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I’m so glad I grew up in the 80’s. I got to listen to good music, sang the wrong lyrics at the top of my lungs and never knew or cared about the lyrics at all. When they started putting the lyrics on the cassette inserts, we memorized the actual lyrics and never once analyzed it or cared what they meant.
@KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972 well then maybe the channel (and other channels that put out similar videos saying songs were banned) should say "banned by a few radio stations. I grew up in the 80's and none of these songs were banned, although i will say Prince's song Darling Nicky was not heard often, at least not during the day.
Relax was. It was number one for weeks. I rember the top 40 on the radio.When they got to number one,that's it for this week. lol. Just made the song bigger.
Yes, the lead singer on drums at the same time is really awesome. I think there have been quite a few people who sang while drumming. It is a really good double tasking thing to do.
@williamdesouza5405 Class of 1984, early graduate in January to go into the Army. No career; got ankles damaged and left with a medical discharge. I play 80's more than anything else.
Yeah, forever 80's rock teen!!! 🎉😎🔥 best rebel era against oppression, amongst other atrocities forced on people by people in power. TWISTED SISTER said it out straight: "WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!!!" And yeah, I did NOT take abuse from elders anymore!!! 80's Rock on forever 🎉
None of these songs shocked us back then. We as teens in the 80s were a lot more resilient than later generations of teens. We survived the 70s practically unsupervised, being told to get out of the house and keep ourselves occupied or else our parents would find housework for us to do. We explored the world around us and lived with all the scratches and scrapes that falling out of trees, falling off our bikes and running around barefoot would entail. Then in the 80s we discovered music and movies and all the thoughts that they opened up for us. We weren't shocked, we were exploring and we embraced it.
@ReHerakhte yes we were more resilient kids, but that's not the reason these songs didn't shock us. They didn't shock us because we didn't know any better and thought it was normal, because it was on the radio and on MTV.
@dobbywhite9438 Hehehehe yeah, I recall ripping up the skin on my arms and knees after falling off my friend's bike while trying to do a stunt jump. I had to push the bike back home while dripping blood everywhere and explain to him why the paintjob was scratched.
Yes yes. It started with climbing in trees and allmost all school buildings. Then playing soccer in the streets. Then playing games on the commodore 64. Then a ghettoblaster with NWA. then house. Then wife and kids ❤
My high school radio station would play Another Brick in the Wall at lunch time. Students would sing along with the chorus. If social media been around in those days, instant viral. Vice principal, who was to take over as principal the next school year, tried unsuccessfully to get it banned.
I just remember Biy George singing "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" and almost every metal head in America saying "Hell Yes". It was so funny back then 😂
Boy George was very controversial, especially in the early 80's. One of my favorite Culture Club songs rarely gets much recognition - Church of the Poison Mind. Given the Satanic Panic of the 80's, I'm surprised this song wasn't on the PMRC list or cause a bigger stir.
No one thought that this song was about watching someone drown. We had to listen to the song on the radio and there is nothing about watching anything other than a giant fight between a couple. If you were in a breakup, you clearly understood this song and the pain that it showed.
“In the Air Tonight “ has been rerecorded by the Contemporary Christian band, Mercy Me and is now a Christian song! I never knew that it had anything to do with a drowning (?!) It’s still a great song!
A kid at my primary school in 1980 locked himself in the school office and blasted "we don't want no education " over the school PA speakers while all the kids were attending our school assembly, turned into pure anarchy, teachers trying to break into the office, kids all cheering and singing the song, good times.
I sing Another Brick in the Wall all the time to other teachers when they come to collect my students when I am doing a fun activity. 😂 “Hey teacher, leave those kids alone.”
@NipponRider we sang that song in class and made a substitute teacher cry. After she would not let a student go to yhe rest room. In all honesty alot of us were acting up. But he was not. And really had to go. I felt bad for the teacher. But worse for my friend. So I sang loud and proud.
Born in 69 graduated in 87 so i grew up on these songs! Some of these songs could only be played after 9pm on the radio but we had them on cassette and played them all day long. The worst thing you could do is tell a teenager is they cant listen to something.
Grad 84 rules!!! Just a few minutes in and suddenly my jeans are stone washed, my blouse has shoulder pads, and my hair is at least two inches bigger. ❤
In the Air Tonight was used on Miami Vice while detective Crockett was driving his black spider car. I see that moment every time I hear this song. I believe that Phil made a cameo or two on the show as well.
So the whole urban legend surrounding the song, Phil watching another man let a third drown. Does anyone else not find it strange Phil didn’t attempt to help the drowning man?
Phil did indeed make at least one cameo and a line he was given was "you must take me for a right wa****r" on reading it he told the script writers what it actually meant in English ! The script team quickly altered it. 🤣🤣
When I worked at a Walmart in the late 1990s, I mentioned to my manager that no matter when I worked, "Love is a Battlefield" would play on the in-store radio. Not 15 minutes later, the song came on.
All these songs are classics and I was a teenager in the 80s. They are still my favorites and always will. I miss the 80s and my teen years. Makes me 😢
@cadifan Olivia Newton John NOT Australian born in England she lived in Australia but definitely English 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
@Nickelini well, born in England, yes. Her dad is english, her mum German! They moved to OZ when she was five years old. She got the Australian citizenship. So she is english AND Australian. I dont know if she also got the German citizenship.
Phil Collins' song In the Air Tonight, was a pivotal point in the original Miami Vice tv show pilot. Tubbs' character wouldn't have been the same without this song of knowledge and vengeance. I can still see those long, lit causeways he's driving down...
I was raised on all these songs so none are shocking to me! And I don't remember any of them being banned! Censored sometimes, but not banned (in the us)!
