Songs that cause people to commit suicide.

Miss_Kitt said:
Not to mention that having few alternatives to hearing country music would drive even a sane person to the brink...I am a music lover; therefore, I hate country "music".
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The last line here doesn't check out. You can be a music lover and hate country music, but being a music lover cannot make you hate country.

Country music is music. I don't like a lot of it, but it does have some of my favorite songs. Hip hop is music. I don't like most of it, but again, it has some of my favorite songs. Jazz is music. I don't like most of it. Actually there is hardly any jazz I like. That doesn't make it not music or 'music'.
 
Anyone who has gained their contract through reality TV fits into that category for me
 
Fnord said:
Suicide by Mob: The act of ending one's own life by first claiming to a suicide victim's friends and relatives that the suicide victim was solely responsible for his or her own death, backing up that claim with reason and evidence, and then offering no resistance when the enraged mob tears you to pieces.
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I have a cousin who suffered from clinical depression until he took his own life. he had a very real physical disorder of the cerebral cortex that has been recognized and documented by the medical community.

"Reason and evidence" shows he was not "solely responsible". But no, it wasn't rock music or twinkies or some such nonsense either.
 
Songs that cause people to commit suicide.

Should be used as a method of psyops when engaged in a war. If your enemy kills himself, herself, said enemy saves you a lot of trouble.

Emo: the next super weapon.

DR
 
BenBurch said:
"Muskrat Love" makes me want to poke icepicks in my ears.

Does that count?
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It depends. Whose version? Captain and Tennille, or America's? I'll admit, I can deal with the C&T version. I mean, come on, it's Captain and Tennille. What do you expect? But the same group that gives us Sister Golden Hair and Ventura Highway? Ouch.

This is undoubtedly the saddest part of Muskrat Love. Someone decided to cover it!
 
I've never felt suicidal because of a song.

Homicidal, however, is another story.

"Jingle Bell Rock" is the worst offender. When I hear that song I have to leave in a hurry, lest I give in to impulsiveness and slay everybody in reach.
 
In Darkness Visible, a memoir of his battle with severe depression, William Styron describes how Brahms' Alto Rhapsody stopped him from committing suicide. So listen to that if you're lonely and drunk (and understand German).
 
TragicMonkey said:
I've never felt suicidal because of a song.

Homicidal, however, is another story.

"Jingle Bell Rock" is the worst offender. When I hear that song I have to leave in a hurry, lest I give in to impulsiveness and slay everybody in reach.
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I know what the problem is: the word is sleigh. Sleigh. It's not supposed to be a subliminal message. :)
 
"Gloomy Sunday" is a song that has been accused of causing many people to commit suicide. The composer of the song killed himself and the singer of the Associates (who did the version that I'm personally most familiar with) did the same.

Lyrics:

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thought of ever returning you
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are sad I know
Let them not weep let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday
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"Achy Breaky Heart" and "The Macarana" did not drive me to suicide, but if forced by circumstance to listen to them I did comtemplate it to end the agony.
 
I thought this was about Better By You, Better than Me by Judas Priest... the band actually got sued by cretins who thought there was a subliminal message in that song that caused their sons to commit suicide (one failed and got disfigured, but died 3 years later of another attempt).
 
Freddy said:
I know what the problem is: the word is sleigh. Sleigh. It's not supposed to be a subliminal message. :)
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No, it's the characterization of things as being "jingle". How can a horse be jingle? Sounds like something you'd put a horse down for. "Sorry, Pa, Dusty got the jingle. Get the shotgun." "Oh dear God, no! That horse carried me back from the Mexican War!" "It's got to be done, Pa, for the good of the world!" "No, no, I won't let you!" "Let go of the gun! It's going to--" BLAM! "Ma, quick! Bring a shovel. We're going to need to agree on a story."
 
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