10 Rock Songs That Aged Badly

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[@joeg3741]

My Sharona ( the Knack) Girl, you'll be a woman Soon. Neil Diamond Strawberry Wine ( at 17) country song. Not sure the artist.

[@stevenbaksh5545]

Great White Desert Moon

[@timprussell]

Motorhead Jailbait about underage girl backstage.

[@adnsaurus]

Sexy at seventeen by the Stray Cats

[@ingramfry7179]

There are a lot of songs that get associated with older bands now-a-day that weren't big when released and vice-a-versa. I associate Heart with Baracudda and Magic Man because those are the only songs I have heard. But looking at where those songs charted, they were low, and when looking at the 'hits' the band had it's a bunch of songs I had never heard of. I am old enough to cross reference this phenomenon with The Offspring when 'Fly for a white guy' and 'My friends got a girlfriend' got continuous air play. But anyone who had the full album realised these were the worst songs. I am not sure which Offspring songs will endure in the future but I am pretty sure 'my friend got a girlfriend' will be entirely forgotten. Another example would be that I associate ELO with 'Mr. Blue Sky' because it appears so much in media. But people from the generation when it came out tend to not even know it exists because they didn't watch "The Gaurdians of the Galaxy" or whatever. It is a general concept but I feel there are at least two lists in there.

[@markwildt5728]

When I saw Winger some years back, they changed the lyrics to "she's only 43"... The soccer mom's, loved it.

[@TheFreeBass]

I've been subbing 43 since... I dunno, mid-90's? It has the same flow & rhyme to it. (& I may have switched a few other words) She's only 43... (43) Grandkids say she's too young but she's old enough for me!

[@InzidenzPanik]

Its self aware as fuck. I dig the fun factor of it.

[@michaellazor5667]

It's a catchy song and that's why people liked it. I saw winger a couple of years ago and they sing it as 17.

[@someguy7424]

I don’t think of “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” as offensive so much as extremely cheesy.

[@RockedNet]

Definitely some cheese. I can understand that.

[@Madallen2002]

But a classic nonetheless. I don't really hate any of these songs. Though it is always weird when you hear songs talking about 16 to 17 year olds. Yuck. I certainly don't like the hating of the older generation. And vice versa for the new generation. But the new generation should not be too critical or high and mighty when they are pretty much the offspring of those they deem are out of touch. Whether they want to admit or not. I don't like people saying that oh well this is a better generation. No it's overall the same and can think the same ways those of the past did.

[@princessbackgammon3359]

I agree. My best friend is trans and she doesn’t get offended at all. We both like the song and think it’s funny that Steven thinks Vince Neil looked like a lady when he himself also dresses very feminine.

[@Madallen2002]

@@RockedNet we all need a little cheese on our life bud.

[@silhouettoofaman2935]

I just find it annoying. I'm all for repetitive choruses, but this song takes it to obnoxious levels for me.

[@proevofan]

Obviously not a rock song but I've never seen a song age so quickly in real time as Blurred Lines. Went from number 1 to problematic to destroying Robin Thicke's career in like a week.

[@rubymeaddle]

People criticized it on release

[@krissyturner88]

Perfect comment!!

[@AnnieBoBannie421]

I only wish he’d have taken Miley with him…..

[@antithoughtpolice7497]

And marriage and credibility

[@antithoughtpolice7497]

@@AnnieBoBannie421 Miley's actually cool, she just went through her awkward phase way later in life. She's better now.

[@wesleybush8646]

Fun fact: Aerosmith and Motorhead also had songs named "Jailbait." Very common theme going back many decades. Not defending, just saying.

[@JosephSmith-lm4ri]

Dude, I can't count how many songs there are from the 60s and 70s about underage girls.

[@virginiaviola5097]

AC/DC...the original with Bon Scott. And guess what, they we singing about *us* and we knew it...but, it was look, but don’t touch, for most of us.

[@slyone37]

So did Thin Lizzy

[@SiRenfield]

The Disneyland band Haylx also WEIRDLY had a song about it.

[@ImYourOverlord]

The Dire Straits song doesn't deserve as much bashing as it gets

[@jesurenbnb]

But it has language that i would cringe at

[@ImYourOverlord]

@@jesurenbnb It could probably be written better and still characterize the conversation represented well enough.

[@wstine79]

Every song Fred Durst makes ages faster than a bad guy drinking from the Holy Grail.

[@RockedNet]

lol haven't heard that one before

[@paranoidrodent]

Yeah, but Fred Durst would have been such low hanging fruit for a list like this.

[@FFP_BF2]

Oh wow! That’s a good allegory. 0_0

[@bloodlinefilms]

Ages faster than leo dicaprios girlfriends.

[@crazydud3380]

Nice! Yeah, he is great at exploiting the cultural zeitgeist of the moment, but two years later it is cringe.

[@GoldenGateNum9]

*"Just because I don't say it, doesn't mean I ain't Thinkin' it." - Dave Mustaine - Megadeth*

[@alisterfolson]

Also, the Adelle lyric from her song Rumor has It

[@abstractheory1]

wow, you must be a REAL metal fan

[@freeparking301]

The Megadeth song that comes to mind for me in this case is “Hook In Mouth.” Specifically the “F.R.E.E.D.O.M.” verses since it’s fun to look back at some lyrics that may have aged poorly but we cannot use that as an excuse for censorship. Also the solo in that song was so nice they did it twice!

[@joeymorvant161]

@@abstractheory1 Some of us have wide-ranging tastes. I love Megadeth, but love Adele equally. I live(musically) by the saying there are only 2 kinds of music: Good music and bad music. I once had that same kind of musical tunnel vision: I would've(and did) listened to Megadeth and would not've(and didn't) listened to Adele. Being musically open-minded is far more interesting and fun.

[@phillipweber6059]

Next thing you know They'll take my thoughts away

[@CableB_]

Winger: she’s only seventeen Chris Hanson: Take a seat

[@genestankivitz5445]

17 legal in NY 😂

[@danielmiller3596]

There’s also Brian Setzer/Stray Cats with Sexy and Seventeen which is an older song cover, IIRC. To me, all the stuff shows the time all the stuff was getting shut down from the drug party’s of the 60’s and 70’s

[@danman6669]

17 is legal in most states and countries around the world, so it's not really that big a deal. 16 is the average age of consent around the world, in general. Not saying it's wrong or right, just pointing out a fact.