Some were banned from MTV. Some were banned in certain regions of the country (USA, too). Some were banned in other countries Just because you don't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen. I grew up in the 80's and remember. Regardless, some of these songs are my all-time favorites.
@anthonysmales417 it certainly did! The video of his interview by the PMRC panel is a thing to behold 😀 Amusingly their show audience in London UK didn’t take to Sister’s show though as it was so totally different to the shows we had here 🤣
Dee is a smart businessman. His appearance before Congress showed that you can't judge a book by its cover. His "costume" was marketing, but he is a smart guy.
I love Al Gore's confusion at being told he should sit down with his children and discuss the music and what upset him about it. It was like Dee told him to go outside and roll in dog poop.
This video shows that criticism breeds intrigue. If adults didn’t want you to hear it, you instantly went out, bought the record, and memorized all the words.
It was the video to it basically, he brought "the guy that drowned the other boy" as his "special guest" to his concert then hit him with the song with the lights down and the spotlight on the "accused" this is how the rumors started from the lyrics and the video 🤷🏻♂️
At my high school radio station we had a way of getting around songs banned by the school administration. They were sped up, sometimes ran through a reverb processor and introduced as Mickey Mouse and the Rats. When Another Brick in the Wall played in the cafeteria, students sang along with the chorus. Fun times in the late 70s, early 80s.
It's very simple: if you hear music you don't like or that offends your faith, you put on something else...church music or something. You still hear many of these songs/artists daily on Dutch radio, and that continues uncensored, no beeps etc. You miss good music
Grew up in the 80s-proud Gen Xer here! Listened to all of these songs-played You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) at top volume when my daughter was younger (like 4 or 5) and never cared about the lyrics! And I was in 6th grade (I think) and one of my classmates had a tee shirt that had Relax printed on it in neon. I had no idea what the song was about (we didn’t have MTV at home) either! The 80s had THE best music!
My father served in Air Force in Vietnam. He was a Ranch Hand and later a Load Master. Got shot down on a mission dropping mines in a rice patty. Was rescued thankfully. Was also spit on returning home. I and my oldest son also served. I fully understood Bruce Springsteen's song. Thanks to him to risk his career in support of our troops. God bless the USA and the brave men and women serving now.
Pat Benatar helped so many young girls watching their mothers or themselves being abused. In the 80s you didn’t talk about abuse and honestly their wasn’t programs to help you get away from abuse. Pat thank you I was 11 and seeing your video gave me hope. I did break out, got an education because women stay in abusive relationships because of money, went to therapy, and finally married a man who was nothing like the men in my family. Told him while we were getting serious if he ever hit me make it good because when I get up I’ll end you. The look on his face. He instantly hugged me and told me no one would ever hurt me again. Why am I crying writing this, lol. Married right after university 22 , still together just celebrated 31 years. Ladies I’m begging you be able to live financially without needing a man. Then find someone. Also I never allowed him to pay for me whether it was a meal or trip we took while we dated.
Heck if your parents divorced in the early 80s, the school counselor was suddenly all interested because the kid must be traumatized by the split. Not that they gave a darn when the parents were abusive to each other. That divorce happened 45 years ago and I still thank God for it.
Actually, Olivia Newton John was NOT American. She was Australian. But Physical WAS a shock after Grease. It was one way to break typecasting....lol. She unfortunately died of cancer a couple of years ago. There is a wing of the Austin Hospital here in Melbourne, Victoria, named in her honour.
@ebamjr yeah, english mother and german father. she moved to Australia with 5 yo and she become an australian citizen; don't remember if she kept the brit citizenship, but likely she did.
@josephbenson4413 yeah, i understand were your coming. not all people are the same even from one nation; still us citizens (I dislike "Americans" as America is much wider than just a country, but one or two continents - depends of one's perspective; imo, north and south but still just one single continent) tend to appropriate stuff like you designed or "owned" them; sorry for the awful metaphor, but it's like you treat pizza like it was an US product when it was first made in Naples (now Italy) in the 1700's before the US as nation even existed. So I may be sensible to your arguments but I'm also sympathetic to others arguments. cheers and have a nice evening
I graduated high school in 1989. The 80s OMG! Best times of my life. I remember big hair, Skate Country every weekend. I remember the popularity of the “Michael Jackson” leather coats. The double tape deck boom box. Parachute pants were everywhere. Anybody else? If so - please know this. You looked as ridiculous as I did 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫢🤫🤐
The thing is, we didn’t look stupid back then. It wasn’t until the styles changed and other people started saying we look stupid that we started believing them. I choose not to believe them. I loved my tall hair and I also loved the shoulder pads.!
I was born in 1977, which means that I grew up on listening to all of these.. NONE were banned where I live.. Controversial? Maybe but not banned... LOVE the music!!!
Not banned, censored. Radio stations and even MTV at the time did not play this musics. Still a lot of outlets continued to play them - and hatred towards those musics just turned out to be the best publicity they have had.
You Missed a few "I don't like Mondays", by The Boom town Rats was one, "Don't Stand So Close To Me", By the Police" was another & "Looking out of Love", by Fleet wood Mac, all of these had been banned by various Radio Stations for some reason or another.
I was a child in the 80’s but my older brother had all of this on records, he was an eccentric lover of all music…I kept all the records and my son is into them now
I'm a Gen X-er. 54 years old. Back when MTV knew what the M stood for and was playing music videos 24/7. I remember not being able to turn on MTV without seeing George Michael's I Want Your Sex playing. It was not just played, after 9:00pm. For quite some time. It was one of those constantly played videos. Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Was actually the reason for the Parental Advisory label on sales for music. Not the P.M.R.C. The P.M.R.C. wanted the music (especially Heavy Metal) to be completely banned. To compromise with the P.M.R.C. Dee Snider said. How about a label being put on the music that says. Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics? Those women agreed to it.
