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I heard Public Enemy's "Welcome To The Terrordome" the other day and was reminded how much of a stink these lines caused:

"Crucifixion ain't no fiction/So-called chosen, frozen/Apology made to whoever pleases/Still they got me like Jesus."

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What are some other lyrics that infamously made the news?

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"Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen

 

A bunch of crazies decided that the song title said "It's fun to smoke marijuana" when played backwards.

 

Just one of many "backmasking" controversies stirred up by morons with nothing better to do than hunt for satanic/immoral messages in popular music.

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Sir Jagger has penned some memorable ones... Who else would write a song about having sex in slave-trade era New Orleans?

 

What about the last lines in Start Me Up? "You make a dead man come!" Mmmmm. Necrophilia. Broadcast at every major sporting event in the USA. Between that line and hearing Rock N Roll Part II... Do people realize they're shouting "HEY!!!" along with one of the most notorious pedophiles?

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Sir Jagger has penned some memorable ones

 

Rape

Murder

It's just a shot away

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Sir Jagger has penned some memorable ones... Who else would write a song about having sex in slave-trade era New Orleans?

 

Black girls just wanna get f**ked all night

I just don"t have that much jam

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Patti Smith - Rock n Roll Nigger

 

Baby was a black sheep. Baby was a whore.

Baby got big and baby get bigger.

Baby get something. Baby get more.

Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger.

Oh, look around you, all around you,

riding on a copper wave.

Do you like the world around you?

Are you ready to behave?

 

Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.

Outside of society, that's where I want to be.

 

(Lenny!)

 

Baby was a black sheep. Baby was a whore.

You know she got big. Well, she's gonna get bigger.

Baby got a hand; got a finger on the trigger.

Baby, baby, baby is a rock-and-roll nigger.

 

Outside of society, that's where I want to be.

Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.

 

(those who have suffered, understand suffering,

and thereby extend their hand

the storm that brings harm

also makes fertile

blessed is the grass

and herb and the true thorn and light)

 

I was lost in a valley of pleasure.

I was lost in the infinite sea.

I was lost, and measure for measure,

love spewed from the heart of me.

I was lost, and the cost,

and the cost didn't matter to me.

I was lost, and the cost

was to be outside society.

 

Jimi Hendrix was a nigger.

Jesus Christ and Grandma, too.

Jackson Pollock was a nigger.

Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,

nigger, nigger, nigger.

 

Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.

Outside of society, if you're looking,

that's where you'll find me.

Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.

Outside of society. (Repeat)

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Jesus was way cool

Everybody liked Jesus

Everybody wanted to hang out with him

Anything he wanted to do, he did

He turned water into wine

And if he wanted to

He could have turned wheat into marijuana

Or sugar into cocaine

Or vitamin pills into amphetamines

 

He walked on the water

And swam on the land

He would tell these stories

And people would listen

He was really cool

 

If you were blind or lame

You just went to Jesus

And he would put his hands on you

And you would be healed

That's so cool

 

He could've played guitar better than Hendrix

He could've told the future

He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world

He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky

He could've danced better than Barishnikov

Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of

Jesus was way cool

 

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood

That's so cool

Jesus was so cool

But then some people got jealous of how cool he was

So they killed him

But then he rose from the dead

He rose from the dead, danced around

Then went up to heaven

I mean, that's so cool

Jesus was way cool

 

No wonder there are so many Christians

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Smog - Be Hit

Every girl I've ever loved

Has wanted to be hit

Every girl I've ever loved

Wanted to be hit

Every girl I've ever loved

Has wanted to be hit

Every girl I've ever loved

Left me, 'cause I wouldn't do it.

 

Got some advice for you friend

Ba-ba-bruise 'em, you'll never lose 'em

Ba-ba-bruise 'em, you'll never lose 'em

Alright now

 

Seems my sensitive touch

Can be given by, any old shmuck

Alright now

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Obviously, the Jim Morrison Oedipus bit in "The End" was pretty goddamn disturbing.

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That one by Judas Priest that made that kid redecorate his palate with a bullet. Dunno what it was called but (seemingly) contained the words, "Do it!" It may actually have been called that.

"Better By You, Better Than Me" was the song - which actually was a cover, I think.

 

edit: the LP the song was on, Stained Class, is a REALLY heavy record. It also has one of my favorite JP tunes - "Beyond The Realms Of Death". What a great title for a song!

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That one by Judas Priest that made that kid redecorate his palate with a bullet. Dunno what it was called but (seemingly) contained the words, "Do it!" It may actually have been called that.

 

 

"Better By You, Better Than Me" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. The song was originally performed by the band Spooky Tooth and written by its keyboardist Gary Wright.

 

The song was the subject of the famous 1990 "subliminal message trial" in which Judas Priest was involved in a civil action that alleged they were responsible for the suicide attempts of two young men in Reno, Nevada.

 

The mens' parents and their legal team, headed by Nevada attorney Ken McKenna, alleged that a subliminal message of "do it" had been included in the song. They alleged the command in the song triggered the suicide attempt. The suit was eventually dismissed. One of the defense witnesses, Dr Timothy E. Moore, wrote an article for Skeptical Inquirer chronicling the trial.

 

Which makes me think of this:

 

"Suicide Solution" is a song by Ozzy Osbourne. It is track five on the album Blizzard of Ozz released in 1980. Guitarist Randy Rhoads wrote the riff to the song (he had previously used the riff on the Quiet Riot track "Force of Habit"), and Bob Daisley wrote the lyrics. Ozzy Osbourne supposedly released this track as a tribute to Bon Scott of AC/DC who died of alcohol abuse.

 

The song was very controversial following its release. On January 13, 1986, Osbourne was taken to court by the parents of John McCollum, a teenager who shot himself in the head while listening to this song.

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