That Band #%^& Rocks!

It was a pretty sweet arrangement we had with certain CD ordering company back in the 90’s.
My brother and I got to pick out a free album that we wanted each month, after our
grandparents selected theirs. That is, with the exception of a couple of
albums that arrived, suspiciously without the expected Parental Advisory sticker on
the front.  Wu Tang Forever comes first to mind for some reason.

My brother popped the CD in the ghetto-blaster  (Oh the 90’s), and what sounded
like 4th of July bottle-rockets, and other cheesy pyrotechnic whistles and explosions
came out of the speakers instead of the high speed barrage of rap profanity :
“It’s Wu, mother-WHEEEEEEE, Wu-Tang Mother-WHEEEEEEEEE.”
Was that a frickin’ SLIDE WHISTLE????

My brother and I honestly thought the CD was skipping at first as the lyrics
popped, whistled or just skittered out completely:
“-bbit.. obbit, ipp….-eep, nug- ibb, ee-yeah-moth-Wheeeeeeee.. Pop!”

In went the next CD:
And The Red Hot Chili Peppers – Sir Psycho Sexy made NO sense!
“Sittin’ there in the Garden of Eden, with my (Pop, WHeeeee, ah-OOGA)’ –
There’s a (symbal clash) in my (Boyoyoyoing) – and some demons in my (bottle rocket) ”
And so on.  Ugh….

So when it comes to average lyrical density, who are today’s worst offenders?
Let’s just narrow this down to Rock today.
Well, there is a website that’s broken it down to the Top 3.
These are the worst offenders when it comes to dropping a cuss, using a swear,
or in the words of the Simpsons Reverand Lovejoy, “these organ pipes that you have-
befouled with your popular music!”

According to Musixmatch.com,  Green Day  takes the cake (1 every 157 words),
followed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1 / 187 words)
and Aerosmith (1 every 390 words)

You can check out the rest HERE

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This post was written by Matt McNeill