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There's gotta be at least 15 or 20 DEVO songs that mention potatoes, spuds, spudboys, spudguns etc etc. Can anyone else match this volume of unique lyrical content?

― everything, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Too Short talks about bitches alot.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince and purple things. No one else has dwelt quite so far as purple bananas, right?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Todd Edwards works Jesus into almost all of his productions and even remixes (he'll even take syllables out of context and make them into something like "Praise Him").

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Both Pet Shop Boys and Aerosmith mention dogs a lot, as does DMX.

Pet Shop Boys mention that they want things a lot, as do the Ramones.

― chuck, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

daniel johnston and a girl named laurie.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonny Bono and the Quetzal!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird Al and FOOD!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Jonathan Richman to thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wesley willis to thread

― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

eminem and teh gays

― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Colin Melloy and pantaloons

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Kool Keith owns this thread:

I used to mix soda pops and alcohol with cough drops
Then rub they knee caps and smear they face with Sugar Smacks
Open they butts and pour ammonia down they pussy cracks
Then fight they fire, pull they hair apart with metal pliers
Fuck them with two stiff drinks, up on the kitchen sinks
Make them pour Ajax, lick Comet off my nutsac
Hold me tight with baseball gloves, crank the purple light
I used to masturbate to tapes, "Planet of the Apes"
I like Zera, I always wanted to fuck her, get near her
And tell Cornelius get back and let her feel this
I'm on some groove shit, not generic new improved shit
With swimmin trunks in bed, my black shoes painted red
Some hoes are rookies, my sheets filled with oatmeal cookies
Can you put more Oreos in the bed?

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ghostface wallabies clarks etc

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one word: Syzzurp

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC have a bit of a thing for explosives, don't they? There's obvious ones that are so familiar that they don't even always register as being as wonky as they are (Zeppelin and Tolkien, Rush cranking out Ayn Rand-fixated album after album till the early-mid 80s). There's at least two Thurston Moore songs almost a decade apart that use the word "crayon" as an adjective to describe "eyes", which isn't really comparable to 25 songs about potatoes but is a pretty eccentric metaphor to cling to for that long.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

...and then there's pfunk....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC, testicles ("Big Balls", "She's Got Balls", "Got You By the Balls")

― dave q, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ballbreaker"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Black and UFOs

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince also seems to have a strange obsession with baths.

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Drexciya and underwater stuff.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Although that's a thematic obsession more than a lyrical one.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hood and weather

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hood and photography

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Suede and their imminent nuclear rain.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC, testicles ("Big Balls", "She's Got Balls", "Got You By the Balls")

Brian Johnson-era AC/DC specialized in juvenile big-dick and double-entendre song titles. A few quick examples:

Givin' The Dog A Bone
Beating Around The Bush
Guns For Hire
Night Of The Long Knives
Sink The Pink
etc.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

King Crimson seemingly had a dozen songs (by three different lyricists!) about crime & general mayhem in New York City.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurt Cobain: babies/birth imagery and the female reproductive system.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Ayers and bananas

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Vegan Reich and vegan reichs

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Grant McClennan writes a lot about fire.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The first two U.S. singles off the first album by The Fixx were both about war, and actually both about nuclear war, IIRC. That's a bit obsessive for a band that really wasn't that deep.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

George Clinton and noses, feet and dogs

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Wesley Willis to thread, obviously.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrissey and mooning.
Nowhere Fast
I Have Forgiven You Jesus

― wtin, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

FZ: poodles.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

FZ: Tweezers and ponchos also.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Robyn Hitchcock and the obvious. And maybe Devin the Dude if only because he can work getting high into any topic.

― danh (danh), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Happy Flowers sang about childhood a lot.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

bashment and the cheechy man/fussy man/nasty man/lotion boy/batty man etc.
ELO and the weather
Kool Kieth and AMPEX reels for some reason.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bootsy Collins - bedsheets, sunglasses, bass guitars

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Magnum spines, soft and sweet things

― Brandon Biondo (twinkiebots), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno has a real thing for being out at sea on Before and After Science

― Aaron Shinn, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z and Roc--fella Records

― Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown and popcorn.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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