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February 09, 2013

Horror Rock
— rdbrewer

Remember the song "If you like piÃ±a coladas/ And getting caught in the rain/ If you're not into health food/ And you're into drinking champagne/ . . ."? Pretty annoying, huh? That song was written by Rupert Holmes. Well, in 1971 he wrote a song recorded by one-hit wonder band The Bouys, Timothy. Rupert was at a different stage in his life then. It was before the piÃ±a coladas had taken the edge off.

Timothy was about cannibalism.

"Timothy" is a song written by Rupert Holmes and recorded by the Buoys in 1971, presenting the unnerving story of three men trapped in a collapsed mine, two of whom apparently resort to cannibalism against the third (the eponymous character Timothy).
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"Timothy" attracted little attention when it was first released, in large part because Scepter Records did not promote the record. Soon, however, it became popular among young listeners who were able to deduce Timothy's fate from the lyrics. Only as the song became more frequently requested did radio stations begin to take note of the song and its unsettling subject matter. Then, just as Holmes and the Buoys had expected, the song started getting banned.
Under normal circumstances, a radio ban would be considered the "kiss of death" for a single's prospects on the Billboard music charts, which at that time were based heavily on radio airplay. Yet "Timothy" had already attracted such a great following that as some radio stations banned the song, competing stations would pick it up to meet the demand. As a result, instead of dropping off as expected, the song continued slowly moving up the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Once they realized they had a hit record on their hands, Scepter Records executives tried to claim that Timothy was really a mule, not a person, in order to get radio stations that had banned the song to reconsider.

When I first heard Timothy, I was a little kid. It was a catchy tune, and I was focused on the chorus. I thought it was about someone who disappeared--I don't know--because of inter-dimensional travel or something. Not surprising, considering I had read The Forgotten Door by then and was listening to the Moody Blues, songs like Gypsy and The Best Way to Travel. Eventually, a kid in the neighborhood told me it was a true story about two kids who ate another kid, I was like "huh-uhhhhhuhhhhh!" Then I listened and got the full "eww" feeling.

Trapped in a mine that had caved in
And everyone knows the only ones left
Were Joe and me and Tim
When they broke through to pull us free
The only ones left to tell the tale
Was Joe and me
Timothy, Timothy, where on Earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?
Hungry as hell, no food to eat
And Joe said that he would sell his soul
For just a piece of meat
Water enough to drink for two
And Joe said to me, "I'll take a swig,
And then there's some for you."
Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?
I must have blacked out just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was the light of the day again
My stomach was full as it could be
And nobody ever got around
To finding Timothy
Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?
Timothy...

The only other horror rock song I can think of is Bloodrock's D.O.A. "I remember/ We were flying along/ And hit something in the air/ . . . ." I thought that was about an airliner hitting a UFO. Pretty spooky for a kid. And, of course, we thought it was true, whatever it was about.

If anyone can think of another one, let me know.

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1 Mack The Knife is about a SLASHER

Posted by: soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:39 AM (LPRBM)

2 On dada's first album, Puzzle, there is a depressing little number called "Timothy" No one gets eaten, though.

Posted by: fluffy at February 09, 2013 11:40 AM (xWXuI)

3 Monster Mash is about MONSTERS.

Posted by: madamex at February 09, 2013 11:41 AM (+kvQd)

4 TUBE STEAK BOOGIE is about DANCING HOT DOGS

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:41 AM (C0ttM)

5 Eat me!

Posted by: Timothy at February 09, 2013 11:42 AM (MMC8r)

6 Strip Poker is about a stripper!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 11:42 AM (53riN)

7 The entire soundtrack to Tommy is about SADISTS, PEDOPHILES, PINBALL WIZARDS, and DISABLED PEOPLE.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 09, 2013 11:43 AM (F3nFt)

8 'Werewolves of London' was about real werewolves--in London

true story...

Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 11:43 AM (Dll6b)

9 I thought Timothy was about the rampant cannibalism in New Orleans following Katrina.

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 11:43 AM (MMC8r)

10 Anything by the Misfits

Posted by: Navin R Johnson at February 09, 2013 11:44 AM (RRbuy)

11 I hate that PiÃ±a Colada song. But I can't bring myself to turn it off when it comes on the radio. Cannibalism is just yucky..

Posted by: Steffie at February 09, 2013 11:44 AM (BDHOa)

12 Horror song?

How about every song recorded by ABBA. Truly Scandi-lous.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 09, 2013 11:45 AM (NTBjC)

13 REUNITED by Peaches & Herb is about a pyscopathic serial killer who DISMEMBERS his victims and then RE-ASSEMBLES THEM

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:45 AM (vyPsz)

14 rock n' roll music during the late 60s went from songs about teenage angst to the wailings of the Mentally De-ranged

watched it happen, I did. Sad, it was

Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 11:45 AM (Dll6b)

15 Uh, Snoop D, The song is about a real mine cave in and Timothy was a mule. They ate the friggin' mule dawg.......They did NOT eat DUDE......

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 11:46 AM (r383k)

Strip Poker is about a stripper!

I thought it was about poking a stripper!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 09, 2013 11:46 AM (IDSI7)

17 But I do like the Katrina suggestion.

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 11:46 AM (r383k)

REUNITED by Peaches & Herb is about a pyscopathic serial killer who DISMEMBERS his victims and then RE-ASSEMBLES THEM

Go on.

Posted by: Ed Gein at February 09, 2013 11:47 AM (IDSI7)

19 If I Had a Hammer is by and about the scariest entities in all the world, LEFTISTS.

Posted by: madamex at February 09, 2013 11:47 AM (+kvQd)

20 Why is Chrome giving out a Malware Ahead warning for Ace.mu.nu? I have been coming here for years and this just started happening. Anyone know? Liberal douches at Google being liberal douches?

Posted by: Rabban at February 09, 2013 11:47 AM (eYRDZ)

21 "Marie Provost" by Nick Lowe. It's about a former silent screen actress who dies alone and becomes the sole source of food for "that hungry little dachshund." "She was a winner, that became the doggy's dinner, She never meant that much to me, poor, poor Marie..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (XkWWK)

22 The ultimate horror rock song....who remembers D.O.A. from Bloodrock? Can't remember all the lyrics, but the chorus goes like this...

I remember,
we were flying low,
and hit something in the air.

For those of you who've never heard of the song, it's (obviously) about a plane crash, told from the POV of a dying survivor.

Posted by: Unemployed since February at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (06qTP)

23 There's a creepy Dido song called "Don't Leave Home" that makes it sounds like an old/disabled person is being cut off from others:

Like a ghost don't need a key
Your best friend I've come to be
Please don't think of getting up for me
You don't even need to speak
When I've been here for just one day
You'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door
You won't need other friends anymore
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (amaU1)

24 Jimmy Dean sang about BIG JOHN who went CRAZY one day and BURIED ALIVE a bunch of MINERS

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (KeJAW)

Pink Floyd. The suicide scene at the end of "The Wall".

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (tXtOx)

26 King Diamond, a danish horror rocker, makes each of his album a full horror story. "Them," an album about ghostly possession, is probably his scariest.

Posted by: Food at February 09, 2013 11:48 AM (tuPiK)

27 18 Posted by: Ed Gein at February 09, 2013 03:47 PM (IDSI7) Unused lyric: "Reunite, 'cause I'm using glue..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:49 AM (XkWWK)

I used to love her, but I had to kill her.

G n R.

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 09, 2013 11:49 AM (SUKHu)

29 Pretty much anything by Blue Oyster Cult.
Try "Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave"

Posted by: mputtre at February 09, 2013 11:49 AM (tvHyA)

30 DONT FEAR THE REAPER is about Jack Kevorkian helping people commit suicide.

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:50 AM (GcwH1)

31 Liberal douches at Google being liberal douches? Posted by: Rabban at February 09, 2013 03:47 PM (eYRDZ) They hit instapundit today, too.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 11:50 AM (53riN)

32 DOA - you can't find that anywhere - no YouTube, no Lyricsfreak...

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 11:50 AM (r383k)

33 Twisted Sister's "Street Justice," about a child killer who goes free on an unspecified alcohol-induced technicality, scared the urinary piss out of me when I first heard it as a little kid.

Posted by: Food at February 09, 2013 11:50 AM (tuPiK)

34 "Highway to Hell" ...is about how a cadre of leftists hijack and subvert America early in the 21st century.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:51 AM (XkWWK)

35 I think we should limit this to music written prior to death metal and rap.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 11:51 AM (tXtOx)

36 except now you can....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQptxygSM8

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 11:51 AM (r383k)

37 The characters in the song wouldn't have had to plead amnesia if it was about a mule.

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 11:51 AM (MMC8r)

38 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is pretty horrifying.

Posted by: madamex at February 09, 2013 11:51 AM (+kvQd)

39 The theme to MASH is about WMD'S

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:52 AM (LPRBM)

40

Timothy is Kenyan for lobster.

You know Moochie calls me Joe in private

Posted by: Barack Skeet Skeet Husein Obama at February 09, 2013 11:52 AM (+OTLF)

41 Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy." Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best Excitable boy, they all said And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest Excitable boy, they all said Well, he's just an excitable boy He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark Excitable boy, they all said And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark Excitable boy, they all said Well, he's just an excitable boy He took little Susie to the Junior Prom Excitable boy, they all said and he raped her and killed her, then he took her home Excitable boy, they all said Well, he's just an excitable boy After ten long years they let him out of the Home Excitable boy, they all said And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones Excitable boy, they all said Well, he's just an excitable boy

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:52 AM (XkWWK)

42 "If anyone can think of another one, let me know." -Pretty much everything by Rob Zombie -Pretty much everything by Slayer -Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden -Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde -The Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica -Possum Kingdom by The Toadies -Captain Howdy by Twisted Sister

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 11:52 AM (a0X91)

43 21 "Marie Provost" by Nick Lowe. That, Timothy and a few others from that era explain quite a bit about where we are right now. It describes the left perfectly. That Pina Colada song fucking sucked bong water.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at February 09, 2013 11:52 AM (gK+Qm)

44 DOA - you can't find that anywhere - no YouTube, no Lyricsfreak...

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 03:50 PM (r383k)

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I was thinking that this song was done by Black Sabbeth too.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 11:53 AM (tXtOx)

45 This post does makes me smile, remembering the first date with my wife.
The first time I set foot in her apartment, she had the record player blasting out a top ten tune from an album.

She couldn't understand the lyrics (which was pretty common at the time), and noticing the look on my face she demanded to know what they were. So I recited them with the gleam in my eye that still evokes "the look" from her some 41 years later:

Sitting on a park bench
Eying little girls
With bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 11:53 AM (Qxe/p)

46 >>>I hate that PiÃ±a Colada song. But I can't bring myself to turn it off when it comes on the radio. Cannibalism is just yucky. Posted by: Steffie at February 09, 2013 03:44

I think there was a short-lived genre called "annoying rock" around 1980. Christopher Cross' "Sailing" comes to mind.

Come to think of it, I get "eww" for the pina colada song too. Maybe Rupert Holmes was exploring a different kind of revulsion then.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 11:53 AM (Iyg03)

47 D.O.A. - This was banned by the local radio stations...
Artist - Blood Rock

True story about their drummer who crashed with his girlfriend , she died and he lost an arm or arms...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6WQptxygSM8#!

Posted by: American Dawg at February 09, 2013 11:53 AM (trA4n)

48 MR BOJANGLES is about killing LASSIE

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:54 AM (BUcLz)

49 45 Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 03:53 PM (Qxe/p) Senator Harry "AQUALUNG" Reid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:55 AM (XkWWK)

50 Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey' is about pedophilia. Well, if it was, it wouldn't be any worse.

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 11:56 AM (MMC8r)

51 #47 But in the song, I believe the narrator dies too. The song ends with a wailing ambulance siren, then goes silent at the end.

I was only 9 years old. That song scared the hell out of me.

Posted by: Unemployed since February at February 09, 2013 11:56 AM (06qTP)

52 20 Why is Chrome giving out a Malware Ahead warning for Ace.mu.nu? I have been coming here for years and this just started happening. Anyone know? Liberal douches at Google being liberal douches?

Posted by: Rabban at February 09, 2013 03:47 PM (eYRDZ)

Oh thats just my army of obamaheads making sure you dont infringe on their freedom of expression with your lies.

We are doing a concerted effort to isolate all the top conservative sites by spamming any site that tracks viruses and malware.

Eventually, you all will lose visitors and the only voice people hear will be mine and my minions.

Posted by: Barack Skeet Skeet Husein Obama at February 09, 2013 11:56 AM (+OTLF)

53 anyone remember this rumor? In The Air Tonight is about a witness to a drowning and nobody tried to help.

Posted by: zz soothiewing plover at February 09, 2013 11:56 AM (vanqS)

54 Senator Harry "AQUALUNG" Reid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 03:55 PM (XkWWK)

He owns half of that whole town.
And I wish that he could be ... Richard Corey.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 11:56 AM (Qxe/p)

55 This was too weird - guy goes into the coffin to be reunited with his dead girlfriend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0x8S1U7O3w

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 11:57 AM (53riN)

56 So the chubby daughter of the Senator singing "American Girl" is metaphor for the US, and Buffalo Bill is the left, who hates itself and wants to starve us and use our skin to do a homemade "fundamental transformation." Wow. "Silence of the Lambs" is just so deep on many levels.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 11:58 AM (XkWWK)

57 seriously, none of you had better talk shit about The Little River Band

Posted by: zz soothie at February 09, 2013 11:58 AM (Y4TdB)

58 "Stan" by Eminem (featuring Dido) is about an obsessed fan driving his car into a lake with his pregnant girlfriend in the trunk.

Posted by: cool breeze at February 09, 2013 11:59 AM (A+/8k)

59 ZZTop "Pearl Necklace" is about giving your girlfriend a pearl necklace

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 11:59 AM (8sCoq)

Ok, can't remember. What's the ACDC song, She's got the Jack? Took me years to figure out it was the Clap.

Hmm. I guess that is the name of the song.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 11:59 AM (vTi1t)

61 Take Me Away by Blue Oyster Cult was about wanting to be abducted by aliens. Godzilla was another one. And anything by the Misfits.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 09, 2013 11:59 AM (obHYs)

62 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (bonus points for "assault weapon" in the title. Metallica's One (especially the video) is chilling. Also Call of the Ktulu

Posted by: The Diddy at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (FcG0+)

63 None of the songs listed so far gave me nightmares as the line "douche in the night".

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (tXtOx)

64 "Psycho" is about a psycho.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (XkWWK)

65 Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas. Harry Chapin.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (lQikG)

66 "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" is about a highway maintenance crew

Posted by: ironbill at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (Q+4Zh)

"It's the end of the world as we know it" might not fit in this category, but it is not exactly cheery.

Well, except to SMOD supporters...

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 09, 2013 12:00 PM (SUKHu)

68 First time I ever heard reference to Timothy. Also explains the Pina Colada Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkulXMkx_0

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 09, 2013 12:01 PM (obHYs)

69 CCR's "Graveyard Train" is about a guy who's girlfriend is killed in a bus crash, who later takes his own life

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:02 PM (8sCoq)

70 Oops bad link for D O A , Try this one
it is on U-Tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1PLT0GljPA

Posted by: American Dawg at February 09, 2013 12:02 PM (trA4n)

71 You guys crack me up. Lot's of memories. :laugh:

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:02 PM (vTi1t)

72 Well shit, that didn't work.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:02 PM (vTi1t)

73 They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats... and they're coming to take me away!!! The B-side was the whole thing BACKWARDS : !aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT

Posted by: JJ Stone at February 09, 2013 12:02 PM (SUX5l)

74 Little River Band is what happened when Satan put together a band for tourring

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:03 PM (8sCoq)

75 The Stranglers' "Peaches" "Walking down the beaches lookin' at the peaches..." and "Bring on the Nubiles" "Lemme, lemme, fuck ya, fuck ya..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:03 PM (XkWWK)

"Helter Skelter" caused a lot of death.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:03 PM (tXtOx)

77 @42. Good list, especially Bloodletting. I'm missing Possum Kingdom though? @61. Godzilla, of course!

Posted by: The Diddy at February 09, 2013 12:04 PM (FcG0+)

78 I remember The Forgotten Door. Loved that book when I was a kid, hadn't thought of it in a long, long time

Posted by: brak at February 09, 2013 12:04 PM (RBQss)

79 57
seriously, none of you had better talk shit about The Little River Band

Posted by: zz soothie at February 09, 2013 03:58 PM (Y4TdB)

That makes me think of things I never thought of, Lady.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 12:04 PM (Qxe/p)

80 "If anyone can think of another one, let me know." Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl Judas Priest - Night Crawler Alice Cooper - Millie and Billie Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Tinkertrain Ozzy Osbourne - Latimer's Mercy Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman Iron Maiden - Killers .. to name a few. Most of Alice Cooper's music I'd consider to be Horror Rock. If you have the right frame of mind, it's actually pretty funny as it's so over the top.

Posted by: Naqamel at February 09, 2013 12:04 PM (gcE9n)

81 Siouxsie and the Banshee's Red Over White is an ode to a murderous Santa if I remember correctly.

Posted by: Phil at February 09, 2013 12:04 PM (QzdcC)

82
If anyone can think of another one....

Creature From the Black Lagoon by Dave Edmunds.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 12:05 PM (kdS6q)

83 All meat is murder, right?

I dub this 1lbs. package of venison steaks, currently sizzling in the pan, "Timothy!"

If God hadn't wanted us to eat whitetail deer, He would have made them so damn delicious.

Posted by: Fritz at February 09, 2013 12:05 PM (WM+rJ)

84 Something a bit different. Still horror.

Redbone - Witch Queen of New Orleans.
http://youtu.be/GHEuSGGmX-c

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 09, 2013 12:06 PM (PMCY9)

85 Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Posted by: phlegn at February 09, 2013 12:06 PM (487GH)

86 Climax and then the Righteous Brothers' "Rock and Roll Heaven."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:06 PM (XkWWK)

87 @24- Respectfully, that is not what Big John was about. He gave his life, holding up a support timber so the other miners could escape. Could be that's what you meant to say with the ALL CAPS here and there, but it didn't read that way to me. On the other hand, I can be kinda sloe on the uptake at times.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (LKr5H)

88 "Rosanna" by Toto is about Gilda Radner

Posted by: ironbill at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (Q+4Zh)

89 Run, Joey, Run.

Posted by: Unemployed since February at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (06qTP)

90

Nemesis by Shriekback

*drops mike* *raises arms in victory*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (kdS6q)

91 Used to sneak T.S.O.L.'s "Code Blue" into rotation at school dances. People would dance along until the very slow, VERY enunciated lines and either look disturbed or burst into laughter.

Posted by: Uncle Pinky at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (lPJCs)

Wow. I have an old import Judis Priest Album.

Couldn't get it here in the States. Maybe someday it will be worth some money. It's an old live album.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:07 PM (vTi1t)

93 Sex pistols - Bodies

Its about bloody/messy abortions

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 09, 2013 12:08 PM (J6hHs)

94 "If anyone can think of another one, let me know."

Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead
Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl
Judas Priest - Night Crawler
Alice Cooper - Millie and Billie
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Tinkertrain
Ozzy Osbourne - Latimer's Mercy
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Iron Maiden - Killers

.. to name a few. Most of Alice Cooper's music I'd consider to be Horror Rock. If you have the right frame of mind, it's actually pretty funny as it's so over the top.

Posted by: Naqamel at February 09, 2013 04:04 PM (gcE9n)

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Like I said, this discussion should be restricted to music prior to metal, death metal, and rap. The era of these three music genre's were nothing but death and brutal pain.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:08 PM (tXtOx)

95 "Joey" by Concrete Blonde is about the urgent need for government-run healthcare

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (8sCoq)

96 "Sympathy for the Devil" is about Obama

Posted by: ironbill at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (Q+4Zh)

97 to this day nobody knows what Frank Zappa's BROKEN HEARTS ARE FOR ASSHOLES is about a true mystery..

Posted by: soothie at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (052zE)

98 The always wretch-able "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks (by way of Jacques Brel) and the treacly tearjerker "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Incidentally, the latter is still a superstar in Japan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (XkWWK)

99 How'd I forget. Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. The songs about a man who has to fight the devil for crying out loud.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (obHYs)

100 I bet the JEF doesn't like the Carson vid out there so MALWARE>

Posted by: madamex at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (+kvQd)

101 Talahassee Bridge (sp).

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (vTi1t)

102 OK, so previous to metal.. uh, "Leader of the Pack" anyone?

Posted by: Naqamel at February 09, 2013 12:09 PM (gcE9n)

103 I'm missing Possum Kingdom though? Posted by: The Diddy at February 09, 2013 04:04 PM (FcG0+) The Possum Kingdom lyrics are pretty creepy: Make up your mind Decide to walk with me Around the lake tonight Around the lake tonight By my side By my side I'm not gonna lie I'll not be a gentleman Behind the boathouse I'll show you my dark secret I'm not gonna lie I want you for mine My blushing bride My lover, be my lover, yeah... Don't be afraid I didn't mean to scare you So help me, Jesus I can promise you You'll stay as beautiful With dark hair And soft skin...forever Forever Make up your mind Make up your mind And I'll promise you I will treat you well My sweet angel So help me, Jesus (hey, hey, hey) Give it up to me Give it up to me Do you wanna be My angel? So help me! Be my angel Be my angel Do you wanna die? I promise you I will treat you well My sweet angel So help me, Jesus

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 12:10 PM (a0X91)

104 Swamp Witch by Jim Stafford.

Posted by: Unemployed since February at February 09, 2013 12:10 PM (06qTP)

105 "Folsom Prison Blues" is about cold-blooded murder
"Long Black Veil" is about cold-blooded murder

hell, a lot of country songs are about cold-blooded murder

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (8sCoq)

106 97 to this day nobody knows what Frank Zappa's BROKEN HEARTS ARE FOR ASSHOLES is about a true mystery.. Posted by: soothie at February 09, 2013 04:09 PM (052zE) I think it's about turning homo and liking it. On the same album (Sheik Yerbouti) is "Bobby Brown" which is definitely about that theme, though more of a lament. Hey there, people, Im bobby brown They say Im the cutest boy in town My car is fast, my teeth is shiney I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie Here I am at a famous school Im dressin sharp n im Actin cool I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper Let her do all the work n maybe later I'll rape her Oh God I am the american dream I do not think Im too extreme An Im a handsome sonofabitch Im gonna get a good job n be real rich (get a good Get a good Get a good Get a good job) Womens liberation Came creepin across the nation I tell you people I was not ready When I fucked this dyke by the name of freddie She made a little speech then, Aw, she tried to make me say when She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick Oh God I am the american dream But now I smell like vaseline An Im a miserable sonofabitch Am I a boy or a lady...i don't know which (I wonder wonder Wonder wonder) So I went out n bought me a leisure suit I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute Got a job doin radio promo An none of the jocks can even tell Im a homo Eventually me n a friend Sorta drifted along into s&m I can take about an hour on the tower of power Long as I gets a little golden shower Oh God I am the american dream With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream An I'll do anything to get ahead I lay awake nights sayin, thank you, fred! Oh god, oh god, Im so fantastic! Thanks to freddie, Im a sexual spastic And my name is bobby brown Watch me now, Im goin down, And my name is bobby brown Watch me now, Im goin down, etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (XkWWK)

107 >>> Respectfully, that is not what Big John was about... Get a haircut, hippie!

Posted by: soothie at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (KeJAW)

108 >>>Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Good one.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (Iyg03)

109 Ano? Ace is now a stealth blog? Or an update?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (PMCY9)

110 Hail to the Chief wherever TFG goes.

Posted by: DaveA at February 09, 2013 12:11 PM (JJdOG)

111 Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers is about rape and revenge. Adam Carolla had a famous riff about it. Teen Angel was about a dead teenager who got hit by a train. And of course Lola by The Kinks.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 09, 2013 12:12 PM (xSegX)

112 I know it's not rock, but ya gotta give a shout out to Kenny Rogers.

Posted by: Fritz at February 09, 2013 12:12 PM (WM+rJ)

113 I have a couple of copies of the original 45 in my store for sale. http://www.musicstack.com/item/2422061

Posted by: Dave In Guelph at February 09, 2013 12:13 PM (z6e/9)

114 I always thought "Fuck You" by Harry Nilsson had a hidden message....

Posted by: ironbill at February 09, 2013 12:13 PM (Q+4Zh)

115 Like I said, this discussion should be restricted to music prior to metal, death metal, and rap. The era of these three music genre's were nothing but death and brutal pain.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 04:08 PM (tXtOx)

Would "Tom Dooley" qualify?
It's a beautiful ballad about a guy about to be hanged because he stabbed a girl to death on a mountain.

http://tinyurl.com/7yr9j5g

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 12:13 PM (Qxe/p)

116

97 to this day nobody knows what Frank Zappa's BROKEN HEARTS ARE FOR ASSHOLES is about

a true mystery..

Posted by: soothie at February 09, 2013 04:09 PM (052zE)

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It was either Zappa or Dr. Hook who sung "Penicillan Penny".

