#26
Posted: 9/15/12 at 8:32pm
The opening song from 13 is basically the epitome of adolescent angst. And that is why I love it.
'Angry Broadway Music' Playlist — Page 2
#27
Posted: 9/15/12 at 9:39pm
A few of these never made it to Broadway, but here goes:
"Easy as Life" - Aida
"American Idiot" - American Idiot
"Cabaret" - Cabaret (depending on the particular version)
"Lost in the Wilderness" - Children of Eden
"Dancing on Your Grave" - Alan Menken's A Christmas Carol
"The Teachers' Argument" - Fame
"I'm Free" - Footloose
"Alas For You" - Godspell (especially the Hunter Parrish version)
"Hellfire" - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Breathe" - In the Heights
"Your Fault/Last Midnight" - Into the Woods
"Facade" - Jekyll and Hyde
"Gethsemane" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"Judas' Death" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"See, I'm Smiling" - The Last 5 Years
"Suppertime" - Little Shop of Horrors
"You Don't Know" - Next to Normal
"Just One Step" - Songs for a New World
"Sunset Boulevard" - Sunset Boulevard
"The Rumble" - West Side Story
"Acid Queen" - The Who's Tommy
"Smash the Mirror" - The Who's Tommy
And while never on stage...
"Brand New Day" - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
"Slipping" - Dr. Horrible's...
"Easy as Life" - Aida
"American Idiot" - American Idiot
"Cabaret" - Cabaret (depending on the particular version)
"Lost in the Wilderness" - Children of Eden
"Dancing on Your Grave" - Alan Menken's A Christmas Carol
"The Teachers' Argument" - Fame
"I'm Free" - Footloose
"Alas For You" - Godspell (especially the Hunter Parrish version)
"Hellfire" - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Breathe" - In the Heights
"Your Fault/Last Midnight" - Into the Woods
"Facade" - Jekyll and Hyde
"Gethsemane" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"Judas' Death" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"See, I'm Smiling" - The Last 5 Years
"Suppertime" - Little Shop of Horrors
"You Don't Know" - Next to Normal
"Just One Step" - Songs for a New World
"Sunset Boulevard" - Sunset Boulevard
"The Rumble" - West Side Story
"Acid Queen" - The Who's Tommy
"Smash the Mirror" - The Who's Tommy
And while never on stage...
"Brand New Day" - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
"Slipping" - Dr. Horrible's...
#28
Posted: 9/15/12 at 9:54pm
Technically not "Broadway" but 'Hard to Say Goodbye' from Violet. Played loud.
#29
Posted: 9/15/12 at 10:11pm
Everyone loves it (greatest mystery), but this:
Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary Live! Cast Recording
...equals guaranteed fury every time. It's great to listen to when I'm pissed off, because it makes whatever I'm pissed off about pale in comparison to the anger this thing incites in me.
Gotta watch the blood pressure, which is why it rarely gets play time these days.
As for suggestions, I dunno. But the way things are going, I'm sure there is an Angry Birds: The Musical right around the corner.
Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary Live! Cast Recording
...equals guaranteed fury every time. It's great to listen to when I'm pissed off, because it makes whatever I'm pissed off about pale in comparison to the anger this thing incites in me.
Gotta watch the blood pressure, which is why it rarely gets play time these days.
As for suggestions, I dunno. But the way things are going, I'm sure there is an Angry Birds: The Musical right around the corner.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
#30
Posted: 9/15/12 at 10:51pm
Did I skim too quickly? I can't believe nobody has mentioned "He Had It Coming" from CHICAGO, surely the ultimate angry song.
For a lesser known example, one could do worse than "It's Always Love" from SUGAR, one of the better songs from a mediocre score.
For a lesser known example, one could do worse than "It's Always Love" from SUGAR, one of the better songs from a mediocre score.
#31
Posted: 9/16/12 at 8:13pm
Intrigued with the suggestion of "Around the World" from GREY GARDENS. Not arguing, but to me it's heartbreaking.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#32
Posted: 9/16/12 at 8:41pm
I also see it as heartbreaking, Auggie.
