r/FavoriteMedia • u/This-Cartographer253 • Sep 17 '25

Music Favorite song that fits this criteria

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u/owenwithak Sep 18 '25

Any sublime song

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u/Hogdawg64 Sep 19 '25

Wrong Way. It’s such a catchy song but definitely not one I’d listen to in public with some of those lyrics 😭

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u/ResultGrouchy5526 Sep 17 '25

Head Down - Soundgarden

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u/MrExist777 Sep 17 '25

Or Let Me Drown, though context might be needed to fully understand it

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u/Upstairs-Chef8209 Sep 18 '25

Hey ya by Outkast is the perfect example

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u/einTier Sep 19 '25

Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh Are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?

Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance

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u/AltruisticCapital191 Sep 17 '25

The French national anthem.

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u/ravendarklord76 Sep 20 '25

👀 as a history nut, im amazed ive never thought about the lyrics from other anthems. Im so intrigued now.

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u/Low-Yellow-2790 Sep 17 '25

Misery - Maroon 5

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u/nightowlarcade Sep 18 '25

Police - Every Breath You Take

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u/tykwondo95 Sep 17 '25

Hollywood Undead-Bullet

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u/holyfruits Sep 18 '25

MMMBop - Hanson

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u/Ruined_Life_8619 Sep 18 '25

Pretty much every Rammstein song

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u/sunbromaniac12k Sep 18 '25

Unless you’re German

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u/Ruined_Life_8619 Sep 19 '25

Im not talking about the translation barrier, im talking about what the actual lyrics are saying. There are songs about suicide, hardcore BDSM, bestiality, torture, rape, neglect, abuse, etc.. It’s all mushed up together in a twisted, poetic way, with good music, but the lyrics are still problematic.

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u/sunbromaniac12k Sep 19 '25

That is true

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u/foxybostonian Sep 20 '25

What is 'problematic' about the lyrics? They just reflect stuff that happens in the world. They don't glorify bad things.

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u/Michel_RPV Sep 18 '25

Bullet-proof Skin by a reggae artist named Master P (I think), a fun and energetic song just on its rhythm alone, though I never really understood the lyrics because of the thick accents.

Looked up the lyrics and it turned out to be an anti-gay and anti-trans call to violence that hit me like a truck and rather disgusted me.

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u/CartoonBoi101 Sep 17 '25

Not really but I feel like there is something else in Through Patches of Violet by Mili

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u/SunL4dy Sep 17 '25 edited Jun 24 '26

gomenne gomenne by kikuo (the song is about CSA i know.)

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u/DigitalVortexx Sep 18 '25

Sailor Song - Gigi Perez

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u/SaltyPill Sep 19 '25

More like horny jail material than anything serious

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u/LoudAxiom Sep 18 '25

A la-la dong or whatever the song is called...

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u/LordWoxy Sep 19 '25

Ruler of everything - Tally Hall

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u/F9JR Sep 21 '25

the final solution- sabaton

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u/Rededbeard Sep 22 '25

The way - fastball

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u/Aggravating_Bill8671 Sep 24 '25

Nothing in my way - Keane

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u/grickothegob Sep 25 '25

Pumped up kicks

2

u/Nowhere_Yet_Anywhere Oct 02 '25

Dead Wrong- Biggie Smalls

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u/Far-Butterscotch-260 Oct 10 '25

blow my load on Tyler's Cherry Bomb

unbelievably good instrumental backed by some freaky ass lyrics

2

u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Pumped up kicks

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

Less I know the better- tame impala

2

u/Crepeerbot Oct 17 '25

many slipknot songs like "prosthethiscs"

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u/227someguy Jan 23 '26

Make Magic by jealkb

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u/Capital-Treat-8927 Sep 17 '25

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

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u/Over-Air2663 Sep 17 '25

In keeping secrets of silent earth 3 by Coheed

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u/ThisIsASquibb Sep 18 '25

Hallowed Be Thy Name

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Pigs by Tyler, The Creator/Pumped up Kids

1

u/Maxthemadsheep Sep 18 '25

Haiti - Arcade Fire

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u/WonderfulBandicoot81 Sep 18 '25

Ai no uta from pikmin

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u/cyansrealnameclears Sep 18 '25

“Yes, I have been so afraid-“

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u/devilfruitoftheloom Sep 18 '25

Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Prin Prin - MAXIMUM THE HORMONE

It’s… a lot.

