Just heard Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix who was off to shoot his old lady and the Beatles Run for your life
They got away with more back in the '60's
Maxwell's Silver Hammer, upbeat song about a guy who kills people with a hammer
Pretty much anything that Nick Cave has written songs about.
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People.
It's a really catchy ear worm (apologies) about a school shooting. Pretty grim
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People.
It’s a really catchy ear worm (apologies) about a school shooting. Pretty grim
See also, Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
I'd wager there are a load of others too, not like US artists are short of material on the subject
Cotton Eye Joe covers the topic of a man having his urethra swabbed with a cotton ball in order to test for STDs.
Christmas. Because all the christmas songs are shite.
I ate at an Ed's Easy Diner a few years ago. The tables had little jukeboxes on them, mostly with songs from the 50s - an alarming proportion of which were about waiting for lasses to turn 16.
RHCP - under the bridge, about heroin addiction which killed band member Hillel Slovak.
Song later covered by AllSaints🤷♂️
Plenty of classic rock songs wouldn't get past the PC-police these days
- Eric Clapton - Cocaine
- Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
- Black Sabbath (Again !!) - Snowblind
Even the beloved Queen wouldn't get away with singing about tieing your fat bottomed mother down before going on a bicycle race, these days.
Turning Japanese by the Vapors. Allegedly about spanking the monkey.
Love.
Whatever you think needs saying in your boring song has already been said a million times.
I'm not sure, aside from anything going near talking about 16 year olds, it still seems pretty much open season on writing to me- the lyrics of a lot of music that my kids listen to fills me with horror, makes a lot of stuff mentioned above seem innocuous.
Odd that they've not turned into vacuous misogynistic racist pricks considering, almost seems as if the words they listen to don't really have much impact.
Ever since hearing the rumour that Sweet Caroline was written about JFK's teenage daughter, I can help feeling it's massively distasteful. The rumour may be false, and I don't know the daughter's age, but it just gives me shivers now.
Plenty of classic rock songs wouldn’t get past the PC-police these days
– Eric Clapton – Cocaine
– Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf
– Black Sabbath (Again !!) – Snowblind
Hmm are you sure, still loads of songs about drugs kicking about. trying to think of modern poular artists, you got the 1975 with Chocolate, and The Weekend with can't feel my face.
Also as above loads of lyrics about reallyy explicit sex: "Hold your head steady while I milk the cow...."
Probably best to avoid songs about crushing the Scots these days, seems they don't like it much. PC gone mad if you ask me.
Azalea Banks. She has some fairly explicit lyrics about adventurous activities between the sheets. And I’m pretty sure she’s one the young people listen to.
@vinnyeah. True.
My yoof was filled with Iron Maiden, Jusas Priest, Ozzy, and Black Sabbath. Yet despite what the (im)moral minority in America would have you believe, I've still not had sex with a fruit bat or been to any Satanic Night clubs.
🤘
Azalea Banks. She has some fairly explicit lyrics about adventurous activities between the sheets. And I’m pretty sure she’s one the young people listened to about a decade ago.
Most songs by the bloodhoundgang....
I can't even bring myself to name them here (though, I do love that band!!)
DrP
I've just opened this thread while watching YouTube documentaries about Seth Putnam. No one else gets close really.
Plenty of classic rock songs wouldn’t get past the PC-police these days
There's plenty of artists giving Boomers a run for their money. Writing songs about drugs and sex didn't come to an end in the 70's 🙄
The entire back catalog of Deicide! 😀
Plenty of classic rock songs wouldn’t get past the PC-police these days
I mean I'd post the lyrics to Wet Ass Pussy (bring a mop and bucket) but the swears filter might melt.
What was Little Red Rooster about?
Mild mannered Scots Travis... well, I dunno what the lyrics are, but the title is... ahem best stick to songs about wet weather I reckon.
Almost everything by the bloodhound gang.
So what or green hell by diamond head...
There are a few Rod Stewart and Tom Jones ones that border on being a bit "rapey".
A fair section of music has always been reasonably horny and off its face and so long as there's a party to be had it always will be, the boomers didn't invent it, the Blues was full of it.
Big Legs Tight Skirt by Jon Lee Hooker anyone?
