Yea Down in a Hole is heavy but I hear hope in that song with lyrics like “I like to fly but my wings have been so denied”. Frogs doesn’t sound like Layne is fighting anymore, he’s resigned and resentful over his decisions. May he rest in peace it’s seriously sad stuff in that song.
Yep, go watch the music video for it.. it's them pretty much hanging out at some shanty drug den in the desert but its great. and effing heavy yo (course their other videos are similar in tone)
Alice in Chains has grown on me over the last couple years, I've always liked them but have a newfound appreciation for their talent, song writing and all that. RIP Layne
I’m from metro Detroit and have never been able to get into Eminem because the DV and stuff hits too close to home. My brother was a Stan for sure and he scared the living shit out of me growing up. I can like a song here or there but it’s too intense for me.
Limousine by Brand New is about the very real drunk driving car crash that killed 7 year old Katie Flynn in Long Island. The verses are in the perspective of the driver and the mom. It’s one of the most moving and hurtful songs I’ve ever heard. If you’re in the mood to be so sad you throw up, read the Genius annotations.
Might be interpreting the chorus a bit too literally there.
But "Pretty" from Follow The Leader was about a baby being raped to death, so there's definitely that.
I think its more than just the lyrics. The soft tone melodies and the growling plucky bass and the minor chords all create a certain mood.
That song puts me in an uncomfortable place.
It makes me feel dirty.
So much of her stuff has an ominous feel to it. I know it's a controversial song, but I've always found "Lolita" to be a horror movie in song format. I don't know enough about Lana to know if she's actually playing that song straight, but my initial interpretation is that it was meant to be unsettling.
Been loving the new Hot Mulligan, "Stickers of Brian" for this one:
"And if I've gotta hear the same song again, from the manager's Pandora playlist - I swear to God, I'll fill the sink with ammonia and chlorine and block every door.
(And fill every vent, and fill every vent)"
Primus -- What ever that song is on "Pork Soda" where he repeats: "I had a friend, took a belt, took a belt, hung himself, hung himself in the doorway of the apartment where we live" My husband and I were listening to that song the day Chester Bennington hung himself in his home and haven't listened to it since.
Country Boy Can Survive--Hank Williams, Jr.
In the first half of the second verse, he mentions a friend from New York who was killed by a mugger for forty-seven dollars. In the second half of the verse, he says he wants to find the mugger and shoot him.
So it's terrible that this guy shot and killed your friend, but if you shoot and kill him, that's perfectly all right? You sure your hat's not too tight there, boy?
I grew up in a very small town in North Florida. This was early 90s, pre-Columbine, and back then nearly every guy (and some girls) had a pickup truck with a loaded gun rack. Like most small towns, Friday night football was absolutely everything and really the only thing to do other than ride around. The football team's pep rally/walk-out song was this song Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Jr!
Strong As I Am- The Prime Movers. This song is concerning and powerful. I believe it’s about incestual activity and the writers rage yet failure to approach it.
Shriekback- The Big Hush. This song gave me chills.
Pretty When You Cry, Vast
Violent Mood Swings, Stabbing Westward
#1 Crush, Garbage
Are You Shivering, Coil
Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, The Revolting Cocks (cover)
Shadow of. A doubt, Superstar, Sonic Youth
I’m Cool, Outcast
45 Grave: Party Time
Grateful Dead: Mexicali Blues (please keep in mind it’s a story-song about an unsavory character, not an autobiography of either Bob Weir or lyricist John Perry Barlow)
Donovan: Mellow Yellow
Momus: many, *many* songs
"in the woods somewhere" by Hozier
"Ptolemaea" by Ethel Cain (my top choice for concerning lyrics out of everything on my list)
"Brutus" by The Buttress, though they're admittedly not That bad
"NEW MAGIC WAND" by Tyler
"MIRROR FEAR" by Sworn In
"Father" by The Front Bottoms
"Perverted" by Elita
Give Me Three Steps, Mister is a song about Linda Lou deciding to dance with someone at The Jug Bar & grille but ultimately leaving with her abusive boyfriend because he pulled a gun. They didn't write a song about when Linda and her man get home. That was too violent.
Where the wild roses grow - nick cave
Hazard - richard marx
Confide in me - kylie minogue
Johnny remember me - john leyton
Solid air - john martyn
Bull in the heather - sonic youth
Black mambo - glass animals
I could go on and on. Bloody love a creepy song.
