If you were a 70s kid, you probably jammed out to these three songs, only to get majorly creeped out once you really listened to the lyrics. Let\u2019s take a somewhat uncomfortable walk through 70s music history, shall we?<\/p>\n
\u201cTimothy\u201d by The Buoys from \u2018The Buoys\u2019 (1970)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not going to lie, I\u2019ve shimmied a bit to this song in the past. It\u2019s so upbeat! However, after a closer listen to those lyrics, I\u2019ve come to realize that \u201cTimothy\u201d by The Buoys is one of the darkest songs of the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\u201cTimothy\u201d comes from the pop-rock band\u2019s sole album from 1970. And the tune is about a group of miners who are caved in while working. Two of the miners, the only survivors of the ordeal, were ultimately forced to cannibalize their companion, the titular Timothy. \u201cMy stomach was full as it could be \/ And nobody ever got around \/ To findin\u2019 Timothy\u201d is an insanely dark line. Radio stations tried to ban this one, but that didn\u2019t stop it from hitting the Top 40.<\/p>\n
\u201cRun Joey Run\u201d by David Geddes (1975)<\/p>\n
Alright, David Geddes\u2019 vocal performance on this song is so good and so clear, there\u2019s no way listeners didn\u2019t grasp what was unfolding in \u201cRun Joey Run\u201d. But 70s kids might not have really sat with the weight of the song\u2019s lyrics until they were adults. It\u2019s one of those songs, one whose meaning became more horrifically apparent once listeners\u2019 frontal lobes developed.<\/p>\n
A solid and anthemic tune, \u201cRun Joey Run\u201d is about a young woman who is in love with her boyfriend. However, her abusive father is unhappy about their relationship. In a fit of rage, he pursues the boyfriend in question, intending to shoot him. At the last minute, the young woman steps in front of her beloved to save him, is shot, and ultimately dies. The last verse of the song spells out her final words: \u201cDaddy, please don\u2019t \/ It wasn\u2019t his fault \/ He means so much to me \/ Daddy, please don\u2019t \/ We\u2019re gon\u2026na get\u2026 mar\u2026ried\u2026\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Excitable Boy\u2019 by Warren Zevon from \u2018Excitable Boy\u2019 (1978)<\/p>\n
This song creeps me out, and I wasn\u2019t even a 70s kid. This entry on our list of 70s songs that creeped out listeners is a pretty direct and violent one lyrically. \u201cExcitable Boy\u201d details the life of a r*pist and psychotic murderer, from his youth being called an \u201cexcitable boy\u201d who \u201crubbed pot roast\u201d on himself to the brutal murder he commits as an adult. This leads him to doing time in an insane asylum. He\u2019s eventually let out, only to dig up the poor victim\u2019s bones and build \u201ca cage\u201d with them. Mind you, the entirety of this Warren Zevon<\/a> song is performed against an upbeat pop-rock composition suitable for a silly rom-com soundtrack. It\u2019s insanely unsettling.<\/p>\n Photo by Images Press\/IMAGES\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were a 70s kid, you probably jammed out to these three songs, only to get majorly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2616,88,216,17172,2156],"class_list":{"0":"post-594249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-1970s","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-pop-music","12":"tag-rock-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}