@sandrafintel7083 I loved that song and I had such a crush on her. My mom happened to get a listen. Michael what is she saying? LoL she didn't like it very much
...thankyouthankyouthank you, THANK YOU! ...how DARE he leave that tune off!?? .....a #9 Pop /#3 R&B / #1 Dance tune, March 1985, that I NEVER stopped playing, and I loved Sheena's FIRE yellow shirt!
@JayJay-sf2wn was it banned in U S I forgot all about that song I mean come on the lyrics today omg in heaven. Touch myself could be interpreted so many different ways anyway lol
They totally ignored the counter culture new age and new wave scene sans Frankie goes to Hollywood. Dead or alive was in there too but I hardly considered (at the time) them as really counter culture at all. Boy George was more of a “gender bender” (which became somewhat of its own sub category) artist.
I'm a Gen-X/Xennial kid, (born in '79). I remember hearing "Born in the U.S.A" on the radio & I remember being confused by it. While listening, it appeared to be positive - ....but even at a young age, (I'm thinking I was around 5; so a few years after the song released), I recall not fully understanding it. While it was playing on the radio on a car ride I asked my parents what the song meant, and they explained. I understood then, (to the degree that a 5 year old could). I had visited the Vietnam Memorial wall. My Dad told me about the friends he had lost. I did not grasp that horror of war, but did grasp the sorrow. My Dad hated seeing his friends on that wall.
You thought its positive when the 1st lyrics are ..... Born down in a dead man's town. The first kick I took was when I hit the ground End up like a dog that's been beat too much Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now Just listen.
You missed Janet Jackson - "Let's wait Awhile" the message was perfect, but everyone knew what it was about good or bad. Queen also crossed some boundaries.
Oingo Boingo's Little Girls was pretty creepy. I later saw in an interview that writer Danny Elfman said he wrote it from a Hollywood Executive and "sleezy rock star's" perspective and how they take advantage of teenage girls in the business, etc.
4:35 Tipper did the music industry a huge favor. Those resulting warning labels boosted sales tremendously. Every heavy metal artist was desperately clamoring for one of those labels.
@cheshirecat7849 adults got all indignant and self-righteous over lyrics that kids didn't even understand to that level. I recall my dad telling me back in the early 80s how the news had shown the lyrics to "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper and my young self being so confused; I thought it was about 💃 DANCING 💃, lol!!!!!
I’m 53 and still a huge metal fan! Luckily, my parents didn’t fall for the hype and had no issue with my love for Ozzy❤, Metallica, Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc. My three sons are glad I followed suite. Of course I didn’t allow excessive profanity when they were really young, but by junior high, they’d heard it ALL in school!
I also thought Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” was just about working out! Esp with the video. Now I see it and laugh out loud about what my parents must have thought with me voicing my thoughts! 😂😂😂
This just makes me miss the good old days... Dunno what was banned cuz I jammed n sung to almost all of these songs except maybe two I heard when I got older. Being an 80s kid rocked!
They were not really banned, but were censorship target with stations and even MTV refusing to play them. Still, many other outlets continued to play them.
Yes, when they started putting labels on music cds, that made us want to buy those first! Dee Snyders testimony in congress was just gold. It's here on youtube!
I was in my teens in the 80's, and never a fan of hard rock and metal, but I did know about some of these controversies. Yet, looking back now, the 60's and 80's were a time of revolution, and I and many others in their 60's am glad to have lived through it music-wise.
You would have enjoyed Mickey Mouse and the Rats. It was the running joke at my high school radio station in the late 70s early 80s. We would speed up songs with vulgarity or slurs, occasionally adding reverb. One could always tell from the rhythm what the song was, and most of the lyrics could be understood. We just made sure the offending parts were made unintelligible. Nothing school administration could do about it.
Even you ignored Depeche Mode. That's why it makes them the most censored and banned band in the world! By the way, every song you covered in this video was on the radio day and night...
I was a teenager in the '80s. Where was Boy George? He was much more controversial because of his looks than Pete Burns. That was all during the hair band era and those kinds of looks were expected. I remember Madonna being controversial and Tipper Gore. Gore became the mom we loved to hate and made fun of her relentlessly. The only controversy surrounding Ozzy Osbourne that I remember was the bat thing and peeing on the Alamo. (I'm in Texas). Nothing about the others you listed.
This music and so many other 80’s songs are the sound track of me growing up it’s the best music I’m 54 now and all I need to feel better when life is hard is to crank up a little def leppard or Madonna or GNR and sing along as loud as possible I get all those memories coming rushing back I feel young again when I had my whole life ahead of me I actually introduced my daughter to all this music when she was little she was like 4 singing along to pour some sugar on me and Jessie’s girl with me now she’s 27 and a 80’s music lover as much as her mom , I am thrilled to pass the love of the best era of music on to my daughter
@kathywinnie9816 Ok. I didn't realize that was controversial, especially by the 80's when criticizing Vietnam war was not just for moral people, but had become a norm.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane , most of the songs you listed were not banned just stirring the thought process we had some fantastic songs in the 80s and some total rubbish but most of it was good.👍🐺🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇮🇪
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I’m so glad I grew up in the 80’s. I got to listen to good music, sang the wrong lyrics at the top of my lungs and never knew or cared about the lyrics at all. When they started putting the lyrics on the cassette inserts, we memorized the actual lyrics and never once analyzed it or cared what they meant.
