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RE: Mood Music - EndtheMadnessNow - 10-30-2025
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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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RE: Mood Music - DaphneApollo - 11-26-2025
To all the little fur babies in shelters whom nobody cares about adopting, I have three throw away doggies, my Mom has cats and we take care of them. They give so much love back.
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RE: Mood Music - gortex - 12-03-2025
Ozzy Osbourne: 3/12/1948 - 22/7/25.
RE: Mood Music - XXXN3O - 12-06-2025
RE: Mood Music - DaphneApollo - 12-09-2025
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RE: Mood Music - Ninurta - 12-25-2025
R.I.P Chris Rea.
First up, we have a perennial but seasonal favorite:
Next, the song for which he is probably most well known in the U.S. He wrote it for his little sister, who has suffered her first serious teenage heartbreak.
Now, the fact is,seventeen is a rough age for most everyone. I was no different. At 17, I was being slapped around by life and death, love and loss, elation and despair, and some times it seemed like they all came at me at the same time, from all directions. Seventeen is like that - stuff seems to move fast. That's because, while you have lived an entire lifetime at 17, it's not the lifetime of later years that is more tempered.
At 17, you are on the cusp of leaving everything you've ever known behind and marching off into the Brave New Unknown with your head held high, and hoping that doesn't make it too visible of a target. You don't realize that the entire "lifetime" you've seen so far is only the tip of an iceberg, a drip in an ocean, and that what is coming will bring more of the same, and much stronger. Your coming lows are going to be even lower, but the coming highs are going to be much higher than anything you've known up to that point.
At 17, you've not yet had enough experience to realize you've not yet had much experience... and you've not got the experience yet to understand that time will temper all.
It's not over, it's just begun... and what a wild ride it's going to be! Might as well sit back and enjoy it, but be careful to keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times...
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RE: Mood Music - 727Sky - 12-25-2025
RE: Mood Music - 727Sky - 12-25-2025