History Main / AngryMobSong

* "Hang the Bastard" from ''CannibalTheMusical'', meant to sound as much as possible like a cheery old-school-style excuse-to-dance number.
* "Deep in the Darkest Night" from ''{{Dracula}}''. 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.
* "Christian Charity Reprise" and "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.
* "Where will you stand when the flood comes?" from ''{{Parade}}'', in which the demented evangelist Tom Watson whips up hatred and violence against local Jews (sadly, this is BasedOnATrueStory).

* The aptly named "Mob Song" of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'', notable for containing TorchesAndPitchforks.

* "Savages" in ''{{Pocahontas}}''.

* [[WitchHunt "March of the Witch Hunters"]] in ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''.

* French (wannabe) Revolutionaries once again get their own song in ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'': "Do You Hear the People Sing?"

* "Look at the Sky" (and to a lesser extent, "We're Not Sorry") from ''{{Urinetown}}''.
** Actually, the truest Angry Mob Song song here is "Snuff That Girl." It's a double threat: LaResistance actually gets the BurnTheWitch song!
* "Madame Guillotine" is the theme song of radical Parisian revolutionaries in ''Theatre/TheScarletPimpernel''.

* "LaResistance" from ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut''.

* "Madame Guillotine" is the theme song of radical Parisian revolutionaries in ''TheScarletPimpernel''.

* French Revolutionaries once again get their own song in ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'': "Do You Hear the People Sing?"

* In 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.

* Variation: "Guinevere" from ''Camelot,'' "City On Fire" from ''SweeneyTodd'', and "City Under Seige" from ''Der Glockner Von Notre Dame'' are more like choruses ''about'' angry mobs than the songs of the mobs themselves.

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* [[WitchHunt "March of the Witch Hunters"]] in ''{{Wicked}}''.

And [[ConvictionByPopularOpinion fifty Frenchmen can't be wrong.]]\\

And [[ConvictedByPopularOpinion fifty Frenchmen can't be wrong.]]\\

And fifty Frenchmen can't be wrong.\\

* "Deep in the Darkest Night" from ''{{Dracula}}''. An exception, in that (depending on the production), it may be a crowd song sung by the angry mob, or a solo song that Jonothan 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.

* "Where will you stand when the flood comes?" from ''{{Parade}}'', in which the demented evangelist Tom Watson whips up hatred and violence against local Jews (sadly this is BasedOnATrueStory).

* 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)

* Variation: "Guinevere" from ''Camelot,'' "City On Fire" from ''SweeneyTodd'' and "City Under Seige" from ''Der Glockner Von Notre Dame'' are more like choruses ''about'' angry mobs than the songs of the mobs themselves.

* "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" from SweeneyTodd.

* "Catch Hatch" from ''One Touch Of Venus''.

** The song in question is titled, quite appropriately, ''Give Us the Rope''.

* French Revolutionaries once again get their own song in ''LesMiserables'': "Do You Hear the People Sing?"

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->-- '''The Mob''', "The Mob Song", ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''

[[AC:LaResistance]]

* RealLife French revolutionaries sang "?ira, ?ira, ?ira...les aristocrates ?a lant?e"; or, roughly, "string 'em up!"
** The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, started out this way too. Its lyrics are really bloodthirsty; it mentions a bloodstained banner on the ''fourth line'', and the chorus (y'know, the part that you repeat and actually remember) urges citizens to form up into battalions and kill their oppressors "until impure blood drenches our fields."

[[AC: TorchesAndPitchforks]]
* The aptly named "Mob Song" of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'', notable for containing TorchesAndPitchforks.

* "Savages" in ''{{Pocahontas}}''.

* ''Hang the Bastard'' from ''CannibalTheMusical'', meant to sound as much as possible like a cheery old-school-style excuse-to-dance number.
* ''Deep in the Darkest Night'' from ''Dracula''. An exception, in that (depending on the production), it may be a crowd song sung by the angry mob, or a solo song that Jonothan 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.
* ''Stakes and Torches'' from 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 AngryMobSongs 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").

* The satirical song "The Angry Mob" by the Kaiser Chiefs is about a middle class angry mob getting riled up by things reported in the British press.
* ''Where will you stand when the flood comes?'' from {{Parade}}, in which the demented evangelist Tom Watson whips up hatred and violence against local Jews (sadly this is BasedOnATrueStory).

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* "The Chase" from ''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 ensemble version of "Tonight" from ''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.
* Variation: "Guinevere" from ''Camelot,'' "City On Fire" from ''SweeneyTodd'' and "City Under Seige" from ''Der Glockner Von Notre Dame'' are more like choruses ''about'' angry mobs than the songs of the mobs themselves.
* "Blame Canada", also from ''SouthPark''.
** Which was ''nominated for an Oscar.'' [[CrowningMusicofAwesome 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.

* "Down with the Flowers of Progress!" in GilbertAndSullivan's ''Utopia, Ltd.''

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