@snowwhite5842
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The good old days 🫶🏻😆
@Imastay58 no one knows how good we had it.
Right??!!
And ge this....we could understand what they were saying AND they did not have to throw the F bomb or Bitch in every other word.
None of these were banned. I grew up in the 80's. I listened to all of them. I still do.
@paulettecannon4899 they were .FGTH Relax was banned by Mike Reid at BBC
@KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972 well then maybe the channel (and other channels that put out similar videos saying songs were banned) should say "banned by a few radio stations. I grew up in the 80's and none of these songs were banned, although i will say Prince's song Darling Nicky was not heard often, at least not during the day.
Thank god, in the Netherlands they dont ban songs quickly. In our dansclubs they played them all back then.
Me too Paulette...
@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673 or say some states/ countrys. not every banned song is it in every state or country aroudn the world
I grew up in the 80s and none of these were banned
Relax was. It was number one for weeks. I rember the top 40 on the radio.When they got to number one,that's it for this week. lol. Just made the song bigger.
I absolutely remember the Like a Prayer/Vatican nonsense!
I think that's what made it one of my favourites!
Not banned, but for sure controversial, for most of them. Prince (LOL), yeah he was always controversial.
@garyz2043"Keep your feet on the ground...and keep reaching for the stars"
Money for nothing was very first MTV video aired.
Phil Collins playing drums while singing "in the air tonight" was phenomenal! 🥁
Seen him a few times in concerts, good times.
"BA-Dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum ta dumtadumta dum... "🎼🎵🥁🎶🥁🎶🎙
@Blissfulnessence and still is. 👍
Yes, the lead singer on drums at the same time is really awesome. I think there have been quite a few people who sang while drumming. It is a really good double tasking thing to do.
@Blissfulnessence It still is.
Class of 1985 I will never give up my 80's music. I always crank up the volume.
@williamdesouza5405 Class of 1984, early graduate in January to go into the Army. No career; got ankles damaged and left with a medical discharge. I play 80's more than anything else.
Me as well. Our motto was "Comin Alive in 85" ! I still choose to listen to this music above all others.
Class of 85 too!! Best music decade!
@williamdesouza5405 me too
I loved the 80’s. Even now at 53 I still listen to 80’s music
Me too and I love it ☺️🫶👋
80's hair bands for me all day
I'm 20 yrs older than you & 80 is all I listen to. Best music ever made & that over rides the British invasion of 1964.
@Darkraven025 65 years for me!!! Love it!!!
Just about to turn 57 and I completely agree! I was, and will forever be, an 80's chick!
All the songs are amazing! The 80's was such a wonderful era to live in
I miss the 80’s it’s the best era ever
Yeah, forever 80's rock teen!!! 🎉😎🔥 best rebel era against oppression, amongst other atrocities forced on people by people in power. TWISTED SISTER said it out straight: "WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!!!" And yeah, I did NOT take abuse from elders anymore!!! 80's Rock on forever 🎉
These songs vary quite a bit in quality. To say "all were amazing" is just blindness.
None of these songs shocked us back then. We as teens in the 80s were a lot more resilient than later generations of teens. We survived the 70s practically unsupervised, being told to get out of the house and keep ourselves occupied or else our parents would find housework for us to do. We explored the world around us and lived with all the scratches and scrapes that falling out of trees, falling off our bikes and running around barefoot would entail. Then in the 80s we discovered music and movies and all the thoughts that they opened up for us. We weren't shocked, we were exploring and we embraced it.
@ReHerakhte yes we were more resilient kids, but that's not the reason these songs didn't shock us. They didn't shock us because we didn't know any better and thought it was normal, because it was on the radio and on MTV.
We also were the last generation to clutch start our first cars.
@ReHerakhte you are absolutely right,,,,,I know without a doubt that I suffered multiple concussions from trying to mimic Evil keneval.
@dobbywhite9438 Hehehehe yeah, I recall ripping up the skin on my arms and knees after falling off my friend's bike while trying to do a stunt jump. I had to push the bike back home while dripping blood everywhere and explain to him why the paintjob was scratched.
Yes yes. It started with climbing in trees and allmost all school buildings. Then playing soccer in the streets. Then playing games on the commodore 64. Then a ghettoblaster with NWA. then house. Then wife and kids ❤
I was a teenager in the 80s and none of these were banned. Man what an awesome time we grew up in!
We were woke without the attitude, we were tolerant and free without humilating others
Sure was fun 😊times back then
The video for Like a prayer did cause a bit of a stir, but a lot of these "controversies" didn't really exist.
Nothing like 80s music. Never duplicated or replicated. Bless the 80s❤
I was 18 in 1980 and remember these songs, they weren't banned, but they were Controversial. best music came from the 80s
My high school radio station would play Another Brick in the Wall at lunch time.
Students would sing along with the chorus. If social media been around in those days, instant viral.
Vice principal, who was to take over as principal the next school year, tried unsuccessfully to get it banned.
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What about Ozzies bag on Jimmy Swagger!
Can't even remember them being controversial...
@nomenclature9373 We sang it at our chorus concert in 1981 in Junior High. We had a pretty badass chorus teacher
Boy George was way more controversial than Pete Burns in the 80's. Some would say it was his appearance that made him and Culture Club so popular.
@davcuts2897 he did also have a terrific soulful voice too. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me is sung so beautifully
I just remember Biy George singing "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" and almost every metal head in America saying "Hell Yes". It was so funny back then 😂
@JoreelI love my metal head friends - I don’t consider my self one then I really listen to some metal and I totally get it ❤
Boy George was very controversial, especially in the early 80's. One of my favorite Culture Club songs rarely gets much recognition - Church of the Poison Mind. Given the Satanic Panic of the 80's, I'm surprised this song wasn't on the PMRC list or cause a bigger stir.
