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• [1] NJTom from Bayonne, NJ March 13, 2009 - 01:56PM

  "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd. The music slowly builds to a crescendo as the title words are the only one's spoken in the song. It is followed by screaming and a musical movement that seems to revel in the release of violence.

  
  
• [2] Lori from Montclair, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:03PM

  I offer my personal faves "Doll Parts" by Courtney Love and "Goodbye Earl" by The Dixie Chicks.

  
  
• [3] Rich from Union City March 13, 2009 - 02:04PM

  Two you can't play, but certainly fit:

  H-A-T-R-E-D - Tonio K.

  You're Breaking my Heart - Harry Nilsson

  
  
• [4] Audrey from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 02:07PM

  "I Hate You So Much Right Now" by Kelis. It was like a wrathful anthem a few years ago.

  
  
• [5] NJTom from Bayonne, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:12PM

  Wrath is quite a bit more than anger.

  
  
• [6] Rick from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 02:13PM

  Social Distortion - I Was Wrong

  Song about an abusive father and angry teenager.

  
  
• [7] Rick from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 02:15PM

  I Was Wrong by Social Distortion

  Song about an angry abusive father and teenager angry at the world.

  
  
• [8] Maria from Brooklyn, NY March 13, 2009 - 02:17PM

  Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings".

  
  
• [9] Ted Shred from Atlanta March 13, 2009 - 02:18PM

  Axe, Eugene - great one! There are so many punk and probably rap ones it is hard to begin, so I'll go a different direction... Hate, a song by Sting's son's band Fiction Plane, is a poppy but fun take on being superior and angrily indignant about it.

  
  
• [10] Ian from Brooklyn, NY March 13, 2009 - 02:18PM

  From hip hop, what about Queen Latifah's "Wrath of my Madness" from her classic debut album, 'All Hail the Queen.'

  
  
• [11] John from brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:22PM

  wow what about Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind"? pure wrath.

  
  
• [12] Lori from Montclair, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:22PM

  I agree with NJTom

  Wrath:

  1 : strong vengeful anger or indignation

  2 : retributory punishment for an offense or a crime : divine chastisement

  
  
• [13] Bob March 13, 2009 - 02:22PM

  'Norwegian Wood'

  I think most people don't realize it ends with the girl's house being burned down.

  
  
• [14] Stephen from Greenpoint, Brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:23PM

  We can't forget Blondie's "One Way or Another."

  
  
• [15] jessica from Colonia, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:25PM

  I suggest the song "Caught Out There" by Kelis. I'm not even a fan but I remember hearing it once and the chorus states over and over "I hate you so much right now" and I thought how ridiculous. But it is so obviously and overtly wrathful I had to mention it.

  
  
• [16] Niina from Brooklyn, NY March 13, 2009 - 02:25PM

  Oh, and "Professional Widow" by Tori Amos. Esp. some live recordings. Doesn't get much more wrathful than that.

  
  
• [17] Kevin from Union City, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:26PM

  you guys should check out "Puke" by Eminem. you feel how hurt and how angry he is... as long as your checking out Eminem might as well check "Kim", where Eminem kill his wife on the song....

  
  
• [18] John from brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:26PM

  also the Commendatore scene in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is brought to the underworld after refusing to repent.

  
  
• [19] Jennie Livingston from Brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:27PM

  wrathful songs:

  on romance, Bob Dylan's "Dirge"

  ("I hate myself for loving you")

  on violence against women, including verbal biolence, Queen Latifah's U.N.I.T.Y. ("who you callin' a bitch?")

  on injustice in particular on wrath and revenge, "They all deserve to die" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd

  
  
• [20] Matthew K. from New Jersey March 13, 2009 - 02:28PM

  I'd have to say "Pluto" by Bjork - the lyrics reassure that "I'll be brand new tomorrow" but not until she "gets this body off me" The music is punky synth abuse and several reviews of the album (Homogenic) even called the track unlistenable, noise, etc. I used to think so, too - until I heard it at the right time!

  
  
• [21] John from brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:29PM

  what about the commendatore scene in Mozart's Don Giovanni? After refusing to repent Don Giovanni is dragged into hell by the ghost of the commander.

  
  
• [22] Ringo from UWS March 13, 2009 - 02:29PM

  What about James Horner's score to the movie "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan"? Music to underscore an entire film about wrath and its consequences.

  
  
• [23] yves beauvais from saugerties ny March 13, 2009 - 02:30PM

  do not forget the mekons' "revenge". hell the band even had an LP called "Revenge of the Mekons." Words for that song: "Revenge ain't so sweet, but it'll have to do, revenge is about as sweet as I feel about you."

