Songs that SHOCKED You as a Kid
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"Walk on the Wild Side" opened a world of alternative realities to Top 40 radio.
I grew up in South Florida in the late 80s/90s.
There are 2 songs I particularly remember that shocked me as a kid.
1) Queen - Under Pressure
My dad had the "Classic Queen" compilation, and we'd often play the first track, Bohemian Rhapsody. If we let the CD play, it would continue into track 2: Under Pressure. What shocked me was the line: "Turned away from it all like a blind man / Son of a bitch / but it don't work". I remember getting really nervous if there was someone else in the room, and trying to run to turn down the volume before that line. The ironic thing is that much later, I found out they are actually saying "Sat on a Fence", not "Son of a Bitch".
2) Weird Al Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
The lyric "Merry Christmas to all / Now you're all gonna die". The concept of having someone all the sudden break into the room I was in and say that everyone in the room was about to die freaked the hell out of me as a kid. I loved this album, but I remember getting nervous every time this track came on.
The song I most clearly remember not being allowed to play was "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy.
When I was 8 in 1973 I used to sing "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart for my parents. Yeah baby "spread your wings and let me come inside" and that's the clean part of the song. I can't believe they played that constantly on the radio.
Well, when I was 11-12, we went from "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to "Let's Spend The Night
Together" at the speed of light! But I think the first song that really had my head spinning was "Whole Lotta Love". I'm thinking I was 15 and grew up watching Ed Sullivan. Still have my Whole Lotta Love/Livin', Lovin' Maid 45. But the song I used to love and "shock" others with was Alice Cooper's "Cold Ethel" I think in 1975. Songs about necrophilia always impressed the girls!! But I was older then and am so much younger now.
For me at 12 years old hearing Lemon Song by Led Zepplin “squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg”. Later I learned it was adapted from a Robert Johnson song from the 30’s.
Well I’m 65 and the one song that popped into my mind was cocksucker blues by the Stones I have no idea where or when but remember feeling shocked
Alice Cooper-Only Women Bleed
My walnut sized brain did not grasp the deeper meaning
Rick Derringer-Rock and Roll Hootchee Koo
The lyric sheet said "c'mon a little closer, gonna do it you" but that's not what I heard 😼
Of course Lou Reed-Walk on the Wild Side, didn't know what it meant but I sensed it was very naughty
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Dimmu Borgir Mourning Palace scared the shit out of me when I heard it as a kid.
"Star Star" by the Rolling Stones. I didn't want my family to know about that song so I played it very low. If they had heard it they would have broken my record in half.
"Just Don't Bite It" N.W.A. I think I was in the 5th grade when it came out. My brother had the cassette.
When I was a kid, there was a KISS song (I think) with lyrics of "Hell's broke loose, Heaven's on fire". I remember my older sister telling me I shouldn't be listening to it. It was on the radio.
Yeah. That’s Heaven’s on Fire from 1984
@@TastesLikeMusic Thanks. I was 7. No wonder my sister was a bit concerned. 👍
OK. Third comment. As a kid in the 90s I worked at a movie theater and had discovered the Stones. My manager let me play albums for all the patrons to enjoy. Of course, a lot of inappropriate material got through.
Rebel Without a Pause - Public Enemy
Not becaue of its lyrical content so much but the sound of it. It was like nothing i had heard before. I very clearly remember think WTF is this glorious noise?!??
My preteen years were 1978-83, in which anything with the b word, the s word, or the f word was pretty shocking. “Tough Guys” by REO Speedwagon, and especially “Problem Child” and “Ain’t No Fun (Waiting ‘Round to be a Millionaire” by AC/DC come to mind, not to mention “Squealer,” which is still disturbing…
Songs that could get you kicked off the school bus ..Strokin - Clarence Carter ( Played in closing credits of Killer Joe ) , My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry & the holiday themed 12 Days Of Christmas by The Yobs.
I got kicked off the school bus for singing "My Ding A Ling". 🤣 It was not the first time I got in trouble for singing a song.
