Love for Sale: No. 19

'He's a Whore' (1977)
--Cheap Trick

Few of our hooker songs are written from the point of view of the paid rather than the payer. Frontman Robin Zander's narrator wants you to want him but only so he can score some coin. He reluctantly turns tricks with a green-toothed woman so ugly her face would "stop a clock." It should be noted that this song could be a metaphor for a band selling out, though 'The Flame' didn't come until a decade later.

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