[@danman6669]

@@danielmiller3596 Don't forget about the Beatles with the song "I Saw Her Standing There." The first two lines of the song: "Well, she was just seventeen/You know what I mean."

[@momomimi6915]

Winger and Black Flag Rock!

[@filipeduarte3093]

"Money For Nothing" is as awesome now as it was when it was released and will remain so long after anyone who takes offense from it is dead and buried. And that is a win in my book! 👍🏻

[@videodromeTVversion]

Awesome? Not necessarily. Pretty good? I'll settle on that one.

[@jaceydurland9098]

My sentiments exactly!

[@chrisblair5937]

@@videodromeTVversion No you effing emmeffer, it's the bomb diggity

[@emmetrobert4425]

The month it was released, I actually was in a diner, and two dudes who worked construction were going on and on about how they didn't think musicians were doing anything so special, so why should women go after them instead of, say, construction workers. I couldn't stop giggling because I was like, "I think Mark Knopfler just wrote about this conversation."

[@videodromeTVversion]

@@emmetrobert4425 Blue Collar Incels...

[@darrenskjoelsvold]

Yes you deserve a friggin medal for addressing Ted Nugent's Jail bait without getting demonitized. Well done sir.

[@TheNoSuchThingPodcast]

The last verse on that song is particularly “problematic” where he talks about sharing an underage girl with the potential arresting officer

[@lyricberlin]

nugent is a known pedo tho

[@theloniuspunk383]

ohh noo you can't find a fertile woman attraactiiveee noooooo take Sally the old used up roast beef having miserable toad that will suck the life out of youuu noooooo

[@skiinggator]

@@theloniuspunk383 - he's not singing about fertile women; he's singing about girls.

[@jedite7503]

Beavis and Butthead buried the band Winger in the 1990s. After B&B, Winger become the butt of the jokes. Due to the character Stuart, the nerdy kid.

[@CatherineLee3000]

They basically ruined Winger's career. LoL!!

[@mattmacarthur520]

Not really man they just released yet another killer album , lol was nominated for a Grammy in orchestral composition lol I’d say they were fine then and they are more than fine now. All extremely successful and talented guys

[@jenjen4louise]

Poison’s “I Want Action.” He literally says “If I can’t have her, I’ll take her and make her.”

[@aaronleverton4221]

There's a track on Back in Black with highly, highly dubious lyrics, but I was a teen when I first heard it and it was the whole package that got me hooked. I don't skip it when I play the album these days because the whole thing still just utterly rocks, although the bit about not fighting is...not great.

[@freeparking301]

“Let Me Put My Love Into You” is one of the highlights of the album. I’m gonna give AC/DC the benefit of the doubt on this one because they only sing about a few topics and I guess the fighting lyrics got mixed with the songs about chicks lyrics. I think back then there was a lot of songs about putting up a fight meaning being hard to get but yeah that phrasing is incriminating. And just like the whole jailbait thing, the term putting up a fight is everywhere in classic rock and other genres of the day. Either that or the world was filled with predators! As for Poison’s “I Want Action,” Bret Michaels seems like the kinda dude that would treat a woman with class. Those lyrics are just an outright lie hahaha. Actually heard an interview with one of the girls from Rock of Love and they brought up an interesting point when asked if Bret is one of those scumbag rockers. She said even after the show she gets invited to his concerts and it’s out of friendship and she said if there was anything out there you’d think the “me too” movement would’ve dug that dirt up. So I wonder who in the band wrote those lyrics.

[@aaronleverton4221]

@@freeparking301 It's definitely a product of its time, which is reason one why I'm not going to cancel them. They also sing songs about women getting the better of them, which is reason two. Also, it's pretty much an outlier of a lyric. It's not great from a modern perspective, but I agree that it's most likely about being "hard to get" and it definitely ain't Ted Nugent writing about underage girls in his '30s and singing about them for decades afterwards.

[@jenjen4louise]

To clarify, I’m not personally canceling anyone. I’ve seen Poison 6 times in concert and Bret when he was doing his RoL tour. I’m just saying that line would not fly in today’s “woke” society.

[@heavenly2k]

Sus.

[@guitaoist]

I love how rap gets away with all this stuff today though and no one talks about hate lyrics in their songs

[@despayre3914]

'Today'? That has been there from the start.

[@marcocave8867]

Exactly?!! this guy is talking about song from 70s to 90s. Why is it that rap can demean women and get away with singing crap like s**k t**s, you are my b***h and so on in 2022? How come they can take the piss of gays and and talk about "capping people"?? Some rap songs are more offensive than all these 10 song put together.

[@dylanblurton1881]

I agree

[@jasonbent97]

@@marcocave8867 because he is grifting for views and praise so if you think this video is honest you’re mistaken. It’s basically let’s point to all the old white men dinosaurs and nothing more. This host fails to understand “Money For Nothing” and it wasn’t inspiration but rather the song was MOCKING that guy. But again this is the white guy ragging on white guys doing the “see how bad those guys are and I’m so not” routine.

[@wyattblackwood3927]

I remember how NWA had a song about tying a woman up to a chair and killing her but first he had to let all of his homies Rape her. But black flag is a problem !! But when your work you can't say anything about the African-American or you're a racist.

[@Juel92]

Dude (Looks like a lady) still plays regularly on my local rock stations. Honestly, it's a guilty pleasure of mine.

[@Teebone211]

That's bad Areosmith (although I do like that Steven Tyler makes fun of that clown Vince Neil), Aerosmith's best work was the 70's...

[@skiinggator]

Knowing it's about Vince Neil takes away any issues I may have with it

[@scottlemiere2024]

@@skiinggator problem of course being that almost nobody knows it's about Vince Neil and just assume it's about a random trans person and shut their ears to be offended.

[@mejsjalv]

Fast forward to present day, Dude (looks like he's gonna have a heart attack any time soon).

