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“God SAV the Queen, by the Sex Pie-stills” God, I hate AI narration. This could have been a worthwhile video if you’d just have an actual human narrator.
I bought Eve of Destruction. I was 13 and I’ve still got it. I felt quite a rebel buying it. Some of the lyrics still ring true with some situations today.
"Lola" was about a transvestite, NOT a transsexual! So was, "Walk On The Wild Side" which was out at the same point in time but, nobody said shit about that!
I think the thought is that current orthodoxy is to use "transsexual" whenever a man thinks of himself as a woman, and that Lola would've wanted to be a woman.
As a child of the 60’s myself, I remember most of these songs. About the last song, concerning the incident at Kent State University, I was living in Idaho at that time and my high school would do recreations every year to commemorate that incident on the anniversary that it took place.
I miss the songs of my youth. So many seemed to carry significant messages, generally of peace and love, also occasionally of rebellion against injustice. These were the days when we paid attention to the lyrics. These were the days of engaged song writers who were not afraid of spelling their views and opinions. That generation through its music and its political and social engagement changed the course of history, and was largely responsible to draw attention to the civil rights movement, and the Viet Nam war. I wish the youth of today would be as engaged in shaping the world into a better place.
That's kind of a big weight to lay on their shoulders, don't you think? Their education and socialization were all fucked up, with the COVID lockdown. And no generation since the baby boomers has had anywhere near the sheer mass of NUMBERS that they did. As time goes by that has impressed me more and more. I'm GenX, and we were much more scared to get out of line, I mean, the cops alone completely outnumbered us. Just the way that they were able to exercise authority was very different by the time we came along, and that's only ever gotten worse and worse since then. I'd love to see a graph of the numbers of cops as a percentage of the population. Hell, the war on drugs wasn't even a thing until you guys were well into adulthood. But it was when I was a kid, and that was before crack gave them the excuse for the big crime bills of the 90s, which is when they REALLY started throwing enormous numbers of us in prison with sentences measured in decades instead of years. For you guys it was completely the other way around. I've heard stats that I can't recall exactly but at some point in the 60s something like half the population of the country was under 21!!!!!! I mean, holy shit! Fucking HALF! You may not understand how empowering that clearly was to all you kids who just didn't have to bend over for authority if you didn't want to. But my generation sure as fuck did. And I don't think the youth of today are in all that much different a boat.
@@ianker7143 This reminded me of the two lads in the video stockist on The League Of Gentlemen discussing the film 'Richard Eye-Eye-Eye', when they meant Richard III.
A recap of my youth. All of the songs were powerful, combined with televised war helped liberate our shackled minds. Horrors of war were cut to a bare minimum in the media afterwards. May the youth rise, we have your back.
Omg, I got hysterical 🤣🤣🤣 at the thought of mick jagger leading a revolution‼️ I’m 70 yrs old. I remember all this shit. Thanks for the laughs, that was great stuff.
@dennydowling2169 Come on, buddy, you can do better than that. You spelled the group name like the insect rather the BEAT, and you typo'ed on the name of the song. Probably most of us know what you meant, but I'll bet there are kids here who don't. You already edited it once - ? Give it another go.
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht wish it were true I’m an old man still recovering from a srtoke I had in 2023 and I have a hard time keying thins on a tiny phonr screen. I do usually go back after posting and edit my errors, but I guess I forgot this time.
@@dennydowling2169 I agree don't worry about the mean-spirited comment that followed your first one. PS Wasn't A Day in the Life also banned because of suggestions of drug taking?
This needs a Vol. 2. Include "Society's child"-Janis Ian (1967) "white riot"- the Clash (77) "Cold Ethyl"- Alice Cooper (75) "kick out the jams"-MC5 (69) "Louie Louie"- Kingsmen (63) "They're coming to take me away"- Napoleon XIV (66) "telephone man"-Meri Wilson (77) "my ding-a-ling" -Chuck Berry (72)
I think the list was mostly looking at songs, that were both really popular & controversial. Countless songs had controversial lyrics, that never became hit songs.
Yeah, I'm surprised Society's Child wasn't included on that list. As far as White Riot is concerned, punk was, at least in the U.S., for all intents and purposes, black listed from radio airplay. Also, punk, in the U.S. remained an underground subculture throughout the late 70s, and all through the 80s with some very few, and very rare exeseptions. (X appearing on American Bandstand, David Letterman, and Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystraphy telethon, Fear on Saturday Night Live, and the marginal popularity of The Dead Kennedys due to it's controversial name, alone) Cold Ethyl wasn't really even popular enough to consider merit, but I'm sure there were a few stations that wouldn't play Only Women Bleed. I don't think Kick Out The Jams would've raised too many eyebrows as long as they played the "Brothers and sisters" version, but they already shot themselves in the foot with the original version. Yeah, Louie Louie was considered controversial, and many stations banned it because, people thought it was obscene, even though the FCC concluded they couldn't even make out the lyrics. (But yeah, if there's a volume two of this series, Louie Louie belongs on that list.) They're Coming to Take Me Away was a novelty song, and I don't ever remember it being banned for any reason. I don't know Telephone Man, so I can't comment on that. Yeah, My Ding-A-Ling should also be included in part two. There are some songs that actually got airplay that surprised me: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates by Melanie, and Squeezebox by The Who. I guess the FCC didn't catch the double entendres.
