What is the most disturbing song you've heard?

Me and a Gun by Tori Amos (it’s about rape).

I like the song “Red Ragtop” by Tim McGraw.
It sounds like a great, upbeat summer tune to sing along with, but if you listen to the lyrics it’s basically about getting a girl pregnant and I’m assuming getting an abortion.
I get a little disturbed when I sing along to it, I guess?

@Danebiggs in that vein, the lyrics to “Brown Sugar” by TRS are pretty disturbing, though the song itself is upbeat.

D.O.A.

by Bloodrock

@cinnamonk Yeah, no kidding!
I just read the lyrics to “Brown Sugar” that’s pretty disturbing.
I also heard that Sting hates that people think the song “Every breath you take” is a love song when it’s actually a disturbing song about stalking someone.

Tiptoe through the tulips from the Insidious movie.

Also, bit ironic saying the Trump jokes are getting old from someone who constantly revives the ever so ancient jelly below me threads, just sayin…

Christmas at ground zero. By weird AL Yankovic.

Any national anthem.

“Run for your life”, by the Beatles:

Well I’d rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won’t know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That’s the end’a little girl

Well I know that I’m a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can’t spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That’s the end’a little girl

Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I’ve said
Baby, I’m determined
And I’d rather see you dead
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl

“In the Ghetto” by Elvis.
I Gotcha. That’s a song from the 70’s. I liked it. Everybody liked it. It was catchy. But then I grew up and finally analyzed the words. What seemed perfectly normal back then, is NOT perfectly normal, nor acceptable. But that’s how women were viewed.

Oooooh, I like this one.
The most disturbing I’ve heard is definitely Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish names [sigh]. The name’s read as Kuh-shish-toff) Listen to in dark.
Another one is Halls of Illusions by ICP (Insane Clown Posse). It’s probably the plot.
The other one is Suicide Hotline It gets better at the end, but his monologue is way too real.
Most of their songs are unsettling, another example would be “In my room” too, where he’s talking to his girlfriend. It’s not certain of she’s dead, a ghost, his hallucination, or part of his imagination, or a real person. Either way, he loves her a lot…
Then, there’s this one. Dance with the devil by Immortal Technique. That….plot twist….bruh.
Aphex Twin’s works are either beautifully serene or, well….Come to Daddy
Radiohead’s songs can get so sad and bleak it’s disturbing. Fake Plastic Trees and No Suprises are the biggest examples I know.
Eminem has his share of eery with 3AM and Stan, but it’s more about the plot than actually being disturbing.
And, of course, the band Disturbed has a song called Down with the Sickness The actually disturbing part is at the very end. Also, their song Inside the Fire, about suicide.
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane is a very psychedelic song about war.

Many songs are disturbing in hindsight too.

@Sneki95 Many years ago, more than 15, I was mom to 4 rambunctious teenage boys. One was my son. The other 3 were friends of his who no place to live. Why on earth Chris was so certain I’d be OK with them all moving in that he didn’t even ask me is beyond me! They were all just there one day! Then one day they were all gone, even my son. I missed them.
When everyone moved out I eventually converted the man cave to a guest room. About 3 years ago I was up there cleaning. The sun caught the window just right..and for the first time I saw that someone had traced ICP in the dust on the outside of the window! The shit who did it had to have climbed out on the roof! I know who the shit who did it is, so I tagged him on Facebook, telling him to get over here and clean the window! But, as usual, he had excuses why he couldn’t like, he lives in Wisconsin now with a wife and 2 kids. This is him two years ago when he came back for a visit. This is him when he was a shit.
Truth be told, if anyone tried to clean it off I’d shoot them in the butt with my bow and arrow, because I don’t have a gun.

Oh it’s adorable how tame these responses are.

@Seek Enlighten us. I don’t mean that sarcastically, I’m actually interested.

@Sneki95 Fake Plastic Trees and No Surprises? Really? Those are some of my favorite mellow-out songs.

@Seek oh yeah, what manner of dismal dirges do you have on your mp3 player?

@cinnamonk The overall feel of these songs kinda rubs me the wrong way. It’s so hopelessly bleak and “empty”. The more I think about it, the more disturbing it gets.

As far as disturbing Radiohead songs go, those two would not have been my first choice. I probably would have gone with Fitter Happier or How to Disappear Completely

Well, I suppose some people might find Sido’s “Ass fuck song” disturbing.

