Tonight let’s celebrate The Filthy Fifteen. What’s that you ask?
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1983 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with government in the Washington, D.C. area. The women who founded the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius. The PMRC eventually grew to include 22 participants before shutting down in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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In August 1985, 19 record companies agreed to put "Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyrics" labels on albums to warn consumers of explicit lyrical content. Before the labels could be put into place, the Senate agreed to hold a hearing on so-called "porn rock".[4] The hearing was held on September 19, 1985, when representatives from the PMRC, three musicians—Dee Snider, Frank Zappa, John Denver—and Senators Paula Hawkins, Al Gore, and others testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on "the subject of the content of certain sound recordings and suggestions that recording packages be labeled to provide a warning to prospective purchasers of sexually explicit or other potentially offensive content." — Wikipedia
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Parental Advisory Forever: An Oral History of the PMRC's War on Dirty Lyrics (Newsweek)
PMRC’s ‘Filthy 15’: Where Are They Now? (Rolling Stone)
The Filthy Fifteen
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AC/DC :: Let Me Put My Love into You
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Black Sabbath :: Trashed
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Cyndi Lauper :: She Bop
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Def Leppard :: High 'n' Dry
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Judas Priest :: Eat Me Alive
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Madonna :: Dress You Up
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Mary Jane Girls :: In My House
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Mercyful Fate :: Into the Coven
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Mötley Crüe :: Bastard
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Prince :: Darling Nikki
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Sheena Easton :: Sugar Walls
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Twisted Sister :: We're Not Gonna Take It
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Vanity :: Strap On "Robbie Baby"
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Venom :: Possessed
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W.A.S.P. :: (Animal) Fuck Like a Beast
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WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?
Jimmy Kimmel: Jeff Goldblum, Teyana Taylor, Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
Jimmy Fallon: Kiefer Sutherland, Jimin, Fall Out Boy
Stephen Colbert: Michelle Yeoh, Riley Keough (R 3/1/23)
Seth Meyers: Tina Fey, Nate Bargatze, Zoë Brecher (R 2/16/23)
James Corden: Regina Hall, Bella Ramsey, Alec Benjamin (R 1/10/23)
Daily Show: BenDeLaCreme, guest host Al Franken
SPOILER WARNING
A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. It's a fate worse than a fate worse than death.
LAST WEEK'S POLL: WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT?
Godzilla 50%
King Kong 14%
Pie 36%
