"there are more love songs than any other type. Should they always be balanced with hate songs?"
Abso-fuckin'-LUTELY!!! ;-) Of course! Let's have equal time for hate songs.
Consider, for example, this great hate song by Howling Eddie Cranshow:
Scum Are Only Scum! ( a mild protest song)
I play in all the street fairs I fiddle and I hum With my gitbox and fiddle Which clearly pleases some It pleases all the old folk And it pleases homeless bums But the ones it doesn't please Are the bloody fecking scum!
Because scum are only scum They're ugly and they're daft They know they're only scum Without artistic craft They're rotten stinking bleeders Who all should get the shaft! Yes, scum are rotten scum They're rotten fecking scum Let's toss 'em in the Channel And provide no bloody raft!
Scum are fecking losers Scum are stupid sods If I could get me hands on them I'd give 'em all the rod I'd punch their ugly faces I'd call 'em nasty names I'd tell 'em all to go to hell I'd set 'em all aflame
Because scum are only scum They're ugly and they're daft They know they're only scum Without artistic craft They're rotten stinking bleeders Who all should get the shaft! Yes, scum are rotten scum They're rotten fecking scum Let's toss 'em in the Channel And provide no bloody raft!
Scum are stupid useless gits Scum are bloody fools They stand on other people's toes They break Queensberry's rules They will not share a bit of bread They don't respect the poor They eat in fancy restaurants And act like bloody boors
Because scum are only scum They're ugly and they're daft They know they're only scum Without artistic craft They're rotten stinking bleeders Who all should get the shaft! Yes, scum are rotten scum They're rotten fecking scum Let's toss 'em in the Channel And provide no bloody raft!
Don't dare to come around near me If you're a bleedin' scum For if you do I'll take my shoe And plant it up your bum! You might think that I'm helpless You'll find I'm bloody not! I'll box your ears and black your eyes You rotten scummy sot!
Because scum are only scum They're ugly and they're daft They know they're only scum Without artistic craft They're rotten stinking bleeders Who all should get the shaft! Yes, scum are rotten scum They're rotten fecking scum Let's toss 'em in the Channel And provide no bloody raft!
I wish these rotten scum would die And leave good folks alone They poison every public place 'Cause they're got hearts of stone Their lifestyle is contemptible Their manners are obscene They've all got little beady eyes And their tongues are coated green!
Yes, scum are only scum They're ugly and they're daft They know they're only scum Without artistic craft They're rotten stinking bleeders Who all should get the shaft! Yes, scum are rotten scum They're rotten fecking scum Let's toss 'em in the Channel And provide no bloody raft!
Howling Eddie Cranshaw, Folkways of East Anglia 2009
The above dialectic appears to be aimed primarily at "upper class twits" and the like, people who are roundly despised by Howling Eddie, a man who is proud of his humble working class roots and not afraid to drop his aitches in polite company...