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I remember this one being quite controversial back in the day...

100 per cent agree with you Mark. VILE. No redeeming quality. None. Like graffiti on Mt Rushmore.

How about this one?

Most posts have contained sexual, sexualized or otherwise boink related verse. Controversy: noun disagreement, typically when prolonged, public and heated. "The announcement ended a protracted controversy" Lots of profanity so far, and sexualized content, but is that controversy? Where are the songs about NAFTA?

Wow, quite a lot of lyrics for a 4 minute song; makes you long for simpler times

This goes back aways, and I'm showing my age. It came out in the 60′s and was quickly banned by many radio stations. Even back then, I couldn't imagine why, unless the lyrics struck a little too close to home. It was a turbulent time. The nation was divided by the Vietnam War and civil rights. Our inner cities were going to hell, crime was rampant, and yet the federal government was spending a shit ton of money putting men into space. Our government was openly lying about one thing, when the reality of the situation was staring us right in the face. And yet most of us lapped it up because hey, our government would never lie to us, right? It's almost hard to believe he was at one time part of the sugary sweet New Christy Minstrels, but it wasn't until Barry McGuire went solo and recorded Eve of Destruction that he became famous. https://youtu.be/MdWGp3HQVjU

Perhaps THE MOST controversial song? It's been decades, and we still can't agree on whether puff is a boy's imaginary friend, or a drugged out fiend swinging his gigantic 'tail' and doped out of his mind Controversy: noun disagreement, typically when prolonged, public and heated. "The announcement ended a protracted controversy"

Yup, I think we have a winner, Mark. I consider myself pretty open minded, but that one is clearly designed to push everyone's buttons, in every way - and many times over. And I wonder why I listen to so much instrumental work, these days...

The Who Rain On Me

So true - think of all the monthly dings we have in 2020 that we didn't have a decade ago. Most are voluntary (with the exception mobile phones which replaced our land lines.) Every month/quarter/year: SIRI (really difficult to get programming OTA) Directv (Necessary evil to time shift NFL) Verizon (I passed on having additional wireless services for automobiles) Netflix Amazon Prime (I had no idea they offered movies/music for the first four years of membership - subscribed for Prime shipping) Hulu Spotify Xfinity (Internet) Mcafee (Antivirus) VPN Quicken (subscription based now) Itunes (Cloud data) Office (subscription based now) Home Security Monitoring Ring Doorbell Netgear Support (another necessary evil after 90 days) Even my damn whole house generator now needs monitoring!

I don't have nearly such a fatalistic view of Netflix. Lately I've been focusing on their foreign offerings to get views from a different perspective whether it be films or television series. For $10 a month there's a whole world of programming access. That said, I wholehearted and enthusiastically recommend the Australian series called Rake. It's truly terrific! Forget the banal attempt at an American remake starring Greg Kinnear - it's absolutely drab by comparison.

Look, I’m not a prude by any stretch, but this “song” from “Cardi B” (currently topping the charts) is just plain vile - so much so that I’m not pasting the lyrics, but rather a link. Read at your own risk, you have been warned... https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cardi-b/wap.html

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Refugee

This one has cost me more than one speeding ticket. FYI: recorded at LeStudio which had been abandoned and eventually burned down by vandals.... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/le-studio-fire-morin-heights-1.4243188

Flak or no, if they sound good to you, that's all that matters. I've said several times that if 2 cans and a string sound good to someone, they're thousands of dollars ahead of me.

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills (Official Video)

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down (Official Video)

Correct Brian - I would find it much easier to put this garbage on "ignore", if it weren't for the fact that such a large swath of Cardi B's popularity lies with teen (and pre-teen) girls. It's heartbreaking to think of all the 12 year old girls listening to this toxic spew, thinking that is how women are expected to behave and expected to act. I'm not trying to claim the "moral majority" here, and I hate the way I sound when I talk about this crap. I'm a libertarian at heart, and I almost always believe people should be left to their own devices - but at the same time, I believe this crap is poison - and it's going to lead a large portion of a generation of girls/women down a sad, lonely and possibly abusive lifestyle, and for what? so a multi-millionaire rapper can make a few more million...?

I had assumed that was the one that started this thread.....

Ray Stevens - The Streak from 1974 came at a time when I was impressionable. I thought it was hilarious, my parents, not so much... Turbo

Not Available in.... I thought that only happened here....like all the time.