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    Posted: August 30 2023 at 18:57
I had to smile at the story about Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" being deleted from this collection: 

On Aug. 11, Universal Music announced it would be sharing a number of music titles to Yoto, which launched in 2015 as a screen-free audio device with content safe for children. “Queen’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1” was one of the titles that would be added to the streaming service.


But when Yoto added the album this week, it did not include “Fat Bottomed Girls,” a cheeky song that includes lyrics about a “naughty nanny” with a “big fat fanny,” as well as “fat bottomed girls,” who “make the rocking world go around.”


Yoto, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, told the United Kingdom news outlet the Independent that “the average age of our listeners is 5 years old, and after consultation, we felt ['Fat Bottomed Girls'] wasn’t appropriate for our young audience.”


 I can name other prog songs that transgress modern boundaries of good taste & "wokeness," what do you have? 


More here:  https://ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-fat-bottomed-girls-greatest-hits-missing/


 I can name other prog songs that transgress modern boundaries of good taste & "wokeness," what do you have?




Edited by cstack3 - August 30 2023 at 19:06
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'Cross-eyed Mary' .

If the issue is 5 year-old listeners, then I get that.   If the issue was not wanting to include a song about women with large glutes, I kinda get that too.   If the issue was that Freddie Mercury was gayer than a small bag of scones so why would he care about a woman's body, I suppose I get that as well.

Freedom goes both ways---  you can't say it's censorship and then expect to conduct your life & business as you see fit without interference.
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Zappa wins hands down. A few... Dinah-Moe Humm, Bobby Brown, Jewish Princess, Harder than your Husband, Punky's Whips, Broken Hearts are for a****les, Titties and Beer, He's So Gay... should I continue? Gotta love Frank.

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^ Then there's G-Spot Tornado, which was completely instrumental but still came under fire from the PMRC LOL
Take me down, to the underground
Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

'Cross-eyed Mary' .

If the issue is 5 year-old listeners, then I get that.   If the issue was not wanting to include a song about women with large glutes, I kinda get that too.   If the issue was that Freddie Mercury was gayer than a small bag of scones so why would he care about a woman's body, I suppose I get that as well.

Freedom goes both ways---  you can't say it's censorship and then expect to conduct your life & business as you see fit without interference.


Oh, there's quite a few Tull songs that would cross that line, and delightful they are. "Hunting Girl", for instance, is an ode to cunnilingus. Except, I don't think the censors would catch it (that whole ability to discern allusions and innuendo).

And of course, out of nowhere, comes the infamous line rattled in rapid-fire on APP:
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision -- the examing body examined her body!"

Funny thing, I throughly enjoyed Aqualung as an 11 year old when it was released, "Cross-eyed Mary", "eyeing little girls with bad intent", and "the graven image you-know-who with his plastic crucifix" -- the whole damn glorious thing. But my parents were far more alarmed at Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies" than they ever were of Tull.

P.S. What five year old is listening to prog? They should be given a gold star on their forehead and an ice cream cone for good measure.


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^ Ian knew how to weave debauchery into such lovely rock music -
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Thanks, this is the dialog I was expecting! 

Some of my favorites are Eno's songs!  "Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" is a bit obvious. 

in "King's Lead Hat," he sings about "four darkies in a big black car!"  I lived in the UK for a while, so I'm familiar with the term. 



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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Zappa wins hands down. A few... Dinah-Moe Humm, Bobby Brown, Jewish Princess, Harder than your Husband, Punky's Whips, Broken Hearts are for a****les, Titties and Beer, He's So Gay... should I continue? Gotta love Frank.

GREAT answer!  I forgot about "Jewish Princess!"  When pushed about it, Frank said "What's the problem?  I sing "I WANT a Jewish Princess!"   Gotta love the guy!
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ELP - Jeremy Bender
Jeremy Bender was a man of leisure
Took his pleasure in the evening sun
Laid him down in a bed of roses
Finally decided to become a nun

Talked with his sister and spoke in a whisper
Threatened to fist her if she didn't come clean
Jumped on the mother, just like a brother
Asked one another if the other's a queen

Digging the sister, she was a mister
Shouldn't have kissed her but he couldn't say no
Wanted to leave her, couldn't believe her
So he picked up his suitcase and decided to go


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How about the famous Yes song "Let's Kill the Whale!" ?  

That one ended up on the cutting room floor, but Squire played it for me once!  LOL
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Most people giggle at these sexual "incorrectnesses" - but it's not so easy to be open-minded once we get to religious or even political/social issues.


(not really prog, but definitely politically incorrect) LOL
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Yup, Zap is about as politically incorrect as it comes. Love him for that, but TBH, all of his teenage smut lyrics had grown thin during my own teenage years. 



Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

If the issue was that Freddie Mercury was gayer than a small bag of scones so why would he care about a woman's body, I suppose I get that as well.

Freedom goes both ways---  you can't say it's censorship and then expect to conduct your life & business as you see fit without interference.

Mercu!ry was a gay icon, but I understand that he was actually bi, hence the Bicycle Race video. 

And TBH, that FBGMTWRWGR song is about a certain way that women make men go crazy and the centre of their obsession, rather than misreading it as a misogynic attack. 
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Deep Purple's "Strange Kind of Woman" comes to mind.
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

Deep Purple's "Strange Kind of Woman" comes to mind.

what's wrong with it? Confused
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Faust - It's a Bit of a Pain. The spoken word in Swedish is about how some people think that some human races have more hair than others. The word negro is used.

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Freak Kitchen - Gun God, Saving up for an Anal Bleach, Walls of Stupidity, Porno Daddy, Honey, You're a Nazi, etc.

Bubblemath - Surface Tension, Doll Hammer, Your Disease is Nicer, etc.
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Pursuing my thoughts about actual POLITICAL incorrectness, I highly recommend Zappa's Broadway The Hard Way live album.

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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Freak Kitchen - Gun God, Saving up for an Anal Bleach, Walls of Stupidity, Porno Daddy, Honey, You're a Nazi, etc.

Freak Kitchen has always had funny lyrics, so anything humorous is politically incorrect now?! Confused
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^ Of course what is or what isn't politically incorrect depends on who you're asking. But there's also several different "levels" - some things might be called PI but are actually funny to a person, while others are PI and off-limits, causing serious offense and aren't remotely funny.

Example for the latter: "Black people can also be racist". Good luck to you if you propose that on social media nowadays.
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Music is art and an artist can say what he wants, then you can decide whether to get it or not, unless it's an offense. I.e. Nazis and fascists are outlaws, at least in my country...at least on the paper. 
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