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Hey, They're Not Playing My Song

Posted at 10:43 AM on May 28, 2009 by Steve Seel

You know what's being reissued? Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry. That's right, PJ Harvey's Rid Of Me still hasn't gotten the remaster/reissue treatment, but this now has. Still, it got us thinking of the glorious era of Dee Snider and first-generation MTV, and good old days of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). Yes, the organization founded by Tipper Gore to police ostensibly naughty and corrupting content in pop music (Snider was one of the pop musicians who testified, on Capitol Hill, against Gore's efforts, branding it censorship; Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" was one of the first songs to be deemed potentially dangerous listening for young and impressionable ears during the first wave of PMRC policing).

So this, in turn, got us thinking about banned songs, and this became our topic for the 9:30 Coffee Break. What are some tunes that were banned or censored in one way or another, and whose censoring is now a source of great amusement to us? (Links for all songs go to Wikipedia, which details the stories behind their respective scandals). We aired:

1) The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie"
2) The Everly Brothers, "Wake Up Little Susie"
3) The Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend The Night Together"
4) John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High"

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