Most absurd examples of censorship in music

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I have a distant relative with her own radiostation whose banning all music from artists who has visited or played in one specific pub/cafe in her village. With the hand on the Bible, she deems it as inappropriate for a Christian person to visit, let alone do gigs in that cafe/pub. 
I also once got a phone call from another radio station informing me that my artists was banned from that radiostation due to their very remote association with bands who they (wrongfully) accused being promoters of Hitlers and other racist motivated genocides. I visited the radio station to collect the CDs and found pictures of Mao, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot on their walls. This was in the mid 1990s, well after the revelations of various genocides. 

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - January 16 2011 at 09:17

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toroddfuglesteg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658	Posted: January 16 2011 at 09:11
	I have a distant relative with her own radiostation whose banning all music from artists who has visited or played in one specific pub/cafe in her village. With the hand on the Bible, she deems it as inappropriate for a Christian person to visit, let alone do gigs in that cafe/pub. I also once got a phone call from another radio station informing me that my artists was banned from that radiostation due to their very remote association with bands who they (wrongfully) accused being promoters of Hitlers and other racist motivated genocides. I visited the radio station to collect the CDs and found pictures of Mao, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot on their walls. This was in the mid 1990s, well after the revelations of various genocides. Edited by toroddfuglesteg - January 16 2011 at 09:17

Finnforest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: The Heartland Status: Online Points: 16913	Posted: January 16 2011 at 09:03
	I just read that some Canadian radio stations are beginning to stop playing Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" because of use of "fa***" in the song. I've heard radio stations edit "good goody good bullsht" from PF Money. sigh

Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630	Posted: January 16 2011 at 08:50
	Don't cum in me being edited out of the original We're Only In It For The Money, not being edited out for the first Rykodisc version. Getting edited out again for the remaster. Harry, you're a beast.
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zappaholic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 24 2006 Location: flyover country Status: Offline Points: 2822	Posted: January 16 2011 at 08:39
	I just heard on the radio a version of Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" with all the "god damn"s edited out. Beat that.
	"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken