So, what do you reckon to be freakishly bad-ass songs? I'm talking about songs that make you grab your sunglasses and cigarettes, look in the mirror, and pretend that you are in fact as cool as Tony Montana. Here are a few of my examples:

Radiohead - The National Anthem
Yo La Tengo - Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Queens Of The Stone Age - (...) Millionaire

Do you have any suggestions, so that I can complete my compilation?

The Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop"
The Stooges - "Search and Destroy"
Jesus & Mary Chain or Pixies - "Head On"
The Clash - "Janie Jones"
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
The Buzzcocks - "What Do I Get?"
Velvet Underground - "Waiting for the Man"
Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
Mission of Burma - "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
Nirvana - "Scentless Apprentice"
The White Stripes - "Fell In Love With A Girl"

...to name a few

Aw Shit Man - Minus 5
Icky Thump - White Stripes
Date With the Night - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Small Stakes - Spoon
One Beat - Sleater-Kinney

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Originally posted by Il Mago:
One Beat - Sleater-Kinney

Agree with this one. For a bad-ass Spoon song, I'd have to go with "I Turn My Camera On".

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Originally posted by ericg75:
For a bad-ass Spoon song, I'd have to go with "I Turn My Camera On".

I don't know, "Small Stakes" has that really fast pace to it, and he keeps yelling "Aw come on!" near the end, right when the fuzzed, glitched-out snare drum starts to kick in. I think it's bad-ass. I think "I turn My Camera On" is more sexy than bad ass. I mean, the thing gets compared to Prince all the time.

Girls vs Boys- Let Me Come Back
Girls vs Boys- Bulletproof Cupid
Happyhead- Get Out The Cab, Babe
Poster Children- Time Share
Jesus Lizard- Skull of a German
Inspiral Carpets- Commercial Rain
Cop Shoot Cop- Any Day Now
M83- God of Thunder
Rapture- I Need Your Love
Dandy Warhols- Cool as Kim Deal

Mastodon- Aqua Dementia
McLusky- Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
Sonic Youth- Kool Thing (duh! Although the lyrics aren't nearly as cool as the song itself..)
Arctic Monkeys- Balaclava
DFA1979- Pull Out (Along with most of their songs)
Fujiya & Miyagi- Transparent Things (this band and Sonic Youth are the epitome of cool to me)
Iggy & the Stooges- Raw Power
LCDSS- Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Lou Reed- Walk On the Wild Side (he's also epitome of cool)
NWA- A Bitch Is A Bitch
Silver Jews- Punks In the Beerlight
The Misfits- We Are 138
Notorious B.I.G- Ready To Die
Three Six Mafia- Body Full of Bullet Holes
Wu-Tang Clan- Bring Da Ruckus (Along with the rest of 36 Chambers really)
YYYs- Rich (along with most of Fever To Tell)

I just went through my MP3 player and got what stick out hahaha... that's why my list is so long (and some of these aren't indie and some won't make sense to the rest of you, but they all fit here for me )

"Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
"This is Love" by PJ Harvey
"Petrol" by the Vibrators
"Crawling From the Wreckage" by Dave Edmunds
"Concrete Jungle" by the Specials
"I Stand Accused" by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
"Billy's Third" by the Undertones
"Bachelorette" by Björk
"How Soon is Now?" by the Smiths
"12 X U" by Wire
"Click Click" by the English Beat

Looks like a lot of good ones were already said but here are some songs that "make me wanna grab my sunglasses and cigarettes, look in the mirror, and pretend that I am in fact as cool as Tony Montana":

Tom Waits - "Cold Water"
The Rolling Stones - "Rocks Off"
The White Stripes - "There's No Home For You Here" (especially that ending)
Weezer - "Getchoo"
Spoon - "Believing is Art"
Death from Above 1979 - "Romantic Rights"
Radiohead -"Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)" and "Airbag"
Nine Inch Nails - "March of the Pigs"

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"Heart of the City" by Nick Lowe
"How Soon is Now?" by the Smiths

Agree with these two. The opening drumbeat on the former is especially bad-ass.

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The Rolling Stones - "Rocks Off"

Agree with this one too.


How about Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life'?

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Originally posted by ericg75:

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Originally posted by Il Mago:
One Beat - Sleater-Kinney

Agree with this one.

+1

ZZ Top - "Tush"
George Thorogood - "Bad to the Bone"
Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man"
The Gossip - "Fire/Sign"
Siouxsie & the Banshees - "Spellbound"
Sisters of Mercy Touched by the Hands of Ofra Haza - "Temple of Love"
Hope of the States - "The Black Amnesias"

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Originally posted by ericg75:
How about Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life'?

RAW POWER!!!!!!!

i realize that this is an indie board but someone mentioned wu-tang ..

anything off of Liquid Swords by GZA
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires (the song)
Psychic Paramount - Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural (the song)
2 Unlimited - No Limit

don't have my computer on me, my list will be better once it get shipped back to me.

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Originally posted by GG Allin:
2 Unlimited - No Limit

oh wow....my eyes!!! i need a brainwash right away. brrrrrrrr
i used to love this group. arf!

Fugazi - Caustic Acrostic
Slint - Good Morning, Captain
Jean Sibelius - Symphony no. 2

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Originally posted by brainofp:

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Originally posted by GG Allin:
2 Unlimited - No Limit

oh wow....my eyes!!! i need a brainwash right away. brrrrrrrr
i used to love this group. arf!

if it's good enough to make it on "Sports Anthems Hall of Fame" circa 1996, then it's good enough for me !

i still don't think you can make it through a sports venue without hearing this goddamn song.

It's all about attitude.

The National - Mr. November
Sebadoh - Flame
Josh Ritter - Mind's Eye
Toadies - Tyler
Bush - Head Full of Ghosts
Rocket From the Crypt - On a Rope

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Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake
Chavez - Break Up Your Band
Butthole Surfers - Goofy's Concern
Ministry - Stigmata

Celine Dion - "My Heart Will Go On"

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Originally posted by MajorNougat:
Celine Dion - "My Heart Will Go On"

Yeah Baby!!!!!!