@rabbitpyggterrific track and Helen Terry’s backing vocals are incredible on that!!
"In The Air Tonight" has always been a favourite of mine. Never thought anything was wrong with it.
I can't hear that song and NOT think about Miami Vice.
@Monica, if anyone doesn't instinctively simulate the drum solo, I cut all ties with them lol
No one thought that this song was about watching someone drown. We had to listen to the song on the radio and there is nothing about watching anything other than a giant fight between a couple. If you were in a breakup, you clearly understood this song and the pain that it showed.
“In the Air Tonight “ has been rerecorded by the Contemporary Christian band, Mercy Me and is now a Christian song! I never knew that it had anything to do with a drowning (?!) It’s still a great song!
Omg, the drum solo ❤️❤️❤️
A kid at my primary school in 1980 locked himself in the school office and blasted "we don't want no education " over the school PA speakers while all the kids were attending our school assembly, turned into pure anarchy, teachers trying to break into the office, kids all cheering and singing the song, good times.
I thought that was another teen movie
I sing Another Brick in the Wall all the time to other teachers when they come to collect my students when I am doing a fun activity. 😂 “Hey teacher, leave those kids alone.”
@jendance00 still haven’t received the altmessages from that lyric ab teachers, huh?
@NipponRider we sang that song in class and made a substitute teacher cry. After she would not let a student go to yhe rest room.
In all honesty alot of us were acting up. But he was not. And really had to go.
I felt bad for the teacher. But worse for my friend. So I sang loud and proud.
Born in 69 graduated in 87 so i grew up on these songs! Some of these songs could only be played after 9pm on the radio but we had them on cassette and played them all day long. The worst thing you could do is tell a teenager is they cant listen to something.
I'm not sure where these were banned, but they weren't where I lived.
Same here, I'm watching this going nah that wasn't banned, nah not that one either, one after the other. I'm in New Zealand BTW.
many things were shadow banned back then, also it depended on who owned your local radio stations.
Not me either but I remember MTV didn't wanna air like a prayer
Right!
@achristinaportillo3548 me too
Grad 84 rules!!! Just a few minutes in and suddenly my jeans are stone washed, my blouse has shoulder pads, and my hair is at least two inches bigger. ❤
😂😂😂❤
@MelTheeQueenhell yeah mee tooo!!!!🎉🎉🎉
84 👍🏼
Yeah 84 was rocking
@Kimberley-h6u1n yep me too and 84
I'm 61 and I see nothing wrong with these songs
I'm 62 and agree, nothing wrong with this music. Loved them all back in the 80's
@Alabamainthehouse 52 and Same ❤️
So glad I was a teen in the 80's. Great music. 58 now and I still go back to this music if im missing it.
Graduated in 86. These songs were my teen years. Still are at 57 😊
62 here!
The PMRC made more record sales than it prevented. "Explicit Lyrics" was a siren song to me in high school.
In the Air Tonight was used on Miami Vice while detective Crockett was driving his black spider car. I see that moment every time I hear this song. I believe that Phil made a cameo or two on the show as well.
So the whole urban legend surrounding the song, Phil watching another man let a third drown. Does anyone else not find it strange Phil didn’t attempt to help the drowning man?
Phil did indeed make at least one cameo and a line he was given was "you must take me for a right wa****r" on reading it he told the script writers what it actually meant in English ! The script team quickly altered it. 🤣🤣
Where Tubbs is loading the shotgun in the passenger seat
When I worked at a Walmart in the late 1990s, I mentioned to my manager that no matter when I worked, "Love is a Battlefield" would play on the in-store radio. Not 15 minutes later, the song came on.
All these songs are classics and I was a teenager in the 80s. They are still my favorites and always will. I miss the 80s and my teen years. Makes me 😢
Me too
You are not alone!!!!
Same 😞 I was 15 in 1988. The height of the hair bands. I miss those days. I have a massive 80s playlist. I wish I could go back and start over.
What,no Boy George?
@mitzithompson6585 second that.
"Americas Sweetheart" Olivia Newton John was AUSTRALIAN!
OMG yes. And born in England. So not American
She was a Sweetheart to the entire world, but yeah she was Australian. Still miss her music and beautiful heart.
@cadifan Olivia Newton John NOT Australian born in England she lived in Australia but definitely English 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
@Nickelini well, born in England, yes. Her dad is english, her mum German!
They moved to OZ when she was five years old. She got the Australian citizenship. So she is english AND Australian. I dont know if she also got the German citizenship.
@cadifan She is called “Americas Sweetheart” because of her immense popularity in the United States, especially after Grease being so popular.
Phil Collins' song In the Air Tonight, was a pivotal point in the original Miami Vice tv show pilot. Tubbs' character wouldn't have been the same without this song of knowledge and vengeance. I can still see those long, lit causeways he's driving down...
my all time favorite incident of the 80's was De Snyder destroying Mrs.Gore and her group
I was raised on all these songs so none are shocking to me! And I don't remember any of them being banned! Censored sometimes, but not banned (in the us)!
@heidipye3488 I remember some of these being banned from MTV.
Remember "Killing an Arab"? from the Cure. Oooo, we're going staight to hell for that one.😀
Some were banned from MTV. Some were banned in certain regions of the country (USA, too). Some were banned in other countries Just because you don't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen. I grew up in the 80's and remember. Regardless, some of these songs are my all-time favorites.
Some of these I never heard of at all.
