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Question: Songs with swearing

wackybrit — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:57:48 -0800

Which songs/albums (preferably otherwise good) feature extreme amounts of cussing and swearing?

It's often said that rap, in particular, features a lot of swearing, but I find little of it in my collection, with Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" being the only song that I'd say has a 'lot' of cussing. What other songs feature a lot of cussing? I'm having no luck finding any. I only ever found one song with the c-word too.. the Libertine's "What a Waster". Others?

By: chickygrrl

chickygrrl — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:17:13 -0800

Korn's "K@#%!" is pretty much all swearing.

By: Who_Am_I

Who_Am_I — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:20:22 -0800

First one I thought of was Useless Man by Minty, from DJ Keoki's Inevitable Alen Nation album.

By: climalene

climalene — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:21:33 -0800

Look no further than Butt Trumpet's "I've Been So Mad Lately".

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:31:20 -0800

Dub Narcotic Sound System - Fuck Shit Up

And there's a band called Anal Cunt, but I haven't heard their stuff. Diamanda Galas has a song called "Cunt". Haven't heard it either but I'd be surprised if you can make out any lyrics.

By: mcwetboy

mcwetboy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:33:01 -0800

Extreme cussing and swearing, you say? South Park, "Uncle Fucka."

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:37:37 -0800

"I Don't Care About You (Fuck You)" by Fear has plenty of "Fuck you"s in it. The Blatz cover is superior, though.

By: hootch

hootch — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:39:27 -0800

Family Reunion by Blink 182

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:42:59 -0800

Gaaah. Just had a big list, but my browser got screwy. I'll try to recreate it.

From the 1990 Cold Chillin' comp "2 Nasty 4 Radio":
- Big Daddy Kane & Rudy Ray Moore, "Big Daddy Vs Dolemite"
- Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, "Talk Like Sex" (very nasty)
- Everlast, "Fuck Everyone"

- anything by Redd Foxx, Rudy Ray Moore, Moms Mabley, all of whom did record songs.
- BLOWFLY!!! Anything and everything by Blowfly, the dirtiest motherfucker there is or will ever be, and an important and unheralded godfather of rap music.
- Much of the work of NWA graduates: almost all of Eazy-E's first solo album "Eazy Duz It"; some of Dre's stuff, as you mention; and at least Ice Cube's first 2 or 3 records -- all of these make heavy use of our friend the F word.
- Snoop (Doggy) Dogg cusses a lot on "Doggystyle" -- much of it is pretty misogynistic.

In other genres:
- I don't know his stuff very well, but I'd be surprised if Kinky Friedman didn't come through for you
- Do Raymond and Peter count as a musical group? Now, there's some swearing.
- Nashville Pussy gets pretty lewd, especially on their very great first album, "Let Them Eat Pussy"
- Tenacious D, of course. "Fuck Her Gently" comes immediately to mind.

I'll think some more on this.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:45:44 -0800

Some Blowfly links, for the curious or uninitiated.

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:49:44 -0800

If the, uh, n-word counts, there are some additional rap songs I could point to.

In rock, there's Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" and Soundgarden's "Big Dumb Sex," among others.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:50:29 -0800

Also, Body Count's album "Cop Killer" is extremely graphic.

Oh, and, "Intro," the first cut on Black Sheep's excellent album "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," is a pretty funny satire of curse-dependent rappers, and it uses plenty of cussin' itself. Great, great record.

By: ramix

ramix — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:53:32 -0800

Millie Jackson's Fuck you symphony.
Anything by Nate Dogg...(note, he has an awesome voice and usually sings back up for rap artists but he's also released an album, Music and Me, which is fucking brilliant!)

By: mcwetboy

mcwetboy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:55:33 -0800

Eric Idle's FCC song.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:00:27 -0800

The boys in Ween curse pretty freely. See "Blarney Stone" from "The Mollusk," "l.m.l.y.p." (which is - partly - a Prince cover) from "God Ween Satan - The Oneness" ... and I'm sure there are more, but they're not coming to me right now. Anyway, go listen to Ween. They're wonderful.

By: willnot

willnot — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:09:42 -0800

Rodeo Song is the first one I thought of, although it's probably more a novelty song than anything.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:20:42 -0800

AWESOME thread!

The two things that come to mind are Killdozer's cover of some song called, I think, "You're Unbelievable," which is called something like "You're Motherfucking Unbelievable." Also, any song by the band Butt Trumpet.

By: nmiell

nmiell — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:26:15 -0800

Fatboy Slim - In Heaven

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:43:03 -0800

The video, at least, of Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker".

