3. When They Dropped The Greatest F-Bomb In Rock History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJXQatf9c0 Nowadays, hearing the f-word in a song is no big deal. But in the 70s, it was used sparingly enough that the few instances of it that do exist The Doors on The End, Grace Slick during an
appearance on Dick Cavett still have a real potency. Steely Dan belong to this illustrious club of 70s f*ck-sayers, using the word in the coda to the 1973 song, Show Biz Kids. In the song, Becker and Fagen express their frustration at the California scene they found themselves in: Show business kids making movies of themselves; you know they dont give a f*ck about anybody else. So timeless and catchy was the delivery that Super Furry Animals used the second half as the hook to their 1996 single, The Man Dont Give a F*ck, repeating it over and over. Actually, everything about the song rules. It contains the most aggressive guitar riffing in band history, with a driving beat and lyrics inspired partly by Lenny Bruce. It also contains a self-reference to a group of hipsters wearing Steely Dan t-shirts, which remarkably didnt sound at all dated when Rickie Lee Jones
covered the song. And with the long history Steely Dan has of making immortalizing
obscure references it makes sense they should preserve themselves in the same amber.