There were a lot of old un-PC novelty songs back in the 19th century. Going through collections of public domain sheet music on websites (I think Yale University has one), you can find a bunch of songs with un-PC titles such as When A Nigger Makes $100, 99 Of It Goes On His Back and my personal favorite, Nigger vs. Chinese.
Now look here momma, lemme explain you this.
You wanna get crooked, I’ll even give you my fist.
You might read from Revelations, back to Genesi,
You can’t forget your Southern can belongs to me.
-White Stripes, “Your Southern Can Belongs to Me.”
Have a look at the lyrics to “If That Ain’t Country” by David Allen Coe!
I saw the end of that coming, and it still freaked me right the hell out. The blood running down the car door was a nice touch.
Quite a few songs by Stephen Lynch.
“Special Olympics” stands out in my mind, though.
Mongoloid by Devo
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid/One chromosome too many
This isn’t going to be a short list. Sexist songs alone could fill a many page thread.
But off the top of my head, a strong contender for the title of least PC major hit by a major artist would be “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones. That the subject of the song is a possibly underage “young girl” isn’t particularly unusual for a rock song, but the narrator’s ideas on interracial sex are.
Even Mick Jagger apparently realizes the original lyrics are a bit much for today’s audiences, and when performing the song live often changes the explicit reference to female slaves being whipped. Note that within the context of the song, slave owning, slave whipping, and the slave trade in general are NOT depicted in a negative light at all, but are if anything presented as being sexy. The first two lines of the song make it very clear that the word “slave” isn’t used in the BDSM sense, but to Africans forcibly brought to the US and sold to labor in the cotton fields.
Anyone familiar with M.O.D.?
Off of USA for M.O.D. (or was it M.O.D. for USA? I forget) we have a track with this chorus:
I’m gonna spoiler em. they are pretty bad.
USA for Africa, what a fucking scam. Let the n****rs die so i can breath their air.
And one with this chorus:
Anally inflicted death sentence, A-I-D-S! That’s what you get for having a penis up your ass.
I like Chinese
I like Chinese
They only come up to your knees…
They’re cute
They’re cuddly
They’re ready to please…
I love Spike Jones. I like playing his version of the Nutcracker Suite at Christmas, but the intro to the Chinese Dance makes me cringe:
Rednecks - Randy Newman
Pretty much any song that my friends’ band (retards)have done. Song titles include ‘Chinese Girl In My Trunk’ and ‘Under 16 Whores’. Oh dear.
Tons of Frank Zappa: “Bobby Brown Goes Down”, “Jewish Princess”, “Jumbo Go Away”–where do I stop?
“The Subject Was Faggots”, Gil Scott Heron
“One In A Million”, Guns and Roses
Really? We’ve made it this far without Patti Smith’s “Rock’n Roll Nigger”? There’s also a Marilyn Manson cover of it.
In fact, I’d like to submit: just about anything from Marilyn Manson’s Portrait of an American Family, Smells Like Children, or Antichrist Superstar albums.
There’s also Ween’s “The AIDS Song” and “Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)”.
(The) Sweet, a 70’s band adored by legions of teeny-bopper girls, had their way of teaching the target audience.
‘Sweet F.A.’ begins with the line: “Well, it’s Friday night and I need a fight, if she don’t spread I’m gonna bust her head”, while ‘Someone Else Will’ has a catchy chorus going: “If you don’t go down on me, someone else will”. And there’s plenty more where these came from.
I’d say that “Rock and Roll Part 2” has become non-PC since Gary Glitter’s child-sex conviction. Not because of it’s content (it’s an instrumental, after all). But since Glitter’s conviction, the NFL has requested that teams no longer play it in the stadiums and other professional teams and some college teams no longer play it.
Put Another Log on the Fire
Put another log on the fire
Cook me up some bacon and some beans
And go out to the car and change the tire
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on baby,
Fill my pipe and then go fetch my slippers
And boil me up another pot of tea
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you’re leaving me…
–Shel Silverstein
My father is a just a bit overprotective of his copy of the original non PC version. The one they did get in trouble for.
Mint condition vinyl, VG album cover. With an original Walt Kelly sketch scotch taped to the top – which is why it’s only Very Good.
Lately, because of the economic downturn, he has been threatening to “figure out ebay.”
Someone wanna lend me a couple bucks to pacify the old coot?
double post
More or less anything GWAR’s ever done would fit, I expect, but that’s their schtick.