And before that there were bawdy folk songs about the Mayor of Bayswater's daughter and all that.
There are a few Rod Stewart
Christ yes! Bawdy is one thing, creepy af is another. "Tonight's the night", sample lyrics: just bite down on on this, it'll be over before you know it..."
Art innit ...
You can have any subject matter you like.
It's society that decides whether it's popular and a hit or not.
I wish Miley Cyrus would get a nice steady relationship so she stops writing dreary and tedious break-up songs!
Nothing. You are banning discussion on a subject if you are banning music on a subject.
Just heard Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix who was off to shoot his old lady
Pretty standard blues material.
People totally get the wrong idea about Sex and Agriculture.
And Are You Old Enough would probably upset people too.
Wasn't The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" a tribute to heroin? That might complete the "Class A drugs list playlist".
Doesn't matter really, it's still a decent song.
So what or green hell by diamond head…
So What by the Anti nowhere League and Green Hell by the Mistifs you mean? As covered by Metallica not Diamond Head 😁
But say what you like Nick Cave makes the macabre and twisted beautiful.
I wish Miley Cyrus would get a nice steady relationship so she stops writing dreary and tedious break-up songs!
To be fair, Adele’s not done too bad out of it.
Some probably don't see it as satire
The Jack by ACDC or poison ivy by the Coasters amongst many maybe not best to sing along to with grandkids
Isn't there a Rolling Stones song about bedding underage girls? Can't remember the name right now, might have been 'Stray Cat Blues'.
Yeuchhh.
There was a Rolling Stones song about black women, the devil, fighting, testicles, drugs, boobies & bottoms, a dead man coming... I mean if you really want to be offended I'm sure they've written something to accommodate.
I don't know for certain, but Epic by Faith No more sounds an awful lot like a song about how 'epic' rape is for at least one of the participants.
I always thought Baby Bird's "You're Gorgeous" was weird AF because it's clearly supposed to be sung from the point of view of a woman who's been taken advantage of rather than a middle-aged bloke who looks like Jedward after a Star Trek transporter accident.
Nothing. You are banning discussion on a subject if you are banning music on a subject.
Funny isn't it. It's always the same usual suspects wailing about censorship when a) nothing is actually being censored and b) they probably should be.
Irony
I don’t know for certain, but Epic by Faith No more sounds an awful lot like a song about how ‘epic’ rape is for at least one of the participants.
Mike Patton says it’s whatever you want it to be about or chronic masturbation. Depending on when the interview was conducted.
I have a playlist of murder ballads that includes Hey Joe. It is an American music tradition. Little Sadie (Lanegan’s version) and Kate Macannon by Colter Wall are good ones.
Most songs my parents got offended by me listening to are the ones that I hope my kids do listen to at some point. Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, The Coup and RATM.
I can’t think of many topics that haven’t been tackled in song at some point. From the creepy, to the absurd to the downright disturbing. It’s all out there somewhere.
Yeah it should never have been written 😁
Copperhead Road is a pleasant song about moonshiners murdering a policeman.
I was pleased recently to discover the dirty blues tradition being maintained by Bob Log III - highlights include the tremendously-titled 'Boob Scotch'. Spotify even provides the lyrics for maximum family singalong fun.
I worked a summer in a bar in a Bavarian holiday village in the 80s. The Germans seem to have a strange relationship with US music, and this was on their loop, which I found very strange as a 19 year old, in a rather sedate restaurant/bar
Pretty much everything recorded by Seth Putnam and the lads. IYKYK
Almost forgot off Next by SAHB
Gangbang , I'd be cranking the National Panasonic music centre volume control up to 12 and singing along with Alex ain't nothing like a gangbang to blow away the blues
Just hope my mum didn't hear me
Never could put my finger on the reason why, but I've always felt Shriekback's Nemesis was a particularly disturbing song, I'm sure there's some profound evil lurking in the lyrics somewhere.
But more seriously, Metallica's cover and video of Turn the Page totally ****ed up my feelings for a song I really used to like. Totally unnecessary.
I touch myself by the Divinyls.
I remember being at a party when I was about 10 and the girls belting that out at karaoke. That seems a bit inappropriate now.
Next by SAHB
Jacques Brel. Some pretty out there song subjects for the early 60s.
