"Why is this censored?" Thread.

Every run into this kind of insanity?

I was watching "Gay Bar" by Electric Six. For some reason, they have all the gay innuendo they want, including half naked Abe Lincolns suggestively gyrating and playing with power tools.

Yet instead of saying 'Nuclear War', they replace it with the sound of a whip cracking.

WTF?

Ever run into something like this?

It's like in the "new and improved" (questionable) ET they have the bad guys with walkie-talkies instead of guns. They're BAD GUYS. Since when has it become un-PC to have bad guys carry guns? Kinda defeats the purpose of bad guys...

Similar subject...on Leno last night Ewan McGregor made the point that they show all kinds of blood, guts, and titties in movies nowadays, but not many penises. That somehow makes it pornographic. Whatever.

I like how they bleep out the "god" and not the "dammit" nowadays.

it's refreshing that Trey and Matt still use goddammit liberally on South Park, bleeps or not. I've had to edit that one out of my vocab as much as possible b/c I work with a bunch of religious folk. dammit.

Wasn't it on that Everlast track where the radio edit covered up the word "guns?"

I never understood why, when listening to The Who's "Who Are You?" on the radio they don't bleep the "who the fuck are you? ...", yet on a song like Alice In Chains's "Man In The Box" they routinely bleep (or omit) the word "shit".

Is there a grandfather rule or something?

I just saw the electric six in concert last month (with jr sr nonetheless). Interesting dynamic, but the total asshole lead pushed this drunk girl off the stage. Granted it was a small venue, and she shouldnt have been on the stage in the first place, but she just wanted to tell people it was her birthday!

We must be protected from ourselves, people.

They bleeped out the word "whore" in that song, too.

And I remember back when they played that annoying goddamned Smashmouth song on the radio, they'd bleep out the word "toke". C'mon, now.

Funny how classic rock never seems to get bleeped. IE Cocaine, Joker, etc.

The mind boggling: Phantom Planet having the word "gun" censored in their video (I still don't understand that), The Strokes having their original "Is This It" cover banned (as well as the track "NYC Cops" being scrapped from domestic releases as it debuted post 9/11), Andrew W.K.'s "I Get Wet" being sold w/ a huge black sticker censoring the cover. Nirvana apparently had to change the name of "Rape Me" to "Waif Me." With Weezer's "Dope Nose" the word "dope" is censored each time yet later they had another radio hit where the word "fag" flew over just fine. And forget about rap lyrics.

as where in Pittsburgh a guy jumped up and started lip synching to junior senior and walking across the stage doing hand movements like he was singing hip hop horray for naughty by nature....highly entertaining

You are all going to Hell, I'll pray for you sinners.

FCC bleeps anything that's against "community interest." It's a really nebulous rule; sometimes they bleep anything and everything. Remember (oh man, I can't believe I'm typing this) that Tom Petty song that says "Roll another joint?" That line was censored forever. It's all up to the TV station/radio station's standards and practices department.
You can't say the "seven deadlies" (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker,
asshole, and tit) ever on TV, supposedly, but we hear some of them all the time. I guess the stations just don't censor 'em and take the fines. So, there you go.

I thought it was weird that on Wheatus's Teenage Dirtbag, they left "her boyfriend's a dick" but edited "and he brings a gun to school".

I also thought it was weird that so many people played that shitty, shitty song...

I have no idea what the standards for what is and isn't allowed on radio and tv is anymore. Many people I know consider "god-damn" to be a worse profanity than "fuck", but "god-damn" is allowed sometimes. Who knows.

I think sometimes censorship backfires. I remember when "Humpty Dance" came out, and they beeped all those words because they mentioned brands. We instinctively assumed they were cuss words, so we filled in one line with "I once got busy in a muthafuckin' restroom!" because why would they possibly beep the words "Burger King"?

I think so. I was going to bring that up. Because the local classic rock station lets the semi-hard-to-hear "who the fuck are you?" go by and they also let the obvious "funky shit going down in the city" through from steve miller.

Maybe it's because classic rock is art, and this newer stuff is trash.

This thread made me think of my last happy radio moment. About 10 years ago a local radio station played "Los Angeles" by X completely uncensored.
For those unfamiliar with the song, the lyrics are as follows:

LOS ANGELES - X
she had to leave los angeles all her toys wore out in black and her boys had too she started to hate every nigger and jew every mexican that gave her lotta shit every homosexual and the idle rich she had to get out she gets confused flying over the dateline her hands turn red cause the days change at night change in an instant the days change at night change in an instant she had to leave los angeles she found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend she bought a clock on hollywood blvd the day she left it felt sad she had to get out

perhaps a bit off topic:

I tried to rent Croupier at the local blockbuster. they said they don't carry it cuz it's NC-17 (or so I was told). I was shocked and I have no idea what got it this rating. It seems totally kookoo to me...

J-rock bands get beeped on thier own CDs. . .even indie bands. . .
. . . . for mentioning "dead babies". . . .

Reminds me of the episode of David Letterman where he played that clip from the live TV production of On Golden Pond where the kid says "bullshit" because they let the kid say "bullshit" and get away with it and not him. It was hilarious; he kept playing it.

The stations around here sometimes play the censored "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller, and sometimes the uncensored... if you ask me, I just think they like the censored one cuz it's shorter and they can fit in more commercials...

I saw Croupier on video and don't remember anything more than "brief nudity," as they like to say. Perhaps they made a special version? Perhaps I (miraculously) forgot a fuck-scene.

...and jake, please... "Burger King bathroom," not "restroom"! Gotta get your Humpty lyrics exactly right...