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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Mar 4, 2013 17:39:27 GMT -5
What? Who? See my post above... Isn't she taller than Madonna? I wonder if that's who they had in mind (though I doubt Ms. Anton was more relevant than the Material Girl).
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Post by michaelcasselman on Mar 4, 2013 21:30:49 GMT -5
Maybe by 1986 Anton wasn't as relevant, but in her day (as little as 3 years earlier)....
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Post by mrjukebox on Mar 4, 2013 21:40:37 GMT -5
In Pete Battistini's book "AT40-The 70's",there is mention of a little known Bob Dylan song called "George Jackson" which reached the top 40 in late 1971-There was a line that said:"He didn't take s***t from anybody"-When the song was edited,the listener heard:"He didn't take it from anybody".
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Post by seminolefan on Mar 4, 2013 22:23:34 GMT -5
Tesla's remake of the song "Signs" has the "F***ing up the scenery" line.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 4, 2013 23:45:17 GMT -5
So I try log in to add Fight The Power Pt 1 to the list. And the BS word actually slipped onto AT40 its first couple of weeks; thereafter it was fudged over. I think the first record that AT40 ever put out a warning to radio stations about was the "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by "C Company featuring Terry Nelson". Maybe it was the politically controversial content; in any event it's one of the worst records ever aired there.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Mar 5, 2013 1:08:32 GMT -5
What? Who? See my post above... What do you mean, "Who?" You're 54 and you don't remember Susan Anton? "In a camisole / She's six feet tall." Does that sound like Madonna to you?
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Post by Ponderous Man on Mar 5, 2013 8:26:50 GMT -5
OldSchool, I've noticed something. It seems that some of your posts are about questionable content in songs & political correctness & all that jazz. I have a question to you (& it's a very serious question): Are you a prude? I'm serious. It sounds like you don't have a lot of fun at all. It also sounds like you're not a fan of the songs you find offensive. I'm probably sure that at parties, you're an even bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington. For those that don't watch the show, that's a Family Guy reference in that last sentence there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2013 21:04:53 GMT -5
Funny how some songs are censored and some aren't. Way back in 1969 the Rolling Stones had a monster #1 hit with "Honky Tonk Women", despite both what are still fairly blatant sex ("I laid a divorcee in New York City") and drug ("...she blew my nose and then she blew my mind") references, without much, if any, uproar. Maybe 'cause it's the Stones! That was nothing compared to their #2 hit in 1981, "Start Me Up", especially with lyrics like these... You, you make a dead man cum You, you make a dead man cum
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Post by mga707 on Mar 5, 2013 22:35:35 GMT -5
Funny how some songs are censored and some aren't. Way back in 1969 the Rolling Stones had a monster #1 hit with "Honky Tonk Women", despite both what are still fairly blatant sex ("I laid a divorcee in New York City") and drug ("...she blew my nose and then she blew my mind") references, without much, if any, uproar. Maybe 'cause it's the Stones! That was nothing compared to their #2 hit in 1981, "Start Me Up", especially with lyrics like these... You, you make a dead man cum You, you make a dead man cum True, but at least that line was at the end of the song, so stations could always do an early fade out--and, as I remember, many did!
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 6, 2013 7:07:17 GMT -5
OldSchool, I've noticed something. It seems that some of your posts are about questionable content in songs & political correctness & all that jazz. I have a question to you (& it's a very serious question): Are you a prude? I'm serious. It sounds like you don't have a lot of fun at all. It also sounds like you're not a fan of the songs you find offensive. I'm probably sure that at parties, you're an even bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington. For those that don't watch the show, that's a Family Guy reference in that last sentence there. Actually, the songs that are deemed offensive in nature I do enjoy. I even find them funny, in fact. It's just that, as much as I enjoy such songs, I have to look out for the best interests of certain groups of individuals (especially the young generation) who could be badly influenced by such songs and end up having bad role models. I hope my niece, when she gets older, doesn't get badly influenced by such controversial or politically incorrect music. I could even get a laugh when it comes to someone's YouTube comment that the final #1 on American Top 20 was not 50 Cent's "Smack My (B-bomb) Around" - sounds hilarious. Heck, even some of today's rap music I do enjoy, and it doesn't badly influence me at all.
