History RefugeInAudacity / Music

{{Music}} taking RefugeInAudacity.

* Music/DirEnGrey's music runs on a mix of this trope and TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, especially lyrically.

* Music/{{Sublime}} did this alot. ''Wrong Way'' is about a 12-year-old prostitute, ''Date Rape'' is also a good example. Although [[TheFaceoftheBand Bradley Nowell]] was trying to say that these things were ''wrong''. Other songs used profanity, drug references, etc, etc just for fun.

* This was the very intention of PunkRock and its [[TheQuincyPunk associated culture]] in the 1970s.

* [[Film/TheProducers Springtime For Hitler]]. I watched it in history class. At first everyone looked on in uncomfortable horror, but around the time the actors started dancing around in the shape of a swastika, every single one of us was laughing helplessly.

* Tim Minchin in general, but (NSFW - cartoon penis) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0 The Pope Song]] has got to take the cake. "Storm" is up there, too, with an anecdote about dinner ultimately becoming a ten-minute rant against all things "spiritual."

* Music/TheFugs applied this with an intensity that still shocks people to this day - And they were still at it as late as 2008, a pretty amazing feat itself for a garage band formed in 1965. While they did release a few songs that actually got airplay in the US, such as "Ramses the Second is Dead, My Love", most of their work - which was much performance art as music - used language and attitude that would get them barred from not only radio but most live venues of the time. Songs like "Wide, Wide River" (which [[RefrainFromAssuming people often assume]] is titled "River of Shit" from its refrain) and "Virgin Forest" (in which a caveman explicitly has sex, first with a woman, [[BestialityIsDepraved then with a chimpanzee]]) are among their better know pieces, and they aren't even close to the raunchiest they get. And, oh yeah, later releases of ''The Fugs' First Album'' include a recording of the signing party for their ''first'' album with Atlantic Records, on a track titled "In the Middle of Their First Recording Session the Fugs Sign the Worst Contract Since Music/LeadBelly". Now '''that''' is a TakeThat of legendary proportions.

