Shaggy Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 There are so many, really Radio 2 favourite "Hotel California" (Eagles) is supposed to be about heroin addiction, and "House of the Rising Sun" is famously risque, about a brothel (lyrics tamed down for the Animals version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnyman Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” The original is bad enough but the Tom Jones, Cerys Whotsername version is somehow even creepier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzbass Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 12 hours ago, casapete said: Ditto ‘Young girl’ by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap , but a bit more creepy. I listened to the lyrics just the other day, dirty old man. Beneath your perfume and your make-up You're just a baby in disguise And though you know that it's wrong to be Alone with me That come on look is in your eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 32 minutes ago, bazzbass said: I listened to the lyrics just the other day, dirty old man. Beneath your perfume and your make-up You're just a baby in disguise And though you know that it's wrong to be Alone with me That come on look is in your eyes Ah, but he resists her advances, but you do wonder what sort of mind (or experience) comes up with lyrics like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 13 hours ago, keeponehandloose said: It was the BBC being morally offended on our behalf...back in the day they they thought that they were the barometer of good taste. This would be the same corporation that banned The Who's My Generation back in 1965, because they were worried it would incite young people to riot. (I'm sure over on Guitarchat, they'll be suggesting it was banned because of the bass solos...) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 The FBI spent a couple of years trying to decipher the lyrics of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen, because they thought they could contain "hidden obscene meaning". They were never able to work out what the words were and the case was dropped!! Looking back, it's hard to understand how much the "establishment" hated the differences between them and their children's culture in the 1960's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operative451 Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 "You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine". Ew. I guess a lot of it is that now we're more 'woke' and post-saville, stuff that was 'ok at the time' is now creepy AF... Not to mention those sings were sung by maybe late teen/20somethings and now the original singers are like, 90, and still singing the same songs... As it was the anniversary of Rik Mayall's death the other day, i have to contribute: "Gonna lock her up in a trunk!" "I still feel that locking girls up in trunks is politically unsound!" 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 21 hours ago, casapete said: On a slightly different tack, not sure how ‘Little Children’ ( Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas ), ‘Clare’ ( Gilbert O’Sullivan ‘) or ‘Save all your kisses for me’ ( Brotherhood of Man’) would be viewed in these perhaps less innocent times? Nothing sinister about Billy J, I don't think. Well, not in the song anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 19 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: Nothing sinister about Billy J, I don't think. Well, not in the song anyway. I didn't mean he/it was sinister, just pointing out that the song and /or title probably wouldn't be well received in these sad times in which we live, however innocent they were originally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: Nothing sinister about Billy J, I don't think. Well, not in the song anyway. Just don't let him get a glimpse of your drinks cabinet!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 23 hours ago, casapete said: Ditto ‘Young girl’ by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap , but a bit more creepy. Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 8 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: Nothing sinister about Billy J, I don't think. Well, not in the song anyway. And of course marrying your 13 year old cousin like Jerry lee Lewis was perfectly normal in the 50s... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said: And of course marrying your 13 year old cousin like Jerry lee Lewis was perfectly normal in the 50s... I don't understand the connection... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 18 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: I don't understand the connection... 'Little Children'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirky Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Under My Thumb is much more offensive than Brown Sugar. Wasn't Rumble (an instrumental) banned too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 (edited) The 'one hit wonder' band Stretch had an excellent track on their album Elastique called 'Navy Blues' which is an undisguised song about an adult man lusting after a schoolgirl. The vocal has been double-tracked with a kind of breathless, dirty phone call effect (especially at the end) so I am guessing it was a swipe at paedos* (especially in the context of 'Why Did You Do it' being an angry song directed at Mick Fleetwood - the reason the band got together iirc). But even though I think it is an exceptionally fine song (bass tone to die for and superb guitar solo) I do feel slightly uncomfortable listening to it. Mind you it is so obscure I don't suppose many people would have heard it anyway *yes, I know, paedos don't always talk like that. Be a bit of a giveaway if they did. Edited June 11, 2019 by Paul S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 26 minutes ago, Paul S said: . . . . 'Why Did You Do it' being an angry song directed at Mick Fleetwood - the reason the band got together iirc They were already a band and were booked to do a US tour with Mick Fleetwood. FM had broken up and contracts had been signed so they were going to be Fleetwood Mac! The band had flown to NY and were waiting for Mick to turn up for rehearsals, when he backed out. The management still put them out on tour with another drummer. It didn't go well with the audiences!! I occasionally play with Stretch's drummer at the time. The guy who was left at home, then sensibly refused to do the tour when MF left them in the lurch. Back to banned songs. . . . . . . 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 always thought that the Boomtown Rats Mary of the 4th form a bit ify 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: And of course marrying your 13 year old cousin like Jerry lee Lewis was perfectly normal in the 50s... That was one of his lesser crimes, incredibly enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operative451 Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 #blatantselfplug And they won't play this on the radio either: Help help i'm being censored!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: And of course marrying your 13 year old cousin like Jerry lee Lewis was perfectly normal in the 50s... Well.. . . . apparently it was legal in Memphis but not normal, as the US press coverage indicates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 11 minutes ago, operative451 said: #blatantselfplug And they won't play this on the radio either: Help help i'm being censored!! Thanks I can't unhear that now ! ….and shouldn't it be a #blatantselfbuttplug 🤪 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Riva Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 As I recall, the BBC banning Relax was instigated by DJ Mike Reed, who, upon playing the single, got an earful of the lyric, and stopped playing it half-way through, chirruping loudly about it being the start of the decline of civilisation as we know it - I may have over-egged that last bit, but it’s not far off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Because a song, in the past or current, touches on a subject is no indication the songwriter was or is an avid proponent of that subject or issue. Few songs, books or films would exist if so called taboo subjects had to be completely avoided. Look at "Sweet home Alabama" taking a pop at Neil Young because he took a swipe at racist people in the Southern states back in the day in his song "Southern Man". I like the song Sweet Home but I dont agree with the sentiments re Mr Young. He flagged up something nasty in the history of the USA but LS felt they had to defend their "People" regardless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted June 11, 2019 Author Share Posted June 11, 2019 Not offensive, but the innuendo in Pull Up To The Bumper by Grace Jones is pretty thinly disguised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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