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* "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails does a lot with four F-Strikes.
* [[Kate Nash]]'s cute, bubbly pop song, 'Doo-Wah-Doo', ends with this line:
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* [[Faith No More]] - In the song 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies': "Happy birthday, FUCKER!" Also, later in the song: "Cause I'm the best FUCK that you ever had".
* Though [[Motion City Soundtrack]] lyrics can be pretty [[Cluster F-Bomb|foul-mouthed]] (@!#?@!, for example), there are some examples.
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* [[Doom Metal|Reverend Bizarre]]'s song "The Wandering Jew": "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|But I don't FUCKING care, because the end is near, HA!]]"
* "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band:
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** Averted on the radio version, where the line is changed to "...you son of a gun..."
* During at least David Wilcox's performances of "Moe", we get this line:
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* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]. "Don't Download This Song". Don't believe me? Here's the final chorus:
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Or you'll burn in Hell before too long (and you'll deserve it!)
Go and buy the CD (go and buy it!) like you know that you should (you cheap ''bastard''!)
Oh, don't download this song }}
** In "Another Tattoo", he gets a [[Curse Cut Short]] at the end of the song.
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** Also "Hurricane" ("Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down") and "George Jackson" ("He wouldn't take shit from no one")
* James Blunt's ''You're Beautiful'' has the line (which was naturally censored for radio broadcast):
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"Fucking high." }}
** On ''[[Top Gear]]'', he also belted out a "C'mon you little fucker!" while doing a lap in the reasonably priced car.
* ''Graffiti the World'' by Rehab is about how warped and abusive the world really is. It's kept clean until the very last line:
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* [[Metallica]]'s ''...And Justice For All'' album, known as the band's "angry" album, is seething with hostility and rage at the more hypocritical elements of our society throughout. In spite of this, the album contains only one ''lyrical'' F-bomb, in the final track, "Dyers Eve." It is awesome. (The album booklet is a different story; Metallica's usual sophomoric sense of humor, rife with swear words left and right, is in full force on the album's liner notes).
** The sticker on ''Master of Puppets'' warns us that there'd be only one song on the whole album with major swearing: "Damage, Inc.", which has THREE Precision F Strikes.
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* [[Meat Loaf]]'s song "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" on the album "Bat Out of Hell II" features the rare use of a swear word (ass) by him.
* [[Jonathan Coulton]] does this several times, and you can spot someone who hasn't heard the song by the fact they do a double-take. For example, in "First of May", it happens in the chorus:
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* Another one on "Sticking it to myself":
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* [[The Who|Oh, Who the fuck are you?]] (The radio changes it to "Who the hell are you" or just edits around it.)
** From ''Doctor Jimmy'': "Her fella's gonna kill me? OH FUCKING WILL HE?"
** And, in a [[Real Life]] example, Townshend telling Abbie Hoffman to "get off my fucking stage" when the latter interrupted their set at [[Woodstock]] to bitch about John Sinclair's imprisonment for marijuana possession.
* [[Michael Jackson|Michael]] and [[Janet Jackson]]'s "Scream", a very angry and confrontational song, features this in one of the last choruses. Notable because [[Michael Jackson]] usually shied away from profanity.
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Stop ''pressurin''' me,
Stop ''fuckin''' with me,
Makes me wanna ''scream'' }}
** Michael also did a precision S Strike in "This Time Around". To be specific, the ''[[History]]'' album had a lot of angry songs where Mr. Jackson would swear. (Damn in "Earth Song", Shit and Bitch in "Morphine", etc.)
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Somebody's out to get me
They really wanna fix me, hit me
But this time around I'm taking no ''shit''
Though you really wanna get me
You really wanna get me }}
* [[Nightwish]] does this in their song Master Passion Greed. The swearing in other songs is limited to "damn," "hell," and a "bastard" here and there. However, in Master Passion Greed, it's "I fuck up everything but let me explain" in the second verse.
** However, Bassist/Vocalist Marco Hietala drops the f-bomb frequently during live performances (in both English and Finnish)
* [[Lady Gaga]] usually makes her sexual references in songs at least slightly hidden. Her f-strikes are so well done that, for example, the f-bomb in "Poker Face" (in the line "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-fuck her face") was undetected for over a year (and Weird Al uses the [[Mondegreen]] version, "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face" as censorship when covering it as part of his polka medley "Polka Face"). Also, for example, in "Monster":
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She mumbled something as we got down on the floor, baby
We might have '''fucked''', not really sure, don't quite recall
But something tells me that I've seen him, yeah }}
** She also says "shit" in Paparazzi: "snap snap to that shit on the radio".
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* [[A Perfect Circle]] holds off on the cursing until near the end of "Passive" (repeating the line "passive-aggressive bullshit" over and over as the song fades out), but they only use the F-word twice in the song. The first time just sounds like an agitated "You fucking disappoint me," but the second time is a much more profound "You ''FUCKING'' disappoint me!!" First f-strike comes around [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPFnrrhB1M 3:05] and the second will follow afterwards.
