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Banned songs

Post by Deleted User 15835 » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:44 pm

Or at least at the time. First one I'll go with is Jeanny by Falco, whom was a pop artist from Austria. His best-known song is Rock me Amedius, which I believe is the only semi-German language song ever to be in The US pop charts. Jeanny was never a hit in The USA but it got banned on West German radio due to the song being about a prostitute.




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Re: Banned songs

Post by Deleted User 15835 » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:47 pm

This wasn't quite banned but... Casey Kasim refused to say the title to Geroge Michael's 1987 hit I want your sex. I believe a few stations in The US refused to play the song.





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Re: Banned songs

Post by flv » Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:42 am

i believe that "they're coming to take me away" was banned in the late 60's



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Re: Banned songs

Post by teetoppz28 » Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:37 am

2 Live Crew's "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" album, featuring hits such as: "Me So Horny", "Dick Almighty", and "Dirty Nursery Rhymes". It was the first album in history to be deemed legally obscene... As a young teenage boy, I listened to the cassette so much, I wore through the tape! LOL!


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Post by Mega Hertz » Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:17 am

teetoppz28 wrote:
Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:37 am
2 Live Crew's "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" album, featuring hits such as: "Me So Horny", "Dick Almighty", and "Dirty Nursery Rhymes". It was the first album in history to be deemed legally obscene... As a young teenage boy, I listened to the cassette so much, I wore through the tape! LOL!
This example is the slam dunk. Store owners were getting arrested for selling the album, the group was arrested for performing live (in an 18+ club, no less), that's about as close to banning as you can get.

That said, Dirty Nursery Rhymes was an epiphany for me. One of the best songs ever. The Fuck shop was another banger.

Of course, we got Banned in the USA out of it, too.


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Re: Banned songs

Post by matt1 » Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:26 pm

My late mom loved Fleetwood Mac 1979 song "Tusk" (with the USC Trojan Marching Band) all because of Mick Fleetwood's drumming!!



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Re: Banned songs

Post by kager » Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:49 am

I sometimes wonder if Al’s career may gone even further up the flagpole if Tipper & the other DC Stepford Wives’ PMRC hadn’t spent so much time in the limelight back in the 80’s & early 90’s.

It’s pretty well known that the efforts to ban / regulate songs or albums by requiring a PMRC-inspired ’Tipper Sticker’ on them actually backfired, and resulted in higher interest and sales of the material than those without.


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Re: Banned songs

Post by SolarMax » Sun Apr 02, 2023 6:36 pm

flv wrote:
Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:42 am
i believe that "they're coming to take me away" was banned in the late 60's
Which reminds me-
I didn't see this posted elsewhere on the board:

Jerry Samuels, singer and songwriter better known as Napoleon XIV, who had a novelty hit with “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” died March 10, 2023 of complications from dementia and Parkinson’s disease, at the age of 84.



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Re: Banned songs

Post by matt1 » Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:23 am

Back in March of 1966, the song "Rhapsody In The Rain" by Lou Christie (went to # 16 on April 30, 1966) early pressings had the lyric "We were makin' out in the rain" then reissued as "We fell in love in the rain". Story from "Music Mike's Flashback Favorites" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdaYA4l ... KVKVIRadio



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Re: Banned songs

Post by matt1 » Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:47 am

On September 14, 1974, the group The Raspberries had a Top 40 song called "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" (went to # 18 on Billboard on November 9, 1974) & then next week, it fell to # 38 on November 16, 1974. Former Rolling Stone rock critic Dave Marsh (born in Pontiac, MI) had this to say in both the 1979 & 1983 "Rolling Stone Record Guide": In 1974, when Eric Carmen despaired of ever breaking through to more substantial recognition, he came up with a last-ditch effort called "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" that painted his aspirations with perfect bluntness. "Overnight Sensation" is the radio that leads to Carmen's street of dreams, and in it, his vision of himself as the true inheritor of the innocence of early-Sixties rock is justified completely. Unfortunately, "Overnight Sensation" and the inspired album from which it came ("Starting Over" now deleted) were both relative commercial failures (album went to # 143), and Carmen soon left the band (they broke up on March 27, 1975) (which has since contributed members to Fotomaker and Tattoo) for a solo career in which he has, despite occasional hit singles, seemed more and more like Barry Manilow for the prematurely senile. (there were 2 versions of the song which the 45 single has a guitar near the end of the song BUT the album version does not & also you hear The Raspberries 1972 song "Go All The Way" which Eric Carmen is sayin' "Mama yeah, woo" at the end of the album version!!) Produced by Jimmy "Teeth" Ienner who also produced Flint, MI's Grand Funk "All The Girls In The World, Beware!!" & "Born To Die" albums. The 45 single ran 5:24 (Capitol orange label said 5:34) BUT the album version (Capitol orange label) is 5:34 in length.



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Post by matt1 » Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:52 am

The Raspberries from "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" (November of 1974) which runs 26 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZocilE ... rts%26More



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