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:46:04 -0800

Khia's "My Neck My Back:"

Then you roll ya tongue from tha crack back 2 da front
and ya suck it all till i shake and cum nigga
make sho i keep bustin nutz nigga
all ova yo face and stuff
slow head show me so much luv
da best head comez from a thug
da dick good, dick big and long
slow fuckin till tha crack a dawn

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:48:25 -0800

Propaghandi - and their album "How to Clean Everything" is profane, but I hold it sacred. Lots of great outbursts like:

in "Middle Finger Response "
"All your novel themes that keep you amused on your way to The canadian, flag-waving-aryan, mother f***ng, c*ck sucking dream. Oh yeah!"

or in songs like

"STICK THE F***ING FLAG UP YOUR G*DDAMN AS*, YOU SONOFABITCH (Not to be gender-specific, of course!)"
, "HAILLIE SELLASSE, UP YOR ASS" or "FUCK MACHINE".

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:11:15 -0800

Try out the beatiful work by "Mr Bungle".

By: jeremias

jeremias — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:12:41 -0800

Pretty much anything by the Geto Boys, especially their first album.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:16:12 -0800

Bad Posture: GDMFSOB
Body Count: Body Count
Nine Inch Nails: Starfuckers, Inc.
Peaches: Fuck the Pain Away
White Zombie: Welcome to Planet Motherfucker
Tenacious D: Fuck Her Softly
The Kills: Fuck the People
NWA: Fuck Tha Police
and anything by the Frogs.

By: gamera

gamera — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:20:17 -0800

The Fugs, CIA MAN

By: epimorph

epimorph — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:27:56 -0800

Anti-nowhere League - So What
(Covered by Metallica.)

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:32:47 -0800

"Cunt Renaissance," by R.A. the Rugged Man, featuring the Notorious B.I.G.

"C'mon Jack," by Allen Ginsberg

"Put It In Your Mouth," by Akinyele

"Pregnant Pussy," by UGK

By: biscotti

biscotti — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:33:28 -0800

"I Got Cash" by Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Not an insane amount of swearing (there's a fair bit though), but sung/spoken by a VERY angry, sarcastic man who really means that shit, which makes it something everyone should listen to. Plus it's funky as hell.

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:36:02 -0800

Also, check out Andy Dick's band, The Bitches of the Century.

More later, when I'm not using the on-screen keyboard on my PocketPC.

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:40:32 -0800

And Ice Cube proteges Da Lench Mob's Guerrillas in the Mist album.

And Tupac's "I Don't Give a Fuck," and gimmicky female gangsta Boss's song of the same name.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:41:05 -0800

I am totally loving Blowfly. That guy is like a vulgar cool-but-drunk-uncle-at-your-party version of James Brown!

By: Vervain

Vervain — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:52:27 -0800

"Get Off Your Ass And Jam" by Funkadelic, which is 2 1/2 minutes of nothing but:

Shit! Goddamn! Get off your ass and jam!

Not as extreme as some other examples, but I appreciate that the swear:not-swear ratio is almost even. George Clinton for poet laureate!

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:08:14 -0800

Seconding The Frogs. Incredibly vulgar and hilarious stuff, e.g., "Dead Pussy in the Road with Mother's Name on Top," and "Who's Sucking on Grandpa's Balls Since Grandma Ain't Home Tonight?"

The true bonus is that they're a really great band.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:12:27 -0800

God, I love this thread.

Let us not forget the immortal MC Luscious and her hit "Boom! I Fucked Your Boyfriend" (scroll down for .ram sample). A good-time party favorite when I was in college.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:18:41 -0800

If you count comedy albums you would be hard pressed to find a more repulsive album than the one by Pretty Paul Parsons. He has one joke about eating the corn from someone's colostomy bag and another that begins, "So, I was fuckin' this little retarded boy in the mouth..."

By: Decani

Decani — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:23:04 -0800

Great Sweary Tracks I Have Loved:

Goofy's Concern - Butthole Surfers
Plaistow Patricia - Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Contains the timeless, parent-delighting intro of "ARS-OLES, BAR-STARDS, FA-CKIN' CAHNTS AND PRICKS!"
Battleflag - Lo Fidelity All Stars. Fine repeated use of the oedipal noun, there.
Stagger Lee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Possibly my favourite. And I appreciate the opportunity to reproduce a small sample of the lyrics here. Thank you so much.

"I'll stay here till Billy comes in, till time comes to pass
And furthermore I'll fuck Billy Dilly in his motherfucking ass"
Said Stagger Lee
"I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know
And I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole"

Ahh, the don't write 'em like that anymore.

