Misheard lyrics

[energyman]

Diana Rodd Chain reaction

To anywhere and there ain't no salvation

sounds like

Tell Eddie Waring there ain't no salvation

"Up and under!!"

[Susan Foreman]

Some lyrics you wish you had misheard!

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")

[Susan Foreman]

These are genius

[mbrown]

How boring Susan copying and pasting from another web page. This thread looked fun up until that point with peoples recollections of misheard lyrics

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by mbrown

How boring Susan copying and pasting from another web page. This thread looked fun up until that point with peoples recollections of misheard lyrics

How awful of me to post some YouTube videos. I should be severely punished by everyone on the forum who has never sank so low as to even mention YouTube

By the way - good first post!

[holbrookged]

On the big list at No.33, what is the actual lyrics thats sounds like "Heard of a place at the back of town where you really kick the shit when the sun goes down"?

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by holbrookged

On the big list at No.33, what is the actual lyrics thats sounds like "Heard of a place at the back of town where you really kick the shit when the sun goes down"?

Those are the lyrics

The list contains classic rock songs that contain swearing and (if they were played on the radio) were censored...or, in some cases, they managed to slip past the censors and get played in full on the radio

[Susan Foreman]

"It's a hard egg

Nothing but a hard egg"?

[Susan Foreman]

Well, it turns out the opening line isn't "Wash my cotton socks I'm in the nude"!!