Today April 16, 2011 is apparently “Buy a vinyl record day” and record stores are having various promotions. To commemorate this day I’d like to do “Thirty years of lyrically expending the envelope” or “Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder”. I self-censor a couple of times because even I have my limits of what does over the air waves.
“Now whip out your Big Ten Inch” (unknown group 1951?)
“Honey don’t you cheat. Give me all your meat” Hank Ballard 1953
“- - where the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the cops have wooden legs” Berle Ives – (unknown year)
“He comes out of the kitchen with a Knife in his hand” Smokey Joes Café 1956
“I can hear you sighing even though I know you’re lying” Elvis Presley 1956
“Number 47 said to number 3 - - You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see - - I sure would be delighted with your pumping me - - come on and do the jail house rock with me” Elvis Presley 1957
“When You Up Me Down the Alley” -Lady Bug 1958
“You say you’re going to make me” Cherells 1960
"She thinks her advice is the Constitution, but if she would leave that would be the solution" -Ernie Kato 1961
“I got a girl named Rama-lama-ding-dong” The Edsels 1961
“See the girl with the red dress on - - She knows how to do it all night long” -Tony Sheridon 1962
“Come on and squeeze me baby - - come on and tease me baby – come on and drive me crazy” -Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp 1962
“Do the Loco-motion” -Little Eva 1962
“To speak of Peace and Brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? One man tried to do it and they hung him on the Cross”
“One man died of a broken heart to see the lynching of his son. Long ago - - far away – things like that don’t happen now days, do they?” -Bob Dylan 1962
“- - fearing not I’ve become my enemy in the instant that I preach” -Bob Dylan 1964
“Playing her half-assed games” –Rolling Stones 1964
“Jack off! - - Jack off!- - “ Wooly Bully 1965
“Then she comes in my room. There she makes me feel all-right” Them 1965
“I’m doing this and signing that and trying to make some girl” –Rolling Stones 1965
“God said to Abraham – kill me a son. Abe said you must be putting me on. God said “What?” Abe said “Woah- - !” God said you can do whatever you want but the next time you see me you better run. Abe said where do you want this killing done and God said out there on Highway 61” -Bob Dylan 1965
“- - so just before he tries it- -girl, you better realize- - “ “Let Him Run Wild” Beach Boys 1965
“Look at how her boyfriend balls her” “She’s not the little girl I once knew” Beach Boys 1965
“What makes you think he will haunt you? You can go back to him any time you want to” Bob Dylan 1965
“She’s a muscular boy” Herman’s Hermits 1965
“Well you tell me that you’re not nostalgic. Then give me another word for it. You were always so good with words, and at keeping things vague” Joan Baez
“You just did what you were supposed to do” Bob Dylan 1966
“The nights I’ve spent with you have been fantastic trips” Jefferson Airplane (pre Grace Slick 1966)
“They stone you when you’re trying to make a fuck. They stone you and then they say Good Luck” Bob Dylan 1966
“Heroin” Velvet Underground 1966
“They’re coming to take me away” Nepolian XIV 1966
“Baby what you’re holding- - half of that belongs to me. ‘Cause I’m a real straight shooter – if you know what I mean” Mamas & Papas 1966
“Turn off you mind relax and float down-stream” The Beatles 1966
“Electrical banana is going to be a sudden craze. Electrical banana is bound to be the very next phase” –Donavin 1966
“Take the Highway to the end of the Dawn” -Jim Morrison 1967
“Father” “Yes son” “I want to kill you” “Mother- - I Want To - - “ Jim Morrison 1967
“I’ve prepared a document leagelizing mass abortions. We will turn a blind eye to infanticide” David Bowie 1967
