Mama's Got a Double Entendre
February 5, 2009 2:49 PM Subscribe
What modern song lyrics contain the best -- the cleverest, filthiest, most sustained -- sexual innuendo?
Kids these days get a fair number of overt, direct songs like "Love in This Club" (Usher) -- there are others that are far dirtier that I can't recall at the moment -- and an occasional song like "If You Seek Amy" (Britney) that are more subtle, but basically one joke.
I can think of a few earlier songs, like "Squeezebox" (The Who), that are rather more elaborate, but I am trying to keep an open mind. What are the best (defined on main page as "the cleverest, filthiest, most sustained" -- but really, I'm most after subversive slyness and hilarity) from days gone by, or current stuff? My main interest is in post-WWII, esp. rock and blues; popular songs preferred.
Clumsy and awful, as points of contrast, would hardly be unwelcome.
Thanks!
P.S. I assumed this has been asked before, but the only general inquiries I could find had to do with bad and creepy songs, which aren't my main . . . err, thrust.
Kids these days get a fair number of overt, direct songs like "Love in This Club" (Usher) -- there are others that are far dirtier that I can't recall at the moment -- and an occasional song like "If You Seek Amy" (Britney) that are more subtle, but basically one joke.
I can think of a few earlier songs, like "Squeezebox" (The Who), that are rather more elaborate, but I am trying to keep an open mind. What are the best (defined on main page as "the cleverest, filthiest, most sustained" -- but really, I'm most after subversive slyness and hilarity) from days gone by, or current stuff? My main interest is in post-WWII, esp. rock and blues; popular songs preferred.
Clumsy and awful, as points of contrast, would hardly be unwelcome.
Thanks!
P.S. I assumed this has been asked before, but the only general inquiries I could find had to do with bad and creepy songs, which aren't my main . . . err, thrust.
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posted by yodelingisfun at 2:56 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by yodelingisfun at 2:56 PM on February 5, 2009
Would something like She bop qualify?
It may be obvious, but I was an oblivious adolescent because I did not get it when it was released.
And Squeezebox is about an accordian. Really.right?
posted by pointystick at 2:57 PM on February 5, 2009
It may be obvious, but I was an oblivious adolescent because I did not get it when it was released.
And Squeezebox is about an accordian. Really.right?
posted by pointystick at 2:57 PM on February 5, 2009
Not new but...
ZZ Top - Almost every song has some innuendo there. Tube Snake Boogie, Pearl Necklace.
AC DC - They seem to have an abnormal infatuation with balls.
posted by chillmost at 2:57 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
ZZ Top - Almost every song has some innuendo there. Tube Snake Boogie, Pearl Necklace.
AC DC - They seem to have an abnormal infatuation with balls.
posted by chillmost at 2:57 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Just about anything, I think, by the once-great-but-now-obnoxious Liz Phair on her inventively-titled record Liz Phair.
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:58 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:58 PM on February 5, 2009
Dirty World by the Traveling Wilburys is sort of a goof on the whole concept of a song full of wry sexual innuendo.
posted by kid_dynamite at 2:58 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by kid_dynamite at 2:58 PM on February 5, 2009
Well, it might not be terribly modern, but if you want innuendo then look no further than Kenneth Williams' songs. No other man I've heard is able to imbue words that don't actually mean anything with such suggestiveness.
posted by fearnothing at 2:59 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by fearnothing at 2:59 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
I like Tom Waits' "Ice Cream Man".
Jackson Browne's "Rosie" is pretty clearly about masturbation though many people miss it unless it's pointed out.
posted by edgeways at 3:03 PM on February 5, 2009
Jackson Browne's "Rosie" is pretty clearly about masturbation though many people miss it unless it's pointed out.
posted by edgeways at 3:03 PM on February 5, 2009
Sugababes Push The Button and Round Round. Both talking about the same bit of female anatomy.
posted by merocet at 3:03 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by merocet at 3:03 PM on February 5, 2009
This definitely falls under the clumsy and awful category, but it was the first thing that came to mind: Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
posted by HonorShadow at 3:08 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by HonorShadow at 3:08 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Sublime - Caress Me Down. Sample dirtiness:
So she told me to come over and I took that trip,
And then she pulled out my mushroom tip,
And when it came out, it went drip, drip, drip,
I didn't know she had the G.I. Joe, kung-foo grip!
posted by Enema Bag Jones at 3:11 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
So she told me to come over and I took that trip,
And then she pulled out my mushroom tip,
And when it came out, it went drip, drip, drip,
I didn't know she had the G.I. Joe, kung-foo grip!
posted by Enema Bag Jones at 3:11 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
John Legend's Nutmeg from the Colbert Christmas special.
