Non-PC songs

Cafe Society
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I heard a story on NPR today that mentioned a guy who dressed as Superman on an airplane (because he felt like it). That reminded me of The Brothers Four song Superman. The song starts out with a ‘Swedish’ guy (‘so we won’t offend anyone’) who has a towel concession for drying off wetbacks. Yikes! They got away with that?

Then I thought of another song, Jump Jim Crow by Michelle Shocked. According to the liner notes (going by memory here), it is a tribute to minstrelsy (and is based on a 19th Century song) that aims to point out the stupidity of racism. Only without knowing the intention, it might be pretty offensive.

Any other examples?

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Well, typing <n-word> into the iTunes Store nets 150 songs or bands (“spud nigger?”), so your search may yield much.

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Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy

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“Short People” by Randy Newman.

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“In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry…“If her daddy’s rich, take her out for a thrill. If her daddy’s poor just do what you will.” Yuck

Phil

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Fat-Bottomed Girls?

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Starting Up a Posse - Anthrax

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Asshole - Denis Leary.

“Sometimes I park
In handicapped spaces
While handicapped people
Make handicapped faces”

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Three words

Stephen

stinkin’

Foster!

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Mott the Hoople - All the Way from Memphis

Some spade said “Rock’n’rollers, you’re all the same”

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Paul Anka’s “Having MY Baby”

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“Sail Away” – Randy Newman

“That’s Why Darkies Are Born” – recorded by Lol Coxhill

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Take the Pinheads Bowling, Take Them Bowling…

Takin’ Retards to the Zoo

by the Dead Milkmen? I think?

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“Have a drink, have a drive, go and see what you can find.”

Sage advice.

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“Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud, when the darkies beat their feet on the Mississippi mud!”

from “Mississippi Mud”, a popular dance tune of the twenties.

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It took this long to mention Money For Nothing by Dire Straits?

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The Crystals “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)”

Written by, get this, Gerry Coffin and Carole King (!) And produced by Phil Spector.

Sample lyrics:

He hit me and I knew he loved me

When I told him I’d been untrue
He hit me and I was glad

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– “(Goin’) Wild For You Baby” from The Glow ©1979

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Do you mean Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper van Beethoven?

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