what's yer favorite angry song?

[clover]

elvis costello's "senior services" gets me riled up, as well as L7's "pretend we're dead"

[frylock]

1. minor threat's "screaming at a wall"

[redwitch]

2. Iris DeMent "Wasteland of the Free"

Also Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and Jackson Browne's "LIves in the Balance"

[Dzimbowicz]

3. I guess I'll show my age here...

OHIO by CSNY.

[Burma Jones]

4. Sex Pistols' Bodies

She was a girl from Birmingham
she just had an abortion
she was a case of insanity
her name was Pauline she lived in a tree

She was a no-one who killed her baby
she sent her letters from the country
she was an animal
she was a bloody disgrace

Body I'm not an animal
Mummy I'm not an abortion

Dragged on a table in a factory
illegitimate place to be
in a packet in a lavatory
die little baby screaming

Body screaming fucking bloody mess
it's not an animal it's an abortion

Body I'm not an animal
Body I'm not an abortion

Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess
I'm not a discharge I'm not a loss in
protein I'm not a throbbing squirm Ah!


Fuck this and fuck that
fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.

Body I'm not an animal
Body i'm not an abortion

Mummy! Ugh!

[clover]

9. oh! yeah. yeah. thanks for jiggling my memory cord! (nt)

[jdj]

52. on the otherside of that coin: Lunachicks pro-choice song "Superstrong"

"Your crotch is burning
aint that a shame
too bad I'm not the one to blame
you say you hate me
well, good 'cause I hate you
I dont know why, but Henry told me to



take this! take that!
but no one is going to take my FUCKIN rights back

dont touch me in the street... no!

uncertain damage done to my ears
'cause some motherfucker did'nt like my shoes
we'll its too bad, you made me mad
because I know where you live... aaha



take this, take that
but no one is ever going to take my FUCKING rights back
dont touch us in the street
'cause we aint your tits & meat
because where fuckin women
thats right

well its too bad you made us mad
'cause we know where you live.. aaha
dont look too long
'cause chicks are superstrong
you've got no right to touch us
you are all dead wrong!"

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. I would think "Shitlist" over "Pretend We're Dead."

For me...any early Black Flag.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

14. Found a poem I wrote in 7th grade...

It was "Trendy Man", a version of "Family Man" but directed at the preppie kids in my school. Man, after Columbine, if someone had found that thing, who knows what would have happened to me...

[Mizmoon]

6. Tom Petty - Won't Back Down

Gonna stand my ground!

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

7. My top four are of course by the Pogues

1. Sickbed of Cuchullainn
2. Young Ned of the Hill
3. Boys from County Hell
4. Streets of Sorrow

[JimmyJazz]

10. I Love the Pogues, but I pick

The Clash (nothing like Joe Strummer - you couldn't understand wahat he was saying, but you knew he was pissed about something)

What's my name?

White Riot

Hate & War

English Civil War

oh shit, it's pretty much the whole damned catalog!

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

11. Good stuff...

My pubescent rage was to the tune of Fear: the Record--pretty much the whole thing straight from "Let's Have a War" to "Foreign Policy". I don't think Joe Strummer matches Lee Ving in the aggro department.

I got into the Pogues as a teen when my life became actually violent due to the presence of Nazi skinheads in my small town--so they will always be my fight music.

[JimmyJazz]

15. I got into the clash because everyone in my school was listening

to arena rock - REO Speedwagon - Bleck..

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

20. That means you are about 2 yrs. older than me

See my reply to #5 above.

[clover]

and i totally forgot until now

loretta lynn's fist city:


i ain't sayin my man's a saint
'cause he ain't
or that he don't cat around with the kittys

but i'm telling you gals to lay offa my man
if you don't wanna go to fist city

[disgruntled_goat]

8. any number of songs by the Who

but politically, "The Punk meets the Godfather" (from Quadrophrenia, circa '72) kicks ass and is eerily prescient to the current situation with bush. seriously. check the lyrics.

[the Princess]

30. A Who fan after me own heart...........

Pete is such an angry SOB - ya gotta love him. There are so many angry Who songs:

My Generation (why don't cha all just ffffffade away)
Won't Get Fooled Again (meet the new boss same as the old boss)
Dr. Jimmy and Mr. Jim (Well all of Quadrophenia actually)
Music Must Change
Sister Disco
They're All In Love (hand me my checkbook and I'll crawl off to die)

etc etc.