@@weirddebbiem1619 😆 🤣 .. The 2 Live Crew could get you in trouble with We Want Some ..
@@davidellis5141 I can imagine it would. 🤣
I was 10 yrs old when my uncle was playing the 2 Live Crew album Banned In The USA. I was shocked, but I loved every minute of it.
I'm a little bit older than you guys, but SEX DWARF by Soft Cell was pretty shocking, especially the video.
I was 8 or 9 when my dad bought Son of Schmilsson and I heard 'You're Breakin' My Heart".
This was a little bit later, but when I was around 17/18 I put in YYYs Fever to Tell with my parents driving and Karen-O having an O crossed some lines, bad on my part really, ha.
My list of songs that shocked me were more about the Satanic Panic of the early 80s. I was only like 13 at the time and relatively sheltered music-wise, because i lived in a small city that had no record store and obviously this was before the internet. Also, I was too young to subscribe to the cool music magazines of the time. So I didn't know shit. When I heard Iron Maiden's The Number of The Beast, I thought I was gonna to hell for listening to it.
When I was younger AC/DC scared me. Lemmy really scared me. Shocking was 2 live crew and even how loud public enemy sounded .
I was 10 years old (in Australia) when AC/DC got big. A fundie Xian group with right woing political connections who were trying to get publicity, and they said it was the devil's music. I was expecting AC/DC to say something like "Oh no, we really don't like the devil." Instead the released Highway to Hell. that shocked me, but in a positive way!
Born in 80, with an older sister that had MTV on all the time, "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael was both shocking for the song and especially the video. Fast forward to 1991, and as a big Guns N Roses fan (Appetite had it's moments, especially Rocket Queen, but I didn't listen to that song much) and I got Use Your Illusion II first before I and two songs on there truly shocked me "Get in the Ring" and the even more insane "My World". After those two songs, the only time I can even remember being even more shocked was hearing a song called "Harder" on the radio (artist I don't remember) that had lyrics like "F*ck me harder" repeated a lot. And most of that shock was the fact it was on the radio.
Bring on the nubiles by the stranglers.
Belsen was a gas by the sex pistols
Careful with that axe Eugene by Floyd
All of them shocked me in a bad arse way
“I Touch Myself” by Divinyls was pretty shocking for me.
"Bobby Brown Goes Down," by Frank Zappa.
The closest I can recall to having this kind of experience as a young listener was with "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel, a song released in my infancy and part of the cultural decor of my childhood, when my older cousins insisted that the "cupcakes" in the lyrics was a euphemism for elements of the female subject's anatomy. I was largely naive, or innocent, as a child, and the strong innuendo of such hits as "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band and "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward went completely over my head when they were new.
Regarding Ring My Bell, there's a great line in "F*ck Me in the Ass if You Love Jesus" by Garfunkel & Oates -- "Be careful not to touch Satan's doorbell."
In middle school, our music teacher asked us to bring in a record of a band we like. This was the 80s and I was a big Who fan. I brought in a 45 of "You better, You bet," and the teacher played it for the class, but turned it way down for the "You work on me with open arms and open legs" line. I'm not sure if I understood why at that age.
Pretty sure it's "You welcome me," not "You work on me." Still not exactly middle school material, though...
@danaaronmusic And 40 years later I learn the correct lyrics
I remember hearing Eminem's Stan when it first came out when I was 9. Both the song and the music video left me shocked because even at a young age I knew the song was very dark and disturbing. The music video made the song a lot more shocking.
Misfits - Last Caress
Think I'm a couple of years younger than you guys, I didn't really get into anything outside of mainstream top 40 radio until I was about 15 but other than the ones you mentioned, I feel like Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine is a song I've just known since I was maybe 10 or 11. Around that age, kids sometimes brought tapes/cds to class and listened to them during lunch hour and I'm pretty sure that song was among them. Also 9 teen 90 nine and other tracks by Limp Bizkit, Bloodhound Gang Fire Water Burn, Enema Of The State was a big album by Blink 182 and had some explicit stuff on it I think. Also she Hates Me by Puddle Of Mudd but I think I was 15 when that came out so maybe it wasn't that shocking by then
Wish I was born in the mid 80s 😂
Anything by The Sex Pistols basically. I didn’t understand really but my parents turning the tv off when they came on said all I needed to know!
