History Main / AngryMobSong

* ''Music/StJohnPassion": The chorus represents the crowd demanding Jesus' death. There are some angry choral sequences in response to Pilate's unwillingness to prosecute Jesus, and later there's a chorus consisting of "Kreuzige" ("Crucify") in polyphonic 4 part harmony.

* In Music/JohannSebastianBach's "St John Passion", there a chorus consisting of "Kreuzige (Crucify)" in polyphonic 4 part harmony.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_kTxdq8VY Where will you stand when the flood comes]]?" from ''Theatre/{{Parade}}'', in which the demented evangelist Tom Watson whips up hatred and violence against local Jews (sadly, this is BasedOnATrueStory).

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunKoE88y4M The Mob Song]]", where a crowd of angry villagers wielding TorchesAndPitchforks sings about its intention to preemptively protect themselves from the Beast by killing it and Gaston goads them on to secure his own position of power. This is later parodied in WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse, where it's referred to as "The Angry [[Music/VillagePeople Villager People]]".

* "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Music/TheRamones from ''Music/{{Ramones}}''.

* "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Music/{{The Ramones}} from ''Music/{{Ramones}}''.

* "Witch Hunt" by Music/{{Rush}} is a typical example.

* ''Theatre/MartinGuerre'' had a "knife dance" in the original version, cut in the rewrites. Also, the part of "Justice Will Be Done/I Will Make You Proud" sung by the villiagers.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt';: The slaves' part of "Deliver Us", in the way that "Look Down" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is this; a desperate, bitter, pleading sort of anger.

* ''Raise the Black Flag'' from ''Music/{{Food for the Gods}}'' by Music/{{Fireaxe}}.

* Variation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMjgHFSAec Guinevere]]" from ''Camelot,'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKydooBFnhg City On Fire]]" from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6sfgelYOY City Under Seige]]" from ''Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'' are more like choruses ''about'' angry mobs than the songs of the mobs themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': "Danger Danger", in which the film's antagonist goes about whipping the ponies of Maretime Bay into an angry mob, with lyrics emphasizing the ponies giving into base emotions over logical thought and giving authority to the person egging them on, such as "it's all gonna work out painlessly if you follow my orders brainlessly" and "this is no time for sober thinking".

** The reprise of "Look Down" is often staged as this, although [[UpToEleven nowhere moreso]] than in the [[Film/LesMiserables2012 2012 film adaptation]], as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IddaWYvQA here]].

* The short-lived ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' had the act one finale "Esmerelda", which culminated in Frollo basically tearing Paris apart to find the gypsy girl.

->-- '''[[TorchesAndPitchforks The Mob]]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCENkwPiuU0 The Mob Song]] (Kill The Beast)", ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt';: The convicts' part of "Deliver Us", in the way that "Look Down" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is this; a desperate, bitter, pleading sort of anger.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': "Blame Canada" & the kids' part of the "La Resistance'medley.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt';: The slaves' part of "Deliver Us", in the way that "Look Down" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is this; a desperate, bitter, pleading sort of anger.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': "LaResistance".

* In ''WesternAnimation/The3LittlePigsTheMovie'', while not exactly a full-fledged musical number, the dinner guests at ''The Inn of The Gentle Wolf'' get into a pretty decent rhythm when demanding a refund, after the [[CarnivoreConfusion main course]] of their [[DinnerTheatre dinner and a show]] [[spoiler: gets kidnapped]].
-->''"Money back! Money back! Or else we’ll beat you blue and black!"''
* The aptly named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunKoE88y4M The Mob Song]]" of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', notable for containing TorchesAndPitchforks.
** They even parodied themselves later in WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse! They were referred to as "The Angry [[Music/VillagePeople Villager People]]".
--->''Let's slay the Beast tonight!''\\

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSu4hOLYrXk Savages]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.
** Which includes the line "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil! We must sound the drums of WAR!". Sung by both sides at the same time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', the slaves' part of "Deliver Us", in the way that "Look Down" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is this; a desperate, bitter, pleading sort of anger.
* "LaResistance" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.

* "LaResistance" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYYbNHdzGe0 Poor Slobs With Terrible Jobs]]" from Dinosaurs, about the disatisfaction the WESAYSO workers feel with their jobs.

* "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Music/{{Twisted Sister}}
* "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Music/{{The Ramones}} from ''Music/{{Ramones}}''.
* "White Riot" by Music/TheClash.
* "Stakes and Torches" from Music/{{Voltaire}}'s album ''To the Bottom of the Sea'' is a mob song about the poor rising up to overthrow their leader, the Robber Baron.
* Dark folk artist Reverend Glasseye is especially fond of this trope, having more than a few across his three albums. Notable tales include a song about man who incites a crowd to lynch the man courting his daughter ("Mother's a Carpegian") and some religious zealots killing a man who won't provide him wood for their temples ("Black River Falls").

* In Music/JohannSebastianBach's "St John Passion", there a chorus consisting of "Kreuzige (Crucify)" in polyphonic 4 part harmony.

