Big Dumb Sex
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| "Big Dumb Sex" | ||
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| Song by Soundgarden | ||
| from the album Louder Than Love | ||
| Released | September 5, 1989 | |
| Recorded | December 1988 - January 1989 at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, Washington | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 4:11 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Writer(s) | Lyrics & Music: Chris Cornell | |
| Producer(s) | Terry Date Soundgarden |
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| Louder Than Love track listing | ||
| "Uncovered" (Track 10) |
"Big Dumb Sex" (Track 11) |
"Full On (Reprise)" (Track 12) |
"Big Dumb Sex" is a song by Seattle grunge band Soundgarden. It appears as the eleventh track on their second full-length album Louder Than Love, released in 1989.
The song is memorable for its explicit lyrics concerning sexual intercourse. The chorus of the song contains the line: "Hey I know what to do, I'm gonna fuck fuck fuck fuck you", which is repeated throughout the song. It is believed that this song was the reason the album gained a Parental Advisory sticker upon release.
The band explained that the song's purpose is to mock glam metal bands, who often metaphorically addressed sexual intercourse in their lyrics.
Kim Thayil on the song: "Hiro, our bass player at the time, hated that song. He thought it was obnoxious butt rock, a total rock'n'roll cliche. We tried to explain to him that the song was making fun of butt rock. We were fed up with bands beating about the bush, just using euphemisms and metaphors for the sex act. We thought we'll ditch all the euphemisms and say what all the disco dance bands had been trying to say for a decade. We were simply trying to kick all the lame-ass rock'n'roll and dance music of the '80s and late '70s in the butt. It's a parody of the whole genre of stupid rock."
The song was covered by Guns N' Roses on their album The Spaghetti Incident?, as a medley with T.Rex's "Buick Makane".
