Tracks you find mildly disturbing

Offset

I'll set the ball rolling.  I adore this track but it always freaks me out a little.  The video is also... interesting.

Me And The Devil by the truly great Gil Scott Heron.

Moe_Zambeek

Blackstar by Bowie

JezWynd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhXT5KkyfRo

EricTheWeary

The Boiler by The Special AKA featuring Rhoda Dakar. 

(or The Boiler by The Bodysnatchers as it was originally recorded for a Peel session)

You have to get toward the end when it becomes quite disturbing. 

I’ll have to check out the Heron track. 

blobb

Rock Bottom

EricTheWeary

blobb said:

Rock Bottom

By Lindsey DePaul and Mike Moran? 

blobb

Yes, that will do. But I was thinking Robert Wyatt... a different kind of disturbing.

rivercider

Subject matter/lyrics definitely disturbing. Steve Albini always controversial.

 

cruxiform

EricTheWeary said:

The Boiler by The Special AKA featuring Rhoda Dakar. 

(or The Boiler by The Bodysnatchers as it was originally recorded for a Peel session)

You have to get toward the end when it becomes quite disturbing. 

I’ve only listened to that song once for that very reason. 

CoffeeAndTV

Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down - Ween. If you’ve never heard it, please don’t. 

In fact, there’s nothing mild about it. 

tone1

https://youtu.be/DuaIBGwEUfo

blobb

Vin Garbutt did a few if you want songs that maybe make you feel a bit uncomfortable about certain subjects. It's completely deliberate though, and effective.

The Fear of Imperfection / Linda (about aborting disabled babies, and why maybe you shouldn't) and Little Innocents (population control)  are probably his most well known ones, but Dish of Glass (that's a petri dish, testing on foeutuses) and One Legged Beggar (you'll get nothing from me, said the Englishman, on holiday in Hammamet) fit the bill.

Define disturbing? 

Litterick

I find the Antlers' Kettering mildly disturbing because it is about dying (it is a track on Hospice, a concept album about a relationship between a hospice worker and a patient) and because it is called Kettering – a faintly ridiculous place in Northamtonshire where shoes are made, and also the name of a fanzine of old British comedy. The song is insufferable:





Van Morrison's T.B. Sheets, also about dying, is more than mildly disturbing.

ewal

I love Hospice - one of these albums that has to be listened to from start to finish.

Bellycaster

Strung Out - Van Halen

Funkfingers

blobb said:

Define disturbing? 

It is fairly easy to disturb some people using the song R.E.S. by Cardiacs.

Mark Hollis' eponymous solo album isn't exactly a bundle of laughs.

Anything involving Peter Brötzman and Bill Laswell should frighten off the Classic FM audience.

Nurse With Wound. 

Shrews

No one is innocent - Sex Pistols

But that 2nd verse makes me uncomfortable 

"God save Martin Boorman
And Nazis on the run
They wasn't being wicked, God
That was their idea of fun
God save Myra Hindley
God save Ian Brady
Even though he's horrible
And she ain't what you'd call a lady"

Nothing else they've done makes me turn down the speakers, just that one verse. It sort of crosses a personal line for me using the Moors murderers and Nazi sickos to be deliberately provocative.

munckee

PIL The Order of Death after hearing it for the first time while watching Hardware with a chemically altered mind.

scrumhalf

Shrews said:

No one is innocent - Sex Pistols

Originally called "Cosh The Driver", apparently. 

BillDL

Sometimes "disturbing" is good in music.  For example Rory Gallagher throws in loads of quite disturbing dissonant notes that make a heavy blues song almost veer into a cross between Arabic and Celtic at times, but I love the immediacy and fire of his playing and it works.  A similar thing happens in old Jefferson Airplane songs that include Papa John Creach on the electric violin.

axisus

The two for me are Aphex twin Come to daddy and Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

Both largely due to the disturbing videos, which are below if anyone wants to see them