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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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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
Kiedis has already explained that one. It's the song about the time he committed statutory rape on a 14 year old girl when he was an adult. I'm not joking.
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.
Or Phil Collins. Breakups have been fertile source material for songs since forever.
And sometimes the breakup was due to one or other party being killed in a car/motorcycle crash.
Brown sugar hasn’t aged very well...
The woman it was written about doesn’t actually care what people think, she’s perfectly happy about the song, so I think that’s the final word on that.
Chuck Berry recorded some fairly iffy songs, lyric-wise, as well.
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.
Why? It’s about masturbating, and there’s more than a few songs about that subject. There used to be a rather wonderful female duo, called the Dear Janes, who I saw a few times, and one of their songs was called ‘My Guilty Hand’; the backing music included a rhythmic squeaking sound, not unlike bed-springs. It was written by Ginny Clee, one of the band, who went to Catholic school…
The Ramones had it.
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah!
According to Joey Ramone, there was one specific brat that inspired this song. He grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in the Forest Hills section of Queens where some "rich snooty" women would raise obnoxious children. There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a horrible kid just running around rampant with no discipline whatsoever," he said in Rolling Stone. "The kind of kid you just want to kill. You know, 'Beat on the brat with a baseball bat' just came out. I just wanted to kill him."
"Hole in the road" by Bernard Cribbins is a jolly song about burying a pesky local government official, possibly alive.
Ted Nugent's Jailbait includes the lines
"Well I don't care if you're just thirteen
You look too good to be true
I just know that you're probably clean
There's one lil' thing I got do to you"
And later goes on
"It's all right baby
It's quite all right I asked your mama
Wait a minute officer
Don't put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her and I'll share her with you"