Most of Whitesnakes back catalogue..
Tattooed Love Boys - The Pretenders - Gang Rape
Guns of Brixton - The Clash - shooting Policemen
Richard Thompson writes some really dark and also awesome songs...
Guns are the tongues:
Auldie Riggs: https://genius.com/Richard-thompson-auldie-riggs-lyrics
@susepic Yes Frank wrote some pretty colourful songs - see also Dinah-Moe Humm, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes, Jewish Princess. I Have Been In You, Baby Take Your Teeth Out, Dirty Love to name just a few.
Great music though.
There's a few here https://singletrackworld.com/forum
The classic "Help me with a problem with an out of warranty sofa, please”
The club favourite "Why aren’t Digestives and Chocolate Digestives the same size?"
Copperhead Road is a pleasant song about moonshiners murdering a policeman
(revenue man)
And then the death of a father in a car cash and the next generation growing cannabis.
At least Gary Puckett stopped himself on Young Girl , when I think that song is supposedly taboo yet compared to some of the eye watering subject matter and lyrics on offer since 🙄
The song that censors really missed the point on though was Melting Pot by Blue Mink . It was about racial harmony by a multi cultural group 🙄
<p style="text-align: center;">Just remembered talking about Little Red Rooster , I was 8 at the time and wanted the single for Xmas .My mum made sure I had a Woolies K Tell knock off instead. Mick and the boys were going to corrupt my little head unlike those boys next door Beatles 😁😁😁</p>
In that age old tradition of railing against your parents I then started enjoying The Pretty Things as well ! 😁 69/70 Skinhead phase we had plenty to choose from Max Romeo reckoned Wet Dream was about sleeping in a shack with a leaky roof and he had to keep pushing it up 🤔😁
If you haven't heard Prince Buster Big Five it's a very rude version of Rainy Night In Georgia oh and Barbwire by Nora Dean . " Oh mama I met a man today he got barbwire in his underpants" 😁😁😁😁
Ever since this thread started I've had Nirvana's "Polly" going through my head for some reason.
PiL "Poptones" for a similar subject
Jewish princesses or Catholic girls.
It gives a kind of false hope.
Odd - I've not heard that Stones track on Pick of the Pops!!
Funny isn’t it. It’s always the same usual suspects wailing about censorship when a) nothing is actually being censored and b) they probably should be.
Is that a dig at me. Hard to tell within the form of communication. If it isn't not worries. If it is I don't get how it refers to me:)
If you are a bit squeamish you probably want to give the Cannibal Corpse discography a swerve...
Red Hot Chilli Peppers might want to explain
"But who cares what the good books says
'Cause now she's taking off her dress"
from (ahem) Catholic School Girls Rule.
Is that a dig at me. Hard to tell within the form of communication. If it isn’t not worries. If it is I don’t get how it refers to me:)
It was a generalisation. IME those who scream the loudest, "you can't say anything anymore [something something woke snowflakes something]" are a) outright lying and b) probably the ones most in need of reining in.
If you saw yourself in that post then, well, that's up to you to contemplate I suppose.
There’s a few here https://singletrackworld.com/forum
The classic “Help me with a problem with an out of warranty sofa, please”
Ah that old country and western number....
Been a year and hey-urf since we bought our settee,
And it’s been a good friend to my wife, dawg and me,
But after red wine and white wine and bodily emissions
The staining is shameful however cushions are positioned,
So I’m begging you begging you down on my knees,
Won’t you help me with, a problem with, an out of warranty sofa please!
The club favourite “Why aren’t Digestives and Chocolate Digestives the same size?”
That's a gabba gabber release I think, by some berlin hardcore techno nasenbluten outfit?
Brown sugar hasn’t aged very well..
Songs have been written about tabboo/dirty/disgusting etc... subjects since forever and will continue
One of my faves is Steel Panther, they are very tongue in cheek
Lyrics like 50 cent's a fag, so is Kanye West, shooting hot sperm on each other's chest
They have plenty of very rude and funny songs like Girl from Oklahoma
Jewish princesses
"Vapor Lock".
Oh and another one from Frank - "Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me"?
You should never write a song about any thing that is on an approved list of subjects
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