* "Execute" from ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'', which ends with Hero's crucifixion.
* "Burn The Witch" by Queens of the Stone Age. At least until the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge halfway-point]].
* "The Rise of Abimelech Dumont" by the Gravel Pit features an angry mob trying to overthrow the man who's taken over the town. [[spoiler: They all get shot to death.]]
* In Music/TheProtomen, an angry mob tries to lynch Dr. Light, on Dr. Wily's behest. Notable in that Light has been found innocent of murder and they ''still'' want to kill him.
** The song in question is titled, quite appropriately, "Give Us the Rope".
* Somewhat subverted by Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". The song is from the perspective of a rejected hero who turns against the people he once tried to save (but who rejected him).
* Music/TheMountainGoats:
** "If You See Light" by is an interesting version - it's from the perspective of the person against whom the mob is rallying.
** "Heretic Pride". While the narrator for "If You See Light" is frightened and desperately hiding from the mob trying to tear down the door, the narrator to "Heretic Pride" laughs and promises the crowd a reckoning.

* ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRJiwGZkuI Look at the Sky]]" (and to a lesser extent, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umc1BI6FnE We're Not Sorry]]").
** The truest Angry Mob Song song is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZztJfoTNpA&feature=related Snuff That Girl]]." It's a double threat: LaResistance actually gets the BurnTheWitch song!
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kxQpaH05ko Madame Guillotine]]" is the theme song of radical Parisian revolutionaries in ''Theatre/TheScarletPimpernel''.
* In Revoltuion Francaise there are "A Bas Tous Les Privaleges" sung mostly by Danton, and "Retour A La Bastille"
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVdwVJjf0M Christian Charity Reprise]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgam8oqcHA More Blood/Kill the Bat Boy]]" from ''Bat Boy: The Musical'' are sung by the townspeople as they intimidate the town vet into preventing Bat Boy from attending a revival meeting and get riled into a homicidal frenzy, respectively.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_k8UkjTrs Deep in the Darkest Night]]" from ''Theatre/{{Dracula|2001}}''. An exception, in that (depending on the production), it may be a crowd song sung by the angry mob, or a solo song that Jonathan Harker sings to the angry mob. A further exception is that, rather than being a dark song about how much the angry mob wants the titular Count dead, its actually a heroic, inspiring song, bordering on ThemeMusicPowerup.
* ''Theatre/TheLikesOfUs'', the little-known first-ever Webber/Rice musical, has two: "Hold a March" and "We'll Get Him". The latter is also reprised. Both are sung by crowds of displeased Londoners who think Thomas Barnardo is an interfering prat.
* ''Theatre/MartinGuerre'' had a "knife dance" in the original version, cut in the rewrites. Also, the part of "Justice Will Be Done/I Will Make You Proud" sung by the villiagers.

* "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from ''Theatre/PeerGynt'', though the instrumental suite version is more familiar, originally had a chorus of trolls shouting, "Kill him!"
* "The Arrest" and "Trial Before Pilate" in ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' include parts of angry mob singing about how they "got him" and demanding "Crucify him!" from Pilate.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHxnBsuqv4 "Passió"]] in the Hungarian rock opera ''Mária evangéliuma'' (Gospel of Mary), the mob shouts "Crucify him!" and yells at Mary, and John comments on it.
* ''Kill Your Own Kind'' from ''Theatre/{{Lestat}}'', in which the entire population of the Theatre des Vampires, lead by Armand, condemn Claudia to death for her [[spoiler: attempted]] murder of Lestat himself.
* The operatic version of ''Theatre/TheEmperorJones'' frames the first scene with choruses of angry natives chanting for the death of the title character. No pitchforks here, though; only a SilverBullet will do.
* The short-lived ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' had the act one finale "Esmerelda", which culminated in Frollo basically tearing Paris apart to find the gypsy girl.
* ''Theatre/{{Frozen}}'' has "Monster", in which Elsa tries to wrestle with the consequences of her actions - and even [[DrivenToSuicide contemplates killing herself to end the sudden winter]] - while the Arendellians march on her ice castle to capture - and possibly kill - her (although, to his credit, Hans does tell them to capture her alive).
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5Tw9DuP6A The Chase]]" from ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}''. The townspeople aren't intending to kill Harry Beaton, only to prevent him from leaving Brigadoon and condemning the town to vanish forever. Unfortunately, Harry meets DeathByFallingOver.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaS2v-r7cE ensemble]] version of "Tonight" from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', with each gang anticipating its revenge on the other.
* This goes back at least as far as the Passion oratorios of the Baroque period.

* "Down with the Flowers of Progress!" in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''[[Theatre/UtopiaLtd Utopia, Ltd.]]''
* "Gira la cote" from the opera ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'', sung by a mob breathlessly anticipating a beheading.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_CNfe0VUsA Blame Canada]]", also from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.
** Which was ''nominated for an Oscar.'' [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic And was sung onstage by Robin Williams and a huge chorus of Canadian stereotypes.]]
*** [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Because Mary Kay Bergman (Sheila Brofloski) killed herself a few months beforehand.]] Just so ya know.
** Likewise ''Canada On Strike'' from the regular show.
* The last act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera ''Les huguenots'', featuring the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, has the Assassins' Chorus, "Abjurez, Huguenots, le ciel l'ordonne" (Repent, Huguenots, Heaven ordains it).
* In ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'', Melchior and the other schoolchildren sing : "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIx7yW9FMfw Totally Fucked]]" after Melchior [[spoiler:is expelled for writing an essay about sex.]]
-->"Totally fucked, will they mess you up? Well, you know they're gonna try!"

** Which includes the line "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil! We must sound the drums of WAR!". [[NotSoDifferent Sung by both sides at the same time]].

--->''"Money back! Money back! Or else we’ll beat you blue and black!"''