POX: Song that could get a college radio d.j. thrown off the air.

What?

What?

Ummmmm....are you even familiar with the song? How about the refrain of "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!" repeated serveral times, capped off by an emphatic declaration of "MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRRR!"

Apart from it being an insipid song, why?

Actually if you played a bunch of indie American stuff and then towards the end of every hour you yelled out "Shit, I need some Cancon!" and proceeded to play 3 Nickelback songs in a row that would probably do the trick right away.

I once got suspended from my college station for playing "Come Into My Mouth" by Thee Headcoatees (their rewrite of Thee Headcoats' "Come Into My Life").

Shellac - "Prayer to God"

A friend of mine once decided he would just grab a handful of albums and play the first track for his show. I don't know if he forgot about this song, or maybe he had just bought the album and was not really familiar with Albini's m.o., but boy did he have egg on his face. He didn't get kicked off though.

They just take out the "Fuck you blah blah blah" portion. It shortens the song by like 30 seconds, and it works just fine. Actually sort of adds some subtlety too, although I suppose that's a bit of a stretch.

I meant to follow this sentence with something like

"This afternoon we'll have an in-depth look at the work of one of Canada's biggest names in the music world:

1 "Heaven"
2 "Summer of '69"
3 "Run to You"
4 "Cuts Like a Knife"
5 "Kids Wanna Rock"
6 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started"
7 "Everything I Do (I Do for You)"
8 "Please Forgive Me"
9 "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You"
10 "The Heat Of the Night"

(Of course, one of the university DJs famously approached the alternative club DJ when he was playing "William It Was Really Nothing" and asked him if he could "play some proper indie". Meaning Ash.)

minister who called the station to complain: "hello, is this WRSU?"
WRSU phone person: "yes."
minister: "i'm calling to complain about a song that you played."
WRSU: "which one?"
minister: "the one where the guy shouts 'FUCK YOU!'"
(5 sec. silence)
WRSU: "um, which one?"

Fuck the Middle East by S.O D.

I was asked to give up my D.J. duties however after openly discussing my goal to become the first Mexican Pope. Being that it was a Jesuit school... it didn't exactly please the school president.

Announcing that text books would be free for the following 10 minutes @ the university bookstore didn't help matters either.

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I also remember a local hardcore band who wrote a song about Bound Brook, NJ. I think the offending line was "the mayor's on the take." Rumor has it that the mayor of Bound Brook, NJ actually called WRSU to have it taken off the air!

>>>I did campus community radio in Montreal for 3 years and Toronto for about a year...the main thig was, as Sundar has put it, DO NOT PLAY POP MUSIC.

I got ousted from CIUT (Toronto) in '89 for an all-night show that mixed in George Michael and Madonna and other pop people like that. In the process, I was subjected to a completely inane one-on-one (at, like, 11:30 PM, before my second last show) with the Program Director, who, when I told him he should listen to the show and not just look at the playlist, said "the bottom line is, you're still playing George Michael." (Thanks, DB--fucker.) On the night of my last show, I had a long-winded argument (off-air) with a smug and self-proclaimed feminist about the supposedly inherent evil nature of Tiffany and Madonna. It got quite ugly and ruined my last show (I was so distraught, I ended with Dylan's "See That My Grave is Kept Clean") and I was relieved to get the hell out of there (which isn't to say I didn't miss doing the show).

So Sundar, Jeanne, cybele, and whoever else are 100% right: POP will kill you.

"Is this song or band somebody who is getting massive amounts of airplay elsewhere right now? If so, then I would rather play something else I like by a band that *doesn't* have that attention and never has so they hopefully can get some."

If that contributes to a self-defining/self-defeating indie mindset, that's unfortunate, but in a world of Clear Channels and all that these days, I think this point is even more valid.

Getting off topic, sorry.

