Top 10 Famous Songs That Were Censored
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- These controversial songs drew the ire of censors. For this list, we’ll be looking at songs that infamously had lyrics removed or obscured to satisfy censors. Our countdown includes “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, "Creep", “The Real Slim Shady”, and more! Which versions of these songs do you prefer? Sound off in the comments.
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All of them
You missed off “I want your sex” by George Michael
Aw yea, cancel culture… and the idiot *republiQunts* say it’s a ‘new thing’ 😂… gotta appreciate their stupidity
April Wine's "If You See Kay"
Explicit all the way
1980's people "Physical is a dirty song, let's censor it!"
My high school gym teacher 8 years later "This would make a great song for aeorbics class..."
So relatable lol
Aerosmith's Janie's Got A Gun. The censors took out the line about Janie shooting her stepfather in the head. Steven Tyler was pissed. What was ironic about it was the tons of songs played in the late 1980s about males using guns. No, but censor the girl using the gun, even though the men using guns in music was often gratuitous, while the girl in Janie's Got A Gun sent a potent message.
I know that was so stupid because that's the whole meaning of the song.
That song and the video was so cool. And good messing.
@@kershabeaver3312 yeah If it came out now lots of negativity
I've heard the version that censored the part about her shooting the dad.....but left the word "rape" in....
Apparently saying he "jacked a little bitty baby" was fine but ooooh no, don't say put a bullet in his brain. Censors, I tell ya...
Watchmojo making a video about censored songs where they can’t say the words due to RUclips’s censoring is truly brilliant lol
That’s what I was saying! I was like what lyrics were censored??
In a Limp Bizkit video RUclips censored the word “panties” 🙄
Oh ya, prob the first watchmojo I downvoted because of that mind numbingly stupid shit.
@@jamesm0909 Eh, that’s not really WM’s fault. This is a whole production and they need to keep their videos monetized, so they need to comply with the rules of the platform. It wasn’t hard to Google and read the actual story behind the songs. Some of which are actually juicier than WM could cover.
That's what I was thinking... most of the video I had no idea what was wrong, and the songs I did know what they meant, I already knew.... I only learned what I knew.
I expected to see “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails in this countdown. “I wanna … you like an animal…”, yeah, that song was pretty explicit
Ha, blast from the past, and I'm not mad about it, lol. Is it possible to think of that song without thinking of the strip club, or is that just me? 😂
I love that song. I'm a 56 yr old woman and I still blast that loud.... Often
And the guy has won two Oscars!
It's dirty as hell but that doesn't stop me from liking it
Are they including self censored?
It has long been common practice to have an album version and a 45 edited for pop radio. Early on the editing was to make songs shorter and remove any lengthy instrumentals that station managers feared would get listeners to flip to someone else. In time it also way to remove obscenities and offensive references.
This seems not to be the case as the alterations seem to be changes made to the approved broadcast version.
I had a dancing carebear that sang “Physical,” by Olivia newton john. Childhood is now enlightened. Not ruined.
I sang it for choir in middle school 😂
OMG I HAVE THE CHEER BEAR ONE 😭😭
I was expecting to see Cee Lo Green's "Forget You" on here. But I guess since there were 2 versions of the song, the radio version never got censored.
Came in expecting the same thing.
My mom bought that song but she unknowingly bought the Fuck You version as well, so the song came on, on shuffle, in the car and we started to sing along. The look on her face when was priceless.
@@itscs1175 😂😂
Weren't there three versions?
I like both versions, actually.
I like both versions, actually.
I would've thought that "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael would be on this list as well.
The latter had an edited version for airplay.
Yeah I was expecting "Relax" to appear too!
Let's not forget about the most enduring aspect of the legacy of Lola: it gave us the single greatest Weird Al parody of all time.
Ya ya ya ya Yoda!
I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-O-D-A soda.