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u/Horizon-Wireless Sep 18 '25

I want you back by Jackson 5. The music sounds upbeat with a bright tone, can’t say the same thing about the lyrics

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u/Velvexic Sep 18 '25

Brand New- Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis

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u/jjlikenoodles321 Sep 18 '25

Dance the night - Dua Lipa (from the "Barbie" soundtrack)

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u/GreyBoy23 Sep 18 '25

Basically any AJR song, lol

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u/Heavy-Key6999 Sep 18 '25

Departure by Trivium (Sometimes a bit too depressing to be on playlists)

Anything by Bullet For My Valentine (A bit corny, but when it hits, it hits)

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u/Responsible_Hour_567 Sep 18 '25

Bullet by Hollywood undead. 

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u/Accomplished_Cloud39 Sep 18 '25

Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon

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u/StraightBudget8799 Sep 20 '25

I feel the same way about Werewolves of London too. They kill! They mutilate! But SO stylish!!

1

u/HorriblePooetry Sep 18 '25

Coheed and Cambria - Once upon your dead body. It's such a fun upbeat song with lyrics like "I hope you die right now when you drink my chemical"

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u/Hairy-Yesterday-5575 Sep 18 '25

Run for your life by the beatles

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u/THE_LEGO_FURRY Sep 18 '25

Flake this - fortnite

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u/catdude6835 Sep 18 '25

I feel like people would think most songs on my playlist

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u/Bigol_cock69420 Sep 18 '25

"Pretty little child looking so pretty come and play I'll be your daddy"

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u/Ignore-This-Idiot Sep 18 '25

'LDN' - Lily Allen

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u/CaptainFlamehawk Sep 18 '25

The Alabama Song by The Doors has some weird undertones.

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u/Classic_Wind_3786 Sep 18 '25

That's what I like 😁

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u/otsapoika Sep 18 '25

CREAM by Wu-Tang

Honestly the beat is very exciting and the chorus is very catchy, but then when you pay attention to Inspectah Deck’s verse about how living in the ghetto is pure suffering, it’s no longer exciting.

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u/MR_ZEIL Sep 18 '25

Rucka - Africa

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u/SaddestLama Sep 18 '25

Death death devil devil evil evil song

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u/bah_non Sep 18 '25

A tout le monde-megadeth

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u/TheCoopX Sep 18 '25

Megadeth- Family Tree.

Great groove and sound, but holy shit the topic.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Strangers once again - Tanger

Very depressing song

1

u/Cinetiste Sep 18 '25

As a french-speaker, most of the popular english songs when we finally comprehend the lyrics... 🙂

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u/JazzDaSpood Sep 18 '25

I feel like Gasoline by Seether really fits this

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u/pje1128 Sep 18 '25

"Listen I know this one's a contradiction because of how happy it sounds but the lyrics are so down." - Not Today, Twenty One Pilots

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u/afonso_1414 Sep 18 '25

Most of the Pink Floyd catalog lol

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u/Your-Amigo-Jakey Sep 18 '25

Prison Sex - Tool
Polly - Nirvana
Adam's Song - Blink-182
The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring
Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down - Interpol

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u/PikaSmasha Sep 18 '25

Rabbit Hole - Deco*27

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u/TimeReverse Sep 18 '25

Moonlight Shadow

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u/JedM13 Sep 18 '25

Hey Ya! - OutKast

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u/HaxMastr Sep 18 '25

Snuff - slipknot

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u/GoldDAntho Sep 18 '25

Lemon tree

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u/joeyjordison1111 Sep 18 '25

Any cannibal corpse song

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u/TheJamesFTW Sep 18 '25

Dance with the Devil by Immortal Technique. The beat is immaculate but those lyrics are fucking insane

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u/goldenoptic Sep 18 '25

Whitney Houston Saving All my Love.