As to the anger, the song alternates from verse to verse between wistful longing for the past to rage at the present. She sings about her wall of memorabilia then goes into angry rants about Jerry, the Goddam washing machine, her mother's rules, shoving you under the god damn bed, etc. Technically, those parts are more spoken than sung. So maybe you aren't counting them? But they are in the published lyrics and they rhyme. So I consider them fully part of the song.
As to the anger, the song alternates from verse to verse between wistful longing for the past to rage at the present. She sings about her wall of memorabilia then goes into angry rants about Jerry, the Goddam washing machine, her mother's rules, shoving you under the god damn bed, etc. Technically, those parts are more spoken than sung. So maybe you aren't counting them? But they are in the published lyrics and they rhyme. So I consider them fully part of the song.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
Updated On: 9/16/12 at 08:41 PM
#33
Posted: 9/16/12 at 8:58pm
"I was thinking about putting a playlist together of Broadway music to listen to when I am angry/frustrated but was having a tough time coming up with more than a few songs."
Actually, I think you're taking the wrong approach to the problem. Rather than indulge your anger, you should try to dissipate it by listening to positive, happy-go-lucky fare, such as Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It's Today, Each Tomorrow Morning from Dear World, Dear Friend from Tenderloin, The Best Things in Life Are Free, I've Got a Rainbow Working for Me from Darling of the Day, etc.
"What Broadway music do you listen to after a bad day???"
The same music I listen to after a good day, eg. the songs I mentioned above.
Actually, I think you're taking the wrong approach to the problem. Rather than indulge your anger, you should try to dissipate it by listening to positive, happy-go-lucky fare, such as Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It's Today, Each Tomorrow Morning from Dear World, Dear Friend from Tenderloin, The Best Things in Life Are Free, I've Got a Rainbow Working for Me from Darling of the Day, etc.
"What Broadway music do you listen to after a bad day???"
The same music I listen to after a good day, eg. the songs I mentioned above.
#34
Posted: 9/16/12 at 9:04pm
A8, since you and I so rarely agree, I want to just at this chance to second your approval of Jerry Herman's "Put on Your Sunday Clothes". I think it's a perfect lyric and melody, when it could have been a run-of-the-mill list song. Herman at his very best.
#35
Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:14pm
"What Did I Ever See in Him?" from BYE, BYE BIRDIE
#36
Posted: 9/17/12 at 12:51am
I may have missed it on here, but Nobody's Side is my go to angry song.
#37
Posted: 9/17/12 at 4:24pm
I would add:
I Don't Remember Christmas (Starting Here, Starting Now - Off Broadway)
I'm Mean - Bajour (Chita gives attitude!)
I Don't Remember Christmas (Starting Here, Starting Now - Off Broadway)
I'm Mean - Bajour (Chita gives attitude!)
#39
Posted: 9/17/12 at 5:45pm
All from 1776:
Molasses To Rum
Sit Down, John
Piddle Twiddle and Resolve
Is Anybody There
Molasses To Rum
Sit Down, John
Piddle Twiddle and Resolve
Is Anybody There
#40
Posted: 9/17/12 at 6:13pm
Lovesick - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
One the Verge - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
You Don't Know/I Am the One - Next to Normal
Superboy and the Invisible Girl - Next to Normal
Jesus of Suburbia Sequence - American Idiot
Trial Before Pilate - Jesus Christ Superstar
We're Not Gonna Take It - Tommy
I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
Florence Quits - Chess
Argument - Chess
One the Verge - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
You Don't Know/I Am the One - Next to Normal
Superboy and the Invisible Girl - Next to Normal
Jesus of Suburbia Sequence - American Idiot
Trial Before Pilate - Jesus Christ Superstar
We're Not Gonna Take It - Tommy
I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
Florence Quits - Chess
Argument - Chess
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#41
Posted: 9/17/12 at 6:34pm
"Just You Wait, 'Enry 'Iggins, Just You Wait" from My Fair Lady
#42
Posted: 9/17/12 at 10:57pm
Bettyboy, "Be On Your Own" was my first thought as well.
There's Got To Be Something Better Than This - Sweet Charity
Sing Happy - Flora the Red Menace
I Don't Remember You - The Happy Time
I Am Free - Zorba
Never! - On The Twentieth Century
Waltz for Eva and Che - Evita
Next - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well...
Funeral Tango - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well..
Something, Somewhere - Two By Two
Mandalay Song - Happy End
Half the score of Threepenny Opera
Half the score of Jesus Christ Superstar
Pity the Child - Chess
Nobody's Side - Chess
I Resolve - She Loves Me
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
All of My Life - Do Re Mi
Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Mis
Molasses to Rum - 1776
Is Anybody There? - 1776
The Ballad of Booth - Assassins
Another National Anthem - Assassins
Serenity - Triumph of Love
Funny - City of Angels
There's Got To Be Something Better Than This - Sweet Charity
Sing Happy - Flora the Red Menace
I Don't Remember You - The Happy Time
I Am Free - Zorba
Never! - On The Twentieth Century
Waltz for Eva and Che - Evita
Next - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well...
Funeral Tango - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well..
Something, Somewhere - Two By Two
Mandalay Song - Happy End
Half the score of Threepenny Opera
Half the score of Jesus Christ Superstar
Pity the Child - Chess
Nobody's Side - Chess
I Resolve - She Loves Me
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
All of My Life - Do Re Mi
Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Mis
Molasses to Rum - 1776
Is Anybody There? - 1776
The Ballad of Booth - Assassins
Another National Anthem - Assassins
Serenity - Triumph of Love
Funny - City of Angels
#43
Posted: 9/17/12 at 11:11pm
Various songs from Sweeney Todd
A Boy Like That from West Side Story
A Boy Like That from West Side Story
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
#44
Posted: 9/17/12 at 11:31pm
Quiet- from Matilda is great. The underlying rant by Ms. Trunchbull is a hidden track at the end of the London cast recording, and it is guaranteed to make me laugh, no matter how angry I am.
Without giving the whole thing away: "I shall feed you to the termites. And then I shall smash the termites into tiny fragments, and then I shall grind the tiny fragments into dust. And I shall take that dust and feed it to the bloodworm, and the bloodworms I shall feed to birds. And the birds I shall release into the air, and then shoot them down with my twelve balled shotgun, and so on and so on and infinitem, Madame!" But I think my favorite line is: "Vomit. Puke. Snot-stain."
Oh shoot, I think I have the whole rant memorized...
Without giving the whole thing away: "I shall feed you to the termites. And then I shall smash the termites into tiny fragments, and then I shall grind the tiny fragments into dust. And I shall take that dust and feed it to the bloodworm, and the bloodworms I shall feed to birds. And the birds I shall release into the air, and then shoot them down with my twelve balled shotgun, and so on and so on and infinitem, Madame!" But I think my favorite line is: "Vomit. Puke. Snot-stain."
Oh shoot, I think I have the whole rant memorized...
#45
Posted: 9/17/12 at 11:39pm
"You Can't Do Me" - The Scottsboro Boys
"Leave" - Once
"Zombie" - Fela!
"Work the Wound" - Passing Strange
(all songs more complex than just anger, but if you can channel just the anger they are tremendous for this thread's purpose, especially the latter two.)
I'll also double votes for "Funny" from City of Angels (seething, sarcastic anger, that one) and, of course, Sweeney's "Epiphany" (the most frightening three minutes in Broadway history.)
Lastly, I'd like to negate someone else's prior vote for "I Resolve" from She Loves Me. There isn't an ounce of anger in that show; it's entirely sugar. Deliciously sugar, but completely and utterly sugar (and not a trace of anger.)
"Leave" - Once
"Zombie" - Fela!
"Work the Wound" - Passing Strange
(all songs more complex than just anger, but if you can channel just the anger they are tremendous for this thread's purpose, especially the latter two.)
I'll also double votes for "Funny" from City of Angels (seething, sarcastic anger, that one) and, of course, Sweeney's "Epiphany" (the most frightening three minutes in Broadway history.)
Lastly, I'd like to negate someone else's prior vote for "I Resolve" from She Loves Me. There isn't an ounce of anger in that show; it's entirely sugar. Deliciously sugar, but completely and utterly sugar (and not a trace of anger.)
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#47
Posted: 9/18/12 at 8:45am
Most of LES MIZ, yes, but especially "The Confrontation."
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