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RE: Mood Music - Ninurta - 11-13-2025
A little background on the song.
Olivia Newton-John came out with this song in, I think, 1981. It's pretty tame by modern standards, but back then, it was seen as being pretty racy. So racy, in fact, that a number of radio stations banned it.
I was a DJ at WLRV at the time. We had a Holy Roller there who was also a DJ, and who had appointed himself as the "Station Censor". He heard me play it on-air one evening while he was at home, and the next day he came in and "banned" it for being too provocative. Now, bear in mind this fella had no more authority to do so than I did - he wasn't the station manager, or anything like that, just another DJ.
But he "banned" it.
So of course I ignored his ban. I've never been big on censorship. I played it anyhow, the same evening that he "banned" it.
The next day when I got to work, I found it shattered in the trash can, I reckon he heard me play it again after his "ban". That didn't set well with me, so I went out and bought my own copy of the 45 (records were all vinyl back then, way before CD's and way, way before the MP3's some stations use now), and played it again when it came up in the rotation. Then I'd take it home with me to keep it safe, and after a couple of days of that, he came into the station all purple in the face demanding the record so he could break that one, too.
So, I quietly took it out of it's "shuck" (that's what we called the protective jackets we kept the records in) and handed it towards him, but at the same time quietly said "that one happens to be my own personal property, and you're a chicken-shit sonofabitch to break it... because as soon as you do, I'm gonna break YOU. Badly. Don't care if they fire me over it - I was looking for a job when I found this one. Reckon I can look again if I have to."
He hesitated a couple of seconds, then turned and left in a huff... but he didn't break my record... and I kept on playing it in it's regular place in the rotation until it fell off the charts.
He also tried to ban "White Wedding" by Billy Idol. That didn't go over well, either.
The moral of the story is that censorship is for wussies.
Postscript: Since those days, that radio station has changed hands a couple of times, most recently having been bought out by a Baptist Church with delusions of adequacy. The programming has been changed to entirely religious, so I guess in the end the censors won... at least for that station.
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RE: Mood Music - DaphneApollo - 11-14-2025
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