Has there ever been a song lyric that’s completely grossed you out? ”Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye” from “I Am The Walrus” has always given me the creeps. Also, “the placenta hits the floor” from Live’s “Lighting Crashes?? Gross!! For Wednesday’s Radio Free Lunch, tell us what song lyric you think is just creepy!!
Update: Today’s playlist
King Of Pain, The Police (Dead Salmon, Skeleton, Butterfly caught in a spider web)
I Am The Walrus, The Beatles
Loser, Beck (A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin from a pigeon wing)
Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana (I want to eat your cancer when it turns black)
Inside Out, Eve 6 (Heart in a blender)
McDonalds Daily Cheese
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Perry Como (He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake)
Jeremy, Pearl Jam (Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess ladys breast)
Big Mouth Strikes Again, The Smiths
Lightning Crashes, Live (The placenta falls to the floor)
G’day, Mara,
I’ve always thought the lyrics for “Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains to be a bit on the gross side. Not something you’d normally sing about, anyway. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), the gross parts are bleeped out when played on the radio.
Hope you have a good day!
Kevin
The worst lyric in a song that I’ve ever heard is Toad the Wet Sprocket- “Hold Her Down”. The tune isn’t bad it’s just the lyrics. They are as such:
“Take her arms and hold her down, and hold her down- til she stops breathing…..”
It goes on from there, and doesn’t really get better. It’s from the album FEAR back in teh early 90′s. yuck.
Nirvana: “I wanna eat your cancer when it turns black.” Um…ew.
This will be a great way for me to lose weight. Play songs with gross lyrics at lunch and my appetite is gone. Well done!
Good morning, Mara. Immediately I thought of Beck’s “Loser”….that one is full of weird and gross lyrics!!! (i.e. choking on a pigeon wing????)
Hello Mara…I enjoyed meeting you at the Tori Amos Circle of Friends.
“Birthday” by The Sugarcubes talkes about all kinds of creepy crawlies..ewwwwwww…”Thread worms on a string, Keeps spiders in her pockets, Collects fly-wings in a jar, Scrubs horse-flies and pinches them on a line”…no ma’im
Also, althought the lyrics are not gross, I have always hated the name of the Smashing Pumpkins song “Mayonaise”. I like to use ‘hot mayo sandwichs’ as a visualization to help me purge after drinking too much.
“The Macarena” does it for me and Metallica’s “One”, play those back to back.
James – Gold Mother. What a weird song – but love it
My favorite all time gross song is from Frank Zappa-”The Torture Never Stops”
an excerpt:Slime and rot, rats and snot,
and vomit on the floor.
Fifty yoogly soldiers, man,
holdin’ spears by the iron door.
Knives and spikes, and guns and the likes
of every tool of pain.
And a sinister midget, with a bucket and a mop,
where the blood goes down the drain….
How about “Peace Frog”- The Doors…”Wrong Way”- Sublime..this is so hard! I know I’ll think of a bunch later when I’m no longer trying.
Sting’s “King of Pain” conjures up some disturbing images
Eve 6 “Heart in a Blender”…need I say more??
Happy Hump Day!
I remember when Dark Side of the Tune was a Mara and Dunham daily feature.
Yes! We had so much fun doing it I had to bring it back….
When I was a child, the song “Death on Two Legs” by Queen terrified me.
Just thought of another…Marcy Playground’s “Sex and Candy” (I smell sex and candy, yeah).
LOVE sex but to smell it?? Eww…
“The placenta falls to the floor” Lighting Crashes lyrics by Live
SERIOUSLY???
George Clinton and The Funkadelics -
America Eats Its Young
the “fat, horny and strung-out” just gives me a bad visual….
I have nothing else today, no cheese suggestions. Rainy days and Wednesdays always get me down…
Mara,
Got two Jethro Tull songs that would fit. The first is Aqualung with the lyrics “snot is running down his nose. Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes” and Thick as a Brick with the lyric “your sperms in the gutter, your love’s in the sink!! Pretty nasty stuff.
Great to see you at Kensi’s BM. Happy belated 40th birthday. I had one of those waaaay back!!
Take care,
Howie
I thought of another one:
That song by the Cure….”the spider is having you for dinner tonight” ??? Lots of grossness in that song. I’m not sure if that’s the title.
Blinded by the Light: ‘…wrapped up like a douche…’
what about… jeremy –
“gnashed his teeth, bit the recess lady’s breast”?
yow!! that hurts to even think about!!
love your show…
steph-
I think this song also mentions “blood…blood….from you know where”….ew!
Okay….one more and I’ll stop. What about Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2?
Mara,
D.O.A. by Bloodrock – A plane crash or car crash?
Laying here, looking at the ceiling,
Someone lays a sheet across my chest.
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back.
I try to move my arm and there’s no feeling
And when I look, I see there’s nothing there.
The face beside me stopped bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole. The title in itself is enough, plus there is a line about “dancing on the backs of the bruised”.
Possom Kingdom by The Toadies. I heard it’s about a gruesome murder.
Apparently Third-Eye-Blind’s song “Semi-Charmed Kind Of Life” is about meth use. That’s kind of disturbing. The whole song I guess kind of grosses me out knowing that.
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
The Smith’s “Big Mouth Strikes Again”? Lot’s of disturbing images in the lyrics to that song… you should be
bludgeoned in your bed… As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her hearing aid started to melt
Also, the whole Vincent Price section of “Thriller” is kind of blech. Like “rot inside a corpse’s shell”. Eww!
Radiohead’s Paranoid Android:
the crackle of pigskin
the dust and the screaming
the yuppies networking
the panic, the vomit