I am a lyric guy. I seem connect more with a strong lyric. I have been around alcoholics and adicts all my life so I connect with a song like Sober. Some songs are disturbing. Remember Prodigy,” Smack My Bitch Up?” Loudwire.com put together a list of 50 Disturbing Songs That People Love. Here are some highlights:
1. “Polly”, Nirvana. It’s based on an article Kurt Cobain read about a 14-year-old girl who was abducted, tortured and sexually assaulted, but ultimately escaped her captor.
2. “Black Sabbath”, Black Sabbath. An encounter with the Dark One. Satan, not Dick Cheney.
3. “Daddy”, Korn. Jonathan Davis singing about being molested as a child, and his parents not believing him.
4. “Closer”, Nine Inch Nails. Is this a sexual encounter or a crime? I can’t tell.
5. “Black Hole Sun”, Soundgarden. Lyrically it’s kind of bleak and depressing, but according to Chris Cornell, there’s no real meaning to be had.
6. “One”, Metallica. A soldier has his arms and legs blown off in the war, and is lying in a hospital bed unable to speak or see . . . and wishing for death.
7. “Jeremy”, Pearl Jam. The true story of a kid who shot himself in class.
8. “Adam’s Song”, Blink-182. Written in the form of a teenager’s suicide note.
9. “Chop Suey”, System of a Down. It’s about the unfairness of judging people by how they died . . . like by suicide or a drug overdose.
10. “Cold Ethyl”, Alice Cooper. Dude keeps his dead wife in the fridge and takes her out for . . . you know.
11. “Under the Bridge”, Red Hot Chili Peppers. It’s about heroin addiction.
12. “Santa Monica”, Everclear. Inspired by the suicide of Art Alexakis’ teenage girlfriend, as well as his attempt to end his own life.
13. “Hey Man Nice Shot”, Filter. It’s about real-life Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, who shot himself during a live press conference in 1987.
14. “Rooster”, Alice in Chains. Based on the trauma singer Jerry Cantrell’s father suffered in Vietnam.
15. “Suicide Solution”, Ozzy Osbourne. It’s supposed to be a cautionary tale about suicide, but Ozzy ended up in court after a depressed fan took his own life.
(Check out the full list here.)
