Controversial, risqué and potentially inappropriate Songs

fandango · September 2017

As the title ... and I'll kick off with Hawkwind's Urban Guerilla.

Originally released as a single back in 1973 (when Lemmy played for them). It got pulled a few weeks down the line after it got banned by the BBC because the IRA were in full flow. Why? Because it's a bit close to the bone when it starts off about making bombs in cellars. No surprise it then tanked, despite making the charts. The subject matter would get the Liberals worked up into a lather, and I guess they'd try have it banned again today, but like most of Hawkwind's songs from the good old days before Robert Calvert passed on, it's got some guts.

Covered years later by Primal Scream, but here's Hawkwind with a live version for your further education.

quarky · September 2017

Christine Sixteen. Image result for christin sixteen

"I don't usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you
coming out of the school that day, that day I knew, I knew, I've got to have
you, I've got to have you."

She's' been around, but she's young and clean
I've got to have her, can't live without her, whoo no
Christine sixteen, Christine sixteen

I like the song, but do chringe sometimes listening to it. I can't believe it was ever appropriate.

scrumhalf · September 2017

You'd be hard-pressed to find The Electric Chairs' "Fuck Off" as anything other than controversial.

bingefeller · September 2017

Kiss - Goin Blind.

Little lady, can't you see
You're so young and so much different than I
I'm 93, you're sixteen
Can't you see I'm goin' blind

octatonic · September 2017

My Sharona: "I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind".
You couldn't write that song now.

Evilmags · September 2017

Just get "Have I offended anyone" by Zappa.

nickb_boy · September 2017

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

Winny_Pooh · September 2017

octatonic said:

My Sharona: "I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind".
You couldn't write that song now.

What makes it even more risque is that it was written about his underage girlfriend.

octatonic · September 2017

Winny_Pooh said:

octatonic said:

My Sharona: "I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind".
You couldn't write that song now.

What makes it even more risque is that it was written about his underage girlfriend.

She is now a realtor in the US.

lewism · September 2017

In the same vein as Kiss, The Rolling Stones, Stray Cat Blues:
"I can see that you're fifteen years old
No I don't want your I.D.
You look so rest-less and you're so far from home
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime"

The live versions were often even more dubious.

menamestom · September 2017

Short People by Randy Newman

Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live

They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Round here

Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's a wonderful world)

Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love

They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here

Evilmags · September 2017

Forbidden Fruit Roy Harper

EricTheWeary · September 2017

fandango said:

As the title ... and I'll kick off with Hawkwind's Urban Guerilla.

Originally released as a single back in 1973 (when Lemmy played for them). It got pulled a few weeks down the line after it got banned by the BBC because the IRA were in full flow. Why? Because it's a bit close to the bone when it starts off about making bombs in cellars. No surprise it then tanked, despite making the charts. The subject matter would get the Liberals worked up into a lather, and I guess they'd try have it banned again today, but like most of Hawkwind's songs from the good old days before Robert Calvert passed on, it's got some guts.

Covered years later by Primal Scream, but here's Hawkwind with a live version for your further education.

The Selecter released the single Celebrate the Bullet which then coincided with the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan and the single couldn't get airplay and was withdrawn from sale.

Many years later they released a cover of Back to Black and about a week later Amy Winehouse died and they took it off sale. You can find it on YouTube BTW, one of my favourite tracks of theirs.
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A song that always shocked me a bit was Albert King's Answer to the Laundromat Blues which pretty clearly advocates domestic violence. Of a particular time and place I guess but I saw it tabbed in a guitar magazine years ago and wondered if the transcriber was okay with the lyrics.

AlexC · September 2017

Obviously, this is supposed to be highly inappropriate. Doubt if Radio One will be playing it soon.

mike_l · September 2017

octatonic · September 2017

mike_l said:

An old fashioned love song.

octatonic · September 2017

Pretty much anything by G.G. Allin or Anal Cunt.

merlin · September 2017

I Have Been In You - Frank Zappa

Bucket · September 2017

This is probably the most dubious underage-girl-related lyric I have ever heard.

If you imagine some of the other lyrics posted thus far, but the subject is acknowledged to be thirteen years old... fucking hell.

Bucket · September 2017

Or this 1993 Toy Dolls track, which is a tribute to the selflessness and charitable work of Jimmy Savile.

Obviously written in totally good faith, but you know...

Good solo in that one though.

Whitecat · September 2017

A lotta Steely Dan fits that bill... 'Cousin Dupree' is obvious - 'Everyone's Gone To The Movies' is another... incest/statutory rape themes, etc... all describing utter scoundrels of course in the Dan way, but nonetheless!

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