My best friend's elderly mom died a few years back, and in her final years she looked EXACTLY like Robert Plant.
Or... Robert Plant looks like an elderly woman. Potato potahdo.
Aerosmith also did Livinâ on the Edge though which gave me the impression that they were more accepting of trans folks. Tyler himself has always dressed in a way that many would call effeminate.
This was the theme song for my Junior Prom. It was written on EVERYTHING. And while it was a big song, even back then, my friends and I used to laugh at it, partly because Benny Mardones was from our hometown and was kind of a goof.
This comment is hysterical for two reasons. One, Benny getting popped in the noggin, and two, Auburn! I actually dated a couple of girls from there back in the day, and the bars could be a little...odd. But I guess it's like anywhere, really. Oddly enough, the very last time I ever played out was a bar in Auburn in January of 2016.
Benny was a weird guy. A couple of friends and I started a band in the very early 90s, so this was a little past Benny's big moment, but don't tell him that. There was a bar called Nick Fuoco's where a lot of bands would gather and play, and on nights where there were a lot of people in attendance Benny would show up wearing that Hamburgler shirt that he is wearing in that creepy music video for Into The Night. I won't say he still didn't have cache, there were always a group of ladies that would flock to him. That happened at another bar we all played at called The Lost Horizon. One of the bouncers there never liked Benny, and we were kind of friends with this guy, and he would always say "Busy night, I'll bet Old Man Ruben is gonna make an appearance." I guess his real name is Reuben. And this was 1992, and Benny was already around 45 or something (which does not seem old at all to me now, but when your 19, it's a world away). This was the 2nd go round for that song of his - it was big in 1980, then somehow it got big again in 1989. We used to hear all about it on some of the less crowded nights at those band bars.
In all honesty, I never had any bad run-ins with the guy, and he used buy beer for whichever bands were playing that night, even if ya were 18. Which makes sense, given he was cool with the younger age thing!
There's an interview he did explaining the lyrics more in depth.
A brief snip "But Mardones has explained many times over the years that the song is not statutory or even sexual. While living in New York's Spanish Harlem in 1979, he was inspired by three teen neighbors whose father had scored a Broadway hit and ran off with a chorus line girl."
Still a little creepy considering the video. Great voice... RIP
When Peter Gabriel was in the band. When he left and Phil Collinâs began singing, they became much more a pop band. Especially after Hackett left and the band became was a trio.
I recently learned that Gabriel was studying classical music after he left the band. Then that "Solsbury Hill" is in 7/4 time. The former music major in me is just stunned by that.
Yeah they like to overdramatize the cancelling thing.
Like Jason Aldean and Cardi B had the most offensive songs to different people in the past few years and they are still out there not cancelled.
Dire Straits, Money for Nothing with these lyrics....."See the little faggot with the earring and the make up
Yeah, buddy, that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he's a millionaire"
Yes! He was repeating what he overheard in an appliance shop. They had MTV on a display tv and those were the type of comments the guys were making as they watched.
it COULD BE makeup...but if it is then he REALLY butchered the pronunciation for some strange reason and that would not make sense at all, but I'm too lazy to google it...
It was happening then too but without social media you didn't hear about it. My physics teacher is still married to a guy from the class ahead of me (35 years later) and I can think of at least 3 other couples that started like this. Our high school was under 500 kids from 7-12th grades so I can only imagine how much it went on in bigger schools.
First video I saw when our family activated Much Music in our house. Scrambled signal flipped right into people rolling around behind steamed up windows.
Julie Brownâs âThe Homecoming Queenâs Got a Gunâ did not age well.
Basically a comedic song about a girl shooting up her High School soâŚ.yeah.
Winger 'Seventeen'
>I'm only seventeen (seventeen)
But I'll show you love like you've never seen
She's only seventeen (seventeen)
Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me
This is the first one I thought of. I was 14 at the time I didn't think anything of it. I was probably 30 when I heard it after all that time and I thought "Hey, wait a minute"
The Rolling Stones â Brown Sugar
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Uh huh
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, uh huh, oh (Woo)
Ah, get on, brown sugar, how come you taste so good?
Ah, got me craving the, the brown sugar
Just like a black girl should, yeah
The Police had "Any Other Day"
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
(And it would be okay on any other day...)
