Songs about abortion S/D

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Modest Mouse::3rd Planet is about abortion, right? Or miscarriage, at least.

minolta (minolta), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

search and destroy "Brick" - it's a perfectly fine song on its own, but has been forever ruined by its use as slow-dance material for 9th-grade dances.

Apparently I was the only kid who knew what it was about and the 'DJs' were sick bastards.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

Carter USM, "Girls Can Keep A Secret"

kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link

There's a track on "Denim on Ice" which is about abortion, I think it's called "Brumburger" though I could be wrong about the title. It's not just about that, but it does get a mention.

Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

'Locust Abortion Technician' by Butthole Surfers

Don't really know if it about abortions though.

mei (mei), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

There's a good one on Lee Hazlewood's "Requiem For An Almost Lady", good but a trifle, errrrrrrrrr, odd. Can't remember what song it is exactly - maybe "I'll Live Yesterdays"?

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! That Digable Planets one is great.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You In The Stomach

I THOUGHT YOU WHERE A FAT CHICK
THEN I REALIZED YOU WHERE PREGNANT
I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF YOUR BABY DIED
SO I KICKED YOU IN THE STOMACH

I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
HA HA HA YOUR BABY'S DEAD

THERE WHERE NO STAIRS TO THROW YOU DOWN
THERE WAS NO ROOF TO THROUGH YOU OFF
THERE WAS NO COAT HANGERS AROUND
SO I KICKED YOU IN THE STOMACH

I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
HA HA HA YOUR BABY'S DEAD

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

Who's that by? Sinead O'Connor?

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

sex pistols- bodies.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

is that lyric by anal cunt?

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

"Hellbound," by the Breeders, right?

Yup.

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Wow, this thread is going to be sooooo helpful when I put together my Ultimate Abortion Mega Mix cd.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

Geto Boys "The Unseen"

dave q, Friday, 19 March 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

Someone remembers blackgirls' "Procedure!" That's a great song.

Agnostic Front complains about poor Latino girls getting "free abortions" in "Public Assistance."

mike a, Friday, 19 March 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

My girlfriend believes that "The Freshmen" by Verve Pipe is about a girl who kills herself after getting an abortion.

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

"Body" by PiL. And is "Livin' Thing" really about abortion? The lyrics indicate it certainly could be, but I'd probably want to hear independent confirmation before I get depressed.

Livin' Thing Lyrics

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave
It's like magic
Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' & sliding
It's magic

CHORUS
And you, and your sweet desire,
You took me, ohhh higher and higher baby,
It's a livin' thing,
It's a terrible thing to lose
It's a given thing
What a terrible thing to lose.

I'm takin' a dive. (echo)

Making believe this is what you've conceived
From your worst day, I'm takin a dive
Moving in line when you look back in time
Tothe first day, I'm taken I'm taken

And you and your sweet desire,
Don't you do it , don't you do it,
Taking me ohh,higher and higher baby
It's a living thing,
It's a terrible thing to lose,
It's a given thing
What a terrible thing to lose

I'm takin a dive.

Takin' a dive 'cos you can't halt the slide
Floating downstream, I'm takin a dive
So let her go don't start spoiling the show
It's a bad dream, I'm taken , I'm taken

And you and your sweet desire
Don't you do it , don't you do it
Taking me higher and higher baby

It's a livin' thing,
It's a terrible thing to lose
It's a given thing
What a terrible thing to lose.(x2)

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 19 March 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

Mudhoney - Fearless Doctor Killers , ........right?

John 2, Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Rapid City, South Dakota" (Kinky Friedman)

...And all her people treatin’ her just like they never knowed her
Lord, the winter’s passin’ slow in rapid city, south dakota...

christoff (christoff), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

"National Acrobat" by Black Sabbath has a line about an unborn child, though I have no idea what they say about it. And King's X have an anti-choice song, I think, but I forget what it's about. Also, I don't have time to check whether anybody mentioned the one on Kid Rock's *Devil Without a Cause* yet (last song on the album, if I remember right).

chuck, Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

I meant I forget what the King's X one is CALLED. (Obviously, it's about being anti-choice, being an anti-choice song and all.)

chuck, Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

And wait, isn't "Cotton Eyed Joe" (in its many many versions) about an abortionist? I think Rob Sheffield told me that once. I used to think it was about a whiskey bootlegger, but i guess i was wrong.

chuck, Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to recite this gem from a House of Pain song that I used to listen to while driving around in high school again:

my girls on the pill, so I can drill, and I don't have to kill, and unborn child, because that's buck wild.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

"Last Caress"

Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

Eugene Chadbourne: "Let's Go Back in Time"

Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 1 April 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

My mother was certain "Disarm" by the Smashing Pumpkins was about it, back when it was all over the radio. At first I sneered, but then thought about it, the portent's definitely there.

Dare, Thursday, 1 April 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

Then again, it makes for a horribly literal interpretation.

Dare, Thursday, 1 April 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

From "Meditation" by the Last Emperor:
My style kills more kids than Roe vs. Wade

Sym (shmuel), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

Sure to be a hell of a lot more songs down the road...

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link

I only became aware of this album just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkB33JQfe4

"Released in 1993 on Rykodisc. It was released as a benefit album, with proceeds going to support NARAL, the Brooklyn Women's Anti-Rape Exchange, and Women's Health Action and Mobilization."

Chilling to hear the cover of the Beatles' "She Said She Said" in this context, specifically "She said / 'I know what it's like to be dead'"

birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link

whoa

Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link

the lineup is very ryko, iykwim. does that mean all of those songs are about abortion in this context?

Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link

Dog Faced Hermans - Keep Your Laws/Off My Body

https://genius.com/Dog-faced-hermans-keep-your-laws-off-my-body-lyrics

o. nate, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link

xp most of them are (or are related to the causes they benefit), but something like the Tom Waits song that later appeared on Mule Variations seems to be unrelated.

birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link

Honorary mention to U2 and "I Will Follow", which soundtracks the abortion scene in The Last American Virgin.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link

Arrested Development - Warm Thoughts

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link

Surprised no-ones mentioned perhaps the most famous anti-abortion tune of all time, 'Murder she wrote' by Chaka Demus & Pliers.

droid, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link

Everlast: "What It's Like"

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link

"National Acrobat" by Black Sabbath has a line about an unborn child, though I have no idea what they say about it.

Think this song is specifically about reincarnation.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link

I see I mentioned the Mekons contribution to that comp in... 2004. Blimey.

Eugene Chadbourne: "Let's Go Back in Time"

This is legit one of the most stirring things I've ever heard. I guess I didn't know it quite that far that back.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fFBbJta-c

kristin hersh — "what'll we do with the baby-o" (1998)

Blatz - "Berkeley Is My Baby (And I Wanna Kill It)"

one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Saturday, 25 June 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link

Honorary mention to U2 and "I Will Follow", which soundtracks the abortion scene in The Last American Virgin.

Still amazed this appeared in a Hollywood movie. (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IjOicxGXg

The opening lyrics to Daniel Johnston's "Fate Will Get Done" are "Time flies when you're having fun/aborted babies are the lucky ones." Haven't heard that song in like 25 years, but that couplet has really stuck with me.

InternationalWaters, Sunday, 26 June 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link

Surprised no-ones mentioned perhaps the most famous anti-abortion tune of all time, 'Murder she wrote' by Chaka Demus & Pliers.

― droid, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:25 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is my favourite song which has a political message that I vehemently disagree with

paolo, Saturday, 2 July 2022 09:07 (one year ago) link


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