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My new job is heaven. They let me listen to music! Today I heard this Morrissey song called, "The More you Ignore Me the Closer I get" which was basically a stalker song even creeperier than "I'll be Watching You" by Sting. Then there's the Bessie Smith song where she sings, "If I get beat up by my poppa I won't call no copper." Freaks me the hell out. But not nearly as much as a line in a Siouxie and the Banshee's song. There's something about her singing about their "Tiny hands and tiny feet" that just makes me shudder. And do not get me started on various Dir en grey. Tsumi to Batsu, Bottom of the Death Valley and many more have the most alarming lyrics.
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I almost got fired when I worked at Home Depot for staring a cashier in the eye and saying the lyrics of that song to her. Bad idea.
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So that's who sings that song... That song totally creeps me out, but I don't like it. I'd hit someone if they were invisible in my room.
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It really really bugs me. It bugs me that other people like it, and think it is a positive message. But I like the sound of the music.
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There are a whole host of songs I like *because* they are creepy and talking creepily about creepy things, like "Possession" by Sarah MacLachlan, "Precious Things" by Tori Amos, and "Push" by Matchbox 20.
But songs that I like in spite of serious problems I have with the message: "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails "Hey Mister" by Custom (language in link) and,"Talk to Me", by Keri Noble.
The last bears some explaining: it's a great song, totally captures the little lift you get when a crush walks by... but here's the thing: the song is about someone the singer's never met but sees all the time and has a crush on, but at the very end, she kind of gasps "I love you." It's a great moment because again, it totally captures that embarassed earnestness and I get little chills because it's very romantic and sexy and just great...
And then I freak out a little bit because the singer is declaring love for a total stranger and here I am identifying with and approving it. Oof. I love this song, but it definitely creeps me out, too, especially in what it says about me.
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Ah yes, Closer - I absolutely love that song even though it's horrible. Same with Lotion (by Greenskeepers) and some of Dave Navarro's stuff (Rexall springs to mind, oh - and Everything ).
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"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult is a great-sounding song about the benefits of suicide.
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Actually- it doesn't really disturb me- but if someone actually did go around literally poisoning pdigeons- that person would be a little scary I would surely think.
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them too, but I was referring to the digusting little beasts that have overtaken much of downtown Chicago. I wish they'd make feeding those creatures illegal and actually enforce it. Of course, then a sick scary individual couldn't mix poison bait into the seed.... <whistles innocently>
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I was just talking with a friend this morning about how the Barenaked Ladies' song "War on Drugs" throws us into the pit of despair, but is still beautiful enough to keep us listening.
I think it's beautiful because it evokes compassion in you, but awful because it leaves you with no solution.
In the dream I refuse to have She falls asleep in a lukewarm bath We're left to deal with the aftermath again
I have to admit, that as strongly as I feel about infidelity, it bothers me that like "Follow Me". It's so catchy!
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I temporarily work for Blue Cross Blue Shield typing letters. So of course I bring my discman and 30 cds and if that isn't enough I listen to Launchcast.
Today they played Son of a Preacher Man. Dang does that song squick me. It's basically about molestation sung about in a catchy cheerful way. "Stealing kisses from me on the side" indeed. I love Closer by NIN but I can't sing that song outloud. It has the F word in it! Not to mention the fact that they keep playing it at work and it makes me think about the wrong thing. Poisoning Pidgeons in the park is kind of funny. I do love songs by that guy. He sings the sort of songs I write when I am bored and there is no music playing. I never thought of Don't Fear the Reaper being about that.
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I love Closer as well, I typically sing it with altered lyrics (which I believe I got off hatrack actually, but I don't remember from who.) "I want a Fuzzy Little Animal"
"Bleed Like Me" by Garbage is pretty disturbing but I like it so much I bought the whole album.
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"I'm Not as Good as I Once Was" and that song about almost legal girls that are both played on country channels are top on my list!
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Poisoning Pidgeons is just too funny, I don't think of it as creepy.
But "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" fits the bill. So does "The Old Dope Peddler."
"Intruder" and "Lead a Normal Life" by Peter Gabriel
Umm, about 1/2 of "The Wall" or maybe all of it.
Uncle Ernie from Tommy. Well, all of Tommy too.
Almost anything by Warren Zevon, notably Excitable Boy and Boom Boom Mancini (I actually watched that fight, even though I hate boxing. Now I hate it even more)
"Shootin' up and gettin high" (a love song) by Me'Shell NdegeOcello
"Behind the Wall" by Tracy Chapman
"Delia's gone" especially Johnny Cash lyrics.
"Oh Bury Me Not" Johnny Cash lyrics
"Hunting Girl" Jethro Tull
"NY3" "Mary" "Exposure" Robert Fripp (Mary Lyrics: Joanna Walton)
"Runs in the Family" "Steady with the Maestro" "Pretty and High" by the Roches
"Frank Mills" from "Hair"
"Here Comes the Flood" Fripp/Gabriel
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How about Indigo Girls-Dead Man's Hill. I swear if I saw someone doing something like that to a cat I'd f#@$#king kill them.
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[spelling cop] There is no d in pigeon. [/spelling cop]
I always found "I Hold Your Hand In Mine" much too funny to be squicky. When I was in high school, I used to like to sing it to classmates and watch their faces gradual change from bored to horrified. "The Irish Ballad" was fun too.
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quote:Uncle Ernie from Tommy. Well, all of Tommy too.
Yeah, Uncle Ernie creeped me out to, supposedly Pete Townshend was molested as a child so he wrote about it in Tommy.
Other than that though it's a brilliant album, have you seen the movie? The movie is (if possible) even stranger than the music. Quadrophenia was great too, excellent movie as well.
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Yes, Uncle Ernie creeps me out too. I love Tommy though. And the Wall which makes me feel paranoid. But I hate that Dirty woman song...
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quote:I never thought of Don't Fear the Reaper being about that.
I checked out a lyrics page right after I posted that. It says the song is bout the inevitability of death, but I am not completely convinced. The whole final verse seems to be about a girl jumping through a window after being invited by Death himself to do so.
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