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most vitriolic song ever

So far as Dylan songs go, I reckon 'Idiot Wind' is about as vitriolic as His Bobness gets - which is pretty damn vitriolic!

The Jam's 'Mr Clean' is pretty aggressive too:
'Cos, Mr Clean, I hate you and your wife,
And if I get the chance I'll come and fuck up your life!'
 
Love Me I'm A Liberal pisses over anything Dylan ever did

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
 
fishfingerer said:
Lies. That's a cracking song.
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it might well be. but it simply doesnt have the caustic nastiness or bitternes that is required for vitriol.

Anger & hatred, or despisement (????) are not the same thing!
 
Chorlton said:
eton rifles?


eton fucken rifles?


a song about losing a rugby match or something??
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I believe it was actually about a stand off between Etonian toffs and comprehensive kids, with the former brandishing weapons. Although really the subject matter's immaterial - the sheer rage expounded by Weller would be enough if he was singing about forgotting to set the video for 'Desperate Housewives'.

Nine Inch Nails used to get worked up about shit quite a lot, didn't they?
 
fishfingerer said:
Love Me I'm A Liberal pisses over anything Dylan ever did

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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Yes, very vitriolic. Dylan must have been so jealous.
 
Despite being a fairly pants band, I always thought that The Bloodhound Gang's "I hope you die" was fairly ruthless. This portion never fails to make me go "ewww":
Bloodhound Gang said:
...
I hope your cellmate thinks he's God,
But C.N.N. refer to him as "Bowling Ball Bag Bob",
Serving time again for abuse of a corpse,
Only this time the victim's a Clydesdale horse,
While he masturbates to photos of livestock,
He does the "Silence of the Lambs" dance to Christian Rock,
Eats feces and quotes from "Deliverance",
And fights with his imaginary playmate Vince,
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!,
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!,
I hope he grins like Jack Nicholson,
And forces you to play a game called Balls On Chin,
And whatever happens next is all a blur,
But you remember "fist" can be a verb,
And when you finally regain consciousness,
You're bound and gagged in a wedding dress,
...
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:D
 
fishfingerer said:
Love Me I'm A Liberal pisses over anything Dylan ever did

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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yes its a very fine song. The Jello Biafra version is great.

But it's not vitriolic. That's contempt that is.
 
perplexis said:
Despite being a fairly pants band, I always thought that The Bloodhound Gang's "I hope you die" was fairly ruthless. This portion never fails to make me go "ewww":

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodhound Gang
...
I hope your cellmate thinks he's God,
But C.N.N. refer to him as "Bowling Ball Bag Bob",
Serving time again for abuse of a corpse,
Only this time the victim's a Clydesdale horse,
While he masturbates to photos of livestock,
He does the "Silence of the Lambs" dance to Christian Rock,
Eats feces and quotes from "Deliverance",
And fights with his imaginary playmate Vince,
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!,
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!,
I hope he grins like Jack Nicholson,
And forces you to play a game called Balls On Chin,
And whatever happens next is all a blur,
But you remember "fist" can be a verb,
And when you finally regain consciousness,
You're bound and gagged in a wedding dress,
...

:D
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I must admit, that's much sharper than anything I'd have previously given the BH credit for. :D

And on the subject of Jello Biafra, 'Let's Lynch The Landlord' is a particularly damning indictment. :cool:
 
ROFL, we should get onto the Grauniad with this pedancy, I'm sure at least half those songs don't really qualify :D
 
:D Without a doubt - there's no contest, the most vitriolic song ever has to be Marianne Faithful's Why D Ya Do It, the B -side of her single The Ballad Of Lucy Jordon and on the Broken English album, the most angriest song I've ever heard!
Why'd ya do it, she said, why'd you let that trash
Get a hold of your cock, get stoned on my hash ?
Why'd ya do it she said, why'd you let her suck your cock ?
Oh, do me a favour, don't put me in the dock.
Why'd ya do it, she said, they're mine all your tools,
You just tied me to the mast of the ship of fools.
Why'd ya do it, she said, when you know it makes me sore,
'Cause she had cobwebs up her fanny and I believe in giving to the
poor.
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:eek: :eek: :cool:
 
Roadkill said:
So far as Dylan songs go, I reckon 'Idiot Wind' is about as vitriolic as His Bobness gets - which is pretty damn vitriolic!
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I don't know I mean yeah it's vitriolic but there's still I whole lot of caring and love behind it. Whereas positively 4th street is just sheer malice.
 
dynamicbaddog said:
:D Without a doubt - there's no contest, the most vitriolic song ever has to be Marianne Faithful's Why D Ya Do It, the B -side of her single The Ballad Of Lucy Jordon and on the Broken English album, the most angriest song I've ever heard!
:eek: :eek: :cool:
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good call
you can see where Patti Smith gets her style from as well
 
The Fall - C'n'Cs 'Mithering, Smile, Rowche Rumble, Music Scene, Slates Slags etc. In fact it's 'the Fall 79-83', there you go.
 