@@nankypooh655 Meri Wilson's "telephone man" was a high-charting 1977 novelty single. A first person account of a woman who seduces a telephone-installation serviceman in exchange for a free landline. (Ah, the good ol' days before cellphones!) Although corny and tame by today's standards "telephone man" was full of double entendres that you did NOT have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out. Obviously, stations that played it received complaints, which further pushed it up the charts. "Telephone man", of course, IS on RUclips. Decide for yourself...
Sullivan fumed, “'You will never do this show again,' after we'd directly disobeyed his censorship requirements. Jim turned to him and remarked, 'Hey, that's okay - we just did the Ed Sullivan show.
Growing up in Canada, all these songs were played on the radio where I lived. Somehow, 99% of my classmates grew up to be contributing members of society.
Most of these so-called offensive or anti establishment songs were on the radio just when I was becoming interested in the music. As far back as I can recall, most of the altered songs weren’t changed in Canada. But we’re much less judgemental about that kind of thing. Free speech for songs was the norm. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
The Eve of destruction is still very relevant today sadly. Two other songs that come to mind are’Go all the way’ by the Raspberries and’Walk on the wild side’ sung by Lou Reed
I remember Kent State well, and Neil Young's song. After a few days I kept hearing people speculate that a lot of countries, even England, would have banned that song and arrested the artist, and how incredibly proud I was that THIS country never even considered such a thing!!! I was later so disappointed that there were NO REPERCUSIONS for that National Guard and its commanders!! I do, of course, remember the commotion of that super-suggestive Brian Highland song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," until the would-be censors were faced with the realization that it was a song about a 6-year-old girl!
*Suggestion : **_songs that were not shocking at the time, but would be today_** ;* Ex: ZZ Top ; _Arrested for driving while blind._ Beatles : _Run for your life._ Rolling Stones : -_Under my thumb._
CONTROVERSIAL AND BANNED SONGS FROM THE 1960'S TO 1970'S : @00:40 : "I AM THE WALRUS" : BEATLES ( 1967 ) @01:36 : "LOLA" : KINKS ( 1970 ) @02:35 : "BROWN EYED GIRL" : VAN MORRISON ( 1967 ) @03:30 : "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" : SEX PISTOLS ( 1967 ) @04:24 : "LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER" : ROLLING STONES ( 1967 ) @05:23 : "LIGHT MY FIRE" : DOORS ( 1967 ) @06:34 : "STREET FIGHTING MAN" : ROLLING STONES ( 1968 ) @07:45 : "IMAGINE" : JOHN LENNON ( 1971 ) @08:49 : "EVE OF DESTRUCTION" : BARRY MACGUIRE ( 1965 ) @09:58 : "FORTUNATE SON" : CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL ( 1969 ) @11:12 : "OHIO" : CROSBY , STILLS , NASH , AND YOUNG ( 1970 ) OTHER BANNED AND CONTROVERSIAL SONGS : "(I CAN'T GET NO ) SATISFACTION" : ROLLING STONES "D.O.A. " : BLOODROCK "I LIKE MARIJUANA" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE "THE POPE SMOKES DOPE" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE "I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE" : PHIL OCHS "JUNGLE FEVER" : CHACACHAS
The music I grew up to, all of them great and very relevant to the times. The painful part is listening to the A.I. narrator mispronounce so many words and butcher the English language.
Might want to include the Stones, “Gimme Shelter”. Very controversial with lyrics including “rape, murder; just a shot away, children, just a shot away.” Gotta listen for it but it’s there. Affected the female singer so deeply, a very religious woman, she nearly decline to sing for the album. As it was she sang the line with so much power, you can still hear her voice breaking on the original album track.
Whoever created that AI voice deserves to be severely punished for their treatment of the English language!! These AI commentaries and voice overs are awful, disparaging to human voice over artists!!! Ban these AI commentaries now!
Not true about 'Lola', it was not the BBC it was Coke itself that made them change it, years later when Coke brought out Cherry Cola, they had to change it again.
I think the Kent State massacre was the beginning of the end to the Vietnam war when -parents witnessed unarmed students killed by our own military. We were a commune who published an underground newspaper. We were so angry we set fire to a row of national guard trucks.
