Rude Words Sneaked into Pop Songs

[fork me]

Most of those in this thread are hardly "snuck in", you might as well add "F you, I won't do what you tell me".

One that did get away though, 1988, Push It by Salt 'n' Pepa contains the line:

"Yo baby pop, yeah you, come and give me a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
Can't you hear the music pumping hard like I wish you would"

It got tons of uncensored radio and TV play. It wasn't even censored on good old Top Of The Pops.



Not rude words as such, but several artists got away with sexual themes in the early days, Wanda Jackson (the greatest rockabilly star to ever menstruate) released Funnel Of Love, her ode to female self pleasrue, in 1961.



...and going back even further, in 1934, Dorothy Baker got away with releasing this charming blues number (it was also released by Dorothea Trowbridge who may have been the same person), Steady Grinding Blues - at the time, in the deep south, grinding was a swear word meaning shagging. NIce.

 

[Barrow Boy]

T'Pau were hardly trying to sneak in risky lyrics with a song called 'Sex talk' back in 1988, but this was the official video which was shown on TOTP and includes the following line twice;

I don't remember when you crept up behind me
Don't know when I got so wet

Bearing in mind this was in the decade when the BBC and certain morally outraged Radio 1 DJ's (that's a joke in itself with all the latest revelations!) banned songs like Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood.

Oh, and how hot was Carol Decker!

 

[tinycowboy]

Walls Come Tumbling Down by The Style Council contains a mild expletive.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Falco ! Amadeus. Says the word c**t somewhere in it as I seem to recall or certainly sounds like it.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Again not swear word, but being "not in the know" re drugs, did not get the stones brown suger meaning

 

[The Stout Yeoman]

Not swear words but I'm sure I once heard a version of The Boys Are Back In Town that had the line "get your knickers down"

Thats on Live and Dangerous ...along with this inbetween songs ...."Have any of the girls here got any Irish in them?" .... "Would any of the girls here like a little more Irish in them?" ... Phil Lynott RIP

 

[tweenster]

The Darkness "Get your hands off of my Woman" contains several uses of Motherf***er and the c-word. Was played several times on Radio 1 before they realised! Brilliant!

 

[Lower West Stander]

Love Resurrection - Alison Moyet.

The whole songs lyrics have a second meaning......

 

[User removed 4]

Again not swear word, but being "not in the know" re drugs, did not get the stones brown suger meaning

I'm pretty sure little red rooster is meant to mean a woman's pleasure pellet.

 

[Superphil]

Again not swear word, but being "not in the know" re drugs, did not get the stones brown suger meaning

Lou Reeds 'Perfect Day' , the BBC even did a charity version of it!

 

[lawros left foot]

Still often played on radio 2, Elvis Costello's Oliver's army with the n word in it, and I'm pretty sure Splash FM played the album version of You Gotta know by Allanis Morrisette with the f word in it.

 

[Cian]

Mylo - Drop the Pressure, or more commonly the Doctor Pressure mashup, got a huge amount of radio play with the chorus of "mother****ers gonna drop the pressure" uncensored.

 

[16bha]

"F#€k the Police" by NWA.

im pretty sure they included the word F#€k subtly within the lyrics. You have to listen very carefully though.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

"F#€k the Police" by NWA.

im pretty sure they included the word F#€k subtly within the lyrics. You have to listen very carefully though.

 

[rcf0712]

The fade out of Sexual Healing by Marvyn Gaye gets a bit self abusive, not that the rest of it was in any way ambiguous and the NERD/Daft Punk track Hypnotise U last year wasn't subtle either...., just the first 2 to spring to mind

 

[Norman Potting]

T'Pau were hardly trying to sneak in risky lyrics with a song called 'Sex talk' back in 1988, but this was the official video which was shown on TOTP and includes the following line twice;

I don't remember when you crept up behind me
Don't know when I got so wet

Bearing in mind this was in the decade when the BBC and certain morally outraged Radio 1 DJ's (that's a joke in itself with all the latest revelations!) banned songs like Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood.

Oh, and how hot was Carol Decker!

Surprisingly good live band as well T'Pau - saw them support Heart at Wembley Arena and unless my memory is playing tricks I am sure they did an encore.

 

[Harry H]

Pink Floyd.

I've always been mad,I know I've been mad.I've been mad for ****ing years.

 

[The Large One]

'Bullshit is bullshit it just goes by different names' from The Jam's final single, Beat Surrender.

They had to change it to 'Bulldogs are bulldogs...' for Top of the Pops.

No, really.

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