10 Rock Songs That Were Written As A Joke
3. You Suffer - Napalm Death
In the wake of the thrash scene, there were a ton of bands that were actually getting way too elitist for their own good. As you go through each band from around that time, it almost feels like they are trying to outdo each other in terms of heaviness, whether that means tuning down or writing about dark topics. It was all a competition and Napalm Death sort of toyed with that theory on You Suffer.
Because to say that this entire thing is a song is practically a joke. Lasting all of 4 seconds, this entire thing was just a joke, taking the kind of cheeky heavy title and putting it to a tune with barely any notes in it. If you go through…I guess what you could call the lyric sheet, all you can make out is “You suffer, but why?,” which actually is pretty funny considering just how many people talk about suffering in the metal scene.
Compared to the rest of the songs on this list, this isn’t a joke song in the traditional sense. This is the kind of track that’s meant to exist solely as a troll, and we need some of those in our lives just as much as we need bangers.