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c90 songs about dysfunctional families

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this is techincally a friday question

― anthony, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ramones-"We're a Happy Family", Lou Reed-"Kill Your Sons", Soft Cell-"Where the Heart Is"

― Arthur, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pixies, "Nimrod's Son".

Incest, ya know...

― Oliver, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nirvana: "Son of a Gun" (I know it's a cover but I can't remember of whom)

― james, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Andrew Gold, "Lonely Boy". I remember a while back I asked somebody to PLEASE explain this fucking song to me, as it's the weirdest thing I've ever heard - still no answers!
Beach Boys, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man"
Frantix, "My Dad's a Fuckin' Alcoholic"
Rolling Stones, "Prodigal Son"
Bruce Springsteen, "Adam Raised a Cain", "Independence Day"
"Son of a Gun" is a Vaselines song IIRC.

― dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alice Cooper, "Dead Babies"
Pat Benatar, "Hell is for Children"
Elton Motello, "He's A Rebel"
Tubes, "White Punks on Dope"

― dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prince, "Sister". Well, maybe in some remote areas that kind of thing isn't seen as 'dysfunctional', but...

― dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bobby Digital - "Domestic Violence"
Eminem - "Kim"
Atmosphere - "Trailer Park Chicken"
Company Flow - "Last Good Sleep"

― Honda, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually some of those only work if we assume there are kids witnessing the whole thing.

― Honda, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aerosmith, "Janie's Got a Gun"
Bikini Kill, "Suck My Left One"
Warren Zevon, "Play it All Night Long"
Eminem, "Kim"
Madonna, "Oh Father"
The Who, "I'm a Boy"
Leonard Cohen, "Story of Isaac"

― dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

John Denver, "Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas"

― dave q, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits off Blue Valentines

my parents used to play that John Denver Christmas album back to back with the one he did with the Muppets every year, and that song about the drunk father threw things for a loop every time.

Oh, and the obvious "F*ck X-Mas" by Fear.

― badger, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Cold Blooded Old Times' by Smog.

― Snotty Moore, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Machine-"There but for the Grace of God", Cher-"You Better Sit Down Kids", Harry Chapin-"Cats in the Cradle", Everclear-"Father of Mine", John Lennon and now Shelby Lynne-"Mother"

― Arthur, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeremy by Pearl Jam is about quite a dysfunctional family! I think I meant "Been a son" as the Nirvana song...Son of a Gun doesn't really mention families as far as I can remember!

― james, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dir en Grey - "Berry"

― Honda, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament '74..."they fight all night, about his private secretary, lipstick stain, blond hair"

― james, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"No Thugs in Our House" by XTC

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Institutionalized" - suicidal tendencies

― Oliver, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Story of Beauty" -- Destiny's Child.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Coup, "Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night"

― M. Matos, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MBV - 'No More Sorry'

― Damian, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In both the Louvin Brothers' "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night" and Geto Boys' "Assassins", sons are concerned about fathers led astray by demonic forces. In the former Dad sees the light and reforms, in the latter he gets "shot in the head" after being "caught basing".

― dave q, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How 'bout a Kiss for your Cousin Dupree? - Steely Dan (the only band I know that can get old ladies and soccer moms to bop around the grocery store to songs about incest and drugs.)

Family Snapshot - Peter Gabriel

― Dave225, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...
Lou Reed, Endless Cycle
The Smiths, Barbarism Begins at Home
Pearl Jam, Alive
Suzanne Vega, Luka

― sergio fortuño, Monday, 14 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed -- Sex With Your Parents

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Earle -- Copperhead Road

That is unless it is normal for your daddy to be killed running moonshine and so you take up growing weed.

― earlnash, Monday, 14 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That Meat Loaf monologue thing where he ends it with;

"Godammit Daddy, I love you, but you've got a hell of a lot to learn about ROCK AND ROLL."

― Nick H, Monday, 14 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You could make almost a whole side just from Soft Cell songs - there's also the glorious "Kitchen Sink Drama", "Frustration", and others I can't remember the titles of ..

btw, I thought the Smiths "Barbarism.." was about 'Manchester schools' rather than his family life, which by all accounts Moz rather liked for most of his childhood.

― darren (darren), Monday, 14 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...
Choctaw Bingo by James McMutry. An ode to all the west Texas crystal meth dealers.

― Iona Trailer (IonaTrailer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

King of Carrot Flowers, pt. 1

How this thread got so far without it is a mystery.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

"Husband don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see, putting it down to another bad day"

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Martin Simpson - Never Any Good (about his old man). (Would also fit in the 'songs with no intro' thread.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBq2upq_AG8

― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:07 (six years ago)

Great revive.

― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:07 (six years ago)


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