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96ukssob

01-13-2011 12:30 PM

fiddy no more "little faggots" song played on the Canadian radio

BruceM

01-13-2011 12:40 PM

That's gay.

Honez

01-13-2011 01:04 PM

Back in the day when the song "Rocky Mountain High" was popular, our local radio station refused to play it because of one line. "Friends around the campfire and everybody's high".

CaptainHowdy

01-13-2011 01:05 PM

TheStout

01-13-2011 01:08 PM

the Shemp

01-13-2011 01:18 PM

congrats to the winners...:thumbsup

flashfire

01-13-2011 01:36 PM

there is far more censorship in the US...what are you guys smoking.

garce

01-13-2011 01:39 PM

This thread makes the Canadian Baddog sad.

dyna mo

01-13-2011 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flashfire (Post 17842464)

there is far more censorship in the US...what are you guys smoking.

apparently you've missed the bazillion other threads and comments about that.

Caligari

01-13-2011 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honez (Post 17842332)

Back in the day when the song "Rocky Mountain High" was popular, our local radio station refused to play it because of one line. "Friends around the campfire and everybody's high".

that coupled with the ominous warning that if you heard the song playing on the radio it meant you were about to die.

_Lush_

01-13-2011 01:48 PM

The words in the song were referring to Prince. Back when they came out with it i remember the controversy and talk about who they were singing about.

Scott McD

01-13-2011 03:01 PM

Well isn't that just great. All because of one silly little faggot... :disgust

docputer

01-13-2011 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lushy (Post 17842514)

The words in the song were referring to Prince. Back when they came out with it i remember the controversy and talk about who they were singing about.

I always assumed they were talking about Michael Jackson. Prince always had all kinds of pussy around.

uno	01-13-2011 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon (Post 17841956)

ever listen to rap on the radio in the states? they censor everything from the word drugs to the word gun and all sorts of stuff inbetween.

What always used to amuse me was the now dead current rock radio station would censor Tom Petty's "You don't know how it feels" mention of a joint, but would play buckcherry's "I love the cocaine" pretty much uncensored. Make sense of that one.

Mr Happy

01-13-2011 03:43 PM

Here is a clue people: There was never any real true freedom. You have been misguided and you only believed the illusion of freedom.

The N word and Fagot are considered hate crimes in many places, hell even the word "JEWS" in Germany can land you right into prison.

2MuchMark

01-13-2011 04:22 PM

GodHatesDireStraights

CDSmith

01-14-2011 07:14 AM

Made it into the papers today:

Dire Straits censorship 'moronic'
http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

In one of the most head-slappingly moronic moves in history, the national embarrassment that is the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits' 1985 song Money for Nothing can no longer be played in its original form in Canada -- because one person in Newfoundland was offended over its use of a word that starts with F, rhymes with maggot and refers to gay men.

Never mind that the song is more than 25 years old and has been played countless times. Never mind that the supposedly offensive word is as old as the hills, and used regularly on TV, in books and movies, and by pretty much every kid on the planet.

And never mind that even the most cursory examination of the lyrics -- a jab at the vapidity of music videos, as seen through the eyes of a joe-sixpack character -- makes it obvious to anyone without a head injury that Mark Knopfler is using the term in question humourously and ironically. Money for Nothing is no more homophobic than Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a KKK manifesto. That classic novel is now facing the same sort of narrow-minded censorship south of the border over its use of the notorious N-word.

How long until Elton John's Honky Cat needs to be retitled Caucasian Cat? Or the Rolling Stones' Paint it Black gets censored? Should anyone be allowed to hear OMD's Enola Gay? Josie Cotton's Johnny, Are You Queer? Stompin' Tom Connors Moon Man Newfie?

Does all music have to be dumbed-down for numbskulls and sanitized for the humourless? Does every song ever written have to be scrutinized by a committee that tries to guess what might offend someone now, or in the future?

http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

I think the CBSC is in for a shitstorm on this one.

czarina

01-14-2011 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coup (Post 17841354)

This is what happens when people allow themselves to be controlled by illegitimate centralized authority. You'll never be truly free until you break those chains.

well... let's break those chains. How do you propose we get started?

CDSmith

01-14-2011 08:05 AM

Well the shitstorm has started. The premior classic rock station here in Winnipeg is no longer going to play the song at all in it's censored form...

http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winn.../16881981.html

EonBlue

01-14-2011 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by directfiesta (Post 17841673)

Well , we got what we voted vote ..... well, what 35% of canadians voted for.

Wrong. The government had nothing to do with this.

http://www.thespec.com/news/article/...ive-for-canada

Quote:

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits? 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio.

[..]

The council is an independent body created by Canadian radio and television broadcasters to review the standards of their content.

MaDalton

01-14-2011 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDSmith (Post 17844118)

Made it into the papers today:

Dire Straits censorship 'moronic'
http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

In one of the most head-slappingly moronic moves in history, the national embarrassment that is the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits' 1985 song Money for Nothing can no longer be played in its original form in Canada -- because one person in Newfoundland was offended over its use of a word that starts with F, rhymes with maggot and refers to gay men.

Never mind that the song is more than 25 years old and has been played countless times. Never mind that the supposedly offensive word is as old as the hills, and used regularly on TV, in books and movies, and by pretty much every kid on the planet.

And never mind that even the most cursory examination of the lyrics -- a jab at the vapidity of music videos, as seen through the eyes of a joe-sixpack character -- makes it obvious to anyone without a head injury that Mark Knopfler is using the term in question humourously and ironically. Money for Nothing is no more homophobic than Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a KKK manifesto. That classic novel is now facing the same sort of narrow-minded censorship south of the border over its use of the notorious N-word.

How long until Elton John's Honky Cat needs to be retitled Caucasian Cat? Or the Rolling Stones' Paint it Black gets censored? Should anyone be allowed to hear OMD's Enola Gay? Josie Cotton's Johnny, Are You Queer? Stompin' Tom Connors Moon Man Newfie?

Does all music have to be dumbed-down for numbskulls and sanitized for the humourless? Does every song ever written have to be scrutinized by a committee that tries to guess what might offend someone now, or in the future?

http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

I think the CBSC is in for a shitstorm on this one.

lol - i like the style of the writer

Stephen

01-14-2011 08:47 AM

I wrote about this awhile ago: the "little faggot" line is missing from the version that airs on the cable / satellite music channels in America that I've listened to on Charter & DirectTV

:upsidedow

dyna mo

01-14-2011 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDSmith (Post 17844118)

Made it into the papers today:

Dire Straits censorship 'moronic'
http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

In one of the most head-slappingly moronic moves in history, the national embarrassment that is the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits' 1985 song Money for Nothing can no longer be played in its original form in Canada -- because one person in Newfoundland was offended over its use of a word that starts with F, rhymes with maggot and refers to gay men.

Never mind that the song is more than 25 years old and has been played countless times. Never mind that the supposedly offensive word is as old as the hills, and used regularly on TV, in books and movies, and by pretty much every kid on the planet.

And never mind that even the most cursory examination of the lyrics -- a jab at the vapidity of music videos, as seen through the eyes of a joe-sixpack character -- makes it obvious to anyone without a head injury that Mark Knopfler is using the term in question humourously and ironically. Money for Nothing is no more homophobic than Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a KKK manifesto. That classic novel is now facing the same sort of narrow-minded censorship south of the border over its use of the notorious N-word.

How long until Elton John's Honky Cat needs to be retitled Caucasian Cat? Or the Rolling Stones' Paint it Black gets censored? Should anyone be allowed to hear OMD's Enola Gay? Josie Cotton's Johnny, Are You Queer? Stompin' Tom Connors Moon Man Newfie?

Does all music have to be dumbed-down for numbskulls and sanitized for the humourless? Does every song ever written have to be scrutinized by a committee that tries to guess what might offend someone now, or in the future?

http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertain.../16876661.html

I think the CBSC is in for a shitstorm on this one.

for some reason it's necessary to include a finger pointing to the u.s. for so many canadians.

