Angriest Lyric/Vocal

11-14-07: Audiofeil
"One of These Days"
Pink Floyd

Bill, "One of these days I'm going to chop you into little pieces"? C'mon, that's not anger, surely you can do better than that. ;^}

I can't beleive there is no Black Sabbath yet. How about Sabbath Bloody Sabbath or War Pigs?

Metallica had some anger issues too:
Am I Evil?
So What?
Whiplash

Henry Rollins: Liar

Danzig: Mother

Cheers,
John :)

Pantera was a glam/spandex act for many years before they realized that toughening up would help them sell records (if in disbelief, check Wikipedia.) "Am I Evil" is a cover (Diamond Head), not even a Metallica original.

Neither scrape the surface of what is possible from aggressive, heavy music. Try some genuine, bile-spitting heavyweights like Demolition Hammer or Destruction, that's the stuff!

"Idiot Wind" is way up there. Graham Parker does have a select few. as do "The Pogues". Oh you want titles? I'm getting old, I forget...

angry begins with Slayer. old metallica, black sabbath get honorable mentions.

but really, didn't it all start w/ pete townsend: "hope i die before i get old"?

also, check out modest mouse; not so much the lyrics as the delivery by isaac brock, which is new & remarkable.

Yes, it seems to all have started with Pete and "My Generation". Although Dylan's (and Woody Guthrie's, and others) protest songs pre-date Townshend, those protest songwriters were angry about some particular issue. The Who were just plain angry.

God bless you, Pete.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Elvis Costello, who has written some of the angriest songs of all. "Tramp the Dirt Down", his song about Maggie Thatcher, comes immediately to mind.