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Today I wondered, what's the first song to feature the F word? This is because of the big deal folks made about Louie Louie.
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I see. I hadn't realized that Hatrack actively censored certain words out.
Well, Synesthesia, the wikipedia article is titled "history of the word 'f***'," only without the asterisks. Then go down to the section "Early mainstream musical use."
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Are you including the "Fish Cheer" in this? That is what got the Woodstock film soundtrack album banned from my house when I was in junior high.
Anyway, I don't know the answer to your question, but I did do a project for a college honors colloquium that was looking at freedom of speech that touched on this general topic. The project took three songs that use that word, plus one that does not use any "dirty words" but has as its theme sadomasochism, and asked the question, "Which, if any, of these songs would you ban for language or theme, and why?" I used songs that made some sort of concrete statement (social, political, and personal), so that the accusation of gratuitous use of the word would not play into the discussion. It sort of became infamous as "The Guns 'n' Roses presentation" within the program, because one of the songs I used was by that band.
The songs I used were G'n'R's "Get in the Ring", as a personal statement, John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" as a social statement, and the version of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" in the film "Rattle and Hum", as a political statement (Bono uses the word in a rant in the middle of the song), and "The Thin Line" by Queensryche as the song not using that word.
I did a short history of the censorship of pop music (that was interesting to research), played the four songs and explained the kind of statement each made, then opened the floor to discussion. It was a fun presentation, the colloquium members had fun with it (the discussion ran about 30 minutes after my 30-minute presentation), and one of the instructors (there were two for that class) told me a semester or two later that she had loaned the paper I wrote along with the presentation out to another student in one of her classes to use as a source for something he was writing for her. So I'm assuming that she liked it.
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"Rattle and Hum" is one of the greatest band/live concert films ever. Just thought I'd point that out.
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quote:Originally posted by Brian J. Hill: "Rattle and Hum" is one of the greatest band/live concert films ever. Just thought I'd point that out.
I wouldn't argue that point at all, Brian. I'd put it right up there in the top three, along with The Last Waltz and Gimme Shelter, which I just saw again for the first time in years about three weeks ago. I'd forgotten how powerful it is. If you want to include films that are mostly studio work, with just some performance, I'd also have to put Let It Be on the list as an amazing chronicle of the breakup of a band.
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