Pop/chart songs that have actually offended you

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prompted by a couple of threads. This isn't an excuse to say "corr, that Phil Collins is a twat". I'm talking about a song where the "message" has actually offended you. Has this happened? ANyone ever thought something as extreme as "this song shouldn't be allowed"?

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Future, in a very real sense, Belongs to Me. But I can't think of a pop song that's made me think the world is a worse place for it (beyond the aesthetic, mariah style "worse" that is widely shared by IL*ers)

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I'm as serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer."

― Trevor, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Britney Spears actually offends me. "I'm a slave for you", "I was born to make you happy" etc etc. she is, quite literally, a fuckpuppet.

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I've *had* cancer and I think that song is great.

― suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

do these actually really offend you? the only music thing i can think of that i have censored for my own sanity is my own special edition (thank you CD-R) of the marchall mathers LP. i've excised that track about killing his wife. i just can't listen to it. that's not a chart/pop tune tho. odd thing is that i canm easily listen to Bonnie and Clyde from the slim shady LP which is it's twin.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes i do ACTUALLY find Britney offensive.

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably some song about men being useless unless they have a flash car and buy diamond jewellery, until I decided to lighten up.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When Ludacris was talking about his ho's in all sorts of area codes, we all shouted "You can't say that!" to his "holocaust" mention, but I don't think any of us were properly shock horror offended - especially not because we were drunk, I for one larffed immensely!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SCRUBS NATION!

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm becoming more and more of a prude as I get older (although I am still not a patch on the Pinefox). In particular, I remember feeling quite concerned when the song 'Sex on the Beach' was performed on TOTP a while ago. Much smuttier innuendoes are fine - I think it was the literal-mindedness of it that got my goat

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was actually offended by "Smack My Bitch Up" at the time - the song itself kind of annoyed me and then the whole mealy-mouthedness surrounding it and the ludicrous oh-its-a-lesbian video and, ugh, I got angry. But I also got angry when there were calls to ban it. And I'm not offended by it any more, in fact I like it though I still think it's crude and thuggish. I realised I liked it while watching Charlie's Angels.

In a similar vein the only line of Eminem's that really makes me wince is (paraphrase) "It is now officially OK to smack bitches" from 'Drug Ballad', because it's about the general not the specific and also because it's in the middle of a really funny and well-done song.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh and that come baby come baby baby come come song. and that crappy Crazy Town Butterfly thing. for totally different reasons than the Britney thing though.

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes - I was offended when there was that first glut of sex songs a while ago: 'I Wanna Sex You Up", "Let's Talk About Sex" and 'People Are Still Having Sex'. I also remember being offended by the "Let a woman be a woman and a man be a man" in Prince's 'Gett Off'.

Most bizarre time I took offence: during very short-lived Christian fundamentalist phase aged about 12, I thought Talk Talk's song 'Life's What You Make It' was indicative of the pride of man.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How could anyone disapprove of Butterfly by Crazy Town? Especially when Pete and I do it.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cover versions done by identipop celebrities. I don't mind if they murder the song, but what really gets me is if their voice just isn't up to it. "What I am" by Emma Bunton, or (especially) "Eternal Flame" by Atomic Kitten - your forced, shitty, whiny voice just isn't up to it, love. So fuck off.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah but both those songs were already shit so 'offense' seems a bit strong here. I thought aesthetic as opposed to moral offence was out of the question's bounds anyway, otherwise jesus where do you start.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually i always thought the sentiment "life's what you make it" to be an annoying tebbit style "on yer bike" thing and i did once think "yeah, well tell that to a serf living in 12th century feudal britain"

The (jam and spoon?) Sex on the Beach thing made me think "hang on that's a bit much". not actually offended though.

I think a lot of people were pissed off with the vid for smack my bitch up. it was just shit.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was T-Spoon. I was reverse-offended by that song when I first heard it in Amsterdam, it conjured up visions of an Oz-style paradise of utopian uncomplicated hippie sex.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would imagine that a lot of parents would like to send Afroman into orbit for getting their kids singing about getting high. Not being a parent myself I don't care that much. I do find Westlife very offensive though.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Down Under by Men at Work enraged me at the time: it was the first number one I could NOT see the worth of, even in the abstract (i see it now: "novelty song for ppl who despise novelty songs") (but i still hate it)

westlife are grate

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The last time I really boiled with rage at music was during a fellow ILE regular's DJ set at LondonIndieNYC, which seemed at the tipsy time to summarise all that could possibly be wrong in recorded sound. I had similar feelings hearing Baxendale's "You're The Type Of Girl Who's Going To Steal My Boyfriend" or whatever it's called. Probably I should just avoid the Betsy.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we're definitely in danger of laying into stuff we find strongly aesthetically distasteful. it's probably an arbitrary distinction at some level, but the threads that prompted my question were talking about sexist or otherwise inflamatory songs.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whos set was that, Tom?

