Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault related songs. Songs Related to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. An annotated list of recorded sources, from traditional ballads to punk. Download 2 of my songs for free!(Right now, no kiddin') Listen to Over a Million Songs with Amazon Prime - Free one- month trial. Traditional Ballads and Classic Tunes. Contemporary Music: Compilations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Songs Related to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault An annotated list of recorded sources, from traditional ballads to punk. Download 2 of my songs for free! Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position.
Individual songs(Includes folk, rock, pop, country, R& B, hip hop, rap)Punk/Alternative. Songs with affirming messages for survivors and friends(new page)4. Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Popular Film, TV and Documentaries. Resourcesfor Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness. New! Circle of 6 App to prevent sexual assault! New! No More: Let’s end the shame and stigma. FINAL UPDATE 0. 2/1. Copyright 2. 00. 2 Gerri Gribi. Due to health issues I am no longer adding songs to this site. Thanks to everyone who contributed over the years! About the author: Gerri Gribi is an award- winning musician, historian and educator who brings the "unsung" history of women and minorities to life. Her. CD The Womansong Collection features 2. She travels North America performing her one- woman show A Musical Romp Through Women's History. Learn More. Inclusion on this list is not a personal endorsement. I provide a wide sampling of experiences and stories, for analysisand discussion of how these issues are reflected in popular culture,or in some cases how songs brainwash us into thinking violence is "romantic."Traditional Ballads and Classic Songs. Alan Lomax estimated that over half of all the ballads created in white American tradition are murder ballads. Obviously, this could have been a VERY long list! I have focused my attention on songs which have accessible recorded versions, plus two of my favorites where thevictims fight back. Banks of the Ohio. MP3s at Amazon. Young Willie murders his lover because she won't marry him. This lilting, popular song is an excellent example of how the theme of "murder for unrequited love" is romanticised in traditional ballads.. There are more than 5. MP3 versions available at Amazon. And weirdly, on CDs with titles like "Patriotic Songs of America" and another called "Romantic Moments"!)Banks of Red Roses aka Banks of the Roses MP3s at Amazon. A girl is stabbed to death by her boyfriend for no apparant reason. Crafty Maid's Policy Lyrics at Gerri's site /// MP3s at Amazon. I'm partial to songs where the intended victim fights back! First published on a broadside in London in 1. Crafty Maid uses a bawdy double- entendre to outwit her assailant, AND steal his horse to boot. Cruel Youth (aka The Outlandish Knight, Child Ballad #4)MP3s at Amazon. In this American version of a British ballad, a young woman outwits a man who plans to murder her, then sings "Six pretty maidens you drowned here, now go keep them company."Cruel Brother MP3s at Amazon. Child Ballad #1. 1, in which a suitor fails to ask the brother of his bride- to- be permission for her hand, and so the brother kills her on the wedding day. According to liner notes in "The Battlefield Band" - "In the period that this ballad concerns, the heir to a man's possessions was not his own child, but his sister's; it was therefore obligatory for a suitor to gain the permission of his sweetheart's brother prior to any marriage."Cruel Mother (aka Lady from Leigh, All Around the Loney- O, Down By the Greenwood Side(y- o) MP3s at Amazon. Child Ballad #2. 0 in which a mother kills her baby. This song has been recorded by many artists over the years, with various versions of the lyrics. Frankie and Johnny. MP3s at Amazon. There are many variants to the lyrics, and the song has been recorded a zillion times by everybody from Leadbelly to Bing Crosby. But the story is always the same: Frankie kills her boyfriend because he was cheating on her. Knoxville Girl (aka Wexford Girl) MP3s at Amazon. This is your standard boy- meets- girl, boy- kills- girl traditional ballad in which the sympathy seems to lie with the "poor" murderer stuck in a jail cell for life. Little Mary Phagan MP3s at Amazon. Based on a true story. A young girl is molested and murdered, and the community immediately blames a Jewish stranger. Mack the Knife MP3s at Amazon. This jaunty tune from "Three Penny Opera" (immortalized by Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong ) is about a hit man who slashes his victim's throats, which apparantly makes him irresistable to the ladies. Miss Otis Regrets MP3s at Amazon. This Cole Porter song about a high society woman who shoots her philandering husband has been recorded hundreds of times and in several languages, perhaps most notably by Bette Midler. Pretty Polly MP3s at Amazon. There are many variants of this song, in which a