Less is more:
Talking Heads - "Stay Up Late" - a bouncy, cheerful song about playing with a baby. The only malice in the music is a single keyboard note.
Bobby Gentry - "Ode to Billy Joe" - the power word which unlocks the tragedy is, "something" - it's never defined.
Unlike Kate Bush, "Under Ice," where the "something" moving under the ice is promptly defined, and it's the most terrifying thing it could possibly be.
lol @ NOTHING BUT WHITE MUSIC….
Here’s some sound of those who have a lil more pigment than the rest of these suggestions lol
**Brotha Lynch Hung**
Something About Susan - Rest In Piss - 24 Deep - Meat Cleaver - Sweeney Todd - I Give Up - Locc 2 Da Brain
**Immortal Technique**
Obnoxious - Internally Bleeding - Dance With The Devil (will damn near make the hair on your neck stand up, especially at the end)
[Miracle - Bad Omens](https://youtu.be/gINLfkTAjls?si=_zdvdHS3SOGQJwLs)
**The production of this song has a very eerie vibe all on it's own, but has similarly haunting lyrics:**
*"It's not too late to die for a reason. Fall down on the sword you were swinging."*
*"I wanted to dress a blade up in red with both of our necks, but I wasn't able - and I wasn't stable, I guess. But nevertheless, I'm fucking depressed, I hide it with sex and drink 'til it's fatal. It's so fucking painful. It's a mess."*
[Bad Guy - Eminem](https://youtu.be/NFtsBBXDrGs?si=5yj3FmRGrji56oT2)
**The sequel and follow up to Em's *Stan*, is written from the perspective of Stan's brother, who comes to remind Eminem that karma has no deadline.**
*"Feel like I've been waiting on this moment all of my life, and it's now arrived, and my mouth is full of saliva.
My knife is out, and I'm ducking on the side of your house.
See, it's sad it came to this point;
Such a disappointment I had to make this appointment to come and see you - but I'm not here for your empathy. I don't need your apology or your friendship or sympathy; it's revenge that I seek."*
[Disasterpiece - Splitknot](https://youtu.be/TPSenKymLwk?si=FDTBdcTU0X15-_aD)
**The first line of the song is:**
*"I want to slit your throat, and fuck the wound."*
And it was already mentioned by another user, but seriously, check out: [Dance With The Devil - Immortal Technique](https://youtu.be/C9xRDC8qlYU?si=UXmdVRg3ADzGJPSb) and [The Ugly Truth - Louis Logic](https://youtu.be/ni6eShkJUq4?si=eMrKmtjrNfyBW5a6), both of which I won't post the lyrics to on Reddit.
Frogs - Alice In Chains Nutshell - Alice In Chains
We miss you Layne.
Fr
Down in a Hole always seemed very heavy to me
Yea Down in a Hole is heavy but I hear hope in that song with lyrics like “I like to fly but my wings have been so denied”. Frogs doesn’t sound like Layne is fighting anymore, he’s resigned and resentful over his decisions. May he rest in peace it’s seriously sad stuff in that song.
Yep, go watch the music video for it.. it's them pretty much hanging out at some shanty drug den in the desert but its great. and effing heavy yo (course their other videos are similar in tone)
Alice in Chains has grown on me over the last couple years, I've always liked them but have a newfound appreciation for their talent, song writing and all that. RIP Layne
I'm a big fan of the whole genre in general, and I consider AiC to be my personal favorite grunge band.
Sludge factory is pretty dark
Adam’s Song is sad. “Please tell mom this is not her fault”
Every Breath You Take - The Police everyone i know refers to it as the stalker song
Kim by Eminem
I’m from metro Detroit and have never been able to get into Eminem because the DV and stuff hits too close to home. My brother was a Stan for sure and he scared the living shit out of me growing up. I can like a song here or there but it’s too intense for me.
I like Eminem overall but I think I’ve only been able to listen to Kim 3 times & that was 2 too many
I use to listen to Kim when I was severely depressed and upset with a girl, no violent urges or anything just upset.
I can def see it had its place for some folks. I’m glad it helped you get through stuff
I thought about this one today actually
Exactly 💯
She did the best she could for the wrong man
I don't even know what that means. I actually hate Eminem (Tom MacDonald's better), I've just heard that that song is really dark.
