Songs with Decapations/Losing a Limb

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Looking for songs that include a decapitation/loss of a limb/amputation ... stuff like:

No Trend - "Teen Love"
Barbarians - "Moulty"
Happy Flowers - "Get Paul's Head"

thanks!

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

...why?

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Broken Bones- "decapitated"

― chad (chad), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The Auteurs "Land Lovers"

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The complete discography of Carcass to thread!

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer - Piece by Piece

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin t' F*** Wit

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica - One

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Red Right Hand(sorta) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds(i think). wow, i am very noncommital today.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I always misread Le Tigre's "Deceptacon" as "Decapitation" myself.

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think at the end of an early Tall Dwarfs song??? Chris Knox goes "oh not that leg". Also: "maragaret on the guillotine" by the Smiths.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen - Don't Lose Your Head

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

and Queen - Gimme the Prize

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Angelica - Bring Back Her Head
PJ Harvey - Legs

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Papa Won't Leave You Henry" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds...

".....stick your arm into that hole, it'll come stripped unto the bone!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Both in the same vein...

The Fall - "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul"
Naked Raygun - "Libido"

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Hasil Adkins, "No More Hot Dogs":

"Well I'm gonna put your head on my wall
just like I told you baby
you can't talk no more
and can't eat no more, eat no more hot dogs
I'm gonna put your head, put it on my wall.
Come on baby, don't you be late
I want your head, and I wan't it tonight
cut your head off at half past 8
and have it on my wall at 'bout a half past 10"

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

In a similar vein (do you SEE?!), the Cramps' "TV Set":

oh baby i see you on my tv set
yeah baby i see you on my tv set
i cut your head off and put it in my tv set
i use your eyeballs for dials on my tv set
i watch tv
i watch tv
since i put you in my tv set

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"I wanna chop off your head and watch it roll into the basket"
("Senior Service," Elvis Costello)

"Let's not talk about bombs or the briain impulses of severed limbs."
("Some Other Time," X)

Several body parts are slashed with a razor blade in "Flowers" by Psychedelic Furs, but is slashing in the same category as decapitating?

― slim vestant, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

VU, "Rock and Roll"

― dave q, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Detachable Penis"

― slim vestant, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Misfits "Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight"
Alice Cooper "Chop Chop Chop"
Lawnmower Deth "Legs Cut Off? Don't Come Running To Me!"
Ian Gillan "I'll Rip Your Spine Out"
Lou Reed "Harry's Circumcision"*
David Bowie "Time Will Crawl"

* = yeah I know but some ppl get really worked up over it

― dave q, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stuart" by the Dead Milkmen has someone getting decapitated in an amusement park ride. Highly recommended.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pull the trigger drop the blade and watch the rolling heads"- Soundgarden, The day I tried to live

― Cacaman Flores, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychic TV: "I Want to Eat Your Leg."

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloodrock: "D.O.A."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Bungle's "Vanity Fair" is about getting a sex change, and that includes loss of a certain...uh...

"cut it cut it cut cut cut CUT THIS CANCER FROM MY SOUL!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Offspring - Beheaded

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'I send my nose to you' from "I Send My Love to You" by Palace.

― Moss Feaster (Moss Feaster), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Moss, that totally reminds me:

Sister Ray - "To Spite My Face"

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Angelblood "Tearing Off Your Head"

― brock (brock), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Although the song doesn't address disfigurement, Negativland would perform "Four Fingers" live with some judicious finger-chopping.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

magnetic fields "chicken with his head cut off"
one of the b-sides on moonshake's "secondhand clothes" single

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ambition makes you look very ugly
Kicking squealing Gucci little piggy

You don't remember, you don't remember,
why don't you remeber my name?
Off with his head man, off with his head man
Why won't he remember my name?
I guess he does"

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Should almost count: Beck, "Cut 1/2 Blues"
Hopefully shouldn't: King Missile, "Detachable Penis"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Men in a war
If they've lost
A limb
Still feel
That limb
Like they did
Before"

Suzanne Vega

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't believe no-one's done this yet but still:

"Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
Uh huh ha ha ha
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"My head is filled with fear of war
Fear and threat of war
Horrific disturbing visions of war
Fill my head
Among the maimed and slaughtered
My body lies"

Discharge - Visions Of War

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse
Gaily they played each summer's day
Warriors both of course
One little chap then had a mishap
Broke off his horse's head...."

