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]
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"
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
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)
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..."
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...
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."
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.
Graham Parker & The Rumour/Mercury Poisoning. Guaranteed insulting to Mercury Records staff of that era.
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
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
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"
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.
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!
Brilliant, and the first one I thought of. "You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride" is such a good line.
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.
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
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 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?