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* Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine is a comedy music group that takes songs - mostly ones with violent, dark, potentially offensive lyrics like [[{{Music/Nirvana}} Rape Me]] and [[Music/{{Slipknot}} People = Shit]] - and makes upbeat, cheesy lounge covers of them.
** ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' did the same thing to Music/CannibalCorpse's "Rancid Amputation".
* Music/PassengerOfShit - just the name alone should tip you off.
* "The Good Ship Venus (Frigging in the Rigging)" as sung by the Music/SexPistols and others, is an OlderThanRadio example, with documented versions going back to the late 19th century; it is likely much older.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLzHGVL9lg Silent Night]]" covered as a {{thrash metal}} song with a prominent {{death growl}} and a wicked guitar solo, while including [[Music/{{Testament}} Chuck Billy]], [[Music/{{Anthrax}} Scott Ian]] and [[Music/ShadowsFall Jon Donais]] playing on it. Refuge in Audacity is the only possible explanation for this existing.
-->''Jesus, Lord, at Thy Birth''
-->''Jesus, Lord, at Thy [[MetalScream BIIIIIIRRRTH!!]]!'''
* ''Music/SongsAboutFucking'' by Music/BigBlack. 'Nuff said!
* [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash's]] video for "World on Fire" starts with [[RockMeAsmodeus Satanic imagery]] and moves on to a topless porn star dry humping the [=POV=] character, taking drugs with him, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin setting the set on fire.]] Basically everything MoralGuardians think heavy metal is supposed to be. The fact that the singer is associated with [[Music/AlterBridge a band]] which is sometimes accused of being AmbiguouslyChristian makes the whole thing that much more audacious.
* Music/ThePlasmatics: The spectacle during their shows was amazing: chainsaws ripping up guitars, band members performing in masks and dresses, automobiles blowing up, televisions being smashed, shotguns being fired and Wendy O. regularly performing (half) nude, simulating sexual acts. They were arrested a couple of times because of public indecency, greatly increasing their notoriety.
* Music/DirEnGrey's music runs on a mix of this trope and TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, especially lyrically.
* Music/JohnZorn's music changes styles and moods so abrupt that his work is bound to polarize people. Some of his album covers have also pushed boundaries by showing scenes of violent deaths or creepy sexual images. His song titles can sometimes be audacious too: "Igneous Ejaculation", "Fuck the Facts" (from "Naked City" (1990), "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh", "Jazz Snob Eat Shit", "Pigfucker" (from "Torture Garden" (1990)), "Sweat, Sperm + Blood", "Coprahagist Rituals"(from "Heretic" (1992)), "Guts of a Virgin", "Handjob" and "Purgatory of Fiery Vulvas" (1991) with Painkiller.
* Music/PansyDivision, not surprisingly, have plenty of songs whose sole aim is to shock the socks off of straight listeners. Among these are such gems as "Cocksuckers' Club", "I Wanna Be A Slut", and "Your Asshole Is Political".
* Music/WarrenZevon was simply in love with doing this. "Mr. Bad Example" pushes the line, hard; "Excitable Boy" crosses it.
* Lots of songs by Brazilian experimental rock musician Rogério Skylab are made of this, especially in his Skylab series of discs:
** In the Carnaval-samba-styled "Arrebentados" (Busted):
-->I pissed in your mouth
-->I defecated in your face
-->I whipped your ass
-->I cuffed you to my bed
-->I called you a son of a bitch
-->You said: "thank you very much"
-->I gave you then a punch
-->That left you askew
** In "Semana Passada" (Last Week)
-->Last week I quartered my dad and put his head in the dinner room. Friends ask me: "Why did you do this?" I say I'm cold, very weird and insensitive. Then I got the one that one day gave me birth; she screamed "my son", I answered "mommy". What an empty century, science is a vain thing, what is certain is this: I raped my mom.
** In "Dedo, Lingua, Cu e Buceta" (Finger, Tongue, Ass and Pussy)
-->Finger, tongue, ass and pussy
-->Finger, pussy, tongue and ass
-->Finger on tongue, tongue on finger
-->Ass on pussy, pussy on ass
-->Finger on pussy, tongue on ass
-->Tongue on pussy, finger on ass
-->Finger, tongue, ass, pussy too
-->Pussy times finger, nines off ass
-->Tongue, tongue, tongue, finger in ass
-->Finger of pussy, tongue of ass
-->Finger, tongue, ass and pussy
-->Finger, pussy, tongue and ass
