Rock Bans

[MUSIC] All right, there it is, there's that beat. All right, so imagine it's 1987. Well, I'll tell you a story about me being in 1987. I was sitting in the backseat of my best friend's parents' car. The song came out. I don't know if you can recognize it yet, but it kicks in and you're sitting in the backseat, your parents, your friends' parents' car, and you're just like, hmm, this has got a good beat on it. You could dance to it. And all of a sudden you realize that it's George Michaels, I want your sex. And you're real uncomfortable. That happened to me. The red lights took a really long time. The parents, they didn't make mention of it, they didn't turn the channel. And all I knew at that time was seven years old is that I'm pretty sure this song might give you the AIDS. And I just kept thinking, man, how could they allow this song on the radio? Well, the truth is, not everybody did. Some American radio stations, they censored it. They wouldn't allow you to say the title or they made you play it after 9 p.m. But the UK was the worst, they said, no guy who's not Andrew Ridgley, we're not gonna play your song anymore. We're gonna ban it. That's right, the BBC banned, I want your sex. And that's what today's show's about. It's about rock bands. B-A-N-S. B-A-N-Y-O-R-A-K. Well, we're gonna be on Yacht Rock, we'll just play this song, it's a nice long song. B-A-R-A-Yacht Rock, the podcast that just makes up genres and counts them down. Or the guys who made the internet show Yacht Rocks, my name is JD Riznar, what's your name guy with the glasses and long hair over there? Hey, my name is Hollywood Steve Huey. I don't have long hair anymore though. It's still pretty strong in the log, not as long. No, karate the band shirt guy. Hey, Dave Lyons coming at you. New glasses. Oh, hey, it's Hunter, I'm the one who had that rambling long intro there. Hunter's in the captain's chair today. Yeah, he's giving us the rock bands. Welcome back Hunter. Welcome back to the captain's chair. We're gonna be counting down, we're gonna be counting down songs. But first, we got the Yacht Rock bone throw. Dave, we're the bone throw here. I did. So what's this song called? Tell us all about it. Got a real garbage one for you today. I like this one. Yeah, this is a good one. Those best songs ever recorded. This is a Toto featuring Cheryl Lynn. The song's called Georgie Porgy, it's off their first album, which I think was called Toto. Is that right? I don't know. Yeah. The big one was called Toto 4, and I think that was the third album. Um, this is Toto going disco. I mean, it's a terrible song to disco dance to, you know, it's a good try. Yeah. It's kind of like this other genre I'm thinking about called discount. It's like low budget kind of shitty missing the mark disco, but we'll talk about that another time. Try and disco. This is Jazzy. This is Jazzy's song. I hear Cheryl Lynn. This is Cheryl Lynn was a disco diva who's best known for her hit, got to be real. Best part of this song is when she goes Georgie, Georgie Porgy, yeah. Can we get some historical data on this? This is the first time ever a white band has made a talented black singer sing a bunch of garbage lyrics and gave like credit for it. It's like a vamp like crazy on it because they do it all the time now, but this time it's good. And this is, this is a legitimate yacht rock because there were a ton of members of Toto on it. Yeah, yeah. Whenever a member of Toto plays on it, it's probably yacht rock, so you get a Toto song on there. Yeah, that cred went through the roof. Everybody but Cheryl Lynn, Cheryl Lynn came in here, mucked up the waters. It might not be yacht rock now, and now we have to discuss whether or not. Georgie! Because this disco singer came on and did an excellent job. Right, now, Dave, Georgie Porgy obviously is a nursery rhyme, and every time I look up a nursery rhyme, there's a bunch of like fucking bullshit history. Oh, it's about this king in his armies. Yeah, yeah, there's never any fucking connection. So tell me what the history behind these lyrics are. Oh, there's a bunch of different theories. Some people think King George II fling England during the 1745 rebellion of the Scots. This sounds like complete bullshit. This is a story. Who are those some just make up? Who are the some of those people who believe that? People on Wikipedia? Oh. I don't have it in front of me. The Scots? Yeah, the Scots mostly. Some people say it was about the great fire of London, of 1666. Boring, what's a fun thing the people say as well? Wait, no, no. What was the. Dave, tell the people what these street intersection was. I know, I never tried it in. Yeah, the intersection of putting lane and pie corner. That's what you guys are. Complete fucking bullshit. Fuck you, Steve. Get to the fun one. Yeah. All right. This is my theory. This song is clearly about rape. That makes way more sense than anything on Wikipedia. Yeah, you know, the rapist goes after the girls and make them cry. The rapist in this story is Georgie Porgy. Right. Kisses the girls make them cry. It's rape. And then when what's the rest of it? The other boys come out. Boys cry out to play. Georgie Porgy runs away. Yeah. That's the Lynch mob going after the dude that just raped their sister. And our loved one. Hey. All right. Well, we make it through that entire song. Yeah, nothing smoother than oldie time British rape. And before we go on, I just want to give a shout out to all our fans watching the show contacting