Songs that remind you of Columbine.

Well..That song 'Disarm' by Smashing Pumpkins always makes me think of Eric when I hear it.

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails reminds me of Dylan.

Somewhere I belong, Nobody's Listening and Numb-Linkin Park

Beautiful-Smashing Pumpkins offcourse because Dylan liked it a lot

Pumped up kicks-Foster the people(very obvious)

Eve of destruction-The screaming Jets for Eric

And a whole lot more, but that's it for now

The Smashing Pumpkins - Jellybelly. Reminds me of Dylan.

tragedy79 wrote:

Beautiful-Smashing Pumpkins

This song reminds me of a special someone, just not Dylan. ;)

tragedy79 wrote:

Pumped up kicks-Foster the people

And yes, I agree, this reminds me of Columbine as well. It also has an awesome beat.

Jenn wrote:

This song reminds me of a special someone, just not Dylan. ;)

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Flowers on the wall-The Statler brothers

tragedy79 wrote:

Flowers on the wall-The Statler brothers

YES! I used to listen to this on repeat. Definitely a Dylan song.

Ivan wrote:

Jenn wrote:

This song reminds me of a special someone, just not Dylan. ;)

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You think I was referring to you, huh?

Jenn wrote:

Ivan wrote:

Jenn wrote:

This song reminds me of a special someone, just not Dylan. ;)

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You think I was referring to you, huh?

Indeed I do.

Ramallah - Days of Revenge

A lil bit obvious but Mad World - Gary Jules definitely reminds me of Columbine.

I'm gonna make a Columbine playlist fit my phone

Jenn wrote:

tragedy79 wrote:

Flowers on the wall-The Statler brothers

YES! I used to listen to this on repeat. Definitely a Dylan song.

THIS, and it irritates me that I've made that connection, I bought the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack and used to listen to it all the time before I had seen the 'Morning Ride' video of Dylan but now if i ever listen to it, it does always remind me of that video and the little 'car dance' now every time I hear it.

This surprised me but Euphoria by Loreen reminds me of Dylan....

"We are here, we’re all alone in our own Universe,
We are free, where everything’s allowed and love comes first,
Forever and ever together, we sail into infinity,
We’re higher and higher and higher, we’re reaching for divinity."

There was a rap song about Columbine called Anatomy of a School Shooter and it focuses mainly on Eric.
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"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam has always reminded me of Dylan for some reason.

"Blood Brothers" by Papa Roach

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Nein wrote:

"Blood Brothers" by Papa Roach

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Also Last resort

The red by chevelle, its about anger and seeing red, as eric did

Ghost in the Machine by B.O.B reminds me of Eric.

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Michale Graves, "Nobody thinks about me", for obvy reason.


LOL! Hey, I think I remember who drew this! It was a couple of years ago, some girl on the board (that one psycho feminist girl who'd insult and pick fights with people non-stop over nearly ANYTHING) drove him/her away after attacking them for being a fanboy/fangirl for making that.

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EDITORS "Munich"


Thanks to that one guy on YT...

NSFW

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This reminds me of Brenda Parker, aka, the Love of Eric Harris' life.

This song called The Kinslayer by Nightwish. From 2:30 it has lyrics about what Eric and Dylan said to their victims, quotes from them, 15 candles represents the 15 deaths, etc.
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Cassie- Flyleaf
Based on the myth, but still clearly about Columbine

Wicked young man - Alice Cooper

Halcyon, on, and on - by Orbital

Aqueous Transmission - by Incubus

MAMA by My Chemical Romance

Wolf Wind by Kapo!/Death In June remind me of Columbine: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Especially the lyrics:

Wayward we know the wanderer's journey
The single willed life earns its own exile
When gladness has gone
Gathering sorrow
When sadness has gone
Gathering strength
We bind the dark mood fast in our vigil state
No earthly glory but a cold heart's hermit cave
No wisdom without our cruel share of winters
No victory without our blood sea of rage
Like scavengers we feast
Where wolf wind hangman swings
Into reeling life we forge
Into holiness we burn
Casting astray immemorial silence
The wavering will chases blood-given gain
We found our fate in embers of vision
We find our faith in ashes of truth

Golden Boy by Natalie Merchant reminds me of both Eric and Dylan. This line especially:

"Meteor rise from obscurity
All it took was a killing spree
And the whole world was lying at your feet
Golden boy"

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Really, the lyrics could be from Erics diary:

Do you ever think about
what a lovely place the world would be
without all the people
that make life so unpleasant?

