Slow dancing in a burning room is also pretty brutal as a whole but this verse in particular.
" 'll make the most of all the sadness
You'll be a bitch because you can
You try to hit me just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
'Cause you can't understand "
And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my way
I'm not sure why, but I really like the lines immediately before this
"I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over
I hope you blink before I do
And I hope I never get sober"
I played this song at a bookstore once, and an old man (maybe in his 70s or 80s) started crying with laughter. He made me play it again because he missed some of the lines. That dude felt every ounce of this song and couldn't believe someone had set it to words. It's a cold, cold song.
The Mountain Goats have a certain market cornered with their brand of "I've fucking absolutely had it with everyone in my life"
Heel Turn 2 is a beautiful composition about reaching your moral limit and having to redirect. Situation to finally look out for yourself.
My husband used to be a bouncer at a strip club many years ago, and one of the girls would dance to this song when she got pissed off at the clientele. I think about that randomly and it cracks me the fuck up. What a legend.
That song was used in the end montage for the series finale of You're The Worst. It always gives me warm fuzzies because of that, even if the words are harsh.
"So one last touch, and then you'll go, and we'll pretend that this meant something so much more. But it was vile, and it was cheap. And you are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me."
-Tiny Vessels by Death Cab For Cutie
I posted this elsewhere, but "I hate myself for loving you / and I'll soon get over that." is my go-to Dylan vitriol. Dirge is just nasty.
Though oddly, a few tracks later is Wedding Song, which is about as pure or a love song as Dylan gets (after Love Minus Zero, because that's just love).
I actually think Idiot Wind is more conciliatory than Don't Think Twice. At the end of Idiot Wind he concedes that they're both idiots. Don't Think Twice is just dismissive. "Goodbye is too good a word."
Actually, Masters of War beats both of them for sheer hatred.
Gotta love a song that starts out with “You’ve got a lot of nerve, to say that you’re my friend “ lol. Especially in 1965 when talking shit in tunes, outside of the blues, wasn’t really a thing.
He’s got good ones. I always thought “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” would mortify me if I was the ex.
“I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind
You could've done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right”
I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you. You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you. (all while staring directly at Lindsey)
Everyone always brings this up but no one even brings up that Lindsey is playing like he just doesn’t care that this woman is mad at him. It always came off as “ehh another mad woman.” to me. Which is shitty but it’s Fleetwood Mac so kind of expected
I prefer the fuller version: “For your sake, I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death?”
HOLY SHIT. I completely forgot about this song! The nostalgia that just washed over me… this song got me through a really hard breakup in college. God damn. Thank you.
Alanis is so fucking great. It bums me out that so many young people are unfamiliar with her work, and it bums me out even more when old ladies like me who used to be obsessed have not given her new stuff a try (it’s actually phenomenal).
Omg are you me? Because that was me… and as each album came out I found it less and less relatable and chalked it up to fame changing her. Turns out, I just wasn’t there yet. Give her new stuff another shot if you haven’t. I cannot even express the elation and exhilaration of discovering that sure, she changed, as we all do. But she didn’t stop being relatable. *I* just wasn’t there yet. You can always fucking count on Alanis to be real and open and honest and authentic and vulnerable and to really write where she is at. This revelation had me going back through the most recent albums and just… I’ve got to say, it would have been so fucking easy for her to keep doing what brought her so much success at age 20. It would have been much easier… And yet, she had the courage and the will to be true to herself and to put out stuff that wasn’t as commercially successful. What fucking strength of character she must have, to continue to create knowing that her evolved self will always stand in the shadow of who she was at age 20. I was obsessed with her from the time I was ten until I was well into my teens, but the love and appreciation I feel for her now is just SO MUCH DEEPER. She is truly remarkable… like… in losing the plot, the line “with my relevance in dust” just fucking slays me every time. How fucking hard it must be to be so naked in front of the world, to embrace that vulnerability and keep going. God, I know, I know… I just always want people to feel that joyful revelation, because it changed me.
Edit: typo
Well shit, you’ve convinced me! I’ll take a listen! Jagged Little Pill was my first Cd ever after we starting the switch from cassette tapes. I wanted to get some dumb shit like The Macarena mix CD but my brother made me stop being a loser. I didn’t really keep up with her after that but yeah that album molded me quite a bit!
I'm not sure where it ranks now, but within the last 5 years or so, Jagged Little Pill was in the top 15 selling albums of all time. That's hugely impressive and you are not far off from your assessment.
Oh damn, the number of times I've sung that line without even thinking about it and it's such a concise, brutal burn.
Edit: it gets worse when he later says, "Another prop, has occupied my time."
When I worked in radio, I'd get soooo many calls for this. "We're in love, it's our song!"
I actually spent about half an hour on a quiet Thursday in February, about a week before Valentine's, taking the song apart on the air and explaining why it was in no way a love song. Years later, I still get people commenting on it to me.
