Decadent mainstream music

[AdamLehrerImageMaker]

Amazing topic.

Kanye West "NIgga Heil Hitler" and "Cousins" are obvious recent ones

Nirvana "Polly"

The Smiths "Suffer Little Children"

Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Korn "Daddy"

The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter"

Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska"

Pearl Jam "Jeremy" (the music video actually scared me when I was a kid)

The Associates "Dates and Numbers"

Geto Boys "Mind of a Lunatic"

Lady Gaga featuring R Kelly "Do What You Want"

Morissey "Jack the Ripper"

Captain Beefheart "Dachau Blues"

Sublime "Date Rape"

Definitely stretching the definition of pop music here but I actually love all of these songs.

[NightsAquarium]

Korn "Daddy"

Good one. That first Korn record is, for my money, as avant-garde as the first couple Abruptum records, the first few Today Is The Day records, or De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. The band's subsequent influence on popular culture and rock music has done a lot to obscure just how strange, innovative and, at times, genuinely shocking their first few albums still are.

[Kaaoskultti]

It's hard to find something so genuinely heavy, while at the same time holding a mainstream appeal to it. Fisrt six albums are masterpieces - the other stuff I don't care for. Life is Peachy is noise as it gets, and Kill You track really does the justice of displaying traumatic parenthood experiences in an unnerving yet "catchy" style. Wonder what Mikko thinks about Korn."Ginna Heil Hitler"? Well, didn't seem it coming, heh.

[NightsAquarium]

It's hard to find something so genuinely heavy, while at the same time holding a mainstream appeal to it.

Life Is Peachy, Pantera's The Great Southern Trendkill and Slipknot's self-titled are, from what I've seen, generally regarded as the most extreme and uncompromised albums to sell millions. I don't disagree - more extreme records came out on major labels throughout the 1990s, but none of them filled stadiums.

[BatteredStatesofEuphoria]

Pantera's The Great Southern Trendkill

Trendkill also had Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt contributing screams on several of the tracks including this one. So, technically, you can say an AC member charted in the Billboard Top 10.

I saw them touring for this and the pit for this song was one of the most insane I ever witnessed, just for the sheer massive SIZE of it.

[host body]

Alica In Chains Dirt
Honestly shit like Mötley Crüe is pretty decadent, and hair metal in general. Also rap music, can't get more decadent than shit like Mystikal (was in jail for rape incidentally) or UGK. I dunno, does anyone listen to rap music here? Cos I guess that would be the most decadent of music genres as far as lyrical content goes.

Tales from the tour bus is a great show about this shit, country & funk have their own seasons. I really wish Mike Judge would make one about jazz artists, bet there's some crazy stories.