This page lists different music censoring incidents starting in the 50s (Which amazes me,i didnt think anything was done like that back then)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040622055402/ericnuzum.com/banned/incidents/80s.html

I linked to the 80s list (My favourite time period)

Taken from a different website...this always cracks me up.

The Kingsmen – “Louie Louie” In early-1964 word spread that the Kingsmen’s garage-rock 45, “Louie Louie,” contained secret dirty lyrics. Rumors had been circulating among students for months that if you played the hit single at a slower 33 1/3 rpm (or faster, at 78 rpm), lascivious messages were audible. That’s when parents began inundating the offices of U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, & various other politicians with distraught letters demanding action. The result was a gubernatorial ban imposed in Indiana and full-scale investigations by governmental agencies including the FBI, the U.S. Postal Service, & the Federal Trade Commission. After two long years, the investigations finally concluded with the concession that the lyrics couldn’t be considered “pornographic” because they were “unintelligible” at any speed. Now that’s rock ‘n’ roll!

That link don't work, but I can give 80's examples:

'Black Stations/White Stations' by M+M (aka Martha and the Muffins) was banned by many US radio stations for it's racially suggestive lyrics.  It became their lone hit there despite charting way outside the Top 40.

'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood' was a song about masturbation.  When the band promo'd in the US, they were not allowed to perform it on 'Saturday Night Live', so they did their cover of 'Born to Run' instead.

In 1981, Canadian New Wave act Rough Trade released a single titled 'High School Confidential'.  It's lesbian themed lyrics caused many radio stations to ban the song, or play a censored version, but the song still managed a #12 chart peak in Canada

That link don't work, but I can give 80's examples:

'Black Stations/White Stations' by M+M (aka Martha and the Muffins) was banned by many US radio stations for it's racially suggestive lyrics.  It became their lone hit there despite charting way outside the Top 40.

'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood' was a song about masturbation.  When the band promo'd in the US, they were not allowed to perform it on 'Saturday Night Live', so they did their cover of 'Born to Run' instead.

In 1981, Canadian New Wave act Rough Trade released a single titled 'High School Confidential'.  It's lesbian themed lyrics caused many radio stations to ban the song, or play a censored version, but the song still managed a #12 chart peak in Canada


weird the link worked for me...

Originally, Dragonforce's "Inhuman Rampage Special Edition" was given the Parental Advisory sticker due to profanities in the Rockumentary, but they removed it in later copies without changing the content of the Rockumentary.

The morals of Provo and Salt Lake City residents are saved when two radio stations ban Olivia Newton John's hit single "Physical." The stations fear that the song's lyrics may be a bit too suggestive much for their heavily Mormon audiences.

I remember this one.  Although I am not Mormon, I was one of the "innocent children" (Think of the children!)  It only made me like the song more ;D

The morals of Provo and Salt Lake City residents are saved when two radio stations ban Olivia Newton John's hit single "Physical." The stations fear that the song's lyrics may be a bit too suggestive much for their heavily Mormon audiences.

I remember this one.  Although I am not Mormon, I was one of the "innocent children" (Think of the children!)  It only made me like the song more ;D


but... the.... video...  ;D    oh wait... now that think about it... maybe the video was received more negatively than the song  ::)

but... the.... video...  ;D    oh wait... now that think about it... maybe the video was received more negatively than the song  ::)


The video was freaking hilarious.

Not in music, but the anime show "Lucky Star" censors words not for vulgarity, but for copyrights. Like for instance, in the episode where the characters fill out job applications:

Kagami: So Konata, what special talents do you have that could help you get a job?
Konata: Hmm...... OH! I can name all the Poke***!
Kagami: Wow! That really is something!

Obviously Nintendo wouldn't let them use the word Pokemon.

'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood' was a song about masturbation. 


That song's not about masturbation.  It's about sodomy.

Find the original 1955 version of "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry.  They lyrics are in a pidgin English.  There's nothing dirty about them.  The Kingsmen version from 1963 is slurred to the point where you can fool yourself into hearing something like "I felt my b*ner in her hair," but it's not there.

"Don't give me that good-goody-good bull ***bleeeep***"
:D

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It won't load properly when viewing it on a Playstation 3.  I can see it when I use a regular computer.

Kagami: So Konata, what special talents do you have that could help you get a job?
Konata: Hmm...... OH! I can name all the Poke***!
Kagami: Wow! That really is something!

Obviously Nintendo wouldn't let them use the word Pokemon.


Fortunately, that didn't stop Weird Al Yankovic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPVUY-e0pUo

Of course, he was on the soundtrack, wasn't he?

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

They never took the time to tell you ‘bout sex
So you had to learn about it in the discotheques
Nine months later, the baby is there
And the ****beeeeep**** that did it said, "I don't care!"

Fortunately, that didn't stop Weird Al Yankovic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPVUY-e0pUo

Of course, he was on the soundtrack, wasn't he?


Yep, that song was written for the soundtrack. AHA! We get an awesome song that Japan didn't get!

For a lover of 60's music...

Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher banned Rock Concerts because of The Rolling Stones Concert, Locher did it because Rock Music wasn't sophisticated!

In 1967, Ed Sullivan was VERY unhappy with The Doors and The Rolling Stones because for The Rolling Stones, Jagger was upset that he HAD to sing "Let's Spend Some Time Together" than "Let's Spend The Night Together". And with The Doors, Morrison had that 'fudge it' attitude and sang 'higher'.

"The Ballad of John and Yoko" was banned because they thought the song was blasphemous. But the word 'crucify' also means to highly criticize! Lennon thought 'The way things are going, they're gonna criticize me'. No...doesn't sound right.