My ex was younger than me, and I introduced her to many 80s classics. When I pulled Illegal Alien up on YouTube, her jaw literally dropped for about 15 seconds, then she turned to me and said, "Is this REAL?? Not some kind of SNL joke?" I told her that it was indeed real, and another hit for Genesis, and yet another reason why every day was Christmas in the 80s.
(Feed the WOORRR-LLLDDD)
I had (and still have) the 45 of that classic, and it's one I would sometimes put on in the middle of summer, just because the song itself is so damn catchy.
Francine by ZZ Top.
My Francine just turned thirteen
She's my angelic teenage queen
And I love her, she's all that I want
And I need her, she's all that I need
What? Thats always been a pro queer song. They played it in gay bars in the 80s. When the song came out part of the reason it became popular was church groups were attacking it for promoting homosexuality. I think they claimed that Josie cotton was really a gay man pretending to be a woman to convince people to become gay.
At the time the people running gay organizations were from the old days and did not like the word âqueerâ and were against it. As people started taking back the word âqueerâ it got played more and more. The truth is this song was more problematic in the 80s.
Love that song but can't really play it for people these days.
That part where the lyrics are uhoh its a mistake uhoh take a second... pure brilliance.
The first time I Heard WAP was from a flamboyant homelessman/street performer near Mans Chinese theatre. He looked like 1981's David Lee Roth. The guy was really belting it out. I was like wtf is this but also Hey there actually is a song here.
lol what a talent.
Actually no. He wrote the song about his experience at a night club in Japan where there were mirrors everywhere and people who were alone just actually danced in front of the mirrors and were basically dancing with themselves
I hate when companies don't understand the meaning of the song they're using in a commercial. Walmart using Neuman's "Cars" and that cruise line that used Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" to sell cruises when it is about an LSD trip.
That's an Iggy Pop song, though. It's about a real-life affair partner. Iggy was struggling for money, so Bowie covered it and made him a bunch of money.
Probably Legs, Tush, Hot for Teacher... all the good stuff. Weird how people get all up about being offended by songs but stuff that actually matters they just go back to their phones...
She don't like other women
She likes whips and chains
**She likes cocaine**
**And flipping out with Great Danes**
She's about all I can handle
It's too much for my brain
Got Me Under Pressure, ZZ Top.
Surf Punks - Big Top.
Great tune that doesn't cut corners. Sadly, it would be tucked away and never make the airwaves today.
https://youtu.be/kXtcirZ0PGw?si=OVaSzCa08uGa7PbO
Never thought Iâd defend Robert Smith but the lyrics of that song are from the perspective of the protagonist of the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus. And was extremely controversial on its release in the â70s.
Based on the novel L'etranger by Albert Camus
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Stranger\_(Camus\_novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel))
Came here to make the Camus point too. Bob being Bob he's quite unapologetic about it too,as I recall it was on the set list for the last time I saw The Cure at Wembley.
Probably not an artist many people have heard of in the US.
Pretty Young Girl by the 80s Europop group Bad Boys Blue
Chorus:
Pretty young girl on my mind
How I wish you to be mine
Girl, you're no child anymore
Pretty young girl on my mind
Don't you know, know I can't hide
Can't hide my feelings
You're my girl and you're sixteen
Maybe ten years after's "I'd love to change the world." I don't think there is any malice in it whatsoever and Alvin was as laid back hippy if ever there were such a thing but, "dykes and fairies" probably rubs the wrong way those who are less forgiving and lack the context.
Interesting reading through these. How is music different from other art forms, such as film? If I want to make a movie about offensive people, do I have more leeway as an artist than a musician who pens a song from the perspective of an offensive person? Donât artists have leeway to present such things regardless of their format?
In a 1989 Rolling Stone interview, Rose explained the lyrics:
I used words like police and niggers because you're not allowed to use the word 'nigger.'
Why can black people go up to each other and say 'Nigger,' but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it's a big putdown? I don't like boundaries of any kind. I don't like being told what I can and what I can't say.
I used the word 'nigger' because it's a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem.
The word 'nigger' doesn't necessarily mean black. Doesn't John Lennon have a song "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"? There's a rap group, N.W.A. â Niggers with Attitude. I mean, they're proud of that word. More power to them.
Guns n' Roses ain't bad . . . N.W.A. is baaad! Mr. Bob Goldthwait said the only reason we put these lyrics on the record was because it would cause controversy and we'd sell a million albums. Fuck him! Why'd he put us in his skit? We don't just do something to get the controversy, the press.
