# And the Grammy for Best Use of the F-word in a Song goes to ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231 "2019-01-22T22:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/1 "2019-01-22T22:44:00Z")
Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq. [I’ve No More F\*\*\*s To Give!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0) Um, NSFW 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/2 "2019-01-22T22:53:24Z")
Not bad, but the [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BJXb8E6Zo) [is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM) [strong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxQKxm76TQ). ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/3 "2019-01-22T22:54:19Z")
The F bomb loses its impact if it gets over used. I nominate The Who’s “Who Are You” for it’s precision strike: “Who the f\*\*\* are you!?” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/4 "2019-01-22T23:01:39Z")
I’ll nominate Liz Phair’s “Chopsticks”: _He said he liked to do it backwards I said, “That’s just fine with me, That way we can fuck and watch TV.”_ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/5 "2019-01-22T23:04:20Z")
[Candy And A Currant Bun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhEtPPbuFFk) - Pink Floyd For the totally surprising, casual and literal use. That was in 1967. Pioneers of a sort, but they were anyway ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/6 "2019-01-22T23:07:28Z")
Dinosaur Jr. [Freak Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLpEX2bt8w) The rather plaintive plea at the end: > [@](#): > > Just don’t let me fuck up will you, > 'cause when I need a friend it’s still you > > What a mess Admittedly, the video I linked to somewhat undermines the poignancy of the quoted line… ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/7 "2019-01-22T23:19:59Z")
Stepchild-MYOFB (Mind Your Own Fuckin Business) Skid Row-Get the Fuck Out ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/8 "2019-01-22T23:21:14Z")
Nobody remembers [Terence and Philip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLiMWpwxXqo%22)? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/9 "2019-01-22T23:25:57Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq. > > [I’ve No More F\*\*\*s To Give!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0) > > Um, NSFW 😃 I was torn between thinking that song was lyrically very clever and thinking that guy comes across as an insufferable douchebag, hipster flavor. Forget the enormous waxed moustache. Who films their performance in front of a rack of suits? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/10 "2019-01-22T23:34:58Z")
My vote goes to Warren Zevon, for [My Shit’s Fucked Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ig-RShZ6m4). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/11 "2019-01-22T23:50:11Z")
[Is Ce Lo’s Fuck You too obvious?](https://youtu.be/CAV0XrbEwNc) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/12 "2019-01-22T23:58:41Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > The F bomb loses its impact if it gets over used. I nominate The Who’s “Who Are You” for it’s precision strike: “Who the f\*\*\* are you!?” I had just started high school when that song came out (and Keith Moon died). Whenever it came on the radio, we’d gather around just to hear That Word at the end of the song; yup, it was played uncensored back then too. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/13 "2019-01-23T00:03:10Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > [Candy And A Currant Bun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhEtPPbuFFk) - Pink Floyd > > For the totally surprising, casual and literal use. That was in 1967. Pioneers of a sort, but they were anyway Hmmm, I’d always assumed that it was please just _fork_ with me, which provides plausible deniability since they are talking about food, while merely intending to _imply_ the F bomb but apparently I’m wrong. And at any rate the song would have been pioneering in another way under its original title, _Let’s Roll Another One_. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/14 "2019-01-23T00:19:19Z")
Oh, and for an early one (at least for America, I just learned myself that Pink Floyd were the first to drop the bomb in England), there’s [Show Biz Kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDMGHiMXV4A) by Steely Dan. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/15 "2019-01-23T00:25:44Z")
Harry Nilsson’s “[You’re Breaking My Heart.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-kjUWcr7d4).” The cheery tune gives it impact. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/16 "2019-01-23T00:37:02Z")
Supersuckers “Run Like A Motherfucker” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pg0nRB1qnw) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/17 "2019-01-23T00:38:06Z")
I’d give a nod to Odds for the trolliest entry for [Wendy Under the Stars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ih_wHji0Wk), whose chorus contains the very sweetly sung “I was Fucking Wendy under the stars, the night that Elvis died”, which, by its melody and tempo, seems so innocuous that I often almost sung it to myself at work when I first heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/18 "2019-01-23T00:44:09Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:16, topic:828231”] Supersuckers “Run Like A Motherfucker” [/QUOTE] And of course, **I say Fuck**! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yOrkpVmTfao/maxresdefault.jpg "I Say Fuck") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrkpVmTfao) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/19 "2019-01-23T00:49:38Z")
_Raises devil horns in Typo Negative’s general direction_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231/20 "2019-01-23T01:00:41Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Is Ce Lo’s Fuck You too obvious?](https://youtu.be/CAV0XrbEwNc) First one that came to me, as well. That is the best of a non-gratuitous F-bomb in a song. Just gold. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-grammy-for-best-use-of-the-f-word-in-a-song-goes-to/828231.md?page=2)