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:13 PM (tXtOx)

117 It's a well-known fact that Timothy was a duck.

Posted by: Joel Hodgson at February 09, 2013 12:14 PM (IDypm)

118 "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace That's the city's anthem under Rahm Tutu...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:14 PM (XkWWK)

119 Warren Zevon -- Excitable Boy

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 09, 2013 12:14 PM (J6hHs)

120 Jeez, "Coward of the County." Adam Carolla and Norm McDonald do a fisking of the song and it's hilarious.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:15 PM (XkWWK)

121 Ahh. The Kingston Trio, Dad still has their albums.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:15 PM (vTi1t)

122 Would "Tom Dooley" qualify?
It's a beautiful ballad about a guy about to be hanged because he stabbed a girl to death on a mountain.

http://tinyurl.com/7yr9j5g

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 04:13 PM (Qxe/p)

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Yup. Same as the song (sung by Bobby Gentry) about throwing her child off the Talahatche Bridge. Disturbingly popular at the time now that I look back on it.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:16 PM (tXtOx)

123 Avenged Sevenfold "A Little Piece of Heaven" (Sorry for the wall, it's a lengthy song) Before the story begins, is it such a sin, For me to take what's mine, until the end of time We were more than friends, before the story ends, And I will take what's mine, create what God would never design Our love had been so strong for far too long, I was weak with fear that something would go wrong, Before the possibilities came true, I took all possibility from you Almost laughed myself to tears, (Ha hahahahaha) Conjuring her deepest fears (Come here you fucking bitch) Must have stabbed her fifty fucking times, I can't believe it, Ripped her heart out right before her eyes, Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it She was never this good in bed even when she was sleeping Now she's just so perfect I've never been quite so fucking deep in her It goes on and on and on, I can keep you looking young and preserved forever, With a fountain spray on your youth whenever 'Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold that's why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it's not your time But bye, bye And a word to the wise when the fire dies You think it's over but it's just begun But baby don't cry You had my heart, at least for the most part 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, We fell apart, let's make a new start 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, yeah yeah But baby don't cry Now possibilities I'd never considered, Are occurring the likes of which I'd never heard, Now an angry soul comes back from beyond the grave, To repossess a body with which I'd misbehaved Smiling right from ear to ear Almost laughed herself to tears Must have stabbed him fifty fucking times I can't believe it Ripped his heart out right before his eyes Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it (Eat the shit out of it) Now that it's done I realize the error of my ways I must venture back to apologize from somewhere far beyond the grave I gotta make up for what I've done 'Cause I was all up in a piece of heaven While you burned in hell, no peace forever 'Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold that's why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it's not your time But bye, bye And a word to the wise when the fire dies You think it's over but it's just begun But baby don't cry You had my heart, at least for the most part 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, We fell apart, let's make a new start 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, yeah yeah But baby don't cry [Maniacal laughter] I will (what will you do?) suffer for so long (not long enough) To make it up to you (I pray to God that you do) I'll do whatever you want me to do (Well then I'll grant you one chance) And if it's not enough (If it's not enough, If it's not enough) If it's not enough (Not enough) Try again (Try again) And again (And again) Over and over again (Over and over again) We're coming back, coming back We'll live forever, live forever Let's have a wedding, have a wedding Let's start the killing, start the killing (You sucking bitch) [Maniacal laughter] "Do you take this man in death for the rest of your unnatural life?" "Yes, I do" "Do you take this woman in death for the rest of your unnatural life?" "I do" "I now pronounce you" 'Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold that's why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it's not your time But bye, bye And a word to the wise when the fire dies You think it's over but it's just begun But baby don't cry You had my heart, at least for the most part 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, We fell apart, let's make a new start 'Cause everybody's gotta die sometime, yeah yeah But baby don't cry

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 09, 2013 12:17 PM (GEICT)

124 Five myths about ObamaÂ’s drone war
1. Drones are immoral.
2.Drone strikes cause inordinate civilian casualties.
3.Drones allow us to fight wars without danger.
4. Drones are technologically complex weapons that only rich nations can afford.
5. Obama will be remembered as the drone president.

Actually, history will determine if 5 is true. Make that Four myths.

Posted by: Gloria Steinem at February 09, 2013 12:17 PM (e8kgV)

125 Judas Priest - The Ripper AC/DC - Night Prowler

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2013 12:18 PM (Vjplh)

126 Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" Hey, ho. Let's go, shoot 'em in the back now...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:18 PM (XkWWK)

127 One of my favorites -- Delia's Gone

youtube.com/watch?v=Y1iKEPzF1Js

Posted by: Fritz at February 09, 2013 12:19 PM (WM+rJ)

128 121 Ahh. The Kingston Trio, Dad still has their albums.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 04:15 PM (vTi1t)

Would "MTA" qualify here?
When I was a kid, I actually gave deep thought to somebody's wife handing Charlie a sandwich in an endless loop all because he was a nickel short of fare.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 12:19 PM (Qxe/p)

129 Soona - you are right. Talahatche Bridge. Lots of sick shit going on for a loooonngg time.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:19 PM (vTi1t)

130 Halp, I'm being sucked outta this thread!

Posted by: Teh Funny at February 09, 2013 12:20 PM (8dspl)

131

All the ooey-gooey teenage death songs of the late '50's-early '60's........

Dead Man's Curve and all the rest.

Posted by: Boots at February 09, 2013 12:20 PM (oG66P)

132 Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" Hey, ho. Let's go, shoot 'em in the back now... Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 04:18 PM (XkWWK) Speaking of The Ramones, Pet Cemetery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3J0iwwsq-w

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 12:21 PM (a0X91)

133

Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts

Turns out it actually hit the Top 20 in the UK.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 12:21 PM (kdS6q)

134 anyone else getting a google chrome malware warning?

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at February 09, 2013 12:21 PM (Y5I9o)

135

@52 Barack Skeeter,

I got the same malware warning with Chrome. I merely switched to IE, which although is a bit like having sex without a condom, at least the warning in gone.

What's up Rons and Ettes?

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at February 09, 2013 12:21 PM (cCxiu)

136 Ok, Ace and RdBrewer are older than me. I don't know this song. Thanks for providing lyrics. Im the idiot who hears things wrong. For the longest time, I thought the words "Secret Agent Man" were really Secret Asian Man. Rd, to answer your exit question, "Plush" by the Stone Temple Pilots? That one is borderline, not quite as horrific as a song about cannibalism, but one of the lines is "When the dogs begin to smell her"

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:22 PM (0PiQ4)

137 "Get a haircut, hippie." LOL Shouldn't that have been "nicced" channeling ace channeling 90 yr old marine with a crew cut?

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 12:22 PM (hDena)

138 Can't believe we're this far in and nobody's mentioned Roky Erickson, west Texas-crazy-acid casualty who had a fondness for black & white horror movies The Creature With The Atom Brain; I Walked With A Zombie; Night of the Vampire; Two Headed Dog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7aLXehSXAo

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 12:22 PM (XvrTA)

139 Iron Maiden - Murders In The Rue Morgue

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2013 12:22 PM (Vjplh)

140 The chrome warning gave an address that it said was suspicious. But then in the "advanced" info, it said that google did not list that site as suspicious. Is the fishy or not?

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (Y5I9o)

141 129 Soona - you are right. Talahatche Bridge. Lots of sick shit going on for a loooonngg time. Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 04:19 PM (vTi1t) Didn't some guy ass-rape Billy Jo McAllister, and then he and his girlfriend killed him and dumped the corpse? It's a hit!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (XkWWK)

142 Hi Judge.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (vTi1t)

143 I just assume every song released between 1965 and 1979 is really about masturbation.

Posted by: wooga at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (jgnqm)

144 All the ooey-gooey teenage death songs of the late '50's-early '60's........

Dead Man's Curve and all the rest.

Posted by: Boots at February 09, 2013 04:20 PM (oG66P)

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But that was fun bee-bop death.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (tXtOx)

145 This is the scariest song I have ever heard. It STILL gives me nightmares: http://tinyurl.com/3pmrczs

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 12:23 PM (53riN)

146 "Last Kiss" was about a girl getting killed in a car wreck, her boyfriend is covered with blood as he finds and kisses her as she dies.

Probably 1964. All the teen girls swooned. Parents talked about seat belts.

Posted by: Adjoran at February 09, 2013 12:24 PM (9uOra)

147 Oh also, Kid Rock, "Fuck you blind" that one is horrifying but in a different sort of way.

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (0PiQ4)

148 Horror Songs? No one mentioned Gangnam style yet? Just returned from 6 months in the orient I am still having nightmares about that song. They play that darn thing over there more than did "stairway to heaven " when I was in High School.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (cCxiu)

149 Holy shit.
I just realized all my favorite music is about sick and twisted stuff.

The voices have pointed out that people look at me strangely ...

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (Qxe/p)

150 'Wake up, little Suzi' is about the horrors of falling asleep at the drive-in and

'....our reputations are shot'

Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (Dll6b)

151 145 This is the scariest song I have ever heard. It STILL gives me nightmares: http://tinyurl.com/3pmrczs Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 04:23 PM (53riN) What about last year's election ad of the kids lamenting dying from global warming and no health care. THAT was sickening in a Hitler Youth/Jonestown way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (XkWWK)

152 For the longest time, I thought the words "Secret Agent Man" were really Secret Asian Man.

For the longest time, I thought the words "the caliope crashed to the ground" were really "the goliath he crashed to the ground." Because he had just finished jacking off. I thought the whole song was one big circle jerk.

Posted by: wooga at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (jgnqm)

153 Lying there cold after a torturous death Your life ended fast you took your last breath Dead in a grave, your final place The maggots infest your disfigured face Pus through your veins takes the place of blood Decay sets in, bones begin to crack Thrown six feet down left to rot Brains oozing black down the side of your broken neck Skull full of maggots They enter your tomb - maggots - beginning to feast - maggots Crawling on you - maggots - now they eat you - maggots Rotting maggots - maggots - infesting your corpse - maggots Parasites of the dead - maggots - now dwell in your head

Posted by: Whatev at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (A7Wh1)

154 The Plasmatics' "Test Tube Babies" circa 1978.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:25 PM (XkWWK)

155 honestly, BIG BAD JOHN 'touches' me everytime I hear it

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:26 PM (Fely/)

156 >>>For the longest time, I thought the words "the caliope crashed to the ground" were really "the goliath he crashed to the ground." Because he had just finished jacking off. I thought the whole song was one big circle jerk.

What about "revved up like a douche"?

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 12:26 PM (Iyg03)

157 Didn't some guy ass-rape Billy Jo McAllister, and then he and his girlfriend killed him and dumped the corpse?

It's a hit!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 04:23 PM (XkWWK)

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Somehow I think a review of the lyrics is in order. Seems to be a minor descrepency here.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:26 PM (tXtOx)

158 Beatles "Day In the Life."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:26 PM (XkWWK)

159 > For the longest time, I thought the words "Secret Agent Man" were really Secret Asian Man.

And Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Pet Shark"

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:27 PM (8sCoq)

160 "Because she's my girl... ...Bill."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:27 PM (XkWWK)

161 Best Kept Secret by True North Not a grizzly death song but could be one of the theme songs for the Horde.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (S08dG)

162 What about last year's election ad of the kids lamenting dying from global warming and no health care. THAT was sickening in a Hitler Youth/Jonestown way. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 04:25 PM (XkWWK) Absolutely. Anything Obama related wins the nightmare-inducing category...hands down.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (53riN)

163 Howdy @ Infidel (142).

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (cCxiu)

164 btw, if I say MOLLY HATCHET, you say...??

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (052zE)

165

Posted by: Whatev at February 09, 2013 04:25 PM (A7Wh1)

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A song recommended to all acid-dropping novices.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (tXtOx)

166 "I'm gonna do it to ya, do ya sweet banana, you've never been loved. And like a rabbit, gonna grab it, gonna do it til the night is done..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:28 PM (XkWWK)

167 164 btw, if I say MOLLY HATCHET, you say...?? Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 04:28 PM (052zE) FRANK FRAZETTA

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:29 PM (XkWWK)

168

Though best known from the song "Ode to Billie Joe" and the film (spelled differently) Ode to Billy Joe, which has the refrain, Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge, the river has historical significance due to the murder of Emmett Till, an African American youth who was beaten, shot, and sunk in the river by a cotton gin fan tied around his neck by barbed wire. This event is mentioned in another song, "Freedom Highway," by The Staple Singers, in the lines, "Found dead people in the forests, Tallahatchie River and lakes", "Whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States?" A third song that mentions the Tallahatchie river is "Tallahatchie River Blues," recorded by Mattie Delaney in 1930.