And here's another song that would have made this list... if it had only been released: "early morning cold taxi" by the WHO! Recorded in 1967 (during the "Who Sell Out" sessions) this Daltrey-penned saga was lyrically too much of a hot potato for both the British and American labels. It's about a guy who feels guilty about having constant premarital sex with his girlfriend! "Cold taxi" did pop up on several bootlegs over the years but did not see an official release till the Who's 1994 box set... 17 years later! Didn't even appear on Entwistle's 1974 outtakes comp "Odds & Sods"! (It should have- it's one of the Who's best songs!)
A lot of the "controversy" here never happened. Even the radio edit to Brown Eyed Girl wasn't used in a lot of markets until many years later. I don't remember hearing God Save the Queen, but all the others on this list were just popular songs we heard all the time.
You could have added a lot more songs to your list. For instance, the very best anti war song ever made of that era was by Country Joe and the Fish titled "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die." You remember "Come on all you big strong men uncle Sam needs your help again..." And another one that comes to mind is "Volunteers" by the Jefferson Airplane. Or another by the Jefferson Airplane (even better) "We can be Together." I mean, nothing more powerful than the lyrics "... up against the wall Motherfucker." Or how about The Doors "Unknown Soldier." No reason to skip any of those songs and I believe I can come up with even more if I gave it some thought.
Simple fix on Lola? Ray was on tour in America had to get on a plane fly across the Atlantic Ocean get his ass to the studio to redo one word and then fly back across the Atlantic to continue the tour . . . . Yea simple fix
this list mostly refers to songs released as singles. You'd need a much longer list for controversial songs that were obscure album tracks such as the Rolling Stones song "Some Girls" with its lyric "Black girls just want to get (effed) all night".
And, what's up with the weird pronunciations for the "God Save the Queen" entry? Bad enough you said "lead"--as in the metal--when discussing "lead singer Ray Davies" on the "Lola" entry (the word is pronounced with a LONG E sound as in "leader" or "leading") but the Sex Pistols get so badly mangled I thought I was watching an old VHS tape that had been played a few too many times.
Bad A.I. You can tell by the mispronunciations, abnormal voice inflection etc. I wish they’d employ a human who can speak the language properly. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
A bit curious. Right off the bat, we get a clip from Olivia Newton-John's "Physical." That song wasn't recorded by ONJ until the summer of 1981 at the latest (as the single was released at the end of September of 1981; the song would debut at #66 on the Hot 100 chart dated 10/3/81).
Oh the robovoices really are intolerable. I personally know about 20 people with excellent voices who can pronounce English words correctly 100% of the time, not to mention provide actual human inflection . Folks like this are not hard to find.
- "I am the Walrus": BBC just being silly. - "Lola": perfect comic timing. Only The Kinks knew how to do it. - "God Save the Queen": good song but the lyrics always sounded contrived to me. - Once I heard "Ruby Tuesday" I hardly ever listened to "Let's Spend the Night Together" again. - I've always had a problem with Jim Morrison, and not because of drugs. - "Imagine": rather sentimental. - "Eve of Destruction"; the rawest song ever. Don't know much about the others. Was "White Rabbit" never banned? It should have been.
@pico2260 Forget about Morrison. He was just a singer and (usually but not always) lyricist. The other three were a GREAT BAND! Give them another listen.
Oh btw and fwiw I never did think that line was a drug reference, and I still don't. Reading it that way was just reactionary paranoia. IMHO, of course.
And #7 "We return to the Rolling Stones." Um, when had we heard from the Rolling Stones before #7? #11 was the Beatles, #10 was the Kinks, #9 was Van Morrison and #8 was the Sex Pistols. Did you originally do a "Top 12" or "Top 20" list and this is culled from that?
If it wasn't for the pirate radio stations radio Caroline, radio London etc we would never of any of these bands, the BBC would never have played any 60s music
Eve of Destruction rings as true today as it did back then, I’ve been listening to it a lot in the last year. Fortunate Son, well, that’s even truer now than before; a lot of the military brats did real service (John McCain) unlike the Commander In Chief Bonespurs. Steely Dan recorded a rebuttal to Imagine, called Only a Fool Would Say That; I get their point but if people can’t even try to Imagine, well, what hope is there? Music used to be so amazing…
However - Brown Sugar WAS released as a single, wasn't it? If you look at the lyrics it probably SHOULD have been controversial. Maybe no one ever understood it well enough to complain? I was never able to understand half or more of the lyrics. But I have a Stones songbook. And I looked it up recently after hearing that the Stones have announced that they're never gonna play it live again, because they don't feel right about it anymore! (This was a few years ago, I think.) And I see what they mean. That's a hard one to shrug off.
Allison Krause was the victim whose father took particular offense at those words of Tricky Dick. Best to you and yours. Glad you're still here to remember.
