Results for “disintegration”

Songs

The Stooges

"L.A. Blues" closes Fun House as a nearly wordless collapse — a squall of skronking free-jazz saxophone, feedback, and drum…

disintegration noise as catharsis urban dread

Broken Social Scene

This is Broken Social Scene's rendition of Joy Division's 1980 classic, recorded for the soundtrack of The Time Traveler's Wife,…

romantic disintegration emotional stasis guilt and self-recrimination

Townes Van Zandt

A ramshackle blues about a broke, drink-craving gambler whose fantasies of easy money and easy love curdle into a confession of…

poverty and want drink and gambling as fate violence disguised as bravado

Aphex Twin

Iz - Us reduces language to a single barked command, looping and mangling it until the phrase stops functioning as speech and…

dehumanization of language surveillance and shame childhood discipline

The Velvet Underground

A frantic, repetition-driven rocker that turns amphetamine intoxication into a wall of noise, with the title phrase functioning…

drug use and amphetamine culture physical/mental disintegration pseudo-religious ecstasy

Big Star

A gratitude anthem that plays like a mock-showbiz thank-you speech, thanking unnamed collaborators in language so formal it…

gratitude and its limits dependency vs. self-sufficiency showbiz artifice

Pink Floyd

A touring rock star, isolated and priapic, seeks anonymous sex on the road while his marriage quietly disintegrates in the…

infidelity and its consequences isolation of touring life masculinity as performance

Mott the Hoople

A chaotic, near-apocalyptic rocker built almost entirely on a single interrogative refrain, this song uses repetition and…

disillusionment defiance instability/transformation

Buzzcocks

A jittery first-person monologue about mental and physical disintegration, delivered with the manic energy of a nervous…

mental collapse alienation sensory overload

Hüsker Dü

This is Hüsker Dü's high-velocity cover of the 1966 Byrds song, transforming a jangly folk-rock meditation on alienation into a…

alienation urban anonymity displacement