"Most jarring song." Topic

There can be no doubt that Linda Ronstadt has the loveliest voice ever.
So, I have a "stack" of L:inda set up on Youtube while I drink beer and do random surfing.
A lovely Mexican melody comes up, and the lovely Linda is singing about Mariachi music.
"Carmelita! Hold me tighter!
xxxxxx
I'm all strung out on heroin
On the Outskirts of town."
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What??? Is that what I just heard? Why, yes it is!
And she is pawning her smith and Wesson, and the county cut off her methadone…

so, I do a few searches, and there is Dwight Yoakam and Flaco Jimenez…

Written by Warren Zevon, and that explains it all.

Anyway, this is my most recent jarring song.
That indescribably lovely voice singing about heroin.

What's yours?

Nina Hagen singing "New York, New York"

My wife leaves the room every time

There's the song "Jars", by Chevelle.

And there's a group called Jars of Clay.

Is that jarring enough?

Dan

A lot of Zevon. "Play it All Night Long"

For jarring with sweet female voice, "Six Underground" by the Sneaker Pimps .

My favorite Soundgarden song is "Fell on Black Days." and it just kills me that Chris Cornell is dead.

Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys" .

Soft Cell – "Sex Dwarf"

It's a Small World.

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Just about every song on Dan Fogelbergs album, "Windows and Walls". It is a very depressing album.

But that's not my point. You EXPECT every Fogelberg song to be depressing.

You don't expect Linda Ronstadt to sing about heroin on such a lovely melody. That's what is jarring.

Anything "jarring" from The Doors? :)

Dan

Only when they're Not Doors.

"Marlene on the Wall"

I never quite liked the song, but we spent two whole hours of it being repeated over and over in English class because apparently it's one of those songs even a half-deaf language impaired boneheaded idiot can understand if rammed enough times down their throat.

I swear the teacher got a mini orgasm listening to it ever single time. Looking back, I should have chucked the tape player out of the window and taken the punishment like a man.

"This is is the song that never ends…it just goes on and on my friends…."

Carmelitta is a fantastic song – Zevon was a songwriting genius.

Most jarring song ? Whisky in the jar is pretty jarring….

waiting around to die by the late great Townes Van Zandt is a great – and jarring – song.

Both the album versions are superb in their different ways:

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It's a voice that divides opinion, but I love Amy Allison's Sheffield Streets :

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Glossop Road
Spital Hill
Castle Gate
the Crucible
Chapel Walk
Division Street
the Wicker and
the old Leadmill

I found a pub
and curled up like a cat
I wrote a song
on a beer mat

Nether Edge
Sharrow Vale
Oakdale Road
and Abbeydale
Hunter'sBar
Eccles hall
Barker's Pool
the Cutlers' Hall

Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert, Pink Floyd. And, no, I didn't expect every Fogelburg song to be depressing when I bought the "new" Fogelburg album way back around 1984, great vocals singing about the murder of a waitress from a diner.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

I give up.
It's people like you what cause unrest.

As long as we're doing songs with JAR in the title, may as well use the best version.
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Grrrrr

"Herding cats", my left buttock.
"Herding bats" is more like it.
I blame you, Dan.

But as Leonidas said in that great historical epic, "THIF, IS TMP!"

Did he have a lisp ?

"Alpine Highway", Horst Jankowski

John, do you mean jarring as something unexpected from someone you didn't expect? Or jarring just because you like jarring and are looking for the ultimate in jarring? :)

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Seriously though, for music, gentle Syd Barret-influenced indie-pop Blur suddenly going all punk was in the jar:

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And earlier when The Beatles suddenly turned from pop idols to all weird and experimental:

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The Who back in the early days of the 60s when they did a bitter class themed song later covered by the Sex Pistols

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OK,seriously. Song that upends expectations?

At the risk of sounding like a pretentious twerp, I pick Mahler's "As I Walked Out One Morning":

youtu.be/bwE7-pyTth8

Fischer-Dieskau and Kubelik are better,just heart-breaking:

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But the notes on the first one has lyrics and translation.

I'm sure the original audiences found it jarring indeed.

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" disco version by Ethel Merman.
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Hmm. Well. Hearing Ethyl Merman doing disco wasn't as jarring to me as hearing the Stones and Rod Stewart do it.

And those got played on supposedly disco-hating, "progressive" stations.

To get back to the general tone of the thread, and balance out my highfalutin entry above, here's the most jarring one I could find:

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Hafel, at least the Stones and Stewart didn't attempt Ragtime Disco o_O

Ethel Merman Sings Disco is the best 50¢ I ever spent on an album, but the ragtime entry really does something jarring to the brain!

OK,no argument here. Well spent.

Not disco,but if you want a "brain-jarring" album,look for this one:

Though "brain-dissolving" would be a better description. Here's a sample:

youtu.be/BBiwnXPZeIE

The rest is equally good.

Oh my, she make Lord Sitar sound downright kosher:
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Hey,at least that guy can play something! Though the band sounds like the Tijuana Brass.

"If I were a Rich Man"?
"Kosher"?
"Hafel"?

Oy!

Telephone Man – Meri Wilson
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Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash
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The Bonny Swans – Loreena McKennitt
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Pibroch (Cap In Hand) – Jethro Tull
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The Hanging Tree – Nightcore
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Gone – Ionna Gika
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HALO – Sea Stars
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