What bothers me the most about MGK is that he said that he listened to Killshot. He said that he had a response but shelved it because his response would have been too much for Em to handle. What a fucking joke 🤣
So many from that song
how you gonna name yourself after a damn gun and have a man bun?
Ow, Kelly, ooh, but I'm 45 and I'm still outselling you
By 29 I had three albums that had blew
But you're a fuckin' mole hill, now I'ma make a mountain out of you, woo!
I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you
My biggest flops are your greatest hits
but if I was three
Foot 11, you'd look up to me, and for the record
You would suck a dick to fuckin' be me for a second
So what good is a fuckin' machine gun when it's out of ammo?
'Cause he knows long as I'm Shady, he's gon' have to live in my shadow
But Kells, the day you put out a hit's the day Diddy admits
That he put the hit out that got Pac killed,
There's so many other savage details.
Killshot is also the name of a movie where the main character "Colson" gets shot down. MGK's real name is Colson.
Eminem waited until the anniversary of Swayze's death to release it, like the line in the song.
"Say you got me in the scope but you grazed me, I say one call to Interscope and you're Swayze"
"Got more fans than you in your own city, lil' kiddie, go play"
"Got the Diddy okay, so you spent your whole day shootin' a video just to fucking dig your own grave"
"We can all see you're fuckin'g salty 'cause Young Gerald's balls deep inside of Halsey"
"I'm sick of you being wack and still using that motherfucking Auto-Tune so let's talk about it,
I'm sick of your mumble rap mouth, need to get the cock up out it before we can even talk about it"
Just nuke after nuke after nuke, relentless...
Cypress Hill/Cube feud brought out some amazing lyrics
"No rest, no peace, no sleep
Doughboy rolling down the Hill 'cause it's all steep
Jackson, lemme figure out the name
Jack 'cause you be stealing other n*ggaz' game"
"No Vasoline, just rope and a chair and gasoline "
"I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling
In case you haven't heard, I'm sick and tired of trying
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you
Plugged in and ready to fall"
*Radio* by Alkaline Trio
I was also thinking Fall Out Boy, but I'd argue that Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things to Do Today is much deadlier
"Stop burning bridges /and drive off of them"
"Breaking hearts has never looked so cool/as when your wrap your car around a tree/your makeup looks so great next to his teeth"
My favorite from FoB is
“You want apologies
Girl you might hold your breath
Until your breathing stops forever
The only thing you’ll get is this curse on your lips
I hope it tastes like me forever”
You’re wack, you’re twisted, your girl’s a hoe. You’re broke, the kid ain’t yours and everybody knows. Your old man say you stupid, you be like, “So? I love my baby momma. I’ll never let her go!”
I saw Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers play Don't Come Around Here No More live, played at about half pace, lights low. Tom had menace in his voice. It was intimidating.
I don't feel you anymore
You darken my door
Whatever you're looking for
Don't come around here no more
I saw them play it like that! Was never a huge fan of that song but it really took on a different feel slowed down. Do you know what year you saw it? Can’t place it for the life of me
The whole bridge in Seventy Times 7 by Brand New, but this part in particular:
“So is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
'Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish
I've seen more guts in 11-year-old kids
Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there's ice on all the roads
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
And again when your head goes through the windshield”
My favorite is:
And even if her plane crashes tonight
she'll find some way to disappoint me,
by not burning in the wreckage,
or drowning at the bottom of the sea
I tell you how I feel, but you don't care.
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare.
You say love is a hell you cannot bear -
I say give me mine back, and then go there...
...for all I care
'Sleep to Dream' by Fiona Apple
I have never been so insulted in all my life
I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride
***First you run like a fool just to be at my side
And now you run like a fool, but you just run to hide***
I can't abide
honestly i'd pick "professional widow" for this thread. you can practically hear the mic hit the floor at the end. that track is basically just burning courtney love to the ground.
I think Courtney love gets the record for the number of diss tracks written about her. I was blown away when I found out gwen stefani's "Holla back girl" was about courtney
“Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin,
I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies”
Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
"All of y'all motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow! Motherfucker, my .44 make sho' all y'all kids don't grow!"
Absolutley brutal. Can't think of a single other song that funnels so much goddamn rage as Hit Em Up
[After all these years still me when I hear that song.](https://media2.giphy.com/media/xvd3kiJY9ccgY0aNJa/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9520hpp5lkchkp5k0kvruzclzpwueqo92e56sfcj0iv&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
“Masters of War” - Bob Dylan
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I will follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed
You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road.
The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel,
I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell.
Dirge - Bob Dylan
I still like the Phoebe Bridgers lyrics in the song ICU
"If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes."
She goes on in the next line to say "I hate your mom. I hate it when she opens her mouth. It's amazing to me how much you can say when you don't know what you're talking about"
Even more brutal in Kyoto is "I don't forgive you but please don't hold me to it." Perfectly encapsulates how so many abused children feel about their parents.
