Swearing on stage/recording

what about NIN - closer?

No, he says sh*t, take two.


Swearing doesn't really bother me. I don't do it because I think it's a bad habit, but I don't really care if others do it. Saying it a lot just for the sake of it is obnoxious, though.


Edited by Arsillus - November 20 2006 at 18:42

clubsprint wrote: G'day all I was listening to Transatlantic Live in Europe and it's quite awesome. However during a song break one of the band drops the F word and it just lowered then tone and atmostphere of the CD. Maybe I'm just getting old and fatherhood has sensitized me to this but surely these guys can express themselves with using profanity. There was a time I would have told myself to F#@% off but now it sort of highlites lack of imagination and ignorance of the language and the audiences sensibilities. What do you all think?

I thought Portnoy's use of profanity cheapened the show a bit. He just came off as another foul mouthed New Yorker.

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It is stupid in that Spock's Beard epic
It is unnecessary in GYBE's INSTRUMENTAL track name
But it is f*cking great in TOOL songs!!!

Yesterday I discovered in one catalogue of CDs for sale that there is a band called Anal c**t, talking about foul language here... 

ResidentAlien wrote: eugene wrote: Yesterday I discovered in one catalogue of CDs for sale that there is a band called Anal c**t, talking about foul language here...  And?  They're a grindcore band.  They make loud vulgar music... such is their style; it's the message they wish to convey.  What's wrong with that?

ResidentAlien wrote: eugene wrote: Yesterday I discovered in one catalogue of CDs for sale that there is a band called Anal c**t, talking about foul language here...  And?  They're a grindcore band.  They make loud vulgar music... such is their style; it's the message they wish to convey.  What's wrong with that?

There are plenty of ways of putting steam into arguments without using language that some people find offensive.

And there is no point in offending people in order to get your point of view across.

If you know it might be offensive to some, it's best to avoid it - remember, some people browse this forum at school.

I swear quite a lot in my personal life, not that I am particularly proud of it - and soon becoming a father too. As for the F and C and A words (and the whole bunch of them) in prog rock or whatever art form, they don't bother me much. I find it a little strange notion that some words could have a magical effect of lowering someone's intelligence and imagination the second they are muttered out of the mouth. If that was the case, it would be so easy to appear as intelligent just by dropping cultural words in a row. It's the overall understanding and sensibility to words that counts and in some cases (Fish's lyrics being mentioned as good examples) USING a swear word can be the right thing to do to express something with enough effect. Naturally this does not mean that using as many swear words as possible makes anyone's statement stronger. On the contrary, repeated and unnecessary use of them make them rather lose their effect.

Trickster F. wrote: ResidentAlien wrote: eugene wrote: Yesterday I discovered in one catalogue of CDs for sale that there is a band called Anal c**t, talking about foul language here...  And?  They're a grindcore band.  They make loud vulgar music... such is their style; it's the message they wish to convey.  What's wrong with that?   It's not the name that is the problem.

AxCx's lyrics are absolutely hilarious, and their music isn't all that bad, as far as plain grindcore goes, they're pretty good!

Unlike all those "white power" grindcore bands, like Vaginal Jesus...