Lyrics you wouldn't get away with nowadays...

[glazbagun]

Skyedriver said:

The Killers

Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now

Why wouldn't you get away with that today?

[Plastic chicken]

'F*ck Off' by Wayne County & the Electric Chairs: ...'if you don't want to f*ck me baby, baby f*ck off...'

'The W*nker Song' by Ivor Bigun

Just about everything written by the genius Frank Zappa. The hero of Joe's Garage enjoys dressing up as a housewife and, er, bumping uglies with domestic appliances...brilliant stuff!

[dandarez]

Riley Blue said:

"Hold on, I'm comin!" by Sam and Dave was the song I had played on BFBS in Germany for my girl friend of the time. Whether they twigged I really don't know but we knew...

As a teen at the time I think you read into it what you wanted to!
Here's my take on it, as I saw them a few times. And had a few of their records. The song title actually came about when one of the two writers/producers (Issac) Hayes told (David) Porter to get a hurry on - he was in the bathroom - and he yelled back 'Hold on man, I'm comin'.
Porter is then said to have written the song in minutes!

What is true is when it was first released on the other side of the pond, some saddos (they were around even then!) in charge at US radio stations were 'offended' at the 'suggestive' title. Stax Records did a quick re-recording and changed the title to 'Hold on, I'm A-Coming', as if that was any different (see pics!).
In the UK nobody gave a fk! The song title was not altered.

To be honest, If anyone thought that was what it meant, it would, I'm sure you'd agree, be certainly twigged in today's offended world - some sad fker sat in a quiet corner would been straight on twitter by now, surely?

But nah, they haven't. Nobody. That's because the song is all about rescue, nothing to do with sex at all.
part of the song goes... (the telling line is the last one).

'Just hold on - Don't you worry - I'm comin' - Here we come - Hold on - We're about to save you'...

It's a great tune, great sax intro, and with no innuendo at all.
So great it was the only tune RightMove could find appropriate for their 'current' TV advert - and they even have a toddler in the advert too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMfkRTUzGo

As said, they use it because it doesn't mean what you think it does. It's all in your dirty mind!

Note title change on US single (green) to UK single (red)

[bolidemichael]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy from their seminal album Blood Sugar Sex Magic:

"I got stopped by a 'lady cop'

In my automobile

She said get out and spread your legs

And then she, tried to cop a feel

The cop she was all dressed in blue

Was she pretty? Boy I'm tellin' you.

She stuck my butt with her big black stick

I said "what's up?", now suck my dick.

Like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb

She whimpered just a little when she felt my ham

On her crotch so very warm, I could feel her getting wet through her uniform

Propping her up on the 'black and white', unzipped and slipped, woo that's tight!

I swatted her like no swat team can

Turned a cherry pie right into jam!

Edited by bolidemichael on Saturday 2nd November 00:25

[bolidemichael]

dudleybloke said:

I couldn't see Mel Brooks's To Be or Not To Be (Hitler Rap) being released today.

https://youtu.be/4zpYQJkBQp0


Or Peter Wyngard's Golden Throats (Rape!)

https://youtu.be/vY26l5SAxJs

These are the connoisseur's selection! Peter Wyngard is quite a modern sounding track and is thoroughly and boldly tongue in cheek. What a great period of expression these artists enjoyed.

[Johnnytheboy]

Also Gwar, their wonderful ode to domestic violence "Slap U Around":

I particularly admire the bit in bold.

I wake you up in the morning baby with a kick in the tit I treat you like st!
You love it
Smack you right in the face now baby, just to show you I care
And then I kick your pregnant ass down the stairs
Slap slap slap
you around
Slap slap slap
you around
Slap slap slap
you around
All day.. All day,
every fking day [b]I pay the doctor bills baby,
so I'll break what I want[/b] I spend all my money in a fking restaurant
I let you live in my house now woman,
I take you out on the town I want some payback now woman,
I get to slap you around
Slap slap slap
you around
Slap slap slap
you around
Slap slap slap
you around

There's a rather un-PC ending that isn't featured on these lyrics. On the sound version here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cnmz5SuhY8

"You always come back for more..."

[dandarez]

Obviously loads of records bygone that wouldn't get to the 'pressing' (sorry, Spotify, or download etc) stage these days because of the 'offended' saddos.
I bet even a short song like this would cause offence today, especially the line in bold, yet it was only 1989.