Yoda was good but Eat It was better 🤷
@@bubbajoshproductions3990 And of course Eat It was the first shot-for-shot on-set parody of the video, which he also did in Fat and Smells Like Nirvana.
" Creep "....honestly solidified me being and nerd and a creep. Thank you Radiohead. Because why follow trends when u can stand out
Damn
I expected to see Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. I actually thought they censored that song rather creatively and I remember it being really famous in the 90’s. Took me well into my 20’s to understand what and why they censored it for.
Me too!
What I'd give for a Top10 of songs that sneaked in curse/bad words without getting censored!
One song that comes to mind almost immediately is "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship. The album version - which the FM Rock stations played back in the day - had a line about oral sex somewhere in the middle of the song. If you actively listen for it, you'll hear it as plain as day, but because the long version is, well... lengthy, most people had zoned out before it came up, me being one of them.
Another classic is "Life in the Fast Lane" by Eagles, for the obvious "...we've been up and down this highway, haven't seen a goddamn thing..."
EMF's "Unbelievable" and Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax"
@@kitfisto1827 wait...what did they say in "Relax"?
@@kitfisto1827 did they censor "come"?
I am so surprised that Louie Louie by The Kingsmen was not included; it took lead singer Jack Ely to shout up to the microphone near the ceiling after having his braces tightened a couple of days beforehand to sing the song's lyrics; so controversial was this rendition of the song (even for 1963 standards) that the FBI investigated the matter. in the end, they ruled that this version of the record was deemed to be unintelligible in any language
Yep. So unintelligible, it was accused of being Russian code.
That's the one I was waiting for. The FBI version was the best. Such filth.
Way back in 1966-67 a Canadian band called the Royal Guardsmen recorded a series of singles based on Snoopy's imaginary encounters with the Red Baron in the Peanuts comic strip. The songs referred to "the bloody Red Baron". They became very popular in several countries including Australia, especially among children. In Australia at that time, the radio stations in different state capitals had different play lists and adhered to different standards of what they considered decency in what they broadcast. This meant that the radio stations in Sydney played the songs with the word "bloody" uncensored while the radio stations in Melbourne bleeped out the word. The result of this was that the children in Sydney sang about "the bloody Red Baron", but the children in Melbourne sang the word that they imagined was being bleeped out, so that parents were scandalised to hear their eight year olds singing about "the f***ing Red Baron".
Wow, I hadn’t realized how much I missed this. I can remember having the record and loving it. The controversy probably didn’t hit so bad in the US then because the word bloody doesn’t carry the same meaning. As someone into colors, bloody red just sounded descriptive of what he might look like. I’m definitely going to look this up!
I remember that song, thought it was great as a kid. Now you've got the lyrics swimming around in my head, or at least some of them and the melody itself.
You can find it on RUclips.
that's as funny as shit
As a Melburnian that is so funny to hear 😂
Break on Through by the Doors was also censured. On most albums we heard "she gets. she gets" instead of "she gets high. she gets high".
Also Leonard Cohen's The Future, you can hear now "Charlie Manski" for example on youtube instead of "Charlie Manson", which can be heard on the original album.
The Doors compilation I owned had that "she gets high." bit restored. And yeah, the word high was seen as the equivalent to the F bomb back in the late 60s.
I was so pleased when I found the uncensored versions of Avril Lavigne's album The Best Damn Thing on Spotify. I couldn't find a CD copy back when HMV needed to exist and people still ripped CDs.
There are 2 songs that were censored that were not mentioned: 1.The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band...called the Devil an SOB. 2: Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean...for the line "one hell of a man".
well kinda surprised that nobody has said "Closer" by Nine inch nails...that got censored on the radio and tv..
Yeah, that one should've been on this list. An amazing song, btw.
I like that song! 😝😝
Starf*ckers Incorporated to Starsuckers.
A song I can no longer take seriously, thanks to "Project Runway".
Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill, You oughta know
Definitely!