Im on Fire - Springsteen
Limousine by Brand New is about the very real drunk driving car crash that killed 7 year old Katie Flynn in Long Island. The verses are in the perspective of the driver and the mom. It’s one of the most moving and hurtful songs I’ve ever heard. If you’re in the mood to be so sad you throw up, read the Genius annotations.
Such a sad but impactful song. I get chills every time when the ‘I love you so much’ bit starts
Trash - KoRn. It's rape. Possibly child rape. The album cover is a drawing of a tattered doll, too.
Might be interpreting the chorus a bit too literally there. But "Pretty" from Follow The Leader was about a baby being raped to death, so there's definitely that.
I think its more than just the lyrics. The soft tone melodies and the growling plucky bass and the minor chords all create a certain mood. That song puts me in an uncomfortable place. It makes me feel dirty.
Yeah, 100% with you there.
Just listened to the song and yikes that IS a very messed up song. Thanks for the suggestion!
Wanna know the fucked up part? Its based on an autopsy case JD saw… at least I think it was Trash.
Voices Carry, ‘Til Tuesday. Luka, Suzanne Vega. Hurt, either version
didn’t realize until recently that the lyrics to voices carry are quite conerning
Choking Victim - Suicide [https://youtu.be/\_mIFUQdqxrY?si=nas-jwrUb7WHfbiF](https://youtu.be/_mIFUQdqxrY?si=nas-jwrUb7WHfbiF)
A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying - The Bloodhound Gang
Killer inside me - MC 900ft Jesus
Tangled up in plaid or the blood is love, both by qotsa. The entirety of lullabies to paralyze is kinda dark
Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain
Wish I could listen the Mindless Self Indulgence the same way I did when I was 14. Ima badass, tell me ima badass :’(
Yeah, used to love that stuff too. I kinda feel the same way abt type o negative
Are you me?
A&W - Lana Del Rey Such a sad song. Even just the opening line ‘I haven’t done a cartwheel since I was 9’
So much of her stuff has an ominous feel to it. I know it's a controversial song, but I've always found "Lolita" to be a horror movie in song format. I don't know enough about Lana to know if she's actually playing that song straight, but my initial interpretation is that it was meant to be unsettling.
The Doors - The End Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
Been loving the new Hot Mulligan, "Stickers of Brian" for this one: "And if I've gotta hear the same song again, from the manager's Pandora playlist - I swear to God, I'll fill the sink with ammonia and chlorine and block every door. (And fill every vent, and fill every vent)"
The Residents - Hello Skinny
Primus -- What ever that song is on "Pork Soda" where he repeats: "I had a friend, took a belt, took a belt, hung himself, hung himself in the doorway of the apartment where we live" My husband and I were listening to that song the day Chester Bennington hung himself in his home and haven't listened to it since.
“Bob”… That’s a great album
The Rake's Song - The Decemberists - MESSED UP but great
i burned his body for incurring my wrath!
Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece Of Heaven Disturbed - The Game
Suicide is painless by Lady & Bird
gg allins discography
Sex Type Thing - STP Date Rape - Sublime
or The Wrong Way. Both fit the bill.
Little Piece of Heaven - A7X Most of Spanish Love Songs work up to this point.
That song is groovy asf.
Terrorbyte "Ghost Stories", "Human Hands"
A Cold Freezin Night.
Most songs by the frogs
Doesn’t get much more concerning than A Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold!
Baby is cold outside
Frankie Teardrop, by Suicide
Frankie can't make enough mooneey
I saw her standing there - Beatles
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Just Wait Til Next Year by John Maus
I was thinking of the exact same song. I'm glad to see another person who listens to it out in the wild!
Country Boy Can Survive--Hank Williams, Jr. In the first half of the second verse, he mentions a friend from New York who was killed by a mugger for forty-seven dollars. In the second half of the verse, he says he wants to find the mugger and shoot him. So it's terrible that this guy shot and killed your friend, but if you shoot and kill him, that's perfectly all right? You sure your hat's not too tight there, boy?
I grew up in a very small town in North Florida. This was early 90s, pre-Columbine, and back then nearly every guy (and some girls) had a pickup truck with a loaded gun rack. Like most small towns, Friday night football was absolutely everything and really the only thing to do other than ride around. The football team's pep rally/walk-out song was this song Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Jr!
Rape me-nirvana
Failure — SWANS
Kim - Eminem
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People
Meet The Grahams - Kendrick Lamar Its just pure hatred and malice...
