I'm a teenage d***bag...
It will not surprise you to hear that inappropriate language is a hot topic at the BBC at the moment. However CaptRamius thinks we have taken things too far with the censored version of Teenage Dirtbag that we played on last night's show.
" A bit over the top" was how he described the radio edit which left out three words in the lyrics. I'd like to tell you what they are but, "We must not include offensive language before the watershed or on radio when children are particularly likely to be in our audience, or in online content likely to appeal to a high proportion of children, unless it is justified by the context and then its frequent use must be avoided."
Capt also points out that our censorship was a bit rich particularly as one of our other shows this week talked about 'poo'.
Mind you as the subject was 'Bears' it's not surprising that the Poo(h) word came up several times...
....unless of course he is referring to my use of 'keich' on last night's show. Keich as many of you know is the Scots word for poo and as it's not included in our list of offensive words I think I'm alright.
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I can see the point of 1 of the words.
But of the other 2; 1 is not a specific word that's problematic, but a contextually iffy activity, and the other is very, very, *very* mild.
So case 1: Fine
Case 2: Borderline, but probably fine
Case 3? Over the top.
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I think two of them were Iron Maiden? Just a thought?
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Norrie: nope - all 3 in the verse starting "My Boyfriend's a..."
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Maybe Tipper Gore had a hand in the cencorship duites?
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Did you know Alan's son, Brian Bennett played drums in the Shadows?
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There's an idea for a theme - unlikely relations -
Scott Walker and his son Junior
The Richard brothers, Keith and Cliff
The Redding twins, Noel and Otis (too bad about Mitch Mitchell)
The Springfield siblings, Rick and Dusty,,,,,,,,,,
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Whow! I knew my cousin was in the Shadows but I did not know about any of these other relationships! Yuo learn something new every day.
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Good idea Glen.
We'd get The Strokes on.
Twice.
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But also The Scaffold unfortunately....
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Albert Hammond and Jr and Pink ?
Presumably Mike McGrear and McCartney?
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Bryan:
i know of some teenage dirtbags that turn into adult dirtbags!
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I would say the most unlikely relationship would be :-
Jimmy Carl (who sadly died this week and Cilla
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Dave and Cerys Matthews
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Laurie and Arthur Lee
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Lester and David - did appear together on one album!
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I meant Leapy Lee, of course.
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Ray and Windsor Davies - silly enough yet?
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Peters and Lee
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The Rogers triplets Julie, Kenny and Roy,
The Charles twins, Ray and Prince (Happy Birthday, Sir)
OK, enough, but there are plenty of them and surely enough good tunes.
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I suppose there'll be a few at Pacific Quay.
Do you think he'll play 98.6 by Keich?
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Glen - OI!!!! :-)
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