Vibration sense heard inside a head exceeded what was played by something dead. Nothing more as something less beyond zero in defiance of gravity. Rock on!
God Sahv the Queen, by the Sex Pie stalls. And that's enough for me. Clocking out. I hadn't learned a single thing yet anyway. Oh yeah, while I'm here, I got a good laugh about Lola having "sparked important conversations about gender identity". Really, LMAO! No. It was a great song, and we loved hearing it, and no one ever said a damn thing to start a conversation about gender identity. Wrong context altogether.
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AI?
Dirch the AI.
Oops. Typo. Ditch the AI.
“God SAV the Queen, by the Sex Pie-stills” God, I hate AI narration. This could have been a worthwhile video if you’d just have an actual human narrator.
I'm getting sales calls that I'm sure are AI with a human voice now 😠.
I agree 100%. That was horrific
I agree, it's a cheap shot and subliminally degrading!
I stopped watching at that point
Then you missed re-v-vull
I was really enjoying this & then the machine revealed itself with "Un fortu-Nate" "Reave-able" & "Vet-nam" DAMN! Bring back the humans.
You are obligated to pay humans. This cuts into profit.
@@garyfrazier5414
AI is annoying. Fewer views = less profit. Either fix AI or use theatre students who need work!
I bought Eve of Destruction. I was 13 and I’ve still got it. I felt quite a rebel buying it. Some of the lyrics still ring true with some situations today.
My younger sister nagged many of my singles. Never saw them again.
"Lola" was about a transvestite, NOT a transsexual! So was, "Walk On The Wild Side" which was out at the same point in time but, nobody said shit about that!
I think the thought is that current orthodoxy is to use "transsexual" whenever a man thinks of himself as a woman, and that Lola would've wanted to be a woman.
To whom it may concern: Do you even listen to what you release?
Creedance Clearwater RE-VEE-VAL. Come on people. Edit the AI.
"At #2 have Fortune Eight Son, by Creedence Clearwater Revaville. A song that became and enduring protist anthem during the Vetnam war."
Haha!
I guess AI is not quite ready to take over the world
@@philnovo1832 i’m more concerned that some weird glitch will crash the Internet or create a nuclear war as in war games
These AI voices are soooo annoying! Cool topic, though. 🎶
As a child of the 60’s myself, I remember most of these songs. About the last song, concerning the incident at Kent State University, I was living in Idaho at that time and my high school would do recreations every year to commemorate that incident on the anniversary that it took place.
I remember my Mother crying when this was on the news. She said "What have we become. We are kiiling our children."
I think Jim Morrison REALLY pushed things when he sang “The End” which was more controversial than “Light My Fire”.
I was about to say the same. And "Light my Fire" was played by Detroit DJs during the '67 riots and fires. No mention of that.
@MattmanLovesMusic Aussie band Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, later famous for "Children Of The Sun" ("You Can't Go 'round saying Fuck on Stage" 1969)
Imagine that “Imagine” was an invitation to imagine. I think that building a better society requires us to consider a world that has no …
Queen Elizabeth Eye-Eye?? Geez, I HATE computer voices.
I miss the songs of my youth. So many seemed to carry significant messages, generally of peace and love, also occasionally of rebellion against injustice. These were the days when we paid attention to the lyrics. These were the days of engaged song writers who were not afraid of spelling their views and opinions. That generation through its music and its political and social engagement changed the course of history, and was largely responsible to draw attention to the civil rights movement, and the Viet Nam war. I wish the youth of today would be as engaged in shaping the world into a better place.
That's kind of a big weight to lay on their shoulders, don't you think? Their education and socialization were all fucked up, with the COVID lockdown.
And no generation since the baby boomers has had anywhere near the sheer mass of NUMBERS that they did. As time goes by that has impressed me more and more. I'm GenX, and we were much more scared to get out of line, I mean, the cops alone completely outnumbered us. Just the way that they were able to exercise authority was very different by the time we came along, and that's only ever gotten worse and worse since then. I'd love to see a graph of the numbers of cops as a percentage of the population. Hell, the war on drugs wasn't even a thing until you guys were well into adulthood. But it was when I was a kid, and that was before crack gave them the excuse for the big crime bills of the 90s, which is when they REALLY started throwing enormous numbers of us in prison with sentences measured in decades instead of years.
For you guys it was completely the other way around. I've heard stats that I can't recall exactly but at some point in the 60s something like half the population of the country was under 21!!!!!! I mean, holy shit! Fucking HALF! You may not understand how empowering that clearly was to all you kids who just didn't have to bend over for authority if you didn't want to. But my generation sure as fuck did. And I don't think the youth of today are in all that much different a boat.
why are they using a voice over control machine when it doesn't pronounce the song titles correctly?
Or the band's names?
@@traceyblanchard1375 Not to mention Elizabeth-eye-eye!