Because of the line about...doing naughty things in a theater
@@kennethwhitehouse6176 And the line "And are you thinking of me when you **** her"
I remember I bought the black eye peas album Elephunk on it was a song called "Let's Get Retarded"....When it was released it was changed to "Let's get it Started" and it was one of their biggest hits
I thought I was crazy but I remember it being titled that
You're exactly right, even to the point they remade a more techno based version on their album the E.N.D
I think they originally released it as Let's Get Retarted, but redid it for NBA advertisements. When the commercial became popular they released that version.
The interesting part is Beyoncé says the same term in "Get Me Bodied"...
How about Alice In Chains' "Man In The Box", a song about censorship, that itself got censored.
Wow didn't know that.
Ironic
I know a couple christians that won’t listen to that song because of the “Jesus Christ, deny your maker” line. They don’t even acknowledge the following line “He who tries (will be wasted)”. It’s so stupid.
Nice song and video bro, man I miss those old good songs and videos!!!
Layne Staley was perfection. Jerry was golden.
WatchMojo: "Radiohead got depressing song that got cancelled"
Twenty One Pilots: "Hey that's our thing"
Twenty One Pilots also the answer to "Who did John Travolta cheat on his wife with ?"
"Get Low" could have been an honorable mention, at the very least. It took censors a while before they realized what "skeet" meant and censored the radio edit even further. 😂
😂😂😂
Ironically for the supposed censored version of Get Low the part of the song that originally had "skeet skeet motherfucker" they just replaced motherfucker by saying skeet at least another 7 times 🤣
Dave Chappel made a joke about this.
Dua Lipa also paid homage to “Physical” in her own song “Physical” too!
If You Seek Amy is NOT the only song to spell out the acronym. There have been several bands from the 70's and 80's that had songs called If You See Kay.
Country music stars also have controversy.
Garth Brooks: The Thunder Rolls
Tim McGraw: Indian Outlaw
Dixie Chicks: Talking bad about George W. Bush
Carrie Underwood: NBC Sunday Night Football theme 2018
"Kick Up The Jams - MC5: It's not hard to see why this song caused controversy..."
Uh, it is if you don't tell us what the controversy was.
"Hey, let's do a list about songs that were censored, but not bother mentioning why they were censored!"
Who the f*ck do you have writing the scripts to your videos? I guess we have to google the lyrics ourselves if we want an explanation beyond "it's got a naughty word in it".
And the reason that Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones was censored was because of _what_ exactly? Because it has... "racy lyrics"? Wow. I just love how thorough and insightful these explanations are. You guys just delve right down into those details, huh? I wonder what the reason the #1 song is gonna wind up being censored for... because the lyrics contain "stuff"?
This. Lol
THANK YOU
Yes, and the explanations don't even make sense sometimes.
jsuk, if they give the direct explanation of why the song was censored, then youtube will censor THEM. anybody making this video will do it the same way. and it's sort of obvious why these songs are censored. imo they have done a good job in explaining the issues and the aftermath, compared to youtube's strict rules and young children whose parents don't check what they're doing online. please stop spreading hate without knowing the full story, if it weren't for this video most people wouldn't even know if these songs were censored.
so why did it even get censored im still confused?
I recall that the BBC censored Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army because he said a racial slur. Elvis stated that he was referencing the word to Irish Catholics. If he released this song today, he would have been in serious trouble and cancelled.
Yet I've heard the original played on British indie radio fairly recently.
I thought Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started" would be here.
I had no idea until I was an adult that was not the real version of the song. 🤣
Same! Though sometimes the censored version sounds better than the original
Let's get ret oh never mind 😆🤣😂😹😆🤣
From the Wikipedia page on Link Wray and his 1958 INSTRUMENTAL "Rumble": It popularized "the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists,"[9] facilitating the emergence of "punk and heavy rock". "Rumble" was banned in New York and Boston for fear that it would incite teenage gang violence, "rumble" being slang for a gang fight.
The steamy video for the legendary Olivia Newton-John's Physical made this 13 year old's (at the time) heart skip a few beats, a gay kid all a tingle.
I never saw the video before. I love it.
My grandma introduced me to the song Lola several years ago and I always loved it lol
"If you see Kay. Tell her I love her. " April Wine.
Folks were a little less uptight in 1982!
Frankie goes to Hollywood Relax. The original video was extremely graphic and hilarious!
The video I remember seeing as a kid was the generic concert video with ladies throwing themselves at the lead singer and bassist. The two openly gay group members- all for naught.
@@fromthehaven94 Look up the uncensored version.
@@timspellman47 I've seen that version. I understand why MTV wouldn't show it.
Loves the Britney Spears song when I was younger my thoughts were who is amy? My bro had to explain the songs underlying message. It’s clever
I still don't get it. Maybe because english isn't my first language
English is my 1st language and I don't get it?
@@amandamsnyder87 "If You Seek Amy"--Say it fast and it sounds like four letters, plus "Me".
A very clever way to peddle naughty music I must admit
i didn’t realize it till recently
The best part of this kind of videos is once you start watching you cannot stop! Love this feeling! 🙌🍪🙌
"If U Seek Amy" the most clever play on words in history I think
Indeed, it's not obvious until later on!
No
I don’t get it.Who’s this Amy we’re seeking?
@@jamesheatherly4209 idk if you're serious so I'll answer... Brit is "Amy" if you say the title quickly it sounds like F U C K me "all the girls and all of the boys are seeking to if you seek Amy (f u c k me)"
I love that song and still do
Fun Fact: Otis Redding WROTE "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" and sung it first before The Stones.
Fair dinkum?! I did not know that..
False. It was written by Richards and Jagger. Otis Redding did a cover the same year. He heard the Stones do it and tried to copy the lyrics, but couldn’t understand them, so he just guessed.
When it comes to censorship of music I tend to listen to the full explicit versions on Spotify. I mean you already know what they saying doesn't make a difference
"The past is a foreign country" and all that
You forgot one of the first songs to ever get banned. "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV. It was on the hot 100 chart for 5 weeks, peaking at #3. After it was banned, it fell out of existence on the chart. It was probably headed for #1.
Nothing wrong with the song. My friends and I knew every and sang "talked" it when it came on. And not when it was on.
I loved that song lol 💕💕
I have an original vinyl 45 of that. It plays forward on the A side and backwards on the B.
It was cruel to dogs
Death dance of the frog fish!! Stonesour do a wicked cover of it!!
Now this list got a lot of "aha" moments and loving every bit of it! 🤯🙈🤣
nice job watch mojo - Devo also has a cover of Satisfaction
I was surprised you didn't mention Madonna's censored video, Justify my Love. MTV banned it when it came out.
I think they are talking mainly about song lyrics rather than a music video.I mean it does say songs that were censored NOT music videos.
I thought “Let’s spend the night Together” would be on here.
That was only on the Ed Sullivan song and it does get mentioned.
Sympathy for the devil was taken off the radio when it came out, but then ended up in a movie SEVERAL years later.
No honorable mentions for "Who Are You?" by The Who, "The Devil Went Down To The Georgia" by Charlie Daniels, and "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison?
what part of brown eyed girl had to be censored?
Charlie Daniels himself censored "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" when he played it live later in his life due to him becoming a devout Christian.
Yeah, especially "who are you?". Down here, on the local rock radio station, 98 rocks, they always play the uncensored version, where they clearly say, "who the fuck are you?".
@@itscs1175 “Brown Eye” is slang for butt.
@@itscs1175 The line "Making love in the green grass behind the stadium" was changed to "Laughing and a-running behind the stadium." However, today, most stations play the original, uncensored version.
You know what, I've heard "Kiss Me More" in a TV commercial, but I don't know what it was for, nor did I know the artist or song title, or that it interpolated "Physical" in its chorus. And I never really paid attention to the lyrics of "Lola", until I listened to the 1979 live version a few years ago... it's a really absurd song!
