For me Sufjan Stevens- John Wayne Gacy, Jr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw "In a dark room on the bed, he kissed them all..He'd kill ten thousand people With a sleight of his hand, running far, running fast to the dead He took off all their clothes for them, he put a cloth on their lips ,quiet hands, quiet kiss on the mouth and in my best behavior, I am really just like him Look beneath the floor boards for the secrets I have hid"
Radiohead- Street Spirit (Fade Out) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk Rows of houses, all bearing down on me..I can feel their blue hands touching me. All these things into position, All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out..This machine will, will not communicate, these thoughts and the strain I am under..Be a world child, form a circle, before we all go under.. And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds, Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes, all these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again
Interpol- Obstacle 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBAUqp6NKg "I wish i could eat the salt off your last faded lips. We can cap the old times make playing only logical harm! We can top the old lines clay-making that nothing else will change. But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad, oh, she's bad It's different now that I'm poor and aging, I'll never see this face again, you go stabbing yourself in the neck!"
The Smiths- Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBAUqp6NKg "I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now In my life, why do I give valuable time, to people who don't care if I live or die?"
Manic Street Preachers- 4st 7lb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy2ebaAGMU0 "Stomach collapsed at five, lift up my skirt my sex is gone. Naked and lovely and 5st. 2 may I bud and never flower. My visions getting blurred, but I can see my ribs and I feel fine My hands are trembling stalks and I can feel my breasts are sinking Mother trys to choke me with roast beef and sits savouring her sole ryvitta That's the way you're built my father said, but I can change, my cocoon shedding"
BQ: Do you have disturbing thoughts? (I have unfortunately, all the time and I can never get them out) BQ2: Have you ever been scared for life? Why? (You don't have to say what it was)
2013-01-03T15:22:29Z
@Blue Yup... And I think I've heard the song you're talking about, is it on their recent album?
2013-01-03T15:23:11Z
@Daria Climbing Up The Walls is insanely dark, especially since it was influenced by mental patients
.2013-01-03T21:36:07Z
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wow~ no way i could listen the whole way through the sufjan stevens song- that's sad from the opening line :( but yeah, the manics are amazing. best thing to come out of wales, apart from my mate aled. & some really good welsh cheese (im a BIG cheese fan. its the finest food).
1/3 minimum of the cure's output is dark as hell, esp the 3 albums depressed/heroin albums; you can hear it really ooozing out. SO dark- even the covers are a bit ...woah. a strange day, from pornography ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyG3AtzN1OM I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away on a strange day...
And the sand And the sea grows I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away On a strange day
Held for one moment I remember a song An impression of sound Then everything is gone Forever
you can tell they were really cheery at the time : ) a forest, from 17 seconds, the cure~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhgo11KokxE the final lines are~ it's always the same I'm running towards nothing again and again and again
actually, with the cure, i find it really hard to separate the sound of the song from the lyrics. i dont think they wrote especially good lyrics most of the time, but the whole twang of the guitars, production, and smiths' vocals just raise everything so high you never notice. ordinary stuff becomes really invidious, or bleak or whatever.
ha ha, i wrote a very depressing story for english, when i was 15, based on the lyrics to like cockatoos~ ; girl, fell n love, then killed herself by jumping off a buliding, anayway. it rained a lot, they all wore black (clue- i was a goth at the time, ha ha). like cockatoos, the cure~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7m2sApVd0 And he was standing At the corner Where the road turned dark A part of shiny wet Like blood the rain fell Black down on the street
And kissed his feet she fell Her head an inch away from heaven
"There are a thousand things" he said "I'll never say those things to you again" And turning on his heel He left a trace of bubbles Bleeding in his stead
And in her head A picture of a boy who left her Lonely in the rain (And all around the night sang out like cockatoos)
i really liked the imagery of 'bleeding in his stead'.
the lyrcs of she's lost control are eerie~ about someone falling to pieces... Confusion in her eyes that says it all. And she's clinging to the nearest passer by, And she gave away the secrets of her past, And said I've lost control again,
Confusion in her eyes that says it all. And she's clinging to the nearest passer by, And she gave away the secrets of her past, And said I've lost control again...
tunic, a song for karen (i only found out recently whom the karen is!!) has brilliant music, but i love the whole direction of the lyrics, which i thought was about going mad and vanishing into madness (i was reading the bell jar when i first heard it)~ of course, it kind of is :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSOp1domrU I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day But I look in the mirror - I'm bigger in every way She said: You aren't never going anywhere
i LOVE the jam atm~ down in the tube station (tube= london underground, the subway).. about being mugged & killed, written in the first person, despite sounding pop~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhN7MQ6uYw I first felt a fist, and then a kick My life swam around me It took a look and drowned me in its own existence ...It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth It blocked all my senses..
morrissey's ordinary boys reminds me of it, just aimless boys wheeling around, looking for a fight... from the same album, late night, maudelin street is a horrible lament~ 'i never stole a happy hour around here.. where the world's ugliest boy, became what you see, here i am, the world's ugliest man ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFlNDsGrFQ
im legally obliged to mention the smiths~ how soon is now is cool; so angrily dark.... i am the son and heir, to nothing, in particular. There's a club, if you like to go you could meet somebody who really loves you so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen "now" well, when exactly do you mean? see I've already waited too long & all my hope is gone
half their stuff is about losing hope; jeane~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRghlld8HU i love his young voice in this, and the raw drums. Jeane The low-life has lost its appeal & I'm tired of walking these streets To a room with a cupboard bare I'm not sure what happiness means But I look in your eyes & I know That it isn't there We tried, we failed
The Bed - Lou Reed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxhM2g1JRg Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs The Ledge - The Replacements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAmM0rR4yg New Dawn Fades - Joy Division http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbeNRHtpgOk
Hi,Radiohead! every time I come across to a question of yours I just have to take something with alcohol from the fridge..:P(man you"re profound)
I agree with street spirit..because I cried a lot with this one (still do) and Obstacle 1 is my fav song along with Leif Erikson,Not even Jail and Pioneer to the Falls (In case you wander :P )so everytime I listen to it I bruise..which is quite often..
I heard the Gacy song,but not my cup of tea.. but I do have my own one,mysteriously autobiographical too.. (and thats the creepy part) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmxEtO28lBs ( Creaming Jesus - Celebrity Cannibalism ) (if you take the lyrics with a more allegoric meaning I mean)
Sopor Aeternus is one of the artists that get to me this is a characteristic example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZCeq2gdfQ ( Sopor Aeternus - No-One Is There )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXg85_YQwg ( Come Into Hell & Murder Hate (Alternative Mix 2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0p0fHtMys ( Chris & Cosey - Silent Cry )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZsdu-snSTk (Kirlian Camera - K-Pax)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693SIj7_7qE ( Kirlian Camera -Solaris IV-A )
Bq I Have a disturbing mental condition that"s stuck with me till the day I"ll close my eyes,so.. Scared for life,i really dont understand what that means..(translation issues)
The lyrics of "beautiful Child" by Swans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hI5Eg6Ias4
"These are the things I hold onto These are the things I use to deceive myself I line them up in front of me I judge them carefully Then I throw them all away I throw them all away I am a small man I am not a dangerous man I love a child I love a beautiful child I love a child I love a beautiful child I will hold this child in my arms And caress his soft head Listen to him cry Listen to him cry I can kill the child The beautiful child I will kill the child The beautiful child This is my life This is my choice This is my damnation This is my only regret This is my life This is my life This is my sacrifice This is my life This is my only regret That I ever was born This is my sacrifice Get out of my head"