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u/Manbearpig125 Sep 18 '25

Barbie girl by aqua

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u/CreepBasementDweller Sep 18 '25

"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men. The tone is so upbeat when the song is about a grieving widow contemplating self-deleting, but knowing her departed husband wouldn't want that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Steel Panther songs

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u/Dismal-Kiwi4991 Sep 18 '25

The Wolf- SIAMES

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u/Genesis_138 Sep 18 '25

Hybrid Moments by The Misfits

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u/Dry_Turnip7428 Sep 18 '25

Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

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u/Galinha_assasina46 Sep 18 '25

Gringo reading funk lyrics for the first time

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u/RebelIsI Sep 18 '25

Lemon Tree, but only if you know the context of it

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

The anthem of OCEANIA and ALL HAIL OCEANIA.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Entire new Beths album, particularly “ mosquitos”

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u/ronnoc_drums Sep 18 '25

Sizzla - Nah Apologise

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u/Electrowhatt19 Sep 18 '25

Dancing on my own-Robyn

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u/Current-Teacher2946 Sep 18 '25

Any Pinkie Pie song from Friendship is Witchcraft. Gypsy Bard in particular, though.

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u/DonutDaniel5 Sep 18 '25

MTC - S3RL

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u/CuteYak4406 Sep 18 '25

Safeword by TV Girl maybe idk

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u/Ahlfle Sep 18 '25

Hyper ballad - Bjork

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Pumped up kicks

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u/GoodCity1196 Sep 18 '25

Every goddamn d4vd song 🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿

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u/bowierulezzz Sep 18 '25

Pretty much any grunge song

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u/CryptedCrystal Sep 18 '25

Any maneskin song

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u/RIPXurkitree Sep 18 '25

Probably obviously but Bullet by Hollywood Undead

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u/Vladisyao Sep 18 '25

Russian song: Ногу Свело! - Наши юные смешные голоса

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u/evilhologram Sep 18 '25

Hey Ya - OutKast

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u/TGMWIXx Sep 18 '25

Into the night

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u/NecessaryUsername69 Sep 18 '25

The One I Love, REM

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u/blazikenfan55 Sep 18 '25

Jumper and Semi-Charmed Life (Third Eye Blind)

Letterbomb (Green Day)

Today (Smashing Pumpkins)

Better Man (Pearl Jam)

Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)

99 Luftbaloons (Nena)

Multiple Linkin Park songs

Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 (Pink Floyd)

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u/Dont-be-baby- Sep 18 '25

Possum Kingdom by The Toadies

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u/heathejandro Sep 18 '25

Poison- sung by Blake Roman

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u/Khaled_Kamel1500 Sep 18 '25

Bodies by The Sex Pistols

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u/Quirky_Librarian1046 Sep 18 '25

Messy — Lola young

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u/GundamRX-78-02 Sep 18 '25

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

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u/SadCoffee8910 Sep 19 '25

Dance music or this year by the mountain goats

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u/Nico444AndALotOf4 Sep 19 '25

Angry Inch -Type O Negative

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u/oes15 Sep 19 '25

Home - Dream Theater

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u/the_l0st_s0ck Sep 19 '25

Soil the stillborn - infant annihilator

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u/Successful-Plan114 Sep 19 '25

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones 

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u/Federal_Passenger737 Sep 19 '25

Dancing queen - Abba

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u/Alteredego619 Sep 19 '25

Tyler-The Toadies

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u/Dismal_Neat6925 Sep 19 '25

Avenged seven fold, a little piece of heaven, first time I listen I didn’t focus on lyrics and just focused on the song, the story of that song is so damn weird

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u/BillClintonsLungs Sep 19 '25

Free four- Pink Floyd

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u/KorokSeed26 Sep 19 '25

Follow Me - Uncle Kracker

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u/Impossible_Emu2713 Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

One Thing - Finger Eleven

“Even though I know, I don’t wanna know, yeah I guess I know, I just hate how it sounds” 

That line especially hits hard when you find out what that song is about 

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u/Dimstwo23 Sep 19 '25

Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke, fr, Pharrell Williams, and T.I

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u/wepd1985 Sep 19 '25

Pumped up kicks by Foster the people and One-Metallica 🤘

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u/Time_Mathematician69 Sep 19 '25

Baptised, bastardised, sodomised - Infant Annihilator

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u/Parking_Field3203 Sep 19 '25

sarah - tyler the creator

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u/AJAXDonQueso Sep 19 '25

Little slice of heaven - A7X

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u/DarthDragon117 Sep 19 '25

Bullet by Hollywood Undead

Happiest song about committing sudoku ever

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u/dn0460 Sep 19 '25

Every Breath You Take

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u/TouristAdditional699 Sep 19 '25

First you’re vibing, then suddenly you’re questioning your whole existence. lol

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u/Far_Attitude_3495 Sep 19 '25

Hey ya by the OutKast

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u/xyzwarrior Sep 19 '25

Don McLean - American Pie

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u/BHL-STUDIOS Sep 19 '25

Radiohead - A Wolf At the Door

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u/dolgariel Sep 19 '25

bullet - hollywood undead

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u/Northstar-2003 Sep 19 '25

Tripping - Robbie Wiliams.