@@ianker7143 This reminded me of the two lads in the video stockist on The League Of Gentlemen discussing the film 'Richard Eye-Eye-Eye', when they meant Richard III.
"We should Protest!"
Couldn't help but laugh at a couple of those pronunciations.
"Fortunate Son" and "Ohio", the establishment didn't like them because the truth hurts.
Fortune EIGHT Son? Oh come on, now.....
One of my most beloved songs!!!!!
Your forgot about Ree Vuh Vuhl, whatever the hell that is.
“They’re coming to take me away, ha ha, they’re coming to take me away, ho ho…”
😂🤣 I REMEMBER THAT SONG!!!!! Loved singing that song 😂🤣
A recap of my youth. All of the songs were powerful, combined with televised war helped liberate our shackled minds. Horrors of war were cut to a bare minimum in the media afterwards. May the youth rise, we have your back.
Omg, I got hysterical 🤣🤣🤣 at the thought of mick jagger leading a revolution‼️ I’m 70 yrs old. I remember all this shit. Thanks for the laughs, that was great stuff.
I think on the eve of destruction should be placed on special mention as the first protest song
Strange Fruit, If I Had a Hammer, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, are a few that spring to mind that easily predate it
@@mikehaddrell8674 Blowing in the Wind, too. Also, lots of Woody Guthrie's songs.
I was there! They all mattered! Thank you!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
God save us from bad AI reading words it can't pronounce. And if this wasn't narrated by AI, then wow, just wow!
“Happiness is a warm Gun “by the Beatles was also banned in some places
@dennydowling2169 Come on, buddy, you can do better than that. You spelled the group name like the insect rather the BEAT, and you typo'ed on the name of the song. Probably most of us know what you meant, but I'll bet there are kids here who don't. You already edited it once - ? Give it another go.
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht wish it were true I’m an old man still recovering from a srtoke I had in 2023 and I have a hard time keying thins on a tiny phonr screen. I do usually go back after posting and edit my errors, but I guess I forgot this time.
@@dennydowling2169don’t even worry man, the other guy is just a hater. You do you !
Also I love Happiness is a warm gun, it’s my favorite Beatles song ever!
@@dennydowling2169 I agree don't worry about the mean-spirited comment that followed your first one.
PS Wasn't A Day in the Life also banned because of suggestions of drug taking?
This needs a Vol. 2. Include
"Society's child"-Janis Ian (1967)
"white riot"- the Clash (77)
"Cold Ethyl"- Alice Cooper (75)
"kick out the jams"-MC5 (69)
"Louie Louie"- Kingsmen (63)
"They're coming to take me away"- Napoleon XIV (66)
"telephone man"-Meri Wilson (77)
"my ding-a-ling" -Chuck Berry (72)
it needs other 100 volumes !
Dead Kennedys...only one example.
I think the list was mostly looking at songs, that were both really popular & controversial.
Countless songs had controversial lyrics, that never became hit songs.
Yeah, I'm surprised Society's Child wasn't included on that list. As far as White Riot is concerned, punk was, at least in the U.S., for all intents and purposes, black listed from radio airplay. Also, punk, in the U.S. remained an underground subculture throughout the late 70s, and all through the 80s with some very few, and very rare exeseptions. (X appearing on American Bandstand, David Letterman, and Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystraphy telethon, Fear on Saturday Night Live, and the marginal popularity of The Dead Kennedys due to it's controversial name, alone) Cold Ethyl wasn't really even popular enough to consider merit, but I'm sure there were a few stations that wouldn't play Only Women Bleed. I don't think Kick Out The Jams would've raised too many eyebrows as long as they played the "Brothers and sisters" version, but they already shot themselves in the foot with the original version. Yeah, Louie Louie was considered controversial, and many stations banned it because, people thought it was obscene, even though the FCC concluded they couldn't even make out the lyrics. (But yeah, if there's a volume two of this series, Louie Louie belongs on that list.) They're Coming to Take Me Away was a novelty song, and I don't ever remember it being banned for any reason. I don't know Telephone Man, so I can't comment on that. Yeah, My Ding-A-Ling should also be included in part two. There are some songs that actually got airplay that surprised me: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates by Melanie, and Squeezebox by The Who. I guess the FCC didn't catch the double entendres.
@@nankypooh655 Meri Wilson's "telephone man" was a high-charting 1977 novelty single. A first person account of a woman who seduces a telephone-installation serviceman in exchange for a free landline. (Ah, the good ol' days before cellphones!) Although corny and tame by today's standards "telephone man" was full of double entendres that you did NOT have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out. Obviously, stations that played it received complaints, which further pushed it up the charts.
"Telephone man", of course, IS on RUclips. Decide for yourself...
Give A Damn Spanky And Our Gang.
And definitely Society’s Child.