That BaxenUPHILLDOWNdale song is called "My American Cockfarmer", btw.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was being polite rather than a tease Sarah. Ask me in e-mail. (IT WAS YOURS HA HA).

That's useful to know.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm absolutely offended by the video for the remake of 'what's going on' - pop stars unwrapping blindfolds with 'hurting' words that actually have nothing to to with their public personae. while i suppose this posse, led of course by bono who should just GO AWAY with perry farrell, is attempting to deflate the power of these words, the manner in which that deflation occurs is absolutely idiotic, because like it or not words have power. turning those words into a bunch of empty video signifiers will not deflate that power. it's nothing more than a mawkish attempt to 'be real,' which is where every single one of today's pop stars (including the ninth-grade poetics of 'deep' bands like staind) falls flat on their face.

not to mention that the song, especially with its 'fred durst breaks it down for you' bit at the end, is a flaming pile of toss.

also offensive to me at the time was the aaliyah dedication after missy elliott's performance of 'one minute man' at the mtv video music awards, but now that i've heard and seen the video for 'rock the boat,' it makes a little more sense.

― maura, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and alan, i'm actually more offended by 'what's going on' than by the overtly sexist messages in songs like, say, 'big pimpin'—i think the ignore-the-words-and-they'll-go-away 'message' is damaging to discourse in the same way to ethnic festival multiculturalism, where everyone's differences are spackled over for purposes of selling 'one world' t-shirts.

― maura, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah come on, Maura, if anyone knows about reducing emotive words to empty signifiers it's Bono.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, the whole "tribute" song idea is a bit ridiculous, in my opinion. it's brazenly self-aggrandizing, and the nerve of the individuals involved to pass it off as a "selfless" act is galling. all that it does is create for the individuals involved (bono, most notoriously) some sort of cachet as a "thinking, sensitive, politically-aware" artist, which usually translates into a healthy bump in record sales. i think a good way to prove this would be to compare the total amount raised by that lamentable single ("what's goin' on") with the profit margins of the most recent tours by all of the artists involved. i suspect that if those same artists would just shut up and donate, say, a small percentage of their earnings, the charities would be helped and we would be spared the grand-scale Christ complexes.

and, really, changing the lyrics to the song is just unforgivable. because i think the changes are extremely telling -- changing "picket lines/and picket signs" to "barracades/can't block our way" and "who are they to judge us simply 'cause our hair is long" to "who are they to judge us/together we can all be strong" transforms the song from one of confused alienation to some sort of idiotic steamroller anthem.

― jek, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The reason I can't take that much offense - beyond the usual good points about charity rec self-aggrandisement - is that I thought "What's Going On" was an absurd, bad song anyway.

The most offensive lyric change I've ever heard was at my company's day out last year. A group of musicians were hired to walk around at lunchtime performing alt-pop hits in a comedy French cafe fashion. They did Anarchy In The UK, apallingly as you might expect but in itself this was hardly bad. They dropped the IRA-UDA-UK verse as you might expect, but they also changed "Your future dream is a shopping scheme" to "Your future dream is a housing scheme", a massive inversion of values which left me staggered.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jesus Tom and you did not go for them with a fork why? No jury in the land would have convicted.

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was in Mc Donalds somewhere in Eastern Europe this summer with a friend, (well er I say that like as if I called him and said hey i'll see you in budapest at 3 but anyway). We were sitting there and Unpretty by TLC came on. However when the verse kicked in it was a heavily accented man singing it. How bizarre is that? Does he understand what he's singing? I dunno. It was funny though, maybe I told ILE before, but fuck it.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They were two tables away. (Not an excuse really). I was busy scribbling it down too so I nevah forgot it. This was in the Millennium Dome NB!

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that remake of whats going on is pretty awful, and the no scrubs sentiment gets to me as well. I never listen to the lyrics closely enough, or often enough to get too hung up about it, so I cant say I get riled up by butterfly by crazy town though I still hate it

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did they keep "MPLA"? I love that line.

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was that stupid Tim McGraw song "Indian Lover" a few years back - - but then again, Tim McGraw is just punchable anyway.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh oh oh how could I forget "Black Girlfriend" by Porno For Pyros??

