Swearing on stage/recording

Trickster F. wrote: Bryan wrote: If swearing onstage bothers you, don't go to a Children of Bodom concert.  I honestly am pretty sure Alexi Laiho rehearses his banter between songs in an effort to include the F word as many times as humanly possible.   Agreed with the last part of the first sentence, not for those reasons though.

Swearing killing songs? lol, definitely not! Listen to Zappa!
Anyway, I don't own this transatlantic CD but I can not imagine that any word can affect the atmosphere on any record..!

"Hey Jude" contains a profanity from John Lennon towards the end, before the "na na na" bit. He fluffs a backing vocal and shouts "f***ing hell!". You probably wouldn't notice it unless you knew it was there.

When used in a justified way, swearing is acceptable.

sm sm wrote:   What I find offensive is inappropriate gross talk. I never understood why the need to include the lyric "snot is running down his nose" in Tull's Aqualung.

Aqualung is a musical and poetic portrait of a vile, decript old man. In what way is that lyric inappropriate in such a context?

Trouserpress wrote: There's a, quite frankly, beautiful moment towards the end of an Absolute Zero song (Stutter Rock, You Said - you can hear the streamed version on their PA page) where the song falls apart a bit and (probably) Pip Pyle just yells from the distance "OH... F*CK IIIIIIT!", smashes the drums and the whole band kicks back into gear for another climactic minute of noise. Now, call me a heathen, but that track, especialy its closing moments, would be less effective without that deliciously timed piece of swearing.

I love that part!

el böthy wrote: It really depends who says it for me. Cause if...Jon Anderson comes out saying "lets all f**k tonight", well that would be just plain stupid. But when Maynard shouts "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you buddy" in Hooker with a pennis, its just orgasmic...oh sorry, f**king orgasmic

I agree.

I couldn't care less... f**k is one of the most beautiful words in the English language if you ask me...

The most surprising instance of the F word was during Pigs (Three Different Ones).  "You f**ked up old hag."  I remember listening to that on the radio (along with the Who's Who Are You ["Who the f**k are you?"]) and thinking, my god, did he just sing that?  Later when I bought the album, I discovered that he did.  There were some great mavericks back in '70's album-oriented rock stations.  In both those instances I believe that contextually the word fits.  But in-between songs (with the exception of the afore-mentioned Ted Nugent... the Motor City Madman has way with words... lol ... and you knew that that was part of his act) in a performance that was not necessarily promoted as "Rated M for mature" I would like the performers to show a little restraint, given there might be some young teens in the audience.

[QUOTE=piltdown man] ...Whats with the word Fugazi? Is that the F -word as used by American soldiers in Vietnam - I think´I´ve read that in some Fish interview or am I totally misinformed?[QUOTE]

You're informed correctly - it means the same as the last two letters of SNAFU   

I still remember the shock I got the first time I heard the Woodstock soundtrack, when Country Joe does the Fish cheer - but somehow, that's art.

Skid Row's use of the word in "Get the f**k Out" is also inspired - but somehow, W.A.S.P's "Animal, I f**k Like a Beast" seems retarted because of the use of the word.

I'd say it depends on the context - largely that between listener and artist

Let me quote Devin Townsend, on Steve Vai's album Sex & Religion, right at the end of the song Sex & Religion:

"holy sh*t. holy jesus christ, I hurt your brain, hah, great god, steve, oh
My fingers are numb, right now
Yeah, theyre numb
Can I deprive my brain of oxygen?"