* A brilliant tactical F strike from [[Bloc Party]]'s "Positive Tension":
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Why'd you have to get so hysterical? (6x)
Why'd you have to get...'''so fuckin' useless?''' }}
** ...it works in context.
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* Despite their tendency to swear profusely in interviews the brothers Gallagher have only had two songs featuring the word fuck in their discography, the track 'Fuckin' In The Bushes' from Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, where the eponymous phrase is uttered by a recording (there is no actual vocal on the song), and the Liam-written, 'Pass Me Down The Wine', a b-side to the single 'The Importance Of Being Idle'.
* [[Rise Against]]'s song "Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" has one particularly strong F-bomb near the end:
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We left empty handed again.
Shots fired into the sky are now returning.
Where the fuck will you hide? }}
** Because Rise Against rarely use any unsavoury language, any song that has cursing could be considered this.
** The entire album could be considered a precision strike, as ''Siren Song of the Counter Culture'' avoided the dreaded sticker despite having a couple noticeable fucks (By comparison, the next release ''The Sufferer and the Witness'' has the sticker for swearing in a single song).
** From the Endgame album in the song Survivor Guilt
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with words like courage and resolve
but what they meant was fuck em all
cause freedom isn't free }}
* An obscure protopunk group from the 70s, the Electric Eels, released a 1991 compilation album titled "God Says Fuck You."
* [[Tori Amos]]'s song "The Waitress" has one, in the loud, shrill chorus following the quiet, subdued tones in the verses
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I believe in peace, '''BITCH''' }}
* In [[Green Day]]'s song "Too Much Too Soon", there is one right in the middle, during the bridge. Swearing is prevalent with Green Day, but the way it's used in this song (especially the [[American Idiot|Broadway version]]) is much heavier than previous swears.
** When Dookie was first released, swearing in mainstream music was not as common as it became a few years later, so when Billie Joe utters the lyrics "You're fucking lazy" in the leadoff single "Longview", it was a shock to a lot of people who weren't used to it.
* [[Bruce Springsteen]], in the song "Long Time Comin'," on the subject of raising a child:
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And feel another one kickin' inside
And I ain't gonna fuck it up this time" }}
** Also, in the song "Queen of the Supermarket:"
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I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
That blows this whole fucking place apart" }}
* The Mighty Lemon Drop's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqSHdXzp5k All The Way]''
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'Can't take no more of this fucking shit. }}
* [[George Harrison]]'s "Piggies" is the only [[Beatles]] song to use a strong word:
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What they need's a damn good whacking }}
** What makes this even funnier is that it was George's mother, of all people, who suggested the line.
** OTOH, [[John Lennon]]'s solo "Working Class Hero" has this doozy:
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And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see }}
* [[Iron Maiden]]'s only album song with profanity (a few b-sides recorded just for laughs fit [[Cluster F-Bomb]]) is "Holy Smoke", with two ("Flies around shit, bees around honey" and the much more effective "I've lived in filth, I've lived in sin, and I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in!").
** Related to Maiden, on the forum Maidenfans, the song "Paschendale" is usually known as "Paschenfuckingdale", PFD for short, for being a [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* While the [[Foo Fighters]] have a few songs with swearing, "Word Forward" is the one that works best:
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These I owe you's
They're just fucking words! }}
* In 8 albums (roughly 5 hours of music), [[Weezer]] employs the F Stike precisely once-- and Lil Wayne is the one who drops it, on Raditude's "Can't Stop Partying."
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Man my life is beauitful, and my girls are mutual }}
** There is also one F Strike on the full-band version of "My Brain (Is Workin' Overtime)," but this version was never officially released. Rivers Cuomo's officially-released solo version omits the entire verse.
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Cause who decides what's sick or healthy? }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yvN72HDU-c ''The Assumption Song''] narrowly avoids using swear words throughout most of the song, and has a single dirty word at the end.
* "Stay Free", by [[The Clash]]:
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We're gonna hit the town
We'll burn it fuckin' down
To a cinder }}
* "Tommy's Down Home", from Tesla's live ''Five Man Acoustical Jam'' album:
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* A strange example with [[Bjork]]'s video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtzQ6KbWWY Alarm Call]":
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* [[Paramore]]'s lyricist Hayley Williams has never sworn in a song (unless you count "whore" as a swear word, which in itself could be a Precision F Strike for a band like them) so there was quite a commotion when her solo song Teenagers was released containing the line "don't ask me where I'll go, 'cause frankly I don't know and I don't give a shit."
* The band fun.'s debut album was clean, until this moment in the 7-minute closing song "Take Your Time (Coming Home)":
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* While Amanda Palmer likes to throw the word 'Fuck' around absolutely everywhere it can fit, ''Jeep Song'' in completely swear-free except for one, mind-blowingly powerful line;
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9WZtxRWieM In my mind]
* [[Sufjan Stevens]] never released a song with profanity until 2010's "I Want to Be Well," repeating the line "I'm not fucking around" in the chorus [[Cluster F-Bomb|16 times]].
* Toad The Wet Sprocket's "Hold Her Down" is their only song to include any cursing ("and they don't know her, but what the fuck, they've got nothing else they can do"). It's about outrage on behalf of a rape victim, which is probably why they considered it a justified use.
