Prog songs with swear words?

Hi,

The bleeping of the swear words had started around 1974 or 1975, when the FCC decided to go after the FM stations playing anything, and in some cases, many of these stations went for the words just to give the FCC a hard time. There were stories, around Santa Barbara that the FCC had hired old ladies to listen to a couple of stations and report any 4 letter words ... as I wrote before, that did not last long, and the next day the authorities in Santa Barbara went after the folks in the nudie beach in Summerland!

I think it was more obvious than anything that it was just a very stupid move by some "federal" authorities/groups, to try and maintain some kind of control ... didn't happen very well for a few more years until the Great America Radio Rape at the end of the 70's when all FM stations were bought out from their independent owners and turned into "classic rock" stations, which many of them still are today! This is the "moment" that folks think "progressive music" died, since it lost its very strong and far out ability to showcase so many new artists ... but, at least, for most of us, the music had already grown enough to be able to tell the FM radio to take a hike. Later the Internet, took over and told the FCC to get lost and then some!