I just Love Pete ("angry old man - NOT BORING tho!") Townshend

[Rooktoven]

34. I would add the Entwhistle "Had Enough"... --nt

[Rooktoven]

35. Les McCann and Eddie Harris' "Compared to What"

elegant venom

[Gildor Inglorion]

12. "Piggies" by the Beatles

Marvelously sly, understated dig at the privileged.

[Dzimbowicz]

16. Good one!

I forgot about this one. George was so brilliant!

[maveric]

46. One of my favorites too.

As well as one of Charlies favs.

[atreides1]

13. I Have Two

"Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire

"Sky Pilot" by Eric Burdon & The Animals

[7th_Sephiroth]

17. Rammstein Feuier Feri

BANG BANG!

and lost dinosaur by the pillows (long version)

[DS1]

18. Hooker With a Penis - Tool

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Living Colour: Open Letter (To A Landlord) or X: Country At War

From Elvis, Tramp the Dirt Down. Angry doesn't have to be loud.

[clover]

21. how about cheap trick's auf weidersein(mispelled, nt)

[fishnfla]

22. Steve Earle: Fuck the FCC

living in the motherfucking USA

[tigereye]

23. yeah I like that one too

American Idiot by Green Day is pretty good.
White Riot by the Clash
The Idiots are Taking Over and Franco Unamerican by NoFx.
Elvis Costello - What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding.
Bad Religion - various
L-7 Shove

[DelawareValleyDem]

24. Had Enough

by the Who

[woofless]

25. John Prine "The Frying Pan"

If I ever see another salesman
Come knockin' at my door
I'm gonna pick up a rock and hit him on the head
And knock him down on the floor.

Cuz I miss the way she used to yell at me
The way she used to cuss and moan
And if I ever go out and get married again
I'll never leave my wife at home.

[Lefty48197]

26. Fortunate Son by CCR

It IS just a song isn't it?

[NightTrain]

40. Excellent call! Now, has anybody mentioned "War" and "Born in the U.S.A?"

[CanuckAmok]

27. Slayer's "Raining Bood"

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skygazer]

28. Piece of My Heart

Janis.

Also "I'm The Only One" - Melissa Etheridge

Maybe some would not count them as angry songs but to me they're very defiant.

[G_j]

29. Idiot Wind

by Dylan is one of my favorites

[Texasgal]

31. Alice in chains

Would

[hiphopnation]

32. B.O.B. by Outkast. n/t

[MrScorpio]

33. FIGHT THE POWER by the Isley Brothers

And the cover by PE

[The Sushi Bandit]

36. "Up against the wall Mother Fucker" by David Peal and the lower eastside

[CO Liberal]

37. War! (What Is It Good For?) by Edwin Starr

:-)

[vikegirl]

38. Ex-Rivethead checking in.....

Join in the Chant – Nitzer Ebb
Stalker - Recoil
Bloodsuckers – Die Krupps
Head Like a Hole – Nine Inch Nails (I know)

[Rambis]

39. Somones' gonna die tonight, Oi ,Oi ,Oi ,- don't remember the band n/t

xxx

[CanuckAmok]

42. Blitz dunnit.

Is this where the good times end,
with his blood flowing on the pavement,
with a broken bottle in his hand,
he will never understand,
Well do you feel alright,
OI OI OI
If someone's gonna die tonight,
OI OI OI
Do you feel alright,
OI OI OI
The boys are out tonight...

[RetroLounge]

41. Terrible Lie by Nine Inch Nails

and yes, I know what it is about...

RL

[mitchum]

43. "Kick Out The James"

[maveric]

44. "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon

As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero well just follow me,
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.

[HEyHEY]

45. World War Three - DOA

[CBHagman]

47. A lot of "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey"

In fact, a lot of Bruce Springsteen.

Billy Bragg's version of "Which Side Are You On?"

And they're quietly angry, as long as you don't sing them in a sentimental manner: the antiwar songs "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" and "The Green Fields of France"

[peekaloo]

48. 'Ignoreland' by r.e.m.

[Spiffarino]

53. Seconded

Bastards stole all the power from
The victims of the Us v. Them years
Wrecking all things virtuous and true
They undermine the social democratic
Downhill slide into...abysmal
Lost lamb off the precipice into
The trickle-down runoff pool

[salin]

49. "I'm not Angry"

also Costello...

[bloodyjack]

50. "Needle in the Hay" Elliott Smith

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" also

edit: "Attitude" by the Misfits

Attitude
You've got some fucking attitude
I cant believe what you said to me
You've got some attitude
et cetera

[jdj]

51. well since you asked...

