Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned is an album by Czech underground band the Plastic People of the Universe. It was recorded in 1974/75, mainly at Houska Castle, enabled by the castle's then warden Svatopluk Karásek... The album could not be officially released and distributed under the former Communist regime in Czechoslovakia...

...The Globe and Mail wrote: "They clearly define a heavy bass-drums bottom over which the soloists duel wonderfully with these incredibly sinister riffs. It's a sort of musique noir, evoking images out of Carol Reed's The Third Man, Welles' The Trial and the dark doings and damp streets of Fritz Lang's films noirs of the late 1940s. The album's opening cut, '20', typically sounds like eccentric Procol Harum, though in place of one of Robin Trower's guitar solos Brabanec lays out a devastating sax solo in the manner of Coltrane. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B91gRhq7fyA&list=RDB91gRhq7fyA&start_radio=1

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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

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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - #RollingStones

https://youtu.be/bG8L3CnjmBo?si=ThNGLGOD7vBxtHi8

In 1965, during a performance of this world-famous chart-topper on #ABC’s #music variety show, Shindig!, the song’s line “trying to make some girl” was #censored. Not surprisingly, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” had faced much criticism for its #SexualInnuendo and critical statements about #commercialism. However, when the Rolling Stones performed the song again 40 years later during the February 2006 #SuperBowlXL halftime show, this was the only song that wasn’t censored.

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God Save the Queen - #SexPistols

This #controversial #punk #song was denied airplay by #BBC in 1977 due to its criticism of the #BritishGovernment–despite the fact that it had reached number two in the BBC’s own charts. Later, #police #harassed the band when it performed the song from a boat on the Thames.

https://youtu.be/02D2T3wGCYg?si=pqs89nkVY3OkXCnP

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Take the Power Back - #RATM

After #ChollaHighMagnetSchool teachers used this song in a #MexicanAmerican history class, Superintendent John Huppenthal issued a “notice of noncompliance” to the #Tucson Unified School District. So in January 2015, over 20 years after the song was released, #RageAgainstTheMachine’s #lyrics–along with #KRSOne’s #HipHop teachings– were deemed to be against #Arizona state law, which states that schools cannot “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”

https://youtu.be/rMjjsjNBS_4?si=iDBzk52brzOi-QkN

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Physical - #OliviaNewtonJohn (September 1981)

https://youtu.be/vWz9VN40nCA?si=isq-QBdwCFHTVdji

“Physical” was very popular in the US & UK but some radio stations #banned the #song due to #SexualContent & they #censored lines - “There’s nothing left to talk about unless it’s horizontally.”
#Controversy also surrounded this song because the #MusicVideo featured a #GayCouple holding hands (who ignored Olivia’s advances). That one scene caused it to be banned by some broadcasters & #MTV censored it.

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The Hand That Feeds - #NIN (March 2005).

#NineInchNails dropped out of the #MTV Movie Awards after being #prohibited from using an image of President #GeorgeWBush as a backdrop to their performance. This #song included #political statements that MTV wasn't comfortable televising.

https://youtu.be/RDk5NB3pgJo?si=oU5Y1VrS_SGjm3D-

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Walk Like an Egyptian - #TheBangles (September 1986).

The #song was #banned by both #BBC in 1991 & #ClearChannelCommunications in 2001. The purpose of this was to avoid offending those who would relate this song & its references to #Egypt to the conflicts in the #MiddleEast.

https://youtu.be/Cv6tuzHUuuk?si=HsS5tUULnO4FjbIL

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In the Air Tonight - #PhilCollins (January 1981).

This seemingly harmless #song by Phil Collins has been #banned on 2 separate occasions. The first time was in 1991, after #BBC forbid 67 songs from airplay due to their perceived connection to the war occurring in the #PersianGulf. The second time was in 2001, when #ClearChannelCommunications #prohibited 162 songs from the airwaves after the #911Attacks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fncac.org%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt

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