'permafrost' - magazine
Only one I can think of was Kim by Eminem.
13 year old Jeff was shocked by Sex (I’m A) by Berlin.
▪︎ Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Marilyn Manson
▪︎ Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
▪︎ Children Of The Grave - Ozzy Osbourne
▪︎ Warriors Of The World - Manowar
▪︎ One - Metallica
My list all-over-place time wise because it was the beginning of Internet era (for me).
How is One shocking if I may ask
@claytonkelley4921 Oh, the original video clip for One was pretty intense.
@@Chadner ooo never saw :o
2 Live Crew
My first time listening to cannibal corpse I was pretty shocked at what they were saying
Down By The Water by PJ Harvey.
I wasn't exactly shocked by any music I listened to, when I was younger. I'm 50 and when I was 10, I fell in love with Play Guitar by John Mellencamp, because of a fine little word which has four letters which rhymes with spit. It is from the album Uh-huh and I got in trouble for it, at my boarding school and my parents didn't do a thing, even though the cassette was taped shut when I went home for the weekend. I got the tape out of my suitcase just in time before my mom or dad would get a chance to open it and take out my clothes and anything else that would be hiding in there, like a taped shut cassette of a song with a bad word on it. Like I said, I went to a boarding school out of town and I was in the residence with kids who weren't even in their teens yet and some is young as six and I had a love for music which had bad language in the lyrics and of course, hard rock and heavy metal back in the 1980s was feared, even in Canada.
Ain’t no sunshine by Bill Withers - the second verse where he repeats “I know” over and over again. I was probably 12 and I was just stunned that he would do that for a whole verse. I’d never heard anything like it before and it blew my mind!
It wasn’t really a song that shocked me at first, but rather the inner album “gatefold” of Aladdin Sane by David Bowie. I was 13/14 when I saw that, some friend’s older brother had it, and I remember my friends and I couldn’t figure out how he/it had no genitalia at all…that’s how innocent and naive we were! This was in 73/74, and way before any concept of photoshop or anything. To us, that just made Bowie all the stranger and more out there, and made us think all his songs were just so much cooler. It made trying to figure out what Jean Genie or Watch That Man really meant. It set him apart as a unique rock star…maybe he was an alien! Been into him ever since…and still think your take on the Bowie catalogue is the best thing this channel has ever done! Fantastic! Cheers, JPE
The Diamond Dogs cover is one of the most unsettling images in Rock n Roll as well.
What a GREAT topic, guys😂
I'll throw my hat in the ring and offer up a couple which authentically "shocked" me...
"Sex ( I'm a)" Berlin 1983
"Head". "darling Nikki" Prince 1982, 1984
"Don't try suicide" Queen 1980
"Where eagles dare".Misfits 1982??
"Love to love you baby" Donna Summer 1974??
"Centerfold" J Geils Band '82
"C'mon Eileen" dexys midnight runners '83
“I Feel Love” DSummer she sure made you believe she felt it. “Want your Sex” bold at the time. When you heard Bowie’s “Candidate” for no profanity it was OBSCENE
When I was in Primary school we couldn't mention Like A Virgin (Madonna) or Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Then in Middle School it was We CAll It Acieed (D Mob) and I Want Your Sex (George Michael).
The only song that ever "shocked" me was "D.O.A." by Bloodrock. That song came out when I was 10 years old, and actually gave me nightmares. How this ever got played on AM radio is beyond me. A close second is "Timothy" by The Buoys, but only after a classmate in school told me what the song was about.