They did not keep that line. The good lines they did keep died a screaming tortured death so it was for the best. They also did Bob The Builder and Smells Like Teen Spirit.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hit Em Up Style bothers me a lot, as I mentioned before because not only is this a stupid and vindictive way to treat men, but any woman silly enough to follow the song's "advice" could end up in jail. I don't know if I'm actually offended by it though, there are few things that really offend me in songs. A lot of the misogynistic stuff ends up making me feel very depressed and sad, but not offended.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about that All Saints video where they beat the shit out of all those men? How sassy was that eh?

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're obsessed with that video Ronan.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's going to end up posting about it on that Dark Fantasies thread.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did I say that already today? I feel like a senile grandparent now. But I'm not I'm a hungover boy.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah I see now and feel like an idiot. Forgive me please, I've been distracted all day.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think we really need to analyse your persistent desire to use the word sassy in conjunction with extreme violence. I would say to use it at all, but it is one of my favourite words so I cant

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why does everyone hate "What's Going On" so much? I consider it to be alchemy. I bet everyone is just too cool for charidee singles.

― dave q, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope other people have enjoyed the pictures in Privet Hedge of Sting pouring Piers Morgan a glass of Champagne on board Concorde. The man should really look into the environmental impact of burning aviation fuel.

And hanging around with Piers Morgan, really.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Use of the word sassy because that's the image the video appears to be aiming for and arguably achieving. Of course if it was a man it's all those other nasty words but you all know that so theres no point in going into it.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just like the marvin gay version better. I also think the charity was misplaced. what are they going to buy? gold plated tombstones for everyone?

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoever's idea it was to touch Marvin Gaye's original classic should be shot. I'm completely serious. The mere existence of covers of this song offends me.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are you some kind of rockist? take it to ILM

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is rockist and how does it apply to Marvin Gaye? Explain please.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As I said before they might as well have dug up his corpse and raped the poor guy. Same goes for Robbie stealing Sinatra vocals for that crap album he just released.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'goodbye earl'.

― ethan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The problem w/the new WGO (charity aspect and videos aside) is that its way too reverent - it makes a bland song much much blander. Everyone singing believes in it, sure - they believe its a classic song, whereas Marvin obviously believed in the actual words even if they were a GCSE war-is-bad pome. The idea of putting raps in is an OK one and the only chance to liven things up - they don't, though they don't hurt. The song only comes to life when Fred Durst comes in, but 'coming to life' as I said on NYLPM means 'making you say what the fuck'.

Sinatra? Greed before death begets greed after death. Strike one for karma.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robbie's new album exists so that Nick D can tape the video for Something Stupid.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't watch it. It's too painful for me to see her larking around with that oaf.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, i was just teasing, but being offended by the existence of covers of a song is UNDOUBTEDLY rockist.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bland? WGO is one of those songs which soothes me and gives me goosebumps at the same time. It's a great fucking song that was tainted once by cyndi lauper. wasn't that enough? i haven't even heard the new cover in question and have no desire to. This is why i don't listen to commerical radio, watch MTV, or buy mainstream music magazines. It's all too unbearable. Give me our seeburg jukebox filled with classic 45s and whatever other good music finds it way to my hands via friends. The world can keep Fred Durst and Bono.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My point is tho Samantha that the new cover is bad because everyone involved (except maybe Fred D - who can tell what thoughts seethe beneath his red cap) thinks exactly as you do about WGO. I think it's rubbish - to go from the psychodrama of "Heard It Through The Grapevine", the glee of "Can I Get A Witness?" etc. to these kind of confused platitudes is a big let-down.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's Going On is a prime example of a great lyric that would be shit if it were just written on a page.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think its mealy-mouthed in delivery too, Nick - I've never *read* it.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UR on crack.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's classic in it's time and place. In terms of Gaye's career it was landmark b/c that was the first album he wrote and produced himself. He was writing what he wanted to sing; it's sincere.

The current version seems to be a lazy way to make some quick money for charity. Couldn't any of our "artists" write something original and germane to current situations?

(and besides WGO's is really about race riots not vietnam like most people think.)

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The current version seems to be a lazy way to make some quick money for charity. Couldn't any of our "artists" write something original and germane to current situations?

I think charity singles in general are a lazy way to make money for charity. It would be a lot more economically efficient for these artists to donate proceeds from concerts, but they want to look pious by making a grand public statement (ie releasing a single).

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you mean that something as haunted as "Grapevine" is insincere because Gaye didn't write the words? The historical importance of WGO is undeniable but I can't help thinking that for his first time out the blocks MG gave himself material which it was pretty easy to be sincere about - something like Here My Dear or Let's Get In On is a much tougher proposition. Still I can hardly defend the new version - it's poor.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole is on the money. Anyway Fred's bit is original and germane to the current situation - "Won't someone tell me what's going on / We got human beings using humans for bombs".

