Post #172328 by Mai Tai on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 6:01 PM

On 2005-07-15 09:01, freddiefreelance wrote:
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac:

Good call, freddiefreelance. Big Black was a favorite band of mine back in my college radio days. I almost posted two songs of theirs, "Fish Fry", and "Bad Penny", but I thought the songs might be too obscure for everyone, and I thought "Polly" was creepier.

Bad Penny
*Ought to know what I liar I am
Ought to know me by now
Don't curse me for my nature
Don't blast me for my wrongs
Just a bad penny
I always come back to you
Just a bad penny

Just a bad penny
I always come back to you
Should have known you couldn't trust me
As far as you could throw me
You couldn't throw me too far
Just a bad penny
Couldn't throw me too far

I think I fucked your girlfriend once.
Maybe twice, I don't remember.
Then I fucked all your friend's girlfriends.
Now they hate you.

Just a bad penny
Just a bad penny
Such a bad penny
A bad bad penny

Ought to know what I liar I am
Ought to know me by now
Such a bad penny
A bad bad penny
Ought to know what I liar I am
Ought to know me by now
Ought to know you couldn't trust me
As far as you could throw me
Such a bad penny
Such a bad penny
Slap my hand*

(Can't find the complete lyrics to Fish Fry right now, but they are creepy).