Hope this doesn't put me in the barrel.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:30 PM (vTi1t)

169 Star spangled banner - whos this Jose guy?

Posted by: Whatev at February 09, 2013 12:30 PM (A7Wh1)

170 yeah, "Secret ASIAN Man" -- thought it was from Woody Allen's "What's up, Tiger Lilly?" where he dubs a Japanese spy movie into his Schitck

Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 12:30 PM (Dll6b)

171 I don't know if it really qualifies as horror, but Whisper by Evanescence is pretty haunting and spooky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCI99p02ayU Fallen angels at my feet whispered voices in my ear death before my eyes lying next to me I fear she beckons me shall I give in upon my end shall I begin forsaking all I've fallen for I rise to meet the end Also, Voodoo by Godsmack.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 12:31 PM (a0X91)

172 169 Star spangled banner - whos this Jose guy? Posted by: Whatev at February 09, 2013 04:30 PM (A7Wh1) Q: What did the Mexican firefighter name his twin sons? A: JosÃ© and Hose B.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:31 PM (XkWWK)

173 Wooga, lol! I'm still trying to figure out "Blinded by the light." Revved up like a douche another runner in the night?

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:31 PM (0PiQ4)

174 164 btw, if I say MOLLY HATCHET, you say...?? Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 04:28 PM (052zE) Jacksonville, FL!!!!!!! \m/ \m/

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 09, 2013 12:31 PM (GEICT)

175 ....starring Suki Yaki and Teri Yaki

Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 12:32 PM (Dll6b)

176 btw, if I say MOLLY HATCHET, you say...?? Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 04:28 PM (052zE) Yes, please

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 12:32 PM (XvrTA)

177 Jones in CO, lol!

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:32 PM (0PiQ4)

178 74 Little River Band is what happened when Satan put together a band for tourring

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 04:03 PM (8sCoq)

Correction, that was the Bay City Rollers.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 09, 2013 12:32 PM (rqlRk)

179 >>>FRANK FRAZETTA is that Italian for flirtin with disaster?

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:33 PM (uff2W)

180

And let's not forget Stevy Nix's "Mshmilche Oglmickdsh".

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:33 PM (tXtOx)

181 170 yeah, "Secret ASIAN Man" -- thought it was from Woody Allen's "What's up, Tiger Lilly?" where he dubs a Japanese spy movie into his Schitck Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 09, 2013 04:30 PM (Dll6b) No but John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful are in the film doing some cool tunes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:33 PM (XkWWK)

182 OMG Bay City Rollers. Hehe. Very Scary.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:34 PM (vTi1t)

183 Cold Night For Alligators http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_AJb4JXhE

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 12:34 PM (XvrTA)

184 Took me years to figure out what Elton John was singing. Great lyrics, bad elocution/delivery.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:35 PM (XkWWK)

185 Custom of the sea refers to shipwrecked sailors drawing lots as to who will be killed and eaten. Hey, it's a rough world out there.

Posted by: PJ at February 09, 2013 12:36 PM (ZWaLo)

186 Memphis Minnie's "Meningitis Blues."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:36 PM (XkWWK)

187 182 OMG Bay City Rollers. Hehe. Very Scary. Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 04:34 PM (vTi1t) Another great Nick Lowe song "Rollers Show."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (XkWWK)

188 aaaand RdBrewer beat me to revved up like a douche

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (0PiQ4)

189 I saw Molly Hatchet in a small club in 1994. Danny Joe Brown was so drunk he could hardly stand up. At one point he called back to the bar to have them send some Jim Beam to the stage. During the guitar solo he walked to the back of the stage and leaned his whole body against some Marshall stacks. I didn't think he was going to make it all the way through.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (Vjplh)

190 Timothy, OMG. My Guitar teacher used to play that when I was 6 years old. I havn't heard about for so long I was making the somg up in my head.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (l86i3)

191 VIDEO: Dr Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast......... http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/02/dr-benjamin-carsons-amazing-speech-at.html

Posted by: Steve at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (/wJa/)

192 For years I thought the Billy Joel song started "called this old friend of mine who was making a rib roast."

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (MMC8r)

193 Revved up like a douche another runner in the night?
Wrapped up like a douche. Because a 12 year old boy assumes douche is sold in tight packages. And "runner in the night" is plainly about sexual activity. Anything going on at night is.

Thus the line "she's gonna make it through the night" is heard as "she's gonna make it TO the night." Masturbation.

"Young chaperone, watching the young girls dance." Goes home and jacks it.

"Sneezing, wheezing." jackin it.

"blinded by the light" and the line about "that's where the fun is" when "momma always told me not to" -- because masturbation will make you go blind.

Posted by: wooga at February 09, 2013 12:37 PM (jgnqm)

194 There's a bathroom on the right!

Its our song about a guy who really needs to go.

Posted by: CCR at February 09, 2013 12:38 PM (E7Iyp)

195
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Posted by: wooga at February 09, 2013 12:38 PM (jgnqm)

196 192 For years I thought the Billy Joel song started "called this old friend of mine who was making a rib roast." Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 04:37 PM (MMC8r) What song is that?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:38 PM (XkWWK)

197 Lets not forget, "Bingo jet had a light on"

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:38 PM (l86i3)

198 What song is that?! "My Life"

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 12:39 PM (MMC8r)

199 The best one is Jimi Hendrix:

" 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:39 PM (8sCoq)

200 "Cracked up like a douche" is how Manfred Mann sung the lyric "cut loose like a deuce." A South African Joo. Figures.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:39 PM (XkWWK)

201 >>>I saw Molly Hatchet in a small club in 1994. Danny Joe Brown was so drunk he could hardly stand up. At one point he called back to the bar to have them send some Jim Beam to the stage. During the guitar solo he walked to the back of the stage and leaned his whole body against some Marshall stacks. I didn't think he was going to make it all the way through.

I saw Molly Hatchet and Pat Travers play a gig in Phoenix and I still have no idea how I got home.

Posted by: Fritz at February 09, 2013 12:39 PM (WM+rJ)

202 @197 sorry, it's "Big 'Ol Jed, had a light on!"

I should know...

Posted by: Steve Miller at February 09, 2013 12:40 PM (E7Iyp)

203 There was also this pos song on the radio called "two of hearts" by some Britney spears in training. The lyrics were actually "two of hearts, two hearts that beat as one.". I heard two pop tarts, two tarts that heat as one" Music made no sense to me until the Internet gave me lyrics

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:40 PM (0PiQ4)

204 "There's a bathroom on the right."

Posted by: zsasz at February 09, 2013 12:40 PM (MMC8r)

205 Helen Reddy's Angie Baby. Creepy shit, man.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 12:41 PM (XLQXo)

206 I saw Molly Hatchet in a small club in 1994. Danny Joe Brown was so drunk he could hardly stand up. At one point he called back to the bar to have them send some Jim Beam to the stage. During the guitar solo he walked to the back of the stage and leaned his whole body against some Marshall stacks. I didn't think he was going to make it all the way through.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2013 04:37 PM (Vjplh)

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Reminds me of the old UHF channel program named "Night Flight". Seemed like every week they had the band Angry Samoans. No one ever saw them play because they were always too drunk.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:41 PM (tXtOx)

207 Jones in Co - I thought it was Kiss the sky, you know, acid trip.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:41 PM (vTi1t)

208 Music made no sense to me until the Internet gave me lyrics Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 04:40 PM (0PiQ4) Stacy Q, that was cool it's day. This aint it's day.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:41 PM (l86i3)

209 Steve Miller's "Jungle of Love." I brought you a crate of papaya sounded like I fought you the cradle of fire. Mine is better.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (XkWWK)

210 "Jeremy" is about a kid who kills himself in front of his classmates.

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (fscec)

211 I got a Malware warning trying to get into Aces place via Chrome. Anyone else get the warning. Chrome will no longer let me access HQ.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (jucos)

212 Music made no sense to me until the Internet gave me lyrics

I think I like your version better.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (xKC/c)

213 205 Helen Reddy's Angie Baby. Creepy shit, man. Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 04:41 PM (XLQXo) I am woman, hear me bitch...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (XkWWK)

214

Partytime by 45 Grave

hell, anything by 45 Grave

Posted by: meleager at February 09, 2013 12:42 PM (8ai3b)

215 "Jeremy" is about a kid who kills himself in front of his classmates. Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 04:42 PM (fscec) That's a heavy song. And in todays world, kind of prescient.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:43 PM (l86i3)

216 "Who Stole the Kishka?" is about a kishka that was abducted.

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 12:43 PM (fscec)

217 >onesinCo - I thought it was Kiss the sky, you know, acid trip.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 04:41 PM (vTi1t)

yes, but we were talking about mis-heard lyrics, and how funny that is

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:43 PM (8sCoq)

218 the Pure Prairie League's AMY is abducting girls and torturing them

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:43 PM (KwX0v)

219 I'm not Julie, my name is Lisa. I hate that fkn song.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:44 PM (vTi1t)

220 God, I love Sheik Yerbouti. It finally just came out on CD again without having to pay blackmarket prices. Broken Hearts are for Assholes was about (remember the time period 1978 - pre-AIDS) when being gay was de rigueur for the hip, and even "straights" were going to bathouses to see what it was all about. I remember cranking this one up in the dorms, ruined quite a few romantic evenings when it went into the "poop-shoot" chorus.

Let's not forget good old Alice:

Little Betty ate a pound of aspirin
she got them from the shelf upon the wall
Betty's mommy wasn't there to save her s
he didn't even hear her little baby call

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't want you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala

Daddy is an agrophile in Texas
mommy's on the bar most every night
Little Betty's sleeping in the graveyard
living there in burgundy and white

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't love you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala

Goodbye little Betty goodbye little Betty so long little Betty so long little Betty Betty so long
Dead babies can't take care of themselves
dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't need you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala goodbye little Betty

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 09, 2013 12:44 PM (Qxdfp)

221 It is Tallahatchie first off. I happen to own about 400 acres in Carrollton where the Carroll County picture show took place - only theater in Carroll County to this day. Bobby Gentry was from around there. Here is what she told the screenwriters:

Bobby Gentry has historically remained coy about the meaning of her song. According to her, the main theme of Billy Joe was simply death and dying, and the ways in which we can be indifferent and oblivious to the suffering of others.

In a 2002 interview with the Florida-based TCPalm.com website, Herman Raucher, the screenplay writer of the Billy Joe film, recalls his encounter with Gentry as he tried to figure out the song's meaning:

INTERVIEWER: wrote the screenplay for the Deep South, song-inspired film Ode to Billy Joe. How did that come about?
RAUCHER: ThereÂ’s an actor and writer and producer and director named Max Baer, whose father was the world [heavyweight boxing] champion. And Max called me because Summer of Â‘42 just knocked him out, and he said, IÂ’ve got the rights to Ode to Billy Joe. Now, you have to understand that Ode to Billy Joe was, at that time, the largest selling record in musical history.
I said, Â‘Max, what the hell do I know about Ode to Billy Joe?Â’
He says, Â‘I want you to come out here and meet with Bobbie Gentry - IÂ’ll pay your way out here.Â’
I said, OK. ... Max and I go to meet her, and I ask her what does the song mean?
She said, Â‘I made it up. I donÂ’t know what it means.Â’
I said, Â‘You donÂ’t know why he jumped off the bridge?Â’
She said, Â‘I have no idea.Â’

He proceeds to explain that since the song apparently lacked a "true" meaning, he simply made up his own storyline to explain the lyrics.

Bobbie Gentry is still alive, but has largely fallen from the public radar screen. She has never published an autobiography, so today it is difficult to determine if she has ever made any more authoritative statements on the meaning of "Billy Joe." There is no reason to deny Raucher's story. Many musicians, notably John Lennon and the Beatles, have frequently made similar statements indicating that their songs' lyrics don't have a firm meaning and it is instead up for the listener to determine their significance.

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 12:44 PM (r383k)

222 215 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 04:43 PM (l86i3) Eddie Vedder is always good for abusive relationship songs ("Daughter," "Better Man.")

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:45 PM (XkWWK)

223 I'm not Julie, my name is Lisa. I hate that fkn song. Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 04:44 PM (vTi1t) You got that bass akwards.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:45 PM (l86i3)

224 Foghat's SLOW RIDE is about erotic asphyxiation

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:45 PM (8dspl)

225

I always liked "excitable boy" by Warren Zevon...

He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Posted by: Tatiana at February 09, 2013 12:45 PM (VBamK)

226 yea, I know, I miss heard a lot of songs. Makes me feel pretty stupid when I finally learn.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:46 PM (vTi1t)

227 My vote for scariest - Dan Hill's 'Sometimes When We Touch' And sometimes when we touch The honesty's too much And I have to close my eyes And Hide I wanna hold you 'til I die 'Til we both break down and cry I wanna hold you 'Til the fear in me subsiiiiiiiiiides I wanna punch you til you cry 'Til the blood shoots from your eye I wanna punch you 'Til the hate in me subsiiiiiiiiiides (ok, made up that last bit)

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 12:46 PM (XvrTA)

228 Chrome is warning me that this website has been injected with malware. Hrmmmm

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at February 09, 2013 12:46 PM (FsUAO)

229 Steam's "Na-Na Hey-Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" came about because the above was a placeholder for when they had real lyrics for the hook. They were totally blocked when it was time to record it and the manager just said, "meh, just sing those lyrics." And the rest is history.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:46 PM (XkWWK)

230 I think Manfred Mann is the leader in hilariously misheard lyrics in one song.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (tXtOx)

231 man it sucks to live in New England

Sandy
'Nemo'
The New York Jets

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (8sCoq)

232
Warren Zevon (RIP) had some interesting songs:
Excitable boy, Mr.Bad Example and Roland The Headless Thomson Gunner

Posted by: YIKES! at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (mETGQ)

233

You got that bass akwards.

