Also the Supremes (and probably lots of other girl-group stuff besides, as mentioned above) to thread.

― wl (wl), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

boomtown rats

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i forget the exact title but it goes "women of the word take over, if you dont, the world will come to and end...and it wont take long" by jim orourke. very joyous sounding.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a "Speak & Spell" album track, and I have trouble figuring out why on Earth it could possibly have ended up on a B-sides compilation as it was never a b-side.

Anyway, good choice.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 September 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

From the back liner notes: "Don't let the gloom squad title fool you, this one is as upbeat as they come. Written by Vince Clarke who went on to form Yaz and The Assembly, this charming slice of synth was features on the D.P.'s first UK album and as a premium in "Flexipop" magazine."

So, I guess in 1984, Speak and Spell wasn't a U.S. release? I'm not quite clear on what "the D.P" is, though. Mysteries upon mysteries.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it was a US release.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Captivity? Ned no man will ever capture the Barnet Ape!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This is true and I hang my head in shame at thinking such a mighty being could be controlled.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah jim o'rourke's gotta take some kind of cake here; happy nice beautiful songs about like having sex with disabled people 'cause they can't get away from him and then killing them (something like that) - and so on.

Also, one of my favourites "Telephone Book" by the Violent Femmes from '3' - manages to sound JAUNTY but also incredibly angry and disturbing ("did you happen to hear an old song I once sang
did it make your sweet sweet blood run cold in your veins
and will you never think of me the same")

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mack the Knife"
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight
Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there’s never, never a trace of red

Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone’s sneakin' ‘round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?

― H (Heruy), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Depeche Mode's US only "People Are People" album was their US debut.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

'tears of a clown' smokey robinson

― joni, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

People Are People was initially a US compilation but Depeche were signed to Sire back in 1981 and stayed with them up through the label's semi-dissolve into WEA (Depeche and all related efforts now are released via Reprise, last I checked.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" owns this. I mean, it's the Great Big Party Jam, right? Every listened to the lyrics? "Looking at the devil/Staring at his gun/Fingers start shaking/I begin to run..." All about how Sly watched the destruction of every ideal he ever had and fled into drugs. Scary as fuck.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

"Timothy," by the Buoys ownz this thread.

I would say this is a resounding 'yes', especially given that, rather than just depicting an instance of your run-of-the-mill, desperation-fueled cannibalism, the song seems to describe the willing murder and then complete consumption of another human being. I mean...they never found any remains!

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

Well, not quite up there with cannibalism, but The Stone Roses - "Bye Bye Badman" seems to fit the bill.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

Macabre's 'Vampire of Dusseldorf' is fun.

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

"Fiddle About," particularly on the Tommy Original Soundtrack, sounds like great fun but is about pederasty.

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

Also, "Orphans" by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, you'll recall, is about little dismembered orphans running through the bloody snow, but by the thrilling and wayward music you'd think they were running off to Six Flags!

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, and what about "John Wayne Is Big Leggy?" by Haysi Fantayzee? It's manic and rollicking, yet the lyrics are apparently about bad, bad adult things that I still don't understand even as a worldly middle-aged man.

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)

For me these are generally sadder than traditional "sad" sounding songs.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 02:09 (sixteen years ago)

Kinda wanna suggest "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" but then it really isn't a happy-sounding song at all. DW's did elegiac melancholy better than almost anyone.

― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 02:18 (sixteen years ago)

Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Wall Of Death - Richard & Linda Thompson

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

Wow so nobody put

No Children - The Mountain Goats

seriously!

― Evan, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

Elton John - "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" (complete with tap dance break)
Richard & Linda Thompson - "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor"
- "The Little Beggar Girl"
- "Smiffy's Glass Eye"
- "Civilization"
Warren Zevon - "Excitable Boy"
The Who - "Little Billy"
John Lennon - "Crippled Inside"
Talking Heads - "Air"
- "Road to Nowhere"
- "(Nothing But) Flowers"
Sloan - "Chester the Molester"
Camper Van Beethoven - "Militia Song"
Squeeze - "Melody Motel"
- "Hits of the Year"
Stan Ridgway - "The Roadblock"
Nick Lowe - "Marie Provost"
- "Nutted By Reality"
The Roches - "The Death of Suzzy Roche"
They Might Be Giants - "Mr. Me"
- "I Palindrome I"
The Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers"
The Lemonheads - "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You"

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

no mention of Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"?

