Friday Night is Music Night - Songs That Would Be Unacceptable Today

[Chris S]

I've always felt the lyrics to Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Clair" to be rather creepy; a love song to a child by her adult male babysitter...

And 'Get Down' was actually about a dog and not oral sex ...

 

[raleighnut]

And 'Get Down' was actually about a dog and not oral sex ...

Likewise this song is about a mythical (female) creature

View: https://youtu.be/iD-C2_okFuM


Yeah right.

 

[raleighnut]

Mind you those teenybopper 'Glam Rock' rascals Sweet were a lot less subtle.

View: https://youtu.be/x0ycnBrUcdY


And yes I've got it on vinyl, only a 7" though

 

[Chris S]

Here's one for Brett Kavanaugh

 

[Drago]

On sooooooo many levels...

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uHBFtcHQs

 

[Chris S]

I don't think there was any informed consent here ...

 

[Chris S]

The original lyrics to 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport' were rather offensive as well:
Let me Abos go loose, Bruce
Let me Abos go loose
They're of no further use, Bruce
So let me Abos go loose.

 

[slowmotion]

Frank Zappa satirised people just like them, and of course they were, and remain, the last ones to realise it.

He certainly did some serious research on the path to being A Brilliant Satirist.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/03/frank-zappa-women

 

[colly]

Quantum Leap: The Lone Ranger, covers a lot of unacceptable bases.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchOYs_d_Bw

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Whilst I'd heard it, I'd never listened, to this by Aerosmith
Until I bough a Hayseed Dixie CD, with it on

Granted, it was apparently written as a reminiscence of teenage years, but still ..……………….

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9udowK_x5U