# Help me make a playlist. Misogynist Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667 "2012-06-19T18:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/81 "2012-06-21T14:33:04Z")
10cc’s, I’m Not In Love ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/82 "2012-06-21T15:26:26Z")
The Afghan Whigs, Gentleman. Just throw that on, and you’ll be fine. _This must be what jail is really like…_ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/83 "2012-06-21T17:57:44Z")
Nobody seems to have mentioned the classic _I’ve Got No Use for the Women_; I like the Burl Ives version but Marty Robbins seems to have done it too. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/84 "2012-06-21T18:02:08Z")
[She’s Not There](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdrDu9nq7Q) - The Zombies ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/85 "2012-06-21T18:19:26Z")
[Get Out (Take Your Mother With You)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X13rOPLzasY) - Airship [I Don’t Care Anymore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PNc9KN50M) - Phil Collins [Forget Her](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCI3rfxTIM) - Jeff Buckley [I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiNr1bctzw) - Tim Buckley [Everything She Wants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYOpHp-bX0) - Wham ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/86 "2012-06-21T18:24:27Z")
> [@Yaxche](#): > > The Afghan Whigs, Gentleman. > > Just throw that on, and you’ll be fine. > > _This must be what jail is really like…_ Ha, good one. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/87 "2012-06-21T18:41:32Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > That’s not about a woman - the woman is a metaphor for US encroachment into other countries… False, unless you only subscribe to John Lennon’s view on the meaning of lyrics: > [@](#): > > Jim Kale, the group’s bassist and the song’s co-author, explained his take on the lyrics: “ The popular misconception was that it was a chauvinistic tune, which was anything but the case. The fact was, we came from a very strait-laced, conservative, laid-back country, and all of a sudden, there we were in Chicago, Detroit, New York — all these horrendously large places with their big city problems. After that one particularly grinding tour, it was just a real treat to go home and see the girls we had grown up with. Also, the war was going on, and that was terribly unpopular. We didn’t have a draft system in Canada, and we were grateful for that. A lot of people called it anti-American, but it wasn’t really. We weren’t anti-anything. John Lennon once said that the meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American\_Woman\_(song)#Interpretations\_of\_the\_lyrics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Woman_%28song%29#Interpretations_of_the_lyrics) As for my contribution to the playlist, I give you [The Cure - Shiver and Shake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96yNiNu5xE0) \*“You’re just a waste of time You’re just a babbling face You’re just three sick holes that run like sores You’re a fucking waste” :eek: \* ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/88 "2012-06-21T18:46:37Z")
Marshall Tucker’s “Can’t You See” shows how far a guy will go to get away from a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/89 "2012-06-21T18:52:51Z")
Tom Lehrer: - She’s My Girl - I Hold Your Hand In Mine There’s a song that has a really bouncy tune, and the refrain is something like “if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life” (and goes on to say never marry a pretty woman because she’s going to cheat on you). Ruby (don’t take your love to town) You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse) Rumor Has It (Adele? starts out with her stealing the fellow from another girl - then dumping him). ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/90 "2012-06-21T19:25:23Z")
[Alex Chilton/Big Star- S.L.U.T.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NieaB-5Zy10) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/91 "2012-06-21T23:30:31Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > There’s a song that has a really bouncy tune, and the refrain is something like “if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life” (and goes on to say never marry a pretty woman because she’s going to cheat on you). [This one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk) Tom Petty’s [You Got Lucky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTAhZKP5wCY)? I don’t recall seeing it mentioned before. ETA: Tom Petty’s [Don’t Do Me Like That](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1aU1wbFSTs) may also qualify. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/92 "2012-06-22T01:20:10Z")
How about Todd Rundgren’s “We gotta get you a woman”? He seemed rather dismissive of women other than as sex objects. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/93 "2012-06-22T07:17:30Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Marshall Tucker’s “Can’t You See” shows how far a guy will go to get away from a woman. Oh, speaking of Marshall Tucker Band, [This Old Cowboy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHq87F2fS-s) is perfect for what the OP describes. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/94 "2012-06-22T07:51:55Z")
Outkast Hey Ya and especially Roses Meatloaf Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad Green Day Good Riddance Emenem Love The Way You Lie Teddy Pendergrass I Don’t Love You Anymore ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/95 "2012-06-22T09:09:44Z")
[‘On Again’ – Jake Thackray.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSezwugtd8) Funny, too. _Please understand I respect and admire the frailer sex And I honor them every bit as much as the next Misogynist_ ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/96 "2012-06-22T10:22:56Z")
Wives and Lovers (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rqaRfsNfg%5B/url) by Jack Jones) The lyrics are amazingly dated in their blithe acceptance that husbands will stray: _Day after day There are girls at the office And men will always be men Don’t send him off with your hair still in curlers You may not see him again_ ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/97 "2012-06-22T11:02:55Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > There’s a song that has a really bouncy tune, and the refrain is something like “if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life” (and goes on to say never marry a pretty woman because she’s going to cheat on you). I was going to mention that one too, but **lost4life** beat us both to it in post #23. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/98 "2012-06-22T11:18:05Z")
Golden Earring’s [Long Blond Animal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3n7QwEbRwc). Hard to go wrong with lyrics like “You might be a good looking lady, but you’re rotten to the core. You’re all fucked up.” Helped me through my divorce at least. Helped that she is blonde and she liked the song. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/99 "2012-06-22T13:19:15Z")
Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More”. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/100 "2012-06-22T15:13:59Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > [Alex Chilton/Big Star- S.L.U.T.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NieaB-5Zy10) > [@medstar](#): > > How about Todd Rundgren’s “We gotta get you a woman”? He seemed rather dismissive of women other than as sex objects. Actually [S.L.U.T. was by Todd as well.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6swdNHDZ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player) I’ve never heard the Big Star cover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667.md?page=6)