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Post by Jessica on Apr 7, 2019 20:51:59 GMT -5
In the MeToo era I don’t know if some songs would be acceptable. I’m thinking of songs like “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen or I’m surprised no one mentioned “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC (“She told me to c** but I was already there”) or any song by Prince like “Little Red Corvette” or Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” (“I’m down on my knees, I want to take you there”), “Justify My Love” and “Dress You Up”. “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper “Sugar Walls” by Sheena Easton “Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood “I Touch Myself” by The Divinyls “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails “Erotica” by Madonna Since most of those songs still get a lot of recurrent play I guess they’d still pass muster. Since you mentioned “Fat Bottomed Girls”, I’ll add Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” as a similarly themed song that gets replayed a lot despite radio resistance originally (it only hit #13 in Radio & Records despite being #1 on the Hot 100 due to massive sales.) NIN’s “Closer” never got much pop radio play to start with, but was (is?) popular at rock and alternative radio. Yeah That’s a good point, I didn’t think of that. I just thought of another one, Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” with the infamous line “Would she go down on you in a theatre”. To this day I’m surprised that line hasn’t been censored, not that I’m complaining:).
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Post by retrodaddy on Apr 8, 2019 12:53:56 GMT -5
In the MeToo era I don’t know if some songs would be acceptable. I’m thinking of songs like “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen or I’m surprised no one mentioned “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC (“She told me to c** but I was already there”) or any song by Prince like “Little Red Corvette” or Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” (“I’m down on my knees, I want to take you there”), “Justify My Love” and “Dress You Up”. “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper “Sugar Walls” by Sheena Easton “Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood “I Touch Myself” by The Divinyls “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails “Erotica” by Madonna What exactly is it about these songs that would be unacceptable in the #MeToo era? Not a sarcastic question, just trying to figure out context here. I don't know the lyrics of all these songs, but for what I know these songs are sexual in nature without espousing abuse, harassment, or forced behavior. Two of 'em are about self pleasure. Baby Got Back and Fat Bottomed Girls celebrate women of that nature, though I suppose some folks who don't want to see women judged by their looks or body type in any way, shape, or form even in a positive manner may take umbrage. Fwiw I've never liked Sugar Walls. The lyrics don't bother me, but the beat is annoying. Strut, the previous single from that album, is much better imo.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 8, 2019 14:19:52 GMT -5
Angie Baby....
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 10, 2019 14:48:23 GMT -5
Tone Loc: Funky Cold Medina
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man So I threw him out, I don't fool around with no Oscar Meyer wiener You must be sure that the girl is pure for the Funky Cold Medina
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Post by djjoe1960 on Apr 11, 2019 16:52:41 GMT -5
Surprised that nobody mentioned Billy Joel's 'Only The Good Die Young'--a song about a guy trying to get a Catholic girl to give up her virginity (to him). Joel claims that the boy doesn't get anywhere with the girl, which is why he claims that the song didn't get banned.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 11, 2019 18:19:31 GMT -5
Surprised that nobody mentioned Billy Joel's 'Only The Good Die Young'--a song about a guy trying to get a Catholic girl to give up her virginity (to him). Joel claims that the boy doesn't get anywhere with the girl, which is why he claims that the song didn't get banned. In my area, the then-leading top 40 station (KTKT) would not play the song due to that very "...you Catholic girls start way too late..." line. Assuming that some other stations took the same stand, it could be why this 3rd release from "The Stranger" (actually 4th, as "Movin' Out was released first, then re-released after "Just the Way You Are") charted lower than the other three. And, as a purely un-scientific anecdote, my experience at that time was that Billy's claim about Catholic girls was most definitely NOT true.
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Post by pb on Apr 11, 2019 18:54:38 GMT -5
Van Morrison's "Blue Money" (from last weekend's 1971 show) uses a slang word for cigarette that would be auto censored if I tried to type it here.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 11, 2019 19:12:24 GMT -5
Van Morrison's "Blue Money" (from last weekend's 1971 show) uses a slang word for cigarette that would be auto censored if I tried to type it here. The etymology of that shortened word, and the longer word from which it is derived, is quite interesting. How it changed over the centuries from meaning a bundle of sticks to being a perjorative term for sexual preference.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 12, 2019 7:34:15 GMT -5
Van Morrison's "Blue Money" (from last weekend's 1971 show) uses a slang word for cigarette that would be auto censored if I tried to type it here. Ah, sort of like it gets censored when it's contained in the abbreviated form of Foreigner's biggest hit!
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Post by pb on Apr 12, 2019 12:37:14 GMT -5
Van Morrison's "Blue Money" (from last weekend's 1971 show) uses a slang word for cigarette that would be auto censored if I tried to type it here. Ah, sort of like it gets censored when it's contained in the abbreviated form of Foreigner's biggest hit! Or if you try to mention the name of Steely Dan's singer.
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Post by at40nut on Apr 12, 2019 17:52:36 GMT -5
Ah, sort of like it gets censored when it's contained in the abbreviated form of Foreigner's biggest hit! Or if you try to mention the name of Steely Dan's singer. And also in Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing " in the second verse which is often ommitted. AT40 and most radio stations avoided that lyric , but I do remember that it was once played on Countdown America with John Leader back in 1985 which was one of his last shows with Countdown America at the time.
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Post by at40nut on Apr 14, 2019 0:54:01 GMT -5
Imagine that you are 11 going on 12, and you hear Lita Ford's "Kiss Me Deadly" in the car when your Mom hears "I went to a party last Saturday night, I didn't get laid, I got in a fight" I remember when AT40 changed "didn't get laid" to "didn't get a break". There was also a change in the second verse from "had a few beers, gettin high" to "had a few beers gettin wild"
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 31, 2019 12:50:32 GMT -5
Earache My Eye: Cheech and Chong
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 4, 2019 16:28:14 GMT -5
When The Knack had their second top forty hit in 1979 "Good Girls Don't",the line "when she's sitting on your face" was changed to "when she puts you in your place".
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 18, 2020 17:19:04 GMT -5
From Steamroller Blues...probably wouldn't fly today:
I'm a Napalm bomb, baby Guaranteed to blow your mind
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