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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMore music threads! - Great songs about uncomfortable subjects:
Rape:
Incest:
(This one is especially gutsy, since it's the first track on the album after their big breakthough)
Post some more messed-up songs!
orleans
(34,067 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)Child abuse:
sakabatou
(42,165 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)distracting from the theme of the optimism and survivability of youthful ideals.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)eShirl
(18,495 posts)Coventina
(27,140 posts)"I Bombed Korea" by Cake
Skittles
(153,170 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)and his singing is good as always. Mix it up with some steel guitar and train noises though, and you've got something special:
Skittles
(153,170 posts)I kinda missed the word GREAT
redwitch
(14,945 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)Teenage Pregnancy, complete with the girl being disappeared by her religious family: "Samantha Pope" by Honeycrack
It's got a great line about abstinence only (or similarly vague) sex ed:
They could have told her more in class
Instead of mystery
They just used threats and photographs
Dressed as biology
They also had a song about rape called "No - Please Don't", but I couldn't find it on YouTube. I highly recommend the whole album. Great band, stupid name.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)This song destroys me every time. Brilliant band and Natalie Merchant could wring tears from a stone.
Coventina
(27,140 posts)This song makes me cry.
It's so on the mark.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Natalie Merchant's always thoughtful, often heart-rending lyrics and one-of-a-kind voice were never better served than when she was a part of 10,000 Maniacs.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Damn, the mid 90's were fun
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Coventina
(27,140 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,965 posts)Scarecrow (Murder of Matthew Shephard):
Coventina
(27,140 posts)Coventina
(27,140 posts)Kristin Hersh battled her illness very publicly, and had to fight in court for the right to spend time with her children.
Coventina
(27,140 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Hell
Girl stuffed in trunk
The ghetto