[@benamisai-kham5892]

My brother is very feminine looking from behind so it's something he hears a lot LOL Men always hit on me and ask if I got a sister and I just reply "if you squint a bit my oldest brother looks like one" because it's happened frequently enough where guys think my brother is a woman (it's even happened to where my dad's coworkers thought it was from a distance and my dad could get a good laugh)

[@amotzbarakben-israel598]

ART SHOULD NEVER BE CENSORED....nuff said

[@junglerumbler6917]

These takes of aging poorly are gonna age poorly. Lol

[@amotzbarakben-israel598]

@@junglerumbler6917 i suppose so does "I'm in the Mood for Love" or any number of true R & B, and a boat load of nursery rhymes, ......

[@brokencandy1797]

Criticism isn't censorship.

[@martinwakefield8138]

​@@brokencandy1797 until critics have the power to censor

[@6li8storm40]

Who’s censoring anything? I can go listen to any one of these songs on Apple Music right now.

[@SavoxYT]

I suppose "Rock 'n Roll N***er" by Patti Smith would count were it not for the fact that with the exception of Jimi Hendrix, everyone she name drops in that song was either white or whatever the hell Jesus was. As far as I know, she still performs the song today.

[@theactualdice5865]

Hey Savox

[@JamieNova]

Oh God I keep forgetting that song exists. Also the fact that Marilyn Manson of all people covered it isn't even remotely surprising in hindsight but it's still weird that happened.

[@SavoxYT]

@@JamieNova Manson's cover was purely for shock value, to be fair. The way he shouted it over and over towards the end was just him being an edgelord and completely ignoring Smith's original intentions with the song.

[@JamieNova]

@@SavoxYT Yeah that's a good point, I just meant because of the recent allegations that it's not surprising that he actually thought it would be remotely smart to go there.

[@mrsicness1]

@@JamieNova American Head Charge did a cover of it as well. Imo, the sound and structure are MUCH better than Mansons version, but its still an obnoxiously offensive song Also, Manson told us who he was for his entire career. His fascist imagery. Homophobic lyrics. The recent accusations just seal what we all should have known. I cant even listen to him anymore, and that sucks because Pale Emperor is one of my top albums of the 2010s.

[@Jesse_Sutton]

I disagree that Dude Looks Like a Lady has aged badly. If you listen to the lyrics carefully, HE STILL GOES HOME WITH THE DUDE. Dude Looks Like a Lady, like Lola (the Kinks), appears to be about a fella that hooks up with a drag queen, and FOLLOWS THROUGH. What's more progressive than that?

[@princesskatarina351]

"So never judge a book by its cover Or who you gonna love by your lover Love put me wise to her love in disguise She had the body of a Venus Lord, imagine my surprise" Sure sounds like the singer went home with her, and had a great time. ;D

[@richardmcdonald6237]

By progressive do you mean vomit inducing?

[@rickwilliams967]

You should look up the Lola lyrics as well.

[@Jesse_Sutton]

@@rickwilliams967 I'm way ahead of you. I break out those two songs as examples of the same [awesome] trope

[@danman6669]

The Kinks were very much ahead of their time. It's said that they were the archetype of punk and metal.

[@Tkivo]

I recently just watched korn's live with fred durst. all in the family was so edgy and cool when I was a kid. it just shows that everyone's childhood is just a series of cringe events and behaviour no matter what generation you belong.

[@capt25252525]

I was at the 96 Family values tour that end on Halloween. I remember them preforming this on stage and thinking it was the greatest thing ever. Now I go back and watch it, and I just shake my head.

[@chaosapiant]

Too be fair "cringe" is how I'd describe anything with Fred Durst attached to it. And, hell, most of Korn as well.

[@johnbach2380]

@@chaosapiant says the guy with the name chaos in his handle

[@johnbach2380]

@@TheTenCentStory oh snap one cent story.

[@supremelordoftheuniverse5449]

True, but there is a gradient. There is still to be seen one more embarrassing than the Tik Tok generation

[@Axetwin]

I can respect Jon's take on All in the family. So, it's been a super long time since I last heard One in a Million, and decided to look up the lyrics. Holy hell, I guess that's the big difference between knowing a song when you're 16 and knowing it again when you're 42. I knew Winger would be on here, I'm surprised Warrent isn't on this list. I guess that's for a second video on the topic? You could fill up a playlist of songs that haven't aged well by popular bands.

[@darylsegrest4494]

“Dude looks like a lady” was the opening track to a drag show that I was in for 10 years, and when that song starts my blood pressure still skyrockets because I was never ready on time and that song let me know I had 10 minutes till showtime.

[@SkywalkerSamadhi]

😂😂😅I was in a band for about a year and a half-ish and I can relate to that panic when it was about time to go up there. Having social anxiety I wonder now why I put myself through all of that. Never even wanted to be in a famous band or anything. I just liked playing guitar.

[@sarahdell4042]

I’ve literally seen Steven Tyler shopping for women’s clothing alone on an island years back 🤣

[@the_kombinator]

Fire Island? :P

[@RodCalidge]

Could have been shopping for gifts for a girlfriend.

[@bonescheffel7795]

"She was just 17, You know what I mean And the way she looked Was way beyond compare" -I Saw Her Standing There-The Beatles

[@nikkirose1719]

For context Paul McCartney was 20 when this song was released, so not really !

[@the_kombinator]

I love rock and roll by Joann Jett also comes to mind.

[@robertsaul234]

@@nikkirose1719 and 18 or 19 when he wrote. They performed it in Germany before everything.

[@Axetwin]

@@nikkirose1719 Paul McCartney also wrote a song about various "men who thought they were a woman", and then proceeds to tell them to get back to where they once belonged.

[@DrRiddlez2015]

@@Axetwin Good

[@cessxiii]

For "Dude Looks Like a Lady", Desmond Child, who co-wrote it, said that this wasn't REALLY the full or accurate story about the song. The truth, according to him, is that Steven's initial chorus for the instrumental demo, was "Cruisin' For The Ladies", but Desmond thought it was too basic, so it got reworked to "Dude Looks Like a Lady". The Vince Neil situation happened after the record was already written etc., but had yet to be released. \m/

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Ooof. Talk about going from dumb to dumber.

[@elizabethanderson4909]

I always defend Brown Sugar like I do the novel Lolita - sometimes literature has an unreliable narrator. You are supposed to think the character is a horrible person.

[@midnightrider4ever]

Thank you for getting it. Most people don't understand art anymore.

[@mattrobson3603]

The subject matter might be worthwhile, but the melody and delivery of the lyrics are more suitable for a fun party anthem. On a lot of lists of misunderstood songs, there's always a bunch that are misunderstood because people don't listen carefully to the lyrics, and Brown Sugar is halfway there - some of them are what the band members describe, but some of them seem like the fit with the 'Hot black chicks, amirite?' fun-time party vibe that the overall music conveys. Compare that to, say, 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police, which has an unsettling feeling to it even if the listener hasn't figured out that it's about a stalker and not a lover.

[@ShOscar]

I agree with that too. Sometimes you can't always assume the narrator is doing good, and that they don't have to explicitly tell you that the subject matter is bad because it obviously is. Kinda like in the song "Angel of Death" by Slayer. They don't have to tell you that the Holocaust is bad because you should already assume that.

[@Lovuschka]

You can see the entire mental illness of the western world if Nabokov's novels are attacked at all.

[@jamescarey1622]

Their is nothing horrible about Brown Sugar whatsoever

[@fortisch]

8:50 Mark Knopfler wrote what the dude said, to tell in the song about this point of view. That is just how reality was and you cannot censor art that tries to show a real happening or story.

[@savagesword6393]

Under my Thumb always sounded way worse than Brown Sugar to me. Musicians often write/sing from a non-personal perspective though, doesn't always mean that's how they feel.

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

So glad I'm not the only one who hates Under My Thumb

[@FormallyKoki]

To be fair, under my thumb wasn’t a good vs bad type story. Mick Jagger claims it’s about a woman who abuses her male partner only for the man to turn the tables on her and become an abusive partner himself. It’s more of a bad vs bad type Situation.

[@poitor5915]

the dumb thing about “under my thumb”it sounds more like a ballad😵‍💫

[@smaug1234]

I don't think it matters what they think or feel, both you and I are capable of forming our own thoughts about pretty much any subject. I am ok with some of the rock artist I listen too being dicks or whatever else they are.

[@psychedelicfright85]

People know that, I think, but they need to make a fuss about nothing.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

reminds me i haven't heard Dire Straits - “Money For Nothing” for awhile. let me go listen to it now.

[@despayre3914]

Great song!!!!

[@coreyouellette2791]

It's a damn good song! I love it

[@roberts.2536]

I agree. And I'm glad I still hear it on the radio sometimes and that it hasn't been shelved.

[@Macrochenia]

There's a radio station near me that regularly plays the unedited version of Money For Nothing. But bleeps out "goddamn" in the Eagles "Life In the Fast Lane" and "bullshit" in Pink Floyd's "Money."

[@mattfoltz7752]

@@roberts.2536 the radio edit has the whole second verse cut.

[@Mxulin]

Money for Nothing is still amazing though-

[@gezi0752]

not the lyrics

[@Mxulin]

@@gezi0752 yeah

[@sarah2.017]

@@gezi0752 It's satire. I knew that when the song was a hit.

[@gezi0752]

@@sarah2.017 i’ve heard the song many times, what’s so satirical about it? and more importantly does the song need to be satirical to make the point it’s trying to make? No.

[@InLovingMemoryofTerryADavis]

@@gezi0752 I bet you have a Ukrainian flag in your Twitter handle.

[@joeymccullough2716]

This list just proves that today’s society will get butthurt over anything. Lighten up, people!

[@meherenow793]

but you're butthurt by his being butthurt, ❄

[@OklahomaHistoryLegends]

Mark Knopfler doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. That’s why he’s still alive and Hendrix is dead. People need to grow up and put on their big boy pants because rock doesn’t care about your damn feelings. If you don’t like rock, listen to ABBA 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@witmike]

It's not the songs aged bad, it's the world gone insane.

[@lonewolffang]

Aerosmith singing in 2022: 🎶 Dude look like a lady🎶 2022: Excuse me!? Aerosmith: 🎶Dude I'm getting canceled🎶 Please don't get mad I'm just making a parody joke.

[@JamieNova]

Lmao that's pretty good ngl.

[@johnoneill919]

Maybe people should just stop being so butt hurt about everything.

[@boldandbrash4451]

Stranglehold goes hard

[@janbadinski7126]

I agree with the original version of "Money for Nothin'" because it changed how people view the music industry as well as the work put into the songs. It appeared that some people really believe that it's that easy to be a musician.

[@kevinwebster7868]

Have you heard music lately. Apparently it is indeed very easy. Let me grab my laptop real quick.

[@joeymorvant161]

How hard could it be? I mean, it's not like physical labor. Not trying to sound hateful, but come on.

[@AvB.83]

​@@kevinwebster7868 The hard thing these days is not making music, it's making a living of it...

[@ShOscar]

Nowadays we got people blowing up on SoundCloud for tracks they made in their bedrooms while still in school. Independent music was seemingly unheard of back then. Just comes to show how much the music Industry has changed

[@traceyroberts5439]

That's how I understood that song too. I was eh maybe high school, itbwas sarcasm.

[@yungkoopa8998]

Whenever I see the band name, Dire Straits, I think of Super Mario 64 stage Dire, Dire Docks.. good game!!

[@mikeomatic9905]

Also a bangin soundtrack

[@princeapoopoo5787]

love that stage music. shit I'd happily fall asleep to daily

[@yungkoopa8998]

Love video games music, also.

[@americansuperdad5769]

Brown Sugar rocks! The song and ingredient aren't bad either!

[@alfrediceman9506]

Well it helps to have Bobby Keys blowing Sax

[@travisgilmartin3569]

Can't bake without it!

[@victorwaddell6530]

A song about sex slavery isn't proper in any age .

[@americansuperdad5769]

@@victorwaddell6530 then don't listen to it

[@joeymorvant161]

@@americansuperdad5769 Exactly!!

[@meganstaples4310]

Aerosmith never ages badly.

[@FLEXJR69]

I was born in 2002, i grew up on every song on this list...and to hell with you and your beliefs i will blast stranglehold and sing along to dude looks like a lady till my heart eventually gives out. All great songs

[@Metal-Theory-Reacts]

My Mom once told me " Songs from the 80s were all about stalking people and j#cking off"...

[@LewdConnoisseur]

I can't hate on Dude Looks Like a Lady simply because of the image of Robin Williams as Mrs Doubtfire doing air guitar with a broom conjures up in my head and I smile. XD

[@lucienfortner841]

This is the only good reason to smile when hearing that song. RIP Robin

[@armitage9204]

After this shit I must listen to Money For Nothing immediately.

[@StonedGossard_]

arguably the greatest riff ever written

[@Doomzdayxx]

Great song and awesome lyrics. People are just brittle-minded these days.

[@mattfoltz7752]

Look for the "full video version" many other versions have the while second verse cut.

[@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax]

@@Doomzdayxx Well Knopfler apologized for using that word without anyone pushing him into it. Maybe you should take a leaf out of his book or pay attention to what has been said since the recording? You know......so you don't become another brittle minded, unwoken cry baby hoping to go back to the days where you could freely say slurs without consequence?

[@Doomzdayxx]

@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax when did he apologize? Can't find anything on it.

[@nunchuksteev9811]

You can't apply today's standards to yesterday's art. Not to mention the U.S has experienced probably the fastest culture shift in history. Literally over night the rules can and have changed.

[@Terminus_El_Camino]

The wokest of today's music and art will be the target of next year's cancel culture.

[@Cazador728]

I absolutely hate it when bands are forced to change lyrics to their songs all because a few people got offended when they heard it on the radio or on social media

[@mickcollins1921]

Money for Nothing was a satirical take on the negative opinion others had about musicians and those in the music industry. The song was from the perspective of someone who didn't respect musicians. It was meant to show how shitty those people were in the opinion of the band.

[@mayalansky]

Ex-fucking-actly. I don’t get how people refuse to pick up on that part

[@RJ1015-Plays]

@@mayalanskypeople would rather complain about lyrics rather than try to understand why they’re satyrical just so they can feel offended.

[@mmsiphonevinyls1027]

I can imagine the one song per artist rule worked wonders for the catalogs of both Ted Nugent and Fred Durst here.

[@codydrummer]

One I can think of would be "My Sharona" for the line "never gonna stop give it up, such a dirty mind. I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"

[@the_kombinator]

Oh, I didn't know that's what the actual lyric was! Now I can't unhear it...

[@fredpaige7268]

I like cheech and Chong's "my scrodum"!!!

[@lesliediane6693]

I remember an old interview about Dude Looks like a Lady. Stephen didn't actually say who he wrote it about but the whole band busted up when Vince Neil from Motley Crue walked by 🤣

[@somewhatsomething4882]

I can totally understand the scenario... I mean Vince still looks so hot today 😂😂😂

[@ahhwe-any7434]

Girls girls girls is a nope. Cheery pie, that can go too. Icps cheery pie as well. Used to think it was funny then. Not so much now

[@joex9865]

Maybe it's not the songs that aged badly, maybe it's society that has aged badly

[@joex9865]

Side note: many of these songs suck regardless of the time

[@smcauley600]

alwaya on idiot in the comments

[@joex9865]

If you can be offended by a song, you have bigger problems

[@tamartin64]

If you want a Top 20 song that aged poorly both times it was released, check out Into The Night by Benny Mardones. It makes Seventeen and Christine Sixteen seem almost wholesome by comparison.

[@TINInBILLY]

That’s a wonderful song. Literally, this is the only time in the history of humankind that condemns past prejudices so well, but could not help but pick out a new one that everyone can be okay to get offended about. You know what, I’d hate to be a son or daughter of someone who thought with such a puritanical, mindset, bc if one now truly thinks 16/17 makes that much difference in only an ‘age’; then I guess that parent wld not allow their son to drive a car at 16; making split decisions that wld endanger the lives of everyone on the road, bc guess what, they do. Maybe this new style of helicopter parent would think some kind of Fairy waves a magic wand over your daughters head on her 18th b day, where all of a sudden he or she can go to war, strip tease & endanger herself in front of a gangster crowd, work in a hardened prison as a guard, & become a lady of the night where legal, but by God..a day earlier at 17..& that fairy just hasn’t whispered all the things in her ear to just allow consent, but at 18 it jumps to all that BIG STUFF. I think there should be a natural progression upwards, not just a BIG LEAP ya know. Question is, is this the mentality we’ve adopted now? Bc, SOMEHOW, I feel like this one will be the one that hasn’t aged well in the future

[@tamartin64]

@@TINInBILLY After reading that, I need a shower.

[@glennstarkey7087]

Some of the lyrics are essentially GROOMING LINES...agreed....posted that in my snub list

[@pursuitofsound3120]

@@TINInBILLY Here's a list of past prejudices condemned by other generations. Colonialism, Slavery, the Monarchy, Child Abuse, Vote oppression and I could keep going. Condemnation is not anything new, it's just ramped up. Maybe the age of 18 might seem arbitrary, but a line has to be drawn somewhere from a legal stand point. So what are you saying? A line shouldn't be drawn anywhere? It's a losing battle to take that stance because the younger generations are not losing ground on this, they are gaining it. So now matter how much you don't like it, it's happening no matter what. Because it needs to. So I would recommend finding another hill to die on. Your comment is about as rooted in reality as the belief that black and white TV's are going to make a comeback.

[@themoviedealers]

@@TINInBILLY We had to pick age at which time one is no longer a child and becomes an adult. Any age picked would have been arbitrary. Some people are mature at 17 and some still act like children at 20. Or older. But 18 is the age we picked, so there it is.

[@sarah2.017]

Most of those songs caused exactly the same controversies when they were released. One of my friends used to sing the Winger song, "She's only 17 / I'm only 32......"

[@JamieNova]

So I just remembered one time on Facebook I saw some people arguing about how Brown Sugar is actually about heroin addiction or something along those lines, and I'm very confused about that, because how the heck did you get that from the lyrics of the song? Like, I don't understand how the surface level subject matter of the song translates to that.