man kills his fiance. It's been recorded by many performers, including Judy Collins on Wind Beneath My Wings. Sheath and Knife MP3s at Amazon. Traditional Child Ballad #1. Tom Dooley MP3s at Amazon. Based on the true story of Tom Dula who killed Laura Foster in Wilkes County, NC in 1. Most familiar is the Kingston Trio. Amazon. com) Their version shifts sympathy to the killer when they sing "Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Poor boy you're bound to die." The traditional lyrics say "Killed poor Laura Foster, don't you know you're bound to die."Well Below the Valley. MP3s at Amazon. This is a traditional Child ballad about incest. Outside of That, He's Alright with Me MP3 at Amazon"He blacked my eye, I couldn't see, Then he pawned the things he gave to me. But outside of that, he's all right with me!" Besse Smith made this one famous. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (aka Wild Women Don't Get the Blues) MP3 at Amazon. Ida Cox's blues classic about a woman who doesn't put up with violence.. Young Freda Bolt. MP3 at Amazon. A young woman thinks she's on her way to her wedding, but her fiance murders her instead. A Carter Family classic. Back to Top. Contemporary Compilations (including folk, pop, rock and R& B) Spotlight! Respond - by Various Artists, Signature Records 1. Amazon. com A compilation to benefit Respond Incorporated, a non- profit organization providing confidential, free services for battered women and their children in the Boston area since 1. A grassroots effort intiated by Boston- area songwriters and sponsored by WBOS. Many local musicians donated their time, performances and energy to the project, including Catie Curtis and Patty Larkin. Spotlight! Respond II - Various Artists, Signature Records, 2. Amazon. com. Suzanne Vega 's "Luka," Bebel Gilberto 's "Sem Contenção," and Dolly Parton 's "Endless Stream of Tears" Julie Miller 's twangy "Too Many Troubles," Tracy Bonham 's haunting "I'm No Giant," and the Indigo Girls ' acoustic version of "She's Saving Me" Sweet Honey in the Rock and many more! Dr. Peter Alsop's Songs on Sex and Sexuality. Double CD)Peter Alsop. Moose School. 1. 99. Amazon. com "Peter Alsop sings and teaches in a gentle and direct way the very real problems of child sexual molestation."Songs for the Inner Child. Shaina Noll. Singing Heart, 2. Amazon. com ".. a collection of chants and lullabies, both traditional and contemporary, sung with the gentle voice of a loving mother. The songs are healing and soothing for listeners of all ages, carrying powerful messages of affirmation and comfort." Highly recommended by several readers recovering from childhood abuse. Retreat - Recovery Songs for Adult Children of Alcoholics, Emotional Incest survivors, Sexual Abuse, and Domestic Violence Awareness. Joe E. Daddario (Original Release, 1. CD Release 2. 00. Read more, order at Amazon. Eight soft rock recovery songs which help survivors relate to, and identify, their feelings. No Secrets: Commemoration of the 2. Anniversary of the Women's Rape Crisis Center (1. Various Artists. Read more, order or listen to songs at Amazon. Vermont's music community gathered in support of the Women's Rape Crisis Center. Eclectic, driven by emotion and mammoth talent, 'No Secrets' delivers an uncompromised message to the world."Before Their Time (1. Various Artists. Read more, order or listen to songs at Amazon. Designed to comfort people after the death of someone close, and help them heal. Featuring works by such folks as Sweet Honey in the Rock, Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills and Tom Paxton. All proceeds benefit Hospice VNH, which provides both assistance for the terminally ill and bereavement support to survivors in Vermont and New Hampshire, and the NH Youth Suicide Prevention Association. Home Alive Compilation 2 - Flying Side Kick. Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd Songfacts. Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality. He told Mojo magazine (December 2. When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons" were autobiographical. He explained: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 1. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why."In a radio interview around 1. Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn't know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger's hands were numb "like two toy balloons." He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn't care because they were so busy screaming, hence "comfortably" numb. He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band. Exploring further, Mojo asked Waters about the line, "That'll keep you going through the show," referring to getting medicated before going on- stage. He explained: "That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 2. I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn't able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f- -- ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible. It was so bad that at the end of the show, the audience was baying for more. I couldn't do it. They did the