My parents never tried to ban anything, but I had a friend whose parents wouldn't allow her to listen to Madonna.

I also remember some faith promoting story that floated around about an apostle who was seated next to some rock star on a flight and the rock star supposedly admitted to specifically writing his music to drive teenagers to sex. I didn't think teenagers needed any help...


Anywho.... please post your music stories 'cause I'm curious. Thanks!! : )

They did ban me from listening to rap/hip hop. NWA and Eazy-E were still big at the time, when we were living in California. I guess that they didn't like the whole "violence" aspect. However, Led Zepplin, AC/DC, the Doors and whatnot were more than okay. Go fiqure?

Except the damn Osmonds that I could not stand and older stuff like the Beatles. I of course hid a lot of stuff. Had my little Flavoradio from Radio shack and earphones :).

I was invited to go see Smashing Pumpkins when I was in high school.

My dad said I couldn't go because he had asked one of the loser students that was working in his department at byu, and he said all their music was evil.

I don't know about you, but nothing brings on the satanic thoughts and actions like 'Tonight, Tonight.' *Rolling eyes

(Still bitter about this BTW)

Who didn't they ban, would be an easier question... Basically, if it wasn't allowed at a church dance, we couldn't listen to it.

It was to the point that my Dad blocked the MTV channel (and several others, even those basic cable channels), they were EVIL! You know, full of all kinds of terrible influences on teenagers and clean spirited Mormons.

Even now, they have a device installed on the TV to block "foul" language. It works by reading the closed captioning, if there's a word in it's list it blocks the sound and pop's up edited closed captioning. So, they could be watching something and suddenly the sound will cut out and the words "HUG YOU!" will pop up on the screen. I can't remember any examples off the top of my head but sometimes it makes things even more suggestive due to innuendo. (Other banned words that make me giggle "Jesus Christ" and "God", so when they are watching a church video, there's a lot of editing even then)

As for specific's on music, any Heavy Metal was out, Madonna ("Like a Virgin" indeed), the list is too long. We were allowed to listen to the Osmunds and the Jets and I think my Mom liked Air Supply.

I love it when people ask me now, "Did you ever listen to so and so?" My response is always "Nope, that was EVIL! EVIL I say!"

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> Who didn't they ban, would be an easier
> question... Basically, if it wasn't allowed at a
> church dance, we couldn't listen to it.

LOL. What music did they play at your dances? They used to play Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun" ALL of the time at my husband's youth dances in SoCal in the '90's. He thought that was hilarious. Nothing like singing and dancing to a masturbation song at the stake house. ; )

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My in-laws have (or maybe had?) a VCR/DVD player that would edit out the curse words based on the closed captioning. Since the timing was off and the words didn't appear on the screen at the same time they were said, often all the editing did was let you know that a swear word was coming up. It would edit out the three or four words before the swear word but not the word itself. Good times.

The parents of my wife's roommate at the time we were dating owned a few edited video rental businesses in Utah. We watched a few edited r-rated movies. Often they made no sense once edited. I always wondered about the worthiness of the people whose job it was to watch the full version of the movie and decide what to take out. Were they non-members? Maybe they had already had their second annointing so they were ok seeing nudity?

My 45 of "Brick House" by the Commodores was confiscated and broken into pieces during a rant by my mom where she screeched "do you know what they're talking about?! It's a sh*t house!!"

Sigh.

It was pretty clear that KISS and similar bands weren't going to be allowed, so I didn't try. I got crap for listening to Earth, Wind and Fire too, but they let me keep it. My non-mo stepdad made a point of showing me that there were no white people in the band.


My sister rebelled harder than I did. Came out as a lesbian in HS and started playing in a punk band in the greater Seattle area. She got away with Bowie in his androgynous phase, Adam Ant, and hardcore feminist punk like Crass's "Shaved Women."

Since I WAS the TBM parent, this is what I banned:

1. Yanni and his fucking skin flute
2. Enya
3. Sade
4. Barely Manenuff (Barry Manelow)
5. Vince Gill (whiney bitch!)
6. The Jam
7. Oasis
8. Genesis (w/o Peter Gabriel)
9. Sex Pistols
10. Any Boy Band

Just a few.....

