Countdown Friday! Bitter Songs!

Despite the 4 day work week I've felt pretty agitated this week.  Maybe it was the long weekend without the office nut jobs that made returning to them so much more difficult, but whatever the case, bitter songs feels right today.  I would like to say that I am not really so peeved to categorize myself as bitter, but the people who wrote these songs definitely were.  

1. Elvis Costello - Alibi.  Almost 7 minutes of lamenting of what I believe is suppsoed to be his ex wife's alibis for being a bitch.  My favorite lines, "You deserve cause you special. Alibi, alibi.  Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam. Alibi, alibi."  

2.Squeeze - Wicked and Cruel.  Another vengeful song on an evil woman.  Another great line, "When I die I hope I return as a spider, because she hates them so much."  I also love the chorus, "Did I say that? How could anyone be so wicked cruel?".  When ever I feel remorse about somethign rude I've said, but felt really cathartic I think of this sarcastic line. 

3. Nirvana - All Apologies.  I am noticing a pattern that with bitterness comes sarcasm.  This was Kurt Cobain's response to a negative Vanity Fair article written about him and Courtney Love.  "I wish I was like you, easily amused."  

4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony.  "You're a slave to the money then you die".  This isn't even directed at one person, this is directed at life in general.  the thign is it is such a sweet melody with such bitter language. Love it.

5. Broken Bells - The High Road.  When I told someone I was going to the Broken Bells concert, they asked me what their big hit was and I told them "The High Road".  He said, "Oh like take the high road?", and I said more like, "the high road is hard to find".  How many times have you wanted to say this to people?  Especially hypocrites. 

6. Eminem - The Way I Am - Kurt Cobain and Marshall Mathers seem like they were working on the same wavelength at times.  May favorite part of the song is when Eminem asks why people blame Marilyn Manson and ask where parents are.  He points out how guilt never fells on the blamer,

7. Rihanna - Broken Dishes.  She's not going to stop her destruction until she sees police lights.  Rihanna does angry really really well.  And this was written and recorded before the Chris Brown fiasco.

8. L7- Shit List - This title is pretty self explanatory, but this is what punk rock is meant to be.  Especially angry female chick rock.  

9. Green Day - Good Riddance/Time of Your Life.  People always play this song at like graduations and other turning points, and it's not a happy song, it's a bitter bitter song.  People are entirely forgetting the first half of the title.  I guess they are not in on the joke, but here's a tip.  Instead of this song, play The Beatles "My Life", that is a sweet song, this is a bitter song.  Drake also has a song called "Good Riddance" and it is really really angry, not sarcasm there, just straight out hate.

10. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River.  Seriously, sarcasm and bitterness go hand in hand.  "Don't it make you sad about it?".