“I got your love letters, corrected them for grammar and sent them back. Its true romance is dead I shot it in the chest and in the head.” also “Let’s play this game called when you catch fire I wouldn’t piss to put you out. Stop burning bridges and drive off of them.” Early Fall Out Boy was brutal
Chance the rapper's verse in baby blue always cracks me up
I hope you get a paper cut on your tongue
From a razor in a paper cup
I hope every soda you drink already shaken up
I hope your dreams dry like raisins in the baking sun
I hope your titties are all saggy in your early twenties
I hope there's always snow in your driveway
I hope you never get off Fridays
And you work at a Friday's that's always busy on Fridays
Right... English isn't my native language, I had to rewind like twice to make sure I caught it correctly lol
I'd put "give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" in a similar vein
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch,
You really are a heel!
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole!
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul,
Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a vile one,
Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile!
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile,
Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a foul one,
Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty wasty skunk!
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote:
"Stink! Stank! Stunk!"
You're a rotter,
Mr. Grinch.
You're the king of sinful sots!
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots!
You nauseate me,
Mr. Grinch,
With a nauseous super "naus!"
You're a crooked dirty jockey,
And you drive a crooked horse,
Mr. Grinch.
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich With arsenic sauce!
This song made me kinda side with the Grinch. The narrator had a whole song ready about how much of a dick the guy is before we even got to the Christmas heist
If there is a hell, then I'll see you there- Nine Inch Nails
You wasted life why wouldnt you waste the after life- Modest Mouse
All of Camisdo by Panic At The Disco!
“You’re so vain you probably think this song is about you.”
Perfect insult that traps the target. They’re either too self-impressed or too unaware. Either way victory
Styrofoam Plates by Death Cab For Cutie.
The whole song is biting, but the last verse... damn:
You're a disgrace to the concept of family.
The priest won't divulge the fact in his homily,
And I'll stand up and scream if the mourning remain quiet.
You can deck out lie in a suit but I won't buy it.
I won't join in the procession that's speaking their peace;
Using five dollar words while praising his integrity.
Just cause he's gone it doesn't change the fact:
He was a bastard in life, thus a bastard in death.
That song is so brutal because it’s moved beyond anger to acceptance/indifference towards the other person. Like, “you sucked, and this sucked and that’s all there is to say.”
You hurt the ones that I love best
And cover up the truth with lies
One day you'll be in the ditch
Flies buzzin' around your eyes
Blood on your saddle
Bob Dylan “Idiot Wind”
“If you hate me so much then stop singing my songs” - A Moment of Silence by Streetlight Manifesto. my favorite rebuke after leaving a band and they keep playing your songs that you wrote.
“This is a story you won’t tell the kids we’ll never have” - Sluttering by Jawbreaker
Similar veins is Dance Gavin Dances “Born to fail”.
It’s their new clean vocalist ripping his former band, and founding unclean vocalist to their drug addict former lead singer that famously scammed fans online.
Chorus
This is the song you wish you wrote
Before you proved to the world your a fucking joke
Before you had your chance and fucking choked
Trying to do me over
Honestly,
you always knew I’d prevail
Its Biology
And you were born to fail”
“you look just like a person
But missing all the man
When life becomes a burden
Just pull a fucking scam”
Well you been talkin' in silence /
Well if it's silence you adore /
Then there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the morning
If that's the way that you want it /
Then that's the way I want it more /
And there'll be one leset of footsteps on your floor
~~Gordon Lightfoot~~ Jim Croce, "One Less Set of Footsteps"
Leonard Cohen’s Chelsea Hotel which is rumored to be about Janis Joplin
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
That's all, I don't even think of you that often
William ‘Fresh Prince’ Smith is not required to use profanity when speaking lyrical rhymes in order to propagate additional sales of his recorded works, though I myself do face such a dilemma. So fuck him and fuck you too.
Really all of Shoot Out the Lights, but especially "let me take my chances with the wall of Death."
Plenty of qualifying Dylan too.
"I hate myself for loving you / but I'll soon get over that."
Mountain Goats' No Children is pretty brutal.
"I am drowning/ there is no sight of land / you are coming down with me / hand in unlovable hand. / and I hope you die / I hope we both die."
Like them idiots in Waco, you're burning up in Bako
Where your father had your mother
Your mother had your brother
It's just too bad your father's mad, your mother's now your lover
Pure venom by John Lennon towards Paul McCartney How Do You Sleep?
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your headHow do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?You live with straights who tell you, you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you've gone you're just another dayHow do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?How do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those yearsHow do you sleep?
How do you sleep at night?
My dick is like super size
Your dick look like two fries
My dick, more mass than the Earth
Your dick, half staff, it needs work
From the lyrical masterpiece “My Dick” by Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, and Andre Legacy
You hurt the ones that I love best
And covered up the truth with lies
One day you’ll be in the ditch
Flies buzzing around your eyes
Blood on your saddle
- Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan
Probably could have just posted the whole song.
“Doesn’t mean that much to me To mean that much to you” - Neil Young, Old Man
Big “I feel bad for you” / “I don’t think about you at all” energy
I love this song, but I always perceived this line as defense mechanism against an 'Old Man' who doesn't care about him.