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Post by alann on Mar 6, 2013 17:13:06 GMT -5
In the UK the BBC forced some groups to change lyrics to remove advertising if they wanted airplay, as the BBC don't carry adverts.
The original version of the Kinks song Lola from 1970 included the line "Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola" They changed it "Cherry-Cola" to get the song on the radio
The 1972 song All The Young Dudes, written by Bowie and a UK hit for the group Mott The Hoople included the line "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks & Sparks". Marks & Sparks was a widely used shortning of the name of a national UK clothes store Marks & Spencer, which still exists. The group changed it to "Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars"
Kodakrome by Paul Simon wasn't played by the BBC in 1973 because it was advertising & it had the word "crap" in it.
Quite a few songs with sexual references were also banned by the BBC. The most famous being the 1969 UK #1 "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Far too many groans in that for the BBC.
They also banned the 1983 #1 Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood because they said it was all about sex...which it was. Most of the commercial Top 40 stations in the UK played it though, which made their ban a bit pointless especially as they play it now.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 6, 2013 18:15:11 GMT -5
I still find it almost hilarious that Paul McCartney might be the only artist to have had 2 songs banned by the BBC, "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" for its political overtones and "Hi Hi Hi" for use of words associated with drugs. Sir Paul was taken aback by the banning of "Ireland" and that's why his next single was "Mary Had a Little Lamb"!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 21:24:45 GMT -5
In the UK the BBC forced some groups to change lyrics to remove advertising if they wanted airplay, as the BBC don't carry adverts. The original version of the Kinks song Lola from 1970 included the line "Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola" They changed it "Cherry-Cola" to get the song on the radio The 1972 song All The Young Dudes, written by Bowie and a UK hit for the group Mott The Hoople included the line "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks & Sparks". Marks & Sparks was a widely used shortning of the name of a national UK clothes store Marks & Spencer, which still exists. The group changed it to "Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars" Kodakrome by Paul Simon wasn't played by the BBC in 1973 because it was advertising & it had the word "crap" in it. Quite a few songs with sexual references were also banned by the BBC. The most famous being the 1969 UK #1 "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Far too many groans in that for the BBC. They also banned the 1983 #1 Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood because they said it was all about sex...which it was. Most of the commercial Top 40 stations in the UK played it though, which made their ban a bit pointless especially as they play it now. Yet "Oh No Not Susan" by Electric Light Orchestra somehow got passed those very same UK BBC censors back in 1973! Songwriters: Jeff Lynne Susan spent the weekend at her stately home Crying at the lions on the garden wall And then she'd sigh, sneak away Look at her style, free the day Oh no not me, I wouldn't Oh no not me, I couldn't That's all she says, her money and her place They just don't mean a f**king thing Susan met the Lords and Dukes of everywhere Smiling kissing wishing that they'd go to hellAnd then she'd laugh, wonder why Take a nap, sit and cry Oh no not me, I wouldn't Oh no not me, I couldn't That's all she says, her money and her place They just don't mean a f**king thing ;D
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Post by mstgator on Mar 6, 2013 22:16:32 GMT -5
That was nothing compared to their #2 hit in 1981, "Start Me Up", especially with lyrics like these... You, you make a dead man cum You, you make a dead man cum True, but at least that line was at the end of the song, so stations could always do an early fade out--and, as I remember, many did! Similar to Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing", which contained a line about masturbation in its fade...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2013 8:23:46 GMT -5
LDD for 4/17/1982
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by Jimmy Buffett
Good times and riches and "son of a biches"
The Latter became...
"bruises and stitches"
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