Yeah, that one’s pretty scary! I only discovered it last year, but I can imagine how you felt listening to it as a kid. 😄
We listened to that in 6th grade and the teachers made us turn it off. Very creepy
Hi guys
M.Manson, cryptorchild and most of that killer album
Guns n roses, Get in the ring
some songs that were a litttle shocking was ted nugents " wang dang sweet poontang", the who "who are you " with the album version with the f bomb, black sabbath's 'after forever " talking about hanging the pope, ac/dc "whole lotta rosie, the stones " bitch , brown sugar, and my poor dad hated the ac/dc song problem child"and the classic 60s song "young girl" by gary puckett and the union gap, i still hear it and question am i reading to much into this lol!! cheers🐯
Great examples, bengal. My mom wasn't too happy when I was singing "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" out in public. lol 💜🎶🎶
bit older than you guys, but relax was interesting. Ah also Madness, house of fun, about buying condoms.
This isn't that shocking, but in 2008 I was 9, "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon was massive in Australia and was a No. 1 song. I heard it on the radio all the time - Only by the Night was actually the first album I ever bought, on iTunes lol - and I couldn't believe a song that had "Sex" in the title was getting radio play. My parents didn't seem to care or they didn't understand what the singer was saying. I don't even know how I knew what sex was at age 9, but I didn't realise that he was referring to a woman's genitalia.
I'm older than you so for me it was Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Darling Nikki by Prince, and She Bop by Cyndi Lauper. When I got older I found out the lyrics to Greased Lightning from the movie Grease, couldn't believe that was on TV.
The original Broadway version of 'Grease' is quite raunchy, and it's remarkable how much of that element was transferred to the movie adaptation. Many look upon the film as nostalgic wholesomeness, but those lyrics to "Greased Lightning" leave little to the imagination, and were never meant for the youngsters' ears that are so regularly exposed to this musical.
I was a teenager when you were born and remember, among other things, the Dead Kennedys with 'Too Drunk To Fuck' and when they played 'Je T' aime' with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin on the radio, I always left the living room. All that moaning was so embarrassing.
"Fire" by Arthur Brown .. "My Ding-a-ling" by Chuck Berry (hilariously shocking) .. btw, where's Kramzer?
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"Darling Nikki" by Prince was pretty shocking in 1984. Btw, "Big Ten Inch Record" doesn't have Steven Tyler lyrics, it's a cover of an old blues song from 1952. ua-cam.com/video/rzptUmg97_k/v-deo.html
"Wrong Way" - yes. But don't forget radio regulars "Date Rape" & "Caress Me Down"! 😳
"Closer", "You Oughta Know" & "Kitty" for me too, haha... ("So THAT'S why TPOTUSA didn't make it past the Dad censor..." I definitely didn't expect it from the band behind "Lump" & "Peaches"!)
And, lord almighty... my friends and I had a private listening of Adam Sandler's What the Hell Happened to Me? after hearing "Ode to My Car" on the radio... That was... ear-opening to say the least! 😬 (As far as songs go, I remember "Steve Polychronopolous" in particular... it may well have been the first time I'd ever heard the mf-word!)
A few more off the top of my head - Michael Jackson dropping an f-bomb in "Scream", the uncensored version of Lo Fidelity Allstars ft. Pigeonhed's "Battle Flag" (which I somehow wasn't expecting...) - and finding out there's an f-bomb in the chorus of EMF's "Unbelievable"?? (Although that one still sounds somewhat obscured to my ears...)
And shout out to Limp Bizkit's "Faith" - which I happened to catch the radio debut of...
"Hmm, what's thi- 'FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAITH!!!'" 😢- and then later, "GET THE F--- UP!!!" 😱 - And whatever the heck Fred is doing for the last 15 seconds of the song, haha...
Good times! 😆
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Anthrax - Starting up a posse on Attack of the killer B's
My brother played this album all the time. As 7 year old i thought the moaning and barrage of curse words was making me feel scared😅
Surely the all time winner had to be this. played for 8 year olds every 5 minutes at a roller skating rink, a 1980s classic that you didn't think about until years later and went oh *(& that's what it meant.
