Morally dubious songs.

[AverageJoe]

I've already voiced my thoughts about Roy Orbison driving all night to get into my room. (or yours, should you choose).

But here's a thread about morally dubious songs.

Lets not worry about Death Metal, that's a genre that keeps itself to it's (sometimes incel) self.

I'm taking about well popular tunes.

Heres Morcheeba.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man, I was mean but I'm changing my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can (fool, you fool)
I admit it's getting better (better)
A little better all the time (it can't get no worse)

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Produced by R Kelly

 

[Epona]

Oh god there's loads, don't even know where to start.

How about "Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, living doll"

 

[krtek a houby]

"Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
It's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done.
And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,
Be sure and tell her, SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Every growing boy needs a little joy,
Beggin' on my knees, baby if you please,
Every growing boy needs a little toy,
I'm a natural man doin' all I can

 

[savoloysam]

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion.

"I pulled into town in a police car, your daddy said that I took you a little too far"

 

[savoloysam]

Pink Floyd - One of my turns.

Sounds like Roger is admitting being violent to one of his partners.

 

[seeformiles]

 

[seeformiles]

 

[Elpenor]

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Young Girl



Remember thinking that was dodgy as fuck when I was a kid hearing it on capital gold

 

[savoloysam]

Michael Jackson - PYT (pretty young thing)

 

[hitmouse]

Sure you could probably fill a whole thread just with the Rolling Stones, but Under My Thumb is one standout.

Oh, and I feel I might've mentioned it on another thread at some point, but You're Ready Now by Frankie Valli - great tune, dodgy lyrics.

 

[StoneRoad]

For fat-shaming & sexism ...

"Fat Bottomed Girls"

[I heard it mentioned on a radio programme a few days ago, and can sort of hear it in my head, but now I can't remember who was the "artist"]

E2A - It was Queen [I did a search to aid my dodgy memory this morning + thanks to Pickman's model ]

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm backing Britain by Bruce forsyth

 

[Pickman's model]

For fat-shaming & sexism ...

"Fat Bottomed Girls"

[I heard it mentioned on a radio programme a few days ago, and can sort of hear it in my head, but now I can't remember who was the "artist"]

Queen isn't it?

 

[DotCommunist]

wagners ring cycle

 

[StoneRoad]

Queen isn't it?

yeah, I think so [after I posted, I checked with a search engine and was about to edit !]

 

[Brainaddict]

I was a bit taken aback by the Ed Sheeran song 'shape of you' (and the success of it, both in lyrical and musical terms). Singing repeatedly 'I'm in love with your body' seems to suggest that's all the woman is or all that's worth paying attention to. Morally dubious? A little bit, in a world where men are encouraged to think of women as just their bodies.

 

[mod]

my 13 year old daughter is a huge Arctic Monkeys fan and one of her xnas gifts were tickets to go and see them at Arsenal’s horrible generic bowl.

Anyway…after the gig i said it was a shame they didn’t play ‘When The Sun Goes Down’ that, despite being about a dark subject, i always thought a belting tune.

“oh…they never sing that song anymore” she said but didn’t know why.

having since listened again it is a very dark tune indeed. particularly the final line (which i’d never picked up on before)….

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Already a lot of nonce type stuff, and I'm afraid I'm adding to it:



"Body of a woman, mind of a child
Shadow, you sure do drive me wild
You're only 14 years old"

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Sure you could probably fill a whole thread just with the Rolling Stones, but Under My Thumb is one standout.

I hate the Rolling Stones - especially Mick Jagger.

Record unemployment? Don't worry, Tory Mick says you just need to get on your bike and roll your sleeves up:



"No sitting down on your butt
The world don't owe you"

 

[Bus Honeygun]

The tipping point where Morrissey went from waspish eccentric with the odd attention-grabbing quip to out and out racist:



"Shelve your western plans... because life is hard enough when you belong here."

 

[Chz]

Well, My Ding-A-Ling obviously.
I think this thread could easily go two, three hundred pages?

How about music that was morally dubious at the time, but now it's okay? Eg: Pete Burns' Black Leather.

 

[platinumsage]

This song advocates a hedonistic lifestyle pursuing the immoral abuse of drugs:

 

[A380]

This song advocates a hedonistic lifestyle pursuing the immoral abuse of drugs:

All the times I'd listened to it and I'd missed the oh so subtle references. I'd just assumed it was a reference to one of Charles Dickens's great novels. Every day's a school day.

 

[danny la rouge]

God save our gracious King!
Long live our noble King!
God save the King!
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the King!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On him be pleased to pour;
Long may he reign:
May he defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the King!

 

[Cloo]

Mummy's Boy by Madness:

Once went out with a London girl
Dirty weekend in a hotel
Broke it off when she got shirty
She was 12 and he was 30
Right after that, he was dead sore
He wouldn't go out with girls no more
From that day since, he never has
He wants to do something dirty

 

[platinumsage]

God save our gracious King!
Long live our noble King!
God save the King!
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the King!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On him be pleased to pour;
Long may he reign:
May he defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the King!

You missed the best verse!

O Lord our God arise,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!