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

War is bad bit is very relevant though, since the US went to war. It seems to skate around so many issues without realising that it is part of the problem.

― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sincere performances are indeed what make great performers. But performing one's own art is always far more interesting to me and I think contributes towards the making of a great artist.

Besides, I prefer the Temptations version of Grapevine.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer THE SLITS version! But i am dying from h4XoR coff of deff and haf nevah heard Fred Dursts fantastisch rappen skills, nein! I make ze sense, no!!!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Slits version of Grapevine is triffic - props to Zoe for playing it at LondonIndieUSA!

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sincere performances are indeed what make great performers.

Mmm...I have a problem with this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that someone who is sincere *can't* be a good/great performer. Rather, praising someone for his or her sincerity as an automatic validation of his/her work is far too simplistic. One can be terribly sincere about something and still create work that someone else finds garbage. Thus:

RANDOM PERSON: "Bruce Springsteen is such a SINCERE performer! That's why he's so great!"

ME: "Bruce Springsteen is the aural equivalent of fertilizer soaked in heavy rancid syrup. He may well be sincere, though."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My problem with the sincerity argument is that nobody writing about music on this board is a telepath. But that's a side-issue really.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I think "he is sincere" only means "he seems sincere" -- i.e., "he seems sincere enough that I'm convinced he is sincere." Blearg.

I'm not so much offended as morally irritated by the new Alicia Keyes song. Particularly because the video portrays her spewing that dreck to an impressionable child. It's a step up from the Shaggy mentality discussed in certain other threads, but it's still stupid.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And note, Tom, that I am indeed a telepath. In the past twenty-four hours, I have attempted readings of both you and Alan Ball -- I don't know what else you want from me.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The no of ppl who use sincerity as an argument who admit the above = low, though. Ah well.

(Admit seems not is, not admit Nitsuh is a telepath. Which everyone knows.)

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes but Tom I'm a psychopath so what's your point?

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cyndi Lauper does not "taint" -- she blesses.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything by the Bush The Tree and Me. They are so shit they make me want to cry.

― alix, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find it amusing to think of "Life's What You Make It" being taken as a Tory statement - it was certainly written at the high tide of Thatcherism but I always took it to be "whatever you want to do with your life, you should feel free and take the chances", not anything political on either side.

The answer: "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new WGO is great though, but only for the Fred Durst bit, that is SO funny.

― DG, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

George Michael's "Fastlove". Well, not his song really. Just Top Of The Pops' hypocrisy. In that they censor all kinds of songs with "swearing" in them, yet boldly played this song with its cry of "all that bullshit fascination". Hell, they even had it on its subtitles.

And they play that Afroman song about getting high, yet censored Technohead's drug references on "I want to be a hippy".

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

>>I prefer THE SLITS version! But i am dying from h4XoR coff of deff and haf nevah heard Fred Dursts fantastisch rappen skills, nein! I make ze sense, no!!!

why have i not heard of this? how can i hear it?

― di, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

di, the Slits cover is on the recent rerelease of Cut. It is quite ace.

― rosemary, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

best thing the slitz evah did (and i heart the slitz)

― mark s, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In answer to the question 'take it easy' by the eagles is the most offensive song I have ever heard. Racists!

― maryann, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Why?

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

madonna's 'human nature'
was so overtly defensive of her own weird sense of righteousness and "self expression" that it kind of changed her creative rebellion persona into a jaded bitch persona. though some might argue it was an intentional mockery, i think it only proved a sad irony.

i found the song offensive for it's lack of creativity in blatant condescension of it's audience. something she'd been able to pull off pretty well up until that point.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I was just gonna mention T-Spoon's 'Sex On The Beach' but I see others already did long ago.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Its vague tunefulness seems like lyrical/musical/philosophical fuzziness, if not incoherence

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

"Zoot Suit Riot" -Cherry Poppin' Daddies .... on so many levels.

― rocknrolldetox (rocknrolldetox), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

strictly by lyrics, i'm offended by the presidents of the united states of america's 'peaches'

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"24 Hours From Tulsa". But maybe not so much anymore.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

The new charity single performed by Eric Benet, Michael McDonald, Wynonna Judd and some other lady. It plumbs new depths of rancid melisma.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

funny, the only place you hear T-Spoon's "Sex on the beach" is at kiddie parties.

Anyroad, did anyone mention MickJag's "Let's Work"? Not for it's tory sympathies, more for that at that point the rStones were the damn lazybunch group on the planet!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

not *just* for it's

i should say...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

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