Tipper Gore's favorite #Whitesnake album. Cover art by Chris Achilléos who did a lot of great fantasy artwork in the 70s, 80s & 90s #PMRC #LoveHunter
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I am having no luck finding a video clip from about 35 years ago, if you can help that would be amazing. At the #PMRC hearings, during that absurd campaign, a real poindexter dude read out a list of artists that they considered should be banned. And the highlight for me was when he pronounces “Bowie” as “Boo-ee” which is a legit way to say “Bowie” but it makes the dude sound like a real dick. If you remember it or have a link please help me out.
#NowWatching #TrickOrTreat 1986 2024 #BluRay #Synapse #RedShirt #Horror #SammiCurr #SongsInTheKeyOfDeath #Halloween #PMRC #SatanicPanic #Fastway #MarcPrice #EddieWeinbauer #Ragman #TonyFields #Ozzy #Movies #GeneSimmons You Should Be Loyal To Your Heros... #SammiCurrLives 🤘🔥🤘
#NowSpinning #TwistedSister #Vinyl #Single #BurnInHell #SMF #StayHungry 1984 #HeavyMetal #Music #PMRC #MysticDisc #Mystic #Connecticut
The Holy Trinity!!! #PMRC #HeavyMetal #Music #FrankZappa #JohnDenver #DeeSnider #HolyTrinity #DefendersOfTheFaith #FilthyFifteen #TwistedSister
On this date in 1985, the holy trinity of Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver testified at a Senate hearing against censorship in music, where the Parents Music Resource Center argued for a ratings system on music. #80s #80smusic #80shistory #PMRC
輸入盤屋に通ってた時期はラップやオルタナのジャケによくParental Advisoryのマークがあった。品質保証みたいに “「Darling Nikki」を聴いた時の様子” / “歌詞と検閲：“Parental Advisory”が生まれる切っ掛け“汚らわしい15曲”とミュージシャンの反応” (25 users) https://www.udiscovermusic.jp/stories/filthy-fifteen-pmrc-censorship-2024 #pmrc
Cop Killer - #BodyCount
https://youtu.be/yg_S4JJMxPU?si=mpviAV4Om_G7yHwg
Fab live coverage from 1992.
When talking about #controversial #music, there are few more shining examples than #CopKiller. Recorded by #IceT’s rock group Body Count, “Cop Killer” is a heated #song about a victim of #PoliceBrutality who violently takes matters into his own hands. The song faced criticism from #LawEnforcement agencies, the Parents Music Resource Center #PMRC, President #GeorgeHWBush and the public in general. Some people responded through #protests and #boycotts of any company associated with the distribution of the record. This caused sales to skyrocket, but also prompted certain stores to take the album off their shelves. Some countries, such as #NewZealand, attempted to have the song and the #rap group itself completely #banned. Stockholders threatened to pull out from #WarnerBrosRecords and executives received #DeathThreats. While Ice-T stood by his work, stating that it was a #ProtestSong meant to reflect hateful emotions rather than encourage violence, he subsequently decided to recall the album, removing the trouble-making song upon re-release.
https://youtu.be/yg_S4JJMxPU?si=mpviAV4Om_G7yHwg
#BannedSongs #MusicHistory #censorship #NowPlaying #LivePerformance #Music #GenX #90smusic #ActivistMusic #ProtestSongs #MusicSolidarity #MusicActivism #CensoredMusic #BannedMusic #BannedInTheUSA #BannedInNZ #ACAB #PoliceAreViolentGangs #CriminalCops #Censored #RockMusic
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It’s not expectations it’s the fact that I’m old enough to remember the #SatanicPanic and the #PMRC and how those two things affected my life. Gore’s wife Tipper was the leading voice behind the PMRC and Al was right there behind her.
And I knew that Bush stole the election by his brother Jeb putting his finger on the scale.
#NowSpinning #JudasPriest #VinylLP #DefendersOfTheFaith #1984 #PMRC #FilthyFifteen #EatMeAlive #HeavyDuty #HeavyMetal #Music
And a BIG FUCK YOU to Mike Love of the Beach Boys!!!
So a bunch of #Yentas who have nothing better to do, will decide what other people’s kids should or should not be reading.
This doesn’t feel like prewar #Nazi #Germany at all.
#Censorship in all its form is wrong.
This is no different than the #SatanicPanic when I was a kid or the #PMRC
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EDDIE OJEDA On TWISTED SISTER's Involvement In PMRC Hearings: 'I Think We Went A Bit Far With It'
#EddieOjeda #TwistedSister #PMRC #hearings #controversy #censorship #freedomofspeech #parentaladvisory #musicindustry
It’s no secret that MENTORS have drawn ire in their half-century of history. Starting in the 1970s with the “I Can” attitude of youthful rebellion, these offensive upstarts pioneered the Shock Rock genre through their indomitable lyrics and style.
Appalling, gross, and tongue planted firmly in collective cheek, this band were here to repulse and raise hell. Probing the limits of acceptability and going far beyond. Earning notoriety through the decades with increasingly worse words and off-stage antics. Offending all across the political spectrum.
But offence is a reactive concept, one entirely in the eye of the beholder. What one may deem deplorable, another could find amusing – with no absolutes in the interpretation of intent. Acknowledging offence gives it power and prominence, a factor exploited to both promote and restrict creativity.
Dark, disgusting themes are prevalent in extreme art. Exploration of the Id. Shadow work in 4/4 time. The legacy of Leah Sublime and de Sade brought to filthy fore. Freedom of expression must mean exploring such topics alongside more palatable ones, without taboos, even if personally provocative.