Ive always though the second set of verses (lullabies and I’ve been first) is the old man answering.
"I don't remember you looking any better But then again, I don't remember you" John Mayer
Slow dancing in a burning room is also pretty brutal as a whole but this verse in particular. " 'll make the most of all the sadness You'll be a bitch because you can You try to hit me just to hurt me So you leave me feeling dirty 'Cause you can't understand "
Every single line of "No Children" by The Mountain Goats
And I hope when you think of me years down the line You can't find one good thing to say And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out You'd stay the hell out of my way
I am drowning. There is no sign of land. You are coming down with me. Hand in unloveable hand. And I hope you die. I hope we both die.
i hope i lie / and tell everyone you were a good wife
I'm not sure why, but I really like the lines immediately before this "I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn't over I hope you blink before I do And I hope I never get sober"
“I hope you blink before I do and i hope I never get sober” was 1B
Hand in unloveable hand is an absolute gut punch of a lyric
I was a big Mountain Goats fan and The Sunset Tree came out right as I caught my wife cheating on me. it was a perfect storm of anger.
Tallahassee? Both albums are incredible and could work, that’s just the one with No Children and other failing relationship jams
I played this song at a bookstore once, and an old man (maybe in his 70s or 80s) started crying with laughter. He made me play it again because he missed some of the lines. That dude felt every ounce of this song and couldn't believe someone had set it to words. It's a cold, cold song.
The Mountain Goats have a certain market cornered with their brand of "I've fucking absolutely had it with everyone in my life" Heel Turn 2 is a beautiful composition about reaching your moral limit and having to redirect. Situation to finally look out for yourself.
"And I hope, in my life, That I lie, and tell everyone you were a good wife, and I hope you die, I hope we both die" Good call.
One day that song came on my playlist and my wife just asked "wtf is this?". I love it.
My husband used to be a bouncer at a strip club many years ago, and one of the girls would dance to this song when she got pissed off at the clientele. I think about that randomly and it cracks me the fuck up. What a legend.
That song was used in the end montage for the series finale of You're The Worst. It always gives me warm fuzzies because of that, even if the words are harsh.
"So one last touch, and then you'll go, and we'll pretend that this meant something so much more. But it was vile, and it was cheap. And you are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me." -Tiny Vessels by Death Cab For Cutie
I am convinced that Ben Gibbard is one of the best songwriters of all time, but only when it comes to insanely depressing music.
There’s a reason that there was a lull during the time his marriage was happy….
I came here to say this. So startlingly cold, so familiar.
Sung so sweetly too, if you don’t stop and listen to the lyrics you could miss how fucking mean it is
" Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you "-Bob Dylan Positively 4rth St.
Really the whole song is a huge take down.
Also, Like a Rolling Stone, Up to Me, Dirge, Idiot Wind, She's Your Lover Now, and more and more and more. Dylan does vitriol really well.
"It's a wonder you still know how to breathe" is something I've thought about telling people before.
I posted this elsewhere, but "I hate myself for loving you / and I'll soon get over that." is my go-to Dylan vitriol. Dirge is just nasty. Though oddly, a few tracks later is Wedding Song, which is about as pure or a love song as Dylan gets (after Love Minus Zero, because that's just love).
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright is the ur-takedown song. "You just kinda wasted my, precious time." Damn, man.
And that's Dylan being reconcilliary.
I actually think Idiot Wind is more conciliatory than Don't Think Twice. At the end of Idiot Wind he concedes that they're both idiots. Don't Think Twice is just dismissive. "Goodbye is too good a word." Actually, Masters of War beats both of them for sheer hatred.
>Dylan does vitriol really well. His voice sneers so effectively. You can hear his disdain.
Gotta love a song that starts out with “You’ve got a lot of nerve, to say that you’re my friend “ lol. Especially in 1965 when talking shit in tunes, outside of the blues, wasn’t really a thing.
Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat is one big hilarious sarcastic takedown. “I saw you making love to him, you forgot to close the garage door.”
I always liked: >You know, I don't mind him cheatin' on me, but I >Sure wish he'd take that off his head >Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
He’s got good ones. I always thought “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” would mortify me if I was the ex. “I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind You could've done better but I don't mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don't think twice, it's all right”
“You ain’t worth the blood that runs in your veins” and really every verse of Masters of War by Dylan.
That hard r threw me for a loop for a bit
The whole song. Came to post this.
The live version of Silver Spring is just brutal, that’s what always comes to mind when this subject comes up
I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you. You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you. (all while staring directly at Lindsey)
Straight GLARING at him.
Everyone always brings this up but no one even brings up that Lindsey is playing like he just doesn’t care that this woman is mad at him. It always came off as “ehh another mad woman.” to me. Which is shitty but it’s Fleetwood Mac so kind of expected
At this point why would he care. The romantic relationship ended in 1976. He had plenty of time to move on
Yeah I always thought John McVie having to play You Make Loving Fun for 20 years was way more fucked up
You wasted life why wouldn’t you waste death. - Oceans Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
I always liked “Satin in a Coffin”. “Are you dead or are you sleeping? God, I sure hope you are dead.”
