What is the finest example of using the word/verb "fuck" in a pop/rock song?

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Yay my first parody thread!

Seriously though...

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

HEY THERE FUCKFACE!

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

ARE YOU TALKIN' TO ME or is that from a song?

Personal faves:

Fear of Flying OR Alcoholiday OR Some People Try to Fuck With You - Teenage Fanclub. Just the casual way they sing it, like it's not big deal, just a word like any other word.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dilate [Righteous Babe, 1996]
On an album loaded with quotable quotes, my favorite is the refrain (well, she says it twice) of the six-and-a-half-minute "Adam and Eve": "i am truly sorry about all this." I mean, she knows--knows what a pain in the ass she is, knows how much space her emotions take up, knows she once banged a power line with her stickball bat and blacked out the entire eastern seaboard. She boasts about her integrity, her vulnerability, her joy. She jokes about them too. She has a friend's mom phone in obscure verses of "Amazing Grace." She utters, I kid you not, the most vituperative "fuck you" in the history of the music. She is herself, and for once that's more than enough. A-

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Pretenders--Precious
"But not me baby I'm too precious, fuck off"

Pavement---Baptiss Blacktick
I'm just waiting waiting for the baptiss/that fucker/AHHHHH

and stretching the rules of the thread a bit...
Bob Dylan---Like A Rolling Stone
Play fucking loud!

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

First post's from a Fall song, but I can't remember which, or which album.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

"The Classical" from Hex Enduction Hour.

― LC (Damian), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Show biz kids making movies
Of themselves you know they
Don't give a fuck about anybody else

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

I always liked the sweet Grace Slick "up against the wall, motherfuckers" on "We Can Be Together."

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

[I]Fuck this and fuck that, fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat.[/I]

- J. Lydon, 1977

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there's anything quite as invigorating as "KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKER!".

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

[Bridge]
Mommy!
Fuck it!

― got so much $ can't spend it so fast (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've wanted to make a "most disarmingly tender instances of profanity" thread for a while now

"Ashes of American Flags" has a pretty sonorous "fuck" in it

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I always liked how Robert Smith says it in "The Kiss": "Get it out! Get it out! Get it out! Get your FUCKING voice out of my HEEEEAAAAD!"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

"fuck shit up
do it fuck
take a stand
fuck the man"

jon spencerblues explosion

and also:
"you fucked you bitch, you fucking nazi whore"

ween.

and "rage against the machine" made a fortune out of the word i guess..

― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, if you're going to mention Teenage Fanclub what about the charming line in Verisimilitude: "I always feel the need to profane, I always said fuck when I thought I should".

That Wu Tang song where Method Man goes, "I couldn't give a cotton pickin' fuck" (Mysteries of Da Chess Boxing perhaps? Apologies, its been a while)

Fuck Tha Police!

Malkmus's cooly devastating "I could really give a fuck" re Smashing Pumpkins in Range Life.

And Rage of course, especially for the legendary moment where Bruno Brooks unwittingly played the uncut version on daytime Radio 1. Or is that just an urban myth?

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

"you fucked up your life/your life is a mess" - element of crime

― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

THERE'S A TIME TO FUCK AND A TIME TO CRAVE, BUT THE SHAH SLEEPS IN LEE HARVEY'S GRAVE!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's easy to say now their trainers seemed fine
and their hair was a fucking delight

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

super furry animals - 'the man don't give a fuck'
mclusky - 'fuck this band'

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Certainly the finest example of invoking the word "fuck" while not actually saying it is Elvis Costello's "Love Went Mad": "I wish you luck with a capital f."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, all of my three initial choices (Sex Pistols, The Fall, Pretenders) have already been mentioned, so...fuck it.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck what I said it dont mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw em out
Fuck all those kisses they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you hoe, I dont want you back

Fuck what I did was your fault somehow
Fuck the presents, I threw all that shit out
Fuck all the cryin' it didn't mean jack
Well guess what yo, fuck you right back

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Belle & Sabastian - another sunny day.

"the referee gives us fuck all"

then repeatd in girl group harmonies "keeps giving us fuck all"

― danny boy (danny boy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sleepers (
Ricky Williams RIP)

Don't remember exactly but something like "She's fun to fuck, and that's what shes meant for...".

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm partial to Jon Brion's "Walking Through Walls":

He sings "Get out of my face" in a very pretty happy pop melody and then the backup vocals (also his) sing "Motherfucker!" in an equally happy harmony. Wonderful!

― digestion (digestion), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

my fave, from Arise Therefore:

Make a noise, crack a glass
I’ll hold his arms, you fuck him
Fuck him with something
The fuck, he deserves it

― nicenick (nicenick), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

as a fuck, son, you suck

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Harry Nilsson's happy poppy "You're breaking my heart / you're tearing it apart / so fuck you" was a fun surprise back in 1972.

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed on "The Classical." For a while I played that song every day after I left my shitty corporate job. It did make my ride home enjoyable.

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Beta Band - The Cow's Wrong

At the incredible climax of this brilliant song, the apparently distinct vocal lines 'Running up and down' and 'I fucked it up' are layered over one another in such a manner that it honestly sounds like Mason's singing 'I fucked another man'. This is also the greatest misheard lyric I've ever come across.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody's perfect

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

What, no "Bodies" yet?

― anode (anode), Friday, 25 August 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Check upthread (ctrl-f for Lydon).

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 25 August 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

wayne county and the electric chairs -- "fuck off"

"if you don't wanna fuck me baby fuck off" (& cet.)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

'The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife
Did it quick and split'

Guts by John Cale. Bugger = Kevin Ayres

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

"We don't serve Strangers in Short Sleeved Shirts"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Liz Phair, "Supernova": "And you fuck like a volcano, and you're everything to me." Very strong memories associated with that line . . .

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

So who won the "Most gratuitous use of the word 'Fuck' in an original screenplay" award then?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

"If you See Kay" - the Poster Children

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Disco Rick - Fuck You

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I had that 'If you see Kay' idea myself when I was about 15. :(

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hole-I Think That I Would Die

"It's.......not........yours.............FUCK YOU!!!!!"

also Atari Teenage Riot "Fuck All!!!!@!"

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 25 August 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Country Joe: Give me an F...

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Millie Jackson, "Symphony" to thread.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

first one that popped into my head; a longtime favorite

"now here comes the song i love so much
makes me wanna go and fuck shit up
now i got nirvana in my head
makes me glad i'm not dead"

from [i]rosy jack world[/i]

― rentboy (rentboy), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

play that fucken music whiteboy... - WILD CHERRY

no shit, listen to it and most of the time thats what they say, only when it can possibly be heard clearly do they say 'funky' as in 'play that funky music til you die'

― pollywog (pollywog), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

(frog eyes - new tappy is heard and beheld)

"Little bird...
Fuck your bird.
Fucking bird."

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

or, perhaps,
dwarves: "fuck em all"

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 27 August 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

"my fave, from Arise Therefore:

Make a noise, crack a glass
I’ll hold his arms, you fuck him
Fuck him with something
The fuck, he deserves it

-- nicenick (nicenic...), August 23rd, 2006."

Nice one. Certainly one of Will Oldham's most curious (lyrically anyway) songs.

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

robyn, 'i should have known'

― gregor vox (Gregor Vox), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

"We could go and get 40's / fuck going to that party..."
Strokes, "12:51"

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 27 August 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

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