'My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
took him for all he was worth
now she's a swinger, dating a singer

I can't decide which is worse

but not me baby, I've got you to save me
oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
in a world gone mad, yer so bad

My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin'
walks around dog-faced and hurt
now he's got nothin', head in the oven

I can't decide which is worse.'

[glazbagun]

Might be wrong, but I don't think head in the oven works any more- not enough carbon monoxide. Could probably start a fire I guess.

[Thankyou4calling]

Barbie Girl by Aqua
Gay Bar by Electric six
In the summertime by Mungo Jerry
A lot of Eminem stuff but they are brilliant lyrics.

[Halmyre]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

The Rolling Stones. Stray Cat Blues.

There’ll be a feast if you just come upstairs, but it’s no hanging matter, it’s no capital crime. I can see that you’re 15 years old, no I don’t want your ID.

The Rolling Stones brings to mind Mother's Little Helper. They wouldn't get away with it today, not so much because the song is about drugs, but because of the sheer hypocrisy of the Rolling Stones taking a high moral tone on drugs.

Another I just remembered - ELP's Jeremy Bender.

Jeremy bender was a man of leisure, took his pleasure in the evening sun
Laid him down in a bed of roses, finally decided to become a nun.

Talk with the Sister, spoke in a whisper, threatened to fist her if she
didn't come clean
Jumped on the Mother just like a brother asked one another if the other is
a queen.

Diggin' the sister she was a mister shouldn't have kissed her, but he
couldn't say no
Wanted to leave her couldn't believe her, so he picked up his suit-case and
decided to go.

(I think 'fist her' in this context is 'punch her', rather than the other...)

[P5BNij]

bolidemichael said:

dudleybloke said:

I couldn't see Mel Brooks's To Be or Not To Be (Hitler Rap) being released today.

https://youtu.be/4zpYQJkBQp0


Or Peter Wyngard's Golden Throats (Rape!)

https://youtu.be/vY26l5SAxJs

These are the connoisseur's selection! Peter Wyngard is quite a modern sounding track and is thoroughly and boldly tongue in cheek. What a great period of expression these artists enjoyed.

I bought the Peter Wyngarde album on Amazon recently and pop it on in the car occasionally, it's a breath of fresh air in some ways - his voice is magnificent.

Good call in another post with The Stones' Stray Cat Blues, it should have been a double A-side with Jumpin' Jack Flash at.

[pipe'n'slippers]

One from those squeaky clean Swedes, Abba;

You're so hot
Teasing me
So you're blue but I can't take a chance on a chick like you
It's something I couldn't do
There's that look
In your eye
I can read in your face that your feelings are driving you wild
Ah, but girl you're only a child
Well, I could dance with you honey
If you think it's funny
Does your mother know that you're out?
And I could chat with you baby
Flirt a little maybe
Does your mother know that you're out?

[dandarez]

glazbagun said:

Might be wrong, but I don't think head in the oven works any more- not enough carbon monoxide. Could probably start a fire I guess.

You're right, but it still wouldn't stop someone getting their knickers in a twist!

That was a Tom Petty record I mentioned, just thought of a few more that would have the offended in a rage...

Refugee - this would prob have a few, Lily Allen especially, going ballistic!

'Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Who knows maybe you were kidnapped, tied up
Taken away and held for ransom
Honey, it don't really matter to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free, you see

Don't have to live like a refugee.'


or how about the Beck song (cover) they did for the film soundtrack 'She's the one'?

[TCX]

[quote=TCX]Elvis Costello,Oliver's army,one less white n I g g e r

[Nimby]

"Found my way upstairs and had a smoke...".

Wouldn't be allowed now.

[Antony Moxey]

Why not?

[bolidemichael]

Antony Moxey said:

Why not?

My interpretation is the promotion of tobacco fumes

[Fittster]

The Cure - Killing an Arab.

"I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab"

Relying on the audience to be aware of the work of Albert Camus seems a rather big ask.

[dudleybloke]

There's a few dancehall/ragga tracks which call for violence or death to gay people.

[Turn7]

The Stranglers

I feel like a wog

Bring on the nubiles

Peaches