History MoodWhiplash / Music

* Traci Lords ''1000 Fires'' has some dark lyrics throughout, culminating in the penultimate track "Father's Field", where the vocals consist of [[RapeAsDrama a spoken first person monologue about being raped]] - it's immediately followed by "Okey Dokey", the most upbeat sounding track on the album, which is full of goofy WordSaladLyrics and includes Traci giving a mock-[[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardsCeremonies Oscar acceptance speech]].

* Traci Lords ''1000 Fires'' has some dark lyrics throughout, culminating in the penultimate track "Father's Field", where the vocals consist of [[RapeAsDrama a spoken first person monologue about being raped]] - it's immediately followed by "Okey Dokey", the most upbeat sounding track on the album, which is full of goofy WordSaladLyrics and includes Traci giving a mock-[[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardsCeremonies Oscars acceptance speech]].

* Music/{{Blondie}}'s ''Parallel Lines'', with the upbeat "Hanging on the Telephone," "One Way or Another" and "Picture This" followed by the dark and moody "Fade Away and Radiate." It is done again on the second side with the pop-punk "Sunday Girl" followed by the disco-blues "Heart of Glass," and then the hyperactive "I'm Gonna Love You Too."

* The second-to-last song on Music/FleetwoodMac's ''Music/{{Tusk}}'' is the tense and paranoid TitleTrack, with its stage whispered vocals and brass band shootout. The very last song is the welcoming Christine [=McVie=] love song "Never Forget".

* The first four verses of "Up The Junction" by Music/{{Squeeze}} describe how the protagonist fell in love with and married the girl of his dreams, how they were poor but happy because they had each other, and culminates with the birth of their daughter, and it seems like he has everything he could want in life. Then there's a two-year TimeSkip and the last two verses reveal that he developed a drinking and gambling problem which destroyed his marriage and his wife has broken off contact with him, leaving him alone and miserable (and too stubborn to try and make amends with her). All with [[LyricalDissonance the same upbeat, cheery melody]] as the first two-thirds of the song.

* Music/DirEnGrey's album ''The Marrow of a Bone'' starts off with a slow alt-metal power ballad. It is then followed with several really aggressive songs, and the album doesn't slow down again for a while.

* The Music/FooFighters' [[[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut album]] starts with the slightly heavy "This Is A Call" and the full-on aggressive "I'll Stick Around"... and then comes [[SurprisinglyGentleSong "Big Me"]] before some more heavy tracks. (in the GreatestHitsAlbum too, though follow-up "Breakout" builds the sonic assault instead of being straight-up like predecessor "Monkey Wrench")

* On the Theatre/DearEvanHansen soundtrack, the upbeat "Sincerely, Me" is sandwiched between the [[TearJerker Tear Jerkers]] "For Forever" and "Requiem."

* Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP 1 has the incredibly graphic and disturbing song "Kim" with Eminem shouting throughout almost the entire song which will most likely cause a reaction. Immediately following this... we get the much light hearted track "Under The Influence" which Eminem most likely wrote while he was high

* Music/MrBungle's entire act is based on GenreRoulette, which is, to a lesser extent, present in related bands Music/FaithNoMore (shares a lead singer with Mr. Bungle from ''The Real Thing'' onward, and Mr. Bungle's guitarist is part of the band on ''King For a Day...Fool For a Lifetime'') and Music/SecretChiefs3 (which is led by Mr. Bungle's guitarist and bassist), so it's to be expected that this trope would crop up often in their works. The king of musical MoodWhiplash, however, is undoubtedly Mr. Bungle's ''Disco Volante'', which has, in order, [[StylisticSuck an intentionally bad song]] [[BlackComedy about a serial killer using his yearbook as a hit list]], a track that consists of scatting over a church organ playing what sounds like circus music, a sequel to a track on the first album that plays lockjaw for BodyHorror, a funky unlisted track (that's [[HiddenTrack hidden in a double groove on vinyl release]]) where the bassist [[StepUpToTheMicrophone steps up to the microphone]] to sing in an exaggerated old man voice about how he's been kicked out of the band, a [[GenreMashup Middle-Eastern techno song]], a spoken word Italian-language track with lyrics depicting domestic violence, a [[TearJerker dist]][[NightmareFuel urbing]] song about child abuse that ends in a skit depicting [[RapeAsDrama what sounds like sexual molestation]], a sequel to the song about lockjaw that plays the body's four humors for BodyHorror, a song with lyrics gurgled in a nonsense language, [[EpicRocking a 10-minute instrumental that describes the feeling of drowning]], a playground song about [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]], a song about a platypus, and then Merry Go Bye Bye, a song that is itself made of MoodWhiplash and GenreRoulette, and a BonusTrack that consists of the band making silly noises on their instruments and screaming obscenities.

* On ''Boys for Pele'' by Music/ToriAmos, the nonsensical and silly "Mr. Zebra" is followed by "Marianne", a gloomy song about the death of the titular girl.

* The entirety of ''[[Music/DaftPunk Human After All]]'' is just one, long whiplash. It starts off with the cool, rollicking title track, then jumps right into terror and madness with "Prime Time of Your Life". Then it goes into the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesomeness that is "Robot Rock"]]. Then the unsettling hissing of "SSSSTEEEEEEEEAMMM! MACHIIIIIIIIINE!". After that, you have the calm, somewhat saddening "Make Love". Then right back into madness with "I AM THE BRAINWASHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Then On/Off happens. Then back to EpicRocking with "TELEVISION. RULES THE NATION." Once more into madness with "Technologic", then into the somber ballad "Emotion".

* Kurage-P's album Music/DiaryOfUnderageObservation is a very depressing album about the lives and troubles of various teenagers in a Japanese high school, through the lens of a girl who records all their lives in her diary due to being too afraid to talk to them. Well, very depressing ''except'' for ''Dance! VR! Dance!'', which is pretty much just "OK Boomer" in song form.

* Heilung is great at this. Example from their first album, "Ofnir": ''Schlammschlact'' is a spoken-word poem about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, describing in gruesome detail the slaughter of the Roman Legions, finishing with the most horrifying, gut-wrenching screams imaginable. It's followed by the extremely quiet, haunting ''Carpathian Forest''.

* From Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/AftermathAlbum'': the beautiful, Elizabethan-sounding ballad "Lady Jane" is sandwiched between the decidedly less romantic "Stupid Girl" and "Under My Thumb".

* Music/SufjanStevens' album ''Illinois'': From "They Are Night Zombies" to "The Seer's Tower", the music and lyrics get progressively darker, culminating in the lines ''"Still I go to the deepest grave / where I go to sleep alone." This is immediately followed by the jaunty piano intro of "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders".