worst lyricist of the grunge-rot era: gavin rossdale or daniel johns

Always wondered if David Bowie cared about Rossdale swiping lyrics from “Life on Mars?”

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.

Should have censored "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow"

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

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

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The funniest was when they censored “45” in “Santeria”

maybe it was a columbine thing

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”

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