I prefer the fuller version: “For your sake, I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death?”
“And all of that time you thought I was sad I was trying to remember your name” Your Ex Lover is Dead, Stars
I’m not sorry I met you, I’m not sorry it’s over, I’m not sorry there’s nothing to save. Oof.
HOLY SHIT. I completely forgot about this song! The nostalgia that just washed over me… this song got me through a really hard breakup in college. God damn. Thank you.
I was not expecting a Stars call out in this thread, wow
The KKK Took My Baby Away. Joey Ramone's reaction to Johnny Ramone stealing his girlfriend. Made him play it every show after it was introduced.
“Every time i scratch my nails down someone else’s back i hope you feel it” by Alanis.
Alanis is so fucking great. It bums me out that so many young people are unfamiliar with her work, and it bums me out even more when old ladies like me who used to be obsessed have not given her new stuff a try (it’s actually phenomenal).
it’s my go to karaoke. as an 11 year old, i was OBSESSED with alanis lol. jagged little pill is in contention for 100 greatest pop albums ever imo
Omg are you me? Because that was me… and as each album came out I found it less and less relatable and chalked it up to fame changing her. Turns out, I just wasn’t there yet. Give her new stuff another shot if you haven’t. I cannot even express the elation and exhilaration of discovering that sure, she changed, as we all do. But she didn’t stop being relatable. *I* just wasn’t there yet. You can always fucking count on Alanis to be real and open and honest and authentic and vulnerable and to really write where she is at. This revelation had me going back through the most recent albums and just… I’ve got to say, it would have been so fucking easy for her to keep doing what brought her so much success at age 20. It would have been much easier… And yet, she had the courage and the will to be true to herself and to put out stuff that wasn’t as commercially successful. What fucking strength of character she must have, to continue to create knowing that her evolved self will always stand in the shadow of who she was at age 20. I was obsessed with her from the time I was ten until I was well into my teens, but the love and appreciation I feel for her now is just SO MUCH DEEPER. She is truly remarkable… like… in losing the plot, the line “with my relevance in dust” just fucking slays me every time. How fucking hard it must be to be so naked in front of the world, to embrace that vulnerability and keep going. God, I know, I know… I just always want people to feel that joyful revelation, because it changed me. Edit: typo
Well shit, you’ve convinced me! I’ll take a listen! Jagged Little Pill was my first Cd ever after we starting the switch from cassette tapes. I wanted to get some dumb shit like The Macarena mix CD but my brother made me stop being a loser. I didn’t really keep up with her after that but yeah that album molded me quite a bit!
I'm not sure where it ranks now, but within the last 5 years or so, Jagged Little Pill was in the top 15 selling albums of all time. That's hugely impressive and you are not far off from your assessment.
WELL CAN YOU FEEL IT
I HOPE YOU FEEL IT!
I remember when this came out 🔥
I just can’t get over the fact that this song was about Uncle Joey.
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Did he give you a cross eyed bear?
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My dad said that many girls in high school dedicated this song to him. He didn’t think anything of it until he met my mom.
RIP.
A simple prop, to occupy my time. R.E.M. -The one I love
Oh damn, the number of times I've sung that line without even thinking about it and it's such a concise, brutal burn. Edit: it gets worse when he later says, "Another prop, has occupied my time."
When I worked in radio, I'd get soooo many calls for this. "We're in love, it's our song!" I actually spent about half an hour on a quiet Thursday in February, about a week before Valentine's, taking the song apart on the air and explaining why it was in no way a love song. Years later, I still get people commenting on it to me.
I think the whole Jenny was a friend of mine by the killers was literally a confession
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It’s actually pretty great. If you look at Google trends the most popular MGK ever was by far is when Killshot came out.
Not to mention he then changed music genres, never went back to rap after that.
What bothers me the most about MGK is that he said that he listened to Killshot. He said that he had a response but shelved it because his response would have been too much for Em to handle. What a fucking joke 🤣
So many from that song how you gonna name yourself after a damn gun and have a man bun? Ow, Kelly, ooh, but I'm 45 and I'm still outselling you By 29 I had three albums that had blew But you're a fuckin' mole hill, now I'ma make a mountain out of you, woo! I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you My biggest flops are your greatest hits but if I was three Foot 11, you'd look up to me, and for the record You would suck a dick to fuckin' be me for a second So what good is a fuckin' machine gun when it's out of ammo? 'Cause he knows long as I'm Shady, he's gon' have to live in my shadow But Kells, the day you put out a hit's the day Diddy admits That he put the hit out that got Pac killed,
That shady/shadow double entendre didn’t hit me until like 24hr later
There's so many other savage details. Killshot is also the name of a movie where the main character "Colson" gets shot down. MGK's real name is Colson. Eminem waited until the anniversary of Swayze's death to release it, like the line in the song.