John Lennen had to go to Montreal to record give peace a chance bc the Pentagon and the US. Government felt it was against the Viet Nam war
I love Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction" and "Fortunate Son"
I've heard that ' Six months in a leaky boat ' ( Split Enz) was banned on English radio during the Falklands war, as it was deemed bad for morale!?
It did get airplay on Anne Nightingale's Request Show which was a late evening programme at the time.
Sullivan fumed, “'You will never do this show again,' after we'd directly disobeyed his censorship requirements. Jim turned to him and remarked, 'Hey, that's okay - we just did the Ed Sullivan show.
Growing up in Canada, all these songs were played on the radio where I lived. Somehow, 99% of my classmates grew up to be contributing members of society.
Most of these so-called offensive or anti establishment songs were on the radio just when I was becoming interested in the music. As far back as I can recall, most of the altered songs weren’t changed in Canada. But we’re much less judgemental about that kind of thing. Free speech for songs was the norm. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
The song 🎵 Imagine by John Lennon is a wonderful song and I love this song 🎵 💜.
"Imagine all the people agreeing with me about everytheeeeing!" A budding totalitarian ya got there.
Barry McGuire's Eve of destruction still rings true today and radio stations still refuse to play it.
Eve of destruction
IMAGINE IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER WRITTEN!!!!!! I am extremely happy that it is played at every Olympics!!! Peace On Earth!!
Bridge Over Troubled Water is the greatest!
The Eve of destruction is still very relevant today sadly. Two other songs that come to mind are’Go all the way’ by the Raspberries and’Walk on the wild side’ sung by Lou Reed
I remember Kent State well, and Neil Young's song. After a few days I kept hearing people speculate that a lot of countries, even England, would have banned that song and arrested the artist, and how incredibly proud I was that THIS country never even considered such a thing!!! I was later so disappointed that there were NO REPERCUSIONS for that National Guard and its commanders!! I do, of course, remember the commotion of that super-suggestive Brian Highland song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," until the would-be censors were faced with the realization that it was a song about a 6-year-old girl!
One of the four who died was an ROTC cadet.
In 69 a song called War was out. perhaps it didn't make the list because it never was banned as far as I know
Edwin Starr?
I think it even reached #1 on the Hot 100.
@tomweiland7904 Billy Thorpe (Children of the Sun fame) with The Aztecs 1969 "You Can't Go 'round Saying Fuck On Stage".
How can you NOT have "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf?????
Yeah. I forgot about it, but you are absolutely correct.
Too young to be aware of it??
It wasn't released as a 45 single, was it?
@ Not that I know of
@@Polyphemus47 No
*Suggestion : **_songs that were not shocking at the time, but would be today_** ;*
Ex: ZZ Top ; _Arrested for driving while blind._
Beatles : _Run for your life._
Rolling Stones : -_Under my thumb._
Interesting idea .
An even better idea than the original.
Take it EEE-z babe!,🎵
Also the Stones’ Lady Jane (social climbing rat) and possibly Play With Fire (man taking advantage of woman’s reduced circumstances)
@@KarenOCallaghan-u5o Why would a song about social climbing be banned in The 60s? Social criticism was very popular theme in songs in the 60s.
Ruby Tuesday was a great song and justifiably the A side.
I'd agree with that, too. Great song, classic, whereas Let's Spend The Night Together just never did anything for me.
You missed the most significant song. A Walk On The Wild Side by
CONTROVERSIAL AND BANNED SONGS FROM THE 1960'S TO 1970'S :
@00:40 : "I AM THE WALRUS" : BEATLES ( 1967 )
@01:36 : "LOLA" : KINKS ( 1970 )
@02:35 : "BROWN EYED GIRL" : VAN MORRISON ( 1967 )
@03:30 : "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" : SEX PISTOLS ( 1967 )
@04:24 : "LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER" : ROLLING STONES ( 1967 )
@05:23 : "LIGHT MY FIRE" : DOORS ( 1967 )
@06:34 : "STREET FIGHTING MAN" : ROLLING STONES ( 1968 )
@07:45 : "IMAGINE" : JOHN LENNON ( 1971 )
@08:49 : "EVE OF DESTRUCTION" : BARRY MACGUIRE ( 1965 )
@09:58 : "FORTUNATE SON" : CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL ( 1969 )
@11:12 : "OHIO" : CROSBY , STILLS , NASH , AND YOUNG ( 1970 )
OTHER BANNED AND CONTROVERSIAL SONGS :
"(I CAN'T GET NO ) SATISFACTION" : ROLLING STONES
"D.O.A. " : BLOODROCK
"I LIKE MARIJUANA" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE
"THE POPE SMOKES DOPE" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE
"I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE" : PHIL OCHS
"JUNGLE FEVER" : CHACACHAS
The bbc was trying to control you as far back as the sixties, banning I am a walrus
Not just the BBC.