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Its Money that I Love" by Randy Newman.
The lyric being: "They say that money can't buy love in this world, but it'll get you a half pound of cocaine, and a sixteen year old girl."
1979
Still a great song.
It's about a girl you went to highschool with posing for Playboy years later.....only thing wrong with it today is people don't know what magazines are. And it'd be updated to only fans.
That song is referring to ... um ... "solo time" that's he's enjoying so much, his eyes are squeezed shut. So it's wrong on two levels.
Don't forget:
â I Touch Myself (Divinyls)
â She Bop (Cyndi Lauper)
â Big Balls (AC/DC)
â 10" Record (Aerosmith)
â Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Immigrants and faggots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country and they
Think they'll do as they please
Like start some kind of mini-Iran
Or spread some fucking disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me
- "One in a Million", Guns N' Roses
One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head.
"I don't see you guys raging
The kind of mating I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you"
I swear this song had to with Trans related theme without mentioning it.
*I knew love before I left my nursery*
*Left alone with big fat fanny*
*She was such a naughty nanny*
*Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of meeeee*
Yeah, that one wouldn't make it past the A and R guy today.
OK, it's not 80's, but in 1966 Frank Gallop put out a humorous song called "[The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRow6vJxWUU)" - the 142nd Fastest Gun in the West. When I was a kid and Dr. Demento would play it, I thought it was hysterical. I went looking it up a few years ago, and sat aghast as the antiemetic tropes flowed like wine.
The thing is, it was actually highlighting the plight of the illegal alien, not mocking them.
Get 'Em Out By Friday was made in a similar vein. đ˘đ˘đ˘ Consideration for your fellow man would not hurt anybody.
again, sarcasm, itâs a tough sell to the mouthbreathers
Everyone with a brain knows that but too many offended pussies out there shoot their entire existence through the victimology prism.
Dude look like a lady? Aerosmith
Funniest thing about that song is that itâs about Vince Neil from MĂśtley CrĂźe. True story. Lol
As if Steven Tyler himself never looked like a lady, thatâs crazy never knew it was about Vince
Steven Tyler has always looked like an aging lesbian to me đ¤ˇ
He looks like Janice Dickinson with a beard.
My best friend's elderly mom died a few years back, and in her final years she looked EXACTLY like Robert Plant. Or... Robert Plant looks like an elderly woman. Potato potahdo.
Even at the time I thought it was ironic he was singing it. Maybe writing it was done with mirrors.
So itâs a pro gender non conforming song
UhhhhâŚ.âdo me do me do me all nightâ. I donât think that song is anti anything. Just like Lola.
Misheard song lyric: My friend until her mid 30âs had been singing along âDoodles like a ladyâ đ
Rock the cat box edit: [referencing a really old commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVRAO8N-4E)
Aerosmith also did Livinâ on the Edge though which gave me the impression that they were more accepting of trans folks. Tyler himself has always dressed in a way that many would call effeminate.
âInto the Nightâ by Benny Mardones (1980) wouldnât go over very well: âShe's just 16 years old, leave her alone, they saidâŚâ
This was the theme song for my Junior Prom. It was written on EVERYTHING. And while it was a big song, even back then, my friends and I used to laugh at it, partly because Benny Mardones was from our hometown and was kind of a goof.
I saw Benny Mardones at a bar in Auburn and he was swinging the mic around on its cable and hit himself in the head. They had to pause the show.
This comment is hysterical for two reasons. One, Benny getting popped in the noggin, and two, Auburn! I actually dated a couple of girls from there back in the day, and the bars could be a little...odd. But I guess it's like anywhere, really. Oddly enough, the very last time I ever played out was a bar in Auburn in January of 2016. Benny was a weird guy. A couple of friends and I started a band in the very early 90s, so this was a little past Benny's big moment, but don't tell him that. There was a bar called Nick Fuoco's where a lot of bands would gather and play, and on nights where there were a lot of people in attendance Benny would show up wearing that Hamburgler shirt that he is wearing in that creepy music video for Into The Night. I won't say he still didn't have cache, there were always a group of ladies that would flock to him. That happened at another bar we all played at called The Lost Horizon. One of the bouncers there never liked Benny, and we were kind of friends with this guy, and he would always say "Busy night, I'll bet Old Man Ruben is gonna make an appearance." I guess his real name is Reuben. And this was 1992, and Benny was already around 45 or something (which does not seem old at all to me now, but when your 19, it's a world away). This was the 2nd go round for that song of his - it was big in 1980, then somehow it got big again in 1989. We used to hear all about it on some of the less crowded nights at those band bars. In all honesty, I never had any bad run-ins with the guy, and he used buy beer for whichever bands were playing that night, even if ya were 18. Which makes sense, given he was cool with the younger age thing!