What's absurd about it? The narrator gets picked up by a transwoman and doesn't realize it at first.
The BBC has banned many records from its radio stations and television. Top Of The Pops was notorious for that.
#4 - finally got that Futurama reference!
There was some controversy with the Osmond Brothers (yeah, I couldn't believe it, either) song "Crazy Horses". The line "Smokin' up the sky" was believed to be referring to marijuana use (the Osmonds? REALLY???). In reality, the song was addressing the problem of air pollution.
Another controversial song is "Hell Is For Children" by Pat Benatar. Some idiots out there actually believed Pat was advocating that childrens' souls be damned to Hell. Obviously they never heard the song or read the lyric sheet, otherwise they would know it shined a light on child abuse...
If I recall 2pac had a whole album pulled from stores in the early 90's
Mentioning MTV in a song when MTV was actually good = Too meta.
When James Blunt’s first album went big it got rereleased due to the language in one song. If you got the original release with the grey cover you got the unedited version. - it’s now discontinued. The Blue cover has the song edited but also has a re-edited and remixed songs too.
How about every hip hop song that's released as a single. Some things that make the radio have more holes than lyrics
And yet 'WAP' tops the charts
the light my fire one reminds me of when muse was on a foreign show and they told them not to swear. matt was so offended he replaced the 3rd verse of feeling good with a ton of f bombs
I think there were some radio edits of "You Don't Know How It Feels" that substituted "Let's roll another down" for "Let's roll another joint."
"Let's Get It Started" by The Black Eyed Peas. I don't agree with the word they used in the original title so I won't repeat it. The popularity of the edited version has basically buried what the song was called originally.
Haha. Break on Through to the other side is a good example. The line “She gets high” was cut to be “she gets *blank*”
"Like a Virgin" , 'Like a Prayer" & "Justify my Love" by Madonna were also censored at their time ...
The famous "Trololo" song exist because the soviet union banned the lyrics and the guy desided to perform the song with out saying the words
Censorship is evil and shouldn't exist for any reason.
Hi hear them say all the time that Creep didn’t catch on for years. I was 13 and remembering it was played heavy rotation and people liked it.
As a kid I never understood the controversy with If You Seek Amy. Seeing it spelled out now though is hilarious
Give him 100 Dollar for every "however" and let him retire...
Always by Saliva which changed the word gun to anger. Of course a lot of songs were not censored for content but time. Outlaw Torn by Metallica, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin, and American Pie were all shortened when played on the radio.
almost any song that has some type of conspiracy or controversy attached to it is guaranteed to be a hit
This goes way back, Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" originally had the line , "good authors too who once used better words now only use four letter words writing prose, now anything goes" this was thought to be too suggestive and had to be changed to "...three letter words..." even though that changed the intention of the line completely.
Thank you gods of random. I like Olivia Newton John so much more now. What a great video.
Why do I feel nostalgic when "If U Seek Amy"?
Idk bout you but I hear this song for the first time. Idk about yoi but I hear thia song for tje first time.
It's been 12 years, perhaps
Britney
I'm old enough that this song never registered. I'm also too foreign to get understand what I should be getting about the title...
The narrator incorrectly said that Tom Petty's song says "smoke another joint," then immediately played a clip of Petty singing "roll another joint." Get it right, folks!
The Who- who are you.
Jefferson Starship. Miracles.
Both censored and all time classics.
The Who being banned makes me unnaturally angry even today.
What about some Pink Floyd songs? Some have been censured since the 70's.
How the times have changed. "My Ding-a-Ling" is a song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. It was covered by Chuck Berry, It got band in some areas because of the implication. look at Lou Reeds song Walk on the wild side. it says " Candy came from out on the Island In the back room, she was everybody's darling, But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head. " Another part of the song goes she shaved her legs then he became a she. so many songs have alternative meanings.