us on Twitter and leaving reviews and stuff. I love that we drop the show on Friday and I spend a weekend in bed interacting with people who love the show. Me too. Me too. Well, Hunter doesn't. But he likes hearing about what we have to say about everything. Hunter's looking it up on I too. You know, I look, I do, I like to look up. Yeah, especially like their reviews, I like to send them to you. Yeah, then he texts all of us like, hey, look what this guy said. Hey, look at this guy. Didn't like your episode. Yeah. See? See, we told you. Yeah, I did. Try to tell you, bro. The idea of the show is that we want to get so popular that it's hard for you guys to reach us through Twitter. But as for now, you early adapters and hardcore fans. It's still pretty easy. Yeah, just talk to us because we love it. Let's just talk about band songs, huh? All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. First spring steam. Well, no, no. It's not it. Oh, hey, this was before samples had to be cleared. Is it? I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. You think you would have cleared this? I think it is. I don't think the two live crew would have cleared anything. I think this song is totally legit after everything they went through. Hunter, tell us about what's going on here. All right. Well, basically this genre here is rock bands. Pretty simple. Put a list of 10 songs together that they were all banned in some way, shape or form. B-A-N-N-E. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thank you again for spelling that day. Or Hollywood Steve. So people can follow along at home. All right. So basically, this is a band in the USA by two live crew. They had this particular one was the probably the only one that wasn't banned. But their previous album, the whole album was banned as nasty as they want to be. As nasty as they want to be. I had a bootleg of it in junior high. Yeah. And people, it was a holy grail. It was banned by like Florida governor. There's their politician, their judge. People got arrested for selling this album, which is crazy, because it's really bad. Because we have the, oh, but it was dirty. We have the thing called the Constitution. You can't do that, but they did. Yeah, but they did. You listen to the lyrics of this song. It's kind of a trion rap, which is sad for the actual rap group. Well, the other big band at this time was Easy E. Easy Does It. And that was the other holy grail of those bootleg tapes. And Easy E's album is really good. It's way better than I really like this. But this song is bad as. I mean, I wanted to pump my fist and make me proud and ashamed to be an American all at the same time. Yeah, good lyrics. So yeah, it's all these songs that I picked. They shook a few stuff shirts. They zinged a few zealots and they pestered a few pieces of shit politicians. And that's typically what got them on here. And basically, there's only one rule for this genre. You get your song band, you get in it, you get thought of, and maybe I'll put you on it. And then these songs were the ones I picked. And these were not necessarily just banned on the radio. This can be banned anywhere. Bonus points for getting banned creatively. You know, not really a genre I got to say, you know, this guy. They kind of, but it's going to be a fun playlist. There was no intention, there was no, there's no collective sound. You know, you know, Dave might text us all and say, hey, Hunter, it's a fucking great playlist. He might. And then he'd, but he never texted me instead of my divorce core playlist was good. So you know, I got a little bit of a chip on my shoulder today. You know, I don't know. You're a playlist. Your playlist was great for making me bored in suicidal. Oh, cool. I wasn't bored. I was just suicidal. Did you guys mean? I talked to you a lot about how I liked your playlist before that. It's just because it wasn't. It is. It's a legitimate genre. Listen, I'm starting to think that you guys might have fucked because there's some weird jealousy between you two on the coolest guy in the podcast, and I want him to tell me my playlist is good. You know what, I'm going to try to fire all you guys, but I found out that I don't have bit power. JD, I'm going to text you right now and tell you how great I think you and your podcast is. Oh, thank you very much. Playlist, rather. You want to cut this down, guys? Yeah, let's do it. Let's count it down. Number 10. Number 10. Huh. Hey. This is a beautiful sound and song by an angel, an angel saying this. Something about love. Yeah. This is nothing wrong with this. This is down a summer. I love to love you, baby. There's no possible way that this could possibly be banned. I love to love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. Wait, wait, wait. What? I think she just down a summer all over the mic. Oh, gross. Oh, orgasm. Oh, no. Yeah, this whole song is an orgasm. It has a 17 minute orgasm. 