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I'm gonna release an album with no cuss words and put an explicit lyrics sticker on the cover

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Can I do this? Has it already been done?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz From Hell to thread...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Primitive Radio Gods - Rocket (aka The One With "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand").

The only bad language on the album was a song called "Motherf---er," but said word appeared nowhere in the song. (So how come the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream doesn't have a parental advisory sticker for "Silverfuck"?)

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(So how come the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream doesn't have a parental advisory sticker for "Silverfuck"?)

Actually. i think some prints of it do.

Can anyone check this?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't know it was obligatory...

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a "clean" version of Siamese Dream w/o the track listing on the back. And according to AMG it has a parental advisory (tho my copy doesn't)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 25 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

PJ Harvey's "Stories From The City..." has a label, and if I recal correctly, it uses word no stronger than "hell" and "goddamn".

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Fatboy Slim got pretty close with "You've Come a Long Way Baby". That album contained one single cuss word. (OK, so it was repeated a lot within the same track, but still.....)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.momes.net/musique/parentalad.jpg

Can I tell you, this is still the fucking coolest image in history. If parents didn't want kids to buy CD's with explicit lyrics, they shouldn't have created such an awesome design for the warning.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)


For real.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

my copy of Nick Cave's "The Good Son" has an explicit lyrics warning.

no idea why

― Chris Ford, Saturday, 26 April 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

it still kinda amazes me that Linkin Park never swear

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

PJH's Stories from the City says the f-word and whore.
At the local record store, you have to be 18 to buy Bjork's "Debut"!
I have a theory about this, if an artist has a rep as some murderous loose nut (ie Nick Cave) they'll get warnings where others won't, even if the lyrics don't reflect this.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

keep the kids away from Sonic Youth's NYC Ghosts And Flowers! It's naughty!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"PJH's Stories from the City says the f-word and whore."

I forgot about about that line in "Kamikaze", but c'mon. The profanity on that album does not merit an Advisory label.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It's used rather randomly, depending on whether or not they think it will hurt (or probably in SY's case, help) sales. Janet Jackson's All For You didn't have one until the album had been out for a couple months and people started complaining.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The same thing occured with Blink 182's "Enema of The State".

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

eighteen years pass...

also there's situations like where Savatage said the words "son of a bitch" on the opening track of Gutter Ballet and thus, slapped a label on their album despite that being the only profanity, because they knew it'd make them look badass.

same with Joe Jonas getting an explicit lyric label for his one solo album because Lil Wayne showed up on a remix of one of his songs on the album and said "bitches" and "fucking", and you know he was preening as the "one edgy Jonas Brother"

― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 22:38 (three years ago)

best instance of this happening is Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way Baby which earned the sticker by repeating the "Fatboy Slim is FUCKING in heaven" sample 4000 times

― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2022 22:46 (three years ago)


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