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The best thing that happened to Frankie goes to Hollywood was the ban on the record Relax because Mike "Smashie" Read thought it was rude. I heard the Who playing Mamas got a squeeze box on the radio loads so why did that escape.
Poor daddy couldnt sleep as she goes in and out and in and out all night.
Any other songs that slipped past the Mary Whitehouse brigade ?
Ebeneezer Goode.
We've got more progressive in recent years. That X's and O's song from a few months back was filth.
My ding-a-ling
Even Wham got close to a ban once!
My Ding-a-ling is a classic, which got a few people having a fit of the vapours.
I don't know if it was just my sick mind but that song 'Mickey' by Toni Basil (or Arthur, not the one from playschool) had a few suspect lyrics in it.
The mention of the word vapours reminded me of Turning Japanese by the Vapors
Not songs, but when the BBFC ‘sort of’ banned Resivoir Dogs for a few years for Home viewing it elevated a pretty small film to a must-see film for a lot of people.
Slide push it real good by Salt & Pepa
Had that ****er in my head on a ride the other day. The only bit I know is the "eezer Goode..." chorus and "naughty, naughty". Got so bad I was sort of muttering it as I rode alongEbeneezer Goode.
... and now it's back. Aaaaaaaaarghhhhhh !!
Mungo Jerry, Summertime.
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel
Speed along the lane etc, etc.
Should have been banned anyway.
Scardypants,
The rest of the words for your next ride..
A great philosopher once wrote
Naughty, naughty, very naughty
Ha ha ha ha ha
There's a guy in the place who's got a bittersweet face
And he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Goode
His friends call him 'Ezeer and he is the main geezer
And he'll vibe up the place like no other man could
He's refined, sublime, he makes you feel fine
Though very much maligned and misunderstood
But if you know 'Ezeer he's a real crowd pleaser
He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode
You can see that he's mischievous, mysterious and devious
When he circulates amongst the people in the place
But once you know he's fun, and something of a genius
He gives a grin that goes around from face to face to face
Backwards and then forwards, forwards and then backwards
'Eezer is the geezer who loves to muscle in
That's about the time the crowd all shout the name of 'Eezer
As he's kotcheled in the corner, laughing by the bass bin
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
"Has anyone got any Vera's?"
Lovely Ya Ha Ha Ha
A Great Philospher once wrote
Naughty Naughty, Very Naughty
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ebeneezer Goode, leading light of the scene, know what I mean?
He created the vibe - He takes you for a ride as if by Design
The party ignites like it's comin' alive
He takes you to the top, shakes you all around
Then back down - you know as he gets mellow
Then as smooth as the groove that is making you move
He glides into your mind with a sunny "Hello!"
A gentleman of leisure he's there for your pleasure
But go easy on old 'Ezeer he's the love you could lose
Extraordinary fellow, like Mr Punchinello
He's the kind of geezer who must never be abused
When you're in town and Ebeneezer is around
You can sense a presence in the sound of the crowd
He gets them all at it, the party starts rocking, the people get excited
It's time to shout loud
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode
'Eezer Goode 'Eezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
"Got any salmon Sorted"
Ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
Oh what a carry on, ha ha ha ha ha
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
Wicked
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
Oh what a carry on, ha ha ha ha ha
He's Ebeneezer Goode
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
Wicked
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode
That Grace Jones one. I had absolutely no idea at the time that it was rude... Not a clue.
Just thought it was about driving posh cars.
The innocence of youth. 🙂
Driving down those city streets
Waiting to get down
Won't you take your big machine
Somewhere in this town
Now in the parking lot garage
I found the proper place
Just follow all the written rules
You'll fit into the space
Pull up to my bumper baby
In your long black limousine
Pull up to my bumper baby
And drive it in between
Pull up, to it,
Don't drive, through it
Back it, up twice
Now that fits nice
Operate around the clock,
Slow it if you come in?
I've got lots of space for everyone
One for you my friend?
My lines are short I'll fix you up
So won't you please come on,
Shiny sleek machine you wheeled
I've got to blow your horn.
Pull up to my bumper baby
In your long black limousine,
Pull up to my bumper baby
And drive it in between.
Pull up to it, don't drive through it,
Back it, up twice, now that fits nice,
Grease it, spray it
Let me lubricate it
Pull up to my bumper baby
George Formby - the OG of filth.
Shreds the uke on this one 2mins in.
Brilliant song though.. that Grace Jones PUTTBB.. in fact it’s a cracking album..
Long banned Formby classic....
Milkshake by Kelis
(I’m gonna love you) A little bit more - Dr Hook.
Utter filth! Creepy when you listen back and would be put on ‘the’ register nowadays.
The beeb play "Who are you" on daytime radio complete with the line"who the **** are you".
Age of innocence eh, when was that?
When your in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard. Dr Hook, utter filth.
and how it went elsewhere
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/express-yourself-the-day-triple-j-played-the-same-nwa-song-82-times-in-a-row-20150902-gjdk0d.html
http://tonedeaf.com.au/the-day-triple-j-played-the-same-song-for-24-hours/
We just get a "Language Warning" these days
Stranglers - Golden Brown, didn't get picked up & I always wonder what would happen if someone released a song like The Police & Don't Stand So close To Me in this day & age?
