# 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:** 2
**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, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/21 "2025-09-16T12:37:32Z")
Vampire — Olivia Rodrigo In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins ---
**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, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/22 "2025-09-16T12:38:42Z")
“I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You” - Sam Theard, 1929 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/23 "2025-09-16T12:48:09Z")
Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/24 "2025-09-16T12:49:49Z")
American Jesus by Bad Religion. this one skewers American exceptionalism and the idea that God is on our side [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7tYM7Myb8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7tYM7Myb8) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/25 "2025-09-16T12:57:13Z")
“Trouble Every Day”- The Mothers of Invention ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/26 "2025-09-16T13:00:24Z")
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan Southern Man - Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/27 "2025-09-16T13:57:23Z")
**Troy** - Sinéad O’Connor **God is a Bullet** - Concrete Blonde **Narcisista** - The Warning **Malo** - Bebe **Won’t Get Fooled Again** - The Who ---
**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, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/28 "2025-09-16T14:02:17Z")
“Feelings” - The Offspring (with slight tweaks to the original lyrics) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XnhoIf8dDVE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGBwgWCh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLBmOhyorA744kwOz_NU9ApNBGcZlA "The Offspring - Feelings") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhoIf8dDVE) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/29 "2025-09-16T14:20:23Z")
Cee-Lo Green wrote “Fuck You” (supposedly about his record label) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/30 "2025-09-16T14:22:54Z")
“The Way I Am” - Eminem ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/31 "2025-09-16T15:07:27Z")
“The Sound of Silence”. Disturbed got it right. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/32 "2025-09-16T15:10:40Z")
Amyl and the Sniffers, _[Gacked on Anger](https://youtu.be/hONV6GQl0ow)_ (On second thought, that’s not seething anger at all so much as just, well, angry anger. Still a killer song) ---
**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/33 "2025-09-16T15:17:55Z")
Had Enough / John Entwistle _I’m gettin’ sick of this universe_ _Ain’t gonna get better; it’s gonna get worse_ _And the world’s gonna sink with the weight of the human race_ _Hate and fear in every face_ _I’m gettin’ ready and I’ve packed my case_ _If you find somewhere better, can you save my place?_ ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/34 "2025-09-16T15:23:19Z")
Going Underground by The Jam Although The Jam were often angry so you could add Eton Rifles, That’s Entertainment and others. Babylons Burning by The Ruts At The Edge by Stiff Little Fingers Like The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers had quite a few angry songs. Best of You by Foo Fighters TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/35 "2025-09-16T15:54:10Z")
Fables of Faubus - Charles Mingus ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/36 "2025-09-16T16:06:51Z")
American Woman by The Guess Who. And… 90% of punk rock songs. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/37 "2025-09-16T16:57:04Z")
“I’m Not Your Mother” - Blake Babies “Superconnected” - Belly “Vision Thing” - Sister of Mercy “Dame with a Rod” - Juliana Hatfield “That was the Voice” - Andy Prieboy ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/38 "2025-09-16T18:18:09Z")
“I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You,” Alan Parsons Project “All Is Said and Done,” Vertical Horizon “Anger,” Assemblage 23 ---
**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, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/39 "2025-09-16T18:44:08Z")
“If You Hadn’t, But You Did” (from _Two on the Aisle_) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4G7gE16OWO0/maxresdefault.jpg "If You Hadn't But You Did from Two On the Aisle, 1951 (Vocal)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7gE16OWO0) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/40 "2025-09-16T18:54:46Z")
“Hit ‘Em Up” - 2Pac I always used to imagine my dog was reciting the end of this song whenever he was barking at another dog. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072.md?page=3)