I've noticed stuff like this for a while now, even pre-Nipplegate, that back in the day radio and MTV were a lot more lax about potentially offensive lyrics than they've been the past couple years. I mean, Mark Knopfler talked about "that little faggot" on one of the biggest MTV hits of the '80's, and even when they play it today they don't edit it. I mean, DMX sure as hell isn't getting away with that kind of thing. shit, both MTV and BET blank out the words "white man" in the new Kanye West video.
I guess you can tell I'm getting at a double-standard between rock and rap. I mean, there are quite a few classic rock staples that get away with the f-bomb ("Who Are You", for instance), but on rap radio, if they accidentally start to play the unedited version of a song, they'll stop the record and put on the clean edit, because they know the FCC is watching them like a hawk.
anyway, discuss if you like but mainly i'm looking for more examples.
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Pink Floyd's "Money" never gets censored, and isn't there a Steve Miller hit song that says fuck or shit in it?
"Cameltoe," anyone? "OPP?"
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― SexyDancer, Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Nate, I don't where you get "miscarriage" out of that, but "the rabbit died" used to be a euphemism for someone being pregnant.
― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, and they don't bleep "skeet so much, they call her Billy Ocean"
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)
We do, indeed...so apparently Rod decided that it's better to give than to receive! ;) (That's a joke, and a pretty darn good one if I say so myself! Hope somebody gets it...)
Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" famously features the phrase "giving head".
And I'll never forget Xgau's hilarious assertion that Toni Basil was "the only woman ever to offer to take it up the ass on top 40 radio (close your eyes and really concentrate on "Mickey" if you don't believe me.)"
In case you don't know, the lyric Bob's referring to is "Anyway you wanna do it / I’ll take it like a man"
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― duke aland, Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)
That quote was nicked from Robert Johnson...
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Wannabe (Spice Girls) has this bit...So here's a story from A to Z, you wanna get with meyou gotta listen carefully,We got Em in the place who likes it in your face,we got G like MC who likes it on anEasy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady,and as for me you'll see,Slam your body down and wind it all aroundSlam your body down and wind it all around
So, that's bucacce, and shagging on extersie, not bad for a first single where they hadn;t quite worked out who their core audience were...
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)
It's at the very end of the song, plain as day. I can't remember ever hearing it edited out on the radio.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 March 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)
"just wanta make you cumma"
That version of Anarchy in the UK by whavever heavy metal band that got "and other cuntlike tendencies"..
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Squeeze - Cool For Cats
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)
" Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
There's a guy in the place He's got a bittersweet face And he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Goode His friends call him Eezer and he is the main geezer And he'll vibe about the place like no other man could He's refined, he's sublime, he makes you feel fine Though very much maligned and misunderstood But if you know Eezer he's a real crowd pleaser He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode You can see that he's mischievious, mysterious and devious When he circulates amongst the people in the place But once you know he's fun and something of a genius He gives a grin that goes around from face to face to face Backwards and then forwards, forwards and then backwards Eezer is the geezer who loves to muscle in That's about the time the crowd all shout the name of Eezer As he's kotcheled in the corner, laughing by the bass bin Ebeneezer Goode, leading light of the scene Know what I mean, see He created the vibe He takes you for a ride and as if by design The party ignites like he's comin alive He takes you to the top, shakes you all around Then back down, you know as he gets mellow Then as smooth as the groove that is making you move He glides into your mind with a sunny Hello A gentleman of leisure, he's there for your pleasure But go easy on old Eezer he's the love you could lose Extraordinary fellow, like Mr. Punchinello He's the kind of geezer who must never be abused When you're in town and Ebeneezer is around You can sense a presence in the sound of the crowd He gets them all at it, the party starts rocking The people get excited it's time to shout loud "
and so on...
― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)
The whole of the last segment of lyrics on 'how many more times' by Zep seams to be about incestual pederasty, but Imay be wrong.
― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)
come on you cant beat that.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)
Radio 1 had/has a policy, swearing is ok in some situations 'on-record', but not by the DJs.
Thesedays, any 'more sweary' records have a 'warning' statement read by the DJ. (This will be for Zane Lo, Man Westwood, John Peel and co, so they can play stuff thats relevant to their area..)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― steve w, Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)
...but now I come to think of it, I'm also the person who always thought the chorus went, "Can't stand in no sunlight/Living in a gangsta's paradise" so I might just be being a fucknut again.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)
"I'm the man in the box, shove my nose in shit"
― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― mike a, Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
Also, somebody whispers "fuck" at the start of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain". I've never read anything about why or how this got on the recording. (it's extremely quiet, turn the volume way up if you want to hear it)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― mike a, Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)
They beeped out "187" during Snoop's performance on the Chappelle show tonight. -- Chris H. (chrisherber...), March 25th, 2004.
and yet, amazingly, the disease-ridden penis of the Snoop-voiced puppet was completely uncensored.
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago)
Drums beating, cold english blood runs hot,Lady of the house wond’rin where it’s gonna stop.House boy knows that he’s doin’ alright.You should a heard him just around midnight.Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl shouldA-huh.
I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boyFriends were sweet sixteen.I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like,You should have heard me just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I saidOh just like a, just like a black girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I saidOh just like, just like a black girl should.
― you will be shot (you will be shot), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago)
I have always been convinced that it repeats "Everybody Smoke Pot! Everybody Smoke Pot!"
― John Hunter, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago)
― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago)
― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago)
Still wondering about this one!
