10 Darkest Hard Rock Songs Of All Time
5. Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
Anyone thinking of getting into Radiohead should probably be given a precursory warning for how depressing their music can sound. Although songs like Fake Plastic Trees and Paranoid Android have etched their place into rock history, it's not because they were the most wholesome of storylines, right? So when you have these guys write a song for one of the darkest love stories ever told, it went over about as well as you would think.
During the recording for OK Computer, Exit Music was included being inspired by the recent remake of Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann. That's not where this story begins and ends though. While the actual song plays out like two lovebirds escaping the clutches of their feuding families, the actual sound of the record builds and builds to one of the most disturbing sequences of the entire '90s.
Outside of the love connection, this also works as a great way for Radiohead to fire back at people who didn't understand them, with Thom Yorke crooning "we hope that you choke" as everything comes to a standstill towards the end. Compared to the other songs on this list, Exit Music isn't the kind of song to hit you over the head with how dark it is. It just builds to let that uncomfortable feeling really sink its teeth into you.