#461
(Top Modern Rock Songs Of All Time)
Song: "Institutionalized"
Artist: Suicidal Tendencies
Release Date: 1983
From the Album: Suicidal Tendencies (1983)
Quick Take: The song follows "Mike", presumably a teenage Mike Muir,
through a series of social conflicts with friends and, more
significantly, parents. The lyrics in the verses are not sung, but
spoken in a run-on sentence style. The lyrics are complemented by the
lead guitar, which is subdued at the start of the verses, but becomes
more frantic and powerful with the protagonist's confrontations and
emotional outbursts, mainly based on a heavy, funk-influenced riff that increases in speed several sections before each chorus.
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