A. I have not heard this song in ages! 2. I loved it in high school! and d. Yikes! đł
There's an interview he did explaining the lyrics more in depth. A brief snip "But Mardones has explained many times over the years that the song is not statutory or even sexual. While living in New York's Spanish Harlem in 1979, he was inspired by three teen neighbors whose father had scored a Broadway hit and ran off with a chorus line girl." Still a little creepy considering the video. Great voice... RIP
Itâs so weird that Genesis started as a super technical progressive rock band.
When Peter Gabriel was in the band. When he left and Phil Collinâs began singing, they became much more a pop band. Especially after Hackett left and the band became was a trio.
The Simpsons, the Be Sharps episode: Homer: "We' re like Genesis without Peter Gabriel. " Bart-" " You mean, more popular, but not as good?"
Good reference, but that wasn't the Be Sharps episode (Homer's Barbershop Quartet). It was an episode called Covercraft.
D'oh!
I recently learned that Gabriel was studying classical music after he left the band. Then that "Solsbury Hill" is in 7/4 time. The former music major in me is just stunned by that.
Turn It On Again is in multiple time signatures
Not only is it mostly in 7/4, but the instrumentation is 3 acoustic guitar and a phone book being hit with drum sticks.
It took years before he led them down that path. You cannot attribute the prog-ness of Genesis purely to Gabriel. Or, for that matter, Hackett.
Yes, Tony Banks would like a word. In fact, Invisible Touch has some solid proggy numbers like Tonightx3, Domino, and The Brazilian.
Reading through these comments makes me think that nobody has heard the lyrics of current hip hop and r&b
Yeah they like to overdramatize the cancelling thing. Like Jason Aldean and Cardi B had the most offensive songs to different people in the past few years and they are still out there not cancelled.
I still maintain that lil Kim makes cardi b look like the fcc
Dire Straits, Money for Nothing with these lyrics....."See the little faggot with the earring and the make up Yeah, buddy, that's his own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot, he's a millionaire"
Mark was quoting to appliance delivery guys he overheard. It kinda helps the song that we do not know whether or not he agrees with them.
Knopfler changed that line when I've seen him perform live. Also from memory he sings an alternative line on various live recordings.
They don't play the censored version on the radio anymore around here. They just let it rip
Good for them. I didn't make a big deal about that line back in 1985 & I still don't today.
At Live Aid he changed âfaggotâ to âqueenieâ
It was changed quickly. You can find live recordings from back then where he changed it to "queenie" or something like that.
Yes! He was repeating what he overheard in an appliance shop. They had MTV on a display tv and those were the type of comments the guys were making as they watched.
Pretty sure it was âthat little Clampett got his own cement pond, that little clampett heâs a millionaire.â
Weird Al đ
RIP Weirld Al. Madonna is still at large.
He's mocking himself. He has an earring and is on MTV. The line is coming from a blue collar worker calling rock stars names.
And here I have always thought it was "See the little faggot with the earring and the mink coat?" 40 years I have been singing that wrong...
until I hear Knopfler tell me otherwise to my face, it's still mink coat.
I feel vindicated since a couple of people have agreed with my version. Thanks!
it COULD BE makeup...but if it is then he REALLY butchered the pronunciation for some strange reason and that would not make sense at all, but I'm too lazy to google it...
Lol swore he sang mink coat til right now
Although not PC at all, he was quoting
And yet Fairytale of New York still gets played regularly.
Because itâs still fucking brilliant!
Itâs about a bundle of sticks
Iâm Mexican and I love that Genesis song. No one gets to tell us what offends us.
Don't Stand So Close To Me by the Police. With all the teachers getting busted now.
It was happening then too but without social media you didn't hear about it. My physics teacher is still married to a guy from the class ahead of me (35 years later) and I can think of at least 3 other couples that started like this. Our high school was under 500 kids from 7-12th grades so I can only imagine how much it went on in bigger schools.
