5 Angsty Dad Songs

 It's hard at the best of the times to have functioning relationships with your parents, but instead of letting it get you down, writing songs about it tends to help, so here is the 'Eazynoiz Top 5 Angsty Songs About Fathers'.

 

Emotionless - Good Charlotte

if  you weren't already aware, the Madden brothers are the kings of angst when it comes to their wayward father and although there is a lot of bitterness directed at him during their self-titled effort and during the early half of LOTRAF Emotionless is a forgiveness track saying that they sort of forgive him, but sort of don't. No drums, just guitar and super warbly vocal skills.

 

Cobarde - Seahaven

 Seahaven are a relatively new band to me, and I absolutely love their album "Ghost" and clearly they also have a lot of lyrics about absent fathers but none is more pointed than Cobarde with the lines such as "How does it feel to abandon your own blood" behind a driving melody that is just absolutely exhilirating and a chorus that is pure gold.

 

I Don't Hate You - Plan B

Before Plan B lost some of his soul and passion and became a middle of the road blues/soul singer, he used to write vulgar and violent yet also thoughtful rap music overlayed with acoustic guitar in some form of acapella genre formation. I Don't Hate You is about his father, who by the songs own admittion was a complete religious nutcase and made young Plan B's life a living hell. Not so much an angsty song as a bitter song about not a father running away, but a father exerting a influence that's not wanted.

 

Capital M-E - Taking Back Sunday

The Jury is still out on this song, but with the line "go ahead and slither away like the snake that you are" and constant references to being abandoned there's a high chance this is an angsty dad song.

 

Family Tradition - Senses Fail

 Senses Fail are one of my favorite bands ever, their lyrics are always faultless and the crazy guitar riffment is unmatchable but their main draw is how much heart and personality seems to live within the lyrics and Family Tradition (Buddy the vocalist much like his father has battled alcoholism) contains so much poignant lyrical imagery but my favorite line comes half way through the second verse: "I wish I could drain out his half of blood in me, but I'd still have his face, I'll curse reflections everyday"



Honorable mention goes Mary J Blige's "Your Child"

Owen xoxox