Decadent mainstream music

[murderous_vision]

Creep city...

https://youtu.be/qJFVPxBpezk

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Thank you everyone!

[absurdexposition]

Curiously there's been no mention of Nick Cave in this thread thusfar.

Murder Ballads has been on repeat as of late. All songs about murder, to some degree, obviously. First track 'Song of Joy' is about killing his family, getting away with it, and then going on to kill and kill again. Standout track might be O'Malley's Bar, in which he depicts himself getting off on being a tall & handsome heaven-sent angel brutally murdering everyone in the bar over the course of the 14+ minute duration of the song.

Also the album 'Your Funeral... My Trial'. The guy seemed to have an erotic fantasy about killing his wife.

[Rhan-Tegoth]

First posting here, so hello everybody!

Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV) - Samurai

A satirical (but weird) look at sex tourism (in Thailand as it set). Those who know/speak german language will get it!

Yes! EAV had a lot of dark social topics, similar to the already mentioned compatriot Falco. Musically it's not dark at all of course, it's one of these bands you listen to as a kid. That kind of Austrian morbidity you also find in the movies of Haneke or Seidl.

Not mainstream music, but HÜSKER DÜ - Diane is a very disturbing topic as well. It's about a real serial killer case, but from the perspective of the killer and not the victim.

[yosef666]

Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays (School shooting)

My ex-girlfriend's father was a reporter in San Diego. When the shooting happened his editor told him to call houses in the neighborhood to try to get information. The first call he made, he ended up talking to the girl doing the shooting from her window. He didn't believe her at first. When he asked why she was doing it she told him "I don't like Mondays."

Nothing to contribute to the topic at hand, just a weird connection to my life...

[NaturalOrthodoxy]

Chronik - Deepest Darkest

Awesome UK grime with a video that plays on some pretty brutal imagery about African paramilitaries. Reminds me of Dark Heart Katanga by Am Not. He's got another song called "Man in the Boot" which is pretty standard thug themes but still quite hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DH6Uaeo7nk

[cr]

The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs

One of my favourite songs ever.

[Duncan]

Chronik - Deepest Darkest

Awesome UK grime with a video that plays on some pretty brutal imagery about African paramilitaries. Reminds me of Dark Heart Katanga by Am Not. He's got another song called "Man in the Boot" which is pretty standard thug themes but still quite hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DH6Uaeo7nk

I guess chronik isn't too mainstream but yeah, if we're getting into this territory then your average grime tune contains more legitimate decadence, violence and vice than a bakers dozen of your most nasty industrial discographies.

[Andrew McIntosh]

The Tiger Lillies - Piss On Your Grave

At the risk of nit-picking I wouldn't qualify The Tiger Lillies in any way as mainstream. Commercially successful, yes, melodic, certainly, but they're not really the type of thing you'd expect to hear covered on "Your-Country's-Name-Here's Got Talent" or something like that. Mind, I'd love it if someone did do a cover of "Banging In The Nails" in front of a panel of has-been pop prats and an audience of fucking idiots.

[Deadpriest]

Probs been mentioned before but maybe not: Portishead; any of their stuff.

Tricky, who I think is one of the foremost exponents of trip hop, very lush sound and often not just a little dark.

Aphex Twin: Come To Daddy (should I be surprised that this has not been mentioned already?)

[THE RITA HN]

When you really crank it, the opening moments from the new Taylor Swift single '...Ready For It?' sounds like some Throbbing Gristle track or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62maKYX9tU

[Grimm]

Taylor Swift intro drill_type_of sounds absolutely rocked. Still mainstream can sound indie from time to time. Mainstream normally takes some components of indie music and parallels sections. For example Nicky Minaj backgrounds sound a little like Mika Vainio production, minimalistic. I dont really consider mainstream music cancerish, but the tempos are often same, maybe because of some human nrain synapses that make us consume more and subconciously certain labelled products or semantics? Really fascinating how the _usual_ tempos have taken place to walking phase of kids for example, and happen on spacememory in stores for example. Them people walking on metronome. God Bless musicwalkerconsumers hipjoints with oil. Kraftwerk absolutely the best mainstream artist no doubt.

[NaturalOrthodoxy]

Chronik - Deepest Darkest

Awesome UK grime with a video that plays on some pretty brutal imagery about African paramilitaries. Reminds me of Dark Heart Katanga by Am Not. He's got another song called "Man in the Boot" which is pretty standard thug themes but still quite hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DH6Uaeo7nk

I guess chronik isn't too mainstream but yeah, if we're getting into this territory then your average grime tune contains more legitimate decadence, violence and vice than a bakers dozen of your most nasty industrial discographies.

totally. I've talked with people in our world with no previous interest in rap who have been very turned on by grime because of the total sleaze and violence of it

[aububs]

Taylor Swift intro drill_type_of sounds absolutely rocked. Still mainstream can sound indie from time to time. Mainstream normally takes some components of indie music and parallels sections. For example Nicky Minaj backgrounds sound a little like Mika Vainio production, minimalistic. I dont really consider mainstream music cancerish, but the tempos are often same, maybe because of some human nrain synapses that make us consume more and subconciously certain labelled products or semantics? Really fascinating how the _usual_ tempos have taken place to walking phase of kids for example, and happen on spacememory in stores for example. Them people walking on metronome. God Bless musicwalkerconsumers hipjoints with oil. Kraftwerk absolutely the best mainstream artist no doubt.

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

"Blasphemous Rumours" by Depeche Mode. Rad lyrics + banging and clanging.