It certainly went on in MY high school. A girl in my class ended up marrying the history teacher that she was banginâ the summer after graduation.
Same here at least two teachers married or had kids with students.
The Vapors, Turning Japanese
If you read the meaning behind the song, it has nothing to do with ethnicity. NSFW, to be sure, but not a slur.
I think they're talking about the "nin a nin a ning ning nich ning ning" part.
This is the one I thought of. Being about masterbation and all.
Cyndi Lauper did the masturbation-themed pop song [better](https://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY?si=DtV5B-nheau4cR8b). :D
Thereâs several. Relax by FGTH is also about self love.
âI touch myselfâ by the Divinyls take the cake.
Pictures of Lily -The Who
First video I saw when our family activated Much Music in our house. Scrambled signal flipped right into people rolling around behind steamed up windows.
Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol is another
One in a million - Guns and Roses
Used to Love Her would probably be on the Gân R list as well
That song was pretty controversial even when it was new.
Julie Brownâs âThe Homecoming Queenâs Got a Gunâ did not age well. Basically a comedic song about a girl shooting up her High School soâŚ.yeah.
The line âStop it Debbie, youâre embarrassing meâ cracked me up.
"But then the entire glee club had died! No big loss..."
About an hour later, the cops arrivedâŚ. I think she nailed it.
Great song though.
Definitely, i remember loving it back then.
Who's Johnny?
The less annoying of the Julie Browns from back then.
Being less annoying came down to not starting every sentence with "wubba wubba wubba!!"
She made a sequel: [The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zME8o7DvTbc)
Winger 'Seventeen' >I'm only seventeen (seventeen) But I'll show you love like you've never seen She's only seventeen (seventeen) Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me
A friend and I would always sing it: "She's only 70 - her grandson says she's too old, but she's young enough for me!"
The Joey Buttafuoco theme song!
This is the first one I thought of. I was 14 at the time I didn't think anything of it. I was probably 30 when I heard it after all that time and I thought "Hey, wait a minute"
That should have been cancelled back when it came out LOL!!!
One in a Million by Guns & Roses
Young Girl and Girl youâll be a woman soon
Funky Cold Medina about drugging people without their consent.
âSheena was a man!â
"So, I threw him out. I don't fool around with no Oscar Mayer wiener." LOL
Always loved that Alex from Strohâs gets a shout out. Never quite made that Spuds McKenzie level of fame.
I know they're called bull terriers, but I feel like there is a large contingent of people who call them Spuds MacKenzie dogs.
Actually, in the song, the singer is giving the drug to himself. Read the lyrics again.
I remember even at the time, this song caused a backlash.
The Rolling Stones â Brown Sugar Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in the market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright Hear him whip the women just around midnight Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Uh huh Brown sugar, just like a young girl should, uh huh, oh (Woo) Ah, get on, brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Ah, got me craving the, the brown sugar Just like a black girl should, yeah
I thought the line was âhear him with the women, just around midnightâ. And Iâve been listening to that one for 50+ years. Wow.Â
Surprised I had to scroll this far for Brown Sugar.
Probably because its from the early 70's, As far as Rolling Stones songs go, I'd put Some Girls up there with Brown Sugar. Also from the 70's though.
The Police had "Any Other Day" My wife has burned the scrambled eggs The dog just bit my leg My teenage daughter ran away My fine young son has turned out gay (And it would be okay on any other day...)
My ex was younger than me, and I introduced her to many 80s classics. When I pulled Illegal Alien up on YouTube, her jaw literally dropped for about 15 seconds, then she turned to me and said, "Is this REAL?? Not some kind of SNL joke?" I told her that it was indeed real, and another hit for Genesis, and yet another reason why every day was Christmas in the 80s.
It was, wasnât it?
Do they know it's Christmas time at alllllll
(Feed the WOORRR-LLLDDD) I had (and still have) the 45 of that classic, and it's one I would sometimes put on in the middle of summer, just because the song itself is so damn catchy.
I Want Action by Poison.
Francine by ZZ Top. My Francine just turned thirteen She's my angelic teenage queen And I love her, she's all that I want And I need her, she's all that I need
Well that's just gross.
Itâs about Jerry Lee Lewis. He married his thirteen year old cousin.
Which is gross.
