[Closed] Bbc record bans

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!

Not 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.

I stand corrected ..
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

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...

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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

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

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.