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Carne_Asada · 06-27-2003, 06:07 PM

What are the greatest all-time disaster songs? You know, songs like Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Teen Angel, New York City Mining Disaster. I'm thinking of compiling a cd of "Head in the Oven Music" and your input would be appreciated...

ratbastid · 06-28-2003, 08:06 AM

Don't forget "Leader of the Pack".

Vrooom Vroooooom......

rockzilla · 06-28-2003, 11:06 AM

Nautical Disaster - Tragically Hip
Last Kiss - The Pearl Jam cover or the Frank Wilson original

hotzot · 06-30-2003, 10:39 PM

Smoke on the water!!

Eggy · 07-01-2003, 12:48 AM

Definately "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam.
"Elevator" by Boxcar Racer is about a suicide jumper, and someone who watched it happen from the street, I don't know if that really counts.

frankx · 07-15-2003, 05:28 AM

Sylvestre Matuschka by Lard - about the crazy guy who used to get off by dynamiting train bridges and listening to the crashes.

Scratch · 07-15-2003, 07:50 AM

Jim Carroll - People who died
Boomtown Rats - I dont like Mondays

Troublebot · 07-15-2003, 08:22 AM

The Ledge- by The Replacements

shinji · 07-15-2003, 10:54 AM

yaphet kotto - the killer was in the government blankets

rev_skarekroe · 07-15-2003, 11:03 AM

Avondale Mine Disaster, by any number of people. sk

Derwood · 07-15-2003, 11:14 AM

That Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" is wretched. Awful. Inexcusably bad. Put the original on there.

crow_daw · 07-15-2003, 11:23 AM

Undying Love by Nas is pretty fucked up.

BulletBob · 07-15-2003, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Derwood
That Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" is wretched. Awful. Inexcusably bad. Put the original on there.

You sir, are wrong.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night covered by Nirvana would probably be a good one to put on the album as well. Or you could put the original song In The Pines by Ralph Stanley on there.

monkeydriven · 07-15-2003, 12:20 PM

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Donkeypuncher · 07-15-2003, 12:20 PM

wow - fun topic! My first thoughts were "Edmund Fitzgerald" and "I Don't Like Mondays" but I'm hitting a wall after those...

hmmm...

Tool's "Aenema" could work... as an impending disaster

"Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still."

learn to swim!

MikeyChalupa · 07-17-2003, 04:48 AM

Pink Floyd (by that point, Roger Waters, really) Two Suns in the Sunset. About a guy who is in his car on the way home from work, and his city gets nuked.

-Mikey

Derwood · 07-17-2003, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BulletBob
You sir, are wrong.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night covered by Nirvana would probably be a good one to put on the album as well. Or you could put the original song In The Pines by Ralph Stanley on there.

'

No, I am right. Eddie Vedder couldn't sound worse if he was being choked with a dying cat.

CSflim · 07-17-2003, 12:10 PM

Disaster songs eh?

Anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor. How about...Dead Flag Blues? or maybe Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls.

Unknown Poster · 07-17-2003, 01:02 PM

"Sullivan" - Caroline's Spine

darksparkles · 07-18-2003, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eggy
Definately "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam.

what about the original?
then again, the original conveys almost no emotion and without the lyrics would sound downright peppy...
but ah well.

and "american pie" by don mclean.

perripken · 07-21-2003, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eggy
Definately "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam.
"Elevator" by Boxcar Racer is about a suicide jumper, and someone who watched it happen from the street, I don't know if that really counts.

Last kiss wasn't originated by Pearl Jam, so I don't think they should get the credit. It was originated by a chick band in the sixties and I wish I could tell you their name. Someone out there HELP! But that's ok, alot of people think that Metallica originated "Whiskey in the Jar" It was actually done by Thin Lizzy in the 70's.

OMFUG · 07-21-2003, 08:42 AM

Fire and Rain is always good.... also, High Speed Dirt by Megadeth and ... shit, I was thinking of a great one, and I lost it.