See, told ya I hated that song.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (vTi1t)

234 I've got Manfred Mann singing it live on a Midnight Special DVD. He clearly sings it "wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night" which is how I'd always heard it. Took it to mean dressed like a two bit whore out street walking. Original lyrics, written by Springsteen (talk about a douche) I think may have been different. Never tried to look em up.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (aqj6v)

235 (ok, made up that last bit)

You improved the song by doing it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2013 12:47 PM (xKC/c)

236 Ah, "Angie Baby" reminds me of Tom T. Hall's "Ravishing Ruby." Country, not rock, though. "Turn It On" and "Pay No Attention to Alice" could be considered horror too, at least psychological horror.

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 12:48 PM (fscec)

237 "Torn Between Two Lovers" is about two guys who find out a chick is cheating on them, and they have her drawn and quartered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:48 PM (XkWWK)

238 I always heard it as "Wrapped up like a douche."

What came after that really confused me, though: "A remma remma remma right."

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 12:49 PM (XLQXo)

239 You guys are too funny! Also, the Boss and his cobs are spoiling us kids on weekends. We got Ace on a Saturday! Thanks for putting stuff up on the blog during what is supposed to be your down time.

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (0PiQ4)

240

Or "stiletto" by Billy Joel. Another classic:

She cuts you once, she cuts you twice
But still you believe
The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood
But you don't have strength to leave
You've been bought, you've been sold
You've been locked outside the door
But you stand there pleadin',
With your insides bleedin',
'Cause you deep down want some more
When she says she wants forgiveness
It's such a clever masquerade
She's so good with her stiletto
You don't even see the blade
You don't see the blade

Posted by: Tatiana at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (VBamK)

241 Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (XkWWK)

242 Alright-

what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (8sCoq)

243 I really like Lunatic fringe by Red Ryder. I don't know what happened to the band but that song always haunted me. To the point that when I go to a funeral to say good bye, I always touch the casket and say, See you on the other side.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (l86i3)

244 Wait just a minute!! There was point in time where Ode to Billie Joe had sold more records than any song ever? Must be hyperbole, right

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (XvrTA)

245 "Wrapped up like a deuce" means dog poo in a paper sack.. I'm going to put it on Bruce Springsteen's porch and light it on fire..

Posted by: Manford Mann at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (E7Iyp)

246 Many musicians,
notably John Lennon and the Beatles, have frequently made similar statements
indicating that their songs' lyrics don't have a firm meaning and it is instead
up for the listener to determine their significance.

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 04:44 PM (r383k)

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It's fun. Everyone should try it.

Posted by: Charles Manson at February 09, 2013 12:50 PM (tXtOx)

247 >>>Helen Reddy's Angie Baby. Creepy shit, man.

That was weird.

The song tells the story of Angie, a young "crazy" girl who "lives [her] life in the songs" she hears on "rock and roll radio;" her mental disturbances led to her being removed from school and having no friends, leaving her to spend most of her time listening to the radio. One day, a stalker arrives at Angie's house with the intent to rape her, but once he enters Angie's room he is disoriented by the loud music. The song then takes a decidedly surrealistic turn as when Angie turns the volume down, the boy is said to be sucked into the radio and disappears. The closing verse describes the boy as Angie's "secret lover" and that nobody bothers to get an explanation from Angie in regard to the boy's whereabouts because of her insanity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Baby

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 12:51 PM (Iyg03)

248 @80: Most of Alice Cooper's music I'd consider to be Horror Rock. If you have the right frame of mind, it's actually pretty funny as it's so over the top.

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Alice's stuff was always done with a wink, very tongue-in-cheek, which made it ultimately funny. Early stuff along the lines of "Cold Ethyl," the song about necrophilia:

One thing no lie
Ethyl frigid, Ethyl Eskimo pie
She's cool in bed
she's gotta be, 'cause Ethyl's dead
Ethyl, Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl, Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms

Or maybe "Under My Wheels," where the guy runs over his date with the car:

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun
I'm driving right up to you, babe
I guess that you couldn't see, yeah yeah
But you went under my wheels
Why don't you let me be

All done in the early '70s before the onset of Death Metal and the like where it became serious and, well, ridiculous.

Posted by: Norman Bean at February 09, 2013 12:51 PM (sTS/8)

249 "Killing Me Softly" is about a man who kills people with music.

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 12:51 PM (fscec)

250 You Are My Sunshine You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away I'll always love you and make you happy, If you will only say the same. But if you leave me and love another, You'll regret it all some day

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 09, 2013 12:51 PM (GEICT)

251 242 Alright- what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough? Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 04:50 PM (8sCoq) Dive for the Dashboard Songs! "Loving You" Minnie Riperton "Playground of My Mind" Annoying Asshole

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:52 PM (XkWWK)

252 what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 04:50 PM (8sCoq)

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"Cocaine"

Posted by: Charles Manson at February 09, 2013 12:52 PM (tXtOx)

253 This post reminds me, is CBD still doing recipe/cooking/food threads?

Posted by: Y-not at February 09, 2013 12:52 PM (5H6zj)

254 now you're catching on

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 12:52 PM (1WM2H)

255 The girl that used to come up to visit me when I was a freshman in college thought CCR's "There's a bad moon on the rise" was "There's a bathroom on the right."

Posted by: Jim Flimsey at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (T9V22)

256 249 "Killing Me Softly" is about a man who kills people with music. Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 04:51 PM (fscec) I thought he used a ball-peen hammer wrapped in a doily.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (XkWWK)

257 An Alice Cooper song that gets overlooked is the dental nightmare 'Achin' to Get Me' is often overlooked because it was on the same album as the notorious 'I Love The Dead.' But the sound effect of a tooth being pulled is really quite cringe inducing.

Posted by: epobirs at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (kcfmt)

258 Cool, clear water, water!

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (vTi1t)

259

Hobojerky.... you got the Malware warning too?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (jucos)

260

off jailed-for-life sock

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 12:53 PM (tXtOx)

261 228 Chrome is warning me that this website has been injected with malware.

Hrmmmm

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at February 09, 2013 04:46 PM (FsUAO)

Are you certain that wasn't Dave saying "My god -- it's full of Morons"?

Unrelated:
I've been reading several comments, and I'm totally convinced most of us know all the words to "Louie Louie".

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 12:54 PM (Qxe/p)

262 249 "Killing Me Softly" is about a man who kills people with music.

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at February 09, 2013 04:51 PM (fscec)

Don McLean kills people?

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 09, 2013 12:54 PM (rqlRk)

263 El Paso by Marty Robbins. Best story song ever.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:54 PM (l86i3)

264 Front 242 - Don't Crash

not exactly rock but eerie We'll always be remembered, we'll always be dismembered. Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b2pl7D4HXc Album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCl-nx5EnEM

Posted by: Paul at February 09, 2013 12:54 PM (nnEBo)

265 "Layla" has got to be the most overplayed song ever. Have not heard it in years, and would still switch it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:54 PM (XkWWK)

266

I remember both songs very well. I was probably about 14 or 15. I actually kind of liked Timothy.. at least it had a catchy tune, until I realized what it was about. DOA fucking freaked me out. I thought it was about a guy who gets in a motorcycle accident though, not a plane crash.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 12:55 PM (u25eL)

267 I've been reading several comments, and I'm totally convinced most of us know all the words to "Louie Louie". Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 04:54 PM (Qxe/p) And if we don't, we will make them up and swear to god we are right.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:55 PM (l86i3)

268 >what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

'Angie' by Rolling Stones

anything that starts out with tinkly piano

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:55 PM (8sCoq)

269 Lets not forget RUN JOEY RUN.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:55 PM (l86i3)

270 The Doors had a couple songs referencing incest and killing - not exactly horror themed but was edgy at the time.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 12:55 PM (h6XiD)

271 what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Posted by: Jones in CO

Bum, bum, bum
1800 Kars for kids 1800 K. A. R. S. for kids
DIE~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 09, 2013 12:56 PM (NTBjC)

272 And if we don't, we will make them up and swear to god we are right. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 04:55 PM (l86i3) Isn't that how we Morons get through life?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 09, 2013 12:56 PM (GEICT)

273 #242

The most recent is 'I Will Wait For You' from Mumford and Sons. It was OK for a while but now it raises my hackles when the first chords hit my ears.

Posted by: epobirs at February 09, 2013 12:56 PM (kcfmt)

274 >what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Anything at all by The Doors. Sorry, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 09, 2013 12:56 PM (rqlRk)

275 @234: I've got Manfred Mann singing it live on a Midnight Special DVD. He clearly sings it "wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night" which is how I'd always heard it.

Took it to mean dressed like a two bit whore out street walking.
Original lyrics, written by Springsteen (talk about a douche) I think may have been different. Never tried to look em up.

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Chris Thompson is the singer on that MM song (Manfred was the keyboard player). The lyrics are: "revved up like a deuce," as in a deuce coupe (think the Beach Boys song). That's the way Thompson sings it, if you listen. And it's the way Springsteen wrote it.

Posted by: Norman Bean at February 09, 2013 12:57 PM (sTS/8)

276 267 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 04:55 PM (l86i3) She was black, as the night... and now I denounce myself.. That song is 40 years old this summer. Jeez am I a fossil or what?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:57 PM (XkWWK)

277 #262

Don't ask about the filling in that American pie.

Posted by: epobirs at February 09, 2013 12:57 PM (kcfmt)

278 Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 09, 2013 04:56 PM (NTBjC)

I hate that too.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 09, 2013 12:57 PM (rqlRk)

279 The Eagles "Hotel California" is kind of a horror story too...even more relevant today if you listen to the lyrics - just imagine the millions who are trapped in that hell hole...

Posted by: Tatiana at February 09, 2013 12:57 PM (VBamK)

280 > I've been reading several comments, and I'm totally convinced most of us know all the words to "Louie Louie".

this is the part I know

ah me, nah me, a panna na me

YEH wa pa nah, na, nanna nah wee

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:58 PM (8sCoq)

281 272 Bum, bum, bum 1800 Kars for kids 1800 K. A. R. S. for kids DIE~!! Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 09, 2013 04:56 PM (NTBjC) THREAD WINNER

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 12:58 PM (XkWWK)

282 Anything by Bobby Goldsboro was a dashboard diver.

Posted by: Jim Flimsey at February 09, 2013 12:58 PM (T9V22)

283 Brandy was popular when I was a mere baby, but I think it's a romantic and movie-worthy story. sigh. Should I denounce myself now?

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 12:58 PM (53riN)

284 That song is 40 years old this summer. Jeez am I a fossil or what? Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 04:57 PM (XkWWK) I think we are talking about a different Louie. But yeah, I liked that one when I was a kid. Talked a about a white boy falling in love with a black girl. Kind of heavy stuff at the time.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 12:59 PM (l86i3)

285 @ 257: An Alice Cooper song that gets overlooked is the dental nightmare 'Achin' to Get Me' is often overlooked because it was on the same album as the notorious 'I Love The Dead.' But the sound effect of a tooth being pulled is really quite cringe inducing.

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The entire "DaDa" album is creepy as hell. Especially that little girl's voice saying, "Dada . . . dada . . . "

Posted by: Norman Bean at February 09, 2013 12:59 PM (sTS/8)

286 #272

If I had a daily commute that kind of ad would have me seriously considering a satellite radio subscription.

Posted by: epobirs at February 09, 2013 12:59 PM (kcfmt)

287 >Bum, bum, bum
1800 Kars for kids 1800 K. A. R. S. for kids
DIE~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 09, 2013 04:56 PM (NTBjC)

OMG I forgot about that

they should use that song when they waterboard a terrorist

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 12:59 PM (8sCoq)

288 >>>wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Poo.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 01:00 PM (Iyg03)

289

DEAD SKIN MASK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_ntrq_K40

Posted by: SLAYER! at February 09, 2013 01:00 PM (FENcQ)

290 I admit to liking the song... BETH by KISS so sue me

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (LL42r)

291 "Dive for the dashboard songs." The opposite of which are what the ex and I started referring to as dork songs after the VW commercial where the guy stays in the car after parking to listen to American Pie to the very end. I've got a number of those. I'd Love to Change the World Stairway Fooled Around and Fell in Love And on and on...

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (gS7S1)

292 Anything by FogHat. Slowride especially.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (h6XiD)

293

Brandy was popular when I was a mere baby, but I think it's a romantic and movie-worthy story.

sigh.

Should I denounce myself now?

