Best Swearing Records

"I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker." "Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, a record label and as a motherfucking crew. And if you wanna be down with Bad Boy, FUCK YOU TOO!"

etc.

I like it better anyhow when you THINK they're going to swear but they don't, which has already been alluded to. But if I have to say best swear...hrm. I like the fact that "Who Are You" gets play on the radio simply because Daltrey CLAIMS he says "funk" when rather clearly he's...not.

As for sheer over the top rudeness, I'm down with "Kick Out The Jams, Motherfuckers!!!" Pretty damn effective.

Also, Nick Cave swears extensively & with rare panache throughout most of the murder ballads lp, in a way which i always assumed was consciously derived from hip hop. Prince of darkness indeed.

Superchunk: Slackmotherfucker

"Summer Night City" by Abba!

There's a line which goes something like "parking in the moonlight/love making in the dark", where of course the first word is pronounced to sound not unlike a certain other word! But right at the tail end of the fade-out (At least on the version on "Greatest Hits Vol. 2".) you can hear, reasonably clearly: "fucking in the moonlight..."!!!

Re: dramatic effectiveness, I think Bobby Gillespie saying "fuck" about 20,000 times arhythmically in "Pills" from their last album could possibly count here...

Old Fart!!!!

So you're looking for dramatic effectiveness, are you?

or, for rudeness:

'Simon Says' (feat. Lady Luck) Ooooooooh! A woman swearing! Run for the hills!

You think your soooo cool, so why dont you just.....fuck off!

"some people say I'm nasty, they say I have my moods but I think I'm fantastic cos I'm so fucking rude"

he then proceeds to tell loads of people to fuck off, who rejoind by beating the crap out of him. by the end he is the Platonic ideal of Tourette's Syndrome. Brilliant.

(Admittedly, DJ Assault may well not.)

shellac, 1000 hurts

I always find it kind of funny tho that certain artists get away with swearing just because the song sounds so 'pretty' that no one even notices that it's there until the thirtieth listen or so. Two examples off the top of my head - Sarah MacLachlan in Building a Mystery where she quite clearly says "a beautiful fucked up man", and Crowded House in Four Season's in One Day where (in the video version at least) one of the verses is "smiling as the shit comes down". These 'bad' words slip by unnoticed on easy listening stations every single day.

Introduced to me by (cough) Metallica, on the same record where they did Discharge's genius/idiot "Free Speech For The Dumb," whose lyric (in its entirety, repeated several times) goes "Free speech/Free speech/For the dumb/Free speech/For the dumb/For the dumb/FREE FUCKIN' SPEECH!!" Wow.

Got to love the FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Me, I like Ben Folds Five's "Song For The Dumped":

"So you wanted/to take a break/slow it down some/and have some space....WELL, FUCK YOU TOO!"

Btw, Pinefox: There is no good swearing in pop. Swearing in pop is bad.

Not a fan of "Play fuckin' loud!", then?

its too short on the mic, and it don't stop, and it won't stop, bitch!

Reminds me of a radio edit of Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance" in which they bleep "Burger King" but let Humpty Hump talk about what he did in the BK bathroom.

This is more comedy/novelty than pop, but I really liked "Merry ****ing Christmas" from the South Park Christmas album.

"I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch, you better think about it baby."

Not to mention the classic: You better look out because I'm gonna say fuck! You better look out because I'm gonna say fuck!

"Got them rainbow colors in my cup/in my cup/jolly ranchers man that shit be good as fuck/good as fuck/pass that s'yrp muthafucka pass that s'yrp"

At the time I was working for a landlord,
and he was the meanest bastard that you have ever seen.
And to lose a single penny would grieve him awful sore --
AND HE WAS A MISERABLE BOLLOCKS AND A BITCH'S BASTARD'S WHORE!

"Piss and moan about the immigrants
But don't say nothin' about the president
A democracy don’t work that way
I can say anything I wanna say

So fuck the FCC
Fuck the FBI
Fuck the CIA
Livin in the motherfuckin USA"

How does Ween get called out as cockfarmers in the same thread where Sarah MacLachlan slips by without comment?

And Liz Phair as "Polite and matter-of-fact profanity." How about Liz Phair as "completely bullshit attempt to be SHOCKING to cover for the fact that she can't sing for shit."

Best swear in a pop song in my opinion: The Jams - 'This Is The Modern World'

"I don't give two FUCKS about your review."

