angry music

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:22 am

chrisoff wrote:I listen to heavy metal, I've got far too many to list

How many are really angry? How many are play acting?

What are they angry about?

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:05 am

I'll be dating myself with this one but I think Neil Young's "Ohio" is a pretty angry song.
Mike

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:07 am

burnsbyrne wrote:I'll be dating myself with this one but I think Neil Young's "Ohio" is a pretty angry song.
Mike

"Southern Man" as well.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:25 am

burnsbyrne wrote:I'll be dating myself with this one but I think Neil Young's "Ohio" is a pretty angry song.
Mike

Yep it is, and rightfully so. One of the few Young songs that I like.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:18 pm

Flogging Molly's "The Spoken Wheel" is kind of a sad angry, but still angry I think. *edit* Almost forgot "Screaming at the Wailing Wall."

Also, the Tossers song "A Criminal of Me." That's pretty mad.

Dead Kennedys song "MTV-Get Off the Air" has the distinction of being an angry song that I agree with wholeheartedly.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:31 pm

I have no use for "angry" music, nor for the people who make it or listen to it. I am a positive, upbeat person, and I believe my every musical act should bring light and joy into my life, and into the lives of others. I stick to purely traditional music ... like Black Sabbath, for instance.

djm

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:52 pm

Black Sabbath is, er, kinda angry Djm.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:10 pm

djm wrote:I have no use for "angry" music, nor for the people who make it or listen to it. I am a positive, upbeat person, and I believe my every musical act should bring light and joy into my life, and into the lives of others.

Yeah yeah yeah....get your flower-throwing, ladeeda, skipping along the merry path self outta my negative, angry way, Mr. Shiny Happy Person!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:42 pm

izzarina wrote:
djm wrote:I have no use for "angry" music, nor for the people who make it or listen to it. I am a positive, upbeat person, and I believe my every musical act should bring light and joy into my life, and into the lives of others.
Yeah yeah yeah....get your flower-throwing, ladeeda, skipping along the merry path self outta my negative, angry way, Mr. Shiny Happy Person!

...filling the gap left by John Denver?

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:07 pm

Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine

djm

raindog1970 · Post by **raindog1970** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:58 pm

I don't think you could get any angrier than <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin">GG Allin</A>, whose stage ethic was "My mind is a machine gun, my body is the bullets, and the audience is the target".

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:32 pm

The best was from Kids in the Hall, where they would film someone looking between his thumb and forefinger at people far away and muttering to himself, "I am crushing your head".

djm

Post by **Dale** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:22 am

Early Elvis Costello.

Bruce Springsteen when he plays solo. (I own a German bootleg, incredibly good quality, of him doing a show in Germany during the Tom Joad tour)

Interesting--I never thought of Black Sabbath as angry so much as despairing.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:46 am

how about Jean Ritchie's "Black Waters", or the "L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore"?

Post by **Dale** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:52 am

I don't know, this guy seems a little miffed to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8FXE9kjTLQ

Try to stay on until the end of the video because there is a second of comic relief.

Dale