Na, I love that song. Failed love. Story of my life.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (vTi1t)

294 I've never seen him act this way,
My God, he's goin' crazy
He said he's gonna make you pay
For what we done-- he's got a GUN!
So run, Joey run, Joey run!"

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (jucos)

295 263 El Paso by Marty Robbins. Best story song ever.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 04:54 PM (l86i3)

As much as I love Marty Robbins, you would be wrong about that.
Big Iron was better, but even that isn't the best:

Sloop John B -- especially the Beach Boys version.
Doesn't qualify here, though, because it's not horror in any way.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (Qxe/p)

296

A GOOD IDEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW8P7dEqIo

Posted by: SUGAR at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (FENcQ)

297 @274.. are kidding me??? The Doors were awesome.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:01 PM (u25eL)

298 BETH by KISS so sue me Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 05:01 PM (LL42r) Love it too. I still got the KISS ALIVE II double album. Detroit Rock City is my favorite.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:02 PM (l86i3)

299 Not a song, but a short story I read in school when I was young. It's summer, and a young boy is out on a work site with his dad who is some type of construction or engineering foreman. They're trying to clear a pipe that goes through a large hill that's clogged with mud and water. Dad tries from both sides to push a line through so that they can ream the pipe and clear it for flow but no luck. Dad notices his boy is just smaller than the pipe and asks him in front of the crew if he'll tie off the line and carry it through for them, using his hands to clear the crap blocking the pipe. Kid enters the pipe with the line attached and goes head first into a space about the same size as his body. About half-way there he encounters the blockage but can't quickly clear it. The water is up to his nose, he can't go forward and he can't go back, and claustrophobia kicks in. The description of his struggle to raise his head even a fraction of an inch, clear the blockage, struggle to move either direction, etc., went on forever. Eventually he conquers his fear, clears the blockage and makes it through. The old man is proud and the crew treats him like he accomplished a right of passage. But they weren't with him in the pipe when the psychological meltdown came .... They never are.

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 01:02 PM (bS6uW)

300 Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is about Stevie murdering her lover in an avalanche to facilitate her budding career in music. True story.

Posted by: Fritz at February 09, 2013 01:02 PM (WM+rJ)

301 Too long to read through every post:
Alice Cooper had several:
Sick Things, I Love the dead, Cold Ethel, etc.

A couple of songs from the Kink's Schoolboys in Disgrace;
Heroin by Lou Reed (either Velvet Underground or solo),
Snowblind friend by Steppenwolf,
Pepper by the Butthole surfers.

Just a few.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:03 PM (1qB0e)

302 283 - you get a pass, being a chick and all.

But I gotta admit, I'm a mariner and I still think the "My life, my love, and my lady" guy is a dipshit who needs to have his nuts kicked up into his throat.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 01:03 PM (XLQXo)

303 272 what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Posted by: Jones in CO

Bum, bum, bum
1800 Kars for kids 1800 K. A. R. S. for kids
DIE~!

NO SHIT!!!!!!!11!

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 09, 2013 01:03 PM (Qxdfp)

304 Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 05:01 PM (Qxe/p) Hey, don't make me toss RINGO at ya.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:03 PM (l86i3)

305 @298 Which is a song about a fan who dies on his way to see KISS

Posted by: JarvisW at February 09, 2013 01:03 PM (E7Iyp)

306 Roller Coaster by the Ohio Players. There was a murder outside the studio that you can actually hear (screams) on the master tape.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 01:04 PM (jucos)

307 OSP.. I agree!!! I totally dig that song. When we were in Tombstone in 2007 we were in a bar called Big Nose Kates. They had a singer, guitar player there. We asked him if he knew El Paso. He said he did and my husband and I looked at each other and thought.. oh God.. this guy is gonna embarass himself. He blew us away with his rendition. It was fantastic.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:04 PM (u25eL)

308 Marty Robbins - a man and a train. lolololo

http://tinyurl.com/b8w5zfz

Great Lee Marvin movie, horrid song.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:04 PM (h6XiD)

309 I heard this song where this guy wants to fuck you like an animal. I think there is some message in there.

Posted by: Golan Globus at February 09, 2013 01:05 PM (/1U3u)

310 IIII want CANDY!!

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:05 PM (l86i3)

311 Any number of Roots tunes, such as The Banks of the Ohio,
Tom Dooley,
Pretty Polly,
Dark as a Dungeon,
Long Black Veil...

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (1qB0e)

312 Also, there is this song where this guy is talking about people who died, who died. That might be a little creepy.

Posted by: Golan Globus at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (/1U3u)

313

FISTFUL OF TEETH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1_X6S8E6Qo

Posted by: GWAR at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (FENcQ)

314 272 what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough? Posted by: Jones in CO Message In A Bottle by The Police "I'm sending out an SOS"...for...fucking...ever...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (GEICT)

315 RAUCHER: ThereÂ’s an actor and writer and producer and director
named Max Baer, whose father was the world [heavyweight boxing] champion.
And Max called me because Summer of Â‘42 just knocked him out,
and he said, IÂ’ve got the rights to Ode to Billy Joe. Now, you
have to understand that Ode to Billy Joe was, at that time, the largest
selling record in musical history.

Posted by: nucelarjim at February 09, 2013 04:44 PM (r383k)

And, just to close the circle, what famous TV series had Max Baer in a starring role?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (673KB)

316 Yeah. Thanks for the clarification. I should have said Manfred Mann's Earth Band since I was referring to the band itself.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:06 PM (JxJPF)

317 Truck Monkey.. I think thats an urban legend.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (u25eL)

318 Marty Robbins did some NASCAR racing. He called himself "NASCAR's official wall tester"

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (Vjplh)

319 @ 309 - Fuck you like an animal by Nine Inch Nails

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (bS6uW)

320 >>> Roller Coaster by the Ohio Players. There was a murder outside the studio that you can actually hear (screams) on the master tape. well done, chum

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (KeJAW)

321 Roller Coaster by the Ohio Players. There was a murder outside the studio that you can actually hear (screams) on the master tape.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 05:04 PM (jucos)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This story came out at the same time they were saying that Bubble Yum bubble gum had spider eggs in them. I just put a date on myself.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (jucos)

322 306 Roller Coaster by the Ohio Players. There was a murder outside the studio that you can actually hear (screams) on the master tape.

Urban legend
http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/roller.asp

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (Qxdfp)

323 And, just to close the circle, what famous TV series had Max Baer in a starring role?
------------------

"Beverly Hillbillies" -- Jethro, baby!

Posted by: Norman Bean at February 09, 2013 01:07 PM (sTS/8)

324
I admit to liking the song...
BETH by KISS
so sue me
Posted by: soothsayer

There's nothing wrong with liking the song "Beth".

Wait -- you're a chick right? Because otherwise, yeah, there might actually be something wrong.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 01:08 PM (kdS6q)

325 292 Anything by FogHat. Slowride especially. Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 05:01 PM (h6XiD) "Let Me Get Close To You." Great Hammond B-3 and guitar interplay at the end.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:09 PM (XkWWK)

326 Also, there is this song where this guy is talking about people who died, who died. That might be a little creepy.

Posted by: Golan Globus

Jim Carrol Band - People Who Died

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 09, 2013 01:09 PM (NTBjC)

327 Godzilla is actually about a distraught marine reptile trying to remove a toe fungus by kicking down Tokyo.

Posted by: DaveA at February 09, 2013 01:09 PM (JJdOG)

328 Man card, soothsayer! Hand it over.

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 01:09 PM (0PiQ4)

329 I am the worrier- Patty Smyth- what a friend of mine thought she was hearing.

Posted by: venus velvet at February 09, 2013 01:10 PM (g94P/)

330 297 @274.. are kidding me??? The Doors were awesome. Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 05:01 PM (u25eL) Jim Morrison was the best one-octave singer evah!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:10 PM (XkWWK)

331 >>>Roller Coaster by the Ohio Players. There was a murder outside the studio that you can actually hear (screams) on the master tape.

I remember that. Funny how these stories make it around.

And no one ever stopped to consider perhaps another reason they might have dubbed a scream into a song called "Roller Coaster."

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 09, 2013 01:10 PM (Iyg03)

332

There's a song by Great White about a bunch of people burning to death.

Oh. Wait. That wasn't a song.....

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:11 PM (tXtOx)

333 311 Any number of Roots tunes, such as The Banks of the Ohio,
Tom Dooley,
Pretty Polly,
Dark as a Dungeon,
Long Black Veil...

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 05:06 PM (1qB0e)

"Roots" -- what/who is that?
I see that list and think Kingston Trio, Judy Collins, Johnny Cash, and maybe Tennessee Ernie Ford.

May I offer "Sixteen Tons" in honor of the latter (Bless his pea pickin heart)?
That was my dad's absolute favorite.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 01:11 PM (Qxe/p)

334 I think this thread is missing the obvious winner

"The End" by The Doors

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 01:11 PM (8sCoq)

335 283 Brandy was popular when I was a mere baby, but I think it's a romantic and movie-worthy story. sigh. Should I denounce myself now? Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 04:58 PM (53riN) It reminds me in a weird way of "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir," so you are not far off.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:11 PM (XkWWK)

336 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:12 PM (FENcQ)

337 "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"
Drowning Pools

Love that song. Their is a youtube of it with a parrot singing it in his cage. Cracks me up.

Posted by: navybrat at February 09, 2013 01:12 PM (5ClqG)

338

Wait ? What ? " Ode to Billy Joel " ?

Did I hear that right ?

Posted by: seamrog at February 09, 2013 01:12 PM (SxAus)

339

Seriously, though

'Knoxville Girl' - The Stanley Brothers

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (FENcQ)

340 333 Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 05:06 PM (1qB0e) Let me set the stage FOR you!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (XkWWK)

341 I got your back soothsayer. Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce Buy for You the Moon - True North Many others

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (LKr5H)

342 My life, my love, and my lady" guy is a dipshit who needs to have his nuts kicked up into his throat. Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 05:03 PM (XLQXo) True, but, hey, no drama, no song!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (53riN)

343 334

upthread!

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (h6XiD)

344 epobirs at February 09, 2013 04:53 PM (kcfmt),
Achin' to get me is "Unfinished Sweet", and yeah, its got creepy sound effects.

That is a great album overall.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (1qB0e)

345 Jimmy Fallon as Jim Morrison

"Reading Rainbow"

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

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (8sCoq)

346 Well geez.. if we're gonna sit here and talk about how many octaves a singer is capable of maybe we need a new thread. He may not have had range.. but the band was great.. at least in my book. Not to mention one of the THE MOST famous intros to a song... EVAH!!

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:13 PM (u25eL)

347 336 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 05:12 PM (FENcQ)

Barrel. Now. Pass the brain bleach first.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 01:14 PM (Qxe/p)

348 My life, my love, and my lady" guy is a dipshit who needs to have his nuts kicked up into his throat. Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 05:03 PM (XLQXo) He's a SAILOR-BOY. Get it??!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:14 PM (XkWWK)

349 . . . The Great White. No band today would ever entertain that name for a band. Instead, we get Foster the People and One Direction.

Posted by: L, elle at February 09, 2013 01:15 PM (0PiQ4)

350 what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough? Posted by: Jones in CO at February 09, 2013 04:50 PM (8sCoq) Anything by Manfred Mann, Bon Jovi, Al Stewart, all Def Leppard after Hysteria, anything off St. Anger (the only Metallica album that was complete and total shit), most grunge music, all '70s music that wasn't hard rock or metal. As an aside, my favorite Pink Floyd song is Time, but goddamn do I hate the into to that song. It sounds like Salvador Dali having auditory hallucinations while under the influence of absinthe and opium.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 01:15 PM (a0X91)

351 Start me up by the Rolling Stones. I punch the FKN Radio.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:15 PM (l86i3)

352 "Sniper" Harry Chapin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:16 PM (XkWWK)

353

>>Barrel. Now. Pass the brain bleach first.<<

C'mon. That was funny.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:16 PM (FENcQ)

354 *ahem* Tom Lehrer.

On days when the parks in Cambridge, MA seem to be short of pigeons, well . . .

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 09, 2013 01:16 PM (QTHTd)

355 Time in a Bottle is about a stripper I met and eventually killed in a fit of passion. I keep her ashes on my mantle.

Posted by: Jim Croce at February 09, 2013 01:16 PM (E7Iyp)

356 I love Jim Morrison. Too bad he died when I was a yougin.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:16 PM (vTi1t)

357 337 Love that song. Their is a youtube of it with a parrot singing it in his cage. Cracks me up.

This!

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 09, 2013 01:17 PM (Qxdfp)

358 Was there a song ever written about Rod Stewart having to get his stomach pumped because....uh..you know?

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 09, 2013 01:17 PM (XvrTA)

359 As an aside, my favorite Pink Floyd song is Time, but goddamn do I hate the into to that song. It sounds like Salvador Dali having auditory hallucinations while under the influence of absinthe and opium. Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 05:15 PM (a0X91) Well, if your not busy later......

