What song do you think perfectly encapsulates the feeling of "insanity"?

Submitted by LuXxHeart t3_z6jw9z in Music

For me, it's "Me, White Noise" from Blur's album Think Tank. It feels like multiple songs switching between eachother, with the spoken word parts having these dark, intrusive-thought sounding lyrics, going into Damon Albarn's singing which then turns into loud, distorted screaming. Really makes you feel like you're listening to the mind of someone who's just lost it.

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headmasterritual t1_iy1rktc wrote

‘Mania’ by Throwing Muses (in a very, very big way); ‘The Blue Mask’ by Lou Reed.

It’s also the subject matter of each, but it’s not just about what the words say.

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b16bD16y8honda t1_iy1s3fe wrote

#1 Pink Floyd; One of My Turns #2 Megadeth; Sweating Bullets

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fairnuff77 t1_iy1s7bw wrote

The Ballad of Dwight Fry. Alice Cooper

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DoofusMaloofus1 t1_iy1u3cr wrote

Goodbye Sober Day by Mr. Bungle of their album California.

Everything from the music to the lyrics perfectly exemplifies insanity and schizophrenia.

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Counting-Trains t1_iy1uc4f wrote

for me it’s gotta be “hey, soul sister” by train. nothing says being insane more than lipstick stains on one’s frontal lobe, game show love connections, cutting rugs into odd shapes, colliding with Mr. mister mister mister, and an UNTRIMMED CHEST. Pat monahan truly is one of the greatest lyricists of the past 20,30,40,50 years -and of all time tbh- and if i could meet him irl i’d totally give him one drop of jupiter for all of his hard work over the years! Hey! Hee-eey! songs pretty catchy tbh and pat’s a good singer but what the fuck are those lyrics lmao. A true train wreck of words that must have been more than a trip to write and sing in front of OTHER people. More than insane ost

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DannoCain t1_iy1vcky wrote

black midi - The Race Is About To Begin

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RanyaAnusih t1_iy1w9gt wrote

Debasser by Pixies. Common, just listen to it

Freak on a Leash by Korn. It slaaps

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TangerineSunset t1_iy1xf8d wrote

Alaska by Between the Buried and Me. The music video literally shows someone having a psychotic breakdown.

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[deleted] t1_iy1yp5n wrote

Am I Going Insane-Black Sabbath

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crasscrap t1_iy1zgfp wrote

Lunatic Fringe. Red rider

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anarchonobody t1_iy1zlm6 wrote

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

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AIC_333 t1_iy20ayg wrote

I mean Kim by Eminem

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SLPERAS t1_iy21gyb wrote

Insane in the membrane- Cypress Hill

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zsdrfty t1_iy22go4 wrote

I like Warped by RHCP, it’s about addiction but in the sense that his life is rapidly falling to pieces and he can’t even keep things straight anymore

One of the best acid rock songs I’ve ever heard, if only that genre was more like this song in being super intense instead of the boring sound it usually has

(also for a classical answer, Symphony Fantastique does this brilliantly)

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cdug82 t1_iy22v81 wrote

Replying to fairnuff77 (#723,916)

The story goes that Ezrin had Cooper lie on the floor surrounded by a makeshift cage of steel chairs while screaming the ‘I wanna get out of here’ part at length until it properly captured the feeling he was going for

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DrBigJT2003 t1_iy23y9j wrote

“Sacramento and Polk” by Alejandro Escobedo. Literally written about a psychotic breakdown in a SF flophouse.

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PegasusD2021 t1_iy24btq wrote

The Mike Garson piano solo in David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane is intended to be an expression of exactly that – the grasping for meaning and pattern within a slide into despair and insanity

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TheUnforgiven13 t1_iy2ao09 wrote

War Inside my Head or Panic Attack by Dream Theater.

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Epic-idiot t1_iy2c9eo wrote

This is in Spanish, metamorfeame-caifanes

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bop999 t1_iy2e1ue wrote

Only When I Laugh, by Legendary Pink Dots

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Scarlight t1_iy2fxx6 wrote

The Happy Song - Poets of the Fall

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Revolutionary_Low_90 t1_iy2l7z8 wrote

Frankie Teardrop by Suicide.

Honestly, one of the most disturbing songs ever about a man who went insane and killed his family. It builds up into bunch of jumpscares and loud synths. Amazing track but I won't listen to it on repeat.

Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead

It tells a protagonist who gone mad in an asylum and it inspired by an incident of Thom Yorke worked in an asylum. Underrated track in OK Computer.

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kergemeelnekosmos t1_iy2mh37 wrote

For murderous and psychopathic insanity —“O’Malleys Bar” and “Curse of Millhaven” by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

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ratdad111 t1_iy2nbah wrote

im not human at all- sleep party people

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Designer_Ad7425 t1_iy2x8oo wrote

The second half of World’s End Girlfriend’s 100 years of choke.

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Adamant-Verve t1_iy2xn3v wrote

Replying to Fluffy_Little_Fox (#723,765)

Cardiacs in general, great call.

Gillan - You make me nervous

Motorhead - (back at) the Funny Farm

Nina Hagen - Alptraum

Harry Nilsson - I'd rather be dead

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

And I'd like to nominate for the lifetime achievement award:

Diamanda Gallas

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DoofusMaloofus1 t1_iy33gnk wrote

That's a good one too, but as far as just being crazy from start to finish it's Goodbye Sober Day.

A lot of their(well mike patton songs in general) deal with wierd and unnerving subject matter

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SkySawLuminers t1_iy42ggt wrote

Family Snapshot - Peter Gabriel

Ticking - Elton John

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Counting-Trains t1_iy47cfy wrote

Replying to PORTOGAZI (#726,960)

lemme guess is that pat finnertys hey soul sister video. don’t even have to click on the link to know a masterpiece of a video when i see one. i do like drops of jupiter tho even after watching this like a few months ago and knowing how shit that song is lyrically too.

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InsomniaTwoSeven t1_iy4efth wrote

‘LIKE IT’ by Waterparks is basically just chaos so that could work?

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