Word: fucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would safely record a nationally-distributed album on which he calmly rattled off the "seven words you can never say on television." By then, of course, the shock value had dissipated. Carlin managed to keep the words funny only by stringing them all together in one breath: "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits...
...cocksucker," but he did not do so on television. He didn't cut records, he didn't wander the streets mouthing dirty words at 12-year-old girls. He used the words in a nightclub act, talking candidly about sex and about how absurd it was that words like "fuck" and acts like fucking were considered obscene when it was alright for children to watch bloody killings in movies...
...packed into his act as much meaningful social comment as anyone has, then or since. Even though Bruce's assigned role in history is one of legitimizing and effectively legalizing the use of "dirt" onstage, he did not do it by walking onstage and calmly enunciating, "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker mother-fucker and tits...
...Electric Eyes of Love" to a surrealist piano accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and Laughing Box." Or take the sentimental favorite. "New York City," which consists of three stoccato piano chords followed by a shout of get out of the way, you fuck." Bruce fittingly calls his music "Surrealist Neo-Classic Avant Garde Jazz/Rock and Roll...
Women? What about women? You heard me. A man, a youth, a boy will know which women are to be fucked and which to be honored and one will know who to fuck and who to honor...