KWSN · 07-21-2003, 08:45 AM

This one is so fucking easy.

Thom Parrott - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy

Find a copy. Listen to it. There's no way in hell to disagree. It's one of the most heartbreaking songs ever written, if not THE most.

Dr.Who · 07-21-2003, 02:47 PM

I might sound silly but "Spanish Train" by Chris DeBurgh is one of my favorite, just for the word and the idea of having the world lost over a check game.

LivingDead · 07-22-2003, 09:44 PM

Live - Overcome (from 9/11)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Bob Dylan - You belong to me
Wycliff - Gone till november

monger1950 · 07-22-2003, 10:19 PM

Nena - 99 luft balloons
Harry Chapin - 30,000 lbs. of bananas

thumper · 07-23-2003, 01:18 PM

Kinda depends on your genre of music. Lot's of country disaster songs exist.

Wreck of the Old 97 - Vernon Dalhart, 1924 (1st country song to sell a million records!)
Town Of The Living Dead - Ron Sowell

hmm what about that "Tell Laura I Love Her" song. Depressing.

SecretMethod70 · 11-09-2003, 05:04 PM

put my vote in for Fire and Rain and American Pie.

Esoteric · 11-09-2003, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by crow_daw
Undying Love by Nas is pretty fucked up.

Indeed it is.

drown_with_me · 11-10-2003, 02:20 PM

How about "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean? That song always gave me the creeps as a child. The spooky background singers going <i>"Big John... Big John...."</i>

Tirian · 11-12-2003, 11:37 AM

Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry

"Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

h2ogo69 · 11-13-2003, 11:48 AM

Black sabbth - war pigs

killswitch engage - when darkness falls

slayer - seasons in the abyss

tool - aenima

06-27-2003, 06:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Carne_Asada Upright Location: California	Disaster Songs What are the greatest all-time disaster songs? You know, songs like Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Teen Angel, New York City Mining Disaster. I'm thinking of compiling a cd of "Head in the Oven Music" and your input would be appreciated... __________________ Kinky is when you use a feather. Perverted is when you use the whole chicken...

06-30-2003, 10:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
hotzot We're having potato pancakes! Location: stalag 13	Smoke on the water!! __________________ The Bully Boys are here!

07-15-2003, 05:28 AM	#6 (permalink)
frankx Psycho Location: The Tip of the Boot	Sylvestre Matuschka by Lard - about the crazy guy who used to get off by dynamiting train bridges and listening to the crashes. __________________ Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunken Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign

07-15-2003, 07:50 AM	#7 (permalink)
Scratch Upright	Jim Carroll - People who died Boomtown Rats - I dont like Mondays __________________ We thought that we had the answers It was the questions we had wrong - Bono

07-15-2003, 08:22 AM	#8 (permalink)
Troublebot Intently Rocking Location: Davey's	The Ledge- by The Replacements __________________ Howard Moon: The wind is my only friend. Wind: [whistling] I hate you.

06-28-2003, 08:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Don't forget "Leader of the Pack". Vrooom Vroooooom......

06-28-2003, 11:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
rockzilla Junkie Location: The Kitchen	Nautical Disaster - Tragically Hip Last Kiss - The Pearl Jam cover or the Frank Wilson original

07-01-2003, 12:48 AM	#5 (permalink)
Eggy Upright	Definately "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam. "Elevator" by Boxcar Racer is about a suicide jumper, and someone who watched it happen from the street, I don't know if that really counts.

