Hidden Treasures - Banned Songs

[Scott]

Got a couple twists and turns this week. Seems that PodSnack isn’t playing nice anymore unless you want to pay a bundle of money for their services. So I’m trying an alternative playlist provider this week, so please tell me how it worked for you and if you liked it or not. I’m not averse to trying new things and if this doesn’t work well, ... then we’ll try something else.


Another change I want to try is to shift a bit away from Hidden Treasures and more into Mixtape territory. The thought is to start the mixtape and see if you all will help me fill in the rest. The theme of this tape is “Banned Songs.” These would be songs that were banned from whatever medium (radio, Mtv, record stores, what have you…) and for whatever reason. So here are the 4 tracks I started my tape with… Listen and let me know what songs would make this the best Mixtape of Banned Songs…


PLAYLIST --> https://playmoss.com/en/sgabbert/playlist/mixtape-banned-songs

	The Police Outlandos D'Amour 1978 1 - Can't Stand Losing You This song is about a teenager who commits suicide when he loses his girlfriend. It took Sting only a few minutes to write the lyrics - they are not supposed to be deep and meaningful, but more of a joke. The single came with some interesting artwork: a picture of a hooded body hanging from a rope, indicating the boy in the song who killed himself. The hooded boy is the band's drummer, Stewart Copeland. The BBC banned this because of its morbid content.
	Paul McCartney Red Rose Speedway 1973 2 - Hi Hi Hi Single version posted here was pulled from the Wingspan compiliation. This song was banned by broadcasters for what they described as "Inappropriate sex and drugs references." Fair enough - he's singing about getting high, using his "sweet banana" and "doing it" to her! McCartney protested that he was surprised this song ended up getting blacklisted. Said the former Beatle: "Look at Bob Dylan, 'everybody must get stoned.' It was like, 'Ooh, does he mean you get high? Or does he mean getting drunk? So there was that ambiguity and I assumed the same would apply to me."
	Queen Jazz 1978 3 - Fat Bottomed Girls The cover of the single featured a nude woman riding a bicycle, and was altered after many stores refused to stock it. The new version was the same image with panties drawn over the woman. Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this song, which is about a young man who comes to appreciate women of substantial girth. May told Mojo magazine October 2008: "I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do especially if you've got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls… or boys."
	The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers 1971 4 - Bitch Released as a single, this did not chart, probably because it was banned from many radio stations for its sexual content and outrageous title. Love is the "bitch," not any specific woman. Mick Jagger had many relationships he could base this on, including his breakup with Marianne Faithfull. He broke up with her after she tried to commit suicide while they were in Australia in late 1969 (Mick was filming Ned Kelly). As soon as Marianne recovered, Mick dumped her.

[Niels (Mod)]

The link is working fine.

Hmm, I guess, that's an american/english phenomenon, because around here, at least since I was a kid, you can say and sing anything you want to on the Radio/TV, and as far as I know, release any kind of single/album-cover you want to. Believe it or not: Nobody really released obscene songs or whatever, that I'm aware of. To ban stuff really have the opposite effect.......some times. That's a big discussion, that I don't want to go into. But banning songs from the radio is sooo stupid imo.  

1. Police was "my sisters band", but I liked some of their songs. This was one of them. But play "Roxanne" and I will be very annoyed. 

2. Not the best song from Wings, but a nice little tune. That Wingspan compiliation is a very good....compiliation.

3. I never bought this album. I remember, I could had gotten it VERY cheap only a few months after it was released, but I thought to myself, that it had to be a lousy album, if it was that cheap. Then I listened to the first song on the album "Mustapha" and definitely decided not buying the album. I had a friend, who had "the poster" on the wall. When I saw that in...1982-3, I regretted not buying the album, when it was released. 

4. Great start to this song. Nice riff. Stones were on fire around that time.

[Scott]

Glad to know that player is working.  It was a bit of a trick to get these tunes into a playlist...  For those who are interested this is what I had to do...

1.  Upload the individual songs to my SoundCloud account (Why I had to create)

2.  Using the SoundCloud URL for each song, I constructed the playlist on PlayMoss.com for which I also had to creat an account. 

I'm sure it could become easier with practice and I'm not aware of any limitations with this method yet. But I will keep using this until I find something better.  But there is a collaborative aspect to PlayMoss that ay be cool, if its used, but then again maybe not.  We'll see....

Thanks Niels!

[Jon]

I tried to use Soundcloud this past weekend and every song was automatically deleted due to copyright infringement.

[Scott]

that's what I'm afraid of happening...

[Jon]

I'm surprised you got 4 songs from 4 different artists to take.

Maybe I can turn you in for a reward.......

[Scott]

get in line...

[RJhog (Admin)]

Jon doesn't get in line for anybody...

[Jon]

Well, you could include "Rocky Mountain High" because it's about getting stoned.

Oh, wait. It's not.

Wasn't there a Madonna and maybe Janet Jackson video banned from MTV. I think one of them had the video played late at night for a very brief amount of time. Maybe I'm stoned.

Why didn't that Ringo Starr song get banned? It mentioned cocaine in a way.

WAIT........."MARY JANE'S LAST DANCE"!!!! Yeah, that was banned. On MTV. I think.

I actually have all these albums that you pulled the songs off of. Even have the vinyl of Jazz with the poster. If you look really close at the bicycle riders on the cover, they're nekkid. But, that's a fantastic album, it's a bit under appreciated in the US, probably has to do with the "European sound" of the album, but there's killer geetar throughout and a lot of it is quite heavy. What I also like about the album is the foldout where you see the studio. The drum set just killed me when I saw it when I was a yute.

More Stones? See what you missed all these years? Told ya this was a killer album!

[RJhog (Admin)]

My first thought was W.A.S.P....Animal.

[RJhog (Admin)]

The Police - I'm cool with this one.  

McCartney - Not familiar with this tune.  But it's cool.

Queen - This is really an incredible song.  The guitar is very understated, but amazing.  And that drum roll at 2:52 is quite possibly the best drum roll ever.  I have a box set with this cd, and I believe the naked photo is recreated within the cd cover.  

Stones - Wow, the guitar, again, is amazing.  Every time I listen closely to a Stones song I'm not that familiar with, I hear some terrific rhythm playing.  Is that Keith?  And the horns, though not the greatest classic rock instrument of all time, work great here.  I really like this.  I have the two disc version of this album.  Guess I need to spin it.

How 'bout songs that weren't banned (or at least edited in some way)? Like Money For Nothing or Who Are You.

I think Drowning Pool's Bodies was banned after 9/11.

I'm also thinking of Elvis' performance on The Ed Sullivan show.  Maybe even The Doors on that same show for Light My Fire.  

And of course, the aforementioned Animal by W.A.S.P.  Actually, there were quite a few songs on the PMRC Filthy Fifteen list, those would count, right?

1. Prince - Darling Nikki

2. Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls

3. Judas Priest - Eat Me Alive

4. Vanity - Strap On Robbie Baby

5. Motley Crue - Bastard

6. AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love Into You

7. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

8. Madonna - Dress You Up

9. W.A.S.P. - Animal (*^#@ Like A Beast)

10. Def Leppard - High N Dry (Saturday Night)

11. Mercyful Fate - Into The Coven

12. Black Sabbath - Trashed

13. Mary Jane Girls - In My House

14. Venom - Possessed 

15. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop

[Jon]

Not really because a majority of those songs were banned only in the minds of the PMRC.

[RJhog (Admin)]

According to your sentence, they were still banned.  And the article says:

These would be songs that were banned from whatever medium (radio, Mtv, record stores, what have you…)