Smashing pumpkins in the happy half???
And NIN not in the angry?
The problem is they put horny and angry at opposite ends but NIN are both horny and angry.
Same with Deftones.
It’s not a good chart when there is no difference between all emotions and no emotions.
They have only heard one NIN song and it shows.
Yeah, seems a bit misplaced. They were always a fairly bleak and moody band… and it only got darker when Billy Corgan started losing his hair, bought a synthesizer, and entered his Nosferatu era.
same about Sublime lol
Idk, sublime has pretty happy melodies even if the lyrics aren’t
sure I’ll agree but the lyrics are kinda important
no amount of cheerful can make a song about losing to a heroine addiction happy
For sure, this meme is all kinds of wonky.
Yeah, no kidding one of the most depressing songs ever: https://youtu.be/T69Yk6IccL0 – The end is the Beginning is the End (Batman and Robin soundtrack)
Also one of the best tracks ever.
I would argue To Forgive is.
Someone only heard “Today” and never listened to a single other track before making this meme.
Also even “Today” is not a happy song lol. From Wikipedia:
After the release and minor success of the band’s debut album, Gish, the Smashing Pumpkins were being hyped as “the next Nirvana”. However, the band was experiencing several difficulties at the time. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was undergoing an increasingly severe addiction to heroin; James Iha and D’arcy Wretzky had recently broken up their romantic relationship; and Billy Corgan had become depressed to the point of contemplating suicide and plagued by writer’s block. Corgan recalled that “after the first album, I became completely suicidal. It was an eight-month depression, give or take a month, and I was pretty suicidal for about two or three months.”
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The dark, ironic lyrics of “Today”, describing a day when Corgan was feeling depressed and suicidal, contrast with the instrumentation. Michael Snyder of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the song is “downright pretty as rock ballads go” but that “Corgan manages to convey the exhilaration and tragic release he seeks.” Corgan told Rolling Stone that “I was really suicidal … I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can’t get any worse.” Corgan later compared writing the lyrics of “Today” and “Disarm” to “ripping [his] guts out”.
I think they’re just generally placed in the center white area, meaning they are equally angry, horny, sad and happy. Everyone in the center white is equally part of all four no matter where in the white they were placed.
It wouldn’t be easy to list everyone in the center and say that if their name was slightly to one side or not meant they were more angry, happy, horny or sad. I think that’s why OP just made a huge white area in the center.
So you can’t be Angry and Horny?!?!
Not in the nineties, you couldn’t. 😉
Sure you can. All of the bands I the middle of the y-axis are equally angry and horny.
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Nirvana is both quite horny AND quite angry more than neither.
I’ve been licking the walls of her anus.
And that’s one of their songs that ISN’T about sex. Honestly it’s been awhile but I’m struggling to think of a Nirvana song that is actually about (positive) sex rather than using it metaphorically. It makes sense from someone with a very unusual relationship with sexuality. (Ie. Kurt was likely trans but didn’t really have the opportunity to discover that)
This explains why I never liked Foo Fighters.
Someone explain the sarcasm belt to me and why Radiohead is sad sarcastic
I’m not sure sarcasm is the right word. I’d say it’s more “self awareness”. Cake is a good example. They’re not serious and their music is almost a parody of pop-alt-rock at the time. Radiohead is borderline self-aware; they’re sad and they know it, but not so sad as to be “serious” about it like Dashboard Confessional.
Deftones are way hornier than that, most of their songs are about fucking
Foo Fighers in the eye of blandness.
I’m assuming every ska band is so far off the left edge we can’t see them.
The Cat Empire fell off the left, near the bottom
If your band has a brass section, jump immediately to horny.
Especially if they’ve got a tromboner
The happiest in sound, but the lyrics are definitely usually on the sad or angry side lmao
If it was just a little but longer we could
PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP
the mysterious unreadable watermark in the lower left is actually a blurred-out rude boy
This otherwise insightful chart suffers from the lack of NOFX.
I still listen to Punk in Drublic <3
I can’t believe they’re quitting! I refuse to believe it.
Where would we put the FX?
RATM makes me horny
Literally wanting to fuck the machine to death.
Pulp needs to move up a bit. If you don’t think they do angry you have not been paying attention
The axes make no sense for Pulp who are equally angry, sad, and horny.
Also not technically Pulp, but it turns out cunts are still running the world.
OMG. I’m not the only who hasn’t forgotten about Eels.
Still on rotation over here
Life is hard. And so am I.
There needs to be an Optimistic <—> Bleak axis too
