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I DJ college radio, mostly hardcore and punk. I am not a "shock jock", and most of what I play and say on the air is not intended to get a rise out of people. However, I have almost been kicked off the air multiple times because of the lameass obscenity rules imposed by the FCC. Songs such as this, this, this, and this have cost me much grief in the past.

None of these songs are terribly obscene, and really, the use of this language is really commonplace in our culture now. The reason that blanket laws like this trigger kneejerk, eye-rolling reactions is because it's silly. In the same way that nobody is particularly shocked or taken aback to hear about someone smoking pot or drinking underage, these milquetoast rules dilute the force of the law because nobody takes them seriously.

Likewise, none of the songs that I posted up there are really that offensive; you'd have to be living under a rock to be offended by that. On the other hand, "obscenity" is a really slippery slope. For instance, none of these songs have any bad words.

This song will probably offend you
But what about this one? It's only kind of bad, I guess....
And what about this one?

Where do you wanna draw the line?

With a small amount of research I'm sure you can pull up stupid laws and occurences for just about every state in the union.

Yes, but you can pull up a lot more stupid laws for California.

What's worse is that the consequences for such laws are often uncommonly severe. The Dead Kennedy's song "California uber alles" is a reference to California politicians and their like for making up lots of laws (I like the term "hippie fascism.")

California legislates so much that some legal scholars have suggested that it no longer is a common law jurisdiction, and has become a quasi-civil law jurisidction (the former being the british system of law which relies a lot on judicial precedence, the latter relying more on laws codified by the legislature, eliminating judicial discretion.)

The California political culture is to create lots of laws (and to an extent, this is the case in NJ, NY and IL.) It's hell getting bad laws repealed.

As for California, I personally disliked Los Angeles. I'm told that California (in particular Southern California) is an acquired taste.

Lyrics are from Same Thing, from Born On A Pirate Ship. They don't appear on Stunt.

Anyway, as I was reading the article, I couldn't help but think of the song Hush from their first album.

They're crude lyrics, but the song does get the point across.

"Worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent! Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent when I was your age!"

RedFedora reminds me too much of Red Barchetta by Rush.

I'm not that much of a Linux geek, am I?

You missed the even more obvious Mac joke. Imagine an iMac hooked up to Frank's 2000" TV.

(With apologies to Her Majesty's Knight, Sir Mix A-Lot):

I enjoy large derrieres, and I will not be false about such.
You other gentlemen can not disagree -
when a lady enters the room with a small waist and a lovely hourglass figure,
you are aroused, and seek to flatter her,
(primarily due to the size of her nether regions and their appearance in her attire).
I personally find it difficult to look away.
Oh, if only I were an artist and could paint her nude!

-T

2) It's the Dead Kennedys. They never sold many songs in the first place, and the lyrics are the songs. Read them.

Consider, when you've finished replying, how history may have been different if the scientists who worked on the original atom bomb projects (in the US and Nazi Germany) had to consider the morality of their work in every discussion.

2) It's the Dead Kennedys. They never sold many songs in the first place, and the lyrics are the songs. Read them.

Consider, when you've finished replying, how history may have been different if the scientists who worked on the original atom bomb projects (in the US and Nazi Germany) had to consider the morality of their work in every discussion.

you mean Dave Coulier

Wasn't the supposedly the one Alanis was singing about in You Oughta Know?

Or maybe Bombs Over Baghdad by Outkast

Last night I was trying to decypher some song lyrics and I looked in the usual places, much to my dismay I found that some songs no longer had available lyrics. Instead i was poined here. An excerpt is below.

May 2003 - Azlyrics.com Team was contacted by one of the world's largest music print publisher "Hal Leonard Corporation", who exclusively control print rights for more than 6000 of the compositions listed on our website. Publisher demand us to cease and desist from offering these unauthorized lyrics for distribution via our website.

What a sad state of affairs it is when it isn't just the work itself removed from the public domain.

It's a free ride when you've already paid !

Suggestive is an understatement :) Lyrics here

It's the lawyers... in the future, the ABILITY exists to travel back in time, but the LIABILITY isn't covered. In order for you to be contacted, or to interact with these humans from the future, you'll need to sign the release forms in the present. You will also have to hope that your disclaimer and the cost of the trip will survive until such time (in the form of a funded provision in a will perhaps, al la Ben Franklin's gift to Philadelphia?)

Due to the total control/destruction of information in 2112 (caused in part by current RIAA policies and the DMCA) almost none of these release forms survived - hence there are no time travelers contact you or anyone you know.


(This post covered under temporal release #852387522178-A)

Your like does not work, AC, try this.

I think you're looking for Sir Mix-a-lot.

Cry me a river.

You could've at least NOT quoted a song

Sorry. I had the wrong URL in the clipboard. I was trying to link to the lyrics.

Have A Cigar -- Pink Floyd . I'm not exactly sure, but always if I hear this song it makes me think of some record-label manager lying to a band and tring to rip them off. It probably is even about that.
So it's hardly a new phenomenon.

If your neighbors can watch your television from across the street and not miss any details, that advertises your ability to spend large amounts of money on fancy equipment.

"Now I can watch 'The Simpsons' from 30 miles away!"

(By chance is this guy's name Frank?)

On NPR today I heard it mentioned that the US has a larger percentage of its population in prisons than any other country and the number is growing every day.

I agree we should keep America safe the question is from who?

They're trying to build a prison (for you and me to live in) Prison Song

you rhapsodize about beauty
and my eyes glaze
everything that i love is ugly
i mean really, you would be amazed