May 2020 Record Challenge Thread (PRIZE RAFFLE AT THE END!)

Day 14 - Rated M for Mature

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction

I feel like this album fits in pretty much every way. The subject matter is basically sex, drugs & rock n’ roll personified, with an unhealthy dose of misogyny thrown in.

The album cover was banned and changed because stores wouldn’t sell the product. When an underground artist that specializes in controversial pieces tries to talk you out of using his painting as your album cover, you know you’re going to ruffle some feathers.

This is the first album I remember that had a specific sticker on it to warn parents. It wasn’t the Parental Advisory sticker we know now, it was more like a yellow and orange diamond that the local store near me started placing on records with questionable content.

Multiple songs about drugs, using women, and sex. During Rocket Queen there’s a recording of Axl Rose having sex with a woman in the studio. The story goes, he knew a girl that was known for her vocal performance while in the throes of passion and wanted to add that to the record.

Add to that the fact this album is still the Number 1 selling debut album of all time. Here’s these “counter-culture degenerates” that are all of the sudden the hottest band in the world and they are just ready to mash your child’s malleable young brain into a vulgar, drug-addled, sex-crazed pile of goo.

This record and band were pretty much an 80’s parent’s worst nightmare.
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Skeletonframes said:
Day 14 - Rated M for Mature

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
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This was in my mind as a possible play.

My brother had the cassette in the late 80's. While I was listening to it in my room, my dad overheard the "It's so easy, so fucking easy " line. He took the tape to the garage and smashed it with a hammer.

I was probably around 11 at the time.
 
Skeletonframes said:
Day 14 - Rated M for Mature

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction

I feel like this album fits in pretty much every way. The subject matter is basically sex, drugs & rock n’ roll personified, with an unhealthy dose of misogyny thrown in.

The album cover was banned and changed because stores wouldn’t sell the product. When an underground artist that specializes in controversial pieces tries to talk you out of using his painting as your album cover, you know you’re going to ruffle some feathers.

This is the first album I remember that had a specific sticker on it to warn parents. It wasn’t the Parental Advisory sticker we know now, it was more like a yellow and orange diamond that the local store near me started placing on records with questionable content.

Multiple songs about drugs, using women, and sex. During Rocket Queen there’s a recording of Axl Rose having sex with a woman in the studio. The story goes, he knew a girl that was known for her vocal performance while in the throes of passion and wanted to add that to the record.

Add to that the fact this album is still the Number 1 selling debut album of all time. Here’s these “counter-culture degenerates” that are all of the sudden the hottest band in the world and they are just ready to mash your child’s malleable young brain into a vulgar, drug-addled, sex-crazed pile of goo.

This record and band were pretty much an 80’s parent’s worst nightmare.
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Mine owned a copy.
 
Rahawk2 said:
Unpopular opinion but I like the Explicit sticker. It’s much better than trying to censor artists or outright banning albums.
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I think it’s a short cut for parenting. But to each their own. It’s also not universally used anymore so I’m not sure what the point is except maybe to market directly to folks who want explicit.

I also find hypocrisy prevalent in those who try to enforce its use. For example, Walmart (at one time, unsure if it is still policy) would not sell an uncensored album. However, you could buy an unrated director’s cut of a violent or sexually explicit movie. So words trump words plus image?
 
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Skeletonframes said:
Day 14 - Rated M for Mature

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction

I feel like this album fits in pretty much every way. The subject matter is basically sex, drugs & rock n’ roll personified, with an unhealthy dose of misogyny thrown in.

The album cover was banned and changed because stores wouldn’t sell the product. When an underground artist that specializes in controversial pieces tries to talk you out of using his painting as your album cover, you know you’re going to ruffle some feathers.

This is the first album I remember that had a specific sticker on it to warn parents. It wasn’t the Parental Advisory sticker we know now, it was more like a yellow and orange diamond that the local store near me started placing on records with questionable content.

Multiple songs about drugs, using women, and sex. During Rocket Queen there’s a recording of Axl Rose having sex with a woman in the studio. The story goes, he knew a girl that was known for her vocal performance while in the throes of passion and wanted to add that to the record.

Add to that the fact this album is still the Number 1 selling debut album of all time. Here’s these “counter-culture degenerates” that are all of the sudden the hottest band in the world and they are just ready to mash your child’s malleable young brain into a vulgar, drug-addled, sex-crazed pile of goo.

This record and band were pretty much an 80’s parent’s worst nightmare.
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Here in the south, it definitely had a Parental Advisary sticker on it. There was also a local ordinance that required ID checks. My smooth talking 14 year old self somehow convinced my mother (I have no idea how I talked my rather socially conservative mom -the daughter of a preacher- Into it, she got upset at my dad for taking us to the theater to see The Blues Brothers) to buy my first cassette copy at (ironically) a Roses.
 