** In "Meu Diário" (My Diary)
-->Night of terror and panic, my wife was pregnant, so I decided to birth the child myself; the baby was stillborn, so I held it by its umbilical cord and spun it in the air, forming concentric circles until I threw her far, far away. Meanwhile, my wife was losing too much blood, so, with my own hands, I ripped out her uterus, her ovaries, her bladder, her intestines, her pancreas, until all there was left was a body without organs.
* Chico Buarque's 1971 album ''Construção'' was one of the most explicitly political of the era - a military dictatorship which heavily punished dissent. The first song quite literally is about God judging the dictatorship for its wrongdoings against the Brazilian people, and the rest of the album follows suit. It's an absolute mystery as to how this [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar managed to get past the government censors]], but considering that it is among the most acclaimed Brazilian albums of all time, it is very fortunate that it did.
* Music/TheFugs applied this with an intensity that still shocks people to this day - And they were still at it as late as 2008, a pretty amazing feat itself for a garage band formed in 1965. While they did release a few songs that actually got airplay in the US, such as "Ramses the Second is Dead, My Love", most of their work - which was much performance art as music - used language and attitude that would get them barred from not only radio but most live venues of the time. Songs like "Wide, Wide River" (which [[RefrainFromAssuming people often assume]] is titled "River of Shit" from its refrain) and "Virgin Forest" (in which a caveman explicitly has sex, first with a woman, [[BestialityIsDepraved then with a chimpanzee]]) are among their better know pieces, and they aren't even close to the raunchiest they get. And, oh yeah, later releases of ''The Fugs' First Album'' include a recording of the signing party for their ''first'' album with Atlantic Records, on a track titled "In the Middle of Their First Recording Session the Fugs Sign the Worst Contract Since Music/LeadBelly". Now '''that''' is a TakeThat of legendary proportions.
* Music/MrBungle's whole debut album (produced by the above-mentioned Music/JohnZorn) applies this quite heavily. Songs like ''The Girls of Porn'' (which for a good 90 seconds turns into a ListSong of various different depraved sexual acts) and ''Squeeze Me Macaroni'' (which is incredibly sexually explicit for a song that mainly uses food metaphors) take it to another level.
* At the age of fourteen, Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart went to the Sistine Chapel for Easter in 1770 and heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0 this choral setting]] of Psalm 51 for the first time. Thing is, the Catholic Church had forbidden anyone from transcribing the music for it over a century, and Holy Wednesday and Good Friday were the only two days in the year the piece was ever performed. Cue Mozart transcribing the piece from memory later that Wednesday, going back on Good Friday to make corrections, and then achieve great fame after performing the piece himself over the next three months. Rather than throw the book at Mozart for breaking a command of the Catholic Church, Pope Clement XIV praised the young composer for the feat and inducted him into a knightly order in July that year.
* Italian indie band ''Pinguini Tattici Nucleari'' have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXS3necbDg "Ninnananna per genitori disattenti"]] (Lullaby for distracted parents), which starts innocently enough but halfway into the song it gets very vulgar very quickly. The fact that it's a song about how parents don't pay attention to what their children are listening to makes it even worse.
-->Because fucking is like paintball\\
You can't say you've played\\
If you're not dirty of at least\\
Three different colours\\
Because pussy is like the moka pot\\
[[{{Squick}} If you use it often you don't have to wash it]]
* Music/SergeGainsbourg basically lived this trope. Though "Les Sucettes" merely [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar gets past the radar]], later songs would go much further, with the extremely sexual "Je t'aime...moi non plus" making it to #1 in multiple countries despite being condemned by ''the pope himself''. He would only [[SerialEscalation get more extreme from there]], releasing an entire concept album about romancing an underage girl inspired by [[Creator/VladimirNabokov ''Lolita'']], followed by an album which combined [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] with retro rock 'n' roll, and in 1979, a cover of the French national anthem in a reggae style, which got him ''death threats'' from war veterans for being perceived as "unpatriotic".