posted by Eddie Mars at 3:14 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Eddie Mars at 3:14 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Not so much a double entendre, but I've always really appreciated the way Atmosphere puts it:
She doesn't seem to believe I'm just another thief
Came to take a piece and make you stutter when you breathe
posted by vytae at 3:16 PM on February 5, 2009
She doesn't seem to believe I'm just another thief
Came to take a piece and make you stutter when you breathe
posted by vytae at 3:16 PM on February 5, 2009
Nick Lowe's "Dose of You" and "Switchboard Susan" -- both available on Labour of Lust, one of the single greatest albums of its era, inexplicably out of print -- are both amusingly dirty little ditties ("Now when I look at you girl I get an extension / And I don't mean on Alexander Graham Bell's invention / Switchboard Susan can we be friends / After six and at weekends ").
posted by scody at 3:16 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by scody at 3:16 PM on February 5, 2009
From the master of clever lyrics, Smokey Robinson - Cruisin'
posted by readery at 3:21 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by readery at 3:21 PM on February 5, 2009
Green Day - Longview
Snoop Dogg - Ain't no Fun (if the homies can't have none). Subversive more for the style in which is delivered. Content is pretty explicit.
posted by Roach at 3:23 PM on February 5, 2009
Snoop Dogg - Ain't no Fun (if the homies can't have none). Subversive more for the style in which is delivered. Content is pretty explicit.
posted by Roach at 3:23 PM on February 5, 2009
Pretty much anything Dave Matthews. If he's not talking about sex, he's talking about drugs.
posted by thatbrunette at 3:41 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by thatbrunette at 3:41 PM on February 5, 2009
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
You're delicious
And if my wishes
Can all come true
I'll soon be kissing your sweet little pussycat lips!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
You and your pussycat lips!
You and your pussycat eyes!
You and your pussycat nose!
posted by popcassady at 3:42 PM on February 5, 2009
Billericay Dickie by Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Pure Essex filth.
posted by essexjan at 3:44 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by essexjan at 3:44 PM on February 5, 2009
Heart - "Barracuda"
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:45 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:45 PM on February 5, 2009
Calypso music, while outside your area of interest, is famous for double-entendres. Among many, many others, I am especially fond of Mighty Sparrow's culinary anthem, Salt Fish and Lord Kitchener's charming song about a lost cat, My Pussin'.
posted by Jode at 3:47 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by Jode at 3:47 PM on February 5, 2009
Most pre Freedom of Choice Devo could be read in the most masturbatory sense possible. Uncontrollable Urge, Jerking Back and Forth, Praying Hands. For filth's sake though i'd say Pink Pussycat is your most sustained naughtiness from Devo.
I also heartily enjoy Givin' the dog a bone for entirely prurient reasons.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 3:51 PM on February 5, 2009
I also heartily enjoy Givin' the dog a bone for entirely prurient reasons.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 3:51 PM on February 5, 2009
I like Nickelback's "Figured You Out":
I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say "please"
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favorite damn disease
and so on.
Some of you people should be stopped. You are ruining my childhood.
posted by neblina_matinal at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say "please"
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favorite damn disease
and so on.
Some of you people should be stopped. You are ruining my childhood.
posted by neblina_matinal at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
Downtown is a nice one. here's a list of masturbation songs too.
posted by serazin at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by serazin at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
Mighty Sparrow also has a song called "Mango Vert." Sample lyrics:
she said if you eat it right the hair won't stick in your teeth
and your bound to say how it tasted sweet, sweet, sweet
but if you eat it wrong don't walk in the street
everybody gonna know when they see the hair in your teeth
I think you can get what's going on there.
posted by fructose at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
she said if you eat it right the hair won't stick in your teeth
and your bound to say how it tasted sweet, sweet, sweet
but if you eat it wrong don't walk in the street
everybody gonna know when they see the hair in your teeth
I think you can get what's going on there.
posted by fructose at 3:54 PM on February 5, 2009
When I feel your finger on my trigger,
Happiness is a warm gun
-----------------
Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
-----------------
...you can see it you can taste it, and she comes to you light as the breeze. Now you can drink it, or you can nurse it, it don't matter how you worship as long as you're down on your knees. So I knelt there at the Delta at the Alpha, the Omega, at the cradle where the river meets the sees, and like a blessing come from heaven for something like a second I was healed and my heart was at ease.
-----------------
I've never felt so good before This empty place inside of me is filling up I simply cannot get enough I want it, oh, I want it Oh, I want it for my own I've got to know I've got to know What is this place that I have found? What's this‽
-----------------
Sweet little Princess, let me introduce his frogness
You alone can get him singing,
He's all puffed up, wanna be your king
Oh, you can do it, c'mon, c'mon
Lady kiss that frog
-----------------
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I want to be your sledgehammer
-----------------
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohhh-oh summer wine
posted by carsonb at 3:57 PM on February 5, 2009
Happiness is a warm gun
-----------------
Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
-----------------
...you can see it you can taste it, and she comes to you light as the breeze. Now you can drink it, or you can nurse it, it don't matter how you worship as long as you're down on your knees. So I knelt there at the Delta at the Alpha, the Omega, at the cradle where the river meets the sees, and like a blessing come from heaven for something like a second I was healed and my heart was at ease.
-----------------
I've never felt so good before This empty place inside of me is filling up I simply cannot get enough I want it, oh, I want it Oh, I want it for my own I've got to know I've got to know What is this place that I have found? What's this‽
-----------------
Sweet little Princess, let me introduce his frogness
You alone can get him singing,
He's all puffed up, wanna be your king
Oh, you can do it, c'mon, c'mon
Lady kiss that frog
-----------------
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I want to be your sledgehammer
-----------------
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohhh-oh summer wine
posted by carsonb at 3:57 PM on February 5, 2009
How about Sting's "Brand New Day"?
I'm the rhythm in your tune
I'm the sun and you're the moon
I'm a bat and you're the cave
You're the beach and I'm the wave
I'm the plow and you're the land
You're the glove and I'm the hand
I'm the train and you're the station
I'm a flagpole to your nation
(It goes on like that for quite a while.)
posted by epimorph at 4:01 PM on February 5, 2009
I'm the rhythm in your tune
I'm the sun and you're the moon
I'm a bat and you're the cave
You're the beach and I'm the wave
I'm the plow and you're the land
You're the glove and I'm the hand
I'm the train and you're the station
I'm a flagpole to your nation
(It goes on like that for quite a while.)
posted by epimorph at 4:01 PM on February 5, 2009
HonorShadow above mentions F.*.*.*. by Bloodhoud Gang. I think their song Bad Touch would count, too. Admittedly the chorus is pretty explicit, "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel", but the verses have some amusing jokes, metaphors, and so on:
Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck it.
Hieroglyphics? let me be specific I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means small craft advisory
So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, b5 you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on I'm Mr. Coffee with an automatic drip.
posted by losvedir at 4:03 PM on February 5, 2009
Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck it.
Hieroglyphics? let me be specific I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means small craft advisory
So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, b5 you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on I'm Mr. Coffee with an automatic drip.
posted by losvedir at 4:03 PM on February 5, 2009
HonorShadow above mentions F.*.*.*. by Bloodhoud Gang. I think their song Bad Touch would count, too.
Just about any Bloodhound Gang song would count, in fact. But they are an acquired taste, to say the least.
posted by Bookhouse at 4:14 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Just about any Bloodhound Gang song would count, in fact. But they are an acquired taste, to say the least.
posted by Bookhouse at 4:14 PM on February 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Either I am misunderstanding the question, or several people above are; I read it as looking for songs with sustained double entendre, but I see a lot of single entendre above...
Anyway, The Who's "Pictures of Lily" is a fine ode to self-love.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:18 PM on February 5, 2009
Anyway, The Who's "Pictures of Lily" is a fine ode to self-love.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:18 PM on February 5, 2009
Garth Brooks' "Two of a Kind Workin' On a Full House" contains the lewdest lyric in all of country music.
"She's my honeycomb and I'm her sugar cane."
Seeing him leer as he delivers the line in concert makes it all the more lascivious.
posted by DWRoelands at 4:19 PM on February 5, 2009
"She's my honeycomb and I'm her sugar cane."
Seeing him leer as he delivers the line in concert makes it all the more lascivious.
posted by DWRoelands at 4:19 PM on February 5, 2009
I can't help you with filthy or sustained.
"Fido, your leash is too long" from 69 love songs (The Magnetic Fields):
Fido, your leash is too long You go where you don't belong
You've been diggin in the rubble getting bitches in trouble
Fido, your leash is too long Fido your leash is too long
I don't know where I went wrong You scare me out of my wits
when you do that Shitzu Fido, your leash is too long
Fido, you've gone far enough I must have all of your love
You've just run out of luck I don't care what you foxhounds do
but your leash is too long
How about "Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits":
If you knew how I long for you now that you're gone
you'd grow wings and fly home to me home tonight
and in the morning sun (C): let's pretend we're
bunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Let abbots,
Babbits and Cabots say Mother Nature's wrong
and when we've had a coupla beers we'll put on
bunny suits I long to nibble your ears and do
as bunnies do Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Let's do it all day long rapidly becoming rabid
singing little rabbit songs I can keep it up all night
I can keep it up all day Let's pretend we're bunny
rabbits until we pass away Let's pretend we're
bunny rabbits until we pass away
posted by acrasis at 4:29 PM on February 5, 2009
"Fido, your leash is too long" from 69 love songs (The Magnetic Fields):
Fido, your leash is too long You go where you don't belong
You've been diggin in the rubble getting bitches in trouble
Fido, your leash is too long Fido your leash is too long
I don't know where I went wrong You scare me out of my wits
when you do that Shitzu Fido, your leash is too long
Fido, you've gone far enough I must have all of your love
You've just run out of luck I don't care what you foxhounds do
but your leash is too long
How about "Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits":
If you knew how I long for you now that you're gone
you'd grow wings and fly home to me home tonight
and in the morning sun (C): let's pretend we're
bunny rabbits Let's do it all day long Let abbots,
Babbits and Cabots say Mother Nature's wrong
and when we've had a coupla beers we'll put on
bunny suits I long to nibble your ears and do
as bunnies do Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Let's do it all day long rapidly becoming rabid
singing little rabbit songs I can keep it up all night
I can keep it up all day Let's pretend we're bunny
rabbits until we pass away Let's pretend we're
bunny rabbits until we pass away
posted by acrasis at 4:29 PM on February 5, 2009
Sondheim's I Never Do Anything Twice" is definitely clever, dirty and sustained. Here's a sample:
And then there was the abbot
Who worshipped at my feet
Who dressed me in a wimple and in veils
He made a proposition which
I found rather sweet
And handed me a hammer and some nails
In time we lay contented
And he began again
By fingering the beads around our waists
I whispered to him then
We'll have to say amen
For I had developed more catholic tastes
And here's the rest.
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 4:36 PM on February 5, 2009
And then there was the abbot
Who worshipped at my feet
Who dressed me in a wimple and in veils
He made a proposition which
I found rather sweet
And handed me a hammer and some nails
In time we lay contented
And he began again
By fingering the beads around our waists
I whispered to him then
We'll have to say amen
For I had developed more catholic tastes
And here's the rest.
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 4:36 PM on February 5, 2009
Hawksley Workman has a few:
Striptease is obvious, but the line All the ways my mother taught me how makes up for it.
Jealous of Your Cigarette is also a bit obvious, but good.
Tarantulove is the beautiful love between man & arachnid. Bad quality, not a single, sorry
Porcupine Tree's Gravity Eyelids has let my salt flow, feel my coil unwind. As well, Piano Lessons has a teacher telling her student you're better off in bed, which I didn't realize could be taken sexually for years.
Presidents of the United States of America has Kitty.
Repo! The Genetic Opera's closing credit song has Into a Bug a Needle.
posted by Lemurrhea at 4:42 PM on February 5, 2009
Striptease is obvious, but the line All the ways my mother taught me how makes up for it.
Jealous of Your Cigarette is also a bit obvious, but good.
Tarantulove is the beautiful love between man & arachnid. Bad quality, not a single, sorry
Porcupine Tree's Gravity Eyelids has let my salt flow, feel my coil unwind. As well, Piano Lessons has a teacher telling her student you're better off in bed, which I didn't realize could be taken sexually for years.
Presidents of the United States of America has Kitty.
Repo! The Genetic Opera's closing credit song has Into a Bug a Needle.
posted by Lemurrhea at 4:42 PM on February 5, 2009
J. J. Cale's Humdinger:
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
She rolls it `round her tongue like a natural thing
She makes me feel like I`m a natural king
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
She got lips around me, painted red
She close her eyes when she rolls her head
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
posted by yclipse at 4:45 PM on February 5, 2009
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
She rolls it `round her tongue like a natural thing
She makes me feel like I`m a natural king
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
She got lips around me, painted red
She close her eyes when she rolls her head
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
Humdinger, she loves to lick my finger
posted by yclipse at 4:45 PM on February 5, 2009
Prince's Alphabet Street (I'll probably get sued for using his name here without permission) is about putting an extra kick in oral sex by spelling out words with one's tongue. I particularly enjoy the line "I'm gonna put her in the back seat and drive her. To Tennessee."
posted by troybob at 4:49 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by troybob at 4:49 PM on February 5, 2009
I always liked this one, but I don't know if it rates very high on the scale compared to some of the above.
I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you've got something I need, well
{Refrain}
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You've got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and
Try them on to see
I been lookin' around awhile
You got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive, I been all around the world
Some people say I done all right for a girl
I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes, but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you got something I need, well
{Refrain}
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:39 PM on February 5, 2009
I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you've got something I need, well
{Refrain}
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You've got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and
Try them on to see
I been lookin' around awhile
You got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive, I been all around the world
Some people say I done all right for a girl
I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes, but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm OK alone but you got something I need, well
{Refrain}
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:39 PM on February 5, 2009
Bloodhound Gang - Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss and Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
I realize that this is the Bloodhound Gang, but it really is are respectively 4:21 and 3:06 long sexual innuendos.
Ginuwine - Pony
If you are going to make a metaphor for your dick, "my pony" is about as conspicuous as they come.
posted by clearly at 5:39 PM on February 5, 2009
I realize that this is the Bloodhound Gang, but it really is are respectively 4:21 and 3:06 long sexual innuendos.