17 minutes? That's how long the song was. Okay. I get into it really fast. This is banned by the BBC in a bunch of American stations from propagating the myth of the female orgasm. Just kidding. Wow. We're all. I've never seen one. We're all sensitive lovers here. Okay. No, it was banned because it was an implied female sexuality. It was overt sexuality and singing and sounding like a female enjoys a lady and enjoys sex is the worst thing you could possibly put out there. Right. Because yeah, like the MPA ratings board will rate things are for like the same reason. Because if you show that women are enjoying sex, people might get the idea that they should start having the sex. Or that guy's. You can't have that. That's just. Or the whole social order breaks down after that. Yeah. Or it might make a guy feel bad if his wife or girlfriend doesn't enjoy sex. Yeah. We need to protect their egos. Yeah. We need to protect the male ego. This one kicked off the great Donna Summer Georgia Marauder collaboration which would launch electronic dance music into the popular stratosphere and change music forever. I feel love especially that was key track for that. Yeah, this was like the first hit that they did together and it brought Donna Summer to the limelight. But because of that, all I can think about is she's having sex with Georgia Marauder. Yeah. Yeah. Because you're a really big Georgia Marauder fan. Yeah. And you know how well they work together, and how closely they work together. Yeah, it's such a cool look back then and she had such a cool look and I just see the two of them hump in and it makes me so happy. I love this song. Who was it? I thought we were done with that episode. Who was the muse in this relationship? Do you think? Was it. Was it Georgia? Or was it her? Georgia was the muse, duh. Yeah, clearly. Okay. And also, I just want to say that the reason why this song was 17 minutes long is because the record producer wanted people to be able to. He wanted to fit on one side of an album. So people could put this on and get it on before they had to flip the record over. So. So they decided 17 minutes was the length of time for that? Well, well they decided, you know, you had at least 15 minutes to sort of clean up afterwards. Oh yeah, because 17 minutes, I can get done way faster than that. I'm lucky if I make it to one. Well you got a hot white. Wait, are they? I remember I'm so excited when I'm having sex. I still think when I'm having sex. I'm having sex right now, I can't believe it. Anyway. I just realized what I said. My wife's hot too. Yeah. Well. Are they counting the four plays in the 17 minutes or is that like. Before what? Get that done before. Wait, what was that word? I've never heard that word before. Wait, say it again. It's a four play. Wow. It's the intro to Boston's song, "Long Time." I have to lip that up when I get home. Yeah, you play that. You play the four play part of the Boston song. Hey, you horned dogs. You horned dogs. Ready to count on the next one? Sure am. Yeah. No. No. No. Oh. What's the only thing worse than a woman enjoying sex? A woman who can't get pregnant from. Oh, yes. There it is. This is the pill by Loretta Lynn. This is one of my favorite country songs ever. Same song. Or same year is the "Down the Summer" song. So there's definitely something in the water right here. Yeah, I mean, this is one of the most punk rock songs I've ever heard. Like, talk about fucking up the establishment. This is amazing. Yeah. The sex pistols have no problems compared to Loretta Lynn at this point in her life. And this doesn't have some elaborate story of why it was banned. It was banned basically because she's talking about not getting pregnant on country stations. And that was a no. She's advertising the availability of birth control. Yeah, which was effective, I believe. And she had five kids. She had six kids three before she was 19. Listen to this song. ♪ 'Cause now I've got the pill ♪ Yeah! ♪ This all maternity dress ♪ Anyway, it's got so many great lyrics in this. It really does. It's really well written. She didn't write it. But it sounds like it's autobiographical. Yeah, I was surprised to find out she didn't write it. 'Cause I'm a big Loretta Lynn fan. And it's so, like you said, autobiographical. And she actually made the song three years ago. Three years before. And the record company kept pushing it. Like maybe society would come around in another few more years. It pushed, pushed, pushed. And she's just adorable in this song. Like she's laughing. And when she delivers some of the lines. It's just adorable, but it's because this woman gets to bone her husband all the time and not have any more of his babies. She's so happy. She's very happy. Absolutely giddy. And it makes me giddy. ♪ This chicken's good ♪ You guys have anything else to say about this song? I'll talk about this on the chart. This was despite the fact that it was banned on the radio. It was still a top five hit, like on the country charts. And it was her also her highest charting song on the pop charts. It only went to number 70. But I just got her a lot of publicity outside of this, the country music audience. I can't believe that. I can't believe that there's a number 70. Yeah, the hot 100. It's a chart. I would love 100, I'd love to do a countdown of songs that only made it between 170. There's gotta be some wacky doodle songs in there. That'd be a great countdown. Wait, is that a genre or something? I think it's a genre. We should just do the top 10 songs at least 86. Yeah, it's great. Oh man, we're coming up with new ideas on the show. Also, Loretta Lin said in an interview that doctors would actually praise her for making that song because it was better than anything else they were trying to publish to publicize birth control in rural areas. Thank you very much. So God bless Loretta Lin. Come down. Number eight. Oh boy, what fun. Yes, it's Louis Louis by the Kingsman. It was originally by Richard Barry. So how could we relate it to Chuck? Oh, I didn't know that. So how could a song, a cover