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40 Classic Rock Songs With #$&%-ing Curse Words / Ultimate Classic Rock

The music of youth rebellion was bound to say something naughty, right?

Most of the entries in the below list of 40 Classic Rock Songs With #$&%-ing Curse Words were censored before airing on the radio – if they ever aired at all. But some notable examples slipped past the censors, providing a charge for younger listeners in a different age.

And make no mistake, it was a very different age. The FBI even investigated a rock band in an effort to discover what the Kingsmen were singing in 1963's "Louie Louie." The funny part: They totally missed Lynn Easton's early outburst ("****!" at 0:51) after dropping a drum stick amid all of the other indecipherable lyrics. Of course, dropping f-bombs has become so widespread in the modern era that it's become mainstream. There are chart-topping hits with swearing right in the title. So, the focus here is on stand-out moments from classic rock's early era.

That means leaving out ZZ Top, who probably cursed during "Legs" from 1984's Eliminator, and Kiss – who most certainly did on "Give All You Can Take" from 1984's Animalize. Also John Mellencamp's timeless advice about picking up girls on "Play Guitar" from 1983's Uh-Huh.

We're also skipping jokey live versions – as when the Beatles changed the lyrics to "It's been a hard day's cock" in the midst of Beatlemania-influenced bedlam at a 1964 performance in Blackpool, England – and spoken-word intros that included some form of vulgarity.

Our look back at 40 Classic Rock Songs With #$&%-ing Curse Words come from a time when some of the most well-known bands from the period could still create a buzz by singing the odd obscenity.

1. "Who Are You?" From: The Who's Who Are You (1978)

(2:12: "Ah, who the **** are you?")

2. "Money" From: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

(1:34: "Don't give me that do goody-good bullshit")

3. "Big Shot" From: Billy Joel's 52nd Street (1978)

(0:34: "Don't come bitchin' to me")

4. "Hey Jude" From: The Beatles' 1968 single

(2:56: "****in' hell!")

5. "Sinner's Swing" From: Van Halen's Fair Warning (1981)

(0:29: She looks so ****in' good)

6. "Jet Airliner" From: The Steve Miller Band's Book of Dreams (1977)

(3:08: "I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit goin' down in the city")

7. "Do You Feel Like We Do?" From: Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)

(8:33: "I wanna **** you")

8. "Rocks Off" From: The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (1972)

(1:37: "Plug in, flush out and fire the ****in' feed")

9. "Life in the Fast Lane" From: Eagles' Hotel California (1976)

(3:02: "We've been up and down this highway, haven't seen a goddamned thing.")

10. "Hair of the Dog" From: Nazareth's Hair of the Dog (1975)

(0:48: "Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch.")

11. "Kick Out the Jams" From: MC5's Kick Out the Jams (1969)

(0:09: "Now it's time to ... kick out the jams, mother****er!")

12. "Young Man Blues" From: The Who's Live at Leeds (1970)

(5:33: "They ain't got nothin'! They got sweet ****-all!")

13. "Hurricane" From: Bob Dylan's Desire (1976)

(1:52: "No. 1 contender for the middleweight crown had no idea what kind of shit about to go down")

14. "Candy and a Currant Bun" From: Pink Floyd's 1967 single

(0:28: "Don't talk to me; please, just **** with me.")

15. "Working Class Hero" From: John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band (1970)

(2:19: "You're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see")

16. "The Bitch Is Back" From: Elton John's Caribou (1974)

(0:30: "The fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back")

17. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" From: Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy (1978)

(2:01: "Send lawyers, guns and money – the shit has hit the fan!")

18. "Speak to Me" From: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

(0:35: "I've been mad for ****ing years, absolutely years")

19. "Success" From: Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (1977)

(4:07: "Oh shit; oh shit!")

20. "Precious" From: The Pretenders' Pretenders (1980)

(0:40: "But you know I was shittin' bricks 'cause I'm precious"
2:53: "But not me baby, I'm too precious – **** off!")

21. "Laura" From: Billy Joel's The Nylon Curtain (1982)

(2:04: "Here I am, feeling like a ****ing fool")

22. "Star Star" From: The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup (1973)

(1:01: "Yeah! You're a star****er, star****er, star****er, star****er, star")

23. "Starting Over" From: Raspberries' Starting Over (1974)

(0:08: "Used to feel so ****ing optimistic, till she said goodbye")

24. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" From: Pink Floyd's Animals (1977)

(3:04: "You ****ed-up old hag – ha ha, charade you are")

25. "Show Biz Kids" From: Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)

(3:54: "Show biz kids making movies of themselves. You know they don't give a **** about anybody else")

26. "Been Down So Long" From: The Doors' L.A. Woman (1971)

(0:03: "Well, I've been down so goddamn long that it looks like up to me")

27. "I Am an Animal" From: Pete Townshend's Empty Glass (1980)

(2:42: "I will be immersed, queen of the ****ing universe")

28. "Nobody's Fault" From: Aerosmith's Rocks (1976)

(3:04: "Everything is on fire, a shit piled up in debris")

29. "Wharf Rat" From: Grateful Dead's Grateful Dead (1971)

(2:49: "Half of my life I spent doin' time for some other ****er's crime")

30. "You're Breaking My Heart" From: Nilsson's Son of Schmilsson (1972)

(0:07: "You're breakin' my heart, you're tearing it apart – so **** you")

31. "Oh No, Not Susan" From: Electric Light Orchestra's On the Third Day (1973)

(1:35: "Her money and her place, they just don't mean a ****ing thing")

32. "Sweet Virginia" From: The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (1972)

(2:29: "Got to scrape the shit right off your shoe")

33. "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n' Roll)" From: Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

(0:19: "Heard of a place at the back of town where you really kick the shit when the sun goes down")

34. "Doctor Jimmy" From: The Who's Quadrophenia (1973)

(1:59: "Her fellah's gonna kill me? Oh, ****ing will he")

35. "The Pusher" From: Steppenwolf's Steppenwolf (1968)

(1:25: "I said goddamn, goddamn the pusherman")

36. "Bus Rider" From: The Guess Who's Share the Land (1970)

(2:05: I'm so awful goddamn glad I'm not in your shoes)

37. "Rehumanize Yourself" From: The Police's Ghost in the Machine (1981)

(1:35: "Got his hand in the air with the other *****")

38. "Some Girls" From: The Rolling Stones' Some Girls (1978)

(2:46: "Black girls just wanna get ****ed all night")

39. "We Can Be Together" From: Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers (1969)

(1:25: "In order to survive we steal, cheat, lie, forge, ****, hide and deal"
3:25: "Up against the wall, mother****er")

40. "My Shit's ****ed Up" From: Warren Zevon's Life'll Kill You (2000)

(0:24: "Let me break it to you, son: Your shit's ****ed up")