Hey Mickey
You've been around all night and that's a little long
You think you've got the right, but I think you've got it wrong
Why can't you say goodnight? So you can take me home Mickey?
'Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't
You're givin' me the chills, baby, please, baby don't
Every night you still leave me alone Mickey
Oh Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand
You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand
Oh Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand
It's guys like you, Mickey
Oh what you do Mickey, do Mickey
Don't break my heart, Mickey
"Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown circa 1968. Absolutely frightening then and even now.
Nothing has ever shocked me in music. At least not lyrically.
I can't say that I find it particularly ethical to include real sex noises in songs (which were recorded by the artists themselves)
like both Frank Zappa and Axl Rose did, but apart from that, there's nothing that anyone can sing or say in a song that I find offensive or too much.
As much as I love Led Zepp, I won't play their records in my apartment because I don't want my neighbours to think I'm having an orgasm, or lots of organsms, while listening to 70s radio. (Really you guys, just sing the fucken song!)
I recall being in a parochial grade school in the '70s and our music teacher allowed us to request popular music and play it during class, we thought she was so cool. A popular song at that time was Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music, which I thought at the time was Play That Fucking Music. Then a kid wanted to play Hall and Oates' Rich Girl and the teacher wouldn't because "bitch" was in the lyrics and I was like 'what the hell, we've just played a song with the F word in the title five classes in a row.
I am showing my age, but, when I heard Some Girls the first time, I was shocked. Same with Play it All Night Long, by Warren Zevon.
I remember when Pablo Honey by Radiohead came out, was all excited at the music store to see advertised on the cd box an extra *special version of the song “Creep” was on there … only to be dismayed, once I brought it home and found out there was a clean version and a version that used the f word 😢 so disappointing lol .. and I was a teen by this point not a kid. So perhaps a little naive of me to expect something special there 😂
Big Dumb Sex by Soundgarden and Dina Moe Hum by Frank Zappa
In my late 50s I'm much more shocked by things I didn't notice as a kid. Get Down by Gilnert O'Sullivan was always written off as "uncool" because his name referenced Gilbert & Sullivan who were uncool old guys. The song of course is "You been a bad dog baby, but I still want you around, get down get down etc". I understand that differently nowadays, though I still don't approve of the sentiment. (Of course, there were times I would've approved -- as a man - i.e. an idiot.)
Neil Young's song White Line shocked me recently, as I remember it from '89 (written in '74). It's such a beautiful love song, with an obvious drugs reference, but when a You Tube commenter recently said it was using cocain as a metaphor for love, I realised that in fact it was using love as a metaphor for cocaine. And beautifully!
Also from Neil, I was shocked when I discovered the true meaning of Long May You Run. "It was back in Blind River in 1962/ When I last saw you alive/ Rollin' down that empty ocean road/ Gettin to the surf on time..." That lyric still brings a tear to the eye, having lived by the ocean and missing it dearly..... But it's not about a woman, but about a car. (!!!!) (And anyone who's lost a beloved object can identify with the grief, but would never be able to talk about it. But Neil found a way.)
Okay, and also from Neil.... At age 5 I heard Only Love Can Break Your Heart, and *thought* it contained the line "I have a friend I've never seen/ He hides his head inside a tree". And I thought, wow, that's how to write a song! If a kid hides his head inside a tree of course he needs a friend! Ten years later when I bought the LP as a teenager (in 1979), I found out the truth --- "He hides his head inside a dream."
Any song with some kind of sexual moaning (Hungry Like the Wolf, Rocket Queen, even freaking Big Love by Fleetwood Mac) was an immediate turn-the-dial moment in our household. One time my very Catholic Mom came banging on my bedroom door while U2's Gloria was playing. She thought the Latin lyrics sounded satanic. She was chastened when I explained those lyrics translated to "Glory to God in the Highest." 😂
Time travel 100 years back to the Mississippi Delta, and you'll hear some WAP-level lyrics. Don't worry, the Puritans continue to keep us safe.