By: Decani

Decani — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:26:08 -0800

Also Pills by Primal Scream. The repeated "Sick...fuck...fuck...fuck...sick..." bit at the end is really quite pleasing.

By: Decani

Decani — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:33:48 -0800

And! (God, I should go away and collate these before posting any more...) Why'd Ya Do It from the classic Marianne Faithfull "Broken English" album is an absolute gem of seething, foul-mouthed hate. I love it.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:26:57 -0800

Blowfly. Lots of swearing, and very very funny.

By: attercoppe

attercoppe — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:41:24 -0800

Looking through my meager music collection:

Try Too Short's remake of (Ant Banks'?) "I Need a Freak" - after the bridge, he changes it too "I Need a Bitch" etc. etc.
I have this on "In Tha Beginning...there was rap", from Priority Records.

Afro Man - Colt 45 (many many fucks)

Lil' Jon (YEEEEEAAAHH!! WHAT?!) (sorry) and the Eastside Boyz - Bia Bia (partly because it's a few phrases repeated ad infinitum, plus some nasty girl called Chyna White, plus Too Short again.) Ludacris' is the cleanest verse.

But - Ludacris and Project Pat's "Dis Bitch, This Ho" is pretty dirty - mostly from PP - maybe his other stuff is, too?

Lil' Kim - probably most anything - she doesn't necessarily 'swear' a lot, but she gets pretty nasty. (See How Many Licks)

Fabolus & Nate Dogg - I Can't Deny It

Lil' Wayne - the two songs I have, about every third word in the chorus is 'nigga', with some other interspersed.

DMX - mostly just angry, but some with quite a bit of swearing.

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:15:14 -0800

"Fuck it Up"--Pigface
"You Fuck Me Up"--Dub Narcotic Sound System
"Sex Styles"--Kool Keith
"Who You Fuckin' Wit"--Roc Raida
"Talk Like Sex Pt. 2"--Smut Peddlers f. Kool G. Rap
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off"--Dead Kennedys
"The Roof is on Fire"--Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic Three (interpreted in, among other songs, the Bloodhound Gang's "Fire Water Burn" (a bad song put to good use in Fahrenheit 9/11) and Bratmobile's "Polaroid Baby")

By: auslander

auslander — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:29:43 -0800

soundgarden, probably considered old skool now, but "big dumb sex" features the f-bomb often, and in a delightful left/right headphone kinda way.

:)

By: matildaben

matildaben — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:23:41 -0800

The Big Black album "Songs about Fucking" has some nice cover art, but I don't remember what sort of language is in the actual lyrics themselves.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:25:09 -0800

Oh yeah, I just remembered, Martha Wainwright has an EP called "Bloody Motherfucking Asshole", and the title song is great, but the only swearing in it is the same words as the title, repeated a few times.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:29:34 -0800

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Fuck Shit Up
Eagles of Death Metal: Whorehoppin' (Shit Goddamn)
Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk To Fuck
The Roofies: Frankie the Shoe Fucker
and how could I have forgotten:
The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues

By: box

box — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:29:59 -0800

"Sucka Nigga"--A Tribe Called Quest
"I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga"--Public Enemy
"Niggaz and Jews (Some Say Kikes)"--Blood of Abraham f. Eazy-E
"NYC Cunt"--Princess Superstar

By: evilbeck

evilbeck — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:04:28 -0800

Pretty much anything by Mindless Self Indulgence
Peaches - I Don't Give a Fuck
Shellac - Prayer to God
Screeching Weasel - I Wanna Fuck
Machine Gun Fellatio - Let Me Be Your Dirty Fuckin' Whore

Those are my favorites, but I somehow have 53 songs with the word "fuck" in the title in itunes. I must be more of a dirty, foul-minded young lady than I thought.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:11:54 -0800

If you're after more than just cursing, but a higher-level profanity in addition, check out Lords of Acid, one of the most obscene bands I've ever heard.

By: furtive

furtive — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:21:20 -0800

Anthrax's Starting Up a Posse (lyrics) came out around the same time they released Bring the Noise with Public Enemy. The song is about censorship and includes the following chorus:

Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex drugs, rape
These seven words you're trying to take
Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape
Right or wrong it's our choice to make
America the beautiful, Land of the free
Don't change the words to land of Hypocrisy

They also say clever things such as cunty cunty cunty cunt and you're a douche. It was on the album Attack of the Killer Bs.

By: rkent

rkent — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:24:18 -0800

If you're after more than just cursing, but a higher-level profanity in addition, check out Lords of Acid, one of the most obscene bands I've ever heard.

