best swearing on a track?

the frightening 'motherfucker' on the run-off groove of Loop's 'Thief (Motherfucker').

Bernard Sumner's 'you caught me at a bad, so why don't you piss off?', Your Silent Face.

any more?

"Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks..."

Intro to "Plaistow Patricia" by Ian Dury

you are the soooon of a moootherfuuucker...one...two...three

"he who fucks Nuns will later join the church..."

Bodies

Jesus Lizard - Blockbuster:

'How would you like to have a blockbuster right up your ass? Do you think you'd like that? Do you? MOTHERFUCKER!'

Possibly not about video rentals.

"It's time to... KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!"

King Missile, "Martin Scorsese"

"This one's called Martin Scorsese
He makes the best fucking films
He makes the best fucking films
If I ever meet him I'm gonna grab his fuckin' neck and just shake him
And say thank you thank you for makin' such excellent fuckin' movies
Then I'd twist his nose all the way the fuck around
And then rip off one of his ears and throw it
Like a like a like a fuckin' frisbee
I wanna chew his fuckin' lips off and grab
his head and suck out one of his eyes
and chew on it and spit it out in his face
And thank you thank you for all of your fuckin' films
Then I'd pick him up by the hair swing him over my head a few times
And throw him across the room and kick all
his fuckin' teeth in and then
stomp on his face 40 or 50 times
'Cos he makes the best fucking films he makes the best fucking films
I've ever seen in my life
I fuckin' love him
I fuckin' love him "

"It's nineteen ninety motherfucking one!"

Martha Wainwright: "You stupid bloody motherfuckin' asshole"

"Falls wanking to the floor"

http://www.blog.ni9e.com/archives/nwa.jpg

most unexpected: crush, by OMD.

most exhilarating inna indie-jangle stylee: box elder.

still inexplicably cool: pills, by primal scream; killing in the name of.

there must be more than this. i'm trying to think of quality swearing in earl brutus tracks, but actually think they kept it clean, didn't they? which makes them winners in my book: sounding like you're swearing all the time without actually swearing is a pretty fucking good trick.

Many many Ween tracks, such as "Hey Fat Boy (Asshole)" and, in a similar vein, "Big Fat Fuck"

"If you don't want to fuck me baby, baby fuck off!"

i quite like the 'two bob cunt' jibe in the libertines' What a Waster

So What either by Crass or Anti-Nowhere League

Even Joni did it..

Drive your bargains
Push your papers
Win your medals
Fuck your strangers
Don't it leave you on the empty side

oh, hey, "fuck the pain away" really should be in here. the bleakness of it.

So What either by Crass or Anti-Nowhere League

i don't know the former. i had a flatmate who delighted in singing the latter, loudly, while doing mundane tasks such as making a cup of tea/watching television/sitting on the toilet.

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Fuck me! Fuck me!
Fuck you! Fuck you!
Fuck everyone! Fuck the church!
Fuck Jesus! Fuck Mary!
Fuck the Jews! Fuck the Bhuddists!
Fuck the Hindus! Fuck George Bush!
Fuck his ugly wife! Fuck Tipper Gore!
Fuck everyone! Fuck Gorbachev!
Fuck Noriega! Fuck all these assholes!
Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck all of you!
Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata!
They told me nothing but lies!
Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies!

Always a hit.

When I was a kid, a friend and I made a 45 minute mixtape of all the cussing we could find on our albums.

Add it Up

^That's a track name, not an order.

"We wanna fuck you Eazy"
I wanna fuck you too

Where are the obligatory niggers?
Hey there fuckface
Hey there, FUCK FACE

I just like these lines in the Crass song for their gleeful blasphemy:

So what if Jesus died on the cross
So what about the fucker, I don't give a toss

xpost

Amusing

My first choice was already mentioned ("Bodies") so I gotta go with Millie Jackson's sublime "Phuck You Symphony"

Crass, Do They Owe us A Living. A corker that, saw Jeffrey Lewis cover it recently, excellent geek cussing.

Dr. Octagon. Fuck my pussy Doctor. Unpleasant man.

you don't like it, dick up in ya fuck ya - GZA, shadowboxing. One of my favourites but my girlfriend gets cross when I sing it around the house. Method Man generally a quality cusser.

