History Music / SongsAboutFucking

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote "''The future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital.''" on the back cover of the album, and the quote [sic] "''this compact disk is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. digital technology will now faithfully reproduce those noisy, lo-fi, unprofessional masters for you at great expense. feel stupid yet?''" on the CD copy of the album, parodying the label on most albums converted from analog to digital mediums. Music/SteveAlbini later installed a Pro Tools rig in his recording studio which, while he ''never'' uses and is only there for the artists' use, makes these quotes HilariousInHindsight.

* ShoutOut: The album cover has been parodied by punk bands The Copyrights and The Dopamines as the EP ''Songs About Fucking Up'' (2009). Electronic musician [=Kid606=] released an album called ''Songs About Fucking Steve Albini'' (2012), even parodying the album cover with an Anime drawing of Albini. In 2012, Jason Lescalleet released "Songs About Nothing", again parodying the album cover and even track titles.
* TheSomethingSong: "Songs About Fucking".

--> ''Now I fuck you and I hit you with my shoe''
--> ''And I hide your bloody body in Frenchtown pond''
--> ''Sometimes you know you want to fuck somebody up''
--> ''Sometimes you just want to fuck''

--> ''There were pieces of a man all over the skyway''.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote "''The future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital.''" on the back cover of the album, and the quote [sic] "''this compact disk is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. digital technology will now faithfully reproduce those noisy, lo-fi, unprofessional masters for you at great expense. feel stupid yet?''" on the CD copy of the album, parodying the label on most albums converted from analog to digital mediums. Music/SteveAlbini later installed a Pro Tools rig in his recording studio which, while he ''never'' uses and is only there for the artists' use, makes these quotes amusing in hindsight.

''Songs About Fucking'' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

* CoverVersion: "The Model", originally by Music/{{Kraftwerk}} from ''Music/TheManMachine'', and "He's A Whore", a Music/CheapTrick cover.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost, the first track, "The Power Of Independent Trucking" isn't directly about the topic. Also, despite its outrageous title you'll be hard-pressed to make out most of the lyrics [[note]]The band never put any lyrics in the liner notes, and fan speculation is iffy sometimes.[[/note]], because the music is so loud.
** Subverted trope by "Bombastic Intro"... which is the final track!

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote "''The future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital.''" on the back cover of the album, and the quote [sic] "''this compact disk is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. digital technology will now faithfully reproduce those noisy, lo-fi, unprofessional masters for you at great expense. feel stupid yet?''" on the CD copy of the album, parodying the label on most albums converted from analog to digital mediums.
** Music/SteveAlbini later installed a Pro Tools rig in his recording studio which, while he ''never'' uses and is only there for the artists' use, makes these quotes amusing in hindsight.

* BlackComedy: The album features arsehole truck drivers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Kraftwerk cover]], a guy who has sex with other people's girlfriends, a young girl who slept away the majority of her life and wanted to kill herself but couldn't, sexual humiliation as a habit, a killing method in which the throat is cut open and the tongue is pulled out through the hole, an eccentric man who parties all night, a fungus that can grow on bread and cause serious hallucinations if ingested, a {{Mafia}} killing in which a parked car was rigged to explode when the target's car passed by, a guy who had sex with a woman, who refused his brother's earlier advances, and killed her with his shoe then hid her body in a pond while hosing down his truck with loud music on, people who slowly [[YouAreWhatYouHate turn into what they hate most]] without trying, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Cheap Trick Cover]].

* ShoutOut: The album cover has been parodied by punk bands The Copyrights and The Dopamines as the EP ''Songs About Fucking Up'' (2009). Punk band Kid606 released an album called ''Songs About Fucking Steve Albini'' (2012), even parodying the album cover with an Anime drawing of Albini. In 2012, Jason Lescalleet released "Songs About Nothing", again parodying the album cover and even track titles.

* TheUnintelligible: Some of the tracks are so loud that the lyrics are drowned out, hence the "mmm mmm" you'll frequently find in the lyrics (as seen above).

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost, the first track, "The Power Of Independent Trucking" isn't directly about the topic. Also, despite its outrageous title you'll be hard-pressed to make out most of the lyrics [[note]]The band never put any lyrics in the liner notes, and fan speculation is iffy sometimes, as the example in FoodSongsAreFunny below will show you.[[/note]], because the music is so loud.

* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Ergot", which is about the fungus that grows on wheat, which can cause hallucinations.
--> ''Mmmm mmm mmm mmm head''
--> ''Must've had some wheat bread''
--> ''Mmm mmm mmm mmm mm head''
--> ''mmm mmm mmm mmm mm bad bread''
* IntercourseWithYou: As the title implies.

* ShoutOut: The album cover has been parodied by punk bands The Copyrights and The Dopamines as the EP ''Songs About Fucking Up'' (2009). Punk band Kid606 released an album called ''Songs About Fucking Steve Albini'' (2012), even parodying the album cover. In 2012, Jason Lescalleet released "Songs About Nothing", again parodying the album cover and even track titles.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover, done InTheStyleOf {{Manga}} art.

--> ''"I think I fucked your girlfriend once''

--> ''Now they hate you"''

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost, the first track, "The Power Of Independent Trucking" isn't directly about the topic. Also, despite its outrageous title you'll be hard-pressed to make out most of the lyrics [[note]]Steve never put any lyrics in the liner notes, and fan speculation is iffy sometimes, as the example in FoodSongsAreFunny below will show you.[[/note]], because the music is so loud.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Songs About Fucking''.]]

# 'Tiny, King Of The Jews" (2:31)

* CoverSong: "The Model", originally by Music/{{Kraftwerk}} from ''Music/TheManMachine'', and "He's A Whore", a Music/CheapTrick cover.

'''''Songs About Fucking''''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favourite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote '"The future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital."'' on the back cover of the album, and the quote [sic] "this compact disk is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. digital technology will now faithfully reproduce those noisy, lo-fi, unprofessional masters for you at great expense. feel stupid yet?" on the CD copy of the album, parodying the label on most albums converted from analog to digital mediums.

[[AC: Side One]]

[[AC: Side Two]]

* BlackComedy: The album features arsehole truck drivers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Kraftwerk cover]], a guy who has sex with other people's girlfriends, a young girl who slept away 15 years of her life and wanted to kill herself but couldn't, sexual humiliation as a habit, a killing method in which the throat is cut open and the tongue is pulled out through the hole, an eccentric man who parties all night, a fungus that can grow on bread and cause serious hallucinations if ingested, a {{Mafia}} killing in which a parked car was rigged to explode when the target's car passed by, a guy who had sex with a woman, who refused his brother's earlier advances, and killed her with his shoe then hid her body in a pond while hosing down his truck with loud music on, people who slowly [[YouAreWhatYouHate turn into what they hate most]] without trying, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Cheap Trick Cover]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost, the first track, "The Power Of Independent Trucking" isn't directly about the topic. Also, despite its outrageous title you'll be hard-pressed to make out most of the lyrics, because the music is so loud.

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote '"The future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital."'' on the back cover. Music/SteveAlbini later installed a Pro Tools rig in his recording studio which, while he never uses and is only there for the artists' use, makes this quote amusing looking back.

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it to a completely different list if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

'''Tracklist'''

* BlackComedy: The album features asshole truck drivers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Kraftwerk cover]], a guy who has sex with other people's girlfriends, a young girl who slept away 15 years of her life and wanted to kill herself but couldn't, sexual humiliation as a habit, a killing method in which the throat is cut open and the tongue is pulled out through the hole, an eccentric man who parties all night, a fungus that can grow on bread and cause serious hallucinations if ingested, a {{Mafia}} killing in which a parked car was rigged to explode when the target's car passed by, a guy who had sex with a woman, who refused his brother's earlier advances, and killed her with his shoe then hid her body in a pond while hosing down his truck with loud music on, people who slowly [[YouAreWhatYouHate turn into what they hate most]] without trying, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Cheap Trick Cover]].
* BrutalHonesty: The band clearly didn't sugarcoat what the album is about.

