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Post by michaelcasselman on Apr 13, 2013 9:02:29 GMT -5
If we want to be pedantic, George Benson was openly talking about prostitution in Turn Your Love Around.
Girl, you've been charging by the hour for your love...
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 13, 2013 12:53:23 GMT -5
"Uneasy Rider" by The Charlie Daniels Band contains a line about the "long haired hippie type pinko f***s".
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 13, 2013 21:20:28 GMT -5
Hollies: "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" A pair of 45s opened up my eyes. My temperature started to rise.
Aerosmith's: "Walk This Way" You ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin (really???) Then you're sure to be changing your ways. (see also album version of "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship.)
Album cut "Her Strut", Bob Seger/Silver Bullet Band: They really like her but... [missing a "t"?] They love to watch her strut.
I love double entendres...or as Peter, Paul, and Mary puts it: If I really say it. The radio won't play it. Unless I lay it between the lines.
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Post by artsmusic on Apr 13, 2013 21:29:14 GMT -5
Charlene's tune includes "subtle whoring" and that gets a pass.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 13, 2013 21:42:14 GMT -5
I just heard one of the most controversial lyrics in the AT40 from 6/16/90. Digital Underground's "Humpty Dance" features this line... I'm still gettin' in the girls' pants.
Earlier an ironic line was...And all the rappers in the top ten, please allow me to bump thee.
Ironic because this record stopped just short of the top 10 at 11 in large part because the controversial lyric above.
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 13, 2013 21:57:59 GMT -5
I think musical institutions like Elton John, Hall & Oates, Pink Floyd and Marvin Gaye rightfully got a pass on some of their material, simply because of their musical integrity. But George Michael and 2 Live Crew simply went for shock and neither are the institutions mentioned above. I think Dire Straits should get a pass, too, but we're in a different world now. Songs like "Money" and "Money For Nothing" played unedited back then and we didn't even wince. We totally got it then. And who'd have thought a song called "Sexual Healing" would do what it did? ONLY Marvin Gaye.
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Post by artsmusic on Apr 13, 2013 22:05:26 GMT -5
Sometimes WXRT here in Chicago plays the longer version of Healing and forgets to do a quicker fade toward the end. Along that line, Turning Japanese sounded fun when I was 14 but now....
Also Humpty Dance says "gettin' laid by the ladies". Quaint by 1990 rap standards, but....
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 13, 2013 22:07:17 GMT -5
And who'd have thought a song called "Sexual Healing" would do what it did? ONLY Marvin Gaye. Well Marvin had tried it once before, but his 1974 single "You Sure Love To Ball" only reached #50.
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Post by JMW on Apr 13, 2013 23:24:22 GMT -5
I don't know if this would count as questionable or controversial, but whenever I hear INXS' Devil Inside on the radio these days it's always the version that cuts out this section:
I remember hearing the full version of the song on the radio back in 1988 and every time I hear the edited version I'm always thinking, "Why was it OK to hear the word "hell" on the radio in 1988 but not now in the 21st century?"
And as I recall, every 1988 countdown with Devil Inside in the Top 40 I've heard in the past four years has been the "hell-less" version.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 14, 2013 1:17:11 GMT -5
Unless I missed it listed here, the song "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson was loaded with sexual innuendo, and was banned from some Top 40 stations in 1977. "...I let my fingers do the walking on the telephone man..."
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 14, 2013 6:06:37 GMT -5
Unless I missed it listed here, the song "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson was loaded with sexual innuendo, and was banned from some Top 40 stations in 1977. "...I let my fingers do the walking on the telephone man..." Her follow-up single, "Peter The Meter Reader" has just as many inferences. Plus there was a bonus twist at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLss0Uk2ZeU
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 21:45:18 GMT -5
Big Shot by Billy Joel on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 70's from March 17th, 1979...
But don't come bichin' to me, the b-word is censored with a blank!
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Post by tarobe on Apr 26, 2013 22:58:44 GMT -5
Let me comment on this a bit. I remember all these songs. Pink Floyd's "Money" has the word "bullsh^t" edited down to just "bull" on the promo, and that's what was played on the radio. Elton John's "B^tch Is Back" was played as is, unedited, everytime I heard it on the radio. Probably because nobody could understand what he was singing in the first place. The 45 of "Jet Airliner" says "funky kicks," and the 45 of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" says "son of a gun." The FM rock stations played the album versions. Speaking of Charlie Daniels, the version of "Uneasy Rider" I always heard had the lyrics "longed hippie-type pinko f*gs" intact but bleeped the word "asses."
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Post by donwa001 on Apr 26, 2013 23:10:17 GMT -5
Back in 1977, I would think many stations would not play "The Killing of Georgie (Part 1 & 2)" - Rod Stewart. The song peaked at #30 on the HOT 100. I've never heard the song played on Sirius/XM 70's channel. Here is a video of the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze01IZBfdBc
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Post by tarobe on Apr 27, 2013 8:35:44 GMT -5
Never heard "Killing of Georgie" on the radio, but they played "Ain't Love a B^tch."
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