Mark Hansen wrote:

jimmy spako wrote:

axl rose wrote:Guess I needed
Sometime to get away
I needed some peace of mind
Some peace of mind that'll stay
So I thumbed it
Down to sixth and L.A.
Maybe your greyhound
Could be my way
Police and niggers
That's right
Get out of my way
Don't need to buy none of your
Goldchains today
I don't need no bracelets
Clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket till then
Won't you cut me some slack

"one in a million". also has "faggots" later on. don't remember if there was alot of controversy surrounding it at the time. used to hate the fact that high school buddies of mine in smalltown ohio, otherwise stand-up guys, would sing along with this one & probably identify with it.

Yeah, they got some shit for this one.

Slash is multiracial.

I had a discussion with someone about David Allen Coe and how he has a black drummer.

What does this mean? I dunno. Alls I know is I wanna cover "Romeo's Distress."

Rotten Tanx wrote:
Elvis Costello - Olivers Army

Only takes one itchy trigger / One more widow, one less white nigger.

Referring to the British army in Northern Ireland recruiting disadvantaged school leavers.

Are we going to mention Elvis's drunken use of the word - in reference to Ray Charles and James Brown, no less - when trying to provoke a fight with Bonnie Bramlett and Stephen Stills? He succeeded immediately afterwards when Bramlett and Stills both decked him. I think it was probably the reason why he never really made it big over here, cause it was pretty controversial at the time and he refused to do interviews explaining himself. (Also, Armed Forces probably didn't rock enough for most people over here either. I think they were expecting This Year's Model, Part II, which would have been awesome.) Anyway, Elvis got roundly and deservedly reamed for it then.

Anyway - I'm also sure that's what Bon Scott is saying on "Highway to Hell," sadly enough.

The song I'm thinking of is The Big Boys' "White Nigger," which was a Texan term (whudda shocker) describing outcasts. Predictably, it's also one of the funkier numbers that The Big Boys did.

"Dicks Hate The Police" still wins for my favorite song using it.

David Allan Coe's "Nigger Fucker"... The lyrics of which I won't reprint here.

MrFood wrote:

H-GM wrote:I had a discussion with someone about David Allen Coe and how he has a black drummer.

WHAT?!?!?!

I swears I's hittin' as hard as I can! Hands don't fail me now!

EDIT: YouTube Comments +1!

Black Helicopter - The Good Times (second half of the song)

Let me tell you about the time I bought a boat
it was 28 footer, it's what'ch you call a fixer-upper,
yeah it needed a little work.
so I asked around to find out,
the right way
to redo this boat to rebuild this boat,
and I found the right way,
yeah I found the right way
to redo this boat to rebuild the boat.
and I went for miles around to find out the right way to do the boat,
I chopped out all the rotted wood
and I replaced it with the good wood,
and the good wood I sanded it down,
took all the barnacles off the old wood
and I made sure that I sealed things up nice and tight.
I didn't want any leaks, I wanted my boat to float,
and it was going good, it was going good.
and people came from miles around,
in barnstable, they heard about the guy from my town
who was doing things, he was doing thigs the right way,
the right way, he sanded it down and did it from scratch,
and made sure everything clear, and everything float,
and everything right.
It was done the right way,
when I was done I named the boat The Good Times
after all the tears and hard work and labor I put
into this boat,
I figure the best thing I could call
it was the Good Times, the Good Times
what it meant to me was all the tears and hard work I put into it.
The Good Times. The Good Times, The Good Times, The Good Times
when I go out fishing,
I call around,
I'd get on the radio and say...
"hey, this is the good times do you where the fish are?
and I'd get responses back.
why'd you want to know you nigger lover?
I didn't know what to make of this.
I'd go out on my boat, and I'd radio out! "hey, buddy, it's the good times, the good times, I wanna know where all the fish are"
called me nigger lover!
they called me a nigger lover!
and then one day I asked around, what the hell's the deal with this?
he said, you fool...
didn't know you that named your boat, after,
after a negro program,
you named the boat,
after a negro program.

great song.

This one's for my friend, Marsupialized. Funny enough, it's one my favorite song on La Maison de Mon Reve, the only album I've heard, mind you, so cut me some slack. I'm sure the more I hear the more I'll hate.

Jesus Loves Me

Jesus loves me
But not my wife
Not my nigger friends
Or their nigger lives
But jesus loves me
That's for sure
'Cause the bible tells me so
Read your bible good and well
Don't forget about that apple spell
Don't fall in the wishing well
Wishing for heaven and gettin' hell
Wash behind your ears don't smell
Cover them freckles don't ask don't tell
Kiss your papa but not too long
Hold his hands
Don't do no wrong
Jesus loves me
But not my wife
Not my nigger friends
Or their nigger lives
But jesus loves me
That's for sure
'Cause the bible tells me so
Hush don't cry
Dry them tears
Time'll wash away all them years
Scare or a bruise
Pick and choose
When you're all grown up
You'll have the blues
Life'll give you that wedding ring
Fancy cars and diamond things
You best believe in jesus' way
And never fall asleep forgetting to pray
Jesus loves me
But not my wife
Not my nigger friends
Or their nigger lives
But jesus loves me
That's for sure
'Cause the bible tells me so

Bianca's rationalization: I don't know if you recognize it, but it's a children's song, and it's really popular. I don't know if it's really popular in Canada as well. Anyway, kids learn it really early, and it's really stripping down Christianity to its most basic, to a child's perspective. There's such a large population of African-Americans for whom Christianity is a huge thing, but Christianity still remains to be exclusive, and is very segregated, and it's very intricately connected to an old-fashioned mentality that's still very racist. To me, it's a huge contradiction with Christ's message.

DrAwkward wrote:Did the Michael Richards joke account get banned by Steve?

No.

Once, I wanted to try and make mixtape of Bob Dylan songs where he says nigger. But I only know of two, maybe three songs.

Hurricane
"And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger"

Black Cross
"Cause readin' ain't good fer an ignorant nigger."

I thought I knew of a few more, but I can't remember them now.

H-GM wrote:Slash is multiracial.

I had a discussion with someone about David Allen Coe and how he has a black drummer.

What does this mean? I dunno. Alls I know is I wanna cover "Romeo's Distress."

The argument about the G'n'R song was a little weak, very PC. In the case of that song, I think the use of the word was meant more "street" than anything, and I seem to remember them getting more problems for the use of the word "faggot" than anything else. Mind you, I think it is foolish for anyone to use the word in a "street sense" either in this day and age; you are just asking to be misunderstood, and kind of deserve it when you are misunderstood.

My recollection of the reaction at the time could be wrong though, I am not a fan of them, so I didn't really pay it that much attention at the time.

I knew two skinheads of mixed racial descent, who were very light skinned, who ended up becoming nazi skins in California, where no one knew them, so no one knew they were part black. Weren't their friends surprised when they found out.

Frank Collins, who was head of the Nazi party in Chicago in the 70's, was found out to be half Jewish descent, not too long after the dope was arrested and convicted for molesting young boys. Which occurred at his party headquarters.

There's all kinds of self haters out there.

BadComrade wrote:Patti Smith blows.

Blow this!

[points to junk]

"Patti Smith blows." Bang-Zoom!

You know what blows? Subarus! Yeah. Subarus blow.