Sarah_Jayne

01-14-2011 09:00 AM

I don't know any gay people (and I know many) that would support it being banned for that line. The person that is the real idiot isn't really the one person that complained (though them too) but the person that decided to take that complaint this seriously.

izzynew

01-14-2011 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by suesheboy (Post 17841482)

What stupidity.

Bet that song will get TONS of airplay here.

That's not good. It's a crap song anyway.

VGeorgie

01-14-2011 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 17841792)

None of that happened in CA. Where do you live?

In CA. You have a bad memory. I worked for stations that did this, and in one was ordered to bloop the station's tape of Simon's Kodachrome.

Agent 488

01-14-2011 09:36 AM

songs have always been edited for radio play ie for swear words and sexual content and such, as it is done in the US.

pretty sure they have always played an edited version anyways, they just fucked up and played the uneditied one, which lead to the complaint.

big fucking deal.

GregE

01-14-2011 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Domain Diva (Post 17841356)

The world is going crazy ! (or do I have to say " Mentally Challenged " ) :Oh crap

It would seem that you're right on both counts . . . unfortunately.

XD2	01-14-2011 09:53 AM

I don't see the issue: http://britishfood.about.com/od/eorecipes/r/faggots.htm

Vendzilla

01-14-2011 09:55 AM

This is what happens when you get groups of people that want to change the world in the image they want and limit your freedom, no different are the people that want to take my guns away and the ones that want to change the wording in huck finn. Right and Left wing, they both want to make everything illegal, over 20,000 new laws this year in the US.

Do it now, it will be illegeal tomorrow!

GregE

01-14-2011 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDSmith (Post 17844185)

Good move.

If they can't play the song as it was intended to be heard, it's best not played at all.

PC sucks and censorship sucks even more :2 cents:

CanadianWebDesigner

01-14-2011 10:12 AM

Time to drink some canadian beer - smoke some weed and blast some money for nothing - I know my plans for the weekend ;) lol

jigg	01-14-2011 11:07 AM

as a gay homosexual I say play the song, whatever

VGeorgie

01-14-2011 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 17844315)

I wrote about this awhile ago: the "little faggot" line is missing from the version that airs on the cable / satellite music channels in America that I've listened to on Charter & DirectTV

That's the airplay version that most people heard, and made it to number one in the US. The entire verse is gone. It was the version released on single here in the US, and is on most of the compilations.

The MTV video has the verse, as does the original Brothers in Arms CD (where the song is over eight minutes long). What's amazing is all these people not noticing the verse was removed from the versions that got played the most over 25 years ago.

PR_Glen

01-14-2011 01:19 PM

African American bird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

African American bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

African American bird fly, African American bird fly
Into the light of the dark African American night.

looky_lou

01-14-2011 01:43 PM

Really sucks. That is a Classic. What's next? The Bible?

Doug E

01-14-2011 02:46 PM

Quote:

Really sucks. That is a Classic. What's next? The Bible?

That things been rewritten and censored for centuries. Old Testament vs New being the big one. Childrens bibles being another example.

CDSmith

01-16-2011 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agent 488 (Post 17844425)

It actually is a big fucking deal. A win for the cause of censorship is always a major loss for those who support freedom of expression. Certainly anyone who is actually in the adult industry or whose livelihood is aided from the avails of it should care a great deal whenever censorship scores a win.

Bid deal indeed.

SmokeyTheBear

01-16-2011 11:18 AM

a faggot is a small bundle of sticks, they should just lie and say they were talking about a small bundle of sticks..

some radio station should make a mock song called "Those little faggots" and play it 24/7 until they reverse the decision

Mutt	01-16-2011 01:32 PM

embarassing - the gay rights groups are as upset about the censorship as anybody. not a single members of that board had any clue about the context that 'faggots' was used in in that song.

as bad as Canada is the US might be worse when it comes to censorship - Canada has a bug up its' ass about political correctness, if there's one person out there from an ethnic, relgious, sexual orientation group who might get butthurt by something everybody has to say they're sorry and it won't happen again. The US on the other hand in many states would put you in jail for producing and selling vanilla porn. That doesn't happen in Canada.

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