Controversial, risqué and potentially inappropriate Songs

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

I had a 12" single of FFA by the Leather Nun, I think it's on YouTube. Yes, that was my adolescent edgy and exciting although songs about, err, extreme sex acts probably still not that mainstream although one of the few songs to rhyme hesitate with prostate. 

AlexC said:

Does anyone else find that something you found 'edgy and exciting' when you were a teen just seems lame, stupid and offensive when you get older? For me, this would include The Stranglers songs I Feel Like A Wog and Bring On The Nubiles.
Grown men should've known better TBH. 

Found it  

ThePrettyDamned

I like eminem's lyrics, especially from the slim shady lp and Marshall mathers lp.

The controversy was because of rape, violence, murder and drugs. Cleverly written though. 

fandango

fandango said:

Sex Pistols: Friggin' in the Riggin'

Frank Zappa: Easy Meat, Catholic Girls, Crew Slut

Should have added yet another Frank Zappa song: Keep it Greasy

It seems Frank and others had a preponderance for sexually charged song lyrics. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax is another one.

But what other non-sexual risqué songs can we come up with?

fob

I tried to find a video for 'Sister' by Prince but can't even find a cover version. Worth checking out if you've never heard it (it's on the Dirty Mind album). The lyrics:

I was only sixteen but I guess that's no excuse
My sister was thirty-two, lovely, and loose
She don't wear no underwear
She says it only gets in her hair
And it's got a funny way of stoppin' the juice

My sister never made love to anyone else but me
She's the reason for my, uh, sexuality
She showed me where it's supposed to go
A blowjob doesn't mean blow
Incest is everything it's said to be

etc.

Not a song, as such, but the cover for Blind Faith's album was a topless 11 year old girl.

EricTheWeary

I don't know if they're risqué or not but we recently had Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump on here and I wondered if, say, Radio 2 would be comfortable with playing that now ( the maybe he's a poofta stuff) although it was a hit at the time because it was plugged so much by a gay dj ( Kenny Everett). 
10CC's  Dreadlock Holiday treads a thin line between parody and offensive. 
Blue Mink's Melting Point was a paen to racial equality but contained stuff about yellow chinkees and so on. Again, you might hear it on an oldies show but if it was a new song it probably wouldn't get air play. 

Bucket

I don't know how many people here are/were familiar with Lostprophets, but I seem to remember their song "A Town Called Hypocrisy" having a video containing the band, including paedophile frontman Ian Watkins, frolicking on a kids' TV set... with lots of kids there.

ICBM

fob said:

Not a song, as such, but the cover for Blind Faith's album was a topless 11 year old girl.

I was very surprised to see that on open public display in HMV a couple of years ago - not even on the normal front-to-back racks where the individual cases are quite hidden, but a big side-to-side rack. I did buy it, since I didn't have it on CD, but I do find the original cover slightly uncomfortable. The CD case insert is a single folded sheet with the alternative US cover on the inside, so I simply folded it the other way - it's odd that it doesn't come like that as standard.

Evilmags

Zappa again, The meek shall inherit nothing. Louisiana hooker with herpes, Boby Brown (about a senator). The man was god. 

boogieman

ZZ Top's "Francine" is about a man's love for his girlfriend, who just turned 13. 

EricTheWeary

nickb_boy said:

Probably not the most common topic so it could be seen as a bit controversial but there is a moral to the story:

Sublime - Date Rape

Wiz given cause Sublime were so good

Bucket

Ginger Wildheart did an entire album under the country artist pseudonym of Howling Willie Cunt, with the intention of parodying the style of a grizzled old redneck and singing intentionally unbelievably offensive songs.

Some of the song titles are "Nine Coloured Spastics on a Meathook" and "Homosexual Punchbag in a Wheelchair".

And this wonderful tune:



"You can gut her like a trout
You can cut her eyeballs out
You can chain her to the basement
Long as nobody finds out"

Reverend

Peter Wyngarde was a big star as Jason King at the time. The music is incredible. The lyrics? Hard to imagine no one questioned them. 

Drew_TNBD

I don't like any of these songs.

EricTheWeary

boogieman said:

ZZ Top's "Francine" is about a man's love for his girlfriend, who just turned 13. 

And they did Mexican Blackbird which was basically a song about recommending a prostitute. 

Gassage

Slightly off topic, but my old cricketing mate David Adams, who passed in April, was aptly carried into his own funeral with "Cigarettes and Alcohol' blaring from the Church PA.

fields5069

Bucket said:

Ginger Wildheart did an entire album under the country artist pseudonym of Howling Willie Cunt, with the intention of parodying the style of a grizzled old redneck and singing intentionally unbelievably offensive songs.