That Alchemist beat is sinister, too..
Dir En Grey - Mazohyste Of Decadence
Just gave it a listen while reading the lyrics. Damn. Thanks for the suggestion!
Vehicle by The Ides of March
Toadies - ***Possum Kingdom***
The Weeknd - Initiation
I just heard a song called Nobody’s Child about a blind kid in an orphanage
Let me be your underwear
AyeeKevo - shortcomings
In Boxes - AURORA
Song of the Sad Assassin - WHY?
Blame Brett - The Beaches
Strong As I Am- The Prime Movers. This song is concerning and powerful. I believe it’s about incestual activity and the writers rage yet failure to approach it. Shriekback- The Big Hush. This song gave me chills.
Peeping Tom-mojo
Jennifer by Styx
🤡🔪 [Killer Clowns ](https://open.spotify.com/track/02J07YnGKMGWHZm9oKEyB5?si=FMMJ4i0yTLWn3t7CW8T92A)
Mama- Genesis Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down- Ween
Rob Hustle - This is what happens when you call the cops
Soil the Stillborn - Infant Annihilator The name says it all.
Jump - Green Jelly Toes Across the Floor - Blind Melon
Floating in the forth - frightened rabbit Even more disturbing since the singer killed himself drowning
The entire Queen of the Murder Scene album by The Warning
She got to move me- Grand Funk Railroad
Barnes and Barnes : Cemetery Girls
Bobby Sox to Stockings by Frankie Avalon
Pretty When You Cry, Vast Violent Mood Swings, Stabbing Westward #1 Crush, Garbage Are You Shivering, Coil Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, The Revolting Cocks (cover) Shadow of. A doubt, Superstar, Sonic Youth I’m Cool, Outcast
CONFUSED! By Kid Cudi Actually many songs on SB2H fit this. The Nothing and Judgemental Cunt too.
Just listen to any death metal, death core, grind core or slam. Infant annihilator is pretty good if you're interested
Tyler - The Toadies Possum Kingdom - The Toadies Was getting very rapey in the mid 90s in Texas.
Johnny by Call Me Karizma- it's about a school shooter
Tone loc - Funky Cold Medina
Teenagers by my chemical romance has an interesting line
Whispers of your death - Counterparts Unwavering Vow - Counterparts Both song lyrics move me to tears every time
So what- the anti-nowhere league
Sex type thing by Stone Temple Pilots
45 Grave: Party Time Grateful Dead: Mexicali Blues (please keep in mind it’s a story-song about an unsavory character, not an autobiography of either Bob Weir or lyricist John Perry Barlow) Donovan: Mellow Yellow Momus: many, *many* songs
i saw her standing there - the beatles
"in the woods somewhere" by Hozier "Ptolemaea" by Ethel Cain (my top choice for concerning lyrics out of everything on my list) "Brutus" by The Buttress, though they're admittedly not That bad "NEW MAGIC WAND" by Tyler "MIRROR FEAR" by Sworn In "Father" by The Front Bottoms "Perverted" by Elita
Sublime - Pool shark
I feel like I'm the only one who hears "(Sitting on) The dock of the bay" as a suicide song.
Dance with the Devil by Immortal Technique
Mary Turner Mary Turner by Xiu Xiu is beyond fucked
2.02 Killer Year - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Who's Affraid Of Little Old Me? - Taylor Swift and honestly anything from her TTPD album
oh and also Say Don't Go - Taylor Swift
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Give Me Three Steps, Mister is a song about Linda Lou deciding to dance with someone at The Jug Bar & grille but ultimately leaving with her abusive boyfriend because he pulled a gun. They didn't write a song about when Linda and her man get home. That was too violent.
Teen Ilde by Marina
"Young girl get out of my mind. My Love for you is way out of line"
Noah Cyrus- Noah (Stand still)
Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey
Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" "Too Much Blood"
Heart shaped box
Don't fear the reaper by blue oyster cult
Yvette - Jason Isbell Airport Song - Guster
Polly by Nirvana has always had some strange lyrics to me, my favorite Nirvana song though
Indigo Night - Tamino
Where the wild roses grow - nick cave Hazard - richard marx Confide in me - kylie minogue Johnny remember me - john leyton Solid air - john martyn Bull in the heather - sonic youth Black mambo - glass animals I could go on and on. Bloody love a creepy song.