@cinnamonk Forgot about “How to disappear Completely”. Sometimes I actually feel like that.

@Sneki95 That song is my personal anthem.

I’ll be back with links in about an hour.

The song “Polly” by Nirvana is another catchy song that I used to sing along with.
I heard it’s actually about a 14 year old girl that got kidnapped and raped etc.

Here’s the lyrics from one album from the band Autopsy.

Here’s the lyrics to Stripped, Raped, and Strangled and She Was Asking For It by Cannibal Corpse. Oh, and a bonus, the crowd favourite, I Cum Blood

Here’s Macabre’s Dahmer album.

Here’s Goatwhore’s Invert the Virgin

Here’s Krisiun’s Meaning of Terror

Here’s Exhorder’s Desecrator from the fantastic album “Slaughter in the Vatican”.

Here’s Pantera’s Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills

Here’s Deicide’s Sacrificial Suicide

…and those are just people I’ve met.

And as a bonus, here’s my husband’s song, Nursing Home Necrophile (video, Youtube).

And that’s not even touching grindcore, with the 26 second songs about jerking off on dumpster babies.

@Seek WOW!!
You win, I gotta go throw up now.

Smooth Criminal
And some childrens’ rhymes are pretty disturbing.

Not so much content that disturbs me, but rather the intention behind the song. Some guy on Answerbag introduced me to all these racist and white supremacy bands, saying how abhorrent they were. One band is called Skrewdriver, singing about immigrants being poor, can’t find jobs and how much they suck as human beings and shit. With lyrics such as, ’‘how much do you make, you’re nothing but a snake’’.

The songs are so bad, both with lyrical construct and musical quality that you can just tell they don’t give a fuck about their art, they just want to spread their bullshit message around. That’s what I find disturbing.

Shit equipment and performance like the metal band Mortician, but at least Mortician just sings about horror movies, so that makes them fuckin awesome. Again, the intention. They suck, but the heart is there.

Well, I was going to answer but have no need to risk being called lame.

@janbb I hear you, but what the hell…

After all this time, all the different genres and sub-genres of negative songs, I still think the most disturbing song I’ve ever heard is Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit. Another one, one which I have performed for its subject matter, is Sam Stone by John Prine.

There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes…

@cinnamonk “Me and a Gun by Tori Amos (it’s about rape).”

Specifically, her own.

It’s adorable when people think death and grindcore lyrics are disturbing.

The noise that spews from Celine Dion’s gob disturbs the fuck outta me

@Strauss Prine has many lyrics that make you think. A few that come to mind are:

“A question ain’t really a question when you know the answer too”

and

“There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said”

and

“We lost Davy in the Korean War
and still don’t know what for.
Don’t matter any more”

@rojo Yes, he did. He also had a great sense of humor:

I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve

@Srauss You might be the only one who would know one of mine. “Wake Up Jimmy Newman” by Tom Paxton.

“Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle
See His banners go!”

Edit above: @Strauss

@flutherother

I feel a lot of retrospective dread remembering we used to sing that at YMCA campfires. It seems the Village People could have found a better acronym to choreograph.

Is that song a glorification of the Crusades?

@janbb I do remember! I hadn’t even thought about that song in decades!

Probably one of the most poignant songs ever in a musical is Mama Look Sharp from 1776.

There are alsp a lot of gruesome, detailed tales of death and torture in the annals if English, Irish and Scottish folk music.

@Seek…...I guess….we’re differently wired. I expected something stronger. sorry

Although it’s not as graphic as some of the others, “Peacekeeper” by Fleetwood Mac seems to be describing entities who create supernova time bombs, because they enjoy taking trillions of lives:

We make all of our suns the same
Every one will suffer the fire we’ve made
They all explode just the same
And there’s no going back on the plans we’ve made
Peacekeeper take your time
Wait for the dark of night

Soon all the suns will rise
Peacekeeper don’t tell why
Don’t be afraid to fight
Love is the sweet surprise

Only creatures who are on their way
Ever poison their own well
But we still have time to hate
And there’s still something we can sell
When the night is cold and still
When you thought you’d had your fill
Take all the time you will
This is not a test, it’s not a drill
Take no prisoners, only kill

In a way though, it could said that they’re merely describing stellar life cycles.

Caravan C’thulu Thlu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HIpQscvrs

This one was unusual and somewhat disturbing: Cocksucker Blues
by the Rolling Stones Lyrics