Songs Where You Respect the Singer/Writer for their Honesty

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do you like any songs where, whilst you regard the sentiment expressed within as cruel, insensitive, perhaps even reactionary, you still end up respecting the singer and/or writer for actually coming out and saying what they do?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been listening to "Senile Get" recently by Julian Cope and feel that way about it. Do you know this song? It is about his wife's granny.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

anticon to thread

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It is about his wife's granny.

Isn't the instrumental, "Lelli B" on 20 Mothers also about said woman (in as much as an instrumental can be "about" something)?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remember, you may be right Alex, but I will have to go back and look at the sleevenotes to be sure.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ani D "Untouchable Face".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not extraordinary cruelty/insensitivity, but Richard Thompson's "End of the Rainbow", sung to a small child, has a lovely sentiment:

"All the sad and empty faces
That pass you on the street
All running in their sleep, all in a dream
Every loving handshake
Is just another man to beat
How your heart aches just to cut him to the core

Life seems so rosy in the cradle,
But I'll be a friend I'll tell you what's in store
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.
There's nothing to grow up for anymore."

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Went Back In Time And Voted For Hitler" - Anal Cunt

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Greg Dulli to thread.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Drowners by Suede

― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And Jenny from the Block by J-Lo

― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Alt-Country/Americana overearnest confessionals to thread. No, not really.
I think honest/integrity as a commodity is pretty lousy.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Morrissey on "November Spawned a Monster". I think we've argued about this before (whether he's sympathising or repulsed), but not many people write about retards.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

On most of Pinkerton, Rivers ends up coming off more as a shitty boyfriend than a victim, particularly in the song "butterfly". Despite its cheesiness, it gives me more respect for him. or at least it did until he started to brag that his new material had no emotional investment.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Randy Newman to thread. And he can bring Jarvis Cocker, too.

― sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

"Hitting You" -- Loudon Wainwright III
"Furry Sings the Blues" -- Joni Mitchell

― banjoboy, Sunday, 12 July 2009 21:39 (sixteen years ago)

Honesty is such a lonely word,everyone is so untrue

― Zeno, Sunday, 12 July 2009 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

There's lots of song where I respect the songwriter for being honest in the sense of confessing weakness and/or vulnerability, e.g., Jackson Browne's These Days ("Please don't confront me with my failures . . . I'm aware of them").

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

songs.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

"Boyfriend #2"

― and the ugly girls, too (Tape Store), Monday, 13 July 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

this is how i feel about all of "gentlemen."

― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Monday, 13 July 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

"i kissed a girl and i liked it"

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― matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 01:26 (sixteen years ago)

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