Good morning little schoolgirl
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I go home with you
Can I go home with you
Tell your mama and your papa
I once was a schoolboy too.
“Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.” Written (I think) by Willie Dixon. Covered by many. My favorite version is by Muddy Waters.
Once we get into the realm of punk, bad taste is almost required. Of course, mostly, those songs didn’t turn into hits.
Here’s a golden oldie by a local band, Ism: John Hinckley Jr., What Has Jodie Done To You
“Timothy” is too damn catchy. I agree with the critique you provided, but the frikkin’ song is still stuck in head, decades later, anyway. I think I can even recall all the lyrics. ugh.
I heard this song on top 40 countdown over the weekend. Apparently it was #29 on the Charts on 5/27/72
Troglodyte by Jimmy Castor Bunch:
Maybe it was the origin of this line
Oh lord, another song that plays in my head whenever it gets mentioned. It did introduce us to Bertha Butt, however.
But no, “sock it to me” predated that song, having been popularized on Rowen and Martin’s Laugh-in, in the 1960’s. Seeing Nixon appear on the show during the campaign and say that phrase with a straight face was mind blowing.
Has anyone heard of the dying teenager songs of the late 50s - early 60s? The one best remembered is Tell Laura I Love Her, but there was also a semi-parody of the genre (full of safe driving tips) called Transfusion that had its own priceless lines and sound effects.
I’m-a never never gonna speed again
Slip the blood to me, bud
It hit #13 on the Billboard charts, despite many radio stations refusing to play it. One DJ who did like it was Barry Hansen, later known as Dr. Demento.
I never before realized how similar these lyrics are to the Kingston Trio song “Bad Man Blunder”:
Well early one evenin’ I was rolling around
I was feelin’ kinda mean I shot a deputy down,
Strolled along home and I went to bed
Well I laid my pistol up under my head
The melodies, however, are completely different. Link. The song by the Trio is a light, folksy tune, and the lyrics are humorous.
But what’s in “bad taste” about that song? It’s rebellious, but nothing I would call “bad taste.” It’s critical, it’s pointed, it’s sarcastic, but “bad taste?” Come on.
Yeah, really, that is so obvious. I’m more shocked that anyone would be shocked. Even 50 years later.
Ah, the golden era of rock star lifestyles, yes… the reason many a guitar or drumkit was bought and practiced on 
In the early 1990s, The La’s had a college hit with a song called “There She Goes”, which is often interpreted as being about heroin. A decade later, it was covered by (and was a hit for) Sixpence None The Richer. Hmmmmm.
As teenagers, my friends and I sang “Surf City” as “…two guys for every girl…” for the same reason the Beach Boys most likely did.
A lot of people think that the song, “Short People” is offensive, although it was never intended to be about what most people thought it was about. I recently watched a video in which the hosts trashed the song because they thought that the lyrics were meant to be literal. Unfortunately, too many people have either forgotten about or never learned about things like satire and irony : Randy Newman - Short People (Official Video) - YouTube
How about this charming ditty, then?
“Belsen was a gas I heard the other day
In the open graves where the Jews all lay”
I’m not sure if that was a hit.
Just now, really listening to it for the first time, I realize it isn’t about a Cuba Libre cocktail. The two drinks rum and Coca-Cola are symbolic for the two nations of the song. The song is about the impact of an influx of American servicemen on local society.
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
I refer to it as “The Creepy Stalker Song”. The whole thing is sung from the perspective of a Peeping Tom, looking at a girl through the window as she is undressing, and fantasizing about her. It doubles my irritation with it when I then get it stuck in my head for days because it is also catchy.
Bodiesis also quite charming and cozy.
Yeah, that’s the one that popped into my mind as a counter example after I wrote my post but, again, not a hit and hardly “every song written by the Sex Pistols.”
Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver, by Primus, reached number 12 on Billboard’s alternative rock chart. Does that count as a hit?
Though Is doesn’t bother me (heck, I quite like it), I’ve heard many people express distaste of The Toadies’ Possum Kingdom. Sure it’s dark, but I wouldn’t say tasteless.
Almost everything on Bloodhound Gang’s “One Fierce Beer Coaster” is in bad taste.
Kiss Me Where it Smells Funny and Lift Your Head up High (and blow your brains out) spring to mind.
Catchy as hell, but i wouldn’t want to have it playing with my mother in the car.
Neil Sedanka’s “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen”
But since you’ve grown up
Your future is sewn up
From now on you’re gonna be mine.