Ron

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Really, really.

The Sex Pistols, really. Is it because they were a manufactured band. Hell, Johnny only got famous, because he was hanging around outside of a sex shop.

Not only a boy band but a faux angry boy band.

Ron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY

Talk about a sell-out.

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Again, not only a boy band but a faux angry boy band.

Ron

but more of a "got no musical taste" perspective.

Just sayin.'

My dad was a classic rock junkie...Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac. I ended up LOVING all kinds of classic rock, and married a guy who loves it too. I am sure if I had been interested in heavy metal or rap they would have banned it, but I never was.

I am sure they would be floored if they knew I let my kids listen to Lady Gaga in the car, or even some radio censored Eminem.

My siblings had it a lot harder than I did. One of my sisters is still pissed about missing a Heart concert and then when I was a senior in HS I was able to go to a Counting Crows concert.

Other than music, SNL was banned thanks to the GCGC skit.

they ignored what I did unless things were on fire. They banned nothing really.

The first time I ever heard of Metallica was my freshman year in high school YEARS after they had been on the scene. (Of course it was because I was sheltered) I found that I actually liked them and bought the tape for the black album. I played it very quietly upstairs in my room, but the very first time my mother caught wind of it, she came up and smashed it into bits.

There was another instance with my little brother. He really wanted that stupid Chumbawamba album, so I bought it for him. She took it away and insisted that she had to listen to it first to make sure it was appropriate. After listening to it, she made me take it back because there was a song called Scapegoat, and "it's wrong to use people for scapegoats." She tried to smash his Smash Mouth album as well, but we managed to save it somehow.

No conserts for me after a certain age becasue my brother and sister woudnt take me. Well my parants only let me listen to music that was from this 30 year old book that was falling appart and old when I was five and they still use that book as thair main sorce of music now for performances. My brothe tried to ban my sisters whiny music my sister tried to ban my brothers scary music and anything else I wasnt able to listen to.

Now i'm older I choose what I listen to and I really like rock and punk music.

They all have a snippy conent about anything I might try singing though everything is bad in some way and not good enough for thair littel girl to be singing.

I believe it was Mick Jagger. The only moral that story ever taught me was that there was no way Mick Jagger was going to be seated in coach, which means that apostle was using tithing money to sit first class and talk to rock stars... weak.

I don't believe that story for a second, but it *does* sound like something Mick would have said, purely to shock his listener. I used to occasionally say outrageous things like that in my younger days, just to enjoy the reaction. lol

My parents weren't TBM but rather Fundies (about as bad).

My mom didn't care, and my dad was clueless. So we got to listen to whatever we wanted, as long as we kept it in our bedrooms.

We couldn't listen to the cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar. We also couldn't watch the Smothers' Brothers after they did a joke about Jesus.

The Smother's Brothers were hilarious!!!

But they were a bit ahead of their time.

I didn't even bother trying to listen to anything that might have been banned. However, I remember getting a used CD of the score music for Dracula (no words, no pictures, just the background music) that my father promptly confiscated and broke halfway through the first song. Apparently, even the instrumental background music wasn't safe enough.

Anything I wanted to listen to in the 80's. And yes, I was a metal head. Metallica the #1 for me, then there was Motley Crue, and Megadeath, and numerous others plus all the 80's hairspray bands. All of that and more my parents didn't want me listening to.

First confiscated album was Poison - Hysteria when I was 11 or 12. Next was Eazy-E and DJ Quik around age 16. That was actually a funny story (not at the time). My dad and younger brother came in to my room to lift some weights and figured they'd turn on some music. Oops. After that, I got a few lectures on music, but nothing else was ever taken.

I had a couple T-shirts get censored as well. One said Fnck you on it and the other had a naked girl. They never said anything about them, but one day I did my laundry and when I went to empty the dryer those were missing.

They didn't ban any music per se, honestly they were so out of touch they didn't know what constituted the devil's noise and what didn't. They sure hated everything I liked though, except Phish oddly.

What was passionately banned was incense. My dad freaked out the minute he walked in the door if he smelled it. He probably thought it had something to do with pot, whose smell he wouldn't know if he walked into a Bob Marley concert.