Classic songs that might be seen today as an "Oooooow"

You all do realize that if y'all start listing rock, or even pop songs with what were then questionable lyrics, but looked at now with 20/20 hindsight.
This thread could potentially be 5000 pages long. Just saying!
Just off the top of my head...
Boy Named Sue
Stray Cat Blues
Indiana Wants Me
When You Were Mine
Brown Sugar
Stagger Lee

 

The only problem with revisiting stuff from the past with a current perspective is that you can find yourself dancing perilously close to censorship. There's already been articles about how some people have been uncomfortable with current takes on old musicals like Carousel or My Fair Lady. Beware folks.

 

Agreed.
Sometimes best not to over analyze.

 

After reading what the theme of this thread is, shouldn't it be "Eeeeewww!"?

 

This is a cracking song, from one of my favourite artists but the lyrics are, ‘open to interpretation’,

“Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
...
My brown eyed girl
You my, brown eyed girl”

And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine with a
Transistor radio”

After which, it gets slightly more questionable,

“Now that I'm all on my own
I saw you just the other day
My, how you have grown
Cast my memory back there Lord

Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout
Makin' love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my, brown eyed girl.”

Like I say, a lovely song but one with as many hidden shallows as it has depths.

 

I always thought it was funny that they went through a certain rock star’s laptop to find trouble when they could have just listened to Gary’s Greatest Hits.

 

Trust the art, not the artist!

 

We could do this all day:

Rock Around the Clock
Pictures of Lily
Turning Japanese (from two different angles)

It's only Rock and Roll.
But I like it.

 

As per my prediction above.

 

The Records - Teenarama. Great power pop song......loved it when I first heard it back in 1979 when I was 18, but at 56 now the lyrics can make me cringe. Still love the song though.

I wanted a holiday
You sure had a lot
To say every night
I thought that a younger girl
Could show me the world
That was right

Co-co-co-cola
Is all you ever drink
The way you smile
The way you wink

Teenarama
Is what you're givin' me
(What you're givin' me)
Teenarama
Injections in the knee
(Injections in the knee)
Teenarama
All that mellow drama
Gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme gimme
Teenarama

I wanted a change of style
To be with a juvenile
For a week
So I rented an apartment
Then you went and lost the key


Sugar candy
Is all you ever eat
You're so skinny
You're so sweet

Teenarama
Is what you're givin' me
(What you're givin' me)
Teenarama
Injections in the knee
(Injections in the knee)
Teenarama
All that mellow drama
Gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme gimme
Teenarama

Monday
School day
You wait
Weeks late
Dirty star
Coffee bar
First bra
Too far

 

Van's line in "Brown-Eyed Girl" about "making love in the green grass" gets edited by most radio stations these days.

The king of ewww songs has to be "Chevy Van".

 

Maybe. Then again we don’t know where his face was

 

Robert Johnson's "32-20 Blues?"

 

I think Van was just being a savvy entrepeneur. He realised how many girls have brown eyes, so he wrote a song which would automatically become 'their song'. He figured (probably correctly) that most of its prime listenership would ignore most of the lyrics and only remember the chorus (that doesn't include radio programmers, of course).

 

Secretly Horrifying Song Lyrics: "Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung

This a humorous interpretation of Wang Chung's "Dance Hall Days" that can turnout to be disturbing when closely examined

 

Would this be allowed today?

 

This one is just too much:

 

Amos Milburn -
HARD DRIVING BLUES (1947)