Ginuwine - Pony
If you are going to make a metaphor for your dick, "my pony" is about as conspicuous as they come.
posted by clearly at 5:39 PM on February 5, 2009
In the "clumsy and awful" category, the obvious winner is Chuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling".
While I'm thinking of the 1970s, how about the husband-and-wife combo of George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" and Gwen McCrae's "Rockin' Chair"?
posted by davetill at 5:58 PM on February 5, 2009
While I'm thinking of the 1970s, how about the husband-and-wife combo of George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" and Gwen McCrae's "Rockin' Chair"?
posted by davetill at 5:58 PM on February 5, 2009
cleverest, filthiest, most sustained
Old-school Red Hot Chili Peppers is a great example of this, especially Blood Sugar Sex Magik and before (although it doesn't satisfy your "innuendo" stipulation very well).
Case in point: Sir Psycho Sexy
I got stopped by a lady cop
In my automobile
She said get out and spead your legs
And then she tried to cop a feel
That cop she was all dressed in blue
Was she pretty? Boy I'm tellin' you
She stuck my butt with her big black stick
I said "what's up?" now suck my dick
Like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb
She whimpered just a little when she felt my hand
On her crotch so very warm
I could feel her getting wet through her uniform
Proppin' her up on the black and white
Unzipped and slipped "ooo that's tight"
I swatted her like no swat team can
Turned a cherry pie right into jam
posted by Simon Barclay at 6:02 PM on February 5, 2009
Old-school Red Hot Chili Peppers is a great example of this, especially Blood Sugar Sex Magik and before (although it doesn't satisfy your "innuendo" stipulation very well).
Case in point: Sir Psycho Sexy
I got stopped by a lady cop
In my automobile
She said get out and spead your legs
And then she tried to cop a feel
That cop she was all dressed in blue
Was she pretty? Boy I'm tellin' you
She stuck my butt with her big black stick
I said "what's up?" now suck my dick
Like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb
She whimpered just a little when she felt my hand
On her crotch so very warm
I could feel her getting wet through her uniform
Proppin' her up on the black and white
Unzipped and slipped "ooo that's tight"
I swatted her like no swat team can
Turned a cherry pie right into jam
posted by Simon Barclay at 6:02 PM on February 5, 2009
Soul Asylum - Put the Bone In
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him
As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...
posted by platinum at 6:11 PM on February 5, 2009
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him
As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...
posted by platinum at 6:11 PM on February 5, 2009
don't think there's been anything more recently to match the immortal Serge Gainsbourg:
Annie aime les sucettes (youtube)
France Gall apparently genuinely thought she was singing about a girl who loves to lick anis-flavoured lollypops, and was not best pleased when she found out....
posted by runincircles at 6:24 PM on February 5, 2009
Annie aime les sucettes (youtube)
France Gall apparently genuinely thought she was singing about a girl who loves to lick anis-flavoured lollypops, and was not best pleased when she found out....
posted by runincircles at 6:24 PM on February 5, 2009
There's a whole genre of R&B that fits this bill. Check out:
"Rock The Man in the Boat" - Chuck Strong
"Hickory Log" - Jody Sticker
"Candy Licker" - Marvin Sease
"You Got to Roll It Slow" - The Love Doctor
posted by Frank Grimes at 6:25 PM on February 5, 2009
"Rock The Man in the Boat" - Chuck Strong
"Hickory Log" - Jody Sticker
"Candy Licker" - Marvin Sease
"You Got to Roll It Slow" - The Love Doctor
posted by Frank Grimes at 6:25 PM on February 5, 2009
Aaliyah - Rock the Boat
posted by cmgonzalez at 6:45 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by cmgonzalez at 6:45 PM on February 5, 2009
additionally, I don't know if it was written with bawdy intent, but i've always found "Honeysuckle Rose" by Fats Waller to cunningly, uh, linguistic:
Every honey bee fills with jealousy
When they see you out with me
I don't blame them
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
When you're passin' by,
Flowers droop and sigh
I know the reason why
You're much sweeter
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
Well, don't buy sugar
You just have to touch my cup
You're my sugar
And it's oh so sweet when you stir it up
When I'm takin' sips
From your tasty lips
Seems the honey fairly drips
You're confection
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:52 PM on February 5, 2009
Every honey bee fills with jealousy
When they see you out with me
I don't blame them
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
When you're passin' by,
Flowers droop and sigh
I know the reason why
You're much sweeter
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
Well, don't buy sugar
You just have to touch my cup
You're my sugar
And it's oh so sweet when you stir it up
When I'm takin' sips
From your tasty lips
Seems the honey fairly drips
You're confection
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:52 PM on February 5, 2009
platinum, "Put the Bone In" is actually a cover of a Terry Jacks song, the B-side of "Seasons in the Sun." I have the original 45 somewhere. "Put the Bone In" sounds fantastic at 33 and a 1/3.
posted by mollweide at 8:00 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by mollweide at 8:00 PM on February 5, 2009
If you want to hear much more subtle Chuck Berry, consider this:
posted by yclipse at 8:02 PM on February 5, 2009
- No particular place to go,
So we parked way out on the Kokomo
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn't unfasten her safety belt!
