sunsetfever

I'm on the highway to hell

[virtual--vice]

[loveridden1999]

he did not need to be this cunty

[rappersdoingnormalshit-blog]

[st3fan00]

Why Wayne got socks in the jacuzzi

[whitegirlsaintshit]

those are his hooves you bitch

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

happy 10 years of those are his hooves you bitch

[whitegirlsaintshit]

why the FUCK am i still on here

[gwydpolls]

Who Sang it Better?

Leadbelly - House of the Rising Sun

Nina Simone - The House of The Rising Sun

Odetta Live in concert 2005, "House of the Rising Sun"

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

Full Disclosure: I put the Animals last, because that's usually the only version people know.

I picked the others because of their differences. I grew up with both the Leadbelly and the Animals version playing in my house. The Leadbelly's a good representation of some of the oldest versions and shows what it sounded like before the Animals did their radical rearrangement. The Nina Simone is iconic and really different. The Odetta is a good representation of what some of the later versions that reclaimed the women's perspective lyrics do and is frankly beautiful in itself.

I love all of these. Each one makes the song their own. This is no shade on the versions I didn't pick. If we played every recorded version this would take forever.

There are way more versions than are presented here. No one really knows exactly how old this song is and there is some debate even about whether it's about a brothel, gambling den, etc. since by the time people started recording it there were versions with different ruins including male and female versions.

Who Sang it Better?

Leadbelly - House of the Rising Sun

Nina Simone - The House of The Rising Sun

Odetta Live in concert 2005, "House of the Rising Sun"

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

Voting ended onMar 4, 2025

[gwydpolls]

If you have another version you'd like considered, please suggest it.

[tuulikki]

Woody “‘This Machine Kills Fascists’ originator” Guthrie was a man who was not going to change pronouns to make this song from a male perspective. No sir. Woody is a poor girl lead astray by a gambler and that’s facts.

Michael Bublé could never

[throathole]

this gif is fucking frying me

[dafterwho]

the work is mysterious and important

[sbeana]

coping by drawing them being fun and awesome and normal and silly

[spotilarian-deactivated20260125]

They are too precious to me. We must eliminate them

[mujeje320]

3jima

[fishpondfish]

severance is like [45-50 minutes of life-altering television that leave you wanting to walk into the ocean or perhaps perform a self-immolation] directed by

[planefood]

When was the last time you ate something green and NO GREEN M&M'S DON'T COUNT

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[bestiolin]

sara hagale

[davidfosterwallaceandgromit]

oh buddy it’s only monday monday

[afanofmanyhats]

[moeria-deactivated20130301]

bad

[gwschoolhiatus-deactivated20161]

i looked up the source for this and its from an anime where a dude has to keep a constant boner for a month straight or he loses his house

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

is this the episode where he lost his house

[junglejim4322]

I have not stopped thinking about this even once for the last 8 years

[sacred-portal]

[dahmerskitchen]

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]