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The Most Squalid Song

feathered_up

00:08 / 22.04.05

What are the most squalid songs you know? Songs that evoke corrupt, filthy, sleazy images or feelings for you? Just a few from my list off the top of my head:

The Carny- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Zoo Music Girl- The Birthday Party
So Your Heart- Honeymoon in Red
15 Shells From a 30-6- Tom Waits
Celebrity Lifestyle- Swans

Alex's Grandma

02:52 / 22.04.05

The Fudge Punch - Wiseblood
When Will I Be Famous - Bros
Ben - Michael Jackdon

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:04 / 22.04.05

Sick Man- Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
Giro Day- The Wild Turkey Brothers("see the pisshead on his arse in the corner; well he's had one too many brews again, but if you try to wake or help him, well he'll tell you to fuck off, my friend!")

(Incidentally, if anyone has a copy of the latter, I'll pay good cashmoney for it, as my dodgy Wild Turkey Bros tape is long lost).

Benny the Ball

18:47 / 22.04.05

Woman of the ghetto by Marlena Shaw

moonweaver

02:13 / 23.04.05

great topic...

Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell (the sluttiest best)
Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe - Whale
Something like a Mama - Underworld
Shake It - Tom Waits
Spitfire - The Prodigy
and anything from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion or The Cramps

Actually I am finding every song at the moment a bit mucky...(Fade into You - Mazzy Star???)
Freud would have fun..

03:46 / 23.04.05

Throbbing Gristle: Persuasion
Coil: entire "Horse Rotorvator" album, the scat bits off "Scatology"
almost anything by Whitehouse

diz

04:07 / 23.04.05

coil "things happen"
miss kittin and the hacker "frank sinatra"

totally seconding "sex dwarf"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:05 / 23.04.05

How could I have forgotten "Persuasion" and "Things Happen"?

Hmm...

Swans: Raping A Slave

Alex's Grandma

13:08 / 23.04.05

Also 'Failure,' by those guys.

It's in my top ten somewhere, I'll be hurt if you don't sing along, so, on the count of three

'Well I have been lonely#

And I have been blind...'

Alex's Grandma

13:16 / 23.04.05

' The sick and null and void of... Punishing leadweight of... Failure.'

Alex's Grandma

13:38 / 23.04.05

I hate to be the kind of person whose coat is waiting gently in the wings, but also, 'Iceland' by The Fall.

Unimaginable horrors !

Madman in the ruins.

16:20 / 23.04.05

Placebo - Nancy Boy

Shrug

16:46 / 23.04.05

Soft Cell, Sex Dwarf is just so sleazy and brilliant. Plus all the spanking in the background is hard to ignore.
I would like you on
A long black leash
I would parade you
Down the high street
You've got the attraction
You've got the pulling power
Walk my little doggy
Walk my little sex dwarf

Brigade du jour

21:31 / 23.04.05

Pulp's 'Sheffield: Sex City' springs to mind, if only for the audacity of its title.

But mainly for Candida Doyle saying "have you ever listened to people fucking? It's a marvellous sound". Almost gives me wood.

juan de marcos

02:36 / 24.04.05

I second Swans. 'Failure' is in my top 5!

Furthermore anything by Revolting Cocks and Ministry.
Let's not forget that Motörhead has some sleazy tunes too. ('Poison', 'Spades', 'Over the Top', 'Orgasmatron', ...)

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