For those equally sickened by the stomach turning love schmove on display during Valentine’s day, here be a primer of thou art poison anti-love songs to check out. While the misogyny of Guns’n’Roses’ Back Off Beach and You Aint The First can be a bit off-putting, they rock and swung (fists and all) like mad. Those with a few more brain cells could do worse than Bob Dylan’s Idiot Wind with its classic backhanded refrain of You’re an idiot babe / it is a wonder you still know how to breathe. Actually, almost all other tracks on the Blood on the Tracks would suit a black mood. Oasis is the new G’n’R in that it is similarly low-brow and bitchy with Married With Children. Wildhearts offer up spectacular anthems titled I was just in lust with you and My baby is a head****.
Still bitchin’
is not the purview of men (and boys) alone; women have also laid
into the their disprected others like Carly Simon into Warren Beaty
with the acerbic You’re so vain. Alannis Morisette rips off Liz Phair who
had made a career out of mining this black vein: check out the superlative Are
u still mad?, You Oughta
Know by the former. If Alanis be too cerebral at
times, Shania Twain has no such problems: she be of
the Gloria Gaynor