She's only 17 - Winger
Johnny Are You Queer? by Josie Cotton
What? Thats always been a pro queer song. They played it in gay bars in the 80s. When the song came out part of the reason it became popular was church groups were attacking it for promoting homosexuality. I think they claimed that Josie cotton was really a gay man pretending to be a woman to convince people to become gay. At the time the people running gay organizations were from the old days and did not like the word âqueerâ and were against it. As people started taking back the word âqueerâ it got played more and more. The truth is this song was more problematic in the 80s.
This song and Never Say Never by Romeo Void are my two favorite one hit wonder songs.
Romeo Voud also had a hit with *A Girl in Trouble*
i love the screeching weasel cover of that
Stray Cats- Sexy and 17, Rick James-17, Foreigner-17, Joan Jett-I Love Rock and Roll...there are so many of them.
Well she was just seventeen And you know what I mean And the way she looked Was way beyond compare John and Paul.
man I guess sarcasm is entirely dead
Oingo Boingo âLittle Girlsâ even though the song was created as an attack on Hollywood
Love that song but can't really play it for people these days. That part where the lyrics are uhoh its a mistake uhoh take a second... pure brilliance.
Motley Crueâs âYouâre all I need.â Loved the song when I was a teenager. Itâs literally about killing your girlfriend.
She Bop by Cyndi Lauper (masturbation) It was on tipper gores FILTHY FIFTEEN list. So today? No. Not mainstream anyway.
Tipper was uptight, if only she just bopped more often.
I don't think anyone would bat an eye at She Bop considering W.A.P. exists
Yeah, that was more of a song they *tried* to cancel in the '80s, not one that would be canceled today.
The first time I Heard WAP was from a flamboyant homelessman/street performer near Mans Chinese theatre. He looked like 1981's David Lee Roth. The guy was really belting it out. I was like wtf is this but also Hey there actually is a song here. lol what a talent.
On a similar note, it's hilarious to hear commercials with Billy Idol's Dancin With Myself song being used. It's also a song about masturbation.
Actually no. He wrote the song about his experience at a night club in Japan where there were mirrors everywhere and people who were alone just actually danced in front of the mirrors and were basically dancing with themselves
I hate when companies don't understand the meaning of the song they're using in a commercial. Walmart using Neuman's "Cars" and that cruise line that used Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" to sell cruises when it is about an LSD trip.
Little china girl Bowie
That's an Iggy Pop song, though. It's about a real-life affair partner. Iggy was struggling for money, so Bowie covered it and made him a bunch of money.
All these years I never knew that was a cover
Nile Rodgers made the Bowie cover song. The riff. The tempo. The entire thing.
It was written by both of them together in the 70s.
The video is the cherry on top.
Probably Legs, Tush, Hot for Teacher... all the good stuff. Weird how people get all up about being offended by songs but stuff that actually matters they just go back to their phones...
Don't forget Pearl Necklace...
ZZ Top were multiple offenders Remember âTube Snake Boogieâ?
I used to sing that all the time as a kid and for some reason I thought it was about a snake that lived in a tube sock đ¤Ł
ZZ Top also had a song called Pearl Necklace. âShe wore a pearl necklaceâ. Obvious sexual connotation.
She don't like other women She likes whips and chains **She likes cocaine** **And flipping out with Great Danes** She's about all I can handle It's too much for my brain Got Me Under Pressure, ZZ Top.
Surf Punks - Big Top. Great tune that doesn't cut corners. Sadly, it would be tucked away and never make the airwaves today. https://youtu.be/kXtcirZ0PGw?si=OVaSzCa08uGa7PbO
Well itâs still no fun.
It is late 70âs but have a listen to Francine by ZZ Top and Christine Sixteen by Kiss Very creep-tastic in retrospect
Killing An Arab by The Cure.
Never thought Iâd defend Robert Smith but the lyrics of that song are from the perspective of the protagonist of the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus. And was extremely controversial on its release in the â70s.
Based on the novel L'etranger by Albert Camus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Stranger\_(Camus\_novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel))
BESTbook Albert Camus is so brilliant, such a great absurdist author
Came here to make the Camus point too. Bob being Bob he's quite unapologetic about it too,as I recall it was on the set list for the last time I saw The Cure at Wembley.
Basically anti what the title is. So, no
Hell of a great song.
This song pretty much disappeared from the face of the earth
Jailbait by Ted "obvious pedophile" Nugent.
It's not a very good song tho.
