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    Posted: January 17 2011 at 06:32
Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

Originally posted by Harold-The-Barrel Harold-The-Barrel wrote:


Garden Party was also changed , the line I'm f**king" being replaced by "I'm Miming" Confused

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That was a special recording for the BBC's Top Of The Pops, and was quite amusingly played by Fish in the video.
 
 
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Originally posted by Harold-The-Barrel Harold-The-Barrel wrote:


Garden Party was also changed , the line I'm f**king" being replaced by "I'm Miming" Confused

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Marillion had the line  "I am your antichrist" changed to "I am your Battlepriest" on the Market Square Heroes single.

Garden Party was also changed , the line I'm f**king" being replaced by "I'm Miming" Confused
You must be joking.....Take a running jump......
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Have people here heard the radio edit of Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know"?  They cut out a few complete lines of lyrics.
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Lounès Matoub, although being the most popular kabyle singer, never got any airplay in his own country. This great singer/poet was murdered in 1998.



Edited by lucas - January 16 2011 at 15:22
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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I read that "Louie, Louie" was often banned from several radios: the lyrics are not very understandable, and it seems the reason of this banning ("if we don't understand the lyrics, they must be very obscene!")

There's also the famous example of Lou Reed's "Take a walk on the wild side": some versions sound "bip bip bip bip, take a walk on the wild side, tutu tulututu, bip bip bip"
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Pop culture/music in all it's forms is forbidden in many countries of the world, but I don't know if that qualifies for this thread. 
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A few days after 9/11, the songs "Morning has Broken" and "Peace Train" were banned by "The Clear Channel"  because Cat Stevens is Moslem.

Also this songs were banned:

Alice In Chains, "Rooster"
Alice In Chains, "Sea of Sorrow" 
Alice In Chains, "Down in a Hole" 
Alice In Chains, "Them Bones" 
Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot" 
Beastie Boys, "Sabotage" 
The Cult, "Fire Woman" 
Everclear, "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)" 
Filter, Hey Man, "Nice Shot" 
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly" 
Savage Garden, "Crash and Burn" 
Dave Matthews Band, "Crash Into Me" 
Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian" Question
Pretenders, "My City Was Gone" 
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" 
Barenaked Ladies, "Falling for the First Time" 
Fuel, "Bad Day" 
Korn, "Falling Away From Me" 
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane" 
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge" 
Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 
Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling" 
System Of A Down, "Chop Suey!" 
Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away" 
Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'" 
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm On Fire" 
Bruce Springsteen, "Goin' Down" 
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" 
Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff" 
Green Day, "Brain Stew" 
Temple Of The Dog, "Say Hello to Heaven" 
Sugar Ray, "Fly" 
Local H, "Bound for the Floor" 
Slipknot, "Left Behind, Wait and Bleed" 
Bush, "Speed Kills" 
311, "Down" 
Stone Temple Pilots, "Dead and Bloated" 
Soundgarden, "Fell on Black Days" 
Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun" 
Metallica, "Seek and Destroy" 
Metallica, "Harvester of Sorrow" 
Metallica, "Enter Sandman" 
Metallica, "Fade to Black" 
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole" 
Godsmack, "Bad Religion" 
Tool, "Intolerance" 
Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World" 
Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons" 
AC/DC, "Shot Down in Flames" 
AC/DC, "Shoot to Thrill" 
AC/DC, "Dirty Deeds" 
AC/DC, "Highway to Hell" 
AC/DC, "Safe in New York City" 
AC/DC, "TNT" 
AC/DC, "Hell's Bells" 
Black Sabbath, "War Pigs" 
Black Sabbath, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" 
Black Sabbath, "Suicide Solution" 
Kansas, "Dust in the Wind" 
Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven" 
The Beatles, "A Day in the Life" 
The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" 
The Beatles, "Ticket To Ride" 
The Beatles, "Obla Di, Obla Da" 
Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" 
Arthur Brown, "Fire" 
Blue Oyster Cult, "Burnin' For You" 
Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live and Let Die" 
Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe" 
Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"
John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down" 
John Mellencamp, "Paper In Fire"
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 
Boston, "Smokin" 
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young" 
Dio, "Holy Diver" 
Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner" 
Van Halen, "Jump" 
Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust" 
Queen, "Killer Queen" 
Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" 
Pat Benatar, "Love is a Battlefield" 
Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" 
REM, "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House" 
Judas Priest, "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" 
Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell" 
Pink Floyd, "Mother" 
John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire" 
Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction" 
Steam, "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey" 
Drifters, "On Broadway"
Shelly Fabares, "Johnny Angel"
Los Bravos, "Black is Black" 
Peter & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces" 
Peter & Gordon, "A World Without Love" 
Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" 
Zombies, "She's Not There" 
Elton John, "Bennie & The Jets" 
Elton John, "Daniel" 
Elton John, "Rocket Man" 
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire" 
Santana, "Evil Ways" 
Louis Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World" 
Youngbloods, "Get Together" 
Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City" 
Peter Paul & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind" 
Peter Paul & Mary, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" 
Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday" 
Zager & Evans, "In the Year 2525"  Question
Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky" 
Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst That Could Happen" 
Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again" 
Cat Stevens, "Peace Train" 
Cat Stevens, "Morning Has Broken" 
Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve" 
Martha & The Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run" 
Martha & The Vandellas/Van Halen, "Dancing in the Streets" 
Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" 
Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World" 
Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times" 
Don Mclean, "American Pie" 
J. Frank Wilson/Pearl Jam, "Last Kiss" 
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, "That'll Be the Day" 
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah" 
Surfaris, "Wipeout" 
Blood Sweat & Tears, "And When I Die" 
Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces" 
Tramps, "Disco Inferno" 
Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died" 
Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Travelin' Band" 
The Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" 
Alien Ant Farm, "Smooth Criminal" 
3 Doors Down, "Duck and Run" 
The Doors, "The End" Third Eye Blind, "Jumper" 
Neil Diamond, "America" 
Skeeter Davis, "End of the World" 
Ricky Nelson, "Travelin' Man" 
Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her" 
Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" 
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me" 
Mitch Ryder, "Devil with the Blue Dress" 
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain" 
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen, "War" 
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone" 
Drowning Pool, "Bodies" 
Mudvayne, "Death Blooms" 
Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive" 
Megadeth, "Sweating Bullets" 
Saliva, "Click Click Boom" 
P.O.D., "Boom"