Fuck off weekender, fuck off and die.

Let's go to fucking Hawaii!

xp I always thought it was "You don't like a dick up in ya fuck ya," i.e. "if you don't want to fuck me, baby, fuck off."

Anyway:

"'You fuckin' die,' I said. To her. I said 'YOU FUCKIN' DIE!!!' to her. Huh? What? No, no. I was talking to Kim. I said 'You fuckin' die." No, no, I was just goofin' around. No, no, it didn't have anything to do with anything. She said ... 'Don't anybody touch my stuff,' and I said 'You fuckin' die,' like that. I was finishing her part for her.

You know what I mean?"

I want to be a star, I'm going to have a car
And you'll have to admit, I'll be rich as shit

"You fuckin' die" is something I say all the time.

"The words that you used to think turned me on just made me laugh - "Do you want to suck my cunt?" in real life just sounds naff."

Arab Strap - Piglet

Whoever says "Goddammit!" in Mingus' The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady. (Jaki Byard? Mingus himself?)

i have something vague in my head where a (presumed) skinny bowlcut screams an awesome 'FFFFFFFFFFF---UUCK!' in the middle of the track, you can practically hear spittle and bursting veins, but it's totally escaped me. Can anyone identify the fuck in question?

always like that one Air Miami song, "hey hey hey hey hey, I'm gonna fuck you up today"

and The Bird And The Bee: "would you ever be my, would you be my fucking boyfriend?"

looks crap in print, but when juxtaposed with sunny melodies, context is everything...

xpost possibly Jesus & Mary Chain?

Edan 'Run that shit!'

When we got to the spot she got down on her knees
I was thinking 'bout the pussy and the color TV
She was playing with the coochie as she started to strip
She was sucking my dick, I busted off on her tits
Then I got up, put my shit back in my drawers
There was come on her face, she was lying on the floor
Then I pulled out my toolie and I aimed it at her lip
I said "earrings and the stereo, run that shit!"

...

Word... this goes out to all the motherfuckers
That don't know how to earn a decent fuckin' buck
So they gotta steal from kids
Hell yeah!
Yo... Stealing is the way... to go...
That's how you get all your shit
You ain't gotta pay for SHIT!
Yo, Edan, I'm out
Fuck yeah, yo

Bill Callahan "The Well"

I guess everybody has their own thing
that they yell into a well.

I gave it a coupla hoots, a "hello"
and a "fuck all y'all"

WHOO!
WHOO!
Hello?
...
and fuck all y'all

The Cure - Shiver & Shake

shiver and shake
you're just a waste of time
you're just a babbling face
you're just three sick holes that run like sores
you're a fucking waste
you're like a slug on the floor
oh! you're useless and ugly
and useless and ugly
and i shiver and shake
when i think of how you make me hate

i want to smash you to pieces
i want to smash you up and screaming
i want to smash you helpless
down on the floor
smash you until you're not here anymore

and i shiver and shake
shiver and shake

(all the more delicious since we all know who it's directed at)

One - Two - Three - Fuck

(The Beatles: "I Should Have Known Better")

New Elbow has a great one: "Brother of mine, don't run with those fuckers"

Bill Callahan "The Well"

is good one

MISS TRINA:

yeah, that's right, i'm back again, round two motherfuckers. that's right, i'm talkin' greazy, i'm a arrogant lil' motherfucker huh? that's right, i'm rich, i'm that bitch. that's right, i'm about to show y'all how to pimp this shit. i'm fuckin' niggas in the face, the game is mine 2003. fuck that, fuck all y'all haters, fuck all y'all bitches, get a life, you got too much time on your hands. i want y'all bitches to get a job - up your game, pimp your game up baby! it's all about me this time, fuck that. fuck a dime, i'm a silva dolla, holla. catch me when i come off tour, fuck y'all, i'm out.

"every night, it's all the same, she be a-fuckin' with my brain"

--Descendents, "Myage"

Manic Street Preachers: "why don't you just (weee-yowwwww guitar noise)"

that "song" from henrietta collins and the wifebeating childhater that starts like this:
"hey henry, what would you do if i told you that my father was a wife beating child hater, racist, sexist bastard, he was a mothefucker and i went to his house, with a gun, and i blew his goddamn head off?" etc...

when I got a jammy in my hand...........DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

"Here, take this pill." And she did.

"W-w-what did you just give me?"

"Ecstasy," he said.

And then... HE FUCKED HER ALL NIGHT!!!

FUCKED HER!!! ALL NIGHT!!

FUCKED HER!!! ALL NIGHT!!

JSBX, "Full Grown". Great call & response.

JS: Baby baby, you sure like to fuck!

Mr Snrub likes the Horrorist? Wow.

Ween - "She Fucks Me"

The closing bars of "Insect Royalty" by Primal Scream, in which BG wigs out all tourettes-like

isn't that on pills?

i like
if you go platinum it's got nothing to do with luck/it just means a million people are stupid as fuck

on industrial revolution by immortal technique.

christian brothers by elliott smith too.

Billy Joel, "Laura"

xpost: pills, yeah, my bad.

Hi dere, dis is KCR San Diego and this sound youre hearing is dem wacky guys from England, The Prisoners, ow wow fuck me bloody hell, oh woah,

of course, it's mainly great for the intro of Who's Sorry Now that comes next

The best swearing on a track I bought last week award has to go to Of Montreal for "Come and see/There’s still some gentle people fucking to ‘Strawberry Letter 23’"

1. I have to nominate the intro track from Calle 13's Residente o Visitante. A full mixed chorus of trained voices sings (in Spanish),"We promise you that on this record we will not use swear words." The rest of the song consists of the chorus singing things like "Dick Dick Dick Suck My Dick". It's sublimely over-the-top.

2. No one loves the Eminem line about Will Smith? Something like "Will Smith don't have to swear to sell records, but I do, so fuck him and fuck you too."

3. OG: Country Joe and the Fish's "Fish" cheer: "Gimme an F . . . "

4. Tullycraft: Fuck me I'm twee.

I don't care about you! FUCK YOU! (Fear)

the bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife

For some reason, a tastefully placed "fuck" (..that's an ironic notion) here and there just sounds great. More examples:

"When I'm in your neighborhood, you better duck / cuz Ice Cube is crazy as fuck"

"Fuck Me I'm Rich" - Mudhoney

1. I have to nominate the intro track from Calle 13's Residente o Visitante. A full mixed chorus of trained voices sings (in Spanish),"We promise you that on this record we will not use swear words." The rest of the song consists of the chorus singing things like "Dick Dick Dick Suck My Dick". It's sublimely over-the-top.

^^^this

"I will drug you and fuck you
On the permafrost"

Best lyrics ever.

Permafrost, Magazine.

i have something vague in my head where a (presumed) skinny bowlcut screams an awesome 'FFFFFFFFFFF---UUCK!' in the middle of the track, you can practically hear spittle and bursting veins, but it's totally escaped me. Can anyone identify the fuck in question?

― siskin/skulls, Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:28 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

i was way off base with my skinny bowlcut presumption, as it is actually a granite and sinewy UKHC dude who delivers with gravitas in 'Aint That Rich' by NO DICE:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=178980411

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

Misfits, Where Eagles Dare.

"Fuck Me I'm Rich" - Mudhoney

Billy Joel, "Laura"

i believe it's still my job to chime in all threads in which pleasant plains mentions billy joel, so i will continue my streak here to argue that "laura" is one of the all-time worst AND all-time best examples of swearing in a song. best, because unlike most of the others above, it was fully unexpected and at least a little bit transgressive. worst, because of the way he over-enunciates it, as if to draw attention to how transgressive and unexpected and just plain fucking silly it is.

xpost: "Fuck Me I'm Rich" - my bad, I thought Mudhoney actually released a version of TMIS titled this, but it was just the name of an early Sub Pop comp. Anyway, I'm sure they've subbed those lyrics in a live version somewhere, so I think it still counts.

i'm pretty sure that TMIS says 'fuck me i'm sick' at some point

harry nilsson, "you're breaking my heart" (1972, at the height of his pop stardom, a jaunty rock number with piano and saxophone that begins, "you're breaking my heart/you're tearing it apart/so fuck you")

i believe it's still my job to chime in all threads in which pleasant plains mentions billy joel, so i will continue my streak here to argue that "laura" is one of the all-time worst AND all-time best examples of swearing in a song. best, because unlike most of the others above, it was fully unexpected and at least a little bit transgressive. worst, because of the way he over-enunciates it, as if to draw attention to how transgressive and unexpected and just plain fucking silly it is.

FCC is right, though I would argue that the over enunciation of it to draw attention to the transgression of it all also makes it the best example of someone saying "fucking" in the middle of a pop song.

Also, back in the day when Rolling Stone featured two-page ad spreads on records you could order from Columbia House, it was always funny to see Nylon Curtain with a little '‡' next to it for "explicit lyrics".

We/ don't want/ no fucking war

-- the Dicks

"Oooh, don't talk to me
Please just fuck with me"

The Pink Floyd's "Candy and a Currant Bun", one of the first

Very partial to Jarvis Cocker's "Running the World"

range life, just for the intonation:

i don't understand what they mean
and i could really give a fuck

hard to beat the combination of 'fuck all you ho's ' and then swiftly 'get a grip motherfucker'. at the start of JUICY on READY TO DIE. most of the album seems quaint and almost sweet compared to a lot of what came after.

At the end of TISM's 'Lillee Caught Dilley Bowled Milli Vanilli' or whatever, Rob Hitler-Barassi yells 'OKAY YOU COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER, FUCK FACE.' Brilliant.

all of "fuck wit dre day"

For me it has to be NWA's 'Gangsta Gangsta'. Quoting the lines doesn't do it justice though, it's the way they're delivered.

Is "I'll make it up to you" really the lyric on Who Are You?

So I parallel
Double park
That mothafucka sideways

Geto Boys' 'Fuck 'em' to thread.

luke's bendin over, so luke's gettin fucked, busta

When Marvin Gaye goes into falsetto in the line "Do you remember all of the bullshit, baby?" on "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You."

And Chrissie Hynde once said that Howard the Duck and Mr. Stress were local bands in Ohio.

Wham's Club Tropicana has a very clear "FACKin ell" in the noise of the faux party going on at the start. Very prominent in the Terje edit.

I wanna be a field day for the Sundays so they can fuck up my life

I don't know what it means though

If that still needs answering a 'field day' is a great gift, an easy story for 'the sundays' i.e. the Sunday Papers which tend to be bulked out with magazines and human interest stories. Field Day derives from trade shows.
Idea is that the protagonist is going to find themself smeared all over the Sunday papers, become a household-word size scandal and is likely to have little privacy left(hence 'fuck up my life'). Not sure what prompted Wire's song though, not sure what scandals were around in '77 & '78

always been privy to Offspring's "Bad Habit"

Drivers are rude
Such attitude
But when I show my piece
Complaints cease
Something's odd
Feel like I'm God
You stupid dumbshit GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER

Guns N Roses, "Get in the Ring," so inchoate it borders on incoherent.

Also, Super Furry Animals (by way of Steely Dan), "The Man Don't Give A Fuck."

(intro of the live version of 'Cock in My Pocket' on 'Metallic KO')
Iggy: "1... 2... FUCK YOU PRICKS!!!"

totally anthemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVsydcqxOAE

"Barnacle Bill, the Sailor" (Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, 1930)

The earliest known recording is an expurgated adaptation by Carson Robison and Frank Luther in 1928. This version was also recorded on May 21, 1930 by Bix Beiderbecke and Hoagy Carmichael with Carson Robison on vocals and released as a Victor 78, V-38139-A and 25371. According to Philip R. Evans, Bix Beiderbecke's biographer, in the second chorus of this recording, violinist Joe Venuti can be heard singing "Barnacle Bill the Shit-head," either to express his attitude toward the record producer, or typical of his wacky sense of humor. Esten Spurrier, a friend of Beiderbecke, is quoted by Evans as saying that Beiderbecke told him he could not believe the record would be pressed and had felt that it had been done just for laughs. Beiderbecke cut loose on the tune with what is believed to be one of his finest cornet solos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_Bill_(song)

I think that recording also featured Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. And it was a favorite of George Harrison!

"well i'd DAMN near rob a bank to get that doll and billy's knife"

kenny rogers, "kentucky homemade christmas"