Pat Benatar - Love is a battlefield ??? What about Hell is for Children... Great song with tough lyrics
@moocher9935 absolutely one of my favorites of hers 💔
@Ms37cookies mine too especially the live version
Yep I just said that in another comment
@Ms37cookies Yep, that's my favorite, followed by Fire & Ice. Pat's range was phenomenal.
Dee Snider's response really took them by surprise
@anthonysmales417 it certainly did! The video of his interview by the PMRC panel is a thing to behold 😀 Amusingly their show audience in London UK didn’t take to Sister’s show though as it was so totally different to the shows we had here 🤣
Dee is a smart businessman. His appearance before Congress showed that you can't judge a book by its cover. His "costume" was marketing, but he is a smart guy.
I love Al Gore's confusion at being told he should sit down with his children and discuss the music and what upset him about it. It was like Dee told him to go outside and roll in dog poop.
My parents listened to these songs with me back then. I am a gen x and love this music even today
Pat Benatar's "Hell is for Children" caused MUCH more Commentary then "Love is a Battlefield" did!
@caladonn2659 That and "My Name is Luka" by Suzanne Vega. Both songs about child abuse.
This video shows that criticism breeds intrigue. If adults didn’t want you to hear it, you instantly went out, bought the record, and memorized all the words.
Me so Horny by 2 live crew was way more controversial than any of those songs!
@angiewingler3832 I got carded when I bought "Nasty as They Wanna Be". Lol
None of these were banned. Relax was said to be, but it still got radio play.
Yeah there was a "clean" version but by that time we had all gone and bought it lmao
@sueelliott4793 I agree. They are still on radio stations, especially in stores.
@sueelliott,yes,your so right!!😁
Yeah, Relax is the only one I really recall as controversial. I never heard Darling Nikki till the '90s.
@sueelliott4793 radio one boycotted it. That got it to no 1
wieder einmal ein Beweis dafür, wie großartig das Jahrzehnt, der achtziger war. Musikalisch unerreicht und künstlerisch das beste, was es je gab.❤
I was born in 69 and graduated in 1988 and I loved every one of these songs
They are all played on classic rock stations and all over played on top 40 radio
Thats weird, I was a phil collins fan back in 80s and never heard that rumor about that song..
Neither did I.
Me, neither.
Oh, I heard CRAZY rumours for sure. They were local, so maybe true and didn't get to you
It was the video to it basically, he brought "the guy that drowned the other boy" as his "special guest" to his concert then hit him with the song with the lights down and the spotlight on the "accused" this is how the rumors started from the lyrics and the video 🤷🏻♂️
Me either
At my high school radio station we had a way of getting around songs banned by the school administration.
They were sped up, sometimes ran through a reverb processor and introduced as Mickey Mouse and the Rats.
When Another Brick in the Wall played in the cafeteria, students sang along with the chorus.
Fun times in the late 70s, early 80s.
I was a teen in the 80s. Graduated high school in 1985. None of these songs shocked me. I’m shocked at some of the songs on this list.
I was in 5th grade when Twisted Sister came out and we used to jam out on the boom box on the bus. Cassette baby!
It's very simple: if you hear music you don't like or that offends your faith, you put on something else...church music or something.
You still hear many of these songs/artists daily on Dutch radio, and that continues uncensored, no beeps etc. You miss good music
Grew up in the 80s-proud Gen Xer here! Listened to all of these songs-played You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) at top volume when my daughter was younger (like 4 or 5) and never cared about the lyrics! And I was in 6th grade (I think) and one of my classmates had a tee shirt that had Relax printed on it in neon. I had no idea what the song was about (we didn’t have MTV at home) either! The 80s had THE best music!
My father served in Air Force in Vietnam. He was a Ranch Hand and later a Load Master. Got shot down on a mission dropping mines in a rice patty. Was rescued thankfully. Was also spit on returning home. I and my oldest son also served. I fully understood Bruce Springsteen's song. Thanks to him to risk his career in support of our troops. God bless the USA and the brave men and women serving now.
Yep we did
Yea MTV played the heck out of these songs! Love being a Gen-Xer!!
Pat Benatar helped so many young girls watching their mothers or themselves being abused. In the 80s you didn’t talk about abuse and honestly their wasn’t programs to help you get away from abuse. Pat thank you I was 11 and seeing your video gave me hope. I did break out, got an education because women stay in abusive relationships because of money, went to therapy, and finally married a man who was nothing like the men in my family. Told him while we were getting serious if he ever hit me make it good because when I get up I’ll end you. The look on his face. He instantly hugged me and told me no one would ever hurt me again. Why am I crying writing this, lol. Married right after university 22 , still together just celebrated 31 years. Ladies I’m begging you be able to live financially without needing a man. Then find someone. Also I never allowed him to pay for me whether it was a meal or trip we took while we dated.
Virtual hugs from a stranger for breaking the cycle on your end.
Hell hell is for children album became my anthem for sure
I allowed men to be men and pay for things but I was very selective who I dated n they understood just cause u buy me dinner doesnt mean u buy my body
This isn't an exchange or barter system ❤
Heck if your parents divorced in the early 80s, the school counselor was suddenly all interested because the kid must be traumatized by the split. Not that they gave a darn when the parents were abusive to each other. That divorce happened 45 years ago and I still thank God for it.
I graduated in '84. These songs were prolific to me and my growth as an adult. You are in track for me and those I'm friends with.
Grew up to these songs! I can still sing along anytime they pop up! 80s were the best!
Actually, Olivia Newton John was NOT American. She was Australian. But Physical WAS a shock after Grease. It was one way to break typecasting....lol. She unfortunately died of cancer a couple of years ago. There is a wing of the Austin Hospital here in Melbourne, Victoria, named in her honour.