In the real world of listening, as ILx can readily attest, we're tending to mix current well-known faves with private obsessions. I'd love to see that replicated in radio more often but at the same time the balance is so heavily weighted now in favor of the current well-known faves that having as much room as possible -- however miniscule that turns out to be -- for what isn't that well-known is all the more important. The heavenly jukebox doesn't change that.

having as much room as possible -- however miniscule that turns out to be -- for what isn't that well-known is all the more important.

I don't disagree with that, and I also understand (and understood) how part of their concern was having names like Madonna on their playlists--they had to be careful about adhering to a format, because they could risk having their license revoked if they weren't offering something considered "community-oriented" and which didn't overlap with commercial radio....I guess I grew up reading about (if not exactly listening to) this idea of "free form," which is surely a relic.

Scott, that's fantastic!

re: the original question, I'd go for Consolidated feat. The Yeastie Girls' "You Suck" definitely, followed by Monty Python's "Sit On My Face", just for a bit of context, y'know?

But for the sake of the thread, ten songs you would probably get in a little bit of trouble for playing (some of which I have in the past played and got away with, hurrah for being on the payroll):

1) Suck A Little Dick - Gangsta Boo
2) Put It In Your Mouth - I forget who but starts with an A
3) Your Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators (only if you try to claim its Elevator and there for New and Canadian)
4) Blaise Bailey III - G!Y!B!E! (the gun rant and language didn't sit well with the hippie crowd in control at the time)
5) Lord is My Nigga - Los Carminos (I forget the exact title from local punk rockers)
6) Opps I Rubbed My Genie In A Bottle Again - Christinia Spears
7) Meet The G That Killed Me - Public Enemy
8) Sophisticated Bitch - Public Enemy
9) Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos - Public Enemy
10) any song - Limp Bizquick

But not a little surprisingly Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome or Black Flag - Slip It In.

Depends on the radio station. I mean I once complained on a NCRA mailing list about the language and amount of thought going into a CIUT talk show about "Smashing The Pillars Of Capitalism or Something To That Effect" and nothing happened, mostly because I wasn't complaining to CRTC and it turns out it was their first week. When your 30kW or in that neighbourhood, repeated swearing at 1pm probably isn't a good thing when you have individuals in the area who would like nothing more then a chance to sue CUIT off the air. At my old station they'd be gone, and we did kick people off air for less. Basically for acting like C4lz.

FCC & "Decency"

Has some good thoughts on the subject, none from me.

(note to self: no L)

I remember that! It's funny that he got kicked off the air for that and not for all the cussing and potty-talk they did during their 'skits'.

That's because it was CHRY's stomping grounds up at York. CIUT is/was "urban" in the morning so maybe if you didn't get up before 9 you missed it, some good shows/hosting too. I hate formatting stations like that. But I suppose it help sells advertising dollars.

Skinny Puppy is still played heavily considering the age of most college djs and Propagandhi I believe have made Canadian Campus radio sharts in the past. Im not sure its because they are Canadian or because they are being excellent bands in their genre.

the gg allin songs i heard on PRB included "i wanna fuck your brains out," "drink, fight, and fuck," "suck my ass it smells," and "hard candy cock." i actually was taping when they played "i wanna fuck your brains out" and much hilarity (and a near suspension) ensued when i brought that tape to high school the next day and played it to friends.

i do remember the "killing an arab" flap.

i don't recall anyone getting thrown off the air in my time, though we did have to pass the logger tapes to the crtc a few times for playing the yeastie girls, i think. people who seemed likely to want to play hours of stuff that gets airplay on commercial radio never would have made it out of the closed-circuit training booth, way back when.

I remember playing (in a contextualized setting as described above) "Cop Killer" & "Body Count" (minus the intro) (Ice T), "Piss Factory" (Patti Smith), "Baby Got Back" (Sir Mix-a-lot)...

I accidentally played the first minute or so of "Fuck You" by the Stiffs one night just after I started DJing when I let the CD run into the next track. Faded that one out pretty quickly...

I forget who recorded it, but "Kicked In The Nuts" was a big 7" hit at our station back in the day. I used to play it on my morning show.

i played this on my show.

(the instrumental.)