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:17 PM (l86i3)

360
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
Posted by: garrett

Barrel. Now. Pass the brain bleach first.
Posted by: jwb7605

You have no soul.

BTW - Flack did an amazing cover of "Someone to Watch Over Me" that, as far as I know, only appeared over the end credit of the movie by the same name.

Gets me every time.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 01:18 PM (kdS6q)

361 jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 05:11 PM (Qxe/p)

Roots, as in music from the 1920's through the 1940's.
Most of the best of those songs by the Letterman, and Peter, Paul and Mary and the folkies were done earlier by Frank Hutchinson, Jimmie Rogers, The Carter Family, The Stanley Brothers, etc.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:19 PM (1qB0e)

362 Roberta Flack is awesome.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:19 PM (l86i3)

363 Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday Three Time Loser - Rod Stewart (like ACDC's The Jack, it's about getting VD)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 09, 2013 01:19 PM (MBqvE)

364 "Seasons in the Sun" "Eres Tu" "Loving You"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:20 PM (XkWWK)

365 John Belushi as Joe Cocker. Best song ever.

Posted by: Ronster at February 09, 2013 01:20 PM (JgkPs)

366 Five Man Electrical Band from Canada did a song called Werewolf, about a rural family whose son became a werewolf, and Dad had to melt down a piece of silverware to make a silver bullet to kill him with. Got a lot of airplay in Canada. The band had several hits.

You can find the song on Youtube.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2013 01:20 PM (673KB)

367

Since this thread is "evolving", I'm going to say my favorite albums are the Zep's first album and Pink Floyd's "Division Bell".

Favorite song during Vietnam was "Can't Find My Way Back Home" by Blind Faith.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:20 PM (tXtOx)

368 Oh and Leroy Brown was about a guy who was incompetent at everything he did.. Worst in all of Chicago too..

Think he changed his name, and ran for office...

Posted by: Jim Croce at February 09, 2013 01:20 PM (E7Iyp)

369 Ok, no hate, I love Billie Holiday. There is some sad/sick shit.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:21 PM (vTi1t)

370 Oh, if Janis Ian "At 17" didn't stop you in your tracks at least once and make you go, No Shit.........

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:21 PM (l86i3)

371 LMAO @ 368

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:21 PM (u25eL)

372 "Can't Find My Way ~~Back~~ Home" by Blind Faith.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:22 PM (FENcQ)

373 I heard this song where this guy wants to fuck you like an animal. I think there is some message in there. Posted by: Golan Globus at February 09, 2013 05:05 PM (/1U3u) That could be Closer by Nine Inch Nails or Animal by W.A.S.P.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 01:22 PM (a0X91)

374

As an aside, my favorite Pink Floyd song is Time, but goddamn do I hate the into to that song. It sounds like Salvador Dali having auditory hallucinations while under the influence of absinthe and opium.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 05:15 PM (a0X91)

-----------------------------------------------

Pink Floyd is the master of acid blues. They continued where the Zep left off.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:23 PM (tXtOx)

375 Luka by Suzanne Vega and Birthday by the Sugarcubes. Both about unseen child abuse.

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 01:23 PM (bS6uW)

376 ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!?

Posted by: Blackie Lawless at February 09, 2013 01:23 PM (FENcQ)

377 Hate a bunch of Dead songs, Jack Straw being one of them. Strike that, I fk'n hate all Dead stuff.

Seen them play in Eugene, Sacramento and GG park, San Francisco. Ugh.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:23 PM (h6XiD)

378 Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 05:16 PM (FENcQ)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 05:18 PM (kdS6q)

There was a point in my pathetic life when my wife was pregnant, all of her friends were pregnant, and they were forming a support group for shared babysitting (which happened).

Every time I got home, there they were, there was that song, and they were all crying about god knows what.

Yup. Good times. Good times.

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 01:24 PM (Qxe/p)

379

Pink Floyd is the master of acid blues. They continued where the Zep left off.

True, but they had predicessors.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:24 PM (vTi1t)

380

>>Seen them play in Eugene, Sacramento and GG park, San Francisco. Ugh<<.

They were great when they were Pigpen's backup band. The Warlocks stuff 1965-66 is most excellent.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:25 PM (FENcQ)

381 @377

If I had me a shotgun, I'd blow you straight to HELL!!

(nice talk for a hippie eh?)

Posted by: Jerry Garcia at February 09, 2013 01:25 PM (E7Iyp)

382 Start me up by the Rolling Stones. I punch the FKN Radio. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 05:15 PM (l86i3) I absolutely hate Shattered. Worst Stones song evah.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (a0X91)

383 As is the Mickey and the Hearbeats stuff from 68.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (FENcQ)

384 Geez, beer googles. Time for a nap.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (vTi1t)

385 377 Hate a bunch of Dead songs, Jack Straw being one of them. Strike that, I fk'n hate all Dead stuff. Seen them play in Eugene, Sacramento and GG park, San Francisco. Ugh. Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 05:23 PM (h6XiD) The Dead are like the Special Olympics of Rock. Takes them 20 times as long, but it means so much more...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (XkWWK)

386 Muskrat Love is about bestiality.

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (vanqS)

387 Seen them play in Eugene, Sacramento and GG park, San Francisco. Ugh. Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 05:23 PM (h6XiD) Dude, it wasn't them, it was you. Your mind has been welded shut by the evil military industrial complex. They have wounded your soul, here ya go man, take this little piece of paper and put it on your tounge. We love you man, it'll be ok. Every bad hippy reference.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:26 PM (l86i3)

388 We are guilty of a murderous song as well/ We apologize but Earl had to die.

Posted by: MaryAnn and Wanda at February 09, 2013 01:27 PM (TWR/K)

389 Pink Floyd is the master of acid blues. They continued where the Zep left off.
True, but they had predicessors.

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 05:24 PM (vTi1t)

----------------------------------------------

I realize that. It's why I'm a big listener to RandB now.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:27 PM (tXtOx)

390 361 jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 05:11 PM (Qxe/p)

Roots, as in music from the 1920's through the 1940's.
Most of the best of those songs by the Letterman, and Peter, Paul and Mary and the folkies were done earlier by Frank Hutchinson, Jimmie Rogers, The Carter Family, The Stanley Brothers, etc.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 05:19 PM (1qB0e)

Thanks! Now I get it.
Don't you have to include the fifties as well?

Posted by: jwb7605 (Let It Burn) at February 09, 2013 01:28 PM (Qxe/p)

391 382 I absolutely hate Shattered. Worst Stones song evah. Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at February 09, 2013 05:26 PM (a0X91) What the hell is Mick singing? Something about "schvartze, schvartze, schvartze" and either the "crime rate" or "prime rate?" They suck. Last good album was "Sticky Fingers."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:28 PM (XkWWK)

392 Lionel Ritchie's "HELLO" is about surprise buttsecks. as in...Hello!

Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 01:29 PM (GcwH1)

393 You get the most Roberta Flack when you're over the Target discount bin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:29 PM (XkWWK)

394

Ack. Muskrat susie, muskrat sam.

(of course that could be wrong names)

Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 01:30 PM (vTi1t)

395 You get the most Roberta Flack when you're over the Target discount bin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 05:29 PM (XkWWK)

Well played!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2013 01:30 PM (673KB)

396 392 Lionel Ritchie's "HELLO" is about surprise buttsecks. as in...Hello! Posted by: soothsayer at February 09, 2013 05:29 PM (GcwH1) Actually, you are thinking of "HELLO Dolly!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:30 PM (XkWWK)

397 A few years makes a lot of difference in framing early music preferences. My wife and sister are both a couple of years older than me and are always going on about how much fun it was to drink beer, smoke weed and listen to Zep, the Dead, the Beatles, Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs, etc. I hated all of it at the time. I then suffered through disco but then reanimated for 80's club music, ecstasy & hydro and so on. They hated all that shit. It's like we grew up on different planets because we were born thirty months apart.

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 01:31 PM (bS6uW)

398

what is that song that, when it comes on the radio, you can't seem to change the station fast enough?

Justin Beiber's "I could be your boyfriend" or whatever the heck it is called. Horrible, horrible song.

Posted by: Grey Fox at February 09, 2013 01:31 PM (kudz2)

399 Ack. Muskrat susie, muskrat sam. (of course that could be wrong names) Posted by: Infidel at February 09, 2013 05:30 PM (vTi1t) Oh no, your right, They do the Jitterbug in Muskrat land.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:32 PM (l86i3)

400

'Polly' by Nirvana

...also, I don't think I saw any Maiden upthread.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:32 PM (FENcQ)

401 397 Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 05:31 PM (bS6uW) Any YES album, played uninterrupted, with headphones and some herb... Not that I ever did that. No, really.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:33 PM (XkWWK)

402 377, do you know what the Deadhead said after the dope ran out?

A: Gee, this band sucks!

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 01:33 PM (XLQXo)

403 Listening to Muse right now. Most likely they are Brit commies, but they sort of remind me of Queen and I dig em.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel's Ballz Und Sheft at February 09, 2013 01:33 PM (0SmH0)

404 A few years makes a lot of difference in framing early music preferences. My wife and sister are both a couple of years older than me and are always going on about how much fun it was to drink beer, smoke weed and listen to Zep, the Dead, the Beatles, Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs, etc. I hated all of it at the time.

I then suffered through disco but then reanimated for 80's club music, ecstasy & hydro and so on. They hated all that shit.

It's like we grew up on different planets because we were born thirty months apart.

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 09, 2013 05:31 PM (bS6uW)

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I've found myself outside of many music conversations because I've never liked the Beatles and I've never liked the Stones.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:34 PM (tXtOx)

405 But Kraftwerk are brilliant, right?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:34 PM (XkWWK)

406 Any YES album, played uninterrupted, with headphones and some herb... Not that I ever did that. No, really. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 05:33 PM (XkWWK) No shit, Like 2112 or caress of steel.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 09, 2013 01:34 PM (l86i3)

407 I was going to be so sad if no one here knew Timothy was a duck. Thank you Joel for making us laugh at cannibalism, again.

Posted by: justaguy at February 09, 2013 01:34 PM (FmDhr)

408

I rode my bicycle past your window last night.....

Melanie's " Brand New Key "

nails on a blackboard...was driving to work and heard Dennis Miller screaming an off key version of it and almost drove off the road laughing

Posted by: seamrog at February 09, 2013 01:34 PM (SxAus)

409 ALL of my songs are dark and morbid.. But no one can tell!

Posted by: Bob Dylan at February 09, 2013 01:35 PM (E7Iyp)

410 You people who hate the Dead need to listen to 'Europe 72'.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:35 PM (FENcQ)

411 do you know what the Deadhead said after the dope ran out?

A: Gee, this band sucks!

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 05:33 PM (XLQXo)

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LOL!

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:35 PM (tXtOx)

412
There was a point in my pathetic life when my wife was pregnant, all of her friends were pregnant...
Posted by: jwb7605

Dude! Well done! High Five!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 09, 2013 01:35 PM (kdS6q)

413 Incidentally, aren't a lot of traditional songs pretty horrifying? "Fine Flowers in the Garden/The Cruel Mother" is about infanticide, "The Bonny Swans/Cruel Sister" is about murder among sisters, "Young Edward" is about a man who kills his father in a hunting accident and has to flee for his life, etc, etc.

Posted by: Grey Fox at February 09, 2013 01:36 PM (kudz2)

414 408 I rode my bicycle past your window last night..... Melanie's " Brand New Key " nails on a blackboard...was driving to work and heard Dennis Miller screaming an off key version of it and almost drove off the road laughing Posted by: seamrog at February 09, 2013 05:34 PM (SxAus) Ironically, this was a huge hit and her career suffered from it because it was such a goof. That said, Melanie has/had one of the most powerful voices in rock. Just as strong as Janis Joplin but much more controlled. Listen to "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 01:36 PM (XkWWK)

415 401, I still can zone out unaided by chemical stimulation on YES.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 01:38 PM (XLQXo)

416 Sounding like OU might send KU down for their third straight loss soona. Hoping K-State wins today and can make it four in a row on Big Monday if they do. Also sends respects to Grey Fox

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:40 PM (RlvM2)

417 Speaking of cannibalism, wasn't PiÃ±a Colada originally titled "Penis Colada"?

Posted by: TexasJew at February 09, 2013 01:41 PM (lD8ju)

418 Ironically, this was a huge hit and her career suffered from it because it was such a goof. That said, Melanie has/had one of the most powerful voices in rock. Just as strong as Janis Joplin but much more controlled. Listen to "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 09, 2013 05:36 PM (XkWWK)

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Liked Melanie too. Janis Joplin...meh.

