"I first felt a hit,...and then a kick..."

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Quasi-inspired by the stalking thread, how about a list of SONGS ABOUT BEING ATTACKED/MUGGED/ROUGHED-UP UNSOLICITEDLY.

I'll start with: The Jam's "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," "The Prey" by Dead Kennedys and "Subway Song" by the Cure.

Watch your pockets!

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't every 2-Tone record have to have a song about this BY LAW?

― fritz, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - REM

― o. nate, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neil Young, "Don't Be Denied": "The punches came fast and hard/Lying on my back in the schoolyard"
I'd say Elton John's "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town," but those are about going out and beating people up. Not the same thing at all.

― M Matos, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rod Stewart-"The Killing of Georgie (Parts 1 and 2)"
Runaways-"Dead End Justice" ("he hit me with a board/it hurt just like a sword/they kicked me in the eye/my brain began to fry")

― Arthur, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dreadlock Holiday" - 10cc.

― dylan, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Gimme Three Steps"! Erm, except that's about trying to avoid a fight.

― scott p., Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Struck a place that they called a dive
I was in luck to get out alive
When the policeman heard my woes
Saw my black eyes and my battered nose
"You've been held up!" said the copper fly
"No, sir! But I've been knocked down!" said I
Then he laughed, tho' I couldn't see why
I'll never go there any more.

- "The Bowery", Percy Gaunt

― o. nate, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oops, that should have been Charles Hoyt(lyrics)/Percy Gaunt(music).

― o. nate, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was an early punk comp called "Someone Got Their Head Kicked In" but I dunno if it had a song by the same title. To my ears the dumb appeal of punk is nowhere clearer than in the willfully disagreeing pronoun + possessive. Brilliant.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumb appeal or dumb repugnance, I guess, depending on your druthers.

― o. nate, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

their = acceptable alternative to "his or her"

― mark s, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Someone Got Their Head Kicked In" = probably "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight"? the Rezillos did it but it was originally a early Fleetwood Mac b-side done under the pseudonym earl Vince & the Valiants - '50s-greaser-juvenile-delinquent-violence rock'n'roll pastiche .

― , Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooooh Richard Thompson made a living out of this kind of stuff, from "The Killing Jar" you have

"Once had a sweetheart, Caught her running around, I hit with a log-chain...and put her in the ground"

then you have

"That gorilla you're dancing with May not have too long to live He's putting his hands in the wrong places Time to rearrange his face He's gonna dance with me instead I'm gonna tap dance on his head"

from "Dont tempt me"

and does it get any darker than the bleak "Love in a faithless country"?

"Always make your best moves late at night Always keep your tools well out of sight Never pays to work the same town twice It never hurts to be a little nice"

― j-to-the-p, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can't stand the rezillos!! my copy has on it the fair adolescent hand-writing in biro of a young MATT BLACK, long after of COLDCUT and NINJA TUNE: where it says name, he haf written MATTHEW and where it says address he haf written SOD YOU haha... He gave it to me 20 years ago k-blimeyXoR! Becoz I liked "this kind of thing" more than him.

― mark s, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"dont look at me, Im the BUS STOP BOXER" The Eels

― kiwi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Getting Beaten Up' ("It's part of growing up") by The Piranhas.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

"been spat on and shat on and raped and abused" old main drag...the pogues

― slack jack, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Thela Hun Ginjeet" - King Crimson So these two guys approach me and start acting real aggressive.

― Dave225, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

"Head Kicked in" - the Macc Lads released this way back... didn't know there was a Fleetwood mac version... are the lyrics similar?

heard the Rezillos' (sp?) version on "Jackass the movie" - rather sanitised compared to the macc lads version ;)

― Rincewind2, Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

An all-voluntary edition:

The Crystals "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss")

Smog -- "Be Hit" ("every girl I've ever loved has wanted to be hit / every girl I've ever loved left me, 'cause I wouldn't do it.")

The Sounds - "Hit Me!" ("hit me hard / hit my dreamy eyes / i want to see the stars / hit me. hit me hard!")

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I really do so hate to be a miserable old spoilsporting Mr Pedantry-Trousers*, but shouldn't the lyric in the title have been "I first felt a fist...." ?

(* - this may possibly be a complete lie)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops, didn't notice the word UNSOLICITEDLY there, Alex. (x-post)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dem thump him him in him belly and it turn to jelly
Dem lick 'im pon 'im back and 'im rib get pop
Dem thump him pon him head but it tough like lead
Dem kick 'im in 'im seed and it started to bleed"

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Sonny's Lettah (Anti-"Sus" poem)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"'Sling him out - he's wearing boots',
Cry the gangsters dressed in diner suits,
They black his eye, his nose get's bent
Courtesy of the management"

Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"He was beaten black, He was beaten blue
But don't be alarmed, it was the right thing to do
The police have the power, Police have the right
To kill a man to take away his life
Drunk and disorderly was his crime
I think at worst he should be doing time
But he's dead
He was drunk and disorderly and now he's dead"

The Murder Of Liddle Towers - Angelic Upstarts

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Boy Named Sue"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Specials - The Boiler
The Barron Knights - And Then He Kicked Me

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lurkers - And Then I Kicked Her

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Smiths - Stop me if you've heard this one before

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No Britney?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Robinson, "Glad to Be Gay"

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when is begging someone to call you the same as an unsolicited mugging?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That applies to all three of the above songs, right?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

whah???

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I was mainly talking about Britney but if it's more confusing my post can refer to every song on the thread.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Rusholme Ruffians by the Smiths. God, I'd love to batter Morrissey.

― a lurker, Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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