Suicide Solution

I've been called both over the years.

I got a little creeped out after listening to all these creepy songs for the last few days.

Yeah.

To celebrate Halloween, man, we're cranking up the creeps as we dig into the scariest songs of hard rock and metal from the 70s and 80s.

Man, there's a lot of them.

Spooky tunes.

Hard On You.

Aren't they all like that? Yeah.

I was never afraid of that.

And you know how crazy it was in the 80s that Judas Priest and I think Ozzy, Ozzy was taking a court over the song Suicide Solution because two 15-year-old boys or something were listening to that and then they blew their own brains out, unfortunately, and they said it was the song that made them do it.

And they played it in court and they said that there were backwards messages saying, do it,

do it.

Tupac's body was cremated the next day.

Members of the outlaws recalling a line in his song, Black Jesus, although uncertain of the artist's attempt at literal meaning, chose to interpret the request seriously.

Smoked some of his body's ashes.

after mixing them with marijuana.

December 8, 2004, Damage Plan was performing at the Elrose Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio.

Nathan Gale, a deranged fan, rushed onto the stage as the band played the first song of their setlist and shot damn big Darryl Abbott multiple times with a Beretta 92FS and 9mm semi-automatic pistol, killing him instantly.

The band's head of security, Jeffrey Mayhem Thompson, then tackled Gale, but was fatally shot in the ensuing struggle.

A fan, Nathan Bray, was also killed as he attempted to aid Abbott and Thompson, as was Aaron Hayek, an employee of the venue who tried to disarm Gale while he was reloading.

Also in 1984, 19-year-old John McCollum found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his bedroom in California.

His parents would go on to sue Ozzy Osbourne because at the time he was listening to the album The Blizzard of Oz, which contained the song Suicide Solution.

This was part of also the backward masking stuff.

Yeah, we were.

Like, oh, Ozzy, I don't want my kids to listen to that.

But then you listen to the words and you realize that much like Suicide Solution and a lot of these other songs that he did, the message is... peaceful it's a peaceful thing that he's he's trying to convey whether it be Bob or geezer even like war pigs isn't a song about an evil group of people making music it's about people protesting war and protesting the politicians that are using us all as pawns you know yeah yeah don't judge a book by its cover and don't judge don't judge a song by its title you know exactly because you never know right

Yeah.

Oh, like Number of the Beast, for instance.

Yeah.

I mean, even with Randy Rhoads, you know, down to Randy, the minute he heard like even Suicide Solution, down, down, down, down, check it down.

Like Randy was just warming up on a practice and went down, down, down, down, you know, just testing out the amp to make sure it worked.

He goes, what is that? He goes, what are you talking about? Because I'm just, I didn't play anything.

Can't complain about any of it.

There we had Ozzy Osbourne with Suicide Solution from Blizzard of Ozz.

Then we had The Tragically Hip with All Canadian Surf Club from Live at the Roxy.

Finally David Bowie with Cat People from Let's Dance.

It is great.

It's ELO's Evil Woman, Ozzy's Suicide Solution, Def Leppard Foolin', and Dokken, the Mighty Dokken, Dream Warriors.

Bringing it all together.

Oh, my God.