* ''Anything'' and ''everything'' by Music/RuckaRuckaAli.
* Music/{{OFWGKTA}}'s lyrics. Especially the ones by Tyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt.

--> [[SevenDirtyWords Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat.]]
--> Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat.
--> Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat.
--> I fucked your mom!
--> Waah, I wanna suck my dad, and my mommy too... Oh wait, is this still on?

--> Unless your dad will suck me off (I'll never talk to you again)
--> Unless your mom will touch my cock (I'll never talk to you again)
--> Ejaculate into a sock (I'll never talk to you again, I'll never talk to you again)
--> It's Labor Day and my grandpa just ate seven fucking hot dogs
--> Labor Day and my grandpa just ate seven fucking hot dogs
--> And he shit, shit, shit his pants
--> He's always fucking shitting his pants
--> And I'll never talk to you again.
** "Fuck a Dog" is about... well, bestality
--> I... wanna fuck a dog in the ass
--> I wanna fuck a dog in the ass
--> I wanna fuck a dog
--> I tried to fuck your mom in the ass
--> Tried to fuck your dad in the ass
--> Could only find the dog

--> He seems like a total asshole
--> Grandpa is a total fucking asshole
--> Who would ever want a dirty greasy finger in his ass?
--> He rubs his dick in broken glass

--> And this is fucking stupid man! I can't believe you'd have sex with your own grandfather! I mean, you guys are related! What's he gonna do, take out his false teeth and just leave them on the side of your bed? Man, he'd like to fuck you on the bottom, and grandma would come in and watch and masturbate and cum all over the place and, this is stupid! I hate you all! I'm not even going to have sex with my mom tonight! Man, this is stupid! I hate you!
* [[strike: Most]] ''Almost all'' HeavyMetal relies on this. [[Music/{{Slayer}} A song detailing the horrors and crimes perpetrated by]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Dr. Josef Mengele?]] [[Music/JudasPriest Album covers with cybernetic metal messiahs riding above a ruined Earth on a motorcycle with sawblades for wheels and a fire-breathing dragon as the chassis?]] [[Music/{{GWAR}} Alien monsters who slay humans and other monsters onstage nightly?]] [[Music/DreamTheater Guitar and keyboard solos that have more pitches in one second than there are in a normal rock song?]] [[DoomMetal Music that has an atmosphere of]] [[strike: sadness]] [[strike: depression]] [[strike: horror]] '''''[[DarkerAndEdgier A SOUL CRUSHING DARK VOID OF DEATH AND DOOM?!]]''''' All these and more are to be found within it.
* Arab On Radar. A noise rock band with guitarists who didn't actually play real musical notes, a drummer that didn't play a smooth continuous drum beat, and a vocalist who yelled copious obscenity like a tone-deaf 10-year-old. YMMV, but this troper thinks they set a standard for awesome noise rock.
** Mars did the same thing in the mid-1970s, the key difference being the ''tone'': Arab On Radar are kind of hilarious; Mars are utterly terrifying.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6bGW4ShpNU The hit]] of gay-as-a-maypole singer Thomas Bickham.
* A video about somebody becoming a rapper. Say, '''[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRqvCps_MQ Adolf Hitler]]''' (who has an [[Main/NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent inexplicable Scottish accent]]. Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k this one, starring our friend Mel Brooks again]].
* Music/AnalCunt.
** If nothing else, 'Al Stankus Is Always on the Phone With His Bookie' must be the most breathtakingly facetious name for a song ever.
*** "I Snuck A Retard Into A Sperm Bank" doesn't count? I mean, what?
*** "Hitler Was a Sensitive Man" and "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck" (addressed to Eric and Conor Clapton).
*** One typo somewhere has "Hitler Was a Sensible Man". Which is kinda funnier actually.
*** The second song was originally titled, "Eric Clapton's Kid Committed Suicide Because He Sucks." Seth Putnam, the man behind Anal Cunt, felt this was going too far. Both played straight and subverted.
*** "I Became A Counselor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It" and "You Converted to Judaism So A Guy Would Touch Your Dick" and and... actually, [[http://www.darklyrics.com/a/analcunt.html all of them]].
*** And for all those titles, the lyrics themselves are ''worse''. Many of those titles had to be ''toned down'' for legal reasons. Just click the link above and see.
** At the same time, this band explicitly avoids this by NOT spelling out their name on the album covers, abbreviating it to AC.
*** Even their logo is meant to be offensive--it's an anus and vagina, respectively, which get around the abbreviation.
* The Music/{{Muse}} music video for "Music/KnightsOfCydonia" is simply indescribable. It starts with Kung-fu cowboys and works its way up.
* GodwinsLaw: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02YqR2uPbjE Reichroll]], the disturbingly funny hybrid of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Germany footage and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", [[MemeticMutation aka the]] "JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}" music.
* [[Film/TheProducers Springtime For Hitler]]. I watched it in history class. At first everyone looked on in uncomfortable horror, but around the time the actors started dancing around in the shape of a swastika, every single one of us was laughing helplessly.
** It's the in-movie "horrified reaction" shots which truly put it over the top: "yes, we know ''exactly'' how appalling this is, and we're doing it anyway!"
* At the end of {{Music/Queen}} song "One Vision", mostly an uplifting people anthem, the last words of the song?
-->'''Freddie Mercury:''' Just gimme gimme gimme ''fried chicken!''
** Mercury and his then-boyfriend John Hutton had the food for lunch that day.
* Music/TomLehrer.
** On his debut album, ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', he included a ditty singing the praises of the neighborhood dope peddler. This was in ''1953''.
** Then on his second album, ''Music/AnEveningWastedWithTomLehrer'', there's "The Masochism Tango", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]], and includes such romantic exhortations as
--->My heart entreats\\
Just hear those savage beats\\
And go and put on your cleats\\
And come and trample me.
** Lehrer himself says that probably his most controversial song is "The Vatican Rag" which pokes fun at the Roman Catholic Church (specifically at Vatican 2's allowing 'modern' music to be used during Mass). Even if you don't come from a religious background, it is downright hilarious, even more so if you're a former Catholic. The recording on the live album ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' has the audience breaking out in laughter every few seconds. They really did find it just that funny.
*** Tom's introduction for the song gets quite a few laughs, too, especially when he says that the song he's about to perform is "a modest example". When it comes to Tom Lehrer, there is no such thing, and his audience is clearly well aware of that fact.
** "National Brotherhood Week", from the same album: "Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants. And the Hindus hate the Muslims, and ''everybody'' hates the Jews."
*** From the same song: "National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week: Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek-to-cheek. It's fun to eulogize the people you despise as long as you don't let 'em in your schools...."
* On the face of it, the popular Bloodhound Gang song "The Bad Touch" is a tactless solicitation of sex. But it gets away with its plethora of overtly sexual imagery because it's ''so'' ridiculously over-the-top, it becomes entertaining.
** Their song "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" ''composed'' of sexual innuendo. And yes, the title DOES spell 'Fuck' in NATO phonetic spelling. The music video takes it even further, with such things as a car shaped like a banana becoming [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything unpeeled]] as it goes through a tunnel.
** ...Aren't ALL of their songs and videos RefugeInAudacity?