Second. I don't know how many actual swear words there are, but it's still some of the filthiest music out there.

By: trinarian

trinarian — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:32:05 -0800

Tool - Jerk Off, Swamp Song, and Message to Harry Manback
System of a Down - Fuck the System

I really can't think of a band that cusses more articulately than Tool does. Profanity comes across as a means to an end - pulling the listener emotionally closed to the song. It's an expressions of pure rage or frustration rather than slang substituting good English.

System of a Down is good for almost the exact opposite reason, using everyday slang to relay advanced political messages about everything from the Armenian genocide to media ownership through music.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:38:59 -0800

Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying
Bloodhound Gang - Vagina Song
DJ Quik - Mo' Pussy
David Allen Coe - Fuckin' In The Butt
David Allen Coe - The Rodeo Song
Lil' Kim - Eat My Pussy Right
Lords of Acid - Pussy Round
NWA - Fuck Tha Police
Terrance and Phillip - Uncle Fucka

You can hear them here.

Lords of Acid is more like that dirty song that you don't know but liked after watching the girl on the pole dance to it. I've added four more of their songs.

These and more at, turnbothknobs.com

Enjoy.
I ? AskMeFi

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:47:44 -0800

Ah, I've recalled another one from my collection. The Horrorist - One Night in New York City.

It features a story about a girl going out and going partying, then getting drugged and raped, then has, in an extremely fierce tone, "He fucked her all night" repeated about a hundred times over a thumping beat. Quite creepy actually.

By: flashboy

flashboy — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 04:15:24 -0800

The Man Don't Give A Fuck - Super Furries

And Johnny Rotten's clearly singing "cunt" as loud as he can near the end of Pretty Vacant, even if it's not technically the lyric...

By: Melinika

Melinika — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 06:17:26 -0800

Notorious B.I.G./Too $hort - "Big Booty Hoes" (one of the nastiest songs I've ever heard, I must say).

For "(preferably otherwise good)", Mary Prankster can be quite profane/explicit. "Mercyfuck" is probably her most "fuck" filled song, if you're just going on curse words alone.

By: shothotbot

shothotbot — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:21:21 -0800

Some songs from my "fuck you" song list
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - black tongue
!!! - pardon my freedom
PJ Harvey - Who the fuck
peaches - i dont give a fuck
cake - nugget
butter 08 - butterfucker

Nice thread.

By: Decani

Decani — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:55:39 -0800

Damn - can't believe I forgot The Buzzcocks

By: AJaffe

AJaffe — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:50:55 -0800

Most GG Allin lyrics, of course. And I have to second Dr. Wu's recommendation on Raymond and Peter -- not musical, but oh so lyrical (by the way -- members of Devo did a surf-band album under the name of the Wipeouters a few years back that contains a song called "Shut Up, Little Man" with Raymond and Peter soundbites, but I think they left out the cursing...)

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:59:15 -0800

"Fuck You" by Dean and the Weenies, from the Mondo New York soundtrack.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:54:51 -0800

...and for some non-english swear words, check out the track "Swedish For Beginners" by speedcore/gabber sensation Swecore Noize Conspiracy, available for download here.

By: Clay201

Clay201 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:11:59 -0800

As a child of the late eighties / early nineties, I was under the impression that the foulest album of all time was 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be.

By: togdon

togdon — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:44:26 -0800

I'd second most of what's above, especially Propaghandi's "How to Clean Everything", Lords of Acid's "Lust", and NWA's "Straight out of Compton" as albums. 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty as They Want to Be" is profane, but... *meh*.

As far as singles go...

Adam Sandler's "At a Medium Pace" and Tenacious D's "Fuck her Gently" are top of the pops, and would make either a great 1-2 punch on a mixtape or would bookend this entire collection well.

As far as profane, rap, and the diss go... it's very tough to top Ice Cube's "No Vaseline". There's plenty of Nas<->Jay-Z and Biggie<->2pac to be enjoyed as well...

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:30:43 -0800

If I say fuck two more times,
That's 46 fucks in this fucked-up rhyme

Limp Bizkit, Hot Dog

By: Decani

Decani — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:44:01 -0800

Hell... we all forgot Rage Against the Machine, Killing In The Name Of. Unbelievable!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:34:31 -0800

I can't believe no-one has mentioned Eamon - Fuck It yet. It's cheesy for sure, but a good juxtaposition between lush, cheesy r&b ballad and copious profanity.

Also, Google loves this thread.

By: arto

arto — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:50:47 -0800

Blink 182 - Fuck a Dog
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry (dirty version)
Presumably anything by Anal Cunt