Recent Whitehouse is pretty vitriolic. Try 'Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel', 'Just Like a Cunt' or;

Artist: Whitehouse
Song Title: Why you never became a dancer
Album: Bird Seed

Can I suggest you:
Get fucked
While you lie about child-molesting gropes
And parkbench flashers and pervert creeps
And anal virginity and polaroid snaps
And verbal abuse and bathroom rapes
I don't know how well you can:
Remember your own pointless glue-sniffing adolescence
That fumbling floppy sex
In between fags
Those pathetic fistfights
All those pathetic petty thefts
And this and that and this and that and this and that
And every other fucking Adidas-clichéd cringe

Can I suggest you:
Pose
While you take another frantic glance at your shopwindow reflection
Ensuring the stinking lie is maintained
Because that's the difference between you
Yes, that's the difference between you
You'll let a leering scumbag beerdrinking rat
Raise your nostrils for a close-up smell
Of fingertip nicotine and animal fat
And force an open dead mouth
Lap up ounces of semichem sweat
So can you feel that:
Would be a truly truly disgusting thing?

And that's the difference between me
I'll open the package
I'll watch the show
I'll enjoy perfectly well-made art
I'll get in line behind stupidity
I'll let you lie through your teeth
I'll make you feel special
I'll not pick out the mistakes in public
I'll just put it down to passion
And feigned memory lapse

What did you want to be when you grow up?
Certainly not raped
That's the difference between you
A drunk? A drug addict
A motherly protector of the young?
Another bed-staining cunt?
A child molestor that needs to be told?
Or just a craven lust-driven artist
Channelling confusion and fear
Into a sickly limp repetitive craft
Yes, that's the difference between you
You'll act late and surprised
You say you loved sex?
You'll love being hated for the act
The filthier the abuse and the desperate underage details
The fatter the payback
So rather than just listen
Be altered by what's been said

Now that's the difference between me
I'll show you emotional truth
I'll show you the fucking source
I'll show you yet another fucking liar
And this is for the you
I'll show you that something that makes you:
Feel different
Feel special
I'll give you:
Thoughts
Images
Sounds
I'll give the you something
Even more interesting than the last one
And I'll tell you why it's the best one yet
And then you can look back on it all
And say:
This is the best thing that ever happened to me
And see:
Why you never became a dancer
 
ah, Whitehouse aren't vitriolic. They're puerile twats still sat in the sandpit playing with their own shit and expecting us to care.
 
what's to explain? a pair of sad bastards who rely on ever more tedious 'shock tactics' to compensate for the fact that their 'power electronics' are more than a little dated.

"ooh - i called you a cunt! let's have a stage invasion".

twats
 
Roadkill said:
So far as Dylan songs go, I reckon 'Idiot Wind' is about as vitriolic as His Bobness gets - which is pretty damn vitriolic!<snip>
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Another cruel candidate from the Dylan vaults is the officially unreleased (last time I looked) and recorded while bitter, angry and drunk

She's Your Lover Now.
The pawnbroker roared
Also, so, so did the landlord
The scene was so crazy, wasn't it?
Both were so glad
To watch me destroy what I had
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Why didn't you just leave me if you didn't want to stay?
Why'd you have to treat me so bad?
Did it have to be that way?
Now you stand here expectin' me to remember somethin' you forgot to say
Yes, and you, I see you're still with her, well
That's fine 'cause she's comin' on so strange, can't you tell?
Somebody had better explain
She's got her iron chain
I'd do it, but I, I just can't remember how
You talk to her
She's your lover now.

I already assumed
That we're in the felony room
But I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me
But please tell that
To your friend in the cowboy hat
You know he keeps on sayin' ev'rythin' twice to me
You know I was straight with you
You know I've never tried to change you in any way
You know if you didn't want to be with me
That you could . . . didn't have to stay.
Now you stand here sayin' you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?
Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?
I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech
With her picture books of the pyramid
And her postcards of Billy the Kid
(Why must everybody bow?)
You better talk to her 'bout it
You're her lover now.

Oh, ev'rybody that cares
Is goin' up the castle stairs
But I'm not up in your castle, honey
It's true, I just can't recall
San Francisco at all
I can't even remember El Paso, uh, honey
You never had to be faithful
I didn't want you to grieve
Oh, why was it so hard for you
If you didn't want to be with me, just to leave?
Now you stand here while your finger's goin' up my sleeve
An' you, just what do you do anyway? Ain't there nothin' you can say?
She'll be standin' on the bar soon
With a fish head an' a harpoon
An' a fake beard plastered on her brow
You'd better do somethin' quick
She's your lover now.
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Dubversion said:
what's to explain? a pair of sad bastards who rely on ever more tedious 'shock tactics' to compensate for the fact that their 'power electronics' are more than a little dated.

"ooh - i called you a cunt! let's have a stage invasion".

twats
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They've long grown out of the 'serial-killer/s&m' themed 'shock' stuff. The last two or three albums have had much more depth to the music and certainly to the lyrics.

There's alot of deliberate camp humour in their live performances too.
 
perplexis said:
Despite being a fairly pants band, I always thought that The Bloodhound Gang's "I hope you die" was fairly ruthless. This portion never fails to make me go "ewww":
:D
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Bloodhound Gang way underrated as far as I'm concerned, particularly in the UK.
 
spartacus mills said:
They've long grown out of the 'serial-killer/s&m' themed 'shock' stuff. The last two or three albums have had much more depth to the music and certainly to the lyrics.

There's alot of deliberate camp humour in their live performances too.
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can't agree, sorry.. last time i saw them they were just pisspoor. it might have been pisspoor in a 'deliberately camp' way, but still pisspoor. and Bird Seed was pony (".. Eel" is mildly diverting i guess)
 
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