Racist Songs By Great Writers That Were Later Sanitized

[MsD]

I always had the admittedly maybe erroneous impression that Siouxsie lacks a certain something in the intelligence department.

Nope, she's smart.

[MsD]

You can think I'm giving them a pass, and say "the Clash came up at the same time, and they never had any dodgy references", but without the Pistols/Banshees/Ants and whoever, Joe would be a pub-rocker and they'd never have the bollocks to do all that stencil/spray paint clothing.

(Some people think White Riot and White Man IHP are racist but that's some other daftness.)

[Satchmo Distel]

Thanks, MsD, you've changed my mind on Siouxsie and Severin with that great post.

[treibeis]

I could never really work out Ian Dury's "Blackmail Man", except that it was full of rhyming slang. I was too young at the time. Did anybody kick up a stink about that?

[MsD]

I don't even remember it, or recall it being mentioned, and I read the music press, so no.

[ale]

Veiled behind screens
Kept as your baby machine
Whilst you conquer more orifices
Of boys, goats and things
Ripped out sheeps' eyes - no forks or knives

The reference to Banshees Arabian Knights being a diatribe against the repressive bits of the muslim world might be borne out by the opening two lines of the above lyric. The next 3 lines though are a bit more problematic.

[Satchmo Distel]

"Arabian Knights - at your primitive best"