Slap my bitch up.
Morally dubious songs.
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BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon has always felt to me, at best, morally dubious.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age
I would've liked you to have been deep frozen too
And waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my return to Earth
But your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you
Let's see you'd be about 60 now
And long dead by the time I return to Earth
My time held dreams were full of you
As you were when I left, still underage
It's possible the space-faring narrator was the same age as his then girlfriend, but since he has to pause to work out how old she'd be in the present it seems unlikely.
I really like Hawkwind but that's not good.
I would've liked you to have been deep frozen too
And waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my return to Earth
But your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you
Let's see you'd be about 60 now
And long dead by the time I return to Earth
My time held dreams were full of you
As you were when I left, still underage
It's possible the space-faring narrator was the same age as his then girlfriend, but since he has to pause to work out how old she'd be in the present it seems unlikely.
I really like Hawkwind but that's not good.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
It is awful morally, and a fucking stone cold killer as a track.
I don't think any other band have so many songs that are so dodgy and yet also great musically.
It was an Ultramagnetic MCs sample, so not even their own lyric.
I believe that the narrator of this song is actually expressing his deep admiration for the aforementioned women.
The opposite, it's a somewhat mawkish paean to mothers.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Indeed. I believe that the narrator is of the opinion that they make the “rockin’ world go round”. Which we are led to assume is high praise indeed.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Butthole Surfers. Didn't some rave band sample the entire opening to use as the opening of their own song? Hard to get mad about when the Butthole Surfers themselves 'sampled' an entire song (kuntz) and just added some extra bits to the chorus (on the same album Sweat Loaf is on).
Anyway. Just saying "Satan" doesn't sound particularity morally dubious.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
And the riff is of course from Sabbath’s Sweet Leaf, the opening track of their best album, Master of Reality.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
petee
no gods, no malarkey
I thought it was sympathetic, and that they, as the Beatles, were bringing considerable attention to a situation that you wouldn't be pressed to hear about otherwise.
Yeah I feel the Barrett Strong original has no sense of irony about it.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
beefheart's Clear Spot is one of the best US rock albums ever, every track cracking, start to finish, but the lyrics are all his fantasies about women, some of them pretty reactionary
Nowadays a woman has to haul off and hit a man
T' make him know she's there
Other night a woman came up 'n hit me
Like I wasn't even there
there's jailbait elsewhere on the record too, if you like.
Nowadays a woman has to haul off and hit a man
T' make him know she's there
Other night a woman came up 'n hit me
Like I wasn't even there
there's jailbait elsewhere on the record too, if you like.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Does anyone keep up with new hiphop enough to say what the current status quo is like in terms of morally dubious lyrics? Like obviously there's been a fair bit of cultural shift in terms like it being easier to be an openly LGBT rapper these days, and I saw a story last year about both Beyonce and Lizzo removing "spaz" from their lyrics, but can you actually get in trouble for being a sexist or homophobic rapper these days, or is it just a thing where different rappers have different fanbases?
Both are comedy acts and the Macc Lads are just a spoof of beer swillin’ misogynists.
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
Actually if you pay attention to Kunt you'll realise his songs are actually quite sweet and fairly left wing as well.
He’s completely on the left.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Never considered the lyrics before. Fucking hell.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
An absolute shit of a song
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Not familiar with those. I suppose another example would be Victor Meldrew where a send up of a grumpy old racist loses the comedy aspect and is just seen as racism.
not-bono-ever
meh
Much of led zeppelin lyrically
not-bono-ever
meh
That fuckin bastard
