I just got the On Fire CD set today (after swearing I wouldn't, but that's another topic)
Anyway it suddenly occurs to me that Queen seems to be exempt from Parental Warnings about explicit language. Is it due to the original recording dates, prior to the rating system or did they just slip through?
Edit: With Wembley also.
BTW Thijs just informed me this has been discussed before.. sorry about that.
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Excellent point I never thought of til now.
And yes, that F word is all over Wembley and Live At The Bowl...
Maybe the RIAA in the USA or whoever ''hovers'' over our morals missed that.
I can tell you this. Here in Waldorf, Maryland, ONE Walmart store was selling the new CD by Evanescence which has swear words all over it, but they did not put a parental advisory sticker on it. Some parents of a teen in Waldorf, Maryland made national news by SUING Walmart, because the parents said they did NOT know it contained swear words until they heard their kid play the CD.
The parents SUED big time, then all the other parents in Waldorf, MD that bought the CD at that store sued, and won some class action suit. Just ended like last week. I don't think they got any money, but Walmart offered a formal apology and a refund to everyone who bought the CD and was ''offended.''
So maybe it's up to the individual stores to be aware of the lyric content on the CD's they carry and enforce putting that sticker on the CD's.
And yes, that F word is all over Wembley and Live At The Bowl...
Maybe the RIAA in the USA or whoever ''hovers'' over our morals missed that.
I can tell you this. Here in Waldorf, Maryland, ONE Walmart store was selling the new CD by Evanescence which has swear words all over it, but they did not put a parental advisory sticker on it. Some parents of a teen in Waldorf, Maryland made national news by SUING Walmart, because the parents said they did NOT know it contained swear words until they heard their kid play the CD.
The parents SUED big time, then all the other parents in Waldorf, MD that bought the CD at that store sued, and won some class action suit. Just ended like last week. I don't think they got any money, but Walmart offered a formal apology and a refund to everyone who bought the CD and was ''offended.''
So maybe it's up to the individual stores to be aware of the lyric content on the CD's they carry and enforce putting that sticker on the CD's.
i thought it was the record company that put the labels on about language? like printing them onto the actual CD covers etc or am i wrong about that? :S
i thought it was the record company that put the labels on about language? like printing them onto the actual CD covers etc or am i wrong about that? :S
THAT's what I always thought too, until this ONE Walmart got slammed. Maybe it is up to each, individual store to to it and enforce it, but I was always under the assumption that the record label slaps that sticker on a an ''explicit'' CD before it goes out to be distributed to all stores.
Anybody know for sure?
I always though WalMart sold their own edited
versions of 'vulgar' CDs. I only know what
others have told me. I've never bought a CD
from them.
As for the advisory, I think it must need to be
sprinkled thru-out the recording. Billy Joel's
'Nylon Curtain" (the song Laura) has the "F-word"
in it and there is no warning.
Maybe some artists don't get checked at all????
versions of 'vulgar' CDs. I only know what
others have told me. I've never bought a CD
from them.
As for the advisory, I think it must need to be
sprinkled thru-out the recording. Billy Joel's
'Nylon Curtain" (the song Laura) has the "F-word"
in it and there is no warning.
Maybe some artists don't get checked at all????
well i know i got some CDs with the label on but it is actually printed on the CD and the covers themselves, so record companies must do some and shops must do others...
Sorry, but don't they have any bigger problems in the USA? First they should prevent kids from carrying guns at school or smoking crack, then they may think about how to keep them from hearing oh so bad, bad words.
Please excuse my anger, but that's the way censoring starts.
Please excuse my anger, but that's the way censoring starts.
I don't think that in the UK there is any proper guidance for CD's with reagard putting warning stickers on for swearing etc.
Music videos and DVD's are excempt from BBFC ratings unlike all other film and TV videos & DVDs.
Music videos and DVD's are excempt from BBFC ratings unlike all other film and TV videos & DVDs.
Live Killers is bleeped for some reason.
Live Killers is bleeped for some reason.
In the beeped-out part of the 'Death On Two Legs' Freddie says "This is dedicated to a real mother fucker of a gentleman".
But it's bleeped because of other reasons...
LOL @ Nummer2!!! :) You're entirely right. And this IS indeed censorship.
All the kids know the "bad words" from school anyway so why bother with censoring TV or music? That's even worse than censoring Janet's (very ugly) tit :-)
But there are always people who do mind. When Big Brother was launched here, the 12 people walked in the house and their first reaction was like "shit, what the fuck is this?" And that was in prime time, 8 pm, millions watching :-)
All the kids know the "bad words" from school anyway so why bother with censoring TV or music? That's even worse than censoring Janet's (very ugly) tit :-)
But there are always people who do mind. When Big Brother was launched here, the 12 people walked in the house and their first reaction was like "shit, what the fuck is this?" And that was in prime time, 8 pm, millions watching :-)
As Freddie had once said to a reporter from Q magazine... 'Oh do F*** off!'
Live Killers is bleeped for some reason.
The reason it's bleeped is because Freddie names the person to whom DOTL is dedicated.
Get a bloody life ye sad asses.
I mean in all fairness. Does it matter.
Oh shock horror chock horror, there's a swear word on a cd.
walk down a street and u'll hear swear words. Get a life . I dont even know hy im justifying this with a response
I mean in all fairness. Does it matter.
Oh shock horror chock horror, there's a swear word on a cd.
walk down a street and u'll hear swear words. Get a life . I dont even know hy im justifying this with a response
Live Killers is bleeped for some reason.
In the beeped-out part of the 'Death On Two Legs' Freddie says "This is dedicated to a real mother fucker of a gentleman".
But it's bleeped because of other reasons...
Doesn't he say:"This is about a dirty old man that I used to know"? I think I've got this on cd somewhere. Or is this another concert?