* The normally quiet and polite Cowboy Junkies drop one in the feminism-tinged "Floorboard Blues." Cue howls of approval from the audience, and a "[[Content Warnings|Parental Advisory]]" sticker from the record company.
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It's a fucked up ol' world, mama, but this ol' girl, well... she ain't givin' in. }}
* The only song in [[Billy Joel]]'s entire recorded output to contain an F-bomb is "Laura", from ''The Nylon Curtain''.
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* [[Johnny Cash]]'s "A Boy Named Sue":
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** And "Cocaine Blues"
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** Curiously, the "son of a bitch" was bleeped out of the original recording of ''Live at San Quentin'' ... even though, in the earlier ''Folsom Prison'' album, the "bad bitch" line from "Cocaine Blues" and Johnny's line about how "you can't say 'shit' or 'hell'" (cited in the Film examples above) stayed in the recording unaltered.
* [[The Kinks]]' "Apeman":
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The air pollution is a-fuckin' up my eyes }}
** As a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] (since it ''was'' put out as a single) the lyric sheet claimed it was "the air pollution is a-''foggin''' up my eyes".
* While the band Behemoth is no stranger to using the f-word in their music, the song "Slaves Shall Serve" is a perfect invocation of this trope, at the song's climax, screaming the name of the song 8 times, ending it with '''"SLAVES!!! SHALL!!!''' '''''FUCKING''''' '''SERVE!!!"'''
* Mumford and Sons' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E Little Lion Man]. Yes, the chorus has the f-strike, but it still must count.
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** The fact that this is the only time that they've used the word (or any cursing, for that matter) in all the songs they've written so far gives it that much more of an impact.
* [[Dream Theater|Dream Theater's]] album Train of Thought has two f-strikes, one in two different songs. These are the only two times such word has been used in their discography.
* [[Pretenders]] began their career with one. "Precious", the opening track from their debut album, lands one conspicuously at the end of the bridge leading into the final chorus:
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** The rest of the album explores the common pop-song subjects of sex, relationships, domestic violence, and gang rape in relatively clean language.
* Hamell On Trial's "John Lennon" is a spoken-word ballad about his attempt as a teenager to meet John Lennon. After a very lengthy setup, he finally does, and...
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"FUCK OFF!"
[[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|It sucked to be me. I hit the men's room.]] }}
* [[K-On!|Houkago Tea Time]] has this happen every once in a while, if it's a song sung by Mio.
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* [[CAKE (band)|CAKE's]] cover of "I Will Survive" changes the lyric "stupid lock" to "fucking lock". Gloria Gaynor was not pleased.
* [[Panic! at the Disco]] had "Lying Is The Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off". They rarely said anything worse than "whore" and "goddamn".
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* Skeletonwitch: FIIIYAAAARRR FROM THE MOOOTHEEEER '''FUCKING''' SKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
* [[Emilie Autumn]] invokes this on her Opheliac record:
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** Marry Me: So I'll fuck who I choose for I've nothing to lose ...
* Normally fairly mellow country singer Gillian Welch sneaks one into "Revelator", half-slurred enough that most people don't notice:
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Fuckin' outta sight }}
* [[Elton John]]'s "The Bitch Is Back". Though with that kind of a title, should one really be surprised?
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** "Jeremy" also drops one in the second verse when talking about how his bullying led to breaking him: "Clearly I remember picking on the boy / Seemed a harmless little fuck / Oh, but we unleashed a lion."
* [[Aerosmith]] has a few ("Feedin' that fuckin' monkey on my back!", "I feel like I've been hit by a fuck", etc.). Like James Hetfield, Steven Tyler even adds some live ("I fuck with my boots on cause you fuck with my head").
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You could have called me back you stupid fuck }}
* [[Guns N' Roses]], known for being [[Sir Swearsalot]] in many of their songs (including "It's So Easy", "Out ta Get Me", "One in a Million", "You're (Fucking) Crazy", "Perfect Crime", "Get in the Ring", "Buick Mackane/Big Dumb Sex", and "I Don't Care About You"), is surprisingly restrained on ''Chinese Democracy'', which has only two F-words across 14 songs, only one of which is used by lead singer/resident [[
* [[Ian Dury]]'s Plaistow Patricia [[Inverted Trope|inverts this so hard]] and [[Exaggerated Trope|played so extreme]] with the first line being "ARSEHOLES BASTARDS FUCKING CUNTS AND PRICKS"
* Australian musician Josh Pyke's [[The Somethinge Song|"The Lighthouse Song"]] is a mellow little love song with this line in the chorus:
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* [[Alex Day]] swears once in his entire discography. In a song about ''Mario Kart''.
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* On the [[UNKLE]] album ''Psyence Fiction'', the track "Guns Blazing" the swears are bleeped out until about two-thirds of the way through the song:
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* The Kingsmen's cover of "Louie Louie" contains an unintentional example: one of the band members shouts "Fuck!" after making a mistake.
* Future Perfect - St. Perfect: "You're Saint '''fucking''' Perfect in disguise". This is the sole reason for the album's Parental Advisory warning.
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