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    Prehistoric Bitchslapper Sarahfeena's avatar
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    Default Songs you can't believe they got past the censors.

    Every time I hear Squeezebox by The Who, I think to myself, "doesn't the radio station realize how dirty this song is?! How can they play it on the radio, for God and my grandma to hear?

    Of course, the key dirty lyric is:

    She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out

    Cause' she's playing all night
    And the music's all right
    Mama's got a squeeze box
    Daddy never sleeps at night


    What are some other songs with subversively scandalous lyrics?

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    Happiness Is a Warm Gun is not about firearms.

    Happiness is a warm gun mama
    When I hold you in my arms
    and I feel my finger on your trigger
    I know nobody can do no harm
    Because happiness is a warm gun mama

    No.

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    How about some Lou Reed, Walk On The Wildside

    Candy came from out on the Island
    In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
    But she never lost her head
    Even when she was giving head
    She says, Hey babe
    Take a walk on the wild side
    I Said, Hey baby
    Take a walk on the wild side
    And the coloured girls go
    Doo do doo do doo do do doo..
    Give me whiskey when I'm thirsty,Give me a cold beer when I'm dry, Give me root beer when I'm sickly, Give me a headstone when I die.

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    Without linking to the lyrics (cause I'm not on my own comp) and I'm lazy), the Kink's "Lola" is about a young man having his first amorous encounter with a transvestite or transsexual.

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    Well, there's Brown Sugar.
    "I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."

    -Jim Rockford

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    I'm pretty sure The Who's "Who Are You" has the first clearly audible F word ever played on the radio, and it's been played thousands and thousands of times ever since. Still makes me smile.
    "You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."

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    Black Sabbath -
    Welcome to Mellophant.

    We started with nothing and we still have most of it left.

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    Stone's Some Girls.

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    How about Afro Man's "Till I got High"?

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    Quote Originally posted by Buster View post
    How about Afro Man's "Till I got High"?
    Hell, that song not only made it past the censors, it won a Grammy IIRC!
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    The Shaman - Ebeneezer Goode.

    Although eventually banned and withdrawn, it had already made no.1 in the UK.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    I'm vaguely amazed that Lola got the airplay it did.

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    Quote Originally posted by Sarahfeena View post
    Every time I hear Squeezebox by The Who, I think to myself, "doesn't the radio station realize how dirty this song is?! How can they play it on the radio, for God and my grandma to hear?

    Of course, the key dirty lyric is:

    She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out

    Cause' she's playing all night
    And the music's all right
    Mama's got a squeeze box
    Daddy never sleeps at night


    What are some other songs with subversively scandalous lyrics?
    Dirty yes, but every reference can plausibly be attributed to Mama's playing of her squeezebox (accordion.)

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    How about the greatest dirty lyricist of all time?

    Little Red Corvette by Prince


    [Verse 2:]
    Guess I should have closed my eyes when U drove me
    2 the place where your horses run free.
    Cuz I felt a little ill when I saw all the pictures
    Of the jockeys that were there before me.
    Believe it or not, I started to worry,
    I wondered if I had enough class.
    But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it alright
    And U say, "Baby have U got enough gas?"
    (Oh Yeah)

    [Chorus:]
    Little red corvette
    Baby U're much 2 fast, yes U R
    Little red corvette
    U need 2 find a love that's gonna last

    [Verse 3:]
    A body like yours ought to be in jail
    Cuz it's on the verge of being obscene.
    Move over baby, give me the keys
    Cause I'ma try 2 tame your little red love machine.
    Hell is other people.

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    Those '50's/'60's songs in the paedophile pop genre always seemed a bit suss to me.

    You're Much Too Young Girl and its ilk.

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    Fucking scandalous!
    To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.

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