07-15-2003, 10:54 AM	#9 (permalink)
shinji Upright	yaphet kotto - the killer was in the government blankets

07-15-2003, 11:03 AM	#10 (permalink)
rev_skarekroe Insane Location: Parts Unknown	Avondale Mine Disaster, by any number of people. sk __________________ "If I could have one wish, as in the fairy tales, I would unmake my past, and rise like Lazarus and stand in sunlight and banish all the dark." D. Tibet

07-15-2003, 11:14 AM	#11 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	That Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" is wretched. Awful. Inexcusably bad. Put the original on there. __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

07-15-2003, 11:23 AM	#12 (permalink)
crow_daw Idolator Location: Vol Country	Undying Love by Nas is pretty fucked up. __________________ "We each have a star, all we have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone who sees it will be blinded." - Earl Simmons

07-15-2003, 12:20 PM	#14 (permalink)
monkeydriven Addict Location: Boston	Sunday Bloody Sunday __________________ you think i got my eyes closed but i've been lookin' at you the whole f&ckin' time... ------------------------------------------------ Posting from the home of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox

07-15-2003, 12:20 PM	#15 (permalink)
Donkeypuncher Psycho Location: Pasadena, CA	wow - fun topic! My first thoughts were "Edmund Fitzgerald" and "I Don't Like Mondays" but I'm hitting a wall after those... hmmm... Tool's "Aenema" could work... as an impending disaster "Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves. Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still." learn to swim! __________________ "take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the Queen of The Underground"

07-17-2003, 04:48 AM	#16 (permalink)
MikeyChalupa Squid Location: USS George Washington	Pink Floyd (by that point, Roger Waters, really) Two Suns in the Sunset. About a guy who is in his car on the way home from work, and his city gets nuked. -Mikey

11-09-2003, 05:04 PM	#28 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	put my vote in for Fire and Rain and American Pie. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

07-17-2003, 12:10 PM	#18 (permalink)
CSflim Sky Piercer Location: Ireland	Disaster songs eh? Anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor. How about...Dead Flag Blues? or maybe Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls. __________________

07-17-2003, 01:02 PM	#19 (permalink)
Unknown Poster Insane	"Sullivan" - Caroline's Spine

07-21-2003, 08:42 AM	#22 (permalink)
OMFUG Insane Location: Philly	Fire and Rain is always good.... also, High Speed Dirt by Megadeth and ... shit, I was thinking of a great one, and I lost it. __________________ This space intentionally left blank.

07-21-2003, 08:45 AM	#23 (permalink)
KWSN green	This one is so fucking easy. Thom Parrott - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy Find a copy. Listen to it. There's no way in hell to disagree. It's one of the most heartbreaking songs ever written, if not THE most. __________________ Your arms are broken!

07-21-2003, 02:47 PM	#24 (permalink)
Dr.Who Insane Location: Part Unknow	I might sound silly but "Spanish Train" by Chris DeBurgh is one of my favorite, just for the word and the idea of having the world lost over a check game.

07-22-2003, 09:44 PM	#25 (permalink)
LivingDead Crazy	Live - Overcome (from 9/11) Pearl Jam - Jeremy Bob Dylan - You belong to me Wycliff - Gone till november

07-22-2003, 10:19 PM	#26 (permalink)
monger1950 Upright	Nena - 99 luft balloons Harry Chapin - 30,000 lbs. of bananas

07-23-2003, 01:18 PM	#27 (permalink)
thumper Tilted Location: Po-dunk	Kinda depends on your genre of music. Lot's of country disaster songs exist. Wreck of the Old 97 - Vernon Dalhart, 1924 (1st country song to sell a million records!) Town Of The Living Dead - Ron Sowell hmm what about that "Tell Laura I Love Her" song. Depressing.

11-10-2003, 02:20 PM	#30 (permalink)
drown_with_me Crazy Location: Philadelphia	How about "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean? That song always gave me the creeps as a child. The spooky background singers going <i>"Big John... Big John...."</i> __________________ "I wanna see the movies of your dreams..." - Built to Spill

11-12-2003, 11:37 AM	#31 (permalink)
Tirian Addict Location: Canada	Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry "Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

11-13-2003, 11:48 AM	#32 (permalink)
h2ogo69 Banned	Black sabbth - war pigs killswitch engage - when darkness falls slayer - seasons in the abyss tool - aenima