Apparition in the Woods
7. Too implicit and devoid of actual violence to go any higher, but the "punchline" is nasty and morbidly funny enough to push it up there.
Sutcliffe Jügend, "Blue Rabbit"
(Blue Rabbit, Crucial Blast, 2012).
Don't worry, the lyrics are very clear and easy to follow here.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
I like noises.
Well, that's a 10 for sure, what's with the serial killer "artful violence" approach. Goes from metaphorical to outright graphic really quick, and even before that I'm pretty sure that all that stuff about swallowing rabbits implies rape of some kind, as far as I can discern from behind all the droning.
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
It's a 7. The song mentions sex, but it doesn't get high on the scale.
De La Soul-Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faiER856zQU
https://genius.com/De-la-soul-millie-pulled-a-pistol-on-santa-lyrics
Sexual abuse of a child that leads to a Patricide. An 8.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds feat. Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow
6 or 7:Extremely Dark, but not graphic
W.A.S.P.: Chainsaw Charlie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkN43YsV0Ec
edited 28th Apr '17 10:22:18 AM by J79
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Actually, Chainsaw Charlie is about corruption in the music business, no real "murder" (well, except for the whole "murders in the new morgue" line, but that's a metaphor for the music industry).
As for the Third-Eye-Blind song, i'd go 7 or 8. Its about addiction to crystal meth (something that went over the heads of everyone who used it for movie trailers in the 90s)
Alice In Chains-Get Born Again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNblGS0yeU
Includes a lamentation for a fallen friend, pretty depressing lyrics in general, but they're too scatterbrained to rank higher than a 5.
Tony Jay - Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame OST)
A 5 or 6. Really dark for a Disney song, describing lust and threats of her burning in hell, but it doesn't get to explicit.
Now time for one of Rush's darkest songs, depicting child abuse:
edited 6th May '17 10:10:48 AM by WhatArtThee
Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutrin
6 - Empowering and vigorous though it plays things too close to the mundane and everyday to really be gut-wrenching.
This song creates a very depressing, apocalyptic imagery, but its poetic style softens the blow a bit, 8.
Chelsea Wolfe - They'll Clap When You're Gone
A solid 10. Very dark song about depression and suicide.
edited 9th May '17 1:20:12 PM by Scarecrow4774
“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” - Lewis Carroll
I like noises.
An 8, as it's a song about pointless war, although a light one because of how hammy it is.
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
An 8. Very depressing and cynical.
Time for a classic Pink Floyd existential rummination:
Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutrin
Contemplation of the nature of time, and how it affects us, lamenting its passage. A 5 or 6.
Spiral out, keep going.
6. It's about an old soldier at a sale for cheap possessions. Kind of depressing, but nothing harsh.
Author.
A 6 or 7. It has some dark lyrics but there not that dark.
Van Der Graaf Generator-A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
edited 22nd May '17 7:11:44 AM by pointless233
9.5 - Poetic, metaphor laden nihilism that sounds as bitterly delusional as it does violent in how pseudo-surreal it comes off.
The song that tells about an Assimilation Plot merits at least a 9 on the scale, and the one that draws attention towards the pointlessness of it is even more so.
Spiral out, keep going.
Kind of dark, as it's about a person with a Dark and Troubled Past who ends up burning everything down. 7.
Around a 6.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane:
Spiral out, keep going.
I'll give it a 6. Was tempted to bump it up to a 7 but the only real "objectionable" content is the violence, which I don't think is detailed enough to carry it up to a 7.
Moistboyz- The Walker
edited 27th Jun '17 5:06:37 AM by FingerPuppet
7. I don't know what the meaning is but there's an F-bomb in the chorus so that puts it up there.
There's pretty dark subtext in these lyrics. The song is clearly hinting at something... although what, exactly, it is is anyone's guess, as it never goes beyond innuendos and implications. A 4.
Abney Park - Airship Pirate
edited 18th Apr '17 6:12:21 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.