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« on: January 23, 2006, 11:00:31 AM »

1986 - Frank Zappa becomes the only artist in history to ever have a parental advisory given to an instrumental album.

The distributor, Meyer Music Markets, placed a parental advisory sticker on Zappa's 1986 release, "Jazz From Hell" even though the album is entirely instrumental.  The decision was made because of one song title, "G-Spot Tornado".  Wal Mart and other retailers refuse to sell the album because of the advisory.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2006, 12:41:22 PM »

Only in the world of Zappa would he be ridiculed for a song title on an instrumental album. The Yellow Shark had a recording of the same track, but that didn't feature a parental advisory sticker.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2006, 12:45:17 PM »

Cyndi Lauper's She Bop being one of the 3 songs that created the PMRC is pretty damn hilarious to me.
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2006, 12:47:32 PM »

Cyndi Lauper's She Bop being one of the 3 songs that created the PMRC is pretty damn hilarious to me.
Well, isn't that song about female self-stimulation?
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2006, 12:49:12 PM »

Yep, but man, why not sticker every rock record then! Claudine Clark's Party Lights is a song about that, over 20 years earlier.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2006, 12:50:22 PM »

Why not sticker all of Robert Johnson's material! His blues are DIRTY!
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2006, 01:05:53 PM »

Yep, but man, why not sticker every rock record then! Claudine Clark's Party Lights is a song about that, over 20 years earlier.


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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2006, 01:09:49 PM »

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Why do you say that?
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2006, 01:23:43 PM »

Mulligan stew for Bloom,
the only Jew in the room
Saxon's sick on the holy dregs
and their constant getting throw up on his leg.

on After Bathing at Baxters, throw is sung as worth

Also on Brown Eyed Girl

Makin Love in the green grass behind the stadium with you

changed to
 laughin and a-runnin hey hey  behind the stadium with you

and both versions are played, seemingly at random,  on oldies stations today




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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2006, 01:30:42 PM »

One of the funniest things is on Judy is Disguise by John Fred and his Playboy Band, when he quite clearly sings "strings on my kike", Fred making fun of a song he hated.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2006, 01:50:12 PM »

strings on my KIKE?  Is there some anti semitic reference there?  Is John Fred Jewish?

watsup wi dat?
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2006, 02:11:37 PM »

No, he's just tryin' to be funny with it. And it works for me. I crack up every time I hear it.
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2006, 02:17:47 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2006, 10:18:01 PM »

The US single version of "Substitute," where they made Pete Townshend change the line "I look all white but my dad was black," has always struck me as being pretty ridiculous.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2006, 10:37:59 PM »

Did anyone object to "Pictures of Lily"? Don't know the answer, but it's an obvious candidate for a ban.
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« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2006, 01:25:20 AM »

Almost But Not Quite There by Traffic Jam (who went on to become Status Quo)

this was banned by the BBC, as its about a gentleman leaving a lady almost but not quite there.
which seems pretty tame really.
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2006, 04:15:35 AM »

THe BBC banned Lola -- not for the transvestitism (if it is there -- huge debate) but for using an official brand name.  He had to fly back from a tour and re-record "cherry" over "coca".

And they totally missed Apeman -- The lyric sheet saying "foggin up my eyes" but come on!
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2006, 07:32:10 AM »

My fav-censorship is Elvis being filmed from the waist up on Sullivan, and therefore transporting his movements into the upper-region (say his arms), like on "Don't be cruel" . That cat is so cool...
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2006, 08:06:02 AM »

Along the same lines as Elvis' hips, the Stones singing "lets Spend Some Time Together" in place of the original lyrics on Ed Sullivan
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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2006, 12:57:49 PM »

For anyone who was around then - did Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" survive any radio censorship?
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« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2006, 01:05:35 PM »

For anyone who was around then - did Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" survive any radio censorship?

The common story now (I wasn't alive then) is that most DJs had no idea what it meant, so yes, it was played as-is.
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« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2006, 01:06:26 PM »

I believe Zappa's WOIIFTM and Absolutely Free were both censored for (misinterpreted) obscenity.
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2006, 01:07:34 PM »

The Money one is partucularly hilarious, the line about the waitress with her pad, feeding all the boys at the cafe.
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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2006, 02:19:39 PM »

The First Annual International Rock Awards show, 1989, AKA the "Elvis Awards". (I mean, like, "The envelope please. And the Elvis goes to...") Totally lame-ass show biz award show dripping with fake "rock 'n' roll attitude" emanating from posers who wouldn't know real rock and roll if it bit them on the ass.

So, somehow, on wander the Replacements. They were supposed to do their current single ("I'll Be You"), but they did "Talent Show" instead. Over the opening chords, Paul Westerberg says into the mic, "What the hell are we doing here?" And during a pause in the song, PW just looks incredulously into the camera and says, "the Elvis?!?!".

And censorship. The rather innocuous line "Feeling good from the pills we took" got bleeped. So at the end of the song, where on record Paul sings "it's too late to turn back, here we go" over and over, instead he sang "it's too late to take pills, here we go." Over and over.

Now that's rock and roll!
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« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2006, 03:13:06 PM »

Tommy said the Elvis comment. Classic, I remember it well.
They also did the classic Saturday Night Live appearance where they sang Bastards Of Young, and Paul looked straight into the camera and mouthed "Motherfuc*er!". Then Bob sang Kiss Me On The Bus for a 2nd song.
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