* ''Music/{{Knorkator}}'', another Berlin band known for even more ridiculous lyrics, also gets very close to crossing the line in about half of their songs. Some consists almost entirely of swearing or a overly poetic musings about masturbation or feces. "Schwanzlich Willkommen" (dickish welcome) tells that expression Herzlich Willkommen (hearty welcome) doesn't make any sense since a penis is much more suited as an organ to express happy feelings and in fact you can replace the word heart with dick in all expressions.
** This life performance in which the two vocalists dressed up in tall, stripped cardboard boxes for the last song. At the end of the song, the guitarist appears back on the stage and, well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDmR1pPzU_c#t=2m39s see for yourself]].
* The band [=DragonForce=] crams [[ClicheStorm so many fantasy cliches]] into every song that [[{{Troperiffic}} it becomes awesome]].
* Music/AmandaPalmer's [[http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-amanda-palmer-video-oasis_031521.html Oasis]] CrossesTheLineTwice by itself, being a peppy song about rape and abortion, ("I've seen better days, but I don't care/Oasis got my letter in the mail!") but the music video brings in the true audacity to take refuge in.
** After she suffered from a WardrobeMalfunction at a show and the ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Daily Mail]]'' did their typical lurid, misogynistic sensationalism about it, Palmer responded by writing a song that epically {{deconstruct}}s the trope's misogynistic overtones. During performances of the song, she defies the trope by outright stripping completely naked onstage. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY8qkJSQJ8M Link NSFW, obviously.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ky7Fs6ng0 The Ball of Kerrymuir.]] Jim Croce is a family musician really - except for this one song, which is quite possibly the raunchiest thing you've ever heard. And it is absolutely hilarious. ''Definitely'' {{NSFW}}.
** That's a relatively clean version of the song.
* The Music/OzzyOsbourne song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZimumOkA1s I Don't Wanna Stop]]'' seems to be about this trope. the chorus goes:
-->All my life I've been over the top
-->[[IndyPloy I don't know what I'm doing]], all I know is I don't wanna stop
-->All fired up, gonna go to the top
-->I'm as real as the world will make me, I don't wanna stop!
* The entirety of OLRemix [[http://olremix.org/mp3/stig_the_horsetheif_-_senor_poonwallis_sacerdote_vix_the_abominable_snowman%28Deus_Ex,_Doom%29.mp3 Senor Poonwallis Sacardote Vix the Abominable Snowman]] (Stig the Horsethief)

-->Killing
-->Pandas
-->For fun and profit
-->Turn their
-->Scrotum
-->Into a wallet
-->And it fun
-->To pretend you're killing nuns
-->Because they're black and white
-->But don't believe in an afterlife