[@RockedNet]

Huh...now THAT is a take.

[@JamieNova]

@@RockedNet Right, like even if the song was theoretically a metaphor for something (which I honestly highly doubt), that seems like a weird thing to be a metaphor for to me.

[@jimmym3352]

There's the joke that every song written in the 70's is about drugs. :)

[@JamieNova]

@@jimmym3352 Yeah there is that but AFAIK the conversation was completely serious.

[@728huey]

The Rolling Stones version of "Brown Sugar" was definitely a racially based song. However, the R&B artist D'Angelo released a song and album with same name, and that song was supposed to be about doing heroin.

[@orangetic-tac6868]

I looked up lyrics to seventeen Christine 16 and now jailbait in order I'm pretty sure I'm on the registry now. In a serious note tho idk how the hell jailbait is a real song that's actually insane

[@beezysbeatz4924]

Hearing this dude describe rock band behavior as "problematic" is enough for me. There is NOTHING wrong with the lyrics to "Dude Looks Like a Lady"! Lighten up snowflakes, nobody cares how you live which means there's room for jokes at your expense without condemnation.

[@nicholaspeterson61]

I legitimately thought that Dude Looks Like A Lady was about critics saying the band looks like ladies and they were just owning it.

[@lucienfortner841]

Damn, that would have been so cool if it was true.

[@someguy7424]

“Babylon” by Faster Pussycat. It aged horribly on every level possible. The most morally offensive thing about it is the reference to Spanish Fly, but on a purely sonic level it has every bad trend that we regret about the late 80s, and this is coming from a guy who generally likes hair metal.

[@RockedNet]

Sweet mercy the 80's...

[@123theprodigy5]

@@RockedNet I actually got in trouble for listening to Hollywood Undead in high school, my classmate was singing undead out loud. So my teacher said we couldn’t listen to them anymore. In high school, they were my Favourite band. But now, I don’t Listen to Hollywood undead anymore.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@RockedNet I was there. It was a weird, cringey time. Even weirder and cringier than you probably think.

[@jimsutera6343]

Its not a generational divide, its a comprehension divide. Rock has always artisticly reflected society for better or for worse. Context matters. If you continue to try to sanitize everything then you remove its complexity. The types of situations in these songs exist and should have open dialog about them. It is often art and its conflicts that lead to progress. Or you can turn your back on it and pretend it doesnt exist because its "cringy".....like a child would.

[@Jeff_Vader]

Well said.

[@harunatsu6756]

100%!

[@mrlizardtx]

I've seen Winger several times. Seventeen is always on the set list and lyrics are never changed. Kip does joke about how old she'd be today. (She just turned 51)

[@jolie7neige]

Yep. He laughs when he sings it and changes the lyric to a different number, acknowledging how she's not that age anymore.

[@tdsollog]

I was 17 when the song released. I did turn 51 this year.

[@Teebone211]

@@tdsollog were you a cutie back then??..lol

[@tdsollog]

@@Teebone211 No LOLs about it… imagine Velma from Scooby Doo as an 80s rocker chick.

[@heavenly2k]

@@Teebone211 you're weird.

[@cadencejacobs6501]

Isn't all good music controversal? Rock is about speaking your mind no matter what. Thats probably why pop is so big now. Big Brother doesnt want music that offends others, rather people who vote for them.

[@TheNightmareRider]

Motley Crue: All in the Name of Rock "You say illegal. I say, legal's never been my scene." Do I need to say more? I recommended this song to my younger brother as a teen. Ah to be discovering 80s rock and be blissfully ignorant.

[@meelionmakeupasmr7396]

Yep. I was looking to see if someone mentioned this song. Sixteen? The Crüe lowered it to 15.. o_O

[@kaidenorgana5151]

The song is about Nikki's affection for Tracy Lords, the porn star who started filming when she was only 16. She left the porn industry 2 days after she Turned 18.

[@somewhatsomething4882]

Here's the worst I can remember: "Rock queen, thirteen (!!!), buxom blonde bad dream, let me touch your cookies, let me eat your cookies, nowwwww" from "Rock Queen" by Love/Hate

[@andrewpappas9311]

Honestly, I'm genuinely surprised there was no mention of Sublime, especially Wrong Way, Date Rape (both for obvious reasons thanks to the lyrics) or Caress Me Down (Just because I don't know how well a mention of Ron Jeremy would work in 2022 as compared to 1996). Also regarding that Ted Nugent song, what the actual fuck was he thinking with those lyrics. Like, oh my god...

[@LewdConnoisseur]

I know that Nowell and the other guys regretted that song Date Rape and refused to play it live even when people requested it.

[@JamieNova]

Honestly I always interpreted WW and DR to be basically warnings against the subject matters of the songs, discouraging the behaviors, but that could just be me. Also Ted Nugent should probably be on a list at this point I feel like.

[@someguy7424]

@@JamieNova I agree, Jamie. DR is definitely NSFW, but I wouldn’t call it malicious.

[@dannyhargreaves1326]

Date Rape seems more cautionary than problematic. The girl gets justice, and there’s irony for the man anyways.

[@sarah2.017]

@@dannyhargreaves1326 "Date Rape" is an anti-rape song.

[@lexdemonica]

If you are offended by a song, you deserve to be.

[@mylerwilson4879]

The song I listened to was from Nickleback. Why shouldn’t I be offended?

[@jamesmann9308]

I just see a overly sensitive man whining when I watch this video. He may have some points but just seems like he searches for reasons to be offended all the time.

[@trope5105]

Being politically correct in music, is what ruined music imo! pretending that perception isnt beautiful, is just unintelligent. i could write a novel talking about how things are., but as a person who hasnt had a social media since myspace, its clear to me how the media has made ppl try their hardest to think a certain way,,, something that will never work in the long run

[@fluxvisionimagery]

I was one of the girls in love with Winger. I was poised when "Seventeen" came out only because I had just turn 16 and couldn't apply. 😂

[@hawkmangohawks]

Fun fact: Undead was on the Madden 09 soundtrack

[@calmdownbeavis7039]

I remember turning off the song after hearing it. I was 12 and immediately heard the crazy train keys and went straight to the settings in madden and turned it off😭 09 did turn me on to trivium though 🤘

[@ohsoedgy6888]

Theory of Deadman-I Hate My Life is definitely a dishonorable mention when it comes to songs that haven’t aged well!