Probably not an artist many people have heard of in the US. Pretty Young Girl by the 80s Europop group Bad Boys Blue Chorus: Pretty young girl on my mind How I wish you to be mine Girl, you're no child anymore Pretty young girl on my mind Don't you know, know I can't hide Can't hide my feelings You're my girl and you're sixteen
Maybe ten years after's "I'd love to change the world." I don't think there is any malice in it whatsoever and Alvin was as laid back hippy if ever there were such a thing but, "dykes and fairies" probably rubs the wrong way those who are less forgiving and lack the context.
The cure, killing an Arab.
Pretty much anything by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
"The Power of Love" begs to differ.
Thatâs like the âgayestâ song ever.
Relax
Short People
No. That song is parodying racism, homophobia, etc. 100% holds up today
Is My Sharona not on here for pedantry?
Great video tho!
Almost 1980s: Neil Young's Welfare Mothers.
Make better lovers...
Whole lotta Rosie - AC/DC
Interesting reading through these. How is music different from other art forms, such as film? If I want to make a movie about offensive people, do I have more leeway as an artist than a musician who pens a song from the perspective of an offensive person? Donât artists have leeway to present such things regardless of their format?
Shoop by Salt n Pepa...when she says like a retard and makes that "retard" sound
Sugar Walls.
One In A million by Guns N' Roses
In a 1989 Rolling Stone interview, Rose explained the lyrics: I used words like police and niggers because you're not allowed to use the word 'nigger.' Why can black people go up to each other and say 'Nigger,' but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it's a big putdown? I don't like boundaries of any kind. I don't like being told what I can and what I can't say. I used the word 'nigger' because it's a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem. The word 'nigger' doesn't necessarily mean black. Doesn't John Lennon have a song "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"? There's a rap group, N.W.A. â Niggers with Attitude. I mean, they're proud of that word. More power to them. Guns n' Roses ain't bad . . . N.W.A. is baaad! Mr. Bob Goldthwait said the only reason we put these lyrics on the record was because it would cause controversy and we'd sell a million albums. Fuck him! Why'd he put us in his skit? We don't just do something to get the controversy, the press. đŹ
To be fair, there was an uproar over that one. Also, it was from the 90s.
Its Money that I Love" by Randy Newman. The lyric being: "They say that money can't buy love in this world, but it'll get you a half pound of cocaine, and a sixteen year old girl." 1979 Still a great song.
Centrefold by the J Geils Band????
It's about a girl you went to highschool with posing for Playboy years later.....only thing wrong with it today is people don't know what magazines are. And it'd be updated to only fans.
Turning Japanese by the Vapors
That song is referring to ... um ... "solo time" that's he's enjoying so much, his eyes are squeezed shut. So it's wrong on two levels. Don't forget: â I Touch Myself (Divinyls) â She Bop (Cyndi Lauper) â Big Balls (AC/DC) â 10" Record (Aerosmith) â Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Seventeen by Winger
Not the 80's, Devo Mongoloid '77
( Everybody run) the homecoming queenâs got a gun, by Julie Brown. School shootings are not cool or funny now.
Immigrants and faggots They make no sense to me They come to our country and they Think they'll do as they please Like start some kind of mini-Iran Or spread some fucking disease They talk so many goddamn ways It's all Greek to me - "One in a Million", Guns N' Roses
One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head. "I don't see you guys raging The kind of mating I'm contemplating I'd let you watch, I would invite you But the queens we use would not excite you" I swear this song had to with Trans related theme without mentioning it.
âDonât Stand So Close To Meâ - The Police Itâs about an inappropriate teacher/student relationship
Turning Japanese-The Vapors (1980)
Fat bottom girls by Queen
*I knew love before I left my nursery* *Left alone with big fat fanny* *She was such a naughty nanny* *Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of meeeee* Yeah, that one wouldn't make it past the A and R guy today.
Awesome
OK, it's not 80's, but in 1966 Frank Gallop put out a humorous song called "[The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRow6vJxWUU)" - the 142nd Fastest Gun in the West. When I was a kid and Dr. Demento would play it, I thought it was hysterical. I went looking it up a few years ago, and sat aghast as the antiemetic tropes flowed like wine.
Thatâs classic Borscht Belt comedy.
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Always reminds me of that joke about whatâs worse than Grease on Olivia Newton John.
Are you saying this because of the title or the lyrics?
Johnny hit and run Paulene by X