Not just any Walrus - THE Walrus.
The music I grew up to, all of them great and very relevant to the times. The painful part is listening to the A.I. narrator mispronounce so many words and butcher the English language.
Might want to include the Stones, “Gimme Shelter”. Very controversial with lyrics including “rape, murder; just a shot away, children, just a shot away.” Gotta listen for it but it’s there. Affected the female singer so deeply, a very religious woman, she nearly decline to sing for the album. As it was she sang the line with so much power, you can still hear her voice breaking on the original album track.
How can "They're Coming To Take Me Away" NOT be on this list?!?
Iam really surprised jimmy hendrix star spangled banner wasn't included I think that was an iconic moment as well
They really only banned 45s (single releases) as they were almost all that was played on the radio until the late 60s.
Why is Geddy Lee of Rush in the Lennon pieces?
Whoever created that AI voice deserves to be severely punished for their treatment of the English language!! These AI commentaries and voice overs are awful, disparaging to human voice over artists!!! Ban these AI commentaries now!
Nobody can afford a narrators voice like william shatner, or johnny depp , that is why thete is ai
Not true about 'Lola', it was not the BBC it was Coke itself that made them change it, years later when Coke brought out Cherry Cola, they had to change it again.
I think the Kent State massacre was the beginning of the end to the Vietnam war when -parents witnessed unarmed students killed by our own military. We were a commune who published an underground newspaper. We were so angry we set fire to a row of national guard trucks.
And here's another song that would have made this list... if it had only been released: "early morning cold taxi" by the WHO! Recorded in 1967 (during the "Who Sell Out" sessions) this Daltrey-penned saga was lyrically too much of a hot potato for both the British and American labels. It's about a guy who feels guilty about having constant premarital sex with his girlfriend! "Cold taxi" did pop up on several bootlegs over the years but did not see an official release till the Who's 1994 box set... 17 years later! Didn't even appear on Entwistle's 1974 outtakes comp "Odds & Sods"! (It should have- it's one of the Who's best songs!)
A lot of the "controversy" here never happened. Even the radio edit to Brown Eyed Girl wasn't used in a lot of markets until many years later. I don't remember hearing God Save the Queen, but all the others on this list were just popular songs we heard all the time.
You could have added a lot more songs to your list. For instance, the very best anti war song ever made of that era was by Country Joe and the Fish titled "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die." You remember "Come on all you big strong men uncle Sam needs your help again..." And another one that comes to mind is "Volunteers" by the Jefferson Airplane. Or another by the Jefferson Airplane (even better) "We can be Together." I mean, nothing more powerful than the lyrics "... up against the wall Motherfucker." Or how about The Doors "Unknown Soldier." No reason to skip any of those songs and I believe I can come up with even more if I gave it some thought.
CCR's Fortune Son is the most impactant controversial song of the 60s and 70s.
Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs 1969. "You Can't Go 'round Saying Fuck On Stage".
Most of these weren't banned in the States. Merely controversial, which was their purpose.
I am so tired of hearing about "banned songs." No song has every been banded. They are protected by the 1st A.
Man the ai voice mispronounces so many words.
We keep hearing about Artificial Intelligence but what we're presented with is Artificial Stupidity.
@@raylovelace8588 Yes! Artificial Imbeciles.
Yllaer?
AI generated by the sound of the commentary.
Simple fix on Lola? Ray was on tour in America had to get on a plane fly across the Atlantic Ocean get his ass to the studio to redo one word and then fly back across the Atlantic to continue the tour . . . . Yea simple fix
this list mostly refers to songs released as singles. You'd need a much longer list for controversial songs that were obscure album tracks such as the Rolling Stones song "Some Girls" with its lyric "Black girls just want to get (effed) all night".
HOW could "Imagine" be banned..., probably the greatest song ever written. (Oh..., I am 67). 😵💫
Notable omission here: Gordon Lightfoot's Black Day in July.
And, what's up with the weird pronunciations for the "God Save the Queen" entry? Bad enough you said "lead"--as in the metal--when discussing "lead singer Ray Davies" on the "Lola" entry (the word is pronounced with a LONG E sound as in "leader" or "leading") but the Sex Pistols get so badly mangled I thought I was watching an old VHS tape that had been played a few too many times.
Bad A.I. You can tell by the mispronunciations, abnormal voice inflection etc. I wish they’d employ a human who can speak the language properly. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Either this video was narrated by AI, or a person who has mastered the American accent but whose first language definitely isn’t English.
“Girl would you please send a wire?” “Girl could you see my brother gets hired?” “Girl my boss told me that I’m fired!”
Imagine is the most beautiful, perfect song ever written!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
AI destroyed what could have been a quality presentation.
Sad.
The Standells...Dirty water!