encore about me.". Dave Gilmour wrote the music while he was working on a solo album in 1. He brought it to The Wall sessions and Waters wrote lyrics for it. Gilmour believes this song can be divided into two sections: dark and light. The light are the parts that begin "When I was a child..," which Gilmour sings. The dark are the "Hello, is there anybody in there" parts, which are sung by Waters. Waters and Gilmour had an argument over which version of this to use on the album. They ended up editing two takes together as a compromise. Dave Gilmour said in Guitar World February 1. Well, there were two recordings of that, which me and Roger argued about. I'd written it when I was doing my first solo album [David Gilmour, 1. We changed the key of the song's opening the E to B, I think. The verse stayed exactly the same. Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, 'I have become comfortably numb.' Other than that, it was very, very simple to write. But the arguments on it were about how it should be mixed and which track we should use. We'd done one track with Nick Mason an drums that I thought was too rough and sloppy. We had another go at it and I thought that the second take was better. Roger disagreed. It was more an ego thing than anything else. We really went head to head with each other over such a minor thing. I probably couldn't tell the difference if you put both versions on a record today. But, anyway, it wound up with us taking a fill out of one version and putting it into another version."This was the last song Waters and Gilmour wrote together. In 1. 98. 6 Waters left the band and felt there should be no Pink Floyd without him. When they played this on The Wall tour, a 3. As the wall went up, Gilmour was raised above it on a hydraulic lift to perform the guitar solo. It was his favorite part of the show. In the movie The Wall, this plays in a scene where the main character, a rock star named "Pink," loses his mind and enters a catatonic state before a show. It was similar to what Syd Barrett, an original member of the band, went through in 1. This song is the final step in Pink's (Roger Water's) transformation into the Neo- Nazi, fascist character you see in the movie The Wall. Medics and the band manager come in and give Pink a shot to pull him out of his catatonic stupor, the manager pays protesting Meds some cash to shut up and let him take Pink to the concert in the state he's in (obviously a threat to his health, but the Meds, who probably don't make enough money, accept). In the movie Pink begins to melt on the way there, and underneath he finds that he is the cruel, fascist model of a Nazi party representative by the time he arrives at the concert. Supporting this, afterwards are the songs "The Show Must Go On" (Pink realizing as he gets to the show that there isn't really any turning back, and he's forced to go on- stage), "In the Flesh II" (the redone version of the first song on the album, now with Nazi- Pink singing, threatening random minorities), and "Run Like Hell" (after the crowd, loving nazi- Pink, has been whipped into a frenzy, now hunting minorities in the street, much like late 1. Germany). While it does seem that this is a song about the "joy of heroin," it has little, if any connection to heroin even if it's condition resembles that of somebody who's totally wasted. A dance version by the Scissor Sisters was a #1. UK hit in 2. 00. 4. It was released as the B- side of their first single, "Electrobix," but drew much more attention. David Gilmour played this on his 2. Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright. Van Morrison played this with Roger Waters at a 1. Waters organized in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. This version was used in the movie The Departed and also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons. Gilmour's second guitar solo on "Comfortably Numb" regularly appears in Best Guitar Solo of All Time polls. In an August 2. 00. TV music channel Planet Rock it was voted the greatest guitar solo of all time. For the solo, the Pink Floyd guitarist used a heavy pick on his Fender Strat with maple neck through a Big Muff and delay via a Hiwatt amp and a Yamaha RA- 2. Gilmour told Guitar World that the solo didn't take long to develop: "I just went out into the studio and banged out 5 or 6 solos. From there I just followed my usual procedure, which is to listen back to each solo and mark out bar lines, saying which bits are good. In other words, I make a chart, putting ticks and crosses on different bars as I count through: two ticks if it's really good, one tick if it's good and cross if it's no go. Then I just follow the chart, whipping one fader up, then another fader, jumping from phrase to phrase and trying to make a really nice solo all the way through. That's the way we did it on 'Comfortably Numb.' It wasn't that difficult. But sometimes you find yourself jumping from one note to another in an impossible way. Then you have to go to another place and find a transition that sounds more natural.".
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