@davidgotts606 actually she was born in England! Then she moved to Australia and then America! She died way too young!
@ebamjr yeah, english mother and german father. she moved to Australia with 5 yo and she become an australian citizen; don't remember if she kept the brit citizenship, but likely she did.
While that's true, he didn't say she was American, the narrator said she was America's Sweetheart. That's quite true. Everybody here loved her.
@josephbenson4413 yeah, i understand were your coming. not all people are the same even from one nation; still us citizens (I dislike "Americans" as America is much wider than just a country, but one or two continents - depends of one's perspective; imo, north and south but still just one single continent) tend to appropriate stuff like you designed or "owned" them; sorry for the awful metaphor, but it's like you treat pizza like it was an US product when it was first made in Naples (now Italy) in the 1700's before the US as nation even existed. So I may be sensible to your arguments but I'm also sympathetic to others arguments. cheers and have a nice evening
I graduated high school in 1989. The 80s OMG! Best times of my life. I remember big hair, Skate Country every weekend. I remember the popularity of the “Michael Jackson” leather coats. The double tape deck boom box. Parachute pants were everywhere. Anybody else? If so - please know this. You looked as ridiculous as I did 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫢🤫🤐
The thing is, we didn’t look stupid back then. It wasn’t until the styles changed and other people started saying we look stupid that we started believing them. I choose not to believe them. I loved my tall hair and I also loved the shoulder pads.!
I was born in 1977, which means that I grew up on listening to all of these.. NONE were banned where I live.. Controversial? Maybe but not banned... LOVE the music!!!
Not banned, censored. Radio stations and even MTV at the time did not play this musics. Still a lot of outlets continued to play them - and hatred towards those musics just turned out to be the best publicity they have had.
I listened to all these songs. I loved Frankie Goes to Hollywood, George Michael,Pat Benetar, and Prince!! So many memories!
You Missed a few "I don't like Mondays", by The Boom town Rats was one, "Don't Stand So Close To Me", By the Police" was another & "Looking out of Love", by Fleet wood Mac, all of these had been banned by various Radio Stations for some reason or another.
"Like A Prayer" video debuted in Canada on Much Music. My mom let me leave for school late so I could see it. Thank you mom.
I loved the 80's!!! ❤
Loved and miss the 80’s‼️ Loved most of these songs but don’t remember any of them being banned.
The best time in life to grow up. Music will never be the same.
I had a "Frankie Says Relax" t-shirt back then. Black with bold white letters. I'm pretty sure my parents didn't know what it meant lol
Will always be greatful to Dee, Frank & John for there battle agiast the PMRC. \m/
Growing up in the 80's was radical dude! 😂
I miss the 80s your right that was the best music
I turned 17 in 1980 ❤❤❤and remember all these songs great Era that was the 80's
I was a child in the 80’s but my older brother had all of this on records, he was an eccentric lover of all music…I kept all the records and my son is into them now
I'm a Gen X-er. 54 years old. Back when MTV knew what the M stood for and was playing music videos 24/7. I remember not being able to turn on MTV without seeing George Michael's I Want Your Sex playing. It was not just played, after 9:00pm. For quite some time. It was one of those constantly played videos.
Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Was actually the reason for the Parental Advisory label on sales for music. Not the P.M.R.C. The P.M.R.C. wanted the music (especially Heavy Metal) to be completely banned. To compromise with the P.M.R.C. Dee Snider said. How about a label being put on the music that says. Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics? Those women agreed to it.
I am so glad I didn't have a mother like Tipper Gore. She was as likely to be playing these songs while cooking dinner.
That witch got a bunch of good TV shows taken off the air. I had no idea she was going after good music too.
Grew up in the 80s. Had no idea this was controversial and watched it all on MTV.
Here in Belgium these songs were not banned. We heard them a lot on the radio. Loved them
One song that should be on the list that was banned in the 80's was Sugar Walls from Sheena Easton!
@sandrafintel7083 I loved that song and I had such a crush on her. My mom happened to get a listen. Michael what is she saying? LoL she didn't like it very much
...thankyouthankyouthank you, THANK YOU! ...how DARE he leave that tune off!?? .....a #9 Pop /#3 R&B / #1 Dance tune, March 1985, that I NEVER stopped playing, and I loved Sheena's FIRE yellow shirt!
Oh yeah! Forgot about that one.
@shawnycoffman How do you “forget” something you claim was unforgettable - were you not paying attention back then, or was it never that memorable?
@sandrafintel7083 Written by the most talented musical artist of the 20th century, Prince!!!
They forgot the I want to touch myself, by Divinyls. That was banned.
@JayJay-sf2wn right? And "Strip" by Adam Ant ❤️
Wasn't that the '90s though?
@JayJay-sf2wn was it banned in U S I forgot all about that song I mean come on the lyrics today omg in heaven. Touch myself could be interpreted so many different ways anyway lol
90's not 80's
They totally ignored the counter culture new age and new wave scene sans Frankie goes to Hollywood. Dead or alive was in there too but I hardly considered (at the time) them as really counter culture at all. Boy George was more of a “gender bender” (which became somewhat of its own sub category) artist.
I'm a Gen-X/Xennial kid, (born in '79). I remember hearing "Born in the U.S.A" on the radio & I remember being confused by it. While listening, it appeared to be positive - ....but even at a young age, (I'm thinking I was around 5; so a few years after the song released), I recall not fully understanding it. While it was playing on the radio on a car ride I asked my parents what the song meant, and they explained. I understood then, (to the degree that a 5 year old could). I had visited the Vietnam Memorial wall. My Dad told me about the friends he had lost. I did not grasp that horror of war, but did grasp the sorrow. My Dad hated seeing his friends on that wall.