I remember thinking at the time that you'd have to be feeling pretty on top of your game to be pulling up anywhere near Grace's bumpers
The Police & Don't Stand So close To Me
I'll see your Police and raise you the Knack with My Sharona:
"Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind"
And how about national treasure Honor Blackman with Patrick MacNee singing Kinky Boots with the lyrics
"Sweet girls, street girls,
Grumpy little beat girls,
Square girls, cool girls,
[b]Sexy little schoolgirls[/b],"
Lest you think "well it was a different era" that last one with the "sexy little schoolgirls" last troubled the top 40 (and iirc was played on TOTP) relatively recently. In fact, Wikipedia tells us that "a 1990 re-release reached the top ten of the British Singles Chart .. after the song was promoted by BBC Radio One DJ Simon Mayo. The single peaked at No.5 .. and remained on the chart for seven weeks."
Think this one slipped through
I don't think it's ever been categorically established either way but with at least strong suspicions that it's an ode to heroin, the decision to not only broadcast the Lou Reed song "Perfect Day" but to commission their own version and subsequently use it as the Children in Need single was perhaps ill advised.
George Formby sings Prince - double filth
I heard the Who playing Mamas got a squeeze box on the radio loads so why did that escape?
Accordionist keeps husband awake. What's the problem there?
You don't hear Plaistow Patricia on the radio much.
Donovan's Mellow Yellow contains reference to an "electrical banana" which it was subsequently admitted referred to a vibrator.
Less unambiguous but it has been suggested that the verse
"I'm just mad about Fourteen
Fourteen's mad about me
I'm just mad about Fourteen
She's just mad about me"
suggests an enthusiasm for girls below the age of consent. I've read somewhere that he (Donovan) was heard singing it as "fourteen year old girls" but I think that one sits in the "citation needed" section although it was reported by NME.
Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon" is potentially a bit, y'know....
Lest y'all think I have an obsession with underage girls in pop songs, I've come across some of these other ones after a bit of googling to see if I could source that Donovan one.
So, Aerosmith - Walk This Way:
"Schoolgirl sweetie with a classy kinda sexy little skirt’s climbin’ way up her knee" along with cheerleaders, a sister AND a cousin not to mention three young ladies (familial relationships not specified) in the school gym locker..
God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols.
'There is no future
And England's dreaming'
Re-launch for Brexit?
Edit: Oops just realised that the thread was about songs that escaped the ban - not ones that didn't 😳
I don't think Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath" was inspired by altitude sickness..
I remember the story about the songs banned during Gulf War One, including Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting.
Rumble by link wray was banned on first release in the us, and that's an instrumental.
“Je t’aime… moi non plus,” Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (1969)
"It's Raining Men" is a veiled reference to shoddy quality control in a parachute factory
Turning Japanese by the Vapors
on a similar vein (sic), pretty sure Radio 1 extensively played the ode to masturbation that is "Oops" by Tweet.
And indeed "Dancing with Myself" by Generation X (Billy Idol) for the more mature crowd...
EDIT: Not sure how I forgot about the, er, seminal Divinyls classic "I Touch Myself" here
Work It – Missy Elliott
"I'd like to get to know ya so I could show ya
Put the pussy on ya like I told ya
Gimme all your numbers so I could phone ya
Your girl actin' stank then call me over
Not on the bed, lay me on your sofa
Phone before you come, I need to shave my chocha
You do or you don't or you will or won't ya
Go downtown and eat it like a vulture
See my hips and my tips, don't ya
See my ass and my lips, don't ya
Lost a few pounds and my whips for ya
This the kinda beat that go ra-ta-ta
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Sex me so good I say blah-blah-blah
Work it, I need a glass of water
Boy, oh, boy, it's good to know ya"
Jerk it out by the Caesars?
SHAVE EM DRY by Lucille Brogan 1935
" I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb .
I got something between my legs'll make a dead man come .....
Squeeze "cool for cats" only got to number 2 in the UK charts in '79
very very dodgy piano player who later had his own music show
I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone
She likes to go to discos but she's never on her own
I said I'll see you later and give her some old chat
But it's not like that on the TV when it's cool for cats, it's cool for ca-a-a-ats
edit saw them supporting Hawkwind around that time - honest
Feeder - Cement. About stalking/obsession, so they banned that at the start of their career. I dn't think that helped them much.
It's really subtle, but this is definitely a reference to smoking pot
I recall the day Princess Di dies there was a BBC Radio 3 concert. The opening piece was going to be John Adam's "Short Ride in a Fast Machine". It didn't get played.
Not a record ..but a kids tv programme that got away with it for years ..Captain Pugwash..
Master Bates & Seaman Staines ..classic!
er, no it didn'tNot a record ..but a kids tv programme that got away with it for years ..Captain Pugwash..
Master Bates & Seaman Staines ..classic!
Yup, urban myth.
