The 20 Most Controversial Songs Of All Time
Featuring Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Slayer and The Prodigy...
20. The Shamen: 'Ebeneezer Goode' – The most controversial British number one of the 1990s due to its overt reference to new club drug ecstasy ("E's are good, E's are good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"), the track was banned by the BBC and made the Scottish dance collective the scourge of the tabloid press. Not content with just ecstasy, the track also references marijuana with the line “Has anyone got any Vera's - cockney rhyming slang for spliff skins from 'Vera Lynn(s)'. Somewhat ironically, 'Ebeneezer Goode' climbed to number one in the UK charts two weeks after its release while the BBC were running a drug's awareness week. " />-
20. The Shamen: 'Ebeneezer Goode' – The most controversial British number one of the 1990s due to its overt reference to new club drug ecstasy ("E's are good, E's are good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"), the track was banned by the BBC and made the Scottish dance collective the scourge of the tabloid press. Not content with just ecstasy, the track also references marijuana with the line “Has anyone got any Vera's - cockney rhyming slang for spliff skins from 'Vera Lynn(s)'. Somewhat ironically, 'Ebeneezer Goode' climbed to number one in the UK charts two weeks after its release while the BBC were running a drug's awareness week.
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Necrophilia, drugs, murder, racism, Nazism, bestiality, sodomy, religious indoctrination and Satanism – just a handful of the controversial subjects touched upon in Gigwise's countdown of the 20 Most Controversial Songs Of All Time. Featuring Eminem, N.W.A., The Sex Pistols, Rage Against The Machine, Guns N' Roses, Prince and more, be warned some of it is definitely NSFW!