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic deserves a mention here, as not many male performers would have the gall to dress up as {{Music/Madonna}} and re-enact her own video's moves, shot for shot. Also, he always asks permission to write the parody, so the original artist ends up being complicit to the weirdness!
** One of his Christmas songs, "Christmas at Ground Zero" (actually a parody of Yogi Yorgesson's "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas") now counts as HarsherInHindsight. (The song is actually about Communists rather than terrorists.)
* Music/{{Sublime}} did this alot. ''Wrong Way'' is about a 12-year-old prostitute, ''Date Rape'' is also a good example. Although [[TheFaceoftheBand Bradley Nowell]] was trying to say that these things were ''wrong''. Other songs used profanity, drug references, etc, etc just for fun.
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords - "If You're Into It". Writing a song to a girl? Cute. Suggesting, in said song, that you should get naked? Weird. Going on to suggest a food sex threesome? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8jaGs7xJ0 Hilarious!]]
* Music/{{KISS}} - tame now, but over-the-top when they first appeared. Beyond their [[http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2007/01/kiss_destroyer.jpg image]] and [[GreatBallsOfFire theatrics]] (blood-spitting, 12-inch platform boots, fire-breathing, explosions...), KISS' songs included "Nothing to Lose" (about anal sex, on their first album - ''in 1974!''), "Goin' Blind" (a 93-year-old man in love with a 16-year-old girl ''who's also in love with him''), "Larger Than Life" (Gene Simmons bragging about the size of his... "love"), "Shock Me" (''"We can come together..."''), and "Rocket Ride" (''"Come on - grab ahold of my rocket!"''). Drummer Peter Criss compared a KISS show to "surviving World War III." They ended up inspiring other bands to go even further, like...
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwar Gwar]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.G._Allin G.G. Allin]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentors The Mentors]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Macc_Lads The Macc Lads]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Corpse Cannibal Corpse]]. For starters...
** Just LOOK at the sort of things he did onstage. BrainBleach will rapidly be called for.
* [[Music/NickCave It was back in '32 when times was hard,]] [[MurderBallad he had a colt '45 and a deck of cards,]] Stagger Lee
* Australian comedy singer/songwriter Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson was about to tour in Canada when he was warned not to use the [[CountryMatters c-word]] on-stage. His response? ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sxk4xNnxw You Can't Say Cunt In Canada]]''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iORpLPmFfHU This music video parodying "Tik Tok" By Ke$ha.]]
* Music/LadyGaga. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqrrmev4mA Please to be seeing the Alejandro video.]] She has quite probably executed the above description to RefugeInAudacity.
* Tim Minchin in general, but (NSFW - cartoon penis) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0 The Pope Song]] has got to take the cake. "Storm" is up there, too, with an anecdote about dinner ultimately becoming a ten-minute rant against all things "spiritual."
* The [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks United States Air Force]] fighter pilot band Music/DosGringos makes this the main ingredient of many, if not ''most'', of their songs.

--->''Did you bring your baby? Babies don't watch this!''
--->''Take the seed outside!''
--->''Leave it in the streets!''
--->''RUN OVER IT AFTER THE SHOOOOOOOOW!''

-->''All the kids lookin' up to me can suck my dick''
-->''It's Portman motherfucker, drink 'til I'm sick!''
* Music/{{Eminem}} built much of his early career on this trope, with almost far too many examples to list, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE&feature=channel "My Name Is"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJO5HU_7_1w&feature=channel "The Real Slim Shady"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubEublECnMU&ob=av2e "Role Model"]] are good places to start..
* Music/TomMaxwell's song "Ham" has an in-universe example crossed with RuleOfFunny. A ''very'' large woman comes up to a cash register in a grocery store. Then a ham falls out from under her dress. She turns around and yells, "Who threw that ham at me?"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurhzANQ_B0 A Little Piece of Heaven]]", a song in which a guy kills his girlfriend, [[ILoveTheDead has sex with the body]], she comes back to kill ''him''... and then they get married. If that's not enough, the lyric "I really always knew that my little crime would be cold, that's why I got a heater for your thighs", complete with an image of the "Super Thigh Heater 300043" tips it over the edge.

* The song "[[PantyShot Underwear]]" ''Music/RoyalRepublic'' about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRJmtpstOe4 Used in an AMV to great effect]]. Might be NSFW.
* This was the very intention of PunkRock and its [[TheQuincyPunk associated culture]] in the 1970s.
* Music/FrankZappa, hands down, including, but not limited to, "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", "Dinah Mo Hum", "The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit", "Bobby Brown Goes Down" and "Jewish Princess".

* Music/ElvisHitler: "Black Babies Dancing on Fire".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU The music video]] for DJ Snake's "Turn Down for What" is a relatively mild example. More than one person has pointed out that the scene it depicts could easily be interpreted as sexual assault, but it's so damn ''silly'' about it that it's hard to get upset.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTDPkmh2BE #Rihanna by Glasses Malone]]. The chorus has to be heard to be believed.

* Italian indie band Pinguini Tattici Nucleari have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXS3necbDg "Ninnananna per genitori disattenti"]] (Lullaby for distracted parents), which starts innocently enough but halfway into the song it gets very vulgar very quickly. The fact that it's a song about how parents don't pay attention to what their children are listening to makes it even worse.
-->Because fucking is like paintball
-->You can't say you've played
-->If you're not dirty of at least
-->Three different colours
-->Because pussy is like the moka pot
-->[[{{Squick}} If you use it often you don't have to wash it]]

* The album ''Transient'' by R&B singer Gaelle Adisson is, for the most part, pretty standard in its subject matter, but the second song, "Parkway"...isn't. Gaelle finds her boyfriend cheating on her, so she proceeds to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill the other girl and frame the man for it]]. This is also the [[PrecisionFStrike only song on the album to contain profanity]], and [[ClusterFBomb an absolute ton of it]].

* [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash's]] video for "World on Fire" starts with [[RockMeAsmodeus Satanic imagery]] and moves on to a topless porn star dry humping the [=POV=] character, taking drugs with him, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin setting the set on fire.]] Basically everything MoralGuardians think heavy metal is supposed to be. The fact that the singer is associated with [[Music/AlterBridge a band]] which is sometimes accused of being NotChristianRock makes the whole thing that much more audacious.

* The song "Underwear" ''Music/RoyalRepublic'' about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRJmtpstOe4 Used in an AMV to great effect]]. Might be NSFW.

* The song "[[PantyShot Underwear]]" ''Music/RoyalRepublic'' about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRJmtpstOe4 Used in an AMV to great effect]]. Might be NSFW.

** One of his Christmas songs, "Christmas at Ground Zero" (actually a parody of Yogi Yorgesson's "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas") now counts as a FunnyAneurysmMoment. (The song is actually about Communists rather than terrorists.)

--> Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat.

* Music/DirEnGrey's music runs on a mix of this trope and TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, especially lyrically. Their ''very lightest'' song still comes in at a hard 9 on the MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness; most of them are a very hard 10 or 11, and a lot of them are off the scale entirely.

* Music/SergeGainsbourg basically lived this trope. Though "Les Sucettes" merely [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar gets past the radar]], later songs would go much further, with the extremely sexual "Je t'aime...moi non plus" making it to #1 in multiple countries despite being condemned by ''the pope himself''. He would only [[SerialEscalation get more extreme from there]], releasing an entire concept album about [[Main/Squick romancing an underage girl]] inspired by Literature/Lolita, followed by an album which combined [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] with retro rock 'n' roll, and in 1979, a cover of the French national anthem in a reggae style, which got him ''death threats'' from war veterans for being perceived as "unpatriotic".

* Music/SergeGainsbourg basically lived this trope. Though "Les Sucettes" merely [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar gets past the radar]], later songs would go much further, with the extremely sexual "Je t'aime...moi non plus" making it to #1 in multiple countries despite being condemned by ''the pope himself''. He would only [[SerialEscalation get more extreme from there]], releasing an entire concept album about [[Squick romancing an underage girl]] inspired by Literature/Lolita, followed by an album which combined [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] with retro rock 'n' roll, and in 1979, a cover of the French national anthem in a reggae style, which got him ''death threats'' from war veterans for being perceived as "unpatriotic".

* The album ''Transient'' by R&B singer Gaelle Adisson is, for the most part, pretty standard in its subject matter, but the second song, "Parkway"...isn't. Gaelle finds her boyfriend cheating on her, so she proceeds to [DisproportionateRetribution kill the other girl and frame the man for it]. This is also the [PrecisionFStrike only song on the album to contain profanity], and [ClusterFBomb an absolute ton of it].

*** One typo somewhere has "[[{{Mondegreen}} Hitler Was a Sensible Man]]". Which is kinda funnier actually.

* Music/WarrenZevon was simply in love with doing this, though he also spent a lot of time GettingCrapPastTheRadar. "Mr. Bad Example" pushes the line, hard; "Excitable Boy" crosses it.

* At the age of fourteen, Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart went to the Sistine Chapel for Easter in 1770 and heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0 this choral setting]] of Psalm 51 for the first time. Thing is, the Catholic Church had forbidden anyone from transcribing the music for it over a century ago, and Holy Wednesday and Good Friday were the only two days in the year the piece was ever performed. Cue Mozart transcribing the piece from memory later that Wednesday, going back on Good Friday to make corrections, and then achieve great fame after performing the piece himself over the next three months. Rather than throw the book at Mozart for breaking a command of the Catholic Church, Pope Clement XIV praised the young composer for the feat and inducted him into a knightly order in July that year.