  
  
• [24] Stephanie from Brick, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:30PM

  I think the whole genre of 'metal' (in all of it's ranges, from Death Metal to Black Metal) is the pure embodiment of wrath ranging from the epic to personal. Most can't be played on the air, but "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica can be. Other artists include Megadeth, Cannibal Corpse or Slayer.

  
  
• [25] Mark from Edison, NJ March 13, 2009 - 02:31PM

  My favorite anger song is Don Henley Must Die by Mojo Nixon since it is so arbitrary. My favorite lyric:

  Don't let him get back together

  With Glenn Frey!

  Don Henley must die!

  
  
• [26] yves beauvais from saugerties ny March 13, 2009 - 02:32PM

  MEKONS

  "Revenge"

  Revenge ain't so sweet but it'll have to do

  revenge is just about as sweet as I feel about you"

  
  
• [27] TG from Bushwick March 13, 2009 - 02:32PM

  "Gaucho" by Steely Dan

  
  
• [28] Ted Shred from Atlanta March 13, 2009 - 02:32PM

  Screaming for vengeance, anyone? Metallica? Most of Nirvana. You can be wrathful in content, or in delivery. But guys, the Angry Dance? How in the scale of angry is that; maybe an angry kitten dance or something...

  
  
• [29] yves beauvais from saugerties ny March 13, 2009 - 02:34PM

  or else new orleans songster Glynn Styler

  "You killed my Love

  You committted romanticide

  When you said you were not satisfied

  With an asshole Like Me"

  
  
• [30] Jim from Brooklyn March 13, 2009 - 02:34PM

  How about the mother of all angry songs-- A Boy Named Sue?

  
  
• [31] delmore from queens March 13, 2009 - 02:35PM

  i'm gonna burn your playhouse down--graham parker

  
  
• [32] Sarah Bennington from Chicagp March 13, 2009 - 02:35PM

  This is an old one: how about Eve of Destruction?

  I agree with the Norwegian Wood comment.

  
  
• [33] Bob from Glen Rock, New Jersey March 13, 2009 - 02:36PM

  If you want to find wrath in Broadway musicals look to Chess by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus with lyrics by Tim Rice. The song, Pity the Child is a 5 minute screaming rant angainst everyone - parents, former girlfriends, chess partners, etc. When Chess didn't do so well on Broadway, one critic said it was because the characters were angry all the time.

  
  
• [34] Phillip from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 02:36PM

  john!!!! WHY IS NOONE MENTIONING ANY PUNK!!! Cmon....Minor Threat, Black Flag, the list goes on and on!!!

  
  
• [35] Paul Oertel from Bernardsville, New Jersey March 13, 2009 - 02:37PM

  These two songs are full of youthful, righteous anger.

  We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister and Anthem 2000 by Silverchair

  
  
• [36] Harris B. from Harlem March 13, 2009 - 02:38PM

  In Kina's song, "Girl From the Gutter", she is getting back at her mean ex-boyfriend through her success in life:

  "...I hope your hell is filled with magazines

  And on every page you see a big picture of me

  And under every picture the caption should read

  Not bad for a girl from the gutter like me..."

  
  
• [37] Paul from Bernardsville, New Jersey March 13, 2009 - 02:39PM

  These two songs are full of youthful, righteous anger.

  We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister and Anthem 2000 by Silverchair

  
  
• [38] Margaret Pettit from Huntington New York March 13, 2009 - 02:39PM

  How about the song from the play "Chicago" - "He Had it Coming." As evident from the location of where the girls are singing the song, their wrath got the best of them.

  
  
• [39] Mary Ellen Meehan from Next door to former governor Spitzer March 13, 2009 - 02:42PM

  MARY FROM MANHATTAN

  THOSE BOOTS WERE MAKE FOR WALKING BY NANCY SINATRA

  
  
• [40] Silvia-anna Goldsmith from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 03:01PM

  How about "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy".

  I saw the original with Merman, and I still remember her cries, "For Me!", so angry!!

  
  
• [41] Silvia-anna Goldsmith from Manhattan March 13, 2009 - 03:08PM

  How About "Rose's Turn" from "Gypsy". When she

  cries out at the end,

  "For Me!" For Me!" For Me!" she is addressing

  the fates, the heavens and all the powers

  that be. I saw Ethel Merman in the original and I am always haunted by her cries of anger, and the seeming injustice of its never being

  for her, like a knife slashing the air, and

  destiny itself.