Moral relativism aside, Rock ‘n’ Roll is here to entertain. By evidence of longevity, Mentors have sustained their own nasty niche. Attracting an audience who appreciates dark humour and licentious lyrics, the Kings of Sleaze have more than earned their boundary-pushing crown.
Yet in the mid 80s, authority pushed back.
Fearing the rise of obscene music across the US, a group of ladies dubbed the “Washington Wives” came to prominence. Led by Tipper Gore and each married to an influential husband, they founded a committee with intent to protect children from hearing such nasty tunes. The Parents Music Resource Centre.
What began with the best of intentions soon betrayed an all-too familiar overstep of authority. The PMRC, believing themselves correct in their self-righteous fervour, took the playful hedonism of Heavy Metal at face value and declared judgement.
As with the Comic Book Code and movie ratings of prior decades, the PMRC called for the music industry to self-regulate. To categorise the content of albums with ratings and labels. Targeting violent, sexual and sadomasochistic content to restrict availability to the impressionable.
In September 1985, the US Senate held a hearing to discuss the viability of this proposal, overseen by Tipper’s husband, then-Senator Al Gore. Although Mentors never made the infamous “Filthy Fifteen” list, their lyrics were still read out to mild amusement. A tacit admission that perhaps such bad words weren’t to be taken seriously.
Nonetheless, the argument was made. If the music industry could not self-regulate, then the State must regulate on its behalf. As always, for the good of the children.
Unwilling to tackle the greater evils of the world, and hyperfixating on irrelevance, the battle lines were drawn in debate. Musicians were asked their opinion and, regardless of genre, all were in agreement that this was a bad thing.
Compromise came with the introduction of the infamous and oft-parodied “Parental Advisory” label. Adding a level of money-making mystique to the music, and drawing much mirth from this side of the Atlantic.
Four decades on, music retains the capacity to push boundaries, as it should. Artists and bands find new ways to offend. The pearl-clutchers of the past have diminished into irrelevance, yet in their absence has festered a more insidious suppression.
The modern “Morality Squad” does not exist as a top-down assertion of authority. Rather it is the result of clandestine collectivism. Seldom challenging openly or directly, but enforcing censorship through malicious sabotage and backbiting.
Gatherings have been shut down, bands have been blacklisted, and freedom of expression ruthlessly undermined.
Including this tour, which has already received anonymous complaints and demands for cancellation. I thank those venues, promoters, and bands who have refused to comply.
Despite censorious subcultures embracing transgressions that would make prior generations weep, and with greater evils even more blatant, they find their purpose in petty partisanship. Demonising and devouring those who would have once stood together against oppression.
Through the safety of echo chambers and algorithms, they mark the outsider an irredeemable enemy, to be othered and silenced with pious zeal. Unwilling to understand the subtleties of context in communication, and all with the same self-righteous fervour of another age.
The attitude of “I Can” has become “You Cannot”.
Near the end of the PMRC hearings, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider took the stand to offer a thoughtful rebuttal to the accusations of the time. Underestimated by his political opponents, he methodically and eloquently deconstructed the arguments for censorship and the context-free judgement of external jurisdiction.
He proposed the listener of potentially provocative music should possess the freedom and responsibility to define their own boundaries. With parents protecting their children through dialogue and discussing what is appropriate for their family. With the right to reject and return should these self-declared lines be crossed. Without deference to overreaching authority, and especially without imposing such boundaries on others.
Back then the State had processes and procedures laid in law that would compel them to listen. To hold such hearings, learn from them, and ratify a rational response for the good of all.
But where now is the time for thoughtful rebuttal? Where is the space for an individual to declare boundaries against the baying intent of the mob? What process exists to appeal misunderstanding of intent?
At Internet speed, accusation is absolute, nuance buried in hyperbole, and the will to simply listen and learn subsumed by soundbites and strawmen. From Al Gore to algorithm, very little has changed…
… and that’s why I’m putting these hooded bastards on!
https://heathenstorm.com/2023/12/28/in-defence-of-offence/
#censorship #deesnider #heavymetal #mentors #metal #offence #parentaladvisory #pmrc #punk #shockrock #twistedsister
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#Loudwire
38 Years Ago: Twisted Sister's Dee Snider Testified at the 1985 PMRC Senate Hearing
Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, who was invited to testify in the 1985 Senate hearing regarding the content of songs, reflects on the experience.
https://loudwire.com/twisted-sisters-dee-snider-1985-pmrc-senate-hearing/
#PMRC #DeeSnider #TwistedSister #1985Hearing #Freemusic #Censorship #ParentalAdvice #MusicLyrics
In the mail today!!! Awesome book... #SatanicPanic with appearances by #SammiCurr #TrickOrTreatMovie #Ragman #DeeSnider #PMRC #TheAcidKing #RickyKasso #WM3 #DIO #WendyOWilliams #ACDC #OZZY #IronMaiden #BobLarson #ChickTracts #SatanHimself #HeavyMetal
Z2 Comics is releasing a graphic novel about Dee Snider (Twisted Sister vocalist) and his PMRC testimony (September 1985). And I will preorder that jawn!! #comics #graphicnovel #DeeSnider #TwistedSister #PMRC #1985
A little background: https://q1043.iheart.com/content/2022-07-01-theres-now-a-graphic-novel-about-dee-sniders-iconic-pmrc-testimony/
Preorder: https://z2comics.com/products/dee-snider-hes-not-gonna-take-it
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