Parents didnt enforce any rules around music growing up. However, I was always amazed at how overtly sexual Prince was at an early age and it almost took it too far sometimes. Obviously now, I love him and everything he did. I think it started when I heard Jack U Off
'Country death song' - Violent Femmes
Killing in the name of, my mum did not like us listening to it haha
Marianne Faithfull, why dya do it
I was really into gangsta rap of all kinds when I was in middle school, so you can imagine. The more underground guys were especially shocking.
for your era, I would think Killing in the Name by RATM would elicit a raised eyebrow or two from parents... not sure how they played that on MTV back in the day...
Miss Europa Disco Dancer - Manic Street Preachers from 2001. Last minute of the song is just Nicky wire singing ‘brain dead motherf*ckers’ over the beat ad infinitum and to this young listener at the time it definitely seemed like the naughtiest song ever.
Showing my age here but "Jungle Fever" by The Chukachas.
You two nerds are adorable!!
Millie Jackson has entered the chat.
She’s a freak alright
Once Upon A Cross - Deicide 🎸
Hearing *_IIIII---AMMM---IIIRONNN---MAAAAANNNN!!_* was quite shocking back in day ,thus even more shocking back in 1970.
The only song lyric I can recall shocking me when I was young was the call and response chant by Country Joe and the Fish from Woodstock. The Give me and F... I do remember my parents trying to shelter me from Alice Cooper, but I can't point to any particular song lyric they were referencing -- just the whole "Alice thing" -- as my mother called it. Lyrics weren't so explicitly shocking when I was a kid.
Yeah KISS, AC/DC, Aerosmith, all at one time made my parents or grandmother say "what did he just say? " songs like She's got Balls, she's got the Jack, Big balls, Motley Crue with their silly upside down pentagram album cover...(boo scary in the satanic panic 80's) and later on in high school Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Slayer, maybe Marilyn Manson at MTV awards looking like an anti-christ Hitler, that was good shocking fun of the late 90's oh and Come to daddy - Aphex Twin that one still freaks me out in a good way
Hearing Cannibal Corpse in the early 90’s as a young teen was a bit shocking. The lyrics and album art were even worse though.
My mom was pretty strict about the music I could listen to. A couple songs I remember were Goodbye Earl” or “Sin Wagon” by The Chicks. They wern’t “ explicit” but the murder/revenge story of the former and the racey themes of the latter were enough to draw the ire of my mom. Both songs were an immediate dial turn on the radio or skip on the album.
I'm a boomer so the one that shocked me was Led Zeppelin II. My brother bought the album when it came out; he was 13 and I was 11 and the first time he played it I knew we were in for trouble. Whole Lotta Love was bad enough with "I'm going to give you every inch of my love" and Plant's orgasmic wailing, but the biggest offender and the one that set my parents off was The Lemon Song and "the way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed" again with the orgasmic emphasis on the last word. Zeppelin had to be kept under wraps in my house for a long time.
Around the same time there was a speaker, I forget his name, making the rounds of the schools and giving lectures on how rock music was corrupting the morals of gullible adolescents. He wrote a book, "Rock and Roll the Devil's Diversion" which made its' way into our household. I read it and that shocked me as it made the assertion that many of the seemingly innocent tunes and artists that I was listening to were subliminally channeling me to Satanism, sexual perversion and drug addiction. Of course, it was speculative and very biased hooey, but rather than turning me off to rock music, it made me listen more critically to find out where i was being led off the moral high ground and dropped into the abyss of degeneration. I don't remember the exact particulars of the artists and songs in this guy's "analysis" except that the Doors and Jim Morrison had a big target on their backs in the book. Also, I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells got a lot of criticism for some rather innocuous teenage sexuality. This was before the Raspberries which I remember my mom not much liking for extortions of please, go all the way and tonight's the night. I wasn't shocked, but it may it hard to live with her at the time.