Ridin' along in my calaboose
Still tryin' to get her belt aloose
All the way home I held a grudge,
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go.
posted by yclipse at 8:02 PM on February 5, 2009
I'm a King Bee
Well I'm a king bee
Buzzing around your hive
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Buzzing around your hive
Yeah I can make honey baby
Let me come inside
Well I'm a king bee
Want you to be my queen
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Want you to be my queen
Together we can make honey
The world has never seen
Well, buzz a while...
Sting you bad...
Well I'm a king bee
Can buzz all night long
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Can buzz all night long
Yeah I can buzz better baby
When your man is gone
posted by rleamon at 8:13 PM on February 5, 2009
Well I'm a king bee
Buzzing around your hive
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Buzzing around your hive
Yeah I can make honey baby
Let me come inside
Well I'm a king bee
Want you to be my queen
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Want you to be my queen
Together we can make honey
The world has never seen
Well, buzz a while...
Sting you bad...
Well I'm a king bee
Can buzz all night long
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Can buzz all night long
Yeah I can buzz better baby
When your man is gone
posted by rleamon at 8:13 PM on February 5, 2009
We can't forget Chef and Chocolate Salty Balls. RIP Isaac Hayes.
posted by carmicha at 8:21 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by carmicha at 8:21 PM on February 5, 2009
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Sex Farm by Spinal Tap yet. I've always thought of it as the ultimate clever, sustained innuedo in modern lyrics.
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 8:30 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 8:30 PM on February 5, 2009
From the movie Josie and the Pussycats, the boy band Du Jour: Back Door Lover!
posted by aeschenkarnos at 8:53 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by aeschenkarnos at 8:53 PM on February 5, 2009
"Too Close" by Next:
I wonder if she could tell Im hard right now, hmmm
Yeah, come on, dance for me baby, ha ha, yeah
Ut oh, you feel that? alright
Come on, dont stop now
You done did it, come on, uh, yeah, alright, hold on
baby when were grinding
I get so excited
Ooh, how I like it
I try but I cant fight it
Oh, youre dancing real close
Cuz its real, real slow
(you know what youre doing, dont you)
Youre making it hard for me
All the songs on you requested
Youre dancing like youre naked
Oh, its almost like were sexing (oh yeah)
Yeah boo, I like it
No, I cant deny it
But I know you can tell
Im excited, oh girl
step back youre dancing kinda close
I feel a little poke coming through
On you
etc.
posted by billtron at 9:22 PM on February 5, 2009
I wonder if she could tell Im hard right now, hmmm
Yeah, come on, dance for me baby, ha ha, yeah
Ut oh, you feel that? alright
Come on, dont stop now
You done did it, come on, uh, yeah, alright, hold on
baby when were grinding
I get so excited
Ooh, how I like it
I try but I cant fight it
Oh, youre dancing real close
Cuz its real, real slow
(you know what youre doing, dont you)
Youre making it hard for me
All the songs on you requested
Youre dancing like youre naked
Oh, its almost like were sexing (oh yeah)
Yeah boo, I like it
No, I cant deny it
But I know you can tell
Im excited, oh girl
step back youre dancing kinda close
I feel a little poke coming through
On you
etc.
posted by billtron at 9:22 PM on February 5, 2009
oozy rat - what was the Spinal Tap song about "sink you with my pink torpedo, if you know what I mean?" "Big bottoms?"
posted by Pronoiac at 9:49 PM on February 5, 2009
posted by Pronoiac at 9:49 PM on February 5, 2009
The best double entendre song I have ever heard: CW Stoneking with You Took My Thing & and Put It In Your Place.
Sample lyrics:
Woman: "Yeah, then it went all floppy"
Man: "And you wouldn't give him back"
Woman: "Oh, I love that frill-necked lizard, he was my good old friend"
Man: "All you ever done with him is send him round the bend.
I'm gonna call the cops, I know I got a case
Talking 'bout you took my thing and put it in your place, I mean put it in your place"
Believe it or not, he's actually not a 1920s American blues man. He's a 30-something Australian.
I'm not sure about the legality of that Mp3. CW Stoneking is AWESOME, so please buy his music legally.
posted by [ixia] at 9:50 PM on February 5, 2009
Sample lyrics:
Woman: "Yeah, then it went all floppy"
Man: "And you wouldn't give him back"
Woman: "Oh, I love that frill-necked lizard, he was my good old friend"
Man: "All you ever done with him is send him round the bend.