All the small, petty people
All the ugly, annoying people
It's hard not to think about it

I like to think about
what could be
done to these people
Something cruel
Something mean
Something just
But the meaner the better
Goodness knows they deserve it

Have you ever dreamed of
killing all the stupid people?
Not just the unintelligent people
but the sort that don't know anything about anything
but seem to have opinions about everything
They're only too ready to offer their advice about
how to run your life
And yet look at how they run their own lives
For the most part they've accomplished nothing
They've contributed nothing
Their lives are miserable
But they talk, talk, talk
At the very least their tongues should be cut out
At the very least

Do you ever wanna
kill all the people who tell lies?
Some certainly deserve it
Not necessarily the big liars
or even those who teach lies as truth
I'm talking about people
who say one thing and do another
or who tell you they sent something express mail
when you know they haven't

Did you ever want to
kill all the slow people in the world?
The people who are in front of you
when they should be behind you
A crime that the swift should be help back by the slow
And it's criminal that nothing is going to rectify it

And what about all the really ugly people?
Add them to the list as well
Some people try not to think about life's ugliness
I've thought about it
I've thought about it quite a lot
Something should be done to these people
Something to make them suffer
the way they've made us suffer

I say, bring back the circus maximus
for starters
Unless these weeds are dealt with
they'll poison everything
They are poisoning everything
We need a gardener
A brutal gardener
A thorough, thoughtful gardener
An iron gardener

Whatever happened to Vlad the Impaler?
Where's Genghis Kahn when you need him?
Or Roi d'Ys?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Nero
Diocletian
Kitchener
Come back!

This song screams Eric!!

Mad World-Gary Jules
Take the Skinheads Bowling-Camper Von Beethoven
The Nobodies-Manson



KMFDM-Everything
Brute-
Beast-
Search and Destroy-
Dogma-
Adios-
Save Me-
Stray Bullet-
Anarchy
Fuck Me
Ready to Blow


Rammstein
Anything off of Sentensutch
Adios
Sonne

Leonard Cohen
Waiting for on the miracle
The Future

Nine Inch Nails
Right Where it Belongs
Hurt
Something I can Never have
All the love in the world
The Great Below
A Warm Place
Wish

Green Day
Having A Blast


I'm taking all you down with me
Explosives duct taped to my spine
Nothings gonna change my mind

I won't listen to anyone's last words
There's nothing left for you to say
Soon you'll be dead anyway

No one here is getting out alive
This time I've really lost my mind and I don't care
So close your eyes
And kiss yourself goodbye
And think about the times you spent and what they've meant
To me it's nothing...

I'm losing all my happiness
The happiness you pinned on me
Loneliness still comforts me

My anger dwells inside of me
I'm taking it all out on you
And the shit you put me through

No one here is getting out alive
This time I've really lost my mind and I don't care
So close your eyes
And kiss yourself goodbye
And think about the times you spent and what they've meant
To me its nothing...

Do you ever think back to another time?
Does it bring you so down that you thought you lost your mind?
Do you ever want to lead a long trail of destruction
and mow down any bullshit that confronts you?
Do you ever build up all the small things in your head?
To make one problem that adds up to nothing
To me it's nothing...

Those Green Day lyrics are appropriate. Speaking of Rammstein, I think Eric would have loved the song Feuer Frei! if he'd still been alive. For those that don't know, the song name roughly translates as "Open Fire!".

Lyrics (English translation):

Whoever knows pain is dangerous
from the fire that burns the soul
bang bang

the burned child is dangerous
with fire that separates from the life
a hot cry
bang bang
OPEN FIRE!

Your happiness
is not my happiness
it is my misery

Bang bang
OPEN FIRE!

StinkyOldGrapes wrote:

Those Green Day lyrics are appropriate. Speaking of Rammstein, I think Eric would have loved the song Feuer Frei! if he'd still been alive. For those that don't know, the song name roughly translates as "Open Fire!".

Lyrics (English translation):

Whoever knows pain is dangerous
from the fire that burns the soul
bang bang

the burned child is dangerous
with fire that separates from the life
a hot cry
bang bang
OPEN FIRE!

Your happiness


is not my happiness
it is my misery

Bang bang
OPEN FIRE!

I often wonder how both E&D would have felt about todays Rammstein, KMFDM, NIN and music and pop culture in general.  I have a decent idea

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I often wonder how both E&D would have felt about todays Rammstein, KMFDM, NIN and music and pop culture in general.  I have a decent idea

Personally, I thought KMFDM's Xtort was their best album and they never came close to beating it. I think Eric would have been disappointed with Adios. Then again, who am I to say, I like Front Line Assembly much better than KMFDM. As for Rammstein, I really think it's a pity that E/D didn't get to hear the album Mutter. I think they would have liked that one.

Electronic music was cool in the 90s when computer technology was new. I think E/D would have outgrown a lot of the music they liked when computers stopped being so new and exciting.

What do you think? What bands would E/D be listening to now?

Alice Cooper's song Wicked Young Man was written about Columbine, specifically about Eric.

I think out of all of the songs that have been written about Columbine, this is one of the few portrayals of Eric that Eric himself would have approved of.

Lyrics are:
I am a vicious young man.
Yeah, I am a wicked young man.
It's not the games that I play, the movies I see, the music I dig,
I'm just a wicked young man.

I like to run my body on heavy heavy fuel,
I can punch through a wall, I can kick like a mule.
I got a pocketful of bullets and a blueprint of the school,
I'm the devil's little soldier, I'm the devil's little tool.

I never ever sleep I just lay in my bed,
Dreaming of the day when everyone is dead.

EDIT: I just realized that someone already mentioned this song. Either way, I still think Eric would have approved of this portrayal of himself as born pure evil rather than a victim.