song, get bands? And the cover song was released six years earlier, so it had time to permeate. Well, everybody could hear the original lyrics. Well, this is how you do it, Steve. How do you do it? You take black music, give it to a white band, and send it to a white rural audience, and then do it really badly so no one can understand what you're doing, and who'd make a bunch of mistakes, and that's basically how you get banned on radio stations. This was banned by the governor of Indiana because teenagers, because they couldn't understand the lyrics. They made up their own Lurid lyrics and pass them around schools. They eventually got to the governor, and he just said, you're done. Oh, this is what the lyrics actually are. Oh, this isn't the concept. Let's take a listen to these incredible lyrics. So you can't really understand what they're saying. But I don't know why the government didn't just listen to the other song, because they're so clear. I actually have the other song cleared up. You guys want to hear the other verse? Well, let me tell you this. I would love to hear the other verse. So what ended up happening, like you cue that up, is the FBI investigated this particular song for obscenity for 31 months, which I'm pretty sure by my math is like six or seven years. And so, but there's a really long time. A lot of wasted tax money. Okay, here's me. Here's me and the FBI back then. Hey, guys, let's listen to this song. Here. Oh, duh, duh, duh. Yeah. He's singing along with the riff. This song is so good. He has a rich version, everybody. Are we Louis? Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. We gotta go. Oh, so that's what they're saying. Yeah. We cracked the case, fellas. Instead, the FBI just said, uh, we're dropping the case because we have no idea what the fuck they're saying. That's basically that. I don't even think they listen to this version. Which is a case closed. Real fast, guys. No. That's why it's tax money. The Kingsman's version was legally ruled to be unintelligible, which you know you're doing a good job. It was illegal. It ruled to be bad. When courts say that they can't understand what the fuck you're saying. But later, the drummer, if you listen to 54 seconds into the Kingsman version, the drummer admitted that he dropped his drumstick and said, "Fuck!" But it sounds like he's going, "Woo!" Yeah, you can't tell. You can't tell, but that's what he said. So you could either go back to there or just listen to us because we say fuck all the time. Yeah. So there is a subliminal swear word in there. It's gonna infiltrate your brain. Yeah, but these guys are so marbled mouth. You couldn't understand what the fuck they were saying even when they said fuck. Still got banned. BAM! Number seven! All right. Do some dancing. Gang of four. I love a man in muro form. It's the gang of I'll do it. proper he does apparently this guy doesn't over here doesn't like the song is gang of four I love a man in a uniform but from 1982 it's a little bit of disco punk here yeah I'm not I'm not a fan of the song either JD I'm a fan of this song but I'm not a huge fan of gang of four even though I'm more aligned with them politically than most bands I'll say they're I'll say what I am a fan of is the reason why this got banned yeah because it got banned because the United Kingdom was about to get involved in those two in one of the history's dumbest wars which is over the Faulklands and with Argentina that had more had more penguins than people and at the time gang of four this came out before that conflict gang of four had no idea the Faulklands existed like many people everybody nobody knew that the Faulklands existed but they still don't know is just like a radical leftist post punk band they were just making fun of the military and this was just as climbing do yeah and they were this was just simply climbing the charts and the BBC said no your band I don't think that the Faulklands war was such a bad idea Britain versus Argentina Argentina needing to slap every now and then yeah because Argentina is always beating Britain at soccer so yeah and it's just it's winter it's summer in December there and that's where all the nazis fled to yeah well some of them went to Brazil yeah I think it was a gobbles or no who was the the big death guy that was never captured all right radio guys the anything else about this besides nazis yeah I mean this is an example of wild or rather lens song with such a better punk song than this the pill is so much better like she's got real problems these guys who just stupid sarcastic guys who think wars don't I would not put this in the punk category it's post punk and you can dance but at least has a chorus a lot of their other stuff you can dance to this this is like when the clash went disco reggae my big problem with this song is that the sarcasm is so thick and easy like I would have banned it for just being clumsy satire lyrics might as well be like look at me I'm the dumb guy in the stupid army suit blame blame me that's what this song sounds like to me it's a little bit better than what you just did but I still support your your but you can dance to it I can dance to this countdown bumper number six this change addiction no it always says is this that song from breaking bad is this is this about heisenberg no it's even more obscure it's it's actually not obscure it's only you're scared in this room it's actually these guys are actually you're right I'm sure let's just jump on that the