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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b16bD16y8honda t1_iy1s3fe wrote

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

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LuXxHeart OP t1_iy1s6to wrote

i love one of my turns. its literally just pink having a mental breakdown.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_iy21f6z wrote

What song do I feel perfectly encapsulates the feeling of INSANITY?????

https://youtu.be/Ka0boB28wUo

THE CARDIACS -- INSECT HOOFS ON LASSIE

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Adamant-Verve t1_iy2xn3v wrote

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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R_radical t1_iy26tse wrote

Megadeth, loved to death might sound a bit more insane.

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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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PORTOGAZI t1_iy2mzp4 wrote

Oh man a REAL TRAIN FAN! Didn’t think you guys were real. Please, oh please watch this video:

https://youtu.be/8JeAfVoA_iE

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Counting-Trains t1_iy47cfy wrote

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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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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11ForeverAlone11 t1_iy23oim wrote

I was thinking the end of My Ass Is On Fire is a total mental breakdown too

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Theeclat t1_iy1yqiw wrote

My brother lost it the first time he heard this song.

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kergemeelnekosmos t1_iy2m8gm wrote

I agree… but what is also crazy is that California is their most “normal” studio album.

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anarchonobody t1_iy1zlm6 wrote

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

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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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fairnuff77 t1_iy1s7bw wrote

The Ballad of Dwight Fry. Alice Cooper

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cdug82 t1_iy1z7pl wrote

Ohhhhhh yeah that’s a good pick

You know the story about the chairs?

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fairnuff77 t1_iy22fzp wrote

No. Tell me.

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cdug82 t1_iy22v81 wrote

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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DannoCain t1_iy1vcky wrote

black midi - The Race Is About To Begin

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crasscrap t1_iy1zgfp wrote

Lunatic Fringe. Red rider

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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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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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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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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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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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DevinBelow t1_iy1yn3g wrote

Octopus by Syd Barrett

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[deleted] t1_iy1yp5n wrote

Am I Going Insane-Black Sabbath

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SLPERAS t1_iy21gyb wrote

Insane in the membrane- Cypress Hill

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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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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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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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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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InsomniaTwoSeven t1_iy4efth wrote

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

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Throwawayforfriends6 t1_iy5h97i wrote

The Fucked Jam, Ween. Or; Purple Haze. Chaotic insanity in both.

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