Songs for rage
June 25, 2022 5:36 AM   Subscribe

At the gym running and weightlifting. Todays the day for rage music.

Expanding the aggro playlist. Suggestions?

Gen x but time period doesn’t matter. Just a reference point.

Short list currently has Eminem, the Pogues, Neutral Milk Hotel.
posted by A Terrible Llama to Media & Arts (50 answers total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
Kill Culture—The Hate
posted by Slinga at 5:49 AM on June 25, 2022


"New Noise" by Refused
posted by drezdn at 5:51 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


RATM!
posted by lalochezia at 5:54 AM on June 25, 2022 [6 favorites]




Big Black - Cables
posted by box at 5:58 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


Million that you never made - ani difranco
Dear god - xtc
(Those two aren’t necessarily musically ragey the whole way through, but there’s definitely rage)
Break stuff - limp bizkit (I mean not a great song but it feels right)
posted by obfuscation at 6:05 AM on June 25, 2022 [3 favorites]


Tracks off the Doom (revival) & Doom Eternal soundtrack are great for this. Driving, instrumental-heavy (but not fully instrumental), etc. Here's an example "Workout Mix" setlist.
posted by CrystalDave at 6:35 AM on June 25, 2022


Bikini Kill
posted by Toddles at 6:42 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


I Fight Dragons's cover of Weezer's "Why Bother" from the 8-bit cover album.
posted by brainwane at 6:46 AM on June 25, 2022


Sail - AWOLNATION.
posted by Mid at 7:01 AM on June 25, 2022


Run the jewels: Kill your masters (Spotify link)
posted by Acari at 7:04 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


I made one of these a few years ago:

Asian Dub Foundation Naxalite
Actually, their Fortress Europe is ragier, but I couldn't, weirdly, find a good download.

From a Gen X standpoint, you can't go wrong with Public Enemy: 911 is a joke, By The Time I Get To Arizona, etc.

This Is Free Europe by Attila The Stockbroker has a particularly good chorus about punching nazis.

Gunboat, by Spoek Mathambo

Much of Owen Pallett's album In Conflict really does it for me - not precisely rage but a lot of rage-adjacent feelings. It was superb for the gym, back before the pandemic. The Riverbed

Second Rate, Skeleton Crew.

Oddly, I am very fond of Eddy Grant's famous eighties hit, Electric Avenue, which is about the anti-police riots in Brixton.
posted by Frowner at 7:06 AM on June 25, 2022 [3 favorites]


Tilt!, punk band led by Cinder Block, e.g. Libel

Motörhead, particularly Orgasmatron

Jagged Little Pill, of course

Hole

Garbage

Prodigy as above

Savages e.g. Silence Yourself

Polly Harvey e.g. Rid of Me

Solar Race, a Manchester band led by Eilidh Bradley, their whole album e.g. Not Here

Veruca Salt, Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear etc.

Sally's Pigeons by Cyndi Lauper if you anytime need to just fucking SOB instead.
posted by runincircles at 7:44 AM on June 25, 2022


Head like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails

And if you can take growling and screaming and insanely fast guitars and drums...then my freshmen year roommate's* fav: Deicide.


* - This was a very surprising to my young, naïve ears
posted by mmascolino at 7:55 AM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


Also!
Jingo de Lunch, Berlin punk metal band led by Yvonne Ducksworth

And her current band Treedeon, if your headphones have REALLY good bass
posted by runincircles at 7:55 AM on June 25, 2022


Whitehouse, of course.
posted by remembrancer at 8:05 AM on June 25, 2022


And, related, Consumer Electronics.
posted by remembrancer at 8:08 AM on June 25, 2022


Sleater Kinney Number 1 Must Have
posted by Ardnamurchan at 8:10 AM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


“London Calling” by The Clash
posted by argonauta at 8:12 AM on June 25, 2022


And!
Jane Horrocks doing a chillingly rage-filled performance of Cabaret is v cathartic.
posted by runincircles at 8:14 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


Pixies Monkey Gone to Heaven.

REM I Took Your Name.

Sinead O'Connor Jerusalem.
posted by virago at 8:28 AM on June 25, 2022


When I need incoherent screaming, Nirvana is the thing:

Nirvana territorial pissings
Nirvana stay away
Nirvana scentless aprentice
Nirvana milk it
Nirvana radio friendly unit shifter
Nirvana tourette's
posted by DrumsIntheDeep at 8:41 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


Sonic Youth, Shoot, a slow burn but fitting for the circumstances

Hole, Violet

Sleater-Kinney, Entertain

Sleater-Kinney,Call the Doctor, especially the line “your life is good for one thing, you’re messing with what’s sacred”
posted by corey flood at 8:41 AM on June 25, 2022


The Coup- The Guillotine
posted by zamboni at 8:43 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


Run The Jewels - "Close Your Eyes and Count To Fuck" (and basically all of the first side of RTJ2)
Killer Mike - "Big Beast"
Dillinger Escape Plan - almost anything on Calculating Infinity
basically any grindcore - I'm a big fan of Discordance Axis and Full of Hell and Pig Destroyer
Clipping. - "Nothing is Safe" and "Say the Name"
most of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power
lots of great stuff from NWA and early Ice Cube, particularly from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
posted by Special Agent Dale Cooper at 8:50 AM on June 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