los Tigres del Norte with La Granja this is these you guys want me to talk about this band or you want to tell me about how much I hate that I understand lyrics so I need to tell you what this song these guys have been around since the 70s they're from San Jose they played Norteño music San Jose Mexico no San Jose California yes California this day so yes they they're they cross borders obviously they play they're famous for playing narcos corritos which are the Spanish ballads burritos you know corrito but they're about about narco trafficking which I find fascinating and yes was in breaking bad that was why that was in that can I guess why this was banned I don't know Spanish so I can only assume that the lyrics are a look at my big boner suck on it public airwave radio listeners can you feel my fit goo in your throat I am the drug cartels do you like my cocking you now slide that pussy up what do you think hunter did I do the translation properly is that why it was banned nope not not at all what about the part about drug cartels well there this is mostly talking about the plate of the poor farmers who are who are forced to kind of be firm poppy fields in marijuana because they can't sort of make any money doing other stuff and that's but it's mostly it was critical of the Vicente fox government and so Mexico said nope you're banned so the entire government of Mexico banned these guys in the song that's a great story it's nice to have a Spanish language thing on our countdown what's up Steve I'm just curious like is this how director they being when they say very good part cells are doing the thing no no this is very indirect it's it's kind of like they're doing a bit of a animal farm in George Orwell's animal farm this is about a about pigs who live on a farm with a fox who's a dick and a dog who bites the hand that feeds them so basically a president a fox heard it and just said Yabasta no more me there yeah this guy this guy you guys want to move one of the worst segment in podcasts I would love to move on a loop for a segment in podcast history a little break bumper here what they saying the bumper I didn't catch it this is a newy louis it'd be on yara oh hey that's an aim of our show yeah sure is all right welcome to Wyoming whoo oh thank God home of Wyoming's you know that people from Wyoming are co-wounds now it's like that's not good yes it is look it up no I saw it on the internet all right so I was I you know it's our least populous state it's a dumb rectangle full of chanies I found some most famous affiliations from Wyoming like this is guy who wrote a bunch of grateful dead songs some guys some punk rock band that actually turns out it was born somewhere else isn't it's nobody famous from Wyoming did you see the guys nine it was like moon dog he was he was a weird New York city hippie he's not really a Wyoming guy born in Wyoming moved in New York got not even close to a trading post about that guy I decided to cover a local indie band and I did some research like five minutes upon a Facebook page called the Cheyenne music scene and one of the bands in the flyer was called the patty fiasco it was unspotify and they had this lovely song called Wyoming is for lovers it's nice it's a very nice song which ripped off Virginia Virginia's for lovers yeah hey it's about having sex this song would have been banned if it came out in the 16 wait you picked a song about having sex yeah some guy comes out borrow some boots has sex with the patty fiasco lady and then goes home and she's thinking about him that's what this song's about it was the patty fiasco lady no patty fiasco lady's name is a a lesia craft and she's good I like her yeah she sounds nice but if you'll notice for me naming her yeah her name's not patty so I don't know what the patty fiasco means if anybody out there is interested to find out you can go to patty fiasco nut that's patty with an eye patty fiasco nut and send them an email to ask them what the patty fiasco please send them an email to send them an email if you don't even ask a patty fiasco related to rapper loop a fiasco that's my question patty fiasco nut that's a question for Dave I'll get into it I I think patty was either the first singer of the band and when she left there was a fiasco or patty fucked somebody in the band and it was like maybe a yoko mono situation hence it's a girlfriend that patty fiasco either way we're gonna hope patty was on the pill yeah go away go buy the patty fiasco's music elizia craft needs some gas money yeah tell me yacht rock guys send you I'm glad that's over with number five so Dave Dave was super excited about this I I kind of put this on on this super him this is let's have a war by fear 1981 briefly I'll just say it and you can get in deeper in the story they were banned on saturday at live for performing this and two other songs Dave go yeah first of all thank you for we had an argument this was Hunter's peace offering called let's have a war John Belushi was a fan of the band convinced Lauren not even Lauren Michaels it was uh read in Tartikov Tartikov or Eva Sal or it was all it was dick up it was dick up to get him on the show and they didn't want to let punks into the studio Belushi himself said they'd appear with them with a slam dancers if they were permitted shit let a punks came up from DC including Ian McCuy who in the time was in minor threat and they destroyed the guys it's shit went nuts caused a bunch of damage and then they faded out the song we're listening to now and they were never permitted on SNL again I would have banned this song for its boring cliche punk war protest yeah I don't even I don't I this is where this I don't think they're more protesting I think they're just basically saying let's have a war because nope nope there's there being sarcastic about war just like the other band no they say let's have a war so you can go and die yeah it's basically many somebody to fuck off too many of us they've got attitude it's our it's sarcasm and it's garbage it's it's boring to be in a punk band and singing a war is dumb us it's boring you stop it and then it's also boring to get banned from SNL everybody gets banned from SNL and everybody gets banned by these guys these guys these guys really got banned from SNL Elvis Costello got banned from SNL too the lead singer's name is leaving the band anybody yeah leaving you clever name he was leaving it was a nickname yeah he was leaving being SNL. Yeah, it's not really his name. He played Mr. Body on Clue. Yeah, he became an actor after that. Yeah, he did a bunch of acting things on that. Because fear was mostly a art performance. I think you're taking fear way more seriously than fear-tipped fear. Oh, probably. That was fear, got fans. Number four. I like this song. OK, this is-- I like this guy. You don't like this song, does? No, I'm just upset with JD. Oh, OK. This is kind of the reason why I wanted to create this genre of rock fans. And JD, you'll like this is because I saw him in a documentary about Asia. Steely Dan is making of Asia. He was such a huge fan of him. In the band Asia, the album Asia. The album Asia. The Steely Dan Asia. OK, I like every Asia. I like the band Asia. I like the Steely Dan Asia, I like the content Asia. I like Asia McLean, the witness from the serial podcast. I love all Asia's. Let me show you an Asia genre. OK, guys, shut up about Asia. Asia genre. OK, so let's talk about Ian Dury, because that's who this is. So this is Ian Dury in The Blockheads. This is Spasticus, Autisticus. When I heard he liked Steely Dan, I was like, and he had this cockney accent. I was like, I got to check this guy out. And this was the first song I heard from him. And I was like, this song's awesome. And it got banned because they felt it was insensitive to disabled people because that year was the year that United Nations declared it the year of the disabled person. And he felt that that was pandering. He felt that was dumb, exploitative. And he also felt that they were trying to drum up money for charities. That it was probably a Susan G. Coleman situation where it was like 90% administration fees and nothing ever gets to anybody. So this was his protest song. He disabled himself. And that's the part of polio. No, I was getting to that part. So it was banned. And then he's like, I'm disabled myself. You can't ban a disabled guy for expressing his feelings. I thought you said he disabled himself. No, you said he was disabled himself. Yes, he had polio. He had polio himself. We're not going to the doctor early enough. He's getting polio. I was banned this song for being awesome. His performance was great. The song takes a lot of weird turns. It's something he gets winded in the middle of the song. Like, this guy's performing the shit out of the song. Yeah, Ian Dury is a really great artist. If you don't know who he is, I would highly recommend you check out a lot of his stuff. People would know him from sex and drugs and rock and roll. Yeah, he had a lot of these strange, little story songs and he wrote like a lot of really complex wordplay and his lyrics and those anti-war punk bands who learned a lot from this guy. They could learn a whole lot about just general likeability from Ian Dury. They learned how to be dancing, though. That's what the gang of four learned that you could dance. The fun fact I love about this was that in 2012, the perception shifted. Yes, it was the opening for the London Paralympics. Did this song? Like I can just imagine being in a Paralympics would be a guy who lost his legs in a car accident and doing a relay race in a wheelchair, you know? And listening to this song about a not knowing-- I'm not necessarily handicapped guy. Yeah. I'm a spasticous. No, I'm not that-- Yeah, I know. I say, fuck you, I'm trying to win this relay race. I was born without an arm. Now I'm a pitcher. Come on, man, leave me alone. All right, ready to keep counting down? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do one that really needs to be danced. [MUSIC PLAYING] I love this organ, man. No more that would work. Oh, yeah, this one needs a big band, Filthy. Oh, wait. No, this is another one that just needs to be danced to. Is this Rick James? Yes, it actually is. This is a Mary Jane Girls produced by Rick James. This is in my house from 1985. Let's listen for just a second, enjoy it. [MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah, Filthy. Yeah, Filthy. Monogamous relationships. Oh, my God, corrupting me. OK, so why was this band? Well, it was kind of suggestible band because it was part of the-- what is it? The parents' music resource centers decided that this was going to be one of the Filthy 15 in 1985, and which is basically, I couldn't find the exact list of members of the parents' music resource center-- But it's a Senator's wife. Yes, and there was a Washington DC mayor's wife. But it's a bunch of politicians, Washington politicians' wives, who so they heard that their kids were