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

[dudleybloke]

Scatman Crothers - Ah'm a N###erman (watch me dance).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v...

It got sampled for a rave tune in 1992, DAE12 I think.

Edited by dudleybloke on Saturday 2nd November 23:59

[227bhp]

This thread is badly titled, it should have been something like 'Risque lyrics' or something. You can get all kinds of stuff these days still.
However, what about Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen

[dudleybloke]

Got any Vera's?

[glazbagun]

227bhp said:

This thread is badly titled, it should have been something like 'Risque lyrics' or something. You can get all kinds of stuff these days still.
However, what about Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen

I was young when that came out and only got it much later.

[Antony Moxey]

bolidemichael said:

Antony Moxey said:

Why not?

My interpretation is the promotion of tobacco fumes

And that would be worthy of a ban? There’s been very little posted on this thread that would be considered unacceptable these days, someone even mentioned Peaches by The Stranglers which I’ve heard on the radio recently.

[Dr Jekyll]

Not sure how EMF got away with a chorus of 'what the fk was that?'.

[Nimby]

bolidemichael said:

Antony Moxey said:

Why not?

My interpretation is the promotion of tobacco fumes

Upstairs *on a bus*. Doesn't anyone know "A Day in the Life" by some group called The Beatles or the 2006 Health Act?

[Wacky Racer]

dudleybloke said:

Got any Vera's?

[anonymous-user]

''Age Ain't Nothing but a Number,'' Album by R.Kelly after he had just illegally wed Aaliyah.

Iggy pop, 'look away.'

Written about sex with a 13 year old child.

[ChocolateFrog]

Gargamel said:

I am not sure why people think lyrics about 17 year olds wouldn’t be acceptable nowadays.

How about - I don’t want no short dick man ? Gillette I think it was, though there were a few remixes

But the one that really grates these days is Thin Lizzy boys are back in town. He must say Chick about a dozen times, always annoys me.

Depends. The Meatloaf line about being barely 17 intimates that they're both 17.

So unless things have changed in the last 15-20 years most 17 year olds spend plenty of time shagging each other.

If it was a 30 year old doing the same I can see why people would get a touchy.

[Halmyre]

Antony Moxey said:

bolidemichael said:

Antony Moxey said:

Why not?

My interpretation is the promotion of tobacco fumes

And that would be worthy of a ban? There’s been very little posted on this thread that would be considered unacceptable these days, someone even mentioned Peaches by The Stranglers which I’ve heard on the radio recently.

Was it on Pick of the Pops? I could swear they played the album version with the word 'clitaris', which the band tried rather unconvincingly to claim that it was a French word for a swimsuit.

[Magnum 475]

Motley Crüe, All in the name of.....


She's only fifteen, she's the reason
The reason that I can't sleep
You say illegal
I say, legal's never been my scene, oh yeah
I try like hell but I'm out of control

All in the name of, all in the name of rock and roll
All in the name of rock
All in the name of rock and roll
All in the name of rock
For sex and sex I'd sell my soul
All in the name of, all in the name of rock

Pretty, pretty so innocent
She says you ain't seen nothing yet
Brings me a dirty, dirty magazine
There she was for all the world to see, oh yeah
I try like hell but I'm out of control

Says to me, "Daddy
Can I have some candy?
Want to be your nasty
Anytime you want
You know you can have me"

[RizzoTheRat]

I'm guessing The Outhere Brothers "I wanna fk you in the ass" doesn't get much radio play.

[ChrisHampshire]

Thomas Dolby uses the N word in one of his songs from the 80s (can't remember which, off-hand)

[12TS]

Aerosmith. Walk this way. Maybe? I’m not sure I understand the muffin ref.

Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the cover
'Till I talked to my daddy he say
He said, you ain't seen noting
'Till you're down on a muffin
Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways
I met a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder
All the times I can reminisce
Ah the best thing lovin' with her sister and her cousin
Started with a little kiss, like this
See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school
With your feet flyin' up in the air
Singin' hey diddle-diddle with the kitty in the middle
You be swingin' like you just didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Was it me she was foolin'?
'Cause she knew what she was doin'
Taught me how to walk this way
She told me to
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Ah, just give me a kiss
Like this
School girl sadie with the classy kinda sassy
Little skirt climbing way up her knees
There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
When I noticed they was lookin' at me
I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady
Till the boys told me something I missed
Then my next door neighbour with a daughter had a favour
Took me just a little kiss, like this
See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school
With your feet flyin' up in the air
Singin' hey diddle-diddle with the kitty in the middle
You be swingin' like you just didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Was it me she was foolin'?
'Cause she knew what she was doin'
Told me how to walk this way
She told me to
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, walk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Just give me a kiss
Like this

[DocJock]

ChrisHampshire said:

Thomas Dolby uses the N word in one of his songs from the 80s (can't remember which, off-hand)

As does Bob Dylan in 'Hurricane'.

[robsa]

P5BNij said:

Belsen Was A Gas - The Sex Pistols. Just reminded myself of the lyrics and at the time Lydon said it was a sly a comment on those who made political decisions in the days of the war, but I dare say if it were played on the radio today someone would be seriously riled about it.

Sid wrote it, and I doubt he had anything in his mind other than writing something offensive! No way would it be played in the radio.

[robsa]

dudleybloke said:

Scatman Crothers - Ah'm a N###erman (watch me dance).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v...

It got sampled for a rave tune in 1992, DAE12 I think.

Edited by dudleybloke on Saturday 2nd November 23:59

Wasn't he the guy from the Shining?

[Gooseberry]

Beatles, 'Run for your life':

Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

[kowalski655]

Merc 450 said:

There was a song called National Express that I used to sing at my first wife, the lyrics went 'it's hard to get by when your ar#e is the size of a small country'

Ah, the awesome Divine Comedy! Im sure Ive heard that played recently,as its more of a joke line

From "The Violence of Truth" by The The:
And while the ni**ers of this world are starving with their mouths wide open
What is it that turns the coins we throw at them into worthless little tokens!
Not used in a racist ay at all, but brilliantly evoking images of inequality, you would have trouble these days(not that The The get on the radio anyway)