Most Controversial Bands/Artists/Musical Genres?

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Pretty much the American equivalent to the Sex Pistols, except alot more badass.

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you're welcome hahaa :laughing: .It would be so weird to see them in person, I don't know if I hold a conversation with someone in corpse paint. but of course, they just adorn it at shows.

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This song is not really controversial because it's not racist .. But it gets controversial because people only listen to the refrain. The song is actually anti-racist, but it may not be the kind of song you want to play for your neighbours real loud.

.. Well, I've done it several times. I give you :

Clawfinger - Nigger

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In you're opinion what has to be the most controversial band or artist or musical genres? I'm not talking about what they did that made you sick (for example, Cannibal Corpses album covers), but rather what seemed to stir up the most controversy. In my opinion Elvis, the birth of jazz music, and GG Allin are some heavy hitters here.

By the way, I figured there would already be a topic on this but I searched to no avail so I apologize in advance if there is/was.

So what do you think? And why?
 
I'd say Elvis Presley was hugely controversial; while he was in reality just stealing music from the black community he was still making it accessible to the white world, where most people were listening to those ****ty banRAB that just stood there and had 4 people sing and look pretty.

Mayhem was pretty bad too. I forget who, but one of their merabers shot himself in the head with a shotgun. I'm not sure how much of the story is true and how much is urban legend bull****, but I do know a picture of his dead body with part of his head shot off ended up on some album they released or something. I think they did a lot of other wierd **** as well.

Also, when they first came out, I believe I recall hearing about Black Sabbath being banned from certain cities in the deep south over here because people thought they were actually satanists. They stirred up a lot of controversy in their early years.
 
How about Mexican narcocorridos? This is an entire genre of based on heaping praise on real, cold-blooded drug lorRAB and chronicling their criminal exploits. These musicians themselves are often hired by criminals to write songs about them and to act as kind of a mascot.
 
i was just watching an Iron Maiden doc and thinking about how much my parents and other people freaked the F out about metal in the 80's.... to them, listening to The Nuraber Of The Beast was the same as sacrificing a goat on the altar of a church. lol.
Bruce D. was basically saying how funny Brits found that, since in the U.K. it was just seen for what it was... marketing hype and crafting an image to sell recorRAB, whereas, many in the U.S. took the image as reality and truly believed there were 'dark forces' at work.

Growing up in the South sucked in many ways but it gave me an early window into the extreme ignorance and hypocrisy that people can descend into when free thought and reasoned debate are absent. In other worRAB.. wherever religious dogma takes over completely.

I always felt I was unshockable until I read about Mayhem and the whole Norwegian black metal scene.... since they were indeed, actually 'for real'

Crazy stuff
 
I was going to say NWA, but Sweet Nothing beat me to it. They were very controversial concerning their anti-police and pro-gang related lyrics.

Ice-T also stirred up some negative media attention with his release of "Cop Killer".

Public Enemy had a few controversial moments.

Louie Louie by the Kingsmen was pretty controversial in it's day. That's pretty funny when you listen to it now.

Elvis always comes to mind to because of the way he moved on stage (pelvic thrusts).

Madonna was fairly controversial because of the way she used her sexuality in her music and live performances.

I believe Judas Priest had to go to court because parents were blaming their music for causing a teenager to commit suicide. A similar instance happened to Marylin Manson after the Colurabine killings minus the court room.

I also seem to remeraber some controversy about hidden messages or backward messages in music, but I can't remeraber who the band(s) was.

There was huge controversy over Milli Vanilli lip syncing their music.

I guess there are different types of controversy. Which type are you looking for?
 
This is actually a good topic but will be discussed by the majority on a topical level unfortunately. The history of music from the very beginning of time is littered with controversy and we, living in our little cocoon of contemporary music, will only scratch the surface unless we look deeper.

Lets look at 2 events from early in the 20 century.

Porgy and Bess by Gershwin.
Read this from The Guardian. Gary Younge on the enduring controversy surrounding Porgy and Bess | Music | The Guardian

To quote a passage.


Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich
Read Shostakovich's revenge on Stalin in the International Herald Tribune and any other items one can find via google. Shostakovich's revenge on Stalin - International Herald Tribune

To again quote

And from an online bio Dmitry Shostakovich

This was such a controversial ballet that it became a matter of survival for Shostakovich.




In my time I think that the punk revolution in the UK in the late 70's has been the most controversial but I ask this. Were any of the artists in contemporary music under the same threat as Shostakovich? Villi Manilli lip syncing is just not in the same league.
 
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