# Songs of searing anger! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072 "2025-09-16T00:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/1 "2025-09-16T00:10:43Z")
These are songs that sound to me like they were written and/or recorded in a white-hot blaze! Love ‘em. Contributions welcome. I Wish Them All Dead - The Wonder Stuff How Do You Sleep - John Lennon Let Him Dangle - Elvis Costello Pills And Soap - Elvis Costello Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello Fortunate Son - CCR Bloody Well Right - Supertramp I Hurt You - The Pretenders Rockin’ In The Free World - Neil Young For A Thousand Mothers - Jethro Tull Lone Star Song - Grant Lee Buffalo ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/2 "2025-09-16T00:39:11Z")
“You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette, of course. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/3 "2025-09-16T00:42:22Z")
“You’re Breaking My Heart” / Nilsson ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/4 "2025-09-16T00:54:04Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Let Him Dangle - Elvis Costello > > Pills And Soap - Elvis Costello > > Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello And… “I’m Not Angry.” How about Dylan, “Masters of War.” Marianne Faithfull, “Why’d You Do It.” ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/5 "2025-09-16T00:54:11Z")
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” - Twisted Sister ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/6 "2025-09-16T01:02:08Z")
“War” - Edwin Starr ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/7 "2025-09-16T01:02:49Z")
Positively Fourth Street - Bob Dylan These two are protest songs, so they’re probably supposed to be angry. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire. Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash & Young ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/8 "2025-09-16T01:09:03Z")
“Do You Hear the People Sing?” from _Les Miserables._ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/9 "2025-09-16T01:17:52Z")
Broadway has quite the range of angry songs: “I Hate Men” - Kiss Me, Kate “I Could Do Without You” - Calamity Jane “We’d Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover” - Annie ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/10 "2025-09-16T01:17:55Z")
“You’re No Good” by Linda Ronstadt or any of the other people who recorded it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/11 "2025-09-16T01:32:11Z")
“I’d Rather See You Dead” / Pat Travers ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/12 "2025-09-16T01:37:36Z")
“Death On Two Legs” - Queen “Your Dictionary” - XTC “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” - Bruce Cockburn ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/13 "2025-09-16T01:37:44Z")
These Boots Were Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra L. David Sloane – Michele Lee Hooray For Hazel – Tommy Roe ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/14 "2025-09-16T01:57:21Z")
How to be dumb - Elvis Costello ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/15 "2025-09-16T02:04:11Z")
The Pixies - Something Against You [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jFO9OxiXU4U/hqdefault.jpg "Pixies - Something Against You (Surfer Rosa full album playlist)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFO9OxiXU4U) Ministry - Thieves [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lhLd18Xg6x0/maxresdefault.jpg "Ministry- Thieves") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhLd18Xg6x0) Slayer - War Ensemble [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jqnC54vbUbU/maxresdefault.jpg "Slayer - War Ensemble") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqnC54vbUbU) The Crucifucks - Hinkley Had a Vision [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kjm9HwtQxjY/maxresdefault.jpg "Hinkley Had a Vision") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjm9HwtQxjY) Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3NZGbD236fw/maxresdefault.jpg "Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy @ TAICOCLUB'14") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZGbD236fw) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/16 "2025-09-16T03:00:58Z")
The entire catalogue of the Sex Pistols ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/17 "2025-09-16T03:30:30Z")
Shitlist - L7 Fuck You - Lily Allen One of These Days - Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/18 "2025-09-16T12:07:59Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > The entire catalogue of the Sex Pistols “I Hate the Bloody Queen”, by The Queen Haters [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ThrkJKxRNXo/hqdefault.jpg "The Queen Haters "I Hate The Bloody Queen"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThrkJKxRNXo) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/19 "2025-09-16T12:20:14Z")
Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/20 "2025-09-16T12:28:55Z")
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