“It Depends on What You Pay” from The Fantastiks
“All In The Name Of…” by Motley Crue is about (consensual) (statutory) rape - written when Nikki Sixx was about 29 it’s about getting hit on by a 15 year old sexpot who is definitely the agressor. I charitably assume it’s memories of being an 18 year old rock star in the LA club scene.
“Eat Me Alive” by Judas Priest is basically about some pretty wild sex but you could read it as cannibalism or rape - there’s a line “Gut-wrenching frenzy that deranges every joint, I’m going to force you at gunpoint, to eat me alive.” The liner notes for “Metal Works” had Rob Halford saying something like “We got a lot of trouble from the PMRC about that”.
And for a twist, try Slayer’s Necrophiliac.
For another twist: Gwar’s Fucking an Animal.
“Mr. Turnkey” by Zager and Evans
I really can’t fit the lyrics into a rape scenario, except for the “I’m cold and I’m ashamed, lying naked on the floor” part. The rest of it just sounds like she was in love with some guy and he changed and it’s left her adrift.
Apparently the story behind Alive is that the boy’s father wasn’t who he thought he was, and as the boy gets older he looks more and more like his true father, causing the mother to feel a growing attraction to him . . .
They have other songs about rape as well. E.g., I think “Animal” is about gang rape.
The last verse of “Deep” is pretty clearly about rape
I thought so, too. That’s what the music video seems to be, too. In fact, I think I remember reading somewhere that she said it was about a really bad breakup situation she had.
Technically it’s about stalking but the bit in Sarah McLachlan’s “Possession” where the stalker says:
Seems to qualify given the context.
How about Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got A Gun” ?
Wow. I never realized all that.
Some versions of “Mack the Knife” have references to him committing rape–“the child bride”? Though it’s not like the whole song is about it.
To add even more to it, it’s based on what actually happened to Eddie Vedder (not the incest part). His mother told him when he was a teenager that the man he thought was his father was not his biological father. He had met his father, but she did not tell him until after his father died.
cite here, quoted from a book about 1/3 of the way down.
Tamerlane’s post reminds me that there are probably a number of old bawdy songs with rape in them. “Barnacle Bill the Sailor” is another traditional one. I don’t know if any popular recordings exist.
While not about rape, Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones has the like “Rape and murder, it’s just a kiss away”
Magdalena by Frank Zappa deals with a father raping his daughter in Montreal.
Brown Sugar
It’s been speculated that that song is not about rape, except in a metaphorical way; it’s about the press intruding into the Cobains’ private lives.
Nirvana’s Polly, on the other hand, is undisputably about rape, as another poster pointed out.
More Nick Cave - The Kindness Of Strangers, and he’s also performed an alternative version of O’Malley’s Bar, with lyrics which probably were considered a bit much for the album:
And her nerdy little daughter Siobhan
Well, who we’d all had a bit of fun with
It seemed a bit unfair that she had to be there
So I thought I’d get her over and done with
Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon
Parking Lot, by Emmet Swimming.
Not that anyone but me has ever heard of them, it seems.
“A Dame With A Rod” by Juliana Hatfield