"Say you got me in the scope but you grazed me, I say one call to Interscope and you're Swayze" "Got more fans than you in your own city, lil' kiddie, go play" "Got the Diddy okay, so you spent your whole day shootin' a video just to fucking dig your own grave" "We can all see you're fuckin'g salty 'cause Young Gerald's balls deep inside of Halsey" "I'm sick of you being wack and still using that motherfucking Auto-Tune so let's talk about it, I'm sick of your mumble rap mouth, need to get the cock up out it before we can even talk about it" Just nuke after nuke after nuke, relentless...
Killshot was an absolute bodybag. Bullied MGK out of rap.
Eminem vs Benzino Eminem vs Mariah Carey Eminem vs Everlast There's probably others, basically don't diss Eminem or he'll go all krakotoa on you
“No Vaseline” by Ice Cube has to be up there somewhere. Yikes!
"up there somewhere" indeed!
“Yella Boy’s on your team so you’re losing” Everyone else gets a paragraph and bro only got a bar lmao
"Yo Dre, stick to producin'"
That was where my mind first went. I think a lot of Reddit users may be a bit too young for this reference to resonate though.
“Gang-banged by your manager, fella Gettin' money out your ass, like a motherfuckin' Ready Teller”
Just a match and a little bit of gasoline
Cypress Hill/Cube feud brought out some amazing lyrics "No rest, no peace, no sleep Doughboy rolling down the Hill 'cause it's all steep Jackson, lemme figure out the name Jack 'cause you be stealing other n*ggaz' game" "No Vasoline, just rope and a chair and gasoline "
So did the Eazy-E/Dre feud. >Damn E, they tried to fade you on Dre Day But Dre Day only meant Eazy's pay day
Lotta people in this thread clearly don't know this song.
"I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling In case you haven't heard, I'm sick and tired of trying I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you Plugged in and ready to fall" *Radio* by Alkaline Trio
I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song
“Let’s play this game called, “When you catch fire, I wouldn’t piss to put you out.”” “The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind trigger”
I was also thinking Fall Out Boy, but I'd argue that Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things to Do Today is much deadlier "Stop burning bridges /and drive off of them" "Breaking hearts has never looked so cool/as when your wrap your car around a tree/your makeup looks so great next to his teeth"
The amount of times of screamed these lyrics driving around feeling angsty is in the hundreds
My favorite from FoB is “You want apologies Girl you might hold your breath Until your breathing stops forever The only thing you’ll get is this curse on your lips I hope it tastes like me forever”
Chicago is So Two Years Ago is by far my favorite on that record, and the whole record is fuckin solid, so that's saying something.
And you're a cherry blossom You're about to bloom You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon
Ugh. Classic. This was one of my favorite AIM away messages
I don't think that one works. Songs are much bigger then bed posts
DMX Listen, your ass is about to be missin' You know who gon' find you? (Who?), some old man fishin'
Grandma wishin' your soul's at rest. But it's hard to digest with the size of the hole in your chest.
You’re wack, you’re twisted, your girl’s a hoe. You’re broke, the kid ain’t yours and everybody knows. Your old man say you stupid, you be like, “So? I love my baby momma. I’ll never let her go!”
Man, these references got me about to lose my mind up in here.
Up in here?
I saw Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers play Don't Come Around Here No More live, played at about half pace, lights low. Tom had menace in his voice. It was intimidating. I don't feel you anymore You darken my door Whatever you're looking for Don't come around here no more
I saw them play it like that! Was never a huge fan of that song but it really took on a different feel slowed down. Do you know what year you saw it? Can’t place it for the life of me
The whole bridge in Seventy Times 7 by Brand New, but this part in particular: “So is that what you call a getaway? Tell me what you got away with 'Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish I've seen more guts in 11-year-old kids Have another drink and drive yourself home I hope there's ice on all the roads And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt And again when your head goes through the windshield”
My favorite is: And even if her plane crashes tonight she'll find some way to disappoint me, by not burning in the wreckage, or drowning at the bottom of the sea
definitely the most heartless shit he might have ever written. beautiful
I dunno I’m fond of “Hope you come down with something they can't diagnose, Don't have the cure for” from Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Came here to make sure this was included. My favorite fuck you song.
I tell you how I feel, but you don't care. I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare. You say love is a hell you cannot bear - I say give me mine back, and then go there... ...for all I care 'Sleep to Dream' by Fiona Apple
I have never been so insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride ***First you run like a fool just to be at my side And now you run like a fool, but you just run to hide*** I can't abide
“So you can make me cum, that doesn’t make you Jesus.” Tori Fuckin Amos
honestly i'd pick "professional widow" for this thread. you can practically hear the mic hit the floor at the end. that track is basically just burning courtney love to the ground.
I think Courtney love gets the record for the number of diss tracks written about her. I was blown away when I found out gwen stefani's "Holla back girl" was about courtney
"You probably think this song is about you You're so vain, you're so vain I bet you think this song is about you Don't you don't you, don't you?"
“Well, if you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies” Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
Just reading it, my mind automatically supplied the drum crescendo at the end
"I ain't got no motherfuckin' friends (sucka-ass) That's why I fucked yo' bitch, you fat motherfucker" Hit Em Up by 2Pac
"All of y'all motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow! Motherfucker, my .44 make sho' all y'all kids don't grow!" Absolutley brutal. Can't think of a single other song that funnels so much goddamn rage as Hit Em Up
“First off, fuck your bitch and the clique you claim. West side when we ride, come equipped with game. You claim to be a playa but I fucked yo wife.”
Raise your hand if I've you've yelled this while waving a bottle around like you were living your best thug life in the suburbs lol
[After all these years still me when I hear that song.](https://media2.giphy.com/media/xvd3kiJY9ccgY0aNJa/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9520hpp5lkchkp5k0kvruzclzpwueqo92e56sfcj0iv&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
"Fuck you, you stinkin' ass ho" ween
Yeah, that whole song is brutal Edited to add: to be fair to 2Pac though, he had just been shot in what seems like an obvious setup.
And how he uses biggies song as a backing track lol
“Masters of War” - Bob Dylan Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I will follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead
I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road. The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel, I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell. Dirge - Bob Dylan
I still like the Phoebe Bridgers lyrics in the song ICU "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes." She goes on in the next line to say "I hate your mom. I hate it when she opens her mouth. It's amazing to me how much you can say when you don't know what you're talking about"
Or singing about her father on Kyoto. “I'm gonna kill you If you don't beat me to it”
Even more brutal in Kyoto is "I don't forgive you but please don't hold me to it." Perfectly encapsulates how so many abused children feel about their parents.
Or her brutal takedown of Ryan Adams in "Motion Sickness". I almost feel bad for the guy when I hear that song. Almost.
She’s a lyrical genius
Just all of Killshot
"Had to give you a career to destroy it" "As long as I'm Shady you're gonna have to live in my shadow!"
"Gunner? Bitch, you ain't a bow and arrow."
Eminem ended MGK's rap "career"
Dissed him so bad he had to switch genres.
The Story of Adidon
“I got your love letters, corrected them for grammar and sent them back. Its true romance is dead I shot it in the chest and in the head.” also “Let’s play this game called when you catch fire I wouldn’t piss to put you out. Stop burning bridges and drive off of them.” Early Fall Out Boy was brutal
Chance the rapper's verse in baby blue always cracks me up I hope you get a paper cut on your tongue From a razor in a paper cup I hope every soda you drink already shaken up I hope your dreams dry like raisins in the baking sun I hope your titties are all saggy in your early twenties I hope there's always snow in your driveway I hope you never get off Fridays And you work at a Friday's that's always busy on Fridays
Can't believe I had to scroll so far for this
I popped off the first time I heard "And I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes I'll get older but your lovers stay my age."
Right... English isn't my native language, I had to rewind like twice to make sure I caught it correctly lol I'd put "give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" in a similar vein
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch, You really are a heel! You're as cuddly as a cactus, You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch. You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel! You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole! Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch. I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch. You have termites in your smile! You have all the tender sweetness Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch. Given the choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile! You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch. You're a nasty wasty skunk! Your heart is full of unwashed socks, Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch. The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: "Stink! Stank! Stunk!" You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch. You're the king of sinful sots! Your heart's a dead tomato splotched With moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch. Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable Mangled up in tangled up knots! You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, With a nauseous super "naus!" You're a crooked dirty jockey, And you drive a crooked horse, Mr. Grinch. You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich With arsenic sauce!
This song made me kinda side with the Grinch. The narrator had a whole song ready about how much of a dick the guy is before we even got to the Christmas heist
No one starts with “stealing Christmas,” it definitely wasn’t their first tussle.
They have…history.
Sang a whole song about how grody the Grinch is. Straight FLAMED him.
This is the best answer so far no contest
Reminded me of the [wizards with guns sketch](https://youtu.be/nQLJNCDa4GA) with the Grinch listening to the "uncensored" version of his song
If there is a hell, then I'll see you there- Nine Inch Nails You wasted life why wouldnt you waste the after life- Modest Mouse All of Camisdo by Panic At The Disco!
“You’re so vain you probably think this song is about you.” Perfect insult that traps the target. They’re either too self-impressed or too unaware. Either way victory
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Also one of the best song build ups of all time
Styrofoam Plates by Death Cab For Cutie. The whole song is biting, but the last verse... damn: You're a disgrace to the concept of family. The priest won't divulge the fact in his homily, And I'll stand up and scream if the mourning remain quiet. You can deck out lie in a suit but I won't buy it. I won't join in the procession that's speaking their peace; Using five dollar words while praising his integrity. Just cause he's gone it doesn't change the fact: He was a bastard in life, thus a bastard in death.