That's right it's also about the Boston Strangler
A bit curious. Right off the bat, we get a clip from Olivia Newton-John's "Physical." That song wasn't recorded by ONJ until the summer of 1981 at the latest (as the single was released at the end of September of 1981; the song would debut at #66 on the Hot 100 chart dated 10/3/81).
“Imagine there’s no Kevin.” “Imagine my churches Reverend.”
Without Kevin, no Home Alone movies
Eight Miles High - The Byrds (1966), written in response to their first trip to England, partial radio ban as a 'drug song'.
Not censored: Lady Marmalade, Sweet Cream Ladies, Hair, and a whole lot more.
Damn your computer generated narration-----------
Oh the robovoices really are intolerable. I personally know about 20 people with excellent voices who can pronounce English words correctly 100% of the time, not to mention provide actual human inflection . Folks like this are not hard to find.
Love Mick’s eye roll.
Especially religion.
Why wasn't Greenback Dollar by the Kingston Trio mentioned. I think they were the first to sing "damn" in 1963.
Who the hell were the Sex Pie stols? 🤷
Related to Elizabeth i,i
An experimental aircraft for sex and pie. What else?
Going to see live concerts back then was like going to engage with the Gods.
I like all of these songs!
- "I am the Walrus": BBC just being silly.
- "Lola": perfect comic timing. Only The Kinks knew how to do it.
- "God Save the Queen": good song but the lyrics always sounded contrived to me.
- Once I heard "Ruby Tuesday" I hardly ever listened to "Let's Spend the Night Together" again.
- I've always had a problem with Jim Morrison, and not because of drugs.
- "Imagine": rather sentimental.
- "Eve of Destruction"; the rawest song ever.
Don't know much about the others.
Was "White Rabbit" never banned? It should have been.
@pico2260 Forget about Morrison. He was just a singer and (usually but not always) lyricist. The other three were a GREAT BAND! Give them another listen.
Oh btw and fwiw I never did think that line was a drug reference, and I still don't. Reading it that way was just reactionary paranoia. IMHO, of course.
And #7 "We return to the Rolling Stones." Um, when had we heard from the Rolling Stones before #7? #11 was the Beatles, #10 was the Kinks, #9 was Van Morrison and #8 was the Sex Pistols. Did you originally do a "Top 12" or "Top 20" list and this is culled from that?
Reflection of society .....Where are they now?
If it wasn't for the pirate radio stations radio Caroline, radio London etc we would never of any of these bands, the BBC would never have played any 60s music
Geez, even with Lennon at the piano, guess who’s in the video sitting on the floor.
Eve of Destruction rings as true today as it did back then, I’ve been listening to it a lot in the last year. Fortunate Son, well, that’s even truer now than before; a lot of the military brats did real service (John McCain) unlike the Commander In Chief Bonespurs. Steely Dan recorded a rebuttal to Imagine, called Only a Fool Would Say That; I get their point but if people can’t even try to Imagine, well, what hope is there? Music used to be so amazing…
Go all the way by the raspberries
Also, Lightning Strikes by Lou Christie.
Ohio is heartbreaking
Stray cat blues a bit more controversial than any of the songs mentioned
Agreed. But I don't think it was ever released as a single, and I think that's what they were focusing on, not the deep album cuts.
However - Brown Sugar WAS released as a single, wasn't it? If you look at the lyrics it probably SHOULD have been controversial. Maybe no one ever understood it well enough to complain?
I was never able to understand half or more of the lyrics. But I have a Stones songbook. And I looked it up recently after hearing that the Stones have announced that they're never gonna play it live again, because they don't feel right about it anymore! (This was a few years ago, I think.) And I see what they mean. That's a hard one to shrug off.
Louie Louie
Busted for mere suspicion.
The AI used for these things is pathetic! DO BETTER!
Thumbsdown for using an AI.
One of those "four bums" at Kent State was a AROTC honor student shot in the back from 100 yards by the Guard draft dodgers
Allison Krause was the victim whose father took particular offense at those words of Tricky Dick. Best to you and yours. Glad you're still here to remember.
The Sex Pistols were right about the queen.
Vibration sense heard inside a head exceeded what was played by something dead. Nothing more as something less beyond zero in defiance of gravity. Rock on!
Im canadian. They never changed the lyrics.
J'ai lu que "souvenir of London " de Procol Harum avait été censurée.
Pour quelle raison ?
Bonne question!
God Sahv the Queen, by the Sex Pie stalls.
And that's enough for me. Clocking out. I hadn't learned a single thing yet anyway.
Oh yeah, while I'm here, I got a good laugh about Lola having "sparked important conversations about gender identity". Really, LMAO! No. It was a great song, and we loved hearing it, and no one ever said a damn thing to start a conversation about gender identity. Wrong context altogether.
That's how I remember it as well.
You have Crosby Stills -- how could you leave out "For What It's Worth?"
This was accurate.