# I wanna kill something -- song ID

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**Created:** [June 16, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675 "2015-06-16T15:00:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675/1 "2015-06-16T15:00:59Z")

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There was a song from the '80s that had the lyric _I wanna kill something_ or _I want to kill something_. At the time, I was listening to New Wave and various other forms of Rock. New Wave was mostly played on KROQ, while Arena Rock, ‘hair bands’, and such tended to be played on the late, lamented KMET. I’m pretty sure I would have heard the song on the latter station.

Any idea what song this was, and who played it?

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**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675/2 "2015-06-16T15:38:43Z")

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Probably not what you are looking for since the timing is so far off, but worth a shot I guess…

Desaparecidos had a song called “The Happiest Place on Earth” on their record released in 2002 with the lyric:

“I got a letter from the Army so I think that i’ll enlist. No i’m not brave or proud of nothin, I just want to kill something”

One of my favorite records by the way.

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**Author:** ![Sasori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sasori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasori)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675/3 "2015-06-16T16:14:06Z")

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[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fUSElZw4OE) one is from 1988: A House _I want to kill something_. Not really hairy, though.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675/4 "2015-06-16T16:16:33Z")

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> [@Sasori](#):
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> [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fUSElZw4OE) one is from 1988: A House _I want to kill something_. Not really hairy, though.

I think that’s it! More New Wave than I remembered, but then I only remembered the one line.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-kill-something-song-id/722675/5 "2015-06-17T02:55:29Z")

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Wow, that’s like if David Byrne fronted Midnight Oil.

:listens to another, “Kick Me Again Jesus”: Now he sounds like Steve Kilbey.

:and another, “Call Me Blue”: Doing Edge-style guitar, hitting a U2esque groove.

Interesting. They’re solid, varied, and right smack dab in the conventions of the era. I don’t really remember them, but then I’m not Irish.

[I Am Afraid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fERtdrY7jW8) is pretty cool.