I have moments of having a terribly sick sense of humour, so the Prince song "1999" totally makes me think of Columbine. The lyrics actually fit too.

But when I woke up this mornin'
Could of sworn it was judgment day

The sky was all purple
There were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' to run from the destruction
You know I didn't even care

But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant to last

War is all around us
My mind says prepare to fight
So if I gotta die
I'm gonna listen to my body tonight

Everybody's got a bomb
We could all die here today, uhh
We could all die here today (1999)

Just the lyrics there that I think fit. The song was written about the nuclear arms race if I'm not mistaken, but the whole "judgement day" bit is so very E&D - and written a good 17 years before Columbine happened.

ETA: StinkyOldGrapes - agree with you there, Eric would have loved that portrayal of himself. Or he would have hated it, because it's slightly tongue-in-cheek and he would have seen it as a slight against him. You never know with that kid

StinkyOldGrapes wrote:

xmichaelmyersii wrote:

I often wonder how both E&D would have felt about todays Rammstein, KMFDM, NIN and music and pop culture in general.  I have a decent idea

Personally, I thought KMFDM's Xtort was their best album and they never came close to beating it. I think Eric would have been disappointed with Adios. Then again, who am I to say, I like Front Line Assembly much better than KMFDM. As for Rammstein, I really think it's a pity that E/D didn't get to hear the album Mutter. I think they would have liked that one.

Electronic music was cool in the 90s when computer technology was new. I think E/D would have outgrown a lot of the music they liked when computers stopped being so new and exciting.

What do you think? What bands would E/D be listening to now?

Queens of the Stoneage? The Deftones? Maybe Dylan would have liked The Foofighters? But I don't think they would have outgrown their music. The bands they liked are still performing and still a lot of people buy their albums or pay good money to see them.

This Smashing Pumpkins' song always reminds me of Dylan's diary.

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I don't know why but this song always reminds me of their sense of betrayal by the school.

Show me how to lie, you’re getting better all the time
And turning all against the one is an art that’s hard to teach
Another clever word sets off an unsuspecting herd
And as you step back in the line a mob jumps to their feet

Now dance, fucker, dance, man, he never had a chance
And no one even knew, it was really only you

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Kinney wrote:

I have moments of having a terribly sick sense of humour, so the Prince song "1999" totally makes me think of Columbine. The lyrics actually fit too.

LOL. Eric's desire to bring forth the apocalypse fits well with the nuclear annihilation theme. When I first played Eric's Doom levels, I almost expected him to introduce a new weapon -the highly modified atom bomb. At the end of the level, your reward for killing all the demons is you get to blow yourself and the whole universe up.

On topic, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Metallica's Ronnie!

The streets are red, red I'm afraid,
There's no confetti, no parade.
Nothing happens in this boring place,
But oh my god, how that all did change.
Now they all pray:
Blood stains wash away.

This one is a little special ...but amazing  

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Something I can never have by NIN

In bloom by Nirvana, in my twisted mind it's fitting for eric and KMFDM.
He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to shoot his gun
but he don't know what it means
Eric obviously liked the KMFDM songs, and liked shooting his gun even more, but he didn't understand the lyrics. I mean, how can one misinterpret "shit for brains" in son of a gun.

This is probably going to sound really random and strange, but some fragments (especially the last line) of 'Small Town Moon' by Regina Spektor really do remind me of both boys pre-massacre.

'Cause we're gonna get real old real soon
Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

Stop! Stop, what's the hurry?
Come on baby, don't you worry worry
Everybody not so nice nice
Everybody not so nice nice

Thought you ought to know by now
I thought you ought to know by now
Everybody not so nice nice
Everybody not so nice nice

I must have left a thousand times
but there's a small town in my mind
How can I leave without hurting every one that made me?

Jaan wrote:

In bloom by Nirvana, in my twisted mind it's fitting for eric and KMFDM.
He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to shoot his gun
but he don't know what it means
Eric obviously liked the KMFDM songs, and liked shooting his gun even more, but he didn't understand the lyrics. I mean, how can one misinterpret "shit for brains" in son of a gun.

Excellent point!

Jaan wrote:

In bloom by Nirvana, in my twisted mind it's fitting for eric and KMFDM.
He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
and he likes to shoot his gun
but he don't know what it means
Eric obviously liked the KMFDM songs, and liked shooting his gun even more, but he didn't understand the lyrics. I mean, how can one misinterpret "shit for brains" in son of a gun.

People twist the meanings of songs to fit their own needs all the time. Eric probably imagined the "shit for brains" part applied to the people he was killing. I think Eric was aware that KMFDM wouldn't approve of his massacre plan and that their music wasn't advocating real life violence. Or he may have even imagined that KMFDM were a repressed version of himself -the band really did advocate violence, but were just pretending not to. Or he may have just not cared. Eric thought he was superior to everyone, so perhaps he thought it was acceptable to use KMFDM's music in any way he saw fit because that's how it should have been in the first place.

Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd reminds me of Dylan.

"Boy, don't you worry.
You'll find yourself.
Follow you heart,
and nothing else.
You can do this,
if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
is to be satisfied."