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

first thought was my bloody valentine's 'drive it all over me', which is a fairly jangly and sunny composition, musically speaking

Run run away run run away
'Cause there's nothing left to say
Got no one to talk to
Leave me alone, I'm happy to die today
Run run away run run away
Cause there's nothing left to say
Oh, the travel always gets me
Get in the car and drive it all over me

― 6335, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)

i'm thinking 'isolation' by joy division. am i alone in finding that synth hook kind of upbeat?

also 'allentown' by billy joel.

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 04:26 (sixteen years ago)

The Auteurs - Unsolved Child Murder

― een, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 05:46 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gEa20Wsqg

― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 06:26 (sixteen years ago)

You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'til you spend half your life just to cover it up

― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

Moby re: "Southside"

My favorite thing about "South Side" is the subject matter. It's essentially a song about abject amorality. I love that it's a happy sing-along pop song about kids that become so inured to violence and become so desensitized that nothing gets through to them. It's about people who have become so over-exposed to stimuli that nothing matters to them anymore. I like the idea of having subtle, very disturbing lyrics hidden in a happy-friendly pop song. And I also like the fact that no one stopped to listen to the lyrics — which is fine with me.

― hey hey hey, smoke persians every day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

Act Naturally - Buck Owens, the Beatles

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

Seems no mention of Madness on this thread at all yet. At least "Embarrassment" and "(Waiting For The) Ghost Train" would deserve a mention. In the case of songs about Apartheid, there is also "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddy Grant.

Not least, "It's The End Of The World And We Know It", surely?

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

Not the happiest, but Sufjan's "John Wayne Gacy Jr." is one the prettiest songs ever made for me.
Along those lines of "pretty but grim" there is also Jim O'Rourke's 'halfway to threeway'.

And from what my dad says of the mixtape of Belle and Sebastian I gave him - some of their songs have really awkward lyrics. I agree.

Of all these that I mentioned, I fell in love with the songs before I ever listened to the lyrics. I didn't even know who John Wayne Gacy Jr. was until I actually finally listened to the lyrics and looked him up. I should have figured when I saw that Gacy movie in the horror movie section.

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

Interesting that Obscured By The Clouds got radio play. It always came off as one of the lesser known Floyd albums to me. Pretty great album though.

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

Not least, "It's The End Of The World And We Know It", surely?

not necessarily a bad thing, you know...change is good...

"Sister", by Prince is maybe not "happy", but certainly upbeat...it's fun, but incest, getting put on the street, etc., pretty bleak stuff any way ya slice it...

― henry s, Thursday, 10 September 2009 00:52 (sixteen years ago)

oh, and it's the end of the world as we know it...big difference...

― henry s, Thursday, 10 September 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

"Disorder" - Joy Division

― King of Snake (j-rock), Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:36 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think it's been posted, but S&G's "The Sun is Burning" fits this thread title perfectly.

― Mordy, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

"100 000 Fireflies" - Magnetic Fields (although I prefer Superchunk's version)

― King of Snake (j-rock), Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

It's not the grimmest, but I just realized today that The Beatles 'Run for Your Life' is tres creepy. Catchy though..

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

Some Delgados tracks, esp. from the Hate LP. A lot of Ween, but "Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony," in particular, is pretty unsettling.

― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

Blind Willie McTell - A To Z Blues is all la la la cuttin up womenz

― oing oing oing (╓abies), Thursday, 10 September 2009 05:27 (sixteen years ago)

Alice Cooper, "Cold Ethyl"

Street People, "Jennifer Tompkins"

The Fifth Estate, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead"

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 10 September 2009 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

"Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon.

― banjoboy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 03:16 (sixteen years ago)

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