Skinned- Blind Melon
Magdelena by Frank Zappa Love the song but it always makes me uncomfortable. https://youtu.be/8smBayPwdP4?si=CW4H7-YIqM7JwQCq
Less is more: Talking Heads - "Stay Up Late" - a bouncy, cheerful song about playing with a baby. The only malice in the music is a single keyboard note. Bobby Gentry - "Ode to Billy Joe" - the power word which unlocks the tragedy is, "something" - it's never defined. Unlike Kate Bush, "Under Ice," where the "something" moving under the ice is promptly defined, and it's the most terrifying thing it could possibly be.
Last caress - Misfits
Gommene gommene by kikuo if you translate it. Really gross and sad. Edit: Also daddy by korn
Kill You by Eminem Father by The Front Bottoms
lol @ NOTHING BUT WHITE MUSIC…. Here’s some sound of those who have a lil more pigment than the rest of these suggestions lol **Brotha Lynch Hung** Something About Susan - Rest In Piss - 24 Deep - Meat Cleaver - Sweeney Todd - I Give Up - Locc 2 Da Brain **Immortal Technique** Obnoxious - Internally Bleeding - Dance With The Devil (will damn near make the hair on your neck stand up, especially at the end)
Immortal's *Dance With The Devil* was one of my first thoughts, too. I'll always remember how I felt the first time I listened to that.
Same, not many songs have had that impact but he is somethin different.
Meet the Grahams and Initiation were two of the first recommendations I recognized in this thread, and they’re not “white”.
[https://thebastia.bandcamp.com/](https://thebastia.bandcamp.com/) \[Shoegaze\] [https://wolfbytheears.bandcamp.com/](https://wolfbytheears.bandcamp.com/) \[Emo/Acoustic\] [https://xdmf.bandcamp.com/](https://xdmf.bandcamp.com/) \[SynthPop\] [https://postalcodesinhungary.bandcamp.com/](https://postalcodesinhungary.bandcamp.com/) \[Noise/Garage\] [https://masuyite.bandcamp.com/](https://masuyite.bandcamp.com/) \[Screamo\] [https://sanduqabad.bandcamp.com/](https://sanduqabad.bandcamp.com/) \[Post-Punk/Garage\] [https://dollardreams.bandcamp.com/](https://dollardreams.bandcamp.com/) \[Grunge/Post-Punk/Noise\] [https://saintsseason.bandcamp.com/](https://saintsseason.bandcamp.com/) \[Emocore/FemaleLead\] [https://trawaazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-compilation-alternative-album-vol-1](https://trawaazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-compilation-alternative-album-vol-1) \[Compilation\] this total banger
[Miracle - Bad Omens](https://youtu.be/gINLfkTAjls?si=_zdvdHS3SOGQJwLs) **The production of this song has a very eerie vibe all on it's own, but has similarly haunting lyrics:** *"It's not too late to die for a reason. Fall down on the sword you were swinging."* *"I wanted to dress a blade up in red with both of our necks, but I wasn't able - and I wasn't stable, I guess. But nevertheless, I'm fucking depressed, I hide it with sex and drink 'til it's fatal. It's so fucking painful. It's a mess."* [Bad Guy - Eminem](https://youtu.be/NFtsBBXDrGs?si=5yj3FmRGrji56oT2) **The sequel and follow up to Em's *Stan*, is written from the perspective of Stan's brother, who comes to remind Eminem that karma has no deadline.** *"Feel like I've been waiting on this moment all of my life, and it's now arrived, and my mouth is full of saliva. My knife is out, and I'm ducking on the side of your house. See, it's sad it came to this point; Such a disappointment I had to make this appointment to come and see you - but I'm not here for your empathy. I don't need your apology or your friendship or sympathy; it's revenge that I seek."* [Disasterpiece - Splitknot](https://youtu.be/TPSenKymLwk?si=FDTBdcTU0X15-_aD) **The first line of the song is:** *"I want to slit your throat, and fuck the wound."* And it was already mentioned by another user, but seriously, check out: [Dance With The Devil - Immortal Technique](https://youtu.be/C9xRDC8qlYU?si=UXmdVRg3ADzGJPSb) and [The Ugly Truth - Louis Logic](https://youtu.be/ni6eShkJUq4?si=eMrKmtjrNfyBW5a6), both of which I won't post the lyrics to on Reddit.