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7 Hit '70s Songs That Are Offensive by Today's Standards
BestLife ^ | 7/10/23 | Lia Beck

Posted on 06/17/2024 2:45:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff

The '70s were half a century ago, and that fact is especially apparent when you look back at the media of the time. Watch a movie or TV show from that decade or listen to a song, and you won't just notice outdated fashion, interiors, and slang, but you'll also come across plots, characters, and words that are offensive, especially by the standards of 2023. When it comes to music in particular, there are plenty of songs from the '70s that are offensive to listeners now.

1 "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones (1971)

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To: DallasBiff

“Givin’ The Dog A Bone”, AC/DC


41 posted on 06/17/2024 3:12:08 PM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
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To: DallasBiff

“Ain’t gonna bump no more with no big fat woman.” Joe Tex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkb6OpoL6Z8


42 posted on 06/17/2024 3:12:38 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: DallasBiff

Try Jackal much later...”She Loves My (male chicken”.

Rhymes with Sock


43 posted on 06/17/2024 3:14:19 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: misanthrope

Whole Lotta Rosie


44 posted on 06/17/2024 3:15:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Towed_Jumper
The left probably likes the next verse:

Tax the rich, feed the poor / Till there are no rich no more …
45 posted on 06/17/2024 3:15:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DallasBiff

And there’s Jefferson Airplane’s “We Can Be Together”, with the chorus that includes “Up against the wall, mo-fo’s” - or rather the full-blown equivalent thereof.


46 posted on 06/17/2024 3:16:13 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: DallasBiff

Before the 70’s, but the Kink’s “Lola” would give the lbqtusv crowd fits for ridiculing a trannie.


47 posted on 06/17/2024 3:17:31 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: DallasBiff

Squaws along the Yukon Hank Snow
There’s a salmon-colored girl that sets my heart awhirl
she lives along the Yukon far away.....

Another:
Jungle Boogie


48 posted on 06/17/2024 3:18:43 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: DallasBiff

“Young Blood” and “Honey Child” by Bad Company always creeped me out.


49 posted on 06/17/2024 3:18:43 PM PDT by ncdrumr (Oooh, SarahCUda!)
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To: DallasBiff

Havin’ my Baby by Paul Anka. How could that not make the lib’s heads explode?


50 posted on 06/17/2024 3:19:58 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: DallasBiff

Yikes! I hope she never finds out about David Allen Coe.


51 posted on 06/17/2024 3:20:16 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Under My Thumb

I love the Stones' misogyny rock.

52 posted on 06/17/2024 3:22:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: DallasBiff; dfwgator; Gay State Conservative; ZirconEncrustedTweezers; Lurker; ...

This is a “I have no original thoughts so I’ll mail it in today” article.

First, he missed the easiest one - Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen (on two dimensions this is a baddie).

Second, there is a vast catalog of 70s Zappa songs that still offend people. To start, Bobby Brown. https://youtu.be/SXi_zoW-Wr4?si=RqkEc3CA2KwId0IJ

Third, for deep tracks, I discovered this blistering rocker by the Boston-based Nervous Eaters with lyrical content that is borderline ghastly. https://youtu.be/03eb4_wtOTI?si=7JoJA_jbd1HvMwI4


53 posted on 06/17/2024 3:23:25 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Stosh

MC5 - Kick out the jams 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJGQ_piwI0


54 posted on 06/17/2024 3:24:52 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

That song by Dire straits,”See the little faggot on his MTV...”


55 posted on 06/17/2024 3:25:04 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: DallasBiff

The 70s was nothing compared with some of the stuff that was around in the 20s.


56 posted on 06/17/2024 3:25:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real tyranny.)
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To: DallasBiff

It may be from 1969, but I love Steppenwolf’s version of The Pusher.


57 posted on 06/17/2024 3:26:43 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!s)
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To: kosciusko51

Pearl Necklace as well


58 posted on 06/17/2024 3:28:55 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: DallasBiff

Not from the ‘70’s but
Cowboy Rap
Jimmie Collins
https://youtu.be/Yv9rmSb7YH8?si=DW9wrrMLacyEsFh6


59 posted on 06/17/2024 3:29:29 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: DallasBiff

This song isn’t from the seventies but 1965. I hear it often on oldies radio, but I am surprised it hasn’t been banned: Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders — “The Game of Love.”. It even says the game was started by Adam and Eve. Sounds like something Jerry Falwell would have written.


60 posted on 06/17/2024 3:29:39 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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