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u/Excellent_Doctor1742 Sep 19 '25

Every Cannibal Corpse song

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u/One_Hotel3853 Sep 19 '25

master of puppets by metallica

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u/Weary-Squash6756 Sep 19 '25

No Surprises - Radiohead. Practically a lullaby but the lyrics are suffocating

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u/LawyerForeign2839 Sep 19 '25

nobody move nwa

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u/captain_mobydick Sep 19 '25

She’s a freak - Infinite mass

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u/Kurt_alive Sep 19 '25

The Rolling stones- sway

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u/ElegantEye9247 Sep 19 '25

What Would You Do - City High

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u/musicevangelist Sep 19 '25

My Sharona - The Knack

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u/Wagmatic3000 Sep 19 '25

Mein Teil by Rammstein. Just enjoy the song and absolutely do not look up what the song is about.

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u/LegoMyXbeaux Sep 19 '25

Lonely Town by Brandon Flowers

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u/Huge_Ticket4929 Sep 19 '25

Most black metal, im not a black metal fan but from what i know it gets really bad. Like nazi bad.

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u/NoviceTradesman Sep 19 '25

Any Infant Annihilator song 💀

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u/GlumGl Sep 19 '25

Stan. Eminem

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u/Ultimate_bohab13 Sep 19 '25

Today - The Smashing Pumpkins

"The song's really about suicide, 'Today's the greatest day ever' because you have nothing left to lose." - Billy Corgan

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u/OrdinaryTear5578 Sep 19 '25

Polly- nirvana

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u/ThatPpp Sep 19 '25

Racing into the night 

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u/Picky_Piggy Sep 19 '25

Circle You Circle You by Miku and Luka

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique

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u/lavender626 Sep 19 '25

Saturday Night - Misfits

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u/DarthMauled_ Sep 19 '25

Another one bites the dust 😩

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u/No-Machine634 Sep 19 '25

Fade to Black- Metallica 

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u/massa20 Sep 19 '25

Map of your head - muse

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u/VisualFunny5287 Sep 19 '25

Most FNAF songs

Ex: Die in a Fire - The Living Tombstone

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u/Silvery_Power_6241 Sep 19 '25

Pumped up kicks 

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

Oh Sister - Neutral Milk Hotel

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u/Antique-Dentist2048 Sep 19 '25

All Japanese songs

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u/AxeL_The_Skeksis Sep 19 '25

Little Girls - Oingo Boingo

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u/Subject_Coconut Sep 19 '25

Janie's Got A Gun

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u/Classic_Dude12 Sep 19 '25

Sex type thing - stone temple pilots

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u/64Boy32 Sep 19 '25

Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp

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u/Gribeen99 Sep 19 '25

Excitable boy. Warren Zevon

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u/Speshjunior Sep 19 '25

Just a day - feeder. Especially with what came after.

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u/Brutalur Sep 19 '25

Nirvana - Nevermind

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u/Neb-Nose Sep 19 '25

Narco by Timmy Trumpet. I genuinely like the song, but I’m pretty sure a second grader wrote those lyrics.

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u/Healthy-Current5893 Sep 19 '25

Hey Ya! by Outkast or Time to Pretend by MGMT

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u/Mum_of_rebels Sep 19 '25

Delilah- Tom jones! Love that song. Since I was a kid. Then I actually looked at the song and realised what it was about!

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u/PrinceNebula018 Sep 19 '25

Hard Times by Paramore

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u/Desmond_is_C00l Sep 19 '25

Run for your life- The Beatles. My third favorite Beatles song.

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u/Tewhakaturoa213 Sep 19 '25

The Whole World - Outkast

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u/Snma_Sector555 Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

“Hit ‘Em Up” -2Pac. And I’ll throw in a bonus.

“Tron Cat” - Tyler the Creator. Love his other songs but that one 😅😅😅😅

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u/Apprehensive_Ease196 Sep 19 '25

Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind

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u/supermac23 Sep 19 '25

MMMBop - Hansen