LeeVing said:
This was in my mind as a possible play.

My brother had the cassette in the late 80's. While I was listening to it in my room, my dad overheard the "It's so easy, so fucking easy " line. He took the tape to the garage and smashed it with a hammer.

I was probably around 11 at the time.
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My aunt was only about 6 years older than my sister and I. She lived with us to go to high school and her friend's were pretty much how I learned about rock and rap music back then. There was a copy of this album blasting out of every single car that pulled into our driveway for a few summers. It was unavoidable with a bunch of teenagers running around the neighborhood, so my parents didn't even try.
 
Rahawk2 said:
I guess I don’t see a tiny notice on the corner that gives parents a heads up their kids may be listening to something with questionable content as being wrong.
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I don't either, but I have issues when the stores then ban items with this notice. Pre-internet rural areas may only have had a Walmart to buy music at.

Walmart is still doing some shenanigans...

This movie has a Walmart specific slip cover -

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Rahawk2 said:
I guess I don’t see a tiny notice on the corner that gives parents a heads up their kids may be listening to something with questionable content as being wrong.
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I’m a socialist and i think it’s unnecessary state involvement in parenting. It’s also a form of censorship. It also made an album much more appealing as a teenage boy.
 
LeeVing said:
This was in my mind as a possible play.

My brother had the cassette in the late 80's. While I was listening to it in my room, my dad overheard the "It's so easy, so fucking easy " line. He took the tape to the garage and smashed it with a hammer.

I was probably around 11 at the time.
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Funny enough, my Dad owned Appetite For Destruction and would play it when my Mom wasn't around.
 
Lee Newman said:
I think it’s a short cut for parenting. But to each their own. It’s also not universally used anymore so I’m not sure what the point is except maybe to market directly to folks who want explicit.

I also find hypocrisy prevalent in those who try to enforce its use. For example, Walmart (at one time, unsure if it is still policy) would not sell an uncensored album. However, you could buy an unrated director’s cut of a violent or sexually explicit movie. So words trump words plus image?
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Keep in mind it was the early 90s parents didn’t have a way to preview the album without buying it and listening to it. My parents refused to buy anything with the sticker ( I just got them from the record club and had it sent to a friends house) Now we can stream the album a head of time or look up lyrics on the internet. Yeah I remember the Walmart controversy I thought they banned NC-17 movies too .
 
Rahawk2 said:
Keep in mind it was the early 90s parents didn’t have a way to preview the album without buying it and listening to it. My parents refused to buy anything with the sticker ( I just got them from the record club and had it sent to a friends house) Now we can stream the album a head of time or look up lyrics on the internet. Yeah I remember the Walmart controversy I thought they banned NC-17 movies too .
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Nc-17 but not r or unrated versions of theatrical movies.

I get the 80s and 90s bit but the whole sticker exists because the Gores bought their little child a PRINCE album. Also, lots of stuff I didn’t want my daughter listening to when she was younger (looking mostly at Britney Spears) didn’t have labels on them. Unfortunately for her, I was keenly interested in what she wanted entertainment in.
 
Lee Newman said:
Nc-17 but not r or unrated versions of theatrical movies.

I get the 80s and 90s bit but the whole sticker exists because the Gores bought their little child a PRINCE album. Also, lots of stuff I didn’t want my daughter listening to when she was younger (looking mostly at Britney Spears) didn’t have labels on them. Unfortunately for her, I was keenly interested in what she wanted entertainment in.
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one of the things I like about the sticker is the version of the song they play on the radio is so heavily censored compared to what’s on the album. My six year old daughter may be dancing to a song on the radio that mentions kissing. I get the album and the real lyrics are about dick sucking. It’s nice to get a heads up .
 
Day 14 - Rated M for Mature
Liz Phair - Liz Phair (2003)

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I believe this is Liz Phair's best album.
Not only that: I really think this is the most empowering and feminist album in the last twenty years. This is a woman who grew up, matured and now she knows what she wants and doesn't give a fuck what they will think about her.

It also includes a song called "H.W.C".
I just can't say what that acronym means.
 
Lee Newman said:
Nc-17 but not r or unrated versions of theatrical movies.

I get the 80s and 90s bit but the whole sticker exists because the Gores bought their little child a PRINCE album. Also, lots of stuff I didn’t want my daughter listening to when she was younger (looking mostly at Britney Spears) didn’t have labels on them. Unfortunately for her, I was keenly interested in what she wanted entertainment in.
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Exactly the same. My parents wouldn’t allow us to buy any music or films that weren’t appropriate and if one slipped through the net it was confiscated pretty sharpish. Unlike the classification of films it had no legal standing over here either so the shops could and would sell them to anyone. The area we could exploit as a teenager in the 90s was computer games, parents didn’t understand them at all 😂
 
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