Top Five on Friday @ The Music MemoirsTop 5 songs that horrify you! (And tell us why) interpret as you see fit.Hmmm... how to interpret. I've done posts about scary songs (ie. at Halloween time)... that kind of "horrifying"... and posts about horrifyingly BAD songs. This time I think I'll just go with general "feeling" ... what the song illicits in me.
1. Kim - Eminem
Just completely over the top violent and yes, horrifying! The first time I heard this I couldn't make it all the way through it, took me a couple of times to sit down and give it a listen all the way through. It left me feeling sick. I'll spare you sound clips or YouTube links etc. If you haven't heard it and are morbidly curious, go look it up.
2. Sister Morphine - The Rolling Stones (and Marianne Faithfull)
Marianne I do believe wrote the lyrics, and she recorded it during the sessions for "Let It Bleed"... the Stones would release it later on "Sticky Fingers". I'm not sure they ever gave her proper credit for it. Just the most vivid imagery of a man (accident victim?) lying and dying in his hospital bed begging for the sweet relief of morphine... It just chills me.
...come on, sister morphine, you better make up my bed'cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah
and you can watch all the clean white sheets stained red.
3. 107 Steps - Bjork
This comes off "Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Dancer in the Dark". I think you need to see this film if you haven't yet, and experience the songs therein in context. Horrifying? I mean the story had its moments. But the entire movie just left me feeling so strange. This was the culmination, the execution of Selma.
107 Steps being the number of steps from the holding cell to the site of execution. She's counting them...
4. Piggies - The Beatles
It was written by George Harrison as a wry social commentary. But I can't listen to it without immediately flashing to the word "PIG" scrawled in Sharon Tate's blood, a fork sticking out of Leno LaBianca's stomach... It's automatic, and I can't help it.
5. The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) - Stravinsky
What's horrifying?
This piece actually started A RIOT, man! A RIOT! Rock and roll.
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