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Punch asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicRock and Pop · 10 years ago

R&P: Which 5 of these "Banned" songs do you like best?

Here is a list of 20 songs banned from the airways!

1 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - Je T’aime - sexual references

2 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - anti monarchy

3 Paul McCartney and Wings - Hi Hi Hi - drug references and explicit sexual lyrics

4 The Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To **** - use of the F word!

5 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax - sexual references

6 Troggs - I Can’t Control Myself - singer Reg Presley sounds like someone climaxing

7 Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together - promoted promiscuity

8 Cliff Richard - Honky Tonk Angel - no one told Cliff a Honky Tonk angel was a hooker

9 George Michael - I Want Your Sex - sexual references

10 Paul Simon - Kodachrome - advertising

11 Judge Dread - various records, Big 6, Big 7 etc - sexual content

12 Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' lyrics...Life's a piece of ****...

13 The Au Pairs - Come Again - referred to orgasm

14 The Stranglers - Peaches - sexual references

15 The Kinks - Lola - mentioned Coca-Cola, later changed to Cherry Cola

16 Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice - lyrics mentioned the newspaper The Evening Standard

17 Donna Summer - Love To Love You - groans and heavy breathing

18 Paul McCartney - Give Ireland BackTo The Irish - political

19 Tom Petty's 'You Don't Know How It Feels' - has the line 'let's roll another joint'

20 Dr Hook & the Medicine Show - The cover of Rolling Stone - advertising

Which 5 of these "Banned" songs do you like best?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    My 5 are #s 1,7,10,15 and 20.

    I remember watching the Stones perform #7 on the Ed Sullivan Show when I was younger.

    Sullivan got Mick to agree to change the lyric to "Let's Spend Some Time Together" .

    In protest The Bad Boys of Rock allegedly stormed off the set disappeared for a short

    time and returned wearing Nazi Uniforms.Can't remember if any of it was shown on camera.

    Sullivan apparently was not amused and banned them from ever being on the show again.

    We can always count on you Punch to entertain us.Thanks.

  • Cherry Blossom
    10 years ago

    1 5 8 3 and 6

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

    Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together

    Donna Summer - Love To Love You

    Tom Petty- You Don't Know How It Feels

    Dr Hook And the Medicine Show - The Cover of the Rolling Stone

  • Cheetah
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To ****

    Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together

    George Michael - I Want Your Sex

    Paul Simon - Kodachrome

    The Kinks - Lola

    Tom Petty's 'You Don't Know How It Feels'

    Dr Hook & the Medicine Show - The cover of Rolling Stone

    I know that's more than 5, but oh well! Interesting about the Cliff Richard song. I know Kitty Wells had a song "It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels" (and that was in 1952!).

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  • Trixie Delight
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together

    Paul Simon - Kodachrome

    Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'

    The Kinks - Lola

    Dr Hook & the Medicine Show - The cover of Rolling Stone

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To ****

    The Kinks - Lola

    The Stranglers - Peaches

    Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together

    Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'

  • James M
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    To be honest, I didn't know all of these songs were banned:

    In order:

    Paul Simon - Kodachrome....probably could be played now since photography has changed so much

    Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together

    Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

    Donna Summer - Love to Love You

    Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

    Excellent Q!

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    1. The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together

    2. Tom Petty - You Don't Know How it Feels

    3. The Kinks - LOLA

    4. Paul McCartney - Hi Hi Hi

    5. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

    Honorable Mention: Pink Floyd - It Would Be Nice

  • sunkenship
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    hey punch

    2 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

    5 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

    14 The Stranglers - Peaches

    7 Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together

    1 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - Je T’aime

  • maurice
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Peaches

    God Save The Queen

    Relax

    Lola

    Cover of Rolling Stone

    Let's Spend The Night Together

    I Can't Control Myself,

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