I'm gonna call the cops, I know I got a case
Talking 'bout you took my thing and put it in your place, I mean put it in your place"
Believe it or not, he's actually not a 1920s American blues man. He's a 30-something Australian.
I'm not sure about the legality of that Mp3. CW Stoneking is AWESOME, so please buy his music legally.
posted by [ixia] at 9:50 PM on February 5, 2009
Belle and Sebastian's "Step Into My Office, Baby" seems to fit.
posted by bibliophibianj at 2:06 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by bibliophibianj at 2:06 AM on February 6, 2009
This is tame stuff, but I think Bobby Darin's "Multiplication" is pretty cute.
posted by illenion at 6:17 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by illenion at 6:17 AM on February 6, 2009
'Tipper Gore' by Alice Donut is nothing but double entendres. It was written to poke fun at Tipper Gore's witch hunt of obscenities in rock music.
posted by spamguy at 6:32 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by spamguy at 6:32 AM on February 6, 2009
Passenger by TOOL and DEFTONES. It's somewhat erotic.
posted by winks007 at 7:11 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by winks007 at 7:11 AM on February 6, 2009
Walk This World by Heather Nova. Not comical or all that subtle but it's not explicit either.
Seriously, it's one of the sexiest songs I've ever heard.
posted by jluce50 at 7:30 AM on February 6, 2009
Seriously, it's one of the sexiest songs I've ever heard.
posted by jluce50 at 7:30 AM on February 6, 2009
Pronoiac - Big Bottom is indeed the song that celebrates pink torpedoes, flesh tuxedos, and more. Full lyrics here.
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 7:58 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 7:58 AM on February 6, 2009
Response by poster: Some amazing finds here: thanks so much. I am especially excited by the ones for which a high number of devotees didn't have a clue, like "Sledgehammer."
There must be some genres that remain untapped. For example, those referring, in one way or another, to the virtues of (temporary) self-restraint -- e.g., Sam and Dave, Hold On (I'm Coming) (You talk to me/For satisfaction, oh, hold on/Call my name, oh, call my name yeah for quick reaction/Yeah yeah yeah yeah). [N.B. I am befuddled by the album titled "Waiting For My Rocket to Come," by the seemingly annoyingly earnest Jason Mraz.]
Also, for those interest in mining this vein (heh heh heh), R&B and blues had some incredible songs, like Bo Carter's All Around Man, Banana in Your Fruit Basket, Don't Mash My Digger So Deep, My Pencil Won't Write No More, Please Warm My Weiner . . . Or, for goodness' sake, Keep on Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes). (Note: adapted, and ruined, by the Starlight Vocal Band, semi-filthy purveyors of Afternoon Delight.) But they really do lose on the subtlety front.
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2009
There must be some genres that remain untapped. For example, those referring, in one way or another, to the virtues of (temporary) self-restraint -- e.g., Sam and Dave, Hold On (I'm Coming) (You talk to me/For satisfaction, oh, hold on/Call my name, oh, call my name yeah for quick reaction/Yeah yeah yeah yeah). [N.B. I am befuddled by the album titled "Waiting For My Rocket to Come," by the seemingly annoyingly earnest Jason Mraz.]
Also, for those interest in mining this vein (heh heh heh), R&B and blues had some incredible songs, like Bo Carter's All Around Man, Banana in Your Fruit Basket, Don't Mash My Digger So Deep, My Pencil Won't Write No More, Please Warm My Weiner . . . Or, for goodness' sake, Keep on Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes). (Note: adapted, and ruined, by the Starlight Vocal Band, semi-filthy purveyors of Afternoon Delight.) But they really do lose on the subtlety front.
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2009
"Breakfast in Bed" by Dusty Springfield - or here reggaefied by Lorna Bennett.
posted by rongorongo at 9:17 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by rongorongo at 9:17 AM on February 6, 2009
"List of Places and Positions I'd Like to Have Sex With You" By Murda Murda Killa Boyz (a parody rap band)
posted by ijoyner at 10:55 AM on February 6, 2009
posted by ijoyner at 10:55 AM on February 6, 2009
Frank Zappa - Dinah-Moe Humm
I whipped off her bloomersn stiffened my thumb
An applied rotation on her sugar plum
I pokedn stroked till my wrist got numb
But I still didnt hear no dinah-moe humm,
posted by cmdnc0 at 12:38 PM on February 6, 2009
I whipped off her bloomersn stiffened my thumb
An applied rotation on her sugar plum
I pokedn stroked till my wrist got numb
But I still didnt hear no dinah-moe humm,
posted by cmdnc0 at 12:38 PM on February 6, 2009
"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" -- Primus
Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver
and she shows it off to all her friends.
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her,
So she caged him up with cyclone fence.
Along came Lou with the old baboon
And said "Recognize that smell?"