“She enlisted and passed the physical – Don’t even ask me how” David Bowie 1967
“I’d cut him if he stands and I’d shoot him if he’d run” The Pusher 1967
"And lately when I love you I know that you're not Satisfied" -Union Gap 1967
“Well blow me baby! - - Blow me all night long” Blue Cheer 1968
“Bounce your boobies” “And just where they (men) should stick out- - pfpfpft - - Where Is It?” –Rusty Warren (unsure of year)
“I Don’t really see- - why we can’t go on as three” Jefferson Airplane 1968
“I can see that you’re just fifteen years old. But I don’t want your ID” -Rolling Stones 1968
“I do my balling in the bathroom” David Peale & the lower east side (turn of year 1969)
“Squeeze my lemon - - till the juice runs down my leg” Led Zeppelin 1969
“You can not petition the lord with prayer!” The Doors 1969
“- - and he’s a small headed man. And he doesn’t know how to deal (drugs) for you and me” Jefferson Airplane 1969
“Jam up and Jelly tight” The Archies (?) 1969
“My name is Lucifer; please take my hand” Black Sabbath early 1970
“I’d rather be with all the mad men- -then perish with all the sad men roaming free” David Bowie 1970
“A plague seems quite reasonable- - - or maybe a War- - or I may kill you all” David Bowie 1970
“Would you like to see the Pope at the end of a rope? Do you think he’s a fool?” Black Sabbath 1971
“Satan’s burning Trash” Blue Oyster Cult 1972
“A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest- - and a queer threw up at the sight of that” David Bowie 1972
“There may not be much difference- - between Manson and the Pope (Pope Paul VI) – if you press their smiles”
“There’s no difference! - - - Fuck the difference!” Yoco Ono 1972
“You’re squirming wet baby – just waiting for the juice to flow” Alice Cooper 1972
“Those of you who will not sing- - you must be playing with your own dingaling” Chuck Berry 1972
THESE LYRICS ARE SELF-SENSORED Blue Oyeter Cult 1973
“While others mourn your silly grave- - I have other uses for you, darling” Alice Cooper 1973
“Bandages come off today, I’m really feeling sick. The hardest part’s explaining all these blisters on my - - “ Alice Cooper 1973
“The march of the ferry-fellows” Queen 1974
THESE LYRICS ARE SELF-SENSORED “We Are the Dead”
“Well my daddy he disowned me ‘cause I wear my sister’s clothes. He caught me in the bathroom with a pair of panty hose”
“Get your little fanny perpendiculat” “What are you going to do, you pervert?” Cheech and Chong 1974
“Suddenly I realize these crimson spots are dripping from my hands” Alice Cooper 1975
“She’s cool- - in bed. She oughta be ‘cause Ethyl’s dead!” –Alice Cooper 1975
“In my green metal suit I’m preparing to shoot up the city” Paul McCartney 1975
“You can Stick your Golden Handshake” AC-DC 1975
"She said she'd never had a Royal Flush" -AC DC 1975
“She’s Got Balls” AC DC 1975
“AC – DC - - She’s got some other woman as well as me” The Sweet 1975
“And now you can kiss my ass good-bye!”
“Do you feel like Suicide? I think you should”
You’re a sewer rat decaying in a cess-poll of pride” Queen 1975
“It’s my belief that my big balls should be held every night”
“- - but when they’re held for Pleasure they’re the balls that I like best”
“Well I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand” Ted Nugent 1977
“My Girl’s Pussh” (unknown artist and date)
“I’m tired of this prophelactic tour” “I want to end this prophelactic tour” Spud Patrol - - DEVO 1979
“They’re frightened of the Real World” Anti-Cop song by Alice Cooper 1980
“Drug me with your crossword puzzles” -Dead Kennedies 1980
“She told me to come but I was already there”
“Wine is fine but whisky is quicker. Suicide is slow with liquor” Suicide Solution by Ozzy Osborne March 1981
“I am Emperor Ronald Reagan - - Born Again with Fascient Cravings” -Dead Kennedies 1981
“Nazi Punks - - Fuck Off!” –Dead Kennedies 1981
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