Favorite insults in a song

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by 80steen, Dec 7, 2022.

  1. blackdograilroad

    blackdograilroad Forum Resident

    Location:
    Devon, UK
    Killer, don't show your teeth to me
    I'll pull your teeth and feed you with them, count on me

    [Motorhead, Liar, off Bastards, 1993]
     
  2. 80steen

    80steen John McClane Thread Starter

    Location:
    West Virginia
    Great song, but every time I've played it over the years for my daughter when she was dealing with a break-up, she would tell me it was "gay" :laugh:
     
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  3. 80steen

    80steen John McClane Thread Starter

    Location:
    West Virginia
    Not hardly. Otherwise, I would have made it a thread about The Beatles. I just happened to find the lyrics of drawing a contrast between a working-class area's issues to that of the elite types, amusing
     
  4. tonyballz

    tonyballz Roogalator

    Location:
    arizona
    So many good Dylan ones.

    He just needs you to talk
    Or to hand him his chalk
    Or pick it up after he throws it

    (Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window)

    Yes and you
    You sit around and ask for ashtrays
    Can't you reach?

    (She's Your Lover Now)
     
  5. pobbard

    pobbard Still buying CDs

    Location:
    Andover, MA
    My favorite insult comes from an artist I don't spend much time with, and haven't even listened to much in the last 20+ years, but it's always stuck with me.

    It's Roger Waters in "It's a Miracle", an otherwise sardonic song about the modern life, capitalism, and its excesses, but ends like this:

    "We cower in our shelters
    With our hands over our ears
    Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
    Runs for years and years and years
    An earthquake hits the theatre
    But the operetta lingers
    Then the piano lid comes down
    And breaks his ****ing fingers
    It's a miracle..."
     
  6. mretrain

    mretrain Forum Resident

    Location:
    London
    I went to a very early industry screening of the Imagine documentary back in the 90s - Yoko was there - and the version of How Do I Sleep had a line that went "how do you sleep you c**t" in it....by the time it was released that bit had somehow vanished...
     
  7. Marty T

    Marty T Stereo Fan

    Location:
    NM - North of ABQ
    Chet Atkins and Merle Travis trade a lot of barbs on their "Traveling Road Show" album. When Chet asks, "Is anything sweeter than this?" and plays a nice lick, Merle replies, "That's beautiful... That would nauseate a person."
     
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  8. Bassist

    Bassist Forum Resident

    Location:
    London
    Sleaford Mods' Mr Jampandy is hard to top. Way too swear-y to paste here.
     
  9. low_line

    low_line lukewarm water

    Location:
    Midlands, UK
    I don't spot an insult in any of the above; it's just a harsh, long-winded dressing-down.
     
  10. Ok you’re a big dumb dumb
     
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  11. Lazerize

    Lazerize Forum Resident

    Tupac, Hit Em Up.

    First off, f*** your b**** and the click you claim
    Westside when we ride come equipped with game
    You claim to be a player but I f***** your wife
    We bust on Bad Boy n****z f***** for life

    And on and on for five minutes. The whole thing is a masterpiece of insults, threats and hubris.
     
  12. Lazerize

    Lazerize Forum Resident

    Steely Dan, Gaucho

    You're a nasty schoolboy
     
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  13. McLover

    McLover Senior Member

    Graham Parker & The Rumour/Mercury Poisoning. Guaranteed insulting to Mercury Records staff of that era.
     
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  14. Blue Nile Fan

    Blue Nile Fan Forum Resident

    Location:
    Akron, Ohio
    One of my favorite RUSH songs....

    Well, I see you standin' there with your finger in the air
    Everything we do, you wanna leave it up to you
    Who do you think you are? You think you are a star?
    Tryin' to run the town, always tryin' to put us down
    Well, you think that you're right, you think you're out of sight
    Tell me something, mister, why'd you have to make us so uptight?
    Well, you say you've been tryin', you know that you're lyin'
    I think you need some groovin', who do you think you're foolin', now?
    Well, you better start changin', your life needs rearrangin'
    You better do some talkin' or you better do some walkin' now
     
  15. JoeOnWheels

    JoeOnWheels Forum Resident

    Location:
    Loveland CO USA
    You're a wasted face
    You're a sad-eyed lie
    You're a holocaust.
    -Holocaust, Alex Chilton
     
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  16. Randal_SS

    Randal_SS Jammin' Econo

    Location:
    Cleveland, OH
    Dead Kennedys (Biafra)- Triumph of the Swill

    See the Aryan bozo with the red guitar
    Parachute onto the Whitehouse lawn
    Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar
    So dumb he can’t drive 55
     
  17. Doctor Worm

    Doctor Worm Romans 6:23

    Location:
    Missouri
    I don't know if it's been mentioned, but Elvis Costello's "Love Went Mad" has one of the best:

    "I wish you luck with a capital F"
     
  18. CHIP72

    CHIP72 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Silver Spring, MD
    It may have been mentioned in the last 7+ pages of the thread, but amazingly Guns N' Roses' "Get in the Ring" wasn't mentioned on the first two pages of the thread. :D
     
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  19. The Sneak

    The Sneak Forum Resident

    Location:
    RI USA
    Are you telling me, to shut my mouth?
    If I wasn't kissin' you wouldn't be around,
    You talk about faggots, little momma's boy,
    You're still at home, you've got your chaperone,

    You need an escort to take a piss,
    He holds your hand and he shakes your dick,
    You're so pretty, suburban kitty,
    You think you're gonna change, re-arrange the city,

    Little London boys,
    You're little London boys,

    You're little London boys,
    You think you're gonna fool me?

    A little rich kid, what do you know,
    You had everything don't you think it don't show,
    A-hiding in the closet just a-facing the wall,
    Too Much Too Soon - do you recall?

    Have a holiday in the city,
    Dildo souvenirs, vaseline pretty,
    You don't need no junk just LSD,
    You won't get shot, shot by me

    Little London boys
    You're little London boys
    You're little London boys
    And I'm talkin' about the whole lot of ya!
     
  20. ChoonyFish

    ChoonyFish Forum Resident

    Location:
    Manchester, UK
    Brilliant, and the first one I thought of. "You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride" is such a good line.
     
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  21. Northernlight

    Northernlight Forum Resident

    That's great. I've often used that one myself. He has one really mean tongue, but I'm sure the targets had it coming.
     
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  22. Amnion

    Amnion Forum Occupant

    Location:
    Ontario, Canada
    And from the same song "I can't even stand to touch the books you've read"

    The whole song come to think of it... LOL
     
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  23. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

    Location:
    Alexandria VA
    You came up with a pretty out there interpretation that has no backing in the evidence at hand.

    There's no obvious reason John would've changed his mind or lied or whatever. If he did insult a particular group, literally no one ever noticed.

    That's why people went :wtf: when you called it an insult: apparently you're the only person who thinks there's an insult there.

    So according to you: John created an insult so damned subtle that no one ever noticed, but also so offensive that he lied to hide it in later years.

    Really? That's your story, and not the simple answer... which is the one John already provided?

    :wtf:
     
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  24. elvisizer

    elvisizer Forum Resident

    Location:
    San Jose
    basically all the lyrics in Black Cow, Steely Dan
     
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