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How did they get away with that?

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    #92
    Whitewinged
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    The Labyrinth with David Bowie and Jennifer Connolly

    I just thought it was a princess kind of story with puppets but its actually a fairly dark movie

    Shes only meant to be about 15 and there is a hint of romance between her and the much older david bowie. You can see that in the songs and the play they reenact in the movie. they hint that david bowie is a man that is dating her mam and the whole thing is a fantasy of her dealing with him pursuing and seducing her.


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    #93
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    TheLastMohican wrote: »
    A brilliant lyric. The N word? Don't make me puke. Take things in context. I can tell you of many black singers that specify that word (white people are not allowed to use it ........ refer to PC Brigade etc). Do you mean to say that the people who sang along with these lyrics in olden days were racist? Or ignorant?

    It always should be about context, but that's not how it works out.

    This is a good example of how words can be misinterpreted by the PC Brigade and actual racists, spoiling the enjoyment of the music/art/entertainment for the majority.


    "If there's one thing I would change, it's the title," says Smith, sounding a little weary. "I wrote it when I was still in school and I had no idea that anyone would ever listen to it other than my immediate school friends.

    "One of the themes of the song is that everyone's existence is pretty much the same. Everyone lives, everyone dies, our existences are the same. It's as far from a racist song as you can write. It seems though that no one can get past the title and that's incredibly frustrating.

    "The fact is it's based on a book that's set in France and deals with the problems of the Algerians, so it was only geographical reasons why it was an Arab and not anyone else."


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    #94
    skittles8710
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    Anneka Rice and her treasure hunt camel toe.


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    #95
    One eyed Jack
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    skittles8710 wrote: »
    Anneka Rice and her treasure hunt camel toe.


    Wow! :pac:

    I wasn't expecting the end of that sentence, I thought it was going to be about the camera man having the camera trained on her arse throughout the whole thing! :D


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    #96
    blade1
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    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Rolf Harris (remember him) covered that too. We really do need a sick in my mouth icon.

    I'm not surprised considering he sang about two little boys and tying a Kangaroo down!


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    #97
    Ash.J.Williams
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    pavb2 wrote: »
    Reminds me of a guy at school just as punk hit the streets, his parents were very middle class, conservative and he knew they wouldn't approve of Him purchasing it so he bought the album Never Mind the B*****ks by the Sex Pistols and mailed it to himself saying he'd won it in a radio phone in competition.

    Their single God save the queen was banned not sure how many others were.

    Their song "bodies" off the same album is one of the most powerful songs ever written and rarely gets a mention...about Pauline and her foetus


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    #98
    fiachr_a
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Any others spring to mind?
    Summer of sixty nine.


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    #99
    Conall Cernach
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    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Not quite. I caught a C4 prog a few weeks back. Alright in the 70's or some such. The usual Benny Hill, Dick Emery - Boobs and Bums but innocuous enough.

    Then there was a comedy programme in the Doctor at Large series. Arthur Lowe was in it and a couple of younger actors. The Doctors had to pay a periodic visit to a girls school. The "joke" was that Arthur Lowe was too old to keep up with all the nubile young girls. There were other "jokes" that just left me open-mouthed. This was the 70's when most people left school at 16.

    This was mainstream family comedy. You could probably still catch it on C4.
    I saw this exact episode on ITV3 a few weeks ago. The main character managed to repulse the advances of the girls and ended up swapping the position with his sleazy mate.


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    #100
    Buona Fortuna
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    I saw this exact episode on ITV3 a few weeks ago. The main character managed to repulse the advances of the girls and ended up swapping the position with his sleazy mate.

    Yes - I was just gobsmacked about how that was ever funny.


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    #101
    LDN_Irish
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Yeah I looked it up after reading your post, on wiki first and I didnt recognise it so I assumed it must be a b-side or something :o I must have heard it dozens of times and never picked out anything beyond the chorus. This happened to me recently too with Milow's Technology, just heard on a radio it in the background and thought it sounded like a nice pleasant song, I thought the chorus was 'I'm tired of using technology, why dont you sit down and talk with me'

    Ha, my dad is in his 50's and sings a bit, usually Irish songs. He'd heard Lloyd 'Dedication to my ex" but only the clean version and was walking around singing it for a few days before someone mentioned that they were surprised he'd be singing about missing some wan's "pussy."


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    #102
    Cold War Kid
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    candy-gal1 wrote: »
    You mean back in the days where comedies were actually classic gold, werent afraid of offending someone or group of people because they just told it as it was and tbh wasnt such a nanny state - lets take care of anyone who wants to come into this country whatever it takes just because - kind of country/world?!

    You could watch all the tv shows etc mentioned now and still find them funny, classics! :)
    Lol. Richard Littlejohn is on Boards.


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    #103
    Cold War Kid
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    TheLastMohican wrote: »
    A brilliant lyric. The N word? Don't make me puke. Take things in context. I can tell you of many black singers that specify that word (white people are not allowed to use it ........ refer to PC Brigade etc). Do you mean to say that the people who sang along with these lyrics in olden days were racist? Or ignorant?
    He just means he's surprised some dopes havent kicked up more of a fuss about that word in the song.


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    #104
    Cold War Kid
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    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    And?:confused:
    You know what they mean surely?


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    #105
    One eyed Jack
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    I saw this exact episode on ITV3 a few weeks ago. The main character managed to repulse the advances of the girls and ended up swapping the position with his sleazy mate.


    I love the "Carry On" movies, except for the whole dynamic between Barbara Windsor and Sid James. How much older was he? Just creeps me out every time *shudder*...


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    #106
    rubadub
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    efb wrote: »
    Innuendo - that's why
    +1, with the relax song it is not overly blatant. So if someone did want to ban something with innuendo they would have to openly explain what they thought the song was about, and someone else could say "you dirty minded bastard, nobody else thinks that"


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    #107
    Cold War Kid
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    rubadub wrote: »
    +1, with the relax song it is not overly blatant. So if someone did want to ban something with innuendo they would have to openly explain what they thought the song was about, and someone else could say "you dirty minded bastard, nobody else thinks that"
    That's what Frankie Goes To Hollywood actually said. That the problem was with the BBC reading into things too much. :)


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    #108
    MilesMorales1
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Fawlty Towers had loads of them, the thick Irish builder. The Major using the n word a few times as well. :)

    Fawlty towers has that scene with Basil recoiling from the black doctor in the corridor as well.


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    #109
    RainyDay
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

    That programme also showed Depeche Mode on children's Saturday morning television doing 'Master And Servant, about bondage and sadomasochism. When they finished, the presenter even commented that it probably wasn't appropriate for that time of the day. :D

    I recall Slash from GNR being interviewed by Cat Deeley on the Ant/Dec Saturday morning show. Poor Slash didn't know what show he was on, and ended up regaling her with a story about groupies and blowjobs - leading to humblest apologies from Ant/Dec after the break.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11tBL4Gy1II


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    #110
    custard gannet
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    Come Together by The Beatles.


    What in the fuuck is "come together right now, over me" all about?!?:confused:

    I saw this on the music channels for the first time in a good few years the other day. Considering how MTV are without a doubt the most censor loving conformists anywhere in media, to the extent of showing all live events pre recorded and editing out words in songs as innocuous as "god damn" and "crap", I don't quite get how the amount of drug references in this video got past them




    I also don't think Eminem would get away with the same type of lyrics he was putting out in 99/ 2000. While the gay rights crowd protested about it back then, gay rights really wasn't remotely a mainstream cause like it is now so there was definitely more creative licence.


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