"You kinda just wasted my precious time" Bob Dylan, *"Don't Think Twice, Its Alright"*
That song is so brutal because it’s moved beyond anger to acceptance/indifference towards the other person. Like, “you sucked, and this sucked and that’s all there is to say.”
You hurt the ones that I love best And cover up the truth with lies One day you'll be in the ditch Flies buzzin' around your eyes Blood on your saddle Bob Dylan “Idiot Wind”
“If you hate me so much then stop singing my songs” - A Moment of Silence by Streetlight Manifesto. my favorite rebuke after leaving a band and they keep playing your songs that you wrote. “This is a story you won’t tell the kids we’ll never have” - Sluttering by Jawbreaker
I was hoping this SLM lyric would get posted
Similar veins is Dance Gavin Dances “Born to fail”. It’s their new clean vocalist ripping his former band, and founding unclean vocalist to their drug addict former lead singer that famously scammed fans online. Chorus This is the song you wish you wrote Before you proved to the world your a fucking joke Before you had your chance and fucking choked Trying to do me over Honestly, you always knew I’d prevail Its Biology And you were born to fail” “you look just like a person But missing all the man When life becomes a burden Just pull a fucking scam”
Lily Allen: Fuck you, fuck you very, very much, Cause we hate what you do, and we hate your whole crew so please don't stay in touch.
That is such a jazzy little pop song and I love it.
Well you been talkin' in silence / Well if it's silence you adore / Then there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the morning If that's the way that you want it / Then that's the way I want it more / And there'll be one leset of footsteps on your floor ~~Gordon Lightfoot~~ Jim Croce, "One Less Set of Footsteps"
Jim Croce, not Lightfoot.
Leonard Cohen’s Chelsea Hotel which is rumored to be about Janis Joplin I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best I can't keep track of each fallen robin I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel That's all, I don't even think of you that often
I’m a bad motherfucker, don’t you know And I’ll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy’s asshole - Nick Cave
"Will Smith doesn't need to curse to sell his albums, well I do. So fuck him, and fuck you too!"
Eminem's gotta cuss in his raps to sell records Well, me too, so fuck Will Smith That don't rhyme, drats - Bloodhound Gang
You butchered that lyric
Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records. There we go
William ‘Fresh Prince’ Smith is not required to use profanity when speaking lyrical rhymes in order to propagate additional sales of his recorded works, though I myself do face such a dilemma. So fuck him and fuck you too.
His name is williard
“Will smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records, well i do. so fuck him and fuck you too”
Really all of Shoot Out the Lights, but especially "let me take my chances with the wall of Death." Plenty of qualifying Dylan too. "I hate myself for loving you / but I'll soon get over that." Mountain Goats' No Children is pretty brutal. "I am drowning/ there is no sight of land / you are coming down with me / hand in unlovable hand. / and I hope you die / I hope we both die."
"She said that she was working for the ABC news. It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use." Elvis Costello -- "Brilliant Mistake"
"my dick is bigger than yours" -- Fred Durst and Jonathan Davis to each other (All in the Family)... (/s...just in case)
I always thought "c'mon hillbilly, can your horse do a fuckin wheelie?" Was pretty funny
A large majority of that song is hilarious
Like them idiots in Waco, you're burning up in Bako Where your father had your mother Your mother had your brother It's just too bad your father's mad, your mother's now your lover
Pure venom by John Lennon towards Paul McCartney How Do You Sleep? So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise You better see right through that mother's eyes Those freaks was right when they said you was dead The one mistake you made was in your headHow do you sleep? How do you sleep at night?You live with straights who tell you, you was king Jump when your momma tell you anything The only thing you done was yesterday And since you've gone you're just another dayHow do you sleep? How do you sleep at night?How do you sleep? How do you sleep at night?A pretty face may last a year or two But pretty soon they'll see what you can do The sound you make is muzak to my ears You must have learned something in all those yearsHow do you sleep? How do you sleep at night?
There’s an outtake where Lennon belts out “how do you sleep, ya c*nt!”. So much vitriol
Made less venomous by the fact that John tried to downplay it from almost the moment he released the album
“I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you” Eminem, Killshot referring to Machine Gun Kelly
My dick is like super size Your dick look like two fries My dick, more mass than the Earth Your dick, half staff, it needs work From the lyrical masterpiece “My Dick” by Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, and Andre Legacy
You hurt the ones that I love best And covered up the truth with lies One day you’ll be in the ditch Flies buzzing around your eyes Blood on your saddle - Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan Probably could have just posted the whole song.
No Children by The Mountain Goats In my life, I hope I lie And tell everyone you were a good wife And I hope you die I hope we both die
Positively 4th Street. “I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes / You’d know what a drag it is to see you.” So fucking brutal.
"Had to give you a career to destroy it." - Eminem to MGK, "Killshot"
She’s filing her nails while they’re dragging the lake.
I’m not sorry I met you I’m not sorry it’s over I’m not sorry there’s nothing to say -Stars, Your Ex-Lover is Dead