Handsome and Gretel, by Babes and Toyland

"Gretel said I know what's in your head
I vacuumed out my head
I know you're feeling bad you fucking bitch you cunthole bitch
I thought she meant it yeah
She really jacked my head
She went and done it
Handsome Gretel
My name is Gretel yeah
I've got a crotch that talks
And talks to all their cocks
It's been 12 city blocks you fucking bich
Gretel said Oh you feel so bad
I know you feel so bad
I thought she meant it
Handsome Gretel
I vacuumed out my head
Jumping from bed to bed my name is Gretel
A soul of metal
My name is Gretel yeah
I've got a sloppy slot
Handsome Gretel
Say violets hang around with toilets and look smack at us
And symbolize everything that is disgust and mistrust
Licorice eyes
Pin me down
Thighs
Asphixia
My thighs are vices yeah
He is a stupid man
I love him all I can you fucking bitch
Addle girl
She pulls out all her curls
She is a stupid crotch
That's been 12 city blocks"

This is a woman to woman song, I think they are fighting over a guy, or her woman left her for a man, and is she pissed. She's so pissed, in fact, that it might get deleted. But it's awesome, with Kat Bjelland screaming and playing lead guitar on this. The fact that she mentions violets makes me think this is another one of her songs about Courtney Love, they were rumored to be lovers at one time, then hated each other, but now I think they are back to okay.

[Spiffarino]

54. Dead Kennedys - Buzzbomb from Pasadena

They're scuffing up the side of my car
They're shooting out my tires
This ain't no way to go to heaven
Buzzbomb cornered at the 7-11

Shit.

Damn.

Let go of me motherfuckers!
I wanna live by my rules!

[Djinn]

55. Guns of Brixton - The Clash

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

And "Letter to BJ" which no-one here will have ever heard of probably not even the Aussies, but it's about our own mini Bush Joh Bjelke Peterson

[Katha]

56. Right now I'm all about Incubus's "Megalomaniac"

I hear you on the radio
You permeate my screen
It's unkind but
If I met you in a scissor fight
I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone
On principle alone

Hey megalomaniac
You're no Jesus
Yeah, you're no fucking Elvis
Wash your hands clean of yourself baby
Step down
Step down

If I were your appendages
I'd hold open your eyes
So you would see
That all of us are heaven sent
There was never meant to be only one
To be only one

Hey megalomaniac
You're no Jesus
Yeah, you're no fucking Elvis
Wash your hands clean of yourself baby
Step down
Step down

Yeah
You're no Jesus
You're not Elvis

You're no answer

Hey megalomaniac
You're no Jesus
Yeah, you're no fucking Elvis
Wash your hands clean of yourself baby
Step down

[DemWitch]

57. You Outta Know by Alannis

GREAT song

[Duncan Grant]

58. "Hate to say I told you so" - The Hives

Turn it up.

[Kipepeo]

59. "Feels Blind"

by Bikini Kill

or, from the same album: "White Boy" and "Carnival"

A good angry album in general.

Edit: Well, since people are posting lyrics:

HOW DOES THAT FEEL? IT FEELS BLIND.
HOW DOES THAT FEEL? IT FEELS FUCKIN BLIND.
YOUR WORLD HASN'T TAUGHT ME NOTHING.
LOOK AT WHAT YOUR WORLD TEACHES ME, NOTHING.

As a woman I was taught to always be hungry.
Women are well acquainted with thirst.
Yeah, we could eat just about anything.
We'd even eat your hate up like love
WE EAT YOUR HATE LIKE LOVE, WE EAT YOUR HATE LIKE LOVE,
WE EAT YOUR HATE LIKE LOVE, WE EAT YOUR HATE LIKE LOVE
HOW DOES THAT FEEL? IT FEELS BLIND.

And:

White Boy : Some of these dumb hoes, those slut rocker bitches walking down the street,
they're asking for it, they may deny it but it's true.

Lay me spread eagle out on your hill, yeah
Then write a book bout how I wanted to die
It's hard to talk with your dick in my mouth
I will try to scream in pain a little nicer next time

WHITE BOY...DON'T LAUGH...DON'T CRY...JUST DIE!

I'm so sorry if I'm alienating some of you
Your whole fucking culture alienates me
I can not scream from pain down here on my knees
I'm so sorry that I think!

>>hey...you asked for ANGRY music, so...

:)

[immoderate]

60. American Eagle Tragedy by Earth Opera

This would be a good one to dig up. From the 60s. These guys were PISSED!

--IMM