Songs about the Unfortunate Side of Life - Deaths, Divorces, Disasters, Drugs, Demons, all the bad stuff.

[64Zcode]

Jim Carroll was a poet/musician/basketball player/heroin addict.
He wrote a book about his life; "The Basketball Diaries" and wrote some pretty dark songs.

 

[Ozimoto]

I've got tons for this one. I'll start off with a couple of ones that most haven't heard.

 

[64Zcode]

 

[npignatjr]

 

[npignatjr]

 

[npignatjr]

 

[Scud49]

This is such a powerful song by James Brown, I'm surprised it isn't more well known:

 

[npignatjr]

 

[Ozimoto]

This one is about nuclear winter.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Hoops66]

"The largest manmade explosion prior to the atom bomb"

....

 

[64Zcode]

Song about addiction (composed by a teenager)

 

[JDuro]

 

[Hoops66]

 

[64Zcode]

Burton Cummings

 

[Hoops66]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Scud49]

 

[64Zcode]

George Harrison - Beware of Darkness:

Concrete Blonde also did a quality version of 'Beware of Darkness'.

This one is about a relationship with alcohol.

Concrete Blonde - Joey

Music video by Concrete Blonde performing Joey (Digitally Remastered).

www.youtube.com

 

[Scud49]

 

[OviedoFLHusky]

During my junior/senior years at UConn, one of the most compelling topics of conversation between my friends and I was Keith Richards' arrest in Toronto, and the subsequent shaky future of the band.

Guess we were all worried for nothing.... Simpler times! LOL

 

[UHF]

Rush. Manhattan Project.

 

[UHF]

Slayer. Angel Of Death. (Nazi Josef Mengele)

 

[UHF]

P.O.D. 2001. Youth Of The Nation. (School Shootings)

 

[Monte]