Most Controversial Banned Songs of the 60s & 70s

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[@woldoog1]

AI?

[@arpscec]

Dirch the AI.

[@arpscec]

Oops. Typo. Ditch the AI.

[@lionelsquires7662]

Holy fuck!!!!!! Stop with the AI already!!!!! Does this dufus even listen to his narrative????? Just don't recommend this channel.

[@Paula-i7p2v]

Eve of destruction

[@1966Heath]

“God SAV the Queen, by the Sex Pie-stills” God, I hate AI narration. This could have been a worthwhile video if you’d just have an actual human narrator.

[@rjjcms1]

I'm getting sales calls that I'm sure are AI with a human voice now 😠.

[@thebullet7874]

I agree 100%. That was horrific

[@MeredithDrennan]

I agree, it's a cheap shot and subliminally degrading!

[@chereljones4159]

I stopped watching at that point

[@GlendaSohl]

Then you missed re-v-vull

[@shemanic1]

I was really enjoying this & then the machine revealed itself with "Un fortu-Nate" "Reave-able" & "Vet-nam" DAMN! Bring back the humans.

[@garyfrazier5414]

You are obligated to pay humans. This cuts into profit.

[@rosanna5515]

@@garyfrazier5414 AI is annoying. Fewer views = less profit. Either fix AI or use theatre students who need work!

[@1goodvibrations]

The voice was jarring but tolerable, but when he said THAT line i almost threw my phone across the room! Glad i didn´t, because i was just wondering about Eve of Destruction which was the next one.

[@stevenhanson6057]

Take it easy

[@JuliusCrawley]

Computer malfunctions

[@RedVynil]

"Lola" was about a transvestite, NOT a transsexual! So was, "Walk On The Wild Side" which was out at the same point in time but, nobody said shit about that!

[@danmarshctr]

I think the thought is that current orthodoxy is to use "transsexual" whenever a man thinks of himself as a woman, and that Lola would've wanted to be a woman.

[@yvonneollivier7088]

@@danmarshctr and the spin in this vid is deceptive. "...but I know what I am. What I am is a man, and so is 'Lola'". It did not promote the viewpoint of trans anything.

[@howardhales6325]

I remember shit being said about "Walk on the Wild Side" as well.

[@RedVynil]

@@howardhales6325 Yeah, me, too.

[@yvonneollivier7088]

@howardhales6325 I remember a very cool song, like the very cool singer, Lou Reed. People used to know the difference between pretend and real. "I said, 'Hey, Babe, take a walk on the wild side.'"

[@ChicaG-vg7pj]

Growing up in Canada, all these songs were played on the radio where I lived. Somehow, 99% of my classmates grew up to be contributing members of society.

[@SusanCote-n7z]

Eve of destruction is still relevant. I lived it in the 60's-70's and now my GRANDKIDS are living it! Barry Maguire hit the nail on the head!!!!!!!

[@Brunoburningbright]

To whom it may concern: Do you even listen to what you release?

[@michellatendresse1700]

I miss the songs of my youth. So many seemed to carry significant messages, generally of peace and love, also occasionally of rebellion against injustice. These were the days when we paid attention to the lyrics. These were the days of engaged song writers who were not afraid of spelling their views and opinions. That generation through its music and its political and social engagement changed the course of history, and was largely responsible to draw attention to the civil rights movement, and the Viet Nam war. I wish the youth of today would be as engaged in shaping the world into a better place.

[@JamesThompson-zk1ht]

That's kind of a big weight to lay on their shoulders, don't you think? Their education and socialization were all fucked up, with the COVID lockdown. And no generation since the baby boomers has had anywhere near the sheer mass of NUMBERS that they did. As time goes by that has impressed me more and more. I'm GenX, and we were much more scared to get out of line, I mean, the cops alone completely outnumbered us. Just the way that they were able to exercise authority was very different by the time we came along, and that's only ever gotten worse and worse since then. I'd love to see a graph of the numbers of cops as a percentage of the population. Hell, the war on drugs wasn't even a thing until you guys were well into adulthood. But it was when I was a kid, and that was before crack gave them the excuse for the big crime bills of the 90s, which is when they REALLY started throwing enormous numbers of us in prison with sentences measured in decades instead of years. For you guys it was completely the other way around. I've heard stats that I can't recall exactly but at some point in the 60s something like half the population of the country was under 21!!!!!! I mean, holy shit! Fucking HALF! You may not understand how empowering that clearly was to all you kids who just didn't have to bend over for authority if you didn't want to. But my generation sure as fuck did. And I don't think the youth of today are in all that much different a boat.

[@judithmatthews8460]

But we didn’t. We donned suits took the pay cheque and left ideals behind. It was our generation who hastened in climate change. Who say the US endorse torture and said nothing. Who still practice racism on our streets. Finally watch genocide on our TVs because we voted them in.

[@DeborahHamilton-q1w]

I agree with much of what you say, but unfortunately much of the 60s and 70s were influenced by the communist movement. Much of the protesting was done for the right reasons, but the result is the many problems we are currently experiencing across the west.

[@lockleaze]

I bought Eve of Destruction. I was 13 and I’ve still got it. I felt quite a rebel buying it. Some of the lyrics still ring true with some situations today.

[@jryland6]

My younger sister nagged many of my singles. Never saw them again.

[@1goodvibrations]

I was 13 too, and how sad that it never stopped being relevant.

[@lockleaze]

@ Yes, we really thought then that things would improve, didn’t we.

[@gregsb3454]

Unfortunately too true

[@OldHeathen1963]

​@@lockleaze Thing is why? Why haven't they changed when so many want that change 🤔

[@zuikoglass4091]

Sullivan fumed, “'You will never do this show again,' after we'd directly disobeyed his censorship requirements. Jim turned to him and remarked, 'Hey, that's okay - we just did the Ed Sullivan show.

[@MattmanLovesMusic]

I think Jim Morrison REALLY pushed things when he sang “The End” which was more controversial than “Light My Fire”.

[@ronginzler6600]

I was about to say the same. And "Light my Fire" was played by Detroit DJs during the '67 riots and fires. No mention of that.

[@WarrenBridges-um5cg]

@MattmanLovesMusic Aussie band Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, later famous for "Children Of The Sun" ("You Can't Go 'round saying Fuck on Stage" 1969)

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

The "great", "rebellious" Jagger caved to Sullivan's censorship, Morrison did not.

[@stevielease7952]

The movie Apocalypse Now featured the Doors' song The End at the end of the movie. The Vietnam War really was the end for a lot of people p

[@carolr7823]

I love Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction" and "Fortunate Son"

[@localnetsolutions]

Eve of Destruction is one of my favorites of all time along with Society's Child which should have been included for all the banning of it on radio stations.

[@localnetsolutions]

Did you know Barry is who introduced The Mamas and Papas to his producer and record label right they moved to LA. Michelle knew him from when she lived in LA.

[@Wally97523]

Creedance Clearwater RE-VEE-VAL. Come on people. Edit the AI.

[@mifune9634]

"At #2 have Fortune Eight Son, by Creedence Clearwater Revaville. A song that became and enduring protist anthem during the Vetnam war." Haha!

[@philnovo1832]

I guess AI is not quite ready to take over the world

[@Wally97523]

@@philnovo1832 i’m more concerned that some weird glitch will crash the Internet or create a nuclear war as in war games

[@aprilinamsterdam]

These AI voices are soooo annoying! Cool topic, though. 🎶

[@karenbarnatny6247]

Thats what I thought. When it said it i was like, What??? Who???? Talk about butchering a groups name.

[@BryanMcCollom]

Couldn't believe it when I graduated high school in 1970 and was painting houses that summer, and regularly hearing "OHIO" on top 40 radio!! Great time for music and social commentary!!!

[@d.virgallito3490]

BE BRAVE YOUNG PEOPLE, DON'T LET HATE RULE OUR SOCIETY!

[@l.salisbury1253]

This needs a Vol. 2. Include "Society's child"-Janis Ian (1967) "white riot"- the Clash (77) "Cold Ethyl"- Alice Cooper (75) "kick out the jams"-MC5 (69) "Louie Louie"- Kingsmen (63) "They're coming to take me away"- Napoleon XIV (66) "telephone man"-Meri Wilson (77) "my ding-a-ling" -Chuck Berry (72)

[@eparg8059]

it needs other 100 volumes ! Dead Kennedys...only one example.

[@moodyrick8503]

I think the list was mostly looking at songs, that were both really popular & controversial. Countless songs had controversial lyrics, that never became hit songs.

[@nankypooh655]

Yeah, I'm surprised Society's Child wasn't included on that list. As far as White Riot is concerned, punk was, at least in the U.S., for all intents and purposes, black listed from radio airplay. Also, punk, in the U.S. remained an underground subculture throughout the late 70s, and all through the 80s with some very few, and very rare exeseptions. (X appearing on American Bandstand, David Letterman, and Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystraphy telethon, Fear on Saturday Night Live, and the marginal popularity of The Dead Kennedys due to it's controversial name, alone) Cold Ethyl wasn't really even popular enough to consider merit, but I'm sure there were a few stations that wouldn't play Only Women Bleed. I don't think Kick Out The Jams would've raised too many eyebrows as long as they played the "Brothers and sisters" version, but they already shot themselves in the foot with the original version. Yeah, Louie Louie was considered controversial, and many stations banned it because, people thought it was obscene, even though the FCC concluded they couldn't even make out the lyrics. (But yeah, if there's a volume two of this series, Louie Louie belongs on that list.) They're Coming to Take Me Away was a novelty song, and I don't ever remember it being banned for any reason. I don't know Telephone Man, so I can't comment on that. Yeah, My Ding-A-Ling should also be included in part two. There are some songs that actually got airplay that surprised me: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates by Melanie, and Squeezebox by The Who. I guess the FCC didn't catch the double entendres.

[@l.salisbury1253]

@@nankypooh655 Meri Wilson's "telephone man" was a high-charting 1977 novelty single. A first person account of a woman who seduces a telephone-installation serviceman in exchange for a free landline. (Ah, the good ol' days before cellphones!) Although corny and tame by today's standards "telephone man" was full of double entendres that you did NOT have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out. Obviously, stations that played it received complaints, which further pushed it up the charts. "Telephone man", of course, IS on KZbin. Decide for yourself...

[@Wally97523]

Give A Damn Spanky And Our Gang. And definitely Society’s Child.

[@NathanielCrockett-b6n]

The art, music, energy and dynamic that defined a beautiful, creative, breakaway generation should not be allowed to be narrated by robots. what an insult!!!!

[@gregorypollack2199]

Barry McGuire's Eve of destruction still rings true today and radio stations still refuse to play it.

[@winifredherman4214]

Actually I heard it on the radio in New York recently.

[@gregorypollack2199]

@winifredherman4214 WOW

[@cathyhurd4890]

"Fortunate Son" and "Ohio", the establishment didn't like them because the truth hurts.

[@paganphil100]

@cathyhurd4890: "Ohio" was banned but "Hey Sandy" wasn't (as far as I know) even though it basically told the same story about the Kent State shootings.

[@stevielease7952]

Amen. The establishment hated songs like that because they spoke the truth. The truth always hurts. They couldn't handle the truth that they were wrong and Reality was right.

[@countrytom1956]

As a child of the 60’s myself, I remember most of these songs. About the last song, concerning the incident at Kent State University, I was living in Idaho at that time and my high school would do recreations every year to commemorate that incident on the anniversary that it took place.

[@debrasawarin8869]

I remember my Mother crying when this was on the news. She said "What have we become. We are kiiling our children."

[@whitebirchtarot]

That was one of the saddest days of my life. I was 15 and I absolutely could not believe it. I’ll never forget how I felt. That was just awful.

[@Me-je2uw]

I agree it was a terrible incident, BUT, there are always two (or more) sides to every story. The whole thing became escalated because the students: 1) got angry at the university, which had nothing to do with or control over the Vietnam War (they should have taken it out on the people in Washington DC who DID have a say or control over the war), 2) wouldn't obey the curfew set the night before the shootings, 3) committed arson by burning the ROTC building to the ground (it was a Federal Government building, therefore, it was a Federal offense), 4) kept protesting after they had been told to return to their dorms, and 5) threw rocks, bricks, concrete blocks, pieces of lumber and anything else they could get their hands on at the National Guard troops. Considering all of those issues, you can maybe better understand why the National Guard troops felt threatened, feared for their own lives, got defensive and (sadly) opened fire at the students. The Governor and National Guard leader should have brought in tanks and trucks to strategically place around key locations and important buildings, as well as to help separate the students so the crowd size wouldn't have been as large and threatening. Those vehicles would have also helped keep the students and National Guard troops separated. Just an opinion from someone who was alive when it happened, has watched many documentaries about the incident and has tried to investigate and understand the various concerns and issues taking place at the university and around the country at that time. We just recently dealt with more senseless riots, protests, threatening and injuring innocent people (Jewish students), plus damaging and burning private, City, State and/or Federal Government property. And, as usual, the cost was enormous and nothing got resolved.

[@whitebirchtarot]

@ I agree that there were many factors involved in the incident, but to shoot unarmed students is just wrong. I can’t believe they couldn’t find another way to resolve what was going on. Yes, it was wrong for the students to be throwing bricks, etc., but there was so much frustration at that time, and they probably feared that worse would have happened had they protested near a government building. And also, how would they have gotten there? I can understand how things like that get out of control. The government should have thought ahead about how to handle things like that without violence. It’s sad all the way around. Do you remember that photograph from that time where a girl is putting a flower down the barrel of a gun that a national guardsman is holding? That was a very iconic picture.

[@Me-je2uw]

@whitebirchtarot My high school Principal, who was also our Freshman Science teacher, Sophomore Biology teacher, Freshman basketball coach and our Class Advisor, from the Fall of 1974 through the Spring of 1977, told us about being in college (where I eventually graduated in 1981) during the late '60s and seeing students putting flowers in the barrels of rifles of the National Guard troops, just like what you referenced in the photo. However, no incidents occurred on my State University campus. Kent State was obviously a more radical campus than my eventual Alma Mater. The '60s definitely exposed just how deep the radical Marxist agenda had become entrenched in USA universities and colleges. It's gotten MUCH worse now.

[@jimhayes5188]

Imagine that “Imagine” was an invitation to imagine. I think that building a better society requires us to consider a world that has no …

[@bethweeks5943]

…that has no SENTENCES WITHOUT ENDINGS.

[@karenherrera3961]

Imagine is my favorite song of all time ❤

[@RJS1974]

You forgot Elton John’s 1974 single The Bitch is Back. Despite heavy censorship by US radio stations bleeping out the word bitch, and some stations banning the song altogether, it managed to rise all the way to the number 4 position on the Billboard top 100.

[@JayPea7204]

God save us from bad AI reading words it can't pronounce. And if this wasn't narrated by AI, then wow, just wow!

[@charlesseymour1482]

Aluminum or A. I.

[@charlesseymour1482]

What the heck are you talking about pure metal or alloy.😢

[@debbieanne7962]

The Eve of destruction is still very relevant today sadly. Two other songs that come to mind are’Go all the way’ by the Raspberries and’Walk on the wild side’ sung by Lou Reed

[@pearlamoler6043]

A recap of my youth. All of the songs were powerful, combined with televised war helped liberate our shackled minds. Horrors of war were cut to a bare minimum in the media afterwards. May the youth rise, we have your back.

[@susanletsch-dz5oq]

I was there! They all mattered! Thank you!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@hepcat-bob]

I grew up during those years, but I was young enough that I missed going to Vietnam. For my 7th birthday, I got to watch Jack Ruby assassinate Lee Harvey on TV.

[@gdearing1]

“They’re coming to take me away, ha ha, they’re coming to take me away, ho ho…”

[@jryland6]

😂🤣 I REMEMBER THAT SONG!!!!! Loved singing that song 😂🤣

[@1goodvibrations]

Yes!

[@debbieschultz9768]

First time I heard that sons I freaked out 😂😂😂😂

[@stevielease7952]

They banned Coming to Take Me Away because it supposedly made light of people with mental problems. At the time the whole society was crazy. Look who's talking.

[@karenbarnatny6247]

And to think it was about a dog 😅😅😅😅

[@susanletsch-dz5oq]

Imagine is the most beautiful, perfect song ever written!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@dennydowling2169]

“Happiness is a warm Gun “by the Beatles was also banned in some places

[@JamesThompson-zk1ht]

@dennydowling2169 Come on, buddy, you can do better than that. You spelled the group name like the insect rather the BEAT, and you typo'ed on the name of the song. Probably most of us know what you meant, but I'll bet there are kids here who don't. You already edited it once - ? Give it another go.

[@dennydowling2169]

@@JamesThompson-zk1ht wish it were true I’m an old man still recovering from a srtoke I had in 2023 and I have a hard time keying thins on a tiny phonr screen. I do usually go back after posting and edit my errors, but I guess I forgot this time.

[@jesusiracheta8570]

@@dennydowling2169don’t even worry man, the other guy is just a hater. You do you !

[@jesusiracheta8570]

Also I love Happiness is a warm gun, it’s my favorite Beatles song ever!

[@rjjcms1]

@@dennydowling2169 I agree don't worry about the mean-spirited comment that followed your first one. PS Wasn't A Day in the Life also banned because of suggestions of drug taking?

[@StephenDulli]

You could have added a lot more songs to your list. For instance, the very best anti war song ever made of that era was by Country Joe and the Fish titled "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die." You remember "Come on all you big strong men uncle Sam needs your help again..." And another one that comes to mind is "Volunteers" by the Jefferson Airplane. Or another by the Jefferson Airplane (even better) "We can be Together." I mean, nothing more powerful than the lyrics "... up against the wall Motherfucker." Or how about The Doors "Unknown Soldier." No reason to skip any of those songs and I believe I can come up with even more if I gave it some thought.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

How can you NOT have "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf?????

[@victorlewis3251]

Yeah. I forgot about it, but you are absolutely correct.

[@blossom1643]

Too young to be aware of it??

[@Polyphemus47]

It wasn't released as a 45 single, was it?

[@blossom1643]

@ Not that I know of

[@lesschoenberger3070]

@@Polyphemus47 No

[@nwajules]

FYI, your lead-in song, “Let’s Get Physical” was a hit in 1982 and a fun cursor for what was to come in the 1980s. Also, I agree about the bad AI voice over.

[@damianvaudo5097]

why are they using a voice over control machine when it doesn't pronounce the song titles correctly?

[@traceyblanchard1375]

Or the band's names?

[@ianker7143]

@@traceyblanchard1375 Not to mention Elizabeth-eye-eye!

[@barbarakirk3064]

@@ianker7143 This reminded me of the two lads in the video stockist on The League Of Gentlemen discussing the film 'Richard Eye-Eye-Eye', when they meant Richard III.

[@rickhigginson8546]

"We should Protest!"

[@rjjcms1]

Couldn't help but laugh at a couple of those pronunciations.

[@flamboyantflamingo9]

Omg, I got hysterical 🤣🤣🤣 at the thought of mick jagger leading a revolution‼️ I’m 70 yrs old. I remember all this shit. Thanks for the laughs, that was great stuff.

[@nankypooh655]

Fortune EIGHT Son? Oh come on, now.....

[@jryland6]

One of my most beloved songs!!!!!

[@h2odivr]

Your forgot about Ree Vuh Vuhl, whatever the hell that is.

[@BryanMcCollom]

Yes it was the "Eight Son"---and he was for-tuned!! Just like the AI!!

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

Most of these so-called offensive or anti establishment songs were on the radio just when I was becoming interested in the music. As far back as I can recall, most of the altered songs weren’t changed in Canada. But we’re much less judgemental about that kind of thing. Free speech for songs was the norm. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[@howardsimpson489]

Most of these were on NZ public radio and the rest were on pirate radio. Not much real censorship. Now all on Govt Radio NZ.

[@ambrosemackinnon8314]

John Lennen had to go to Montreal to record give peace a chance bc the Pentagon and the US. Government felt it was against the Viet Nam war

[@alwaznokiss9859]

Maybe so. I was totally against the Viet Nam war. Loved the protest songs. Still remember most of the lyrics. And they are applicable today as well.

[@GaryBoyd-bt2ly]

I think the Kent State massacre was the beginning of the end to the Vietnam war when -parents witnessed unarmed students killed by our own military. We were a commune who published an underground newspaper. We were so angry we set fire to a row of national guard trucks.

[@tomweiland7904]

In 69 a song called War was out. perhaps it didn't make the list because it never was banned as far as I know

[@prairiewolfo9274]

Edwin Starr?

[@Polyphemus47]

I think it even reached #1 on the Hot 100.

[@stevielease7952]

Right War What is it Good For? By Edwin Starr was controversial because it expressed itself in the form of a question ❓. Back then we were told by the Older Generation to shut up , don't ask questions. Just sit there like fools and get drafted and shipped off to meet a bad end. Also focuses on the root cause of Vietnam and many other wars: Capitali$t greed.

[@karenbarnatny6247]

I'm surprised American Woman wasn't on the list.

[@stevielease7952]

War What is it Good For? by Edwin Starr. Establishment didn't like it because it called them out and put the blame where it belonged.

[@JedTaub]

Light My Fire: Back when I was in college I occasionally guested on radio shows from our campus station. I created a cut-in track about an interview with Richard Nixon. What are the dissidents' major tactics? "Come on baby light my fire." It's debut was put off for a few weeks as one of the questions was How can you control campus unrest? "Boom boom boom boom, gonna shoot you right down!" (by The Animals) Then Kent State happened.

[@chiangmaicharlies]

Trashy dialogue absolutely kills it

[@joespinach]

Queen Elizabeth Eye-Eye?? Geez, I HATE computer voices.

[@1goodvibrations]

Seriously? I missed that, will have to go back and hear that!

[@vicsmith4090]

Iam really surprised jimmy hendrix star spangled banner wasn't included I think that was an iconic moment as well

[@Brunoburningbright]

They really only banned 45s (single releases) as they were almost all that was played on the radio until the late 60s.

[@halucca22]

Eve of Destruction rings as true today as it did back then, I’ve been listening to it a lot in the last year. Fortunate Son, well, that’s even truer now than before; a lot of the military brats did real service (John McCain) unlike the Commander In Chief Bonespurs. Steely Dan recorded a rebuttal to Imagine, called Only a Fool Would Say That; I get their point but if people can’t even try to Imagine, well, what hope is there? Music used to be so amazing…

[@romecottrell6444]

The song 🎵 Imagine by John Lennon is a wonderful song and I love this song 🎵 💜.

[@danmarshctr]

"Imagine all the people agreeing with me about everytheeeeing!" A budding totalitarian ya got there.

[@sandrastevens411]

Eve of destruction

[@DAnnWallace]

You forgot a very important banned song. Society's Child by Janis Ian. It was a song about an interracial romance in about '65. Records were burned, DJs in the South were beaten for playing it. Maybe it's not on the list because it was written by a 15 year old girl, bot a man.

[@geoffhaycraft1233]

I've heard that ' Six months in a leaky boat ' ( Split Enz) was banned on English radio during the Falklands war, as it was deemed bad for morale!?

[@barbarakirk3064]

It did get airplay on Anne Nightingale's Request Show which was a late evening programme at the time.

[@paulvoss01]

You missed the most significant song. A Walk On The Wild Side by

[@howardhales6325]

Lou Reed.

[@jayehum5019]

The AI mispronunciation is very annoying.

[@joelapera6676]

agree makes the clip.cheap

[@carloscosta1923]

CCR's Fortune Son is the most impactant controversial song of the 60s and 70s.

[@drbluzer]

CONTROVERSIAL AND BANNED SONGS FROM THE 1960'S TO 1970'S : @00:40 : "I AM THE WALRUS" : BEATLES ( 1967 ) @01:36 : "LOLA" : KINKS ( 1970 ) @02:35 : "BROWN EYED GIRL" : VAN MORRISON ( 1967 ) @03:30 : "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" : SEX PISTOLS ( 1967 ) @04:24 : "LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER" : ROLLING STONES ( 1967 ) @05:23 : "LIGHT MY FIRE" : DOORS ( 1967 ) @06:34 : "STREET FIGHTING MAN" : ROLLING STONES ( 1968 ) @07:45 : "IMAGINE" : JOHN LENNON ( 1971 ) @08:49 : "EVE OF DESTRUCTION" : BARRY MACGUIRE ( 1965 ) @09:58 : "FORTUNATE SON" : CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL ( 1969 ) @11:12 : "OHIO" : CROSBY , STILLS , NASH , AND YOUNG ( 1970 ) OTHER BANNED AND CONTROVERSIAL SONGS : "(I CAN'T GET NO ) SATISFACTION" : ROLLING STONES "D.O.A. " : BLOODROCK "I LIKE MARIJUANA" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE "THE POPE SMOKES DOPE" : DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE "I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE" : PHIL OCHS "JUNGLE FEVER" : CHACACHAS

[@stealthmimic4996]

Might want to include the Stones, “Gimme Shelter”. Very controversial with lyrics including “rape, murder; just a shot away, children, just a shot away.” Gotta listen for it but it’s there. Affected the female singer so deeply, a very religious woman, she nearly decline to sing for the album. As it was she sang the line with so much power, you can still hear her voice breaking on the original album track.

[@mylolee62]

She was awakened to go to the studio in curlers and pj's. She sang that line so fiercely. Unfortunately, she miscarried later the next day

[@noreligion2]

IMAGINE IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER WRITTEN!!!!!! I am extremely happy that it is played at every Olympics!!! Peace On Earth!!

[@lindsayclanahan2239]

Bridge Over Troubled Water is the greatest!

[@bxf99999]

Notable omission here: Gordon Lightfoot's Black Day in July.

[@terrybassett1]

Whoever created that AI voice deserves to be severely punished for their treatment of the English language!! These AI commentaries and voice overs are awful, disparaging to human voice over artists!!! Ban these AI commentaries now!

[@normatible9795]

Nobody can afford a narrators voice like william shatner, or johnny depp , that is why thete is ai

[@moodyrick8503]

*Suggestion : **_songs that were not shocking at the time, but would be today_** ;* Ex: ZZ Top ; _Arrested for driving while blind._ Beatles : _Run for your life._ Rolling Stones : -_Under my thumb._

[@harolddburke4726]

Interesting idea .

[@Brunoburningbright]

An even better idea than the original.

[@tomfields3682]

Take it EEE-z babe!,🎵

[@KarenOCallaghan-u5o]

Also the Stones’ Lady Jane (social climbing rat) and possibly Play With Fire (man taking advantage of woman’s reduced circumstances)

[@tomfields3682]

@@KarenOCallaghan-u5o Why would a song about social climbing be banned in The 60s? Social criticism was very popular theme in songs in the 60s.

[@michaelcorke8586]

If it wasn't for the pirate radio stations radio Caroline, radio London etc we would never of any of these bands, the BBC would never have played any 60s music

[@robinburn4974]

The bbc was trying to control you as far back as the sixties, banning I am a walrus

[@rjjcms1]

Not just the BBC.

[@Brunoburningbright]

Not just any Walrus - THE Walrus.

[@terencejay8845]

The walrus was Paul.

[@codybluetarp]

Actually, having a 1-hit-wonder wouldn't actually be that bad. I just missed the '1-hit' part. The Wonder part has always been there. I always enjoy hearing, "Red Rubber Ball" and "Turn Down Day", by The Cyrkle. 2-hit Wonder. Wonder still.

[@ericevans2707]

All I know is the bands that vanished playing all those hits really were our favorite songs and bring back memories of our parents and the struggles of the times. I was stunned the Bee Gees had so many albums...? Saturday Night Fever was really the only music by them I still really love. So it goes .

[@dicedug984]

I’m surprised the Black Sabbath song War Pigs isn’t on the list.

[@georgecullen759]

Have a Human narrate please. Your AI really sucks.

[@BarryLaidlaw-qy9hx]

I think on the eve of destruction should be placed on special mention as the first protest song

[@mikehaddrell8674]

Strange Fruit, If I Had a Hammer, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, are a few that spring to mind that easily predate it

[@ROGER2095]

@@mikehaddrell8674 Blowing in the Wind, too. Also, lots of Woody Guthrie's songs.

[@1goodvibrations]

The rawness of his voice and the explicit current political references were like nothing that had my 13 year old self had ever heard before, this song is one of the all- time best as far as i´m concerned.

[@bozobozo8160]

are you kidding me the first protest song? It was what it Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, etc., etc. that came well before Barry McGuire!

[@suellensheppard9734]

Ohio is heartbreaking

[@JimCrovetti]

They forgot one of the most controversial songs of the 60s! The song was sock it to me baby! Going to school in New Jersey we used to have dances after lunch each day, I remember the first time we played the song saketumi Baby on the record player, the principal burst into the auditorium grab the 45 off the record player and smashed it!

[@stevielease7952]

I assume you're referring to Sick it to Me Baby by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

[@3frenchhens818]

You have Crosby Stills -- how could you leave out "For What It's Worth?"

[@jackpethybridge160]

Growing up in Canada, none of these songs were restricted or lyrics changed.

[@billmacarthur5310]

Ruby Tuesday was a great song and justifiably the A side.

[@JamesThompson-zk1ht]

I'd agree with that, too. Great song, classic, whereas Let's Spend The Night Together just never did anything for me.

[@paganphil100]

@billmacarthur5310: I've still got it on my phone 🙂

[@JedTaub]

I remember Kent State well, and Neil Young's song. After a few days I kept hearing people speculate that a lot of countries, even England, would have banned that song and arrested the artist, and how incredibly proud I was that THIS country never even considered such a thing!!! I was later so disappointed that there were NO REPERCUSIONS for that National Guard and its commanders!! I do, of course, remember the commotion of that super-suggestive Brian Highland song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," until the would-be censors were faced with the realization that it was a song about a 6-year-old girl!

[@garyfrazier5414]

One of the four who died was an ROTC cadet.

[@1goodvibrations]

A six year old? Hmmm, i´m not convinced!

[@bobsewell3931]

The music I grew up to, all of them great and very relevant to the times. The painful part is listening to the A.I. narrator mispronounce so many words and butcher the English language.

[@zephyr2731]

Most of these weren't banned in the States. Merely controversial, which was their purpose.

[@parkerbrown-nesbit1747]

All of these were played on the radio when I was growing up (although we didn't get any punk at all).

[@MrTwenty20video]

Well done! Thanks.

[@mrbeamiss]

Whole lotta loving. Led.

[@garyvee6023]

HOW could "Imagine" be banned..., probably the greatest song ever written. (Oh..., I am 67). 😵‍💫

[@romad275]

The only one of those I ever heard about being censored in these United States was "Let's Spend the Night Together" on the Ed Sullivan show. However, I remember the BBC banning Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" when I was stationed in Korea in 1972. I was sent to Yokota AB near Tokyo for some training and while there I bought the single at a store on the Ginza in downtown Tokyo. I still have that 45 record.

[@LawrenceGrant-b6p]

I hate AI narration. I grew up with most of these songs and love them.

[@bruceterhune3400]

"Born to be Wild" with the line "fire all of your guns at once and explode into space" and "All right Now" with the words "raise the f___in rates" are two others that come to mind.

[@93Jubilee]

I didn't realize that about Morrison defying the stuffy Sullivan producers. He kept his integrity, and the song's. Good for him!

[@patdornan47]

You missed Black Day in July by Gordon Lightfoot.

[@mike-boyce]

I think you missed one of the most contravertial songs of all time ,"Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69"

[@stevielease7952]

Right. Country Joe struck many sore nerves with that song. Especially the line "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box. " Too many of the flag wavers had a rude awakening, that they weren't just burying their sons. They were burying their grandchildren too.

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

this list mostly refers to songs released as singles. You'd need a much longer list for controversial songs that were obscure album tracks such as the Rolling Stones song "Some Girls" with its lyric "Black girls just want to get (effed) all night".

[@bjs301]

A lot of the "controversy" here never happened. Even the radio edit to Brown Eyed Girl wasn't used in a lot of markets until many years later. I don't remember hearing God Save the Queen, but all the others on this list were just popular songs we heard all the time.

[@PhilipLaventure-yu3mz]

Tell it like it is people tell it

[@charisepfahl7778]

Old enough to be part of this time. Friends at Kent State. Know and love all of them. Thanks for the memories.

[@MarkHager-tq3uz]

How can "They're Coming To Take Me Away" NOT be on this list?!?

[@chrissmith8932]

Just surprises that "Back in the USSR" wasn't there.

[@jasonrist6582]

good art, comforts the disturbed while disturbing the comfortable

[@jamesperine3472]

How about "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath! Did they ban it?

[@Brunoburningbright]

Not a single.

[@WarrenBridges-um5cg]

Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs 1969. "You Can't Go 'round Saying Fuck On Stage".

[@jerrywatt6813]

Considering the depravity of British elites banning these songs is laughable !

[@baroquearttanya8514]

Not true about 'Lola', it was not the BBC it was Coke itself that made them change it, years later when Coke brought out Cherry Cola, they had to change it again.

[@johnbelmore1178]

Crosby. Stills..Nash..and Young....Ohio. I remember those shootings

[@karenbarnatny6247]

Me 2. Made me mad as he***

[@RangerJohnreid]

“Girl would you please send a wire?” “Girl could you see my brother gets hired?” “Girl my boss told me that I’m fired!”

[@kirbysednek5967]

But would Ed Sullivan have APPROVED of ANY of these very creative substitutes!?👈👉you, Ranger J. R. are a WONDERFULLY fun person me thinks!! 👍👍 👏👏

[@libertariantranslator1929]

The AI is pretty pathetic, but... you get what you pay for.

[@jamesdaviddupre99]

"Eve of Destruction" seems to me to be the best ever song about social injustice. Brilliant

[@howardlapointe4871]

One group and song that didn’t make the cut but should have is Redbone’s song from their album Wovoka; “We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee” recorded in 1973. It was recorded in England but the international release did not include the song which was banned in the U.S. because of the controversial lyrics referring to the protests at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

[@trommeltom175]

It is hard to listen to a AI voice that doesn't know how to pronounce The Sex Pistols or even Creedence Clearwater Revival......

[@annieh5479]

Not censored: Lady Marmalade, Sweet Cream Ladies, Hair, and a whole lot more.