Most Venomous sounding song ....

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Just listening to Nick Cave's Scuuuum, SCUUUMMM ....

I know it can't be the most disdainful song in the world, but now I'm wonderin' what is...

..and not just lyrics, but musically needs a spiteful tone... So don't even bother saying something by the Smiths....

What a great way to start the morning... excuse me, what a great FUCKING way to start the morning ....

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Probably something by No Trend.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

"Kiss Ass To Your Peer Group", "Teen Love", etc.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

DON'T GET ME WRONG HE'S A NICE GUY I LIKE HIM JUST FINE

BUT HE'S A MOUTH BREATHER

― anonymmmmous, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

"bullet" by the misfits

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

hip priest?

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan had a lot of 'em, and has to get credit for a truly disdainful vocal tone: It Ain't Me Babe, Positively 4th Street, Like a Rolling Stone, Ballad of a Thin Man, Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat. For starters.

Then there's God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols one). Hard to beat that for venomous disdain, unless it's one of the other tracks on that album.

― Vornado, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget "idiot wind", V

or "the classical", pete

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

"Death on Two Legs" by Queen....if a bit hugely campy
"Trash" by Robyn Hitchcock
"Stigmata" by Ministry
"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" by COP SHOOT COP

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I had the same two artists as Vornado, but "Idiot Wind" and "EMI" instead.

― avery schreiber, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

"The Princess and the Fly Girl" by Depth Charge is nice and rumble-y in its venom. It gets kinda stabbily venomous later in the song.

― esselle, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I knew there was some song I should have mentioned on Blood On The Tracks. But Idiot Wind kind of gets disqualified because of the compassion and self-criticism that sneaks in at the end. If you're using the first person plural, you aren't being venomous enough.

EMI was my second choice for Sex Pistols. God Save is a much better song, though. And anyone can be disdainful about record companies.

― Vornado, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I Wanna Destroy You - Soft Boys

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

The Only Ones, Why Don't You Kill Yourself?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Tupac - Hit 'em Up. Easily the nastiest song ever recorded.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

theres also things like the stooges "rich bitch" and "your pretty little faceis going to hell"

on the oposite side, the rolling stones "out of time" is scarcely venoumous sounding at all depite the lyrics

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Another vote for Johnny Rot. "We mean it, maaaan!" still sounds remarkably un-contrived.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

"18 and Life" - Skid Row This song just drips with vehemecy!

http://against-the-wind.net/skidrow/main.jpg

― Riskay Bizness, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

"Mmmbop"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Dylan songs OTM.

No Vaseline by Ice Cube.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

"So What" - Anti-Nowhere League.

"I've f***ed that, and I've f***ed this, and I've spewed up on a pint of piss." SO WHAT? SO WHAT? SO WHAT SO WHAT YOU BORING LITTLE C**T? Who cares? Who cares about you? Who cares? Who cares what you do?"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

"18 and Life" - Skid Row This song just drips with vehemecy!

Sounds more like self-pity to me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

96 Tears, maybe

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't see may sugestions sounding quite as distasteful for another human being as:

He was a miserable shitwringing turd
Like he reminded me of some evil gnome
Shakin hands was like shakin a hot, fat, oily bone
...
Well then he hooked up with some slut from the same game
Black snow! Black snow!
Cocksuckstress, and I should know
Mean and vicious, her microphone always smelled suspicious

Dylan, maybe..

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

stop kidding around with that skid row routine.

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

How do you Sleep

― trappist monkey, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

"Witching Hour"

...ok I'll get my coat.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

"Stigmata" by Ministry
Also, "Flashback".

PJ Harvey, "Snake"

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

"Lipstick Vogue" and, in another way, "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Costello.

― DZ, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Robbie Williams, "Karma Killer": "How do you breathe? Why don't you die?"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

"Bodies," Pistols - it's tough for me to think of a song that HATES so much

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Everyone's mentioned Dylan, but no one's mentioned "She's Your Lover Now."

Besides Dylan, Brits own this thread. Mark E Smith, John Lydon, Robyn Hitchcock, Lennon, etc.

I'd also like to nominate "World Class Fad" by Paul Westerberg, tho he has a habit of sneaking self-criticism into the second-person singular.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I say we get Lennon to count for another quarter of a person in the American camp. He lived the last ten of his forty years here and was at least trying to become a citizen. Was he ever naturalized? So anyway, the score is UK 3.75 US 1.25.

― Roe Joe, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Robyn Hitchcock! 'Empty Girl" is more venomous by far than "I Wanna Destroy You".

Since I provided the YSI of "Scum" on the Nick Cave thread I'll vote for that also. It really is superbly pissed off sounding.

And perhaps The Fall's "Sing! Harpy"

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

i always thought Tupac's "Hit 'em up" was pretty venomous

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Impaled Nazarene "Kohta Ei Naura Enää Jeesuskaan"

It would definitely win the "Most Venomous-Sounding Opening Five Seconds Of A Song Ever" award.

― digestion (digestion), Thursday, 27 October 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

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