SEX, Drugs and Rock n' Roll

The cliche "Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll" is well know in music as being what every rockstar gold when enter the music industry. But many musicians have had there songs banned for one or the other between sex and drug uses in there song. Today i will discuss the songs in which was banned due sexual contents. Should a song be banned from having sexual contents seeing that today we can find sexual content everywhere, on television and internet? Well here is list of the song that government said yes to banning for sexual content.

Here is the list of songs that was banned;

› Jane Birkin - Je T’aime - Maybe it wasn't helped by Serge Gainsbourg singing about the joys of going "entre tes reins" - between your kidneys - i.e. up your bum (alledgedly). On top of the pops an instrumental version by "Sounds Nice" was used - 1969 & 1974

› Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax - Sexual references - 1983

› The Au Pairs - Come Again - Referred to orgasm - 1981

› Lil Louis - French Kiss - "Heavy breathing" - 1989

› The New Yorkers - Love For Sale - "Sexual" content - 1930??

› Judge Dread - Several records with titles as Big 6, Big 7,Big 8, 10 etc - "Sexual" content - 1972 - 1975

› Ivor Biggun - The winker's song (misprint) - Sexually explicit - 1978 › Troggs - I Can’t Control Myself - The sound Reg Presley makes at the end of the song was said to be like someone climaxing. - 1966

› Rolling Stones - Lets spend the night together - Promoted promiscuity - 1967 › Cliff Richard - Honky tonk angel - Self imposed ban as "saint" Cliff didn’t know that a Honky tonk angel was a Hooker! circa ‘72 -’73.

› Adam Faith - Made You - Banned for lewdness/Sexual Content Double A-Side with "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - 1960

› The Stranglers - Peaches - Considered "woman baiting" - 1977 › Scott Walker - Jackie - Reference to "authentic queers" - 1967

› George Michael - I Want Your Sex - banned only before the "watershed" - 1987

› Paul McCarney & Wings - Hi Hi Hi - Banned, not due to drug references but to explicit sexual lyrics - 1972

› Joe Brown & The Bruvvers' revival of George Formby's "My Little Ukelele" (1963, Piccadilly/Pye) was banned as "too risque"

› Max Romeo - Wet Dream - A song about his bedroom ceiling. No the BBC wouldn't buy that - 1969

› Donna Summer - Love to love you - Groans & heavy breathing secured the ban - 1976

› The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up - Despite denials, this single was never herd during the day - 1997

› Pete Shelley - Homosapien - "SPIN Alternative Record Guide." The book claims "Homosapien" was banned for containing the line "Homo superior in my interior."(About 1982)

› Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Open Your Box - From the album of the same name and B side of a single, it was banned for containing the lyric "open your legs" - 1970

List taken from www.rocklist.net

Battle Cries

There were many songs that are around that mentions political and messages aim at the government and the actions. This was a common practice during war time around the would. One war time period in history where songs was banned for it politcal messages would be during the Gulf War. These songs includes;



Jose Felicano & The Doors, "Light My Fire"
Something Happens, "Parachute"
The Cure, "Killing an Arab"
Little angels, "Bone yard"
Massive Attack had the word "attack" dropped during the gulf war
Bomb the Bass also suffered during this period



The song Parachute by Something Happens says

"Take your parachute and jump, you can't stay here foreverWhen everyone else is gone, being all alone won't seem that cleverTake your parachute and go, there's gonna have to be some dangerTake your parachute and jump, you're gonna have to take flightIf the wind don't catch you, I will, I willIf the wind's not there, I'm hereDon't look out before you, you know it's a long way downI'll make it safer for you, your parachute won't let you downTake your parachute and go, and maybe come back tomorrowTake your parachute, I am, stop you ever getting sorrowCause the winds might change, and the winds might blow over youAnd the winds might cut you in two, unless perhaps you get a raincoatTake your parachute and go, and wave to me as you are fallingTake your parachute and jump, you'll hear a sound, it's just me callingIt's a beautiful day for jumping, and nothing's here to keep you backI'll make it safer for you, your parachute is on your backCause the winds might change, and the winds might changeTake a parachute, I amAnd jump (the wind should come and catch you)And jump (before you hit the ground)And jump (the wind should come and catch you)And jump (before you hit the ground)JumpTake your parachute"



The songs speakes about what seem to be a soldier jumping out a plan into enemy territory during the Gulf War.



The song by The Cure "Killing an Arab" says

"Standing on the beachWith a gun in my handStaring at the seaStaring at the sandStaring down the barrelAt the arab on the groundI can see his open mouth But I hear no sound I'm aliveI'm deadI'm the strangerKilling an arabI can turn And walk awayOr I can fire the gunStaring at the skyStaring at the sunWhichever I choseIt amounts to the sameAbsolutely nothingI'm aliveI'm deadI'm the strangerKilling an arabI feel the steel butt jump Smooth in my handStaring at the seaStaring at the sandStaring at myselfReflected in the eyesOf the dead man on the beachThe dead man on the beachI'm aliveI'm deadI'm the strangerKilling an arab"

Which comments about democide toward Arab people during the Gulf War.