I've got to add another, though I was hardly a kid at the time being 21 and a college senior, but the lead track on the Pretenders outstanding debut album Precious was a shock. I had heard subliminal (and some not so subliminal) f-bombs drop in many tunes before, but never with the upfront force and vigor as when Chrissie declares "But not me baby, I'm too precious. I've got to f**k off!" Wow. Because of the widespread popularity of the album and that track, it seemed that everybody had bought it, you would hear Chrissie's declaration all over campus. Fortunately, I was living in an off-campus apartment and not at home. My parents would definitely not like that one.
I was born in 1965 and I remember hearing Walk on the Wild Side with my parents in the car, uncomfortable to say the least. I got A Night at the Opera when I was 10, and the line in Death on Two Legs("now you can kiss...my ass good bye) was pretty shocking . The video for "sex" by Berlin was pretty shocking, as was hearing some Donna Summer in the car when I was with my parents. Two songs that I still find pretty shocking are Why D'Ya Do It by Marianne Faithful and the opening line to "Guts" by John Cale("The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife,did it quick and split") Of course "Some Girls" by the Stones could never be played on the radio today
I'm going with an album - Double Live Gonzo by Ted Nugent. A few titulating dialouges with the crowd, particularly before the "love song" (dedicated to Nashville's finest) Wang Dang Sweet Poontang. Also the spiritual revival Yank Me Crank Me.
I grew up during the “backwards mask” era. If you played Stairway backwards it’s about Satan. Being religious at the time, it scared me.
My parents were not super strict when it came to lyrics, I usually censored stuff more on my own without them really having to haha.
"You Oughta Know" would have been one for me as well. I had the tape and I was always careful about when I played that song, sometimes fast forwarding through the more risque part depending on who was around.
Marilyn Manson was an artist that seemed super shocking when he first came out when I was 10-11 so I avoided him.
This wasn't so much the song itself but I had the first part of the title of An Ode to No One covered by a little piece of paper on my Mellon Collie tape for a long time.
Also, there was that "Short Dick Man" song by 20 Fingers feat. Gillette that I remember giggling about with my friends at school. Seemed so scandalous at the time.
Wtf. I always thought this song is about short men.😂 but it is about small wieners???😂. Thanks for explaining.
JC Penney's, in the shopping mall, would play IN THE BUSH by Musique when I was a kid and it drove my mother crazy.
It's gotta be "Dance with the Devil" by Immortal Technique. Shocked me as a senior in college
Meanwhile, back in the early 80's: Big Balls by AC/DC, Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa, Darlin' Nikki by Prince
By the '90's, there really wasn't anything that was shocking anymore, but being a bit older than you guys, I remember some things from the early '70's (songs with cursing, etc.) that seemed shocking at the time. A couple I remember being surprised by were Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw? by Jimmy Buffett and You're Breaking My Heart by Nilsson, maybe because they were so different from what was expected from those artists. The earliest one I remember was All Right Now by Free, which was most shocking because it was a radio hit, but we later found out they weren't saying what we thought they were.
Bad habit by the offspring was brought up alot,when I was in middle school,but closer was definitely the first one to shock me,other than 2 love crew..I grew up in south Florida
The early 70’s novelty record ‘Stickball. A Bit of Nostalgia’ by P. Vert
Josie’s Past by Xiu Xiu is a song that would terrify anybody at any age. It’s really messed up.
Just about everything I was into as a teen I am still into. But it sounds like you guys sort of outgrew a lot of the stuff you listened to as teens.
Though I was already into Hard Rock and Prog since a couple of years, three songs shocked me in 1977, and they are still among my all time favourite:
- Sex Pistols: "Anarchy in the UK" (Spring)
- King Crimson: "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Summer)
- Van Der Graaf Generator: "A Pleague of Lighthouse Keepers" (Fall)
Sir Mix-A-Lot : Baby Got Back 😳
Greetings from Leipzig/germany.
I still haven't gotten over the rough familiarity implied in "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
You should try AC/DC's first single 'Can I Sit Next to You Girl' !!!