I'm a fairly mild mannered person but occasionally I do find myself dropping an F bomb or similar in to a discussion. Swears are best used sparingly to have the biggest impact. If you liberally pepper them around just for shock value they lose their power. For this weeks #mondaymixtape I have trawled my music collection for songs that did not get the most radioplay in their original form. Some of these songs had radio friendly versions with the offending words changed up. I can respect the artists that chose to self censor to get their song some exposure but also respect those that decided the song was what it was and chose to forgo the chance of a top 40 hit.
PHAROAHE MONCH - Fuck You
I probably went a year loving the "Got You" version of this song before I even heard the original. I still like the clean version too. The infectious Guitar riffs on this are what really drives the track in the end rather than the F Bombs.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Killing In The Name
Killing in the Name burst in to the charts in the early nineties and became the bands anthem. A rage against what the band saw as the injustices of the modern world and the military industrial complex. The song builds until the climatic and repeated "Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me" that made this the Nineties younger brother to the Seventies rebellion of the Sex Pistols.
CEE LO GREEN - Fuck You
The second song in this parental guidance playlist with the same name is a jaunty poppy affair. Cee Lo wrote this partly to poke at his record company but it became one of his biggest hits along with the more radio friendly "Forget You" version.
MOUSE ON MARS - Foul Mouth
This new out just this week on the Mouse On Mars album Dimensional People. The album sees them collaborate with artists as wide ranging as Bon Iver, Lisa Hannigan and Spank Rock. This track features the foul mouth of Zach Condon (Of Beirut fame) as well as Amanda Blank.
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
This is a piece of folk music. Not normally a genre associated with overt anger there are however plenty of protest songs in the folk genre. Martha's voice and lyrics drip with emotion on this ode to her musician father Loudon Wainwright III who, by his daughter's accounting here, appears was a better musician than a father.
