When I was in high school my best friend and I rented Heathers down at the local video store. We started watching at her house and we were not very far in when her Dad decided it was not appropriate. He took it out of the VCR, got in his car and took it back to the video store. He came home with The Sound of Music.
The latest ‘controversy’ is Lil Nas X’s video, below, where he gives Satan a lap dance (as one does).
I think this is the first ‘dirty’ song I remember hearing:
What made your parents clutch their pearls? Or drive back to the record store and return your shit?
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My parents both worked about 50-60 hours a week so they didn’t have time to mind us. With that, here’s Raging Slab with Pearly.
Two older brothers ground down my mother. As long as I didn’t come home courtesy of the police we were good.
The music I listened to was the least of my parents problems with me, lol. I do remember my mother waking me up one night because Iggy Pop was on some late night show. I asked her how she knew I liked him, she just rolled her eyes. Anyway, take your star and take that pearl.
Eric Burden and War – Spill the Wine
Heathers was peak Winona. She became my manic pixie dream girl for a while.
Also I don’t think anyone realized that Shannon Dougherty wasn’t acting when she starred in this movie. She was playing herself (at least according to the various behind the scene stories about 90210.)
My dad wasn’t all about censoring music. One of the few benefits to having parents with english as a 2nd language.
Did have a Vice Principal who was a total dick about it though.
He didn’t like Led Zep and lemons for some reason.
My parents were older and appalled by these (in my opinion, sweet) Dylan lyrics.
Good thing they didn’t hear the college party tunes…
My parents didn’t have a clue what I was listening to, nor did they care. This was one of the first records I bought with my own money, from my paper route, when I was 12.
When I was a kid, the Catholic Legion of Decency still published a list of “condemned” films that were so bad that seeing them would send you straight to hell. Today, the list reads like a lineup of some of the greatest films of all time, and pretty much served as our must-see watch list. And we turned out all right. I guess.
But here we are in 2021, and the same scolds are really doing Satan again? I expect they’ll turn their attention to witches again real soon now.
Credit to the You’re Wrong About podcast for doing an excellent episode on Tipper Gore vs. the recording industry. I’m reminded of how that and the Satanic Panic produced this wonderful testimony before Congress from one Dee Snider.
There were a lot of GG Allin records in my brother’s collection. It was…concerning.
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Dad bought me Eddie Murphy’s first comedy album, Delirious, after I got out of the hospital one summer, to cheer me up. He then heard the Mr. T bit, and promptly exchanged it for what I really wanted — REM’s Reckoning.
I remember my mother asking, “Are they saying ‘dancing in the sheets’?” I’m like, Mom, no, they’re saying ‘dancing in the streets’ — what kind of music do you think I listen to?
That’s priceless!
My mum was a bit of a real-life Kyle’s mom (ironically, one of the things that set her off was a tape of South Park episodes given to me by a friend). I generally listened to music in my room, but one of my relatives came to visit and played this in the living room, which set off a “Wot wot wot?!?” moment from her. But we had the Batman soundtrack (all Prince tracks), which had a song called “Horny Pony”, and that was somehow OK.
And, because she’d read this was ‘disturbing’ and knew nothing else about it, we were unable to watch Natural Born Killers (not that anyone asked to see it).
My stepbrother, however, was able to request she rent things like Predator and just about every violent action film at the time, and that was somehow not as terrible as something she read about that her daughters might see.
My wife one day: “Your son is listening to a song called ‘Fuck Me Like You Hate Me.'”
Me: “It’s called ‘FMLYHM,’ honey.”
I mean for Chrissake, the kid is 16.
“Only the Good Die Young” spent most of the 1970s being banned by various catholic dioceses:
https://performingsongwriter.com/only-good-die-young/
It didn’t help that Billy Joel is Jewish, or at least was born to Jewish parents.
hmm..my parents never really got bothered about my music
my mum did once get pissed off at me for saying she probably wouldnt like the cd i just bought and insisted on me putting it on in the car
she never admitted to not liking it….she’s also never asked me to put music on again
My dad thought this was the most un-American song, even after I explained Jimi was a vet.
https://youtu.be/MFLy8eGtSYo
It was an interesting progression.
Chuck Berry – My Ding a Ling
Tom Waits cover of Somewhere
and after that they gave up to where my brother would blast White Punks on Dope while he got ready for school and noone would bat an eye.