Did like Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, for awhile, anyway.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:42 PM (tXtOx)

419 397

I still enjoy top 40 new wave and industrial techno.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:42 PM (h6XiD)

420

Clearly the most horrificly-horrifying horror rock is "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt." The first four lines make it clear that this poor man suffers from some un-named medical condition of mega-extreme hyper-attractiveness that causes him physical pain and limits his ability even to wear clothing.

Later in the song, we learn that this terrifying disorder has alienated him from his feline companion and prevents him even from earning a living as a male model, despite it being transparently clear that this is perhaps the one vocation for which he is best suited. Worst of all, the lyrics reveal that his illness has led to his exclusion (exile or deportation, perhaps) from both greater New York and the entire nation of Japan, undoubtedly implying that there is indeed nowhere, no place, that this lost soul can find acceptance, support, even the possibility of help.

Neither Sartre or Dante ever dreamt of a Hell like this man endures, yet he sings about his plight blithely, as if it were a mere bagatelle, leading the unwary listener to respond to the whole affair as nothing more than antic japery - an existential cri di couer couched in Top 40 cushioning, as if we are invited to mock the performer, to laugh, even to take pleasure in his suffering. And is that not the greatest horror of all?

Posted by: 2nd (Blue) Unicorn at February 09, 2013 01:43 PM (wJliR)

421 Sounding like OU might send KU down for their third straight loss soona. Hoping K-State wins today and can make it four in a row on Big Monday if they do.

Also sends respects to Grey Fox

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 05:40 PM (RlvM2)

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OU basketball is like a bunch of monkeys. Give them enough time and they'll do something right. I wouldn't put too much into thinking the Sooner basketball team has suddenly found a winning prowess.

Posted by: Soona at February 09, 2013 01:45 PM (tXtOx)

422 Tastes vary. Liked most of the Beatles. Nothing from the Stones after Gimme Shelter - Sympathy for the Devil. Love good hard rock but for me metal and death metal is good for nothin but banging your head against a wall to.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:46 PM (LKr5H)

423 420, have you been awarded your Doctorate in Lit Crit yet? If not, newsletter, stat!

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 01:47 PM (XLQXo)

424 410 You people who hate the Dead need to listen to 'Europe 72'.

Fair enough, will give it a spin. heh

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 01:48 PM (h6XiD)

425

Dwight Yoakum. That mans music got me thru one of the worst times of my life.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:49 PM (u25eL)

426 "Don't you have to include the fifties as well?"

Lots of remakes, but Roots was a bit over by then.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:50 PM (1qB0e)

427 @421 soona- ha ha. Agreed. My guys have taken care of em and while we're pretty good we aren't exactly top 10 material.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:51 PM (kmLUz)

428

Fair enough, will give it a spin

Well, it's a great example of how good they could be when they got it together. If you would prefer more Experimental Blues, 'Live Dead' is a great option, too.

The problem with the Dead is they hardly ever got it on the same page on the same night...and they really were an act you had to catch live.

The result being 10-15 mediocre sets for each and every smokin' set. But there are some excellent copies of all the great shows available. Best part is they encouraged taping, so you can find evrything they ever did.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 01:52 PM (+hhmk)

429 @423.. I agree.. I just read it to my daughter and we are both laughing hysterically.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 09, 2013 01:52 PM (u25eL)

430 Billy Don't Be A Hero Belting that out on the grade school playground at recess. Good times, good times. Knock Three Times turned into Crap Three Times at my house. Gotta love the tribal diddies. So you all have fun tonight; everybody wang chung tonight.

Posted by: The Man From Athens at February 09, 2013 01:54 PM (RXQ2T)

431 The only other horror rock song I can think of is Bloodrock's D.O.A.

I think me and my guys in The Misfits did a lot of horror rock.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Glenn Danzig at February 09, 2013 01:56 PM (e6h7s)

432 425, for me, Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo was a huge help during my divorce. Still a terrific album. Doesn't hurt that the title song was featured in the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School. Added bonus, the theme from Weird Science.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at February 09, 2013 01:57 PM (XLQXo)

433 Well, these 4 or 5 year old glasses are gettin' to me I'd better git. It's been surreal. Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej at February 09, 2013 01:57 PM (rr5xK)

434 I rode my bicycle past your window last night.....
Melanie's " Brand New Key "

Melanie's politics didn't go over as well with the emerging lefty crowds very well. She was basically a Libertarian and said so.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at February 09, 2013 01:57 PM (1qB0e)

435 I turned EVERY song I sang with the Dead into a horrible nightmare!

Posted by: Donna Godchow at February 09, 2013 01:58 PM (E7Iyp)

436 412 There was a point in my pathetic life when my wife was pregnant, all of her friends were pregnant... Posted by: jwb7605 ~~~~~ Dude, you did them all?!?! Did she ever find out? Were you ever the governor of Kalifornia?

Posted by: The Man From Athens at February 09, 2013 01:58 PM (RXQ2T)

437 428

I saw them at the deadhead Mecca, Eugene, Oregon (1987?) - on liquid acid (not proud of that). CalExpo in Sacramento '90 and GG park '91.

Posted by: 13times at February 09, 2013 02:02 PM (h6XiD)

438 "Artifical Flowers" sung by Bobby Darin is about a orphan girl who froze to death.

Posted by: navybrat at February 09, 2013 02:02 PM (5ClqG)

439

>>I turned EVERY song I sang with the Dead into a horrible nightmare!<<

Yeah, there is that problem on the Europe 72 set.

The Orpheum run in July of 76, though, you had laryngitis.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2013 02:04 PM (PnOz+)

440

Too Much Blood by the Rolling Stones

It talks about a killer in Paris who cut up his girlfriend.

Posted by: Rand at February 09, 2013 02:38 PM (A6JXc)

441 What was the song that started with "lying there, looking at the ceiling, something warm rolling down my head, I try to look at my hand and there's no feeling......????" Is that part of DOA??

Posted by: Sonya at February 09, 2013 02:41 PM (MwMlc)

442 Did anyone mention "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes? Guy knocks up his girlfriend and her dad goes crazy and accidentally shoots and kills her. We used to sing that song in grade school. Good times, good times.

Posted by: azkag at February 09, 2013 02:53 PM (+Efc5)

443 Muskrat Love is about bestiality.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!

Posted by: Richard Gere at February 09, 2013 02:56 PM (7B7jB)

444 FIST - Demon Barber

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 09, 2013 03:07 PM (jaijr)

445 Good choices, but I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the song that concludes the Rubber Soul album, the Beatles' Run For Your Life.

And, has anyone here ever heard Don McLean's live version of Yonkers Girl? Fantastic-- and fantastically icky (and yes, it has a happy ending). Can't find a YouTube, so here's the lyrics:

I met a little girl in Yonkers not far from New Rochelle
and every Sunday evening within her home I'd dwell
I went to take a little walk to a dark and lonesome place
I drew a rail from off the fence and smashed her in the face

I then took out a piece of rope and I tied her to a tree
I said that I will kill you here if you won't marry me
I then pulled out my (??) knife - these words I will attest
I said if you won't marry me I'll plunge it through your breast

I then took out my 44 and I aimed it at her head
I said if you won't marry me then I will kill you dead
Then down upon her knees she got - for mercy she did cry
'Oh Donny dear don't kill me here - I'm not prepared to die'

But I did not heed her mournful cries - I only beat her more
Til the ground around her feet was covered with her gore
I took her by her long black hair and I drug her round and round
And I chucked her into the river a-flows by Yonkers town

Go down go down you Yonkers girl with a dark and blackened eye
Go down go down you Yonkers girl - I loved you on the sly
These words she said as she drifted by - they cut me to my heart
'Your love has changed - you are deranged - now you and I must part'

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 09, 2013 03:12 PM (7B7jB)

446 "Wait Till Tomorrow"

About a girl who won't put out, and her dad shoots me.

Posted by: Jimi Hendrix at February 09, 2013 03:18 PM (E7Iyp)

447 BOC

Posted by: Knemon at February 09, 2013 03:35 PM (vb0IJ)

448 All my songs are horrible.

Posted by: Cher at February 09, 2013 03:48 PM (cH2mf)

449 Warm Leatherette. Grace Jones, the Normal and here's a Trent Reznor/Bauhaus this version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F4ZmfCGzlo

Warm leatherette,
See the breaking glass,
Beneath the underpass.

Warm leatherette,
Feel the crushing steel,
Feel the steering wheel.

Warm leatherette melts,
On your burning flesh,
You can see your reflection,
On the luminescent dash.

Warm leatherette,
A tear of petrol,
Is in your eye,
The hand brake,
Penetrates your thigh.

A tear of petrol,
Is in your eye,
Quick let's make love,
Before we die.

On warm leatherette,
Join the carcrash set.

Posted by: lisalisalisa at February 09, 2013 04:09 PM (YZFpG)

450 Here are a few horrifying tunes I haven't seen mentioned here yet. Peter Gabriel, "Intruder" Many by Steeleye Span, such as: "Long Lankin" -- "There was blood all in the kitchen/There was blood all in the hall/There was blood all in the parlour/Where my lady she did fall" "Little Sir Hugh" -- ritual murder (the original ballad is antisemitic, but Prior et al edited the lyrics) "Allison Gross" -- an encounter with a witch that doesn't end well "King Henry" -- an encounter with a monstrous thing that does end well Oingo Boingo, "Pictures of You" Thunderclap Newman, "Accidents" And something really obscure: Haystacks Balboa, "The Children of Heaven" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lkx1nONuXs

Posted by: Don at February 09, 2013 04:13 PM (NwobM)

451 I have the song Timothy on my i-pod and still listen to it from time to time. It was a big hit, I was 13, and I do remember hearing originally that it was about 2 guys eating another guy, but then later they said it was a donkey.

Posted by: clos2thedge at February 09, 2013 04:23 PM (1Eu0J)

452 Oops... and of course no "horror rock" collection would be complete without our good friend Weird Al:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Santa_Went_Crazy

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 09, 2013 04:42 PM (7B7jB)

453 The Beatle's Norwegian Wood has John Lennon setting a gal's flat on fire as revenge for her not sleeping with him after leading him on. While it's not eating Timothy for lunch, it is darkly hilarious.

Posted by: lr68 at February 09, 2013 06:53 PM (lzokh)

454 I never heard the one about Timothy being a mule! hell, we all knew it was about cannibalism.

But the one that really scared the liver out of me when I was a kid was "D.O.A." From the sirens wailing to the abrupt ending. What a hair-raising, vivid depiction of bleeding out after a car wreck! I heard it in nightmares for years.

"The girl I knew has such a distant stare . . ."

Posted by: beverly at February 09, 2013 11:08 PM (Ikscb)

455

I am not sure of what criteria the writer would say qualifies as a horror rock song. But I would guess it is deceptively catchy tunes with horror like lyrics.

One such song I would say is The Beatles song, Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

"Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head."

"Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer made sure she was dead."

Sounds like a kids song but the lyrics say otherwise.

I would also throw in a song or two by Pink Floyd like "Careful with that Axe Eugene" in which that is the only line in the entire song... if you don't count the scream. And in a similar vain, "One of These Days". Only one line but it's. "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces."

Led Zeppelin's "Gallows Pole" is a jaunty tune that ends in a hanging with a twist.

Pearl Jam's Dirty Frank is pretty good too. Like Timothy, it's about cannibalism... except based on a true story.

Then, of course, there were a whole slew of bands trying to make their mark in Death Metal throughout the 80's and 90's who's stock and trade was trying to write the most evil and/or creepy songs they could think of. Nine Inch Nails anyone?

Posted by: brian448 at February 09, 2013 11:32 PM (DXxi3)

456 AC/DC--"Night Prowler" Richard Ramirez, the LA "Night Stalker", was obsessed with the song. It was also the last song on "Highway to Hell", and Bon Scott choked to death on his own puke shortly after it was released.

Posted by: MidniteRambler at February 10, 2013 05:21 AM (bk97Q)

457 Some facts about "Timothy" --

The band was from northeastern Pa. I knew a couple of the guys in the band growing up.

The song references a mine cave-in which actually happened in a little village called Sheppton in August 1963. Three miners were trapped. Two were eventually rescued. The third -- who had separated from the others -- was killed.
Naturally, there were sick commentaries that the survivors had eaten the deceased.

Posted by: either orr at February 10, 2013 10:08 AM (ruN8G)

458 The Cramps!

Posted by: El Gordo at February 10, 2013 12:32 PM (H9t0f)

459 I remember both songs. I found D.O.A. on YouTube by searching for the Band Bloodrock. which I remembered from around 1971-1972 when I was in the service. I remember the background which sounded like an ambulence siren.

Posted by: 666wearelegion at February 10, 2013 12:56 PM (MwOxe)

460 What about Black Sabbath's Iron Man?

Or Weird Al's Nature Trail to Hell?

Posted by: Eric at February 11, 2013 01:47 PM (ClJ2V)

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