As a former longtime radio DJ, CENSORSHIP drives me crazy….especially when they censor a song YEARS after it has been out and aired thousands of times..or when big artists are not censored but smaller ones are. Total BS.
Wet Wet Wet's 'Temptation' from their debut album, had the line 'You won't waste my f.....g spirit' which was changed to 'You won't waste my angry spirit' for the single (radio play) version and their later Best Of release.
Love that band.
I don't know if it's just me but truth be told the risque nature on most of the songs never seemed to phase me.
Exactly thats why not sure why folks had such a problem with cardi b and Megan wap
@@kershabeaver3312 I didn't have a problem with WAP either, nor any of the other songs before it like "My Neck, My Back" for example.
I much prefer the original version of If U Seek Amy. Come on people!
If women want to sing about sex, let them. They're grown women at this point!
I much prefer women doing songs about sexuality because they do it with agency and independence as opposed to men for men tend to be too vulgar with the topic and they don't get hit with even a smidgen of controversy.
@@ryanappleton3653 my thoughts exactly 💯
No list of censored songs would be complete without "Shake, Rattle & Roll."
I'm really surprised that Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind didn't crack this list. The edited version could be mistaken for a track that would be at home on a Kids Bop album, mainly because it took out the direct reference to crystal meth and took out the last verse that displayed the depths of addiction.
Crystal meth lifted you up ya and Jupiter was depressing too
Semi-Charmed Life (1997) was also used in the beginning of the trailer for The Tigger Movie (2000). It was later removed because Disney was unaware of the fact that the song meant to display happiness actually have lyrics that had sexual or mature undertones. Disney issued a new trailer for the movie.
Nas - oochee wally
Prince- controversy
Judas Priest- breaking the law
Miracles by Jefferson Starship. They censored all the good lines in the song ☹
I also would've thought "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols would be included on this list. I was banned by the BBC for its lyrical content.
My first thought was the list could just spew off 5 Eminem songs and still have more of Marshal to put onto it.
for real. real slim shady shaded people who thought his music was too vulgar
you missed one "Relax Don't do it" for Frankie goes to Hollywood it was band in most countries specially the video clip
Did anyone remember The Divinyls = I touch myself? I was SURE that would be included. Maybe time for a part 2.
I was always surprised Outkast's 'Hey Ya' was never censored.
The Outhere Brothers 'Don't Stop Wiggle Wiggle' was another great one when it wasn't censored. I remember the local Top40 radio station would broadcast live from a nightclub on Friday nights when the Club DJ accidentally played the uncensored song. The radio DJ apologized afterwards and jokingly said that that would be his last night on radio.
What did he say on "Hey Ya"?
5:06 I think they were talking about Prince.
The secret final verse of "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth
High School Confidential by the Canadian group Rough Trade was pretty controversial forty years ago--but I'm not sure how well known it was outside Canada.
Oh boy I remember that one. Thanks for reminding me.
The If You Seek Amy was Clever. Never notice that the first time
Tom Petty- ah I see where Zayn got the inspiration from for that 1D song- Best Song Ever. lol
Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night should have been number 1. A sexually explicit scenario is even in the audio!
Listen to Elvis's original album version of Shake rattle and roll and it's missing the line "You wear those dress's the sun comes shining through"
It's just about a garentee you can sell a lot of records if you get banned by the BBC.
Finally A List With The Doors In It
Y'all Canadians are *CRAZY*
*Eminem in the early 90's* : "Here softy's I've got a few songs for y'all"
Gilligan's Island.
A favorite of my significant other.
Last Resort By Papa Roach Due To Suicide references in the lyrics by the way Papa Roach is my favorite band.
I don’t get the “If U Seek Amy” one what is it supposed to be
Black Eyed Peas: "Lets Get Retarded". Yes, that's the original title of the song.
Some of the songs are just wrong they had to censor the words.