@ManuelaBorn?????
You thought its positive when the 1st lyrics are .....
Born down in a dead man's town.
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
Just listen.
I remember all the talk about them. 80's had great music
I was a teen and young adult. Best times of my life and the music made it that way
Ok, I'm now 62 and these controveries were stupid then and just as laughable now.
These songs would never be banned today and they shouldn’t have been banned in the 80s‼️
@timkeeler382 they weren't
Amazing how the 80s music can still give us feelings
The first time I saw Prince was at Eastern Michigan University basketball arena and the only album out was Cream .... RIP 💜
You missed Janet Jackson - "Let's wait Awhile" the message was perfect, but everyone knew what it was about good or bad. Queen also crossed some boundaries.
Yeah, 1986. Should have been on the video
Oingo Boingo's Little Girls was pretty creepy. I later saw in an interview that writer Danny Elfman said he wrote it from a Hollywood Executive and "sleezy rock star's" perspective and how they take advantage of teenage girls in the business, etc.
4:35 Tipper did the music industry a huge favor. Those resulting warning labels boosted sales tremendously. Every heavy metal artist was desperately clamoring for one of those labels.
@cheshirecat7849 adults got all indignant and self-righteous over lyrics that kids didn't even understand to that level. I recall my dad telling me back in the early 80s how the news had shown the lyrics to "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper and my young self being so confused; I thought it was about 💃 DANCING 💃, lol!!!!!
@andirwilliams1973right? It was all about going out and having fun.
I’m 53 and still a huge metal fan! Luckily, my parents didn’t fall for the hype and had no issue with my love for Ozzy❤, Metallica, Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc. My three sons are glad I followed suite. Of course I didn’t allow excessive profanity when they were really young, but by junior high, they’d heard it ALL in school!
@andirwilliams1973 So did I!! 😂
I also thought Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” was just about working out! Esp with the video. Now I see it and laugh out loud about what my parents must have thought with me voicing my thoughts! 😂😂😂
These songs were all over AM radio, helped grow FM to overpass.
I still love 80s music. As I listened to it over and over, I learned what the songs were about, which allows to appreciate them much better.
They all were on the radio when I was a teenager !
One in a million wasn't.
The only one I remember that was banned was relax and it was only the BBC that banned it.
This just makes me miss the good old days... Dunno what was banned cuz I jammed n sung to almost all of these songs except maybe two I heard when I got older. Being an 80s kid rocked!
They were not really banned, but were censorship target with stations and even MTV refusing to play them. Still, many other outlets continued to play them.
The MORE they tried to silence us, the louder we got.
Yes, when they started putting labels on music cds, that made us want to buy those first! Dee Snyders testimony in congress was just gold. It's here on youtube!
Damn, you just played the soundtrack of my early 20's. Miss the 80's.🤘
@PhoenixLyon those were the days. 40 years went by too quickly.
That’s a pretty dam good set list for a party in its own right. Never mind the controversy. Great music!
I was in my teens in the 80's, and never a fan of hard rock and metal, but I did know about some of these controversies.
Yet, looking back now, the 60's and 80's were a time of revolution, and I and many others in their 60's am glad to have lived through it music-wise.
You would have enjoyed Mickey Mouse and the Rats. It was the running joke at my high school radio station in the late 70s early 80s. We would speed up songs with vulgarity or slurs, occasionally adding reverb. One could always tell from the rhythm what the song was, and most of the lyrics could be understood. We just made sure the offending parts were made unintelligible. Nothing school administration could do about it.
Even you ignored Depeche Mode.
That's why it makes them the most censored and banned band in the world!
By the way, every song you covered in this video was on the radio day and night...
I still get goosebumps when that first note hits. Some things never lose their power
Physical?
Missed Pat Benatar Hell is For Children
I mentioned it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So true.
Love all the 80s music,born in 1969!!!
We loved these songs and these bands!!
gracias - muy linda época ❤
"Money For Nothing" I still love. "Relax" is so danceable.
I was a teenager in the '80s. Where was Boy George? He was much more controversial because of his looks than Pete Burns. That was all during the hair band era and those kinds of looks were expected. I remember Madonna being controversial and Tipper Gore. Gore became the mom we loved to hate and made fun of her relentlessly. The only controversy surrounding Ozzy Osbourne that I remember was the bat thing and peeing on the Alamo. (I'm in Texas). Nothing about the others you listed.
This music and so many other 80’s songs are the sound track of me growing up it’s the best music I’m 54 now and all I need to feel better when life is hard is to crank up a little def leppard or Madonna or GNR and sing along as loud as possible I get all those memories coming rushing back I feel young again when I had my whole life ahead of me I actually introduced my daughter to all this music when she was little she was like 4 singing along to pour some sugar on me and Jessie’s girl with me now she’s 27 and a 80’s music lover as much as her mom , I am thrilled to pass the love of the best era of music on to my daughter
Hell yeah!! 👍
LOL,my mom did aerobics to Physical.
I mustve been having way too much of a good time to notice any controvercy. I loved the 80s, best time of my life.
15 most Controversial Songs.....
I miss Paul Hardcastle - 19 in this list
I had that song on 1985 on fire
19 was amaze!
But what was controversial about it?
@JLvatronit was about the Vietnam war and was critical about it.
@kathywinnie9816 Ok. I didn't realize that was controversial, especially by the 80's when criticizing Vietnam war was not just for moral people, but had become a norm.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane , most of the songs you listed were not banned just stirring the thought process we had some fantastic songs in the 80s and some total rubbish but most of it was good.👍🐺🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇮🇪