'Homophobic' Dire Straits hit Money For Nothing banned from radio

[FORD]

Do you remember when Jet Airliner came out in the 70's and half the stations played 'funky shit' and the other half played 'funky kicks' ?

i remember thinking if it's not absolutely required to change it why would stations change it?

"funky kicks" was on the 45" version of the song. "shit" was the album version. Think I still have both of them somewhere....

More ridiculous was this little piece of censorship......

I had no idea that "..when she's sitting on your face" or "wishing you could get inside her pants" was considered profanity, but apparently so.

[chefcraig]

I had no idea that "..when she's sitting on your face" or "wishing you could get inside her pants" was considered profanity, but apparently so.

Try reading the lyrics to "SIAMESE TWINS (THE MONKEY AND ME)". You might be in for a surprise there as well.

It wasn't until sometime in the early nineties that I realized what KISS "Nuthin' To Lose" was really about.

[Hardrock69]

Hmmm.....this is beyond stupid. I mean, banning that song 26 years AFTER it was a radio HIT and was played MILLIONS OF TIMES on the radio.

What are they going to do next, try to ban any works by the Marquis de Sade?

Fucking idiots.

[Nitro Express]

I can't believe it's been 26 years since they came out with that shitty song with Sting and the shitty video was played on MTV. Back in the good ol days when faggot was a general term to describe someone who was acting like a jerk. If you didn't like what someone was doing you would tell them to stop it you faggot or to insult someone by calling them a faggot.

[twonabomber]

Hmmm.....this is beyond stupid. I mean, banning that song 26 years AFTER it was a radio HIT and was played MILLIONS OF TIMES on the radio.

What are they going to do next, try to ban any works by the Marquis de Sade?

Fucking idiots.

after the Janet Jackson halftime show "scandal," Clear Channel and CBS radio put out directives that certain songs not be played due to s-bombs or f-bombs. the program director of the local classic rock station does the mid-morning shift, and went on a rant about how he's played Money and Jet Airliner and whatever for YEARS and now he wasn't able to.

they always play Maggot Brain at midnight Saturday after the all request "houseparty" show, not sure if they stopped that or if they felt that midnight fell under the Safe Harbor rule.

[Mr. Vengeance]

As a Canadian I can say that the usual American few with their dumb jokes is expected.

As a Canadian I say that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council are a bunch of faggots .

[FORD]

We have to thank the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for one thing though.....

If they hadn't demanded "more Canadian content" from SCTV back in the day, we never would have heard of Bob & Doug McKenzie, eh.

[Seshmeister]

after the Janet Jackson halftime show "scandal," Clear Channel and CBS radio put out directives that certain songs not be played due to s-bombs or f-bombs. the program director of the local classic rock station does the mid-morning shift, and went on a rant about how he's played Money and Jet Airliner and whatever for YEARS and now he wasn't able to.

they always play Maggot Brain at midnight Saturday after the all request "houseparty" show, not sure if they stopped that or if they felt that midnight fell under the Safe Harbor rule.

It's funny every so often I hear the word fuck in the lyrics of heavier bands on the local classic rock station in the middle of the day. I think they get away with it because no one notices or most of the listeners are over 30 anyway. You do a double take but it's already gone by that point. What they can't do is play something like the last chorus of Killing in the Name of or sweary GN'R songs.

I don't understand why they can't have unlimited swearing after 9pm like they can with TV, it seems to be a tradition rather than anything else.

[BigBadBrian]

I'm pretty sure that verse was censored out of the single/radio version in the US even in the 80's.

Not around here. Heard it the other day, faggot and all.

[SunisinuS]

I thought somebody would have already mentioned this....but Knopfler wrote the song by "quoting" some workers who were using the language as they worked (uh...moving Tv's ect). It was observed and reported in Art. This whole objection is about on the par with uneducated people banning the N-word from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

It just shows that schools are failing children.

Shakespeare wrote "to be or not to be...." and had a character commit suicide. Ozzy wrote Suicide Solution. Now whose parents is suing over their kid emulating Hamlet or is there just no money in it?

[Little Texan]

Not around here. Heard it the other day, faggot and all.

Yep, every time I've ever heard it on the radio it included the faggot bits.

[chefcraig]

I thought somebody would have already mentioned this....but Knopfler wrote the song by "quoting" some workers who were using the language as they worked (uh...moving Tv's ect). It was observed and reported in Art. This whole objection is about on the par with uneducated people banning the N-word from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

Yes, it's called poetic license. Unfortunately, people still misconstrue the meaning of things. I'm fairly certain that you can find folks in parts of the U.S. that believe shows like Law & Order (or even MacGyver) are documentaries.

Ozzy wrote Suicide Solution.

I have doubts that Ozzy Osbourne ever wrote a lyric in his life.

[ThrillsNSpills]

I have doubts that Ozzy Osbourne ever wrote a lyric in his life.

Me too, but since watching his old MTV show I'm convinced he could write syllables.

[FORD]

I have doubts that Ozzy Osbourne ever wrote a lyric in his life.

No, he definitely wrote some of the Sabbath stuff. Actually, it's easy to tell what was his and what was Geezer's work.

If it was some serious subject like War Pigs or Hand of Doom, it was Geezer's work.

If it was something silly about fairies wearing boots and dancing with dwarves, it was Ozzy.

And if you heard an early live version of a song, and the lyrics had changed completely by the time it was recorded, that means they started out with Ozzy's lyrics, and then Geezer improved it.

[Seshmeister]

To be fair Ozzy did write a lot of the vocal melodies so for example Tattooed Dancer on No Rest for the Wicked started as 'I had a real hot curry just the other night and it's burning my arse' which Bob Daisley then fixed to 'Well she's a mean hard woman and she knows what she wants'.