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: The quote '"The future belongs to the analog loyalists. Fuck digital."'' on the back cover. Music/SteveAlbini later installed a Pro Tools rig in his recording studio which, while he never uses and is only there for the artists' use, makes this quote amusing looking back.

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was influential British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top albums lists "are terribly self-indulgent" and said "he'd change it if he would be asked again a week later". But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list, so in that regard pretty close to being a definitive list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by no means meant as a definitive list, as he felt that top 20 albums list "are terribly self-indulgent" and he'd change it if he would be asked again a week later. But it was the only time in his life he agreed to make such a list. [[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987. Its also their most infamous, thanks to the [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle outrageous title]]. A BigNameFan was British radio DJ Creator/JohnPeel who, in 1997, placed it at nr. 15 in a list of his 20 personal favorite albums [[note]] It was by know means meant a definitive list, as he felt that top 20 albums list "are terribly self-indulgent."[[/note]] when asked by the newspaper "The Guardian".

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the second and final studio album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987.

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!! Tracklist:

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* BrutalHonesty: The album.

* ShoutOut: The album cover has been parodied by punk bands The Copyrights and The Dopamines as the EP ''Songs About Fucking Up'' (2009). Punk band Kid606 released an album called ''Songs About Fucking Steve Albini'' (2012), even parodying the album cover.
* TheSomethingSong: ''Songs About Fucking''. In 2012, Jason Lescalleet released ''Songs About Nothing'', again parodying the album cover and even track titles.

* NothingIsScarier: "Bad Houses" sports one of the least explicit lyrics in the band's catalogue, yet is deeply unsettling for precisely that reason.

* TheUnintelligible: Some of the tracks are so loud that the lyrics are drowned out.

* AlbumFiller: The CoverVersion of Music/CheapTrick's "He's A Whore" wasn't intended to be on the album, but was kept nevertheless.

* AntiLoveSong: Love? Never heard of it.

* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Ergot".

* MurderBallad: "Fish Fry," and "Kasimir S. Pulaski Day" to an extent.

'''Songs About Fucking''' is the IntentionallyAwkwardTitle of the second and final album by Music/BigBlack, released in 1987.

'''Tracklist'''
# "The Power of Independent Trucking" (1:27)

# 'Tiny, King of the Jews" (2:31)

!! The Power Of Independent Troping
* AlbumFiller: The CoverVersion of Music/CheapTrick's "He's a Whore" wasn't intended to be on the album, but was kept nevertheless.

* BlackComedy: The album features asshole truck drivers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Kraftwerk cover]], a guy who has sex with other people's girlfriends, a young girl who slept away 15 years of her life and wanted to kill herself but couldn't, sexual humiliation as a habit, a killing method in which the throat is cut open and the tongue is pulled out through the hole, an eccentric man who parties all night, a fungus that can grow on bread and cause serious hallucinations if ingested, a mafia killing in which a parked car was rigged to explode when the target's car passed by, a guy who had sex with a woman, who refused his brother's earlier advances, and killed her with his shoe then hid her body in a pond while hosing down his truck with loud music on, people who slowly turn into what they hate most without trying, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a Cheap Trick Cover]].

* TheUnintelligible: Some of the tracks are so loud that the lyrics are drown out.

* BadassBoast: The spoken word segment of "Bad Penny."
--> ''I think I fucked your girlfriend once''

--> ''Now they hate you''

* AlbumFiller: "He's Just A Whore" wasn't intended to be on the album, but kept nevertheless.

* ShoutOut: The album cover has been parodied by punk bands The Copyrights and The Dopamines as the EP "Songs About Fucking Up" (2009). Punk band Kid606 released an album called "Songs About Fucking Steve Albini" (2012), even parodying the album cover.
* TheSomethingSong: "Songs About Fucking". Jason Lescalleet released "Songs About Nothing" (2012), again parodying the album cover and even track titles.