"Smells like seven layers,
That beaver eats Taco Bell."
Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans
And he travelled with the carnival shows.
He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars
And he candied up his nose.
He got wind of the big brown beaver
So he though he'd take himself a peek,
But the beaver was quick
And grabbed him by the kiwis.
Now he ain't pissed for a week.
(And a half!)
Now Wynona took her big brown beaver,
And she stuck him up in the air.
Said "I sure do love this big brown beaver
And I wish I did have a pair."
Now the beaver onces slept for seven days
And it gave us all an awful fright.
So I tickled his chin and I gave him a pinch
And the bastard tried to bite me.
Wynona loved her big brown beaver
And she stroked him all the time.
She pricked her finger one day and it
Occurred to her she might have a porcupine.
posted by katrielalex at 12:49 PM on February 6, 2009
Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver
and she shows it off to all her friends.
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her,
So she caged him up with cyclone fence.
Along came Lou with the old baboon
And said "Recognize that smell?"
"Smells like seven layers,
That beaver eats Taco Bell."
Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans
And he travelled with the carnival shows.
He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars
And he candied up his nose.
He got wind of the big brown beaver
So he though he'd take himself a peek,
But the beaver was quick
And grabbed him by the kiwis.
Now he ain't pissed for a week.
(And a half!)
Now Wynona took her big brown beaver,
And she stuck him up in the air.
Said "I sure do love this big brown beaver
And I wish I did have a pair."
Now the beaver onces slept for seven days
And it gave us all an awful fright.
So I tickled his chin and I gave him a pinch
And the bastard tried to bite me.
Wynona loved her big brown beaver
And she stroked him all the time.
She pricked her finger one day and it
Occurred to her she might have a porcupine.
posted by katrielalex at 12:49 PM on February 6, 2009
There are a TON of Bob Marley songs (like 'Stir It Up') that might fit this description. Lots of his songs are double (or even triple) entendres.
posted by gnutron at 12:56 PM on February 6, 2009
posted by gnutron at 12:56 PM on February 6, 2009
I also like Conway Twitty's "Don't Call Him a Cowboy":
So don't call him a cowboy
Until you've seen him ride
'Cause a Stetson hat and those fancy boots
Don't tell ya what's inside no
And if he ain't good in the saddle
Lord, you won't be satisfied
So don't call him a cowboy
Until you've seen him ride
posted by ND¢ at 1:22 PM on February 6, 2009
So don't call him a cowboy
Until you've seen him ride
'Cause a Stetson hat and those fancy boots
Don't tell ya what's inside no
And if he ain't good in the saddle
Lord, you won't be satisfied
So don't call him a cowboy
Until you've seen him ride
posted by ND¢ at 1:22 PM on February 6, 2009
More camp than Double Entendre, but Sugar Daddy from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
When honey bees go shopping
It's something to be seen.
They swarm to wild flowers
And get nectar for the queen.
And every thing you bring me
got me dripping like a honeycomb,
And if you've got some sugar for me,
Sugar Daddy, bring it home.
Frank black an amazing cover of it on Wig In A Box
posted by The Whelk at 5:33 PM on February 6, 2009
When honey bees go shopping
It's something to be seen.
They swarm to wild flowers
And get nectar for the queen.
And every thing you bring me
got me dripping like a honeycomb,
And if you've got some sugar for me,
Sugar Daddy, bring it home.
Frank black an amazing cover of it on Wig In A Box
posted by The Whelk at 5:33 PM on February 6, 2009
80's metal is just classic for this.
Warrant's Cherry Pie and the less-known Kix classic Get it while it's hot are my two favorites.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 11:27 PM on February 6, 2009
Warrant's Cherry Pie and the less-known Kix classic Get it while it's hot are my two favorites.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 11:27 PM on February 6, 2009
Solar Sex Panel by Little Village.
It's sort of three dimensional piece where John Hiatt makes sexual references, global warming/sustainability references and jokes about his bald spot all at once so that, sometimes, what sounds dirty isn't and, well vice versa.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:55 AM on February 7, 2009
It's sort of three dimensional piece where John Hiatt makes sexual references, global warming/sustainability references and jokes about his bald spot all at once so that, sometimes, what sounds dirty isn't and, well vice versa.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:55 AM on February 7, 2009
Jason Collett (of Broken Social Scene fame) - Diggin' in the Carpet
posted by laura_carter at 7:17 AM on February 7, 2009
posted by laura_carter at 7:17 AM on February 7, 2009
I'm going to have to go with Pulling Mussels (from the Shell).
posted by Caviar at 5:42 PM on February 8, 2009
posted by Caviar at 5:42 PM on February 8, 2009
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Semisonic - Completely Pleased (quite overt but not entirely)
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
posted by Lotto at 2:55 PM on February 5, 2009