.... does that count?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

How could we have possibly have forgotten*:

"Sitting in a chair someone's hands in my hair
Short back and sides leaves nothing to hide
The walls are red and so is the door
I can see a bit of flesh over there on the floor

He's so fucked up always a razor cut
Leaves a bit on top but he don't know when to stop
Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd
You're a fuckin' old sod"

K9's - Sweeney Todd

Because, with the possible exception of Dr. C and Mark S, I wouldn't imagine any of you have ever heard of them maybe?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, various people including the Pogues..

And those that were left, well we tried to survive
In that mad world of death, blood and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse-over-head
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead
Never knew there was worse things than dying

For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and free
For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

So, they collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed
And shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane
The proud, wounded heroes of Souvla
And when our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was no one there waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 28 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater-Kinney "Was It A Lie?

When the collision came
she died right away
her body flung almost sixty feet
and as she split in two
was she coming straight for you
and do you have a camera for a face?

― chris j (chris j), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"I got the peg-leg, at the end of my stump-ah!"

"Shake Your Rump" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

More Pogues:

In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky
I lay down on the ground
And the arms and legs of other men
Were scattered all around
Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
Then prayed and bled some more
And the only thing that I could see
Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

skulls - misfits

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Headless Body in a Topless Bar"-Ann Magnuson and Kristian Hoffman

― Ding Dongs in Motion (Arthur), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Until My Head Falls Off- They Might Be Giants
They Saved Hitler's Cock- Angry Samoans

― sucka (sucka), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

next: brel "one day i'll cut my legs off, and burn myself alive"

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Hold Your Hand In Mine" by Tom Lehrer

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

BEST "GET WELL SOON" PRESENT EVER.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

every Cannibal Corpse song ever written

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"monkey jar" by the Headless Chickens

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a bit about guillotines in The Frog Princess by the Divine Comedy. Doesn't actually mention decapitation, but it's pretty much hinted at.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

'Gimmie Your Head' - Bloodrock
'Head On A Pole' - Bevis Frond

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Gravediggaz: "Diary of a Madman"

They gave me nothing to eat for two weeks
And sewed my eye lids open so I couldn't sleep
About to die from thirst, that's when the minister
quinched my jaws with a cold glass of vinegar
Upon my wounds they seasoned me with salt
And nailed my hands feet to the form of the cross
AHH!! I cry
As the blood drips inside of my eye
refusing to die
Visions of hell tormented my face
So I chewed my fucking arm off and made an escape.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

NoFX - She's Nubs

― Crazy Canuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Amputease - Live Skull

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mr. Johnson's Head" - Insane Clown Posse

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote a whole book chapter on this once. *Accidental Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll,* "Despite all the Amputations", pp. 222-225. Look it up if you want...

― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Swervedriver - Bring Me the Head of the Fortune Teller

― Ben, Monday, 1 December 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

This little ditty by the Beautiful South:

Would you still love me if I lost my legs?
I'd see that you were loved and you were fed
I end up in a car crash almost dead?
For richer and for partly severed head

I loved the macabreness (?) of those first two LP's before they became the house band of the sensible fleece-wearing masses.

Also:

The Clash, "Jimmy Jazz"

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
'He lost his leg in Dallas, he was dancin' with the train'

R.E.M. - "Bittersweet Me"
'I'd sooner chew my leg off'

― Schwingung (Damian), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

NoFX-we threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for arms

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Weird Al version of "Complicated"... dunno what it's called

― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Alice Donut - "My Severed Head"

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Lowe - "So It Goes"

[from memory]
"I remember one night the kid cut off his right arm,
In a bid to save a bit of power..."

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Cattle Decapitation

― tony bleach, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

dj food & ken nordine - "the ageing young rebel"

― you will be shot, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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