Some are "somehow" related in one or another way to the tragic day, but I believe some are absurd.

Iván


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I am old enough to have seen the two Sullivan shows with the Stones and the Doors.
A few years before that Elvis was on the show and the camera was only allowed to show him from the waist up.
Remember, Elvis the pelvis was his nickname.
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In the single version of Marillion's Garden Party the line "I'm f...ing" was replaced by "I'm miming".
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The US has always had more censorship than a lot of other countries. As far as album covers, there was Blind Faith with the nude teen. Scorpions "Love Drive" was actually released with the original cover but was soon replaced. The label put colored shrink wrap with a sticker on the covers that had already been printed.
The cover of "In Trance" was the same as the original but the slightly exposed nipple was blacked out.


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http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1222167.html

Huck Finn, the blotting of cigarettes from old photos, the removal of stereotype characters from 1950s cartoons...it ain't just music.

Where does "revisionism via modern standards" end?  
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A song for an Bollywood flck in India which had the title "what is under my blouse" was banned from the film by the authorities. The lyrics was referring to the heart which is also covered up by a blouse in addition to the two parts of the anatomy the cencorship government banned the song for. The song became a hit in the underground markets.    

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The Kinks single Lola was initially banned because it referred to Coca Cola. The lyric was changed to Cherry Cola.
 
Then of course there was "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood which was banned when a DJ decided it was filthy.
 
Jane Birkin and Serge gainsbuough's "Je 'aime.." was banned because it was deemed too steamy by the BBC, as was a song called "Wet Dream" by Max Romeo and pretty much everything by Judge Dread. When playing the chart rundown, Alan Freeman was not even allowed to say the name of the Max Romeo single.
 
Paul McCartney and Wings single "Hi hi hi" was banned for alleged drug references. Even Harry Nilsson managed to get his single "You're breaking my heart" banned, but lyrically that was probably fair enough.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

A "parental advisory" sticker was put on Zappa's Jazz From Hell...an INSTRUMENTAL album!

That's ridiculous. "It's Zappa, he has risqué lyrics in some of his songs, lets say all of them, and in every album." 
Zappa put that warning on the album as a protest against Tipper Core's Parents Music Resource Center campaign for the labelling. 


You might be thinking of the "This album contains material that a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress" sticker he put on Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers Of Prevention.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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A) 666 by Aphrodite's Child, suffered a boycott of the most radical groups that didn't allowed it's publication for 2 years due to:

1.- The red cover with the huge 666.

2.- The song Infinity with the Irene Papas orgasm

3.- They wrote "This album was written under the influence of Sahlep"...The idiotic radical thought it was a Turkish demon or a strong drug, when as a fact it is a non alcoholic beverage.

B) The Rolling Stones song Satisfaction was banned in some radios, and during the presentation on The Ed Sullivan in show he prohibit the Stones to sing "Let's Spend the Night Together",  and Sullivan  wrote different lyrics fthat said "Let's Spend some Time Together, of course Jagger didn't accepted,  but Sullivan couldn’t ban the group because they were too big.

C) Also in the Ed Sullivan's Show, the producers  request that Jim Morrison change the lyrics to “Light My Fire” for The Doors’ September appearance on the program. Morrison initially agrees to alter the lyric “Girl we couldn't get much higher” to a more innocent and silly phrase. During the live presentation , Morrison shoouts "Girl we couldn't get much Higher", making emphasis in the phrase and looking directly at the camera. The Doors were never again invited back to the program

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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

A "parental advisory" sticker was put on Zappa's Jazz From Hell...an INSTRUMENTAL album!

That's ridiculous. "It's Zappa, he has risqué lyrics in some of his songs, lets say all of them, and in every album." 
Zappa put that warning on the album as a protest against Tipper Core's Parents Music Resource Center campaign for the labelling. 

I actually thought about that possibility at first. I Should have stuck with that. 
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Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

A "parental advisory" sticker was put on Zappa's Jazz From Hell...an INSTRUMENTAL album!

That's ridiculous. "It's Zappa, he has risqué lyrics in some of his songs, lets say all of them, and in every album." 
Zappa put that warning on the album as a protest against Tipper Core's Parents Music Resource Center campaign for the labelling. 
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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

A "parental advisory" sticker was put on Zappa's Jazz From Hell...an INSTRUMENTAL album!

That's ridiculous. "It's Zappa, he has risqué lyrics in some of his songs, lets say all of them, and in every album." 
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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A "parental advisory" sticker was put on Zappa's Jazz From Hell...an INSTRUMENTAL album!
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