[@RockedNet]

Theory has a ton that haven't aged well.

[@crashthehedgehog919]

@@RockedNet I think all of "Say Nothing" aged like milk the second it dropped

[@JamieNova]

My dad unironically loves that song and that honestly really bothers me. Like he called it funny once...

[@ohsoedgy6888]

@@crashthehedgehog919 Hate my Life is the biggest offender Especially that 2nd verse! Ooof!

[@123theprodigy5]

@@RockedNet theory of a deadman is terrible. Nickelback is bad too, but not as bad as them.

[@boredasfckxx]

"There are people in Florida that still support this man." lmfao I died.

[@bmstylee]

Which is no worse than California or Atlanta.

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

Thankfully I'm not one of them, also why specifically Florida?

[@rapier1422]

Most of these songs have not aged poorly at all. The soft headed easily offended are the problem.

[@chazzx1018]

Exactly, his p#ssy was getting sore listening to these songs

[@slyone37]

100%

[@theloniuspunk383]

help me get them in a war

[@galaxygamer247]

The songs didn’t age badly the World has just become overly offended by everything.

[@robgronotte1]

Brown Sugar and Money For Nothing are both ironic portrayals of bigoted people, similar to many songs by Randy Newman and endless numbers of books and movies.

[@nelsonschneider3420]

Nowadays everyone seems to be offended by something…it is so stupid!

[@AMoniqueOcampo]

I remember when my college drama department did a production of an Oscar Wilde play and one of the male actors was playing a role in drag. He stepped out while "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was playing. It makes sense in context.

[@tylerlindsey4772]

literally no one says dude looks like a lady is transphobic, literally no one.

[@SimbianMinistry]

Amazed that you missed The Knack's 'My Sharona' Great song, but it's about an older guy obsessed with a highschool girl. 'Such a dirty mind, I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind'

[@SThompsonRAMM_1203]

That’s what the Little Girls Do - She's the virgin queen Dancing in your dreams Yes she plays her part If you let her go She will break your ego And your heart

[@Teebone211]

I hate that song to this day, it was a huge hit when I was a Sr in HS, I always say the lead singer, Doug Feiger, was masturbating as he sang that song....

[@NikkiWraith]

Many of these songs are products of their time. "Seventeen" was targeted at the audience that would consume it: 13-20 year olds. As a 20ish person in that day, It was WAY too common to meet this amazing hot chick, who looked old enough, who was at an 18+ plus show, who later turned out to have a fake ID, and be 17. And, as said elsewhere, "Money For Nothing" was satire.

[@baron_von_brunk]

Shhhh, you're shattering the narrative!

[@Aster_Risk]

@@baron_von_brunk No, they aren't. You're embarrassing yourself.

[@sodomizingdeathmaster1795]

@@Aster_Risk You will never be a woman.

[@timbrownhill7272]

I think you're saying more about yourself with your comment than you mean too, and it's nothing good.

[@InLovingMemoryofTerryADavis]

@@timbrownhill7272 Cry about it.

[@p.d.l7023]

Ted Nugget: I am a Predator. Everyone: Because you shoot bears with arrows? Ted Nugget: Nope!

[@bohemianlucy4726]

Honestly, I wasn't aware that Ted Nugent had any other songs besides "Cat Scratch Fever." Now I wish I could go back to that.

[@bse523]

He has worse. He has a song called Stranglehold.

[@jimmym3352]

Stranglehold is easily his best song. Not sure if I want to google the lyrics though. :)

[@yazmon4515]

@@jimmym3352 Maybe it's his best known song but we always were partial to Hibernation back in the day. No lyrics too, so unless you are offended by great guitar it's worth a listen.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@jimmym3352 you really don't. It's all just bragging about being a violent, misogynistic arsonist.

[@TFEnright5]

@@bse523 Jailbait is definitely worse. He talks about a 13-year-old and handcuffing her and sharing her with a cop. Disgusting.

[@joerico9461]

The song Dude Looks Like A Lady is more relevant today than ever. The difference is you would get your ass kicked in the 80s by The rockers then today not so much .

[@mousemacleod9184]

I don't see the problem with many of these songs, music is about expression, you can't take it to literally or crucify someone for their opinions or beliefs or even their fantasies even, agreed that some may be a bit out of line but no one should have to sensor themselves as freedom of speech is still a thing

[@inhumanesmoke4342]

Yet the SJW's want to end freedom of speech. Most these songs had critics at the time of their release. It's the same with comedy. It's why both comedy and music suck these days.

[@mousemacleod9184]

@@inhumanesmoke4342 I can agree to that

[@FardtilUshid]

just because something has racial or homophobic content, it doesn't always mean it's racist or homophobic. Satire? sometimes the best way to show how bad something is is to put the spotlight on it.

[@deementia6796]

@Manish Mims Everyone knows Randy Newman from "You've Got a Friend in Me" and Pixar, but there's quite a few "controversial" songs of his in the 1970's that are definitely satire, but people could definitely read wrong, like "Sail Away" , "Short People" or "Rednecks".

[@Forbes780]

If any of these songs hurt your feelings just dont listen to them

[@rob0213cfh]

I'm so sick of hearing about hurt feelings and people being insulted by everything. People really need to get over themselves. I'm not defending any of this but your literally ruining everything. Comedy is already dead and will never be the same. Pretty soon I'm going to be listening to death metal about hugging puppies and eating icecream cones. Cannibal Corpses new album called "We love cats and walks on the beach". We wouldnt want anybody's feelings hurt. It would make them very very sad. Get some help. You will live, I promise.

[@Potatoast]

A lot of popular songs from the 60's, 70's , and 80's have lyrics about 17-year old girls. I've often wondered why this is. What is/was the fascination with 17-year-old girls back then?

[@KilldozerNY]

Money for nothing is a awesome tune , too many overly sensitive people out there today . lots of great tunes on this list. This is why music is terrible today. Thanks wokists.

