Tim Minchin - The Pope Song (a.k.a. Fuck the Motherfucker). I quote:
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And if you don’t like this swearing that this motherfucker forced from me
And reckon it shows moral or intellectual paucity
Then fuck **you *motherfucker, this is the language one employs
When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys
Anti Nowhere League - So What (couldn’t find a decent sounding version of the original, this is the Metallica cover). The whole point of the song is to be as in-your-face shocking as possible, so, yeah, wouldn’t really work bowdlerized now would it ?
I’ve always been very partial to the laser guided swearing in Alanis Morisette’s You Oughta Know, too. The passion she put in that one “fuck”… man, that girl was pissed, wasn’t she ?
Originally “profane” meant more of what “secular” means today. Anything outside the church was “profane” and that was okay, there were things profane and things sacred. Of course, vocabulary marches on, and “profane” got to mean something more like “unholy” and referred to those fun things like you mention. Even more recently (but still have a good, decades long tradition), it began to basically just mean “uncouth language” which is how we’re using it in this thread. Hell, a lot of people use “to profane” to mean “to pervert” with no regard to the religiosity of whatever it is they’re profaning (though to be fair, most people seem to be joking, implying whatever it is you’re profaning is a holy ritual in some silly way).
I always thought the climax of Michael & Janet Jackson’s ‘Scream’ - “stop fucking with me!” - was great both as a vital point of the song and as a further shedding of the wholesome-a-long-time-ago Jackson family image.
John Lennon’s Working Class Hero throws in a few well crafted “fuckings.” I especially like the whithering, “But you’re still fucking peasents as far as I can see.”
A Perfect Circle - “Judith” has some appropriately rage-filled f-bombs.
tool - “Aenima” has a nice litany of “fuck ________”
Snake River Conspiracy - “Vulcan” starts off with a screamed “FUCK!” and doesn’t let up from there.
And of course, Tenacious D - “Fuck Her Gently.”
Maybe not “laden” with profanity (I don’t know the song terribly well), but certainly uses it effectively. And satisfies the “religious aspect” requirement.
Super Furry Animals “The Man Don’t Give a Fuck” The verses are gentle and soft, and then suddenly, the chorus comes on. The chorus just repeats “You know they don’t give a fuck about anybody else” over and over. I don’t know if they use the loop live, but the original was sampled from Steely Dan.
I find some of the lyrics in rap music (if you can call it that) simply appalling. I don’t listen to rap anymore. I just turn it off as soon as it starts.
That song has always been played on the radio with the F bomb intact. I had just started high school when this song came out/Keith Moon died, and whenever it came on, we would gather around the radio to hear it, like we’d never heard that word before.