Excellent delivery by Mr. Weller there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TUXxUZKiuyM#!

'Til Tuesday, "(Believed You Were) Lucky". Slips in a fairly devastating "life could be fucking great" right at the end.

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Fuck Off.

At the end of 'Our Time' by UK rapper Klashnekoff he calls the head of the Metropolitan Police a cunt. Rappers being rude to the police is nothing new but you hardly ever hear them using the c-word

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They say grime won't get man a mortgage
That's because you cunts don't support it

Oops youtube fail. Ghetto - Mountain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC-aZK7sju4&feature=g-vrec

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Fuck Off

this is great.

'Til Tuesday, "(Believed You Were) Lucky". Slips in a fairly devastating "life could be fucking great" right at the end.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Saturday, November 24, 2012 9:08 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is there a thread of devastatingly delivered final lines?

Joni Mitchell: "Drive your bargains/Push your papers/Win your medals/Fuck your strangers/Don't it leave you on the empty side."

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Fuck Off

this is great.

― owenf, Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great, innit? If memory serves, it was the first released recording featuring Jools Holland on piano. He was in Squeeze at this time, of course, but I think Squeeze had yet to put out a record. I recall reading a story that Jools Holland excitedly took a copy of the record back home to show his family in a "hey, look I'm on a record" sense, and they all sat down to listen to it. Understandably, the records content didn't really go down too well :P

john lennon's "fucking peasants" always surprises me in "working class hero"

Because it's a Beatle doing a swear?

i don't know why, maybe I do feel it in terms of the context of his total rage in that record. so yeah, shedding the beatle thing. sorry, not clear

Just reminded myself of a list I once did. 1990s UK number one albums that say 'fuck' but *don't* have a parental advisory label.

R.E.M. - Out of Time
The Cure - Wish
Carter USM - 1992: The Love Album
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
The Cult - Pure Cult
Suede - Suede
Nirvana - In Utero (ad-libbed in Gallons)
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
R.E.M. - Monster
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Michael Jackson - HIStory
Pulp - Different Class
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
U2 - Pop
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Suede - Head Music

I may have missed a few

There is also the partial case of Blue is the Colour which instead has its own 'this album has blue language' or whatever sticker

Paul Simon's Songs From The Capeman did come with a parental advisory label. Yes indeed, you can actually hear Paul Simon himself use the word 'fucking'! ('The Vampires')

No one mentioned Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A Fuck yet?

Carter had a #1 album?!

Yep and they headlined Glastonbury around that time too. Top of the tree for a short while.

Mosaic by Wang Chung was one of the first albums I ever picked out on my own as a child. It was confiscated by my parents over the lyric, deeeeep in the album, "The world in which we live is peopled by people who/Fuck, shit, screw everybody, don't care, swear". Later in the song, the lyric is changed to "The world in which we live is peopled by people who/Get up, stand up, speak up, fight." God, I wish they'd just talked about the lyric with me instead of making a big deal out of it. At the time, I didn't even know which "bad words" they had confiscated the record over. All I wanted to do was "wang chung tonight," mother!

Anyway, I feel like if parental advisory stickers had even existed when Mosaic was released, the album would have skated by without one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqWlmIFPC0

In later childhood and adolescence, I started seeking out music solely for the swear-word content. F.U.C.K. by Mucky Pup is one that still sticks with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVJCxuSE1w

Very sophomoric, but I always enjoyed the gleeful burst of "you stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker" at the end of "Bad Habit", The Offspring's road rage song.

I despise every other moment of recorded sound I've ever heard by the Offspring, but that is definitely a classic swearing tune.

I was blasting that as a 14 year old in the computer room and my mother walked in to do laundry right at that part and she yelled "HEYYYYYY!!!! WHAT IS THIS?"

for whatever reason, the Eminem line "I don't got that bad of a mouth, do I?/Fuck shit ass bitch cunt, shoo ba dee doo wop" still makes me laugh

Replacements' "Goddamn Job" is the best swearing song.

I don't know what's the best swear on a record, but the one that shook this superstitious 12-year-old Catholic schoolboy, listening to his Walkman on holiday in France, "Star Me Kitten" Genuinely suspected my Walkman had been possessed for a few minutes.

I forgot Attack of the Grey Lantern in my list!

Actually I'm making that up aren't I? I'm going through all the lyrics in my head and I don't think there is