The 20 Most Controversial Songs Of All Time
Featuring Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Slayer and The Prodigy...
14. Ozzy Osbourne: 'Suicide Solution' – Lifted from the bumbling rocker's 1980 album 'Blizzard Of Ozz', 'Suicide Solution' only hit the headlines six years later when the parents of a teenager John McCollum took Osbourne to court claiming their son committed suicide while listening to the track. Ozzy was ultimately cleared in the case. Despite the connotations of the title, Osbourne and songwriter Bob Daisley claim the word “solution” in the title means alcohol and not a means to an end. Osbourne himself was battling alcoholism at the time, while the death of AC/DC's Bon Scott at the hands of alcohol was also cited as an influence.
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14. Ozzy Osbourne: 'Suicide Solution' – Lifted from the bumbling rocker's 1980 album 'Blizzard Of Ozz', 'Suicide Solution' only hit the headlines six years later when the parents of a teenager John McCollum took Osbourne to court claiming their son committed suicide while listening to the track. Ozzy was ultimately cleared in the case. Despite the connotations of the title, Osbourne and songwriter Bob Daisley claim the word “solution” in the title means alcohol and not a means to an end. Osbourne himself was battling alcoholism at the time, while the death of AC/DC's Bon Scott at the hands of alcohol was also cited as an influence.
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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!
