Originally Posted by VGeorgie (Post 17841677)

Correct, probably the majority of US radio stations would not play the song, and DS provided an alternate version years ago without the faggot reference. That version (AM release with "I want my" prelude cut to length) is on one of their best of CDs.

In the 70s, Paul Simon's Kodachrome was routinely edited by US radio stations to remove the word "crap" -- "All the crap I learned in high school" -- out of fear of action by the FCC.

At least the Canadian radio stations played the original Dire Straits song and had to be told not to. The US is way too full of self-censorship.

Originally Posted by GatorB (Post 17841494)

Actually back when that song was popular the stations where I lived at the time edited that part out.

Originally Posted by VGeorgie (Post 17841677)

Correct, probably the majority of US radio stations would not play the song, and DS provided an alternate version years ago without the faggot reference. That version (AM release with "I want my" prelude cut to length) is on one of their best of CDs.

In the 70s, Paul Simon's Kodachrome was routinely edited by US radio stations to remove the word "crap" -- "All the crap I learned in high school" -- out of fear of action by the FCC.

At least the Canadian radio stations played the original Dire Straits song and had to be told not to. The US is way too full of self-censorship.

Originally Posted by flashfire (Post 17842464)

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

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".

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by directfiesta (Post 17841673)

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by suesheboy (Post 17841482)

What stupidity.

Bet that song will get TONS of airplay here.

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 17841792)

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

Originally Posted by Domain Diva (Post 17841356)

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