Music to listen to when you're pissed off

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THRaKaTTaK. It isn't a very good album, but is there anything better to listen to when you're so angry you could pound something into the ground? What do you listen to when you're pissed off?

― Anna Rose, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am never pissed off. I am a hippie.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peak-period manics, and fear of a black planet.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I used to get all DESTROY ALL HU-MANS a few years ago, Nirvana's "In Utero" was in high rotation.

― Ess Kay, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just silence. music would make me enourmously nervous

― francesco, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well hmmmmm....I'd go with: "I WIll REFUSE" by Pailhead, the entirety of the first Killing Joke album, "Feel Good" by Cop Shoot Cop, "Five Minutes" by the Stranglers, "All That I Wanted" by Belfegore, "Depression" and/or "Revenge" and/or "RISE ABOVE" and/or the * ENTIRETY* of DAMAGED by Black Flag, "Excorcism" by Killing Joke, "A Perfect Teenhood" by ..Trail of Dead, "Rip Ride" by Venom and then the entirety of the NO NEW YORK compilation.

Then have an aspirin.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jesus lizard would be good

― Ron, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For low-level seething: Slint's _Spiderland_. For higher-level raging: Deftones' _White Pony_. For anything beyond that: Eminem's _Marshall Mathers LP_.

― Daver, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I felt like maintaining my anger: Richard Hell and the Voidoids' "Blank Generation". It's not pissed-off all the way through, but "Love Comes in Spurts" and "Liars Beware" are perfect backdrops for that simmering "ahh fuck this" sort of anger.
If I felt like dissipating my anger: Super Furry Animals' "Rings Around the World". It's happy and pop-tastic and that death-metal growling at the end of "Receptacle for the Respectable" instantly cheers me up.

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite records when I feel hate include:

Big Black - _Atomizer_/_Rich Man's Eight Track_
Ministry - _The Land Of Rape And Honey_
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - _I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits_
Atari Teenage Riot - _Burn, Berlin, Burn!_
Public Enemy - _Fear Of A Black Planet_
Tool - _Aenima_
The Cure - _Pornography_

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the cure? i wasn't expecting that. for me it'd be the deftones "around the fur", or nine inch nails "broken".

― dyson, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, trust me, Pornography is a supremely loud and pissed-off album. Dan can elucidate, though.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

skunk anasie is good

― fran, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, "Broken" is another good one.

_Pornography_ is all about slow- burning rage. The bombast of "A Hundred Years" and "The Hanging Garden" juxtaposed with the quiet loathing of "Siamese Twins" and the seething ire of "Cold", "Pornography" and "A Strange Day"... The entire album is about different ways of expressing hate.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Electric Eels God Says Fuck You Homestead.

"a bowl of steaming washers would be good right now."

― Jack Cole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple come immediately to mind...
"I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys
"I Hate You" by the Monks
"You Fucked Up" by Ween
"Flashback" by Ministry
"What's Going On" by Husker Du
"New Mind" by Swans (or pretty much anything with that death polka beat)
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" as covered by Napalm Death
non-ambient Painkiller
"Leng Tch'e" by Naked City

― Kate Spiren, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Honestly: "Shoehorn with Teeth" by They Might Be Giants

I can't listen to them if I don't feel like shit.

― Keiko, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rock on, Kate: "Flashback" was precisely the song I was thinking of when I listed _The Land Of Rape And Honey_.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THRaKaTTaK. It isn't a very good album

No, it certainly is not.

― Joe, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just sold my 90s KC albums; album I saved: thRakAttaACKkKCK

― Josh, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Misson of Burma's That's When I Reach for my Revolver always seems to work nicely- whenever I get completely frustrated and stressed at work I put it on repeat for about 15 minutes until I'm calm enough to type again.

― lyra in seattle, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I second Dan Perry's assessment of Pornography; you might think that Robert Smith is some twee little milquetoast twirp, but for one record he sounds like a deranged psycho who just spent an entire night drinking PCP-laden Jack Daniels, and wants to sing you a list of his enemies and what his apocalyptic plan of attack will be.
"It Doesn't Matter if We All DIE!" he screams as the very first line of the record. And then begins to make you feel that he WANTS us all to die.

― Lord Custos X, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But to answer the main question. Okay, besides obvious ones like Never Mind the Bollocks and Pretty Hate Machine Nearly any Ice-T record (and especially the song "Pulse of the Rhyme Flow" from O.G. Original Gangster and both "G-Style" and "Race War" from Home Invasion)
[WIGGA]"I care nothin' 'bout a cop or a G-man/ they all talkin' shit/ they're breath is smellin like semen/ catch 'em in an alley all alone/ put 'em in a prone/ pop pop pop to the dome/ it's a G-Style."[/WIGGA]
Then I find out Ice-T's favorite singer is Phil Collins.
― Lord Custos X, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i'm in a particularly adolescent mood: Slayer - Abolish Government, Therapy? - Knives, The Misfits - Last Caress, Sex Pistols - Bodies, Therapy? - Opal Mantra, Hot Snakes - If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit Where It's Due (or something).
i hate pretty much every other song every one of these bands has ever recorded though.
― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You guys need a </b>

That may have fixed it...

― lyra in seattle, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Indian Lake" by the Cowsills. "Theme From A Summer Place". "Barbie Girl".

― duane, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

did anybody else notice that someone mentioned skunk anansie?

like woh?????

hmm but if you are pissed the best thing to listen to is harmonium...feel the rage

― geeg, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's weird; when I'm really honest-to-goodness pissed, I don't usuallly want to listen to anything - especially not a recorded display of anger.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One song you can listen to when you are pissed on is "Golden Showers" by the Butthole Surfers.

― Kate Spiren, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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