[@craignp007]

I get how many of these are considered poor taste now. But i notice how even ones not ment to be taken serious are given tons of attention for being controversial, Yet the many many song about murdering your husband or destroying dudes belongings by alot of country and R&B female singers are all still looked at light heartedly and accepted as funny non serious songs. (as they should)

[@RedDragonM1]

you know what music aged really bad? ANYTHING....by Dr. Rockso, the rock and roll clown! (Nathan Explosion went on record to say many times he hates him and wants him to die.)

[@freeparking301]

Great now I got “Dory Maclean” stuck in my head! You know she was only fourteen and that she could suck it all night, she’s a sweet sucking queen. Dr. Rockso was an incredibly accurate allegory for a lot of the ridiculous excesses of the 70s and especially the 80s. Also Zazz Blammymatazz rules!

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Metalopcalypse is a show, not anything to do with this list despite the metal focus.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne I bet you're loads of fun at parties. Lemme break this down for you - RedDragonM1 referenced the show because it's a show *entirely* based around making fun of the kind of stupid shit discussed in this video.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

@@dogslobbergardens6606 I have high functioning aspergers, I did not understand or get the context, can you please not viciously get at me? Your giving me nice guy vibes.

[@abutts02]

I think Beavis and Butthead killed Winger’s career even more

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Which is probably the very best thing about Beavis and butthead ever existing. I like some of Mike Judge's later work, though.

[@lonelybro77]

Wasn't much of a career to kill. Almost none of those bands went on into the 90s

[@abutts02]

@@dogslobbergardens6606 always loved watching Beavis and Butthead, even if I was a bit young, but my parents allowed it. King of the Hill was another awesome work of Mike Judge.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@abutts02 I liked KOTH a lot better than I ever liked Beavis and Butthead, that's for sure.

[@ShOscar]

"Even though you're seventeen I've got to tell you You're too old for me" -The Matches, "Chain Me Free", 2003

[@pulsedemonwojtek]

I chuckle whenever someone is upset over Money For Nothing or Brown Sugar, absolute rock classics with questionable at worst lyrics

[@wstine79]

I definitely know KORN'S 'ADIDAS" would not fly by today's standards.

[@Broncos1684]

The standards of woke snowflakes who don't have balls and are offended by everything? Don't like it, don't listen.

[@ideitbawxproductions1880]

the awkward as hell radio edit is somehow even worse

[@the_kombinator]

Why? Do today's teenagers not think about sex all the time? Ah, the gaming (last) generation...

[@inhumanesmoke4342]

"today's standards"? Extreme violence and drug addiction seem to get a pass I guess

[@williampusey8266]

Christine Sixteen is even more creepier when you find out Gene was a former school teacher.

[@camilacastro2773]

This song makes Gene look like he needs to be in the watch list! (FBI open up)

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

I'm absolutely certain that Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and a thousand other rockstars were absolutely scrupulous and totally above-board when it came to checking groupies' IDs oh wait never mind.

[@jordanlopez1438]

For real damn I learned something new

[@Ellthom]

The sad thing about Dude (Looks Like a Lady) is that its weaponized against Trans people by transphobes, its not a bad song intentionally, and I actually have a trans friend who used to like the song, they told me that they like it and feels it can be reclaimed but there is just a lot of people in the trans community who just hate it now (or have always hated it), for the reason that its just used to demean and belittle them and treat them like shit. The song hasn't aged so much as it has been perverted by TERFS and right wing ass hats. :( Always love that your videos provide a lot of discussion though. :)

[@princeapoopoo5787]

Yeah, it sounds like it was just intended to be a playful little thing and nothing horrible. As someone who is gender nonconforming, I hope it is able to be reclaimed. It really makes me sick when stuff that isn't intended to be bad is weaponized by bad people. I know I'd be pissed off and saddened if something I made was used as a weapon by TERFs

[@paranoidrodent]

@@princeapoopoo5787 Ugh, I've never seen it used by TERFs (yet) but I've definitely seen drunken college guys use it to harass queer and trans folks over the years. Reclaiming it would be nice (I'm a trans woman who grew up with that song as part of my teenage years) but it's got so much baggage.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

@@princeapoopoo5787 As a gender non comforming individual like you, I agree, it is just depressing the fact people want to misuse music just to do whatever the hell they want or their own purpose, I mean Cult Of Personality has gone from being the theme to those awful people to the theme of my discord religion.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Steven Tyler is pretty dumb, but there's no way he's SO dumb he couldn't foresee that phrase would be used as an insult by millions of meathead fans the second it was released. I mean, c'mon now.

[@johnhatchel9681]

Because 0.6% of the population should dictate everything in society 🤔

[@waly2370]

Monney for nothing is still a banger

[@_Lit_Fuse]

People are way too sensitive nowadays. Some can’t wait to be offended and victimized. Pathetic

[@willwelsh2475]

I think all in the family had already aged badly a few minutes after release

[@RockedNet]

I think you may be right. 0.o

[@killer92173]

Yeah I always hated that song even back in the day.

[@lidiaspazzard]

Money for Nothing isn't the problem, the current culture is.

[@mrcnub]

I hate that "Seventeen" became a signature Winger song, because even if you completely ignore the lyrics it's a middle of the road Winger song at best. Not only are there dozens of better tracks on their later albums, but "Madalaine" was released as a single from the same album and is so much better in every way! Why didn't that become the big hit? 😒 Same deal with Warrant and Cherry Pie. Another hair metal band that got a bad rap because one of the worst songs they ever recorded became their biggest hit.

[@eightymopar]

shut up stewart

[@LongLiveRockAnRoll]

Hey the solo rips at least, just fast forward to that 😅

[@rushguy1]

Winger’s third album Pull is fantastic and the best one they ever did.

[@leviathan_is_me]

My sister was 17 when the song released....I don't think I need to elaborate.

[@mrcnub]

@@rushguy1 Debatable, Winger IV and Better Days Comin' are also damn good albums. But Pull is definitely up there, and unfortunately they picked just about the worst possible time to release it.

[@midnightrider4ever]

All in the Family, Seventeen and One in a Million are great tunes. So is Brown Sugar and Money for Nothing. Some people just need to grow a skin and see the songs for what they are... entertainment. I said it. I stand by it.