When I need incoherent screaming, Nirvana is the thing:

Thou (sludgecore) did a fucking awesome album of Nirvana covers, Blessings of the Highest Order
posted by Special Agent Dale Cooper at 8:52 AM on June 25, 2022


Bad Brains - Big Takeover
Big Daddy Kane - Wrath of Kane
Bikini Kill - Feels Blind
Black Flag - Rise Above
Crass - Do They Owe Us A Living
Heavens to Betsy - Stay Away
Main Source - Just A Friendly Game of Baseball
Ministry - Burning Inside
M.O.P. - How About Some Hardcore
Painkiller - Scud Attack
Public Enemy - Shut 'Em Down
Slayer - War Ensemble
posted by box at 9:01 AM on June 25, 2022




X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage! Up Yours! ("Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard").

L7: Shitlist.

And, of course, Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam.
posted by virago at 9:11 AM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


Living Colour, Cult of Personality (and indeed, most of Vivid)

Jim Carroll Band, People Who Died

The Clash, I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)

Vince Staples, Opps
posted by praemunire at 9:13 AM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]




Linkin Park - One Step Closer
posted by sigmagalator at 9:47 AM on June 25, 2022


Geto Boys - Fuck A War
Killing Joke - Change
NIN is great for this - Head Like A Hole has already been mentioned - the whole album is great: Pretty Hate Machine
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 10:44 AM on June 25, 2022


Animal Pearl Jam
posted by effluvia at 10:51 AM on June 25, 2022


It is Not Enough Gang of Four
posted by Windopaene at 10:56 AM on June 25, 2022


Rise Against - State of the Union

Star Fucking Hipsters - The Broken Branches

Tender Defender - f.e.f.e.

Iron Chic - Cutesy Monster Man
posted by General Malaise at 11:05 AM on June 25, 2022


Aggrotech will channel your rage for a high-intensity workout.
Distorted Memory - Ask the Dying (from the timely Burning Heaven)
Combichrist - Sent to Destroy
Suicide Commando - The Pleasures of Sin
Grendel - Don't Tame Your Soul
posted by backwoods at 11:28 AM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


GODFLESH - a whole bunch of tracks
J Dilla - Jungle Love
Rob Zombie - Scum of the Earth
Rob Zombie - American Witch
Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
Biggie feat. Eminem - Dead Wrong
Biggie - Watchu Want
posted by cubeb at 12:30 PM on June 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


The Distillers - Seneca Falls
L7 - Pretend We're Dead
Le Tigre - FYR
The Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control (esp Soulwax remix)
Against Me! - Black Me Out
The Thermals - A Pillar Of Salt (really, the entire album - The Body, The Blood, The Machine. A loose concept album "tell[ing] the story of a young couple who must flee a United States governed by fascist faux-Christians.")
posted by Superilla at 1:12 PM on June 25, 2022


Basically all 1990s PNW girl punk

I listened to Burn the White Flag by Joseph a lot while getting divorced, for a totally different genre. My browser won’t let me link but it’s here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=el1QWfnYy_c
posted by centrifugal at 2:47 PM on June 25, 2022


Maybe not as ragey as you want, but when I need to let it out, I turn some Joan up to 11. Do Ya Wanna Touch in particular, because at about the 2:40 mark, the background vocals change a bit. Instead of "touch me", etc., we get "fuck you, fuck me, FUCK EVERYBODY!!" just buried in the mix enough that it's not obvious. And then I feel better, because Joan has my back.

(The video is a nightmare, don't watch it, just listen.)
posted by SuperSquirrel at 3:28 PM on June 25, 2022


Big fan of sick by ceremony
posted by kpmcguire at 4:09 PM on June 25, 2022


I saw Vita and the Woolf perform Bury You during the Kavanagh hearings, which she specifically referred to when she introduced it. It's maybe not gym music but it is full of haunting rage.
posted by sepviva at 6:23 PM on June 25, 2022




Huh, I always thought supernaut was by MC 900 foot jesus. Anyway, you want to listen to nomeansno!

joyful reunion
Brother Rat/what Slayde Says
dead bob
manic depression
Here's an 8 minute live clip from 1990!

Be careful they run dark.
posted by vrakatar at 9:28 PM on June 25, 2022


Nobody's mentioned Bodies by The Sex Pistols. It's kind of hard to tell if it's pro or anti-abortion [it's about an abortion], but the rage quotient is very extremely high. I don't know every song on this list - but the ones I do know don't really compare.
posted by The_Vegetables at 10:24 AM on June 26, 2022




Ice T- Bodycount early rap/metal with that Ice T.
posted by The_Vegetables at 10:49 AM on June 26, 2022


When you are still mad, but it's dying back a bit and it's mixed with dark humor:
Zeke -Rhiannon cover of the fleetwood mac song done screamo style.

McLusky - To Hell with Good Intentions

McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
posted by The_Vegetables at 11:00 AM on June 26, 2022


Response by poster: Huge thank you everyone -- I have a nice long angry playlist I am still adding to for high powered seething and muscle building so I am ready for this timeline.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 11:39 AM on July 1, 2022


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