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Post by torcan on Mar 2, 2013 14:09:18 GMT -5
And of course, Pink Floyd's "Money" with the BS word. Oddly enough, my reissue 45 on Capitol has the BS word intact. I would have thought all 45s would be the edited version. Anyone remember what the original 45 was like? Maybe there were two pressings - one with the word and one without?
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Post by jcs72 on Mar 2, 2013 14:11:31 GMT -5
... expilitives (Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner", as an example) Some versions of that song use the phrase "funky KICKS going down in the city".
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Post by jcs72 on Mar 2, 2013 14:15:23 GMT -5
Life in the Fast Lane by Eagles She said, "Listen, baby. You can hear the engine ring. We've been up and down this highway; haven't seen a goddam thing." One retro AT40 played that song and skipped a bunch of content, and out of nowhere they were at "Call the doctor, I think I'm gonna crash".
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Post by jcs72 on Mar 2, 2013 14:28:35 GMT -5
This may not count, but In Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady", the Spanish P word is there. ISTR he sings one verse of the chorus with "shove it in, shove it out", and I can remember when "shove it" was pretty controversial. Then again, Johnny Paycheck sang "Take This Job And ..." the following year.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Mar 2, 2013 17:54:22 GMT -5
This one was on the charts when the Billboard Hot 100 changed its methodolgy (and it's a doosy): Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P." was controversial for its cryptic title alone. However, anyone who heard the record on either AT40 or CT40 only got half of it!
In many press releases, the title stood for "Other People's Property." The track has absolutely no profanity in it, but it has one of the dirtiest meanings ever on a hit record! In the first verse, the 2nd P. really stands for a five-letter word that was "another way to call a cat a kitten." In the second verse, the 2nd P. also stands for another five-letter word that was "the longest, loveliest, call it the leanest...claimed is the meanest." AT40 only played the first verse while I've only heard the first and third verse on CT40. So most listeners never caught onto the fact the title really had three meanings.
The theme of the record is a man cheating on his woman while she is cheating on him. Therefore, I've always likened it to Johnnie Taylor's "Who's Making Love" (later charted by the Blues Brothers on AT40 in 1981) and a 1973 Don Covay AT40 hit: "I Was Checkin' Out While She Was Checkin' In."
Ironically, "O.P.P." was on the charts at the same time as another controversial hit "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-N-Pepa, a track that dared radio to play song about the pleasures and pains of intimacy. NBN's Anthony "Treach" Criss would later marry SNP's Sandy "Pepa" Denton.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 2, 2013 18:15:54 GMT -5
And was "Michael" allegedly in reference to Michael Jackson? And what was "Susan" in reference to? Yes, the "Michael" was MJ. "Susan" was a rather oblique reference to Madonna, calling her by the name of her character in "Desperately Seeking Susan".
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Post by SFGuy on Mar 2, 2013 19:02:05 GMT -5
The album version of The Who's "Who Are You" could never be played on AT40 due to the f word (as in who the f are you?). I used to hear it on a classic rock station here in SF but haven't in years. I do hear album cut of "Money for Nothing", though.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 2, 2013 19:50:24 GMT -5
The edit of who are you says who the hell are you instead.
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Post by cachiva on Mar 3, 2013 7:32:46 GMT -5
Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" was very controversial in 1975. Some stations wouldn't play it at all, some would, but not say the title, or, would call it simply, "Only Women". I think the label on the 45 said "Only Women", too. Last year, SiriusXM played an AT40 countdown from a week when the song was a hit, and Casey only said something like, "And here is the new hit from Alice Cooper, moving up 6 spots to #14". And when they played the year end top 80 for 1975, Casey called it "Only Women". And, for the record, the song is not about... that.
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Post by mstgator on Mar 3, 2013 14:35:26 GMT -5
This one was on the charts when the Billboard Hot 100 changed its methodolgy (and it's a doosy): Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P." was controversial for its cryptic title alone. However, anyone who heard the record on either AT40 or CT40 only got half of it! In many press releases, the title stood for "Other People's Property." The track has absolutely no profanity in it, but it has one of the dirtiest meanings ever on a hit record! In the first verse, the 2nd P. really stands for a five-letter word that was "another way to call a cat a kitten." In the second verse, the 2nd P. also stands for another five-letter word that was "the longest, loveliest, call it the leanest...claimed is the meanest." AT40 only played the first verse while I've only heard the first and third verse on CT40. So most listeners never caught onto the fact the title really had three meanings. Also of note, one radio version censors the word "kitten" in the first verse (I believe both AT40 and CT40 used that censored version as the basis for their in-house edits).
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Post by chrislc on Mar 3, 2013 18:03:19 GMT -5
So I try log in to add Fight The Power Pt 1 to the list.
But I forget my password.
So to have a second try I have to watch a short commercial on which my secret phrase will be revealed to type in to prove I am human.
And it's a Swiffer commericial playing That Lady.
You can't make this stuff up.
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Post by jcs72 on Mar 3, 2013 18:42:00 GMT -5
"I've Never Been To Me" by Charlene. Contains an inappropriate word starting with W. I looked at the lyrics online since I didn't know the answer at first, and what I think you're referring to is what Simon and Garfunkel sang about on Seventh Avenue in their song "The Boxer" from 1969-- 13 years earlier. For the record I was borderline shocked by the lyrics about her being (sounds like addressed) by kings, as well as what someone ain't s'posed to see in one of the choruses.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 3, 2013 19:58:54 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!
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Mar 3, 2013 22:09:42 GMT -5
And was "Michael" allegedly in reference to Michael Jackson? And what was "Susan" in reference to? Yes, "Michael" referred to MJ. And "Susan" was Susan Anton: www.susananton.com/home.asp
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Post by mga707 on Mar 4, 2013 15:34:55 GMT -5
And was "Michael" allegedly in reference to Michael Jackson? And what was "Susan" in reference to? Yes, "Michael" referred to MJ. And "Susan" was Susan Anton: www.susananton.com/home.aspWhat? Who? See my post above...
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