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago)
"I wanna Love you Forever" - Jessica Simpson
COME ON
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago)
...it's gonna be ugly?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago)
"Fireworks" by Tragically Hip seemed to get "you said you didn't give a fuck about hockey" by the censors, but probably because it's a song about Bobby Orr.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago)
I have never once heart the "We aaaaarrre/ The coolest motherfuckers on the planet" part edited out.
― R. Greene, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago)
― R. Greene, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)
I remember as a wee lad being amazed that a Smashie and Nicey-era, pre-Bannister Radio 1 had no qualms about playing "Just Who Is the Five O'Clock Hero" by the Jam ("covered in shit and aches and pains"). I'm sure the Jam had other big hits that usd piss, shit etc, but I'm (deleted) if I can think of which ones.
― darren (darren), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago)
― mr. drew (mr. drew), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago)
in cosmo vitelli's song called "dance with me" (i think) there're words that seem to me to be:
"the way i wanna love you, well, could be against the law..."
can you pretty please explain to me what exactly does he mean?thank you very much.
― nique (nique), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:09 (nineteen years ago)
Probably written before the Supreme Court struck down the Texas sodomy statute.
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago)
thank you mark for such a romantic suggestion anywayse :heart:
― nique (nique), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago)
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago)
I still can't believe that record was massive...
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago)
I thought this was settled years ago, but didn't they say it was "Oompah joompah, everybody's got one"?
I always thought it was "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper". People did used to say this.
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago)
I heard that the other day too - it was just about school run time and I'm sure the parents wouldn't approve.
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago)
Choir - six boys singing "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper", six girls singing "Everybody's got one"
― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)
I'm packed and I'm holding,I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden andshe lives for me, ahe says she lives for meovation, her own motivationshe comes round and she goes down on meand I make her smile like a drug for youdo ever what you wanna docomin' over youkeep on smiling what we go throughone stop to the rhythm that divides youand I speak to you like the chorus to the versechop another line like a coda with a cursecomin' like a freak show takes the stagewe give them the games we play, she saidI want something else to get me through thissemi-charmed kind of life, baby, babyI want something elseI'm not listening when you saygood-bye
the sky it was gold, it was roseI was taking sips of it through my noseand I wish I could get back theresmiling in the pictures you would takedoing crystal meth will lift you up until you breakI won't stopI won't come down, I keep stockwith a ticktock rhythm and a bump for the dropand then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was givenand then I bumped againand then I bumped againhow do I get back there tothe place where I fell asleep inside youhow do I get myself back tothe place where you saidI want something else to get me through thissemi-charmed kind of life, baby, babyI want something elseI'm not listening when you saygood-bye
I believe in the sand beneath my toesthe beach gives a feelingan earthy feelingI believe in the faith that growsand the four right chords can make me crywhen I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be alrightall rightwhen the plane came inshe said she was crashingthe velvet it ripsin the city we trippedon the urge to feel alivebut now I'm struggling to survivethe days you were wearingthat velvet dressyou're the priestessmust confessthose little red pantiesthey pass the testslide up around the bellyface down on the mattressonenow you hold meand we're brokenstill it's all that I want to dofeel myself with a head made of the groundI'm scared but I'm not coming downand I won't run for my lifeshe's got her jaws just locked now in smilebut nothing is alrightall rightI want something elseto get me through thissemi-charmed kind of life, baby, babyI want something elseI'm not listening when you saygood-byegood-byegood-byegood-bye
― jennifer b (jen b), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago)
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago)
Prince never really did too much of the 'shit fuck cunt' etc. but every time he comes on the radio it feels filthy. "Your face is jammin' / Your body's heck-a-slammin' / If love is good / Let's get to rammin'."
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, 6 December 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago)
Ray Parker Jr. for all time
http://bustinfeelgood.ytmnd.com/
― goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised gucci autogoons nowadays (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
Just got my haircut and that perennial uncensored favourite The Fairytale Of New York was playing on Heart FM.
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago)
Aw, skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet.
― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago)
I can't think of any other examples of anything so filthy slipping by unwitting censors. "Oh, they must be promoting skeet shooting. A wonderful, wholesome pasttime. I say, good show, Little Jon."
― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
"Look for the purple banana 'til they throw us in the truck." Prince - Let's Go Crazy
― C.T. Dalton (Daruton), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
The term skeet may refer to:
* A clay target * Skeet shooting * The Olympic Skeet event * Skeet Ulrich, an American actor * Skeet surfing * CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon ammunition * Term used in Newfoundland English to describe a low class, disruptive person * Term used in Manx English or Anglo Manx to describe news or gossip * A non-standard poker hand consisting of a deuce, five, nine and a card in between 2-5 and 5-9 * Slang for "trouble maker" / "low class ne'erdowell / sneaky person * Slang for coitus interruptus * Slang term for semen * Name of characters first name "Skeeter Valentine", from Doug
Hmmmmmmmmm...
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 December 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago)
I wonder if record company people go around adding never-used meanings of words to slang dictionaries, so they can later use them when arguing with radio authorities. "No, no, he's saying, repeatedly, that East Side Boyz are a bunch of trouble makers - low class ne'er-do-wells!"
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 December 2009 09:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://sharetv.org/images/doug/mosquito_skeeter_valentine-char.jpg
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 7 December 2009 09:24 (fifteen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/The_Maggot/doug.gif
― what fun it is to reign & sing a Slayer song tonight (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 7 December 2009 09:27 (fifteen years ago)
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, December 6, 2009 6:51 AM Bookmark
"Erotic City" to thread!
― only mod can judge me (The Reverend), Monday, 7 December 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago)