Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
no more maybesyour baby's got rabiessitting on a ballin the middle of the andes― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
just wanted to make sure you all remember this amazing insight before voting
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:47 (ten months ago) link
Always wondered if David Bowie cared about Rossdale swiping lyrics from “Life on Mars?”
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 08:03 (ten months ago) link
songfacts.com on the significance of "Everything Zen":
This song helped bring the word "asshole" into the mainstream. The first verse contains the line "Should I fly Los Angeles, find my asshole brother," which most radio stations left as is. This type of profanity would have been removed just a few years earlier, but standards of acceptable profanity were being lowered. The TV show NYPD Blue was using it on primetime US TV, something that had never been done before.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:50 (ten months ago) link
Should have censored "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:52 (ten months ago) link
Amazing how much more regressive American radio got. I heard a ridiculously censored “You Oughta Know” a while back that eliminated the “go down on you in a theatre” with a comical echo effect. No matter. Terrestrial radio is dying
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
actually that part was routinely censored back when the song first came out on American radio too. I had no idea what she was saying there until someone played me the unedited track much later
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:55 (ten months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
The funniest was when they censored “45” in “Santeria”
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:31 (ten months ago) link
maybe it was a columbine thing
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link
It was really 9/11 that sent FM radio into conservative meltdown mode. I remember that “COP” got blocked from Sublime’s “April 29, 1992”
― beamish13, Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:02 (ten months ago) link
Pure Massey car
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:18 (ten months ago) link
VERY HARD TO DRINK
― ivy., Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:51 (ten months ago) link