Some of the song titles are "Nine Coloured Spastics on a Meathook" and "Homosexual Punchbag in a Wheelchair".

And this wonderful tune:



"You can gut her like a trout
You can cut her eyeballs out
You can chain her to the basement
Long as nobody finds out"

In a similar vein I guess, but not very offensive these days particularly as it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, is Demented Are Go's Pickled and Preserved:

"Filled her body with formaldehyde

Pickled and preserved

Lovely since the day she died

Pickled and preserved

Put her in a big glass cask

Pickled and preserved

Now I don't even have to ask

Pickled and preserved

Pickled and preserved

Pickled and preserved

I can fuck her anytime

Pickled and preserved"

Sassafras

I don't know about Ginger Wildheart but I like Rich Hall's persona of Otis Lee Crenshaw for un-PC lyrics.

Gassage

The Stranglers did well on No More Heroes

Bring on the Nubiles, School Mam and I Feel Like a Wog (all brilliantly written Cornwell parody songs) are beyond risqué lyrically.

"Now the Principal collapses dead on the floor; with contentment on her wrinkled old face evermore" (the ode of a schoolteacher who was a sexual voyeur)

A fine day for the classroom and the pupils are here
Julie's got a headache but the others don't care
Sarah's got to stay behind and help with the drill
Teacher's got his eye on her
Moves in for the kill.
Nobody can see or hear the things that they do
All the books stay closed, there must be something they do
Only teacher knows about the subjects they span - span
Education's secondary, being a school mam
Oooooeeee!
Teachers doing fine as far as I can see
Being a school mam
Long holidays in the summer
Being a school mam
Free milk in your coffee break
Being a school mam
Government paid monthly salary checks
Noises heard the principal investigates
She turns on all the cameras but it's too late
Catches both their pants down in a passion war
Hasn't seen it happen since the day she was born
Reaching down for glasses that just can't be found
By the time she finds them, why their down on the ground
Tossing and a turning they've got feverish hands
Lead can be so fluid when you're being a school mam
Oooooeeee!
Teachers doing fine as far as I can see
Being a school mam
Controlling promiscuity after hours
Being a school mam
Giving out detentions by the dozen
Being a school mam
Give her fifty lines (of speed)
Being a school mam
Sucking on her fingernails she can't believe what she's seeing
She's seeing something close to what appears on the screen
Locks her door, with trembling hands and her hearts beating very fast
She pretends she's down there on the floor in the class
Gives herself to teacher although he doesn't know
Works herself into a frenzied state and it shows
Sarah's almost at the top but try as she can
She can't reach her helter skelter
Down with the school man
Just watch her go and help her try if you can
Use your twentieth century imagination - if you've got any
Oooooeeee!
Now she's at the top and teacher sets her free
Being a school mam
Disgusting behavior
Being a school mam
All over the parquet flooring
Being a school mam
Letting the flood gates open wide
Being a school mam
Now the principal collapses dead on the floor
With contentment on her wrinkled old face ever more
She went out the very best way that an old woman can
She was where the action was
Down there with the school man
Oooooeeee!
Teacher never will discover who could see
Being a school mam
One and one make two if you're very lucky
Being a school mam
Two twos make four if I remember correctly
Being a school mam
Four fours make sixteen and sixteen's over age
Sixteen and sixteen makes thirty two
That's approaching middle age
Thirty two and thirty two makes sixty four
That's OAP land
Sixty four and sixty four makes a hundred and twenty eight
A hundred and twenty eight divided by three
Let me pause for reflection for a second
But teacher!
Three doesn't go into a hundred and twenty eight exactly,
But it goes forty two and a bit
Forty three, forty four, forty five, forty six, forty seven

Octafish

Reverend said:

Peter Wyngarde was a big star as Jason King at the time. The music is incredible. The lyrics? Hard to imagine no one questioned them. 

WTF! I remember reading about this years ago pre-internet in a copy of Record Collector. Forgot about it and never bothered to search it out. Utterly bizairre... take one TV detective and get them to sing jokingly about rape with a bit of racism thrown in for good measure, ahh the 70s. Apparently it was released on single as 'Peter Wyngrade Commits Rape'.

Some 'choice' lyrcial moments...

It's amazing how many different types of rape there are
(dodgy Japanese sounding accent/nonsense words) Japanese rape of course

In France of course, where fun is greedy
The women are a little more seedy
and rape is hardly ever necessary.

... smooth!

Jalapeno

EricTheWeary said:

boogieman said:

ZZ Top's "Francine" is about a man's love for his girlfriend, who just turned 13. 

And they did Mexican Blackbird which was basically a song about recommending a prostitute. 

And La Grange is about a brothel