listening to dirty songs. Yes, and they just flabbergasted it. And it included famously Tipper Gore, who is the one who really pushed it, and went to a Senate hearing so they can talk about obscenity. And this is the reason why there was a sticker that said parental advisory. The parental advisory. Explicit lyrics. Yes. And there's songs on it too. There's songs on it like Twisted Sister. We're not going to take it. Madonna dress you up. Black Sabbath-- I mean, it's such an arbitrary list, but I might as well have come up with it. Black Sabbath trashed is from the shitty 83 album with Ian Gillan. So Tipper Gore is really digging up some deep cuts. And they also had a boner for Prince and Rick James, because his dancing stuff was the stuff that ended up being on this list. I mean, and all of them had such dirty or songs. What was the print? It was print-starling Nikki. Well, "Darling Nikki" is Prince's dirty song. I'll give her that. What about Jackie Woff? Like, 15-- why 15 songs? These people don't listen to music. They're shot at Shaka Delica. They're so-- They're going to make your beg. Going to make you spread your leg. Music out there, and they picked 15 random songs. It's so dumb. And I kind of worked, because most of these songs got banned from the radio. The ones that were even on the radio, which was only like 83 or 4. They put merciful fates into the cover on this list, because it was about the occult. Every fucking merciful fates song they ever did was about the occult. And do you know who listened to those songs? People playing D&D. OK, they were deciding how the dungeon was going to go that night. They weren't doing anything harmful. And note to concerned parents, when you make a list like this and publish it, every kid in the country is going to run out and buy these songs, you idiot. Yeah, I go, who's the merciful fates? They sound great. That's how I discovered merciful faith. Sit down and talk to your kids about the content, and have an uncomfortable conversation with them. Don't just ban it, you dumbass. And besides voter suppression in Florida, I will contend that this banning in my house and all those other songs cost Al Gore the White House. It absolutely did for me. If you grew up in the '80s, if you were a rock kid growing up in the '80s, you hated Tipper Gore. Yeah, and absolutely-- She was the enemy. I had the hold in my nose from the stench of voting for Al Gore in 2000. I wasn't made her. Because of her. Well, Dave, who did you vote for in 2000? I'll tell you, and I am ashamed to admit that I voted for George W. Bush in 2000. And it was a one, and it was for one reason, because fuck Tipper Gore. So let's the Democrats. Don't let your spouses try to ban shit. What was wrong with native? Well, I showed that stupid book about unsafety. I should have voted for native. Moving on, dummy. Moving on, dummies. [MUSIC PLAYING] Number two? [LAUGHS] Question. [LAUGHTER] That was my favorite one. All right, why is this ban? Anybody-- hey, anybody want to talk? What's going on? Oh, it's deep in the heart of Texas. By Bing Crosby, a little hardcore, hunter's Bing who is serious before everyone. This is a strange song. Whoa. Is there music going on in my ears right now? No, wait, it's me. I think I-- somebody make a list. I think I thought about that would type it up and put it in front of me. I think I thought that would be a good intro for one of them, and it just-- I like to do that, too. It just spread for every single one. OK, so this is deep in the heart of Texas. By Bing Crosby, this came out in 1942. It was banned in 1942 by the BBC. Because factory owners didn't like that productivity was being affected, because this was so catchy that factory workers were tapping their tools and clapping along whenever they said the deep in the heart of Texas part. So that scene in Peeley's big adventure was actual fact. Yes. Everything in the Peeley's-- Yeah, that could have been a documentary. There was a documentary as a matter of fact. Just at the time, talking heads weren't fashionable. So it's hard to tell it's a documentary, but it's a true story of this guy finding his foot. Right, Greg Daniels hadn't-- Now talking heads the band. Talking heads in documentaries. Yeah, yeah. So wait, this was banned by the BBC? Yes. Yes, because the factory even British people will clap along to deep in the heart of Texas. Yes, it was so catchy. And here that Texas, don't let it go to your fucking head. Also, we were busy bailing them out in World War II, so they were like, "Texas, he's the best." Uh, uh, uh, uh. Get back to work. Stop that clapping. What are we going to do? BBC, my factory workers are clapping. You have to ban this song. So good. Where's that sense I've ever had? Oh, man, I'm not-- I'm terrible at accents. Yeah, it was great. By the way, all your bosses out there told me to tell you to get back to work. They're going to ban this podcast. Number one. That was really exciting. Yeah. Wait, now I got to do it. What's this song? That's crazy, that's crazy. This is a crazy song, to put it in the street. What is going on? They banned orchestras or orchestras illegal then? No, look at that, dude. We lose a lot of money. What is going on? All right, so then at 9/11, this is a ripple effect of 9/11, such a consequential event that made such inconsequential changes to pop culture. This is-- well, keep going on. Why it was banned? This was sent out by Hold on. No, no, I'm going to get there. Send out by Clear Channel. They said this song sucks. It's too dangerous to put out. This is America by Neil Diamond. They specifically said this song sucks. Nobody ever said this song sucks ever. Well, they said it was too dangerous for anybody to listen to. This was complete bullshit. I worked at the radio station of three of our college at Michigan State University during that. And they gave us the whole list of songs that we couldn't play, like 1,200 songs, and all but a handful of them were just fucking ridiculous. In 1986, Neil Diamond was asked to sing this at the Statue of Liberty Centennial. It was a song of a nation 15 years later. Oh, it's edgy. We can't play it. Fuck that. This list was bullshit. Yeah, Clear Channel sent out a memo of over 1,200 songs to all their stations suggesting that maybe you should ban these songs, which is like your boss suggesting that maybe you should work this weekend. It's not a suggestion. You have to ban these songs. That's basically what it was. It's good that Clear Channel gets to decide that because corporate decisions make life better for everybody. You know, it's a super cold-hearted business decision. Like, you know, it's 9/11. You don't want people to be upset or disturbed when they're listening to your product. But like, because nobody's going to be upset or disturbed about 9/11. But Clear Channel owned stations in every fucking city in the country. Like, it's Bill Clinton's media consolidation. Telecommunications act in 1996. Oh, my God, he's a worse thing ever passed. And then it was terrible. And now Johnny Clear Channel can just snap his fingers, say, "I don't like this song." And you can band it across the entire country. Wait, Johnny Clear Channel is such a. They're now known as "I Heart Media" because it's super cute. Oh, wait, hey, Dustin, are we owned by. "I Heart Media" yet? No, no, we're not, all right. We can keep talking about this, all right? Wait, I heart media, I heart radio, though. That's clear, yeah, I heart radio, is that clear? Oh, those are the fucking assholes that fired local legend, Art LeBot, from pot 92.3. Art LeBot was amazing. He was amazing. He's amazing. We could play whatever he wanted. Yeah, he's a really old guy who knows R&B from like the '50s to the present day. And he played all these dedication. Everybody on local radio, being so in California, loves Art LeBot. They fucking fired him, 'cause they were changing the station for him. And I'm sure you love the America, but I nailed that one. You love the America, yeah. The song and the country's deep. After 9/11, this song should have been on a fucking loop. Yeah. Who do they think was coming to America that we would see? Well, maybe they thought foreigners would hear this song and want to come to America. Well, let's allow it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no foreigners. I'll tell you, America. I don't know. They're coming to America today. Feels like, oh, these terrorists are coming to America. Smash and play. Doesn't feel like that. I can't to, like, dumb people. If they were like, people cowering on their basement. That sort of even dumb people wouldn't interpret it that way. That sort of logic relates to Trump supporters. Hold on, my country TV. Today, we land a liberty. Yeah, it should have been a little ridiculous. Break up Big Media, America, break it up. All right, Steve. What missed the list in your opinion? Well, I mean, there's 1,200 songs on that clear channel list. And there's 15 more on the "Tipper Gore" list. And there's all sorts of choices. But I'll just give a nod to the Rolling Stones. Let's spend the night together because they got censored on Ed Sullivan. Ed Sullivan wanted him to change it to, let's spend some time together. And they did, but Mick Jagger kind of rolled his eyes every time he said it. And then he kind of mumbled the real words anyway. So they got banned from Ed Sullivan for that song. I think that we missed Lola by the Kinks. It's a song about a transvestite. It was banned by the BBC in 1970. But not because of the transvestite stuff. It was banned because the-- it mentions Coca-Cola. And yeah, it's around with Lola. Yeah, because the BBC has a ban on advertising. So when Ray Davies found that out, he had to hurry up and like rerecord it to Cherry Cola. And you can hear both versions. And if you were wondering why you've heard both versions, that's why Fun Fact. Yep, Dave. For me, God save the Queen by the Sex Pistols. 'Cause I'd like to work more punk into these lists. There is no punk on this list. It seems to annoy JD. I'm a fan of that. I just don't like punk bands that have boring messages. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The song was banned in Great Britain due to its unfavorable assessment of the Queen and her fascist regime. Oh, all leader is garbage. Nothing like that in America. Oh, man. Green JD, lift in the veil. Hey, good job, Hunter. Great Coda in that song, by the way, Dave. And no future sex. Well, just send me a text. I'm sorry. Good job, JD. It was a great fucking playlist. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for listening. Today, next week, we're going to have Hollywood Stephen the Captain's chair with a new genre. We like to call hard organ. Hard organ! So start boning up for the-- Haha! I see what you do there. Yeah, I see that. I found a soft mark. Yeah, it is. Hopefully so. All right. Fine, this week's-- I'm not really at anybody's expense. It's super pumped about it, Dave. 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