stepford
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Oh come on, I can't be the only curmudgeon around here with a perverse affection for such things...
Anyway, while there have been some pretty good distillations of bitterness in the music world for decades, my feeling is that the great decade for classic hate songs was the '90s:
Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails (and pretty much the whole Pretty Hate Machine album)
You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette
and lots of others.
Going back to the '60s Bob Dylan certainly had some bitter moments with:
Positively 4th Street
Like a Rolling Stone
Masters of War
and others, but these always seemed to me to be more about disdain than real hate. The Peace and Love ethos of the time seemed to make songs about hatred and bitterness less popular.
Once we get to the '70s and '80s, though, songs about the darker emotions seemed show up more. Lots of early stuff by Elvis Costello fits the bill (personal fave would be No Action). A bit later the Smiths and the Cure had all kinds of bitter songs on their albums - the title track of the Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me a particularly extreme example.
I could go on, but what are your favorite bitter nasty songs?
Anyway, while there have been some pretty good distillations of bitterness in the music world for decades, my feeling is that the great decade for classic hate songs was the '90s:
Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails (and pretty much the whole Pretty Hate Machine album)
You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette
and lots of others.
Going back to the '60s Bob Dylan certainly had some bitter moments with:
Positively 4th Street
Like a Rolling Stone
Masters of War
and others, but these always seemed to me to be more about disdain than real hate. The Peace and Love ethos of the time seemed to make songs about hatred and bitterness less popular.
Once we get to the '70s and '80s, though, songs about the darker emotions seemed show up more. Lots of early stuff by Elvis Costello fits the bill (personal fave would be No Action). A bit later the Smiths and the Cure had all kinds of bitter songs on their albums - the title track of the Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me a particularly extreme example.
I could go on, but what are your favorite bitter nasty songs?