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‘F*ck You Symphony’: Millie Jackson wrote the perfect tribute to 2016 thirty-seven years ago
12.13.2016
04:35 pm
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Millie Jackson was a bit of a soul-funk phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s. She had an incredibly successful career as a singer, placing well over 30 singles on the R&B charts, and she had hits with collaborators as diverse as Elton John (”Act of War”), Isaac Hayes (”Do You Wanna Make Love”), and Whodini (”Be Yourself”).  One of her biggest hits was a cover of Merle Haggard’s “If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday.” 

But Jackson’s truly distinctive skill was outrageous and humorous stage banter. Styling herself as the kind of black woman who takes no shit, she made profanity one of her defining skills, releasing albums with titles like Live & Uncensored, Back to the S..t!, Live and Outrageous (Rated XXX), and—her final album actually—Not for Church Folk!
 

 
It was on 1979’s Live & Uncensored (recorded at the Roxy in Los Angeles) that Jackson introduced her record-buying audiences to a number she’d been doing on stage for a while, listed on the record sleeve as “Phuck U Symphony.” It’s a short song in which the only lyrics are the words “Fuck You” and the music is a pastiche of classical music melodies.

The song added to Jackson’s reputation as a figure of fun. For instance, in 1981 the Black Music & Jazz Review wrote that “For her live show and subsequent live album she composed the ‘Phuck U Symphony,’ a piece which I doubt we’ll hear the Boston Pops perform.”

Listen to it after the jump, it’s what we’ve all wanted to say to this fucked up year of 2016…

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Posted by Martin Schneider
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12.13.2016
04:35 pm
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‘Fuck You’: A psychedelic rarity from mystery band Lucifer
11.13.2011
02:12 am
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Much debate revolves around exactly who Lucifer was. One of the only points of agreement is that the band wasn’t actually a band but the product of one person. The question is: who was that person? Legendary British hash smuggler and provocateur Howard Marks claims in his book Mr. Nice that Lucifer was Denys Irving, a pioneering computer arts geek, and that Marks financed his experimental recordings. Others, including a writer on Julian Cope’s blog, say Lucifer is Peter Walker, a former member of Manchester, England psychedelic band The Purple Gang. Based on the information in Mark’s book, I think Irving, who died in a hang gliding accident in 1976, was Lucifer. As far as I know, Peter Walker ain’t talking.

In all of the mystery surrounding Lucifer’s identity, the one thing that is certain is that the artist’s first record was a limited edition 45 r.p.m single “Fuck You” released in 1972 and made available through mail-order only. You’d have to have seen an ad in underground magazines like Australia’s Oz or British music weekly New Musical Express to know the record even existed.

Described by Lucifer as “fuckrock,” here’s the obscure, and yet legendary, “Fuck You” recorded four decades before Cee Lo Green’s hit of the same name.

And if you dig this, stay tuned. I’ll be uploading more of Lucifer’s music shortly.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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11.13.2011
02:12 am
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ASL Sign Language version of Cee Lo Green’s ‘Fuck You’
01.12.2011
03:07 am
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Sign language performance of Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You”, as it says over at You Tube:

As good as the the original. Sometimes we speechists understimate the power of sign language - faster, better, more expressive.

 

 
Via Edwyn Collins
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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01.12.2011
03:07 am
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There are two sides to every story: Cee Lo Green’s ‘Fuck You’ from a woman’s perspective
09.03.2010
09:42 pm
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(via TDW)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.03.2010
09:42 pm
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