The closest they get is "Lieutenant Scratchwood", "Willy", and "Master Mate".
Simon Bates played 'My Neck My Back' by Khia on the Our Tune slot once. IIRC. Maybe.
For the Capt Pugwash fans - this was a recent controversy. Doesn't really belong on BBC Record Bans though https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/28/oup-responds-to-biff-chip-and-kipper-book-cottaging-controversy
Interesting reading...
The BBC loved to ban the Mary Chain.
In 1986, the BBC bans their song "Some Candy Talking" after the network decides it glamorizes heroin use. Speaking to Time Out in 2015, Jim Reid says, "The BBC banned 'Some Candy Talking' because it thought the song was about drugs, which funnily enough is our only song not about drugs. Well, they were gonna ban it, but instead they just didn't play it. We were really hoping they did because then it woulda sold shitloads of copies. Ironically, the original was recorded as a Peel Session, so you could even say that the BBC commissioned it in the first place."
The next year, their single "April Skies" reaches number eight in the UK singles chart, which means the band get to live out their dream of appearing on Top of the Pops. They appear on the show drunk and obstinate, and as a result receive a lifetime ban from the show. Jim later tells Thrasher, "Well, you kind of sit around all day waiting and the Mary Chain were never really good at sitting around so yeah — we got quite drunk. We didn't do anything. Nothing got destroyed and nobody got insulted, but the fact that we got drunk on the BBC premises was enough to cause an upset anyway."
Months later, the U.S. version of the show refuses to play their music video after objecting to the band's "sacrilegious moniker." Top of the Pops and the BBC also refuse to play their 1992 single "Reverence," which features the lines, "I wanna die just like JFK, I wanna die in the U.S.A.…I wanna die just like Jesus Christ, I wanna die on a bed of spikes." Jim later explains to Thrasher, "The thing about that is it's a bit of a joke; the idea of Mary Chain being banned from the BBC. The BBC never played our records anyway. So basically they banned 'Reverence' and didn't play our records. It was business as usual, really."
I remember when max Romeo was number one and they couldn't even read out the title on Top of the Pops. He was even interviewed explaining the meaning in terms of a rainy camping trip. But when you go back a bit there was "Sixty Minute Man" and "It ain't the meat (it's the motion)". During the late 60s there were millions of vague drug references, often written by people who had no idea what they were hinting at, but knew that the kids would buy it if there was some hint of naughtiness.
Give Ireland back to the Irish by Wings used to always see for sale 7" singles in the back pages of the nme etc, maybe even C moon, hi hi hi think it got banned too although the Starland vocal band afternoon delight about tea and scones slipped through the net
All ukulele songs are filth. Well known fact...
Top of your game or not, I think you might be missing the requisite Long Black Limosinebinners - MemberI remember thinking at the time that you'd have to be feeling pretty on top of your game to be pulling up anywhere near Grace's bumpers
Young Girl , Gary Puckett and The Union Gap has always been a bit suspect although he did resist ! Check out Big Five by Prince Buster , why that didn't get played I don't know .
I remember the story about the songs banned during Gulf War One, including Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Not just songs, I remember Massive Attack got renamed, by the Beeb anyway, to just Massive..
I'd need to check, but I'm assuming Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa never got far as a release in the UK (Number one in Norway and Sweden I think though 😆 )
"Got a cheer leader here wants to help with my paper..."
When your in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard. Dr Hook, utter filth.
It's ****ing weird...! My parents had that on a few times.
[i]
"You gotta watch your friends (gotta watch your friend, gotta watch your friends)."[/i]
[i]"You know it's crazy. You wanna trust her, then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone!"[/i]
Kinda suggests the guy has a bit of emotional immaturity going on - a bit of paranoia. Also, in true STW style, where's the respect and trust for the (beautiful) woman being capable of telling your untrustworthy mates to go **** themselves...
The 70s in a song.
😉
The 70s in a song.
Nothing has changed, you haven't been following the relationship threads on here.
Black Dog by Zep is one that has me wincing as I make a pathetic attempt to produce a fraction of the noise of Plant. "hey, hey baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey drip can't keep away"
you haven't been following the relationship threads on here.
Damned straight...!
My parents liked Dr Hook - their singles certainfly fit the OP's "slipped through the BBC ban net"! Played on the radio a lot back then -
[i]"And when your body's had enough of me And I'm layin' flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can I'm gonna love you a little bit more"[/i]
What can they mean?
[i]"'Cause I like feeling like I do And I see in your eyes that you're liking it too
Ah yeah, alright
Like to get to know you better Is there a place where we can go Where we can be alone together And turn the lights down low And start sharing the night together"[/i]
Mike Read was a big fan, I reckon.
And a bunch of sweaty, middle aged men covering "Only Sixteen" will always be a little uncomfortable.
That managed to chart, albeit the shortened radio version (get to around 5:40 for what i mean if you don't know it)
Made listening to Sunday chart rundowns whilst eating family tea a bit, umm, interesting.
@Edukator - a lot of Zep songs are about sex in the old blues artist way, lots of innuendo.
Squeeze my lemon.