NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH: Offensive band names/album titles/covers

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

OK, this is intended to be really rough. As band names go, "Dead Kennedies" aren't even in it (though for covers I'll take the "penis landscape" inside cover from Frankenchrist -- which come to think of it isn't a bad candidate for an album title.

Please contribute.

I'll start the bidding with four band names:

Vomit Launch (So Cal indie band)
Vaginal Blood Fart (Southern feminist punk band)
Thirteen Screaming Niggers (a fifties band)
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (James Thirlwell, who also recorded as You've Got Foetus On Your Breath)

[Socrates]

Jackie O Motherfucker
Fuck Buttons
... and lots of other bands with fuck in the name

[Steve F.]

Anal Cunt
Fat & Fucked Up
Ass Coffee

[Facelift]

Septic Death
Nashville Pussy
Pearl Jam

[mozo-pg]

Butthole Surfers

[TCC]

- Semen Up.
- Pussycat Dolls.
- Genitallica.

[Dave (in MA)]

Steely Dan

[progeezer]

Cribshitter
Furry Quimslash & The Love Muscle
Crucifucks
The Slits (all female)
Thrust The Rod

[rcarlberg]

As far as covers go, "Virgin Killer" by Scorpions just seems to get more offensive every year.

Cal Schenkel's collages of puke and body parts pale by comparison.

[adap2it]

Smegma

[walt]

Harry Pussy
Vomit Fist

[Staun]

And none of these bands are in the RRHOF yet? Proof positive the Hall is rigged.

[Lopez]

In the late 70s there were two Boston punk outfits with, even then, rough names:

The Niggers (they were all black guys)
The Frozen Bums

[Birdy]

Fairly new punk band called Slimy Cunt and The Fist-Fucks.

[Lopez]

A bit of a stretch as it's a song title: Slimy Gash by the Monks (Strawbs spinoff band)

[AdventAlan]

One of my favorite offensive band names: Barney Rubble and the Cunt Stubble. Never heard the music before, but thought the band name was pretty funny when I "stubbled" across once of their CDs many years ago. Apparently, they've been active more recently as well:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1...fKyL1kfIBScRrg

Cheers,


Alan

[klothos]

"Yeah, Mom, tell Grandma our band is playing down the road from her. We're called <Fill In Any Band Named Above sans Steely Dan>"

[GuitarGeek]

As far as covers go, "Virgin Killer" by Scorpions just seems to get more offensive every year.

Hard to believe whoever was in charge of such things actually reinstated the original artwork for at least some of the CD reissues. Virgin Killer is one record where they should have stuck with the censored cover. Scorpions had a long history of censored of album covers, most of which were stupid things by comparison (eg a bared nipple on the cover of In Trance, the infamous "bubblegum cover of Lovedrive, etc). Oddly, it seems the CD reissue of Taken By Force still uses the censored cover (I guess little boys playing "shoot 'em" in a cemetery is more offensive than a naked girl, huh?).

One that I remember was Lita Ford's first solo album, Out For Blood, which originally had a picture of her on the cover, holding what appeared to be a butchered BC Rich Mockingbird, splattered in blood. That might be tame compared to some things, but I recall that at some point, the record company changed out the cover to a rather mundane photo.

Didn't one of the Pantera albums have a picture of a drill being shoved up someone's ass?

[Dave (in MA)]

Penis of Terror

[Facelift]

The Revolting Cocks
Throbbing Gristle
Nip Drivers
The Child Molesters
Swallowing Shit
Tumor Circus
Zip Code Rapists

[JKL2000]

Masturbating Jesus

[alucard]

I like the cover of John Greaves 'Caretaker' basically a hairy pubis, stylished as a man's head with a beard , eyes and mouth drawn. The other day I saw a vinyl with a pinkish Penis on the cover and something funny written on the Penis, Dead Kennedys ?

[Ten Thumbs]

Circle Jerks
Dayglo Abortions

[mozo-pg]

99% of Punk Bands

[Gerhard]

Scorpions had a long history of censored of album covers, most of which were stupid things by comparison (eg a bared nipple on the cover of In Trance, the infamous "bubblegum cover of Lovedrive, etc). Oddly, it seems the CD reissue of Taken By Force still uses the censored cover (I guess little boys playing "shoot 'em" in a cemetery is more offensive than a naked girl, huh?).

I remember reading an interview with one of the band members once where he chuckled about their album cover controversies and cited Animal Magnetism as being even more offensive than Virgin Killers, because of the bestiality angle. I don't think so... I do like the original Lovedrive (bubble gum) cover.