Music Trivia -> Songs That Are Banned -> I
Can you think of a song that was specifically banned by a radio station, tv station, or government?
"I Am The Walrus," The Beatles
At one point banned by the BBC, for suggestive lyrics, for the line "Boy you've been a naughty girl and let your knickers down" (for those unfamiliar with British English, replace "knickers" with "panties")
Ra'akone
"I Can See For Miles," The Who
Another classic from the Summer of Love. Authorities thought the titular lyric was psychedelic. If these pin heads had even bothered to listen to the entire song, they would have heard that the singer is aware of his sex partner's infidelities while he was out of town.
Royal Pfizbin
"I Don't Wanna Get Drafted," Frank Zappa
In 1980, fearing association with its overt political theme, Mercury records refuses to release this Frank Zappa single.
Peter
"I Get A Kick Out Of You," Frank Sinatra
In 1953, Frank Sinatra records this tune originally written by Cole Porter for the 1934 Broadway musical, "Anything Goes" (Ol' Blue Eyes has a hit with his version the following year of 1954). For radio airplay, Capital records has Sinatra change the perceived drug reference "I get no kick from cocaine," to "I get perfume from Spain."
Peter
""I give her Penis"," Mark Chagdes
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Mark Chagdes
"I Touch Myself," The Divynls
Most every radio station and music video channel banned this song and video because of its frank references to masturbation.
Celeste
"I Want Your Sex," George Michael
Banned by the BBC from daytime airplay due to its forthright subject matter.
Dave
"Ich Will," Rammstein
Banned after the 9/11 attacks because it portrayed the band as terrorists.
dxman
"IDK," insane clown posse
i forget wat this song was called, but i remember a song by them getting banned bcuz it was about like torturing people
peter
"If I Could Turn Back Time," Cher
In the summer of 1989, following complaints about Cher's video for this song, several video channels drop or restrict the music clip.
Peter
"If U Seek Amy," Britney Spears
Sparked controversy because the title sounded like "F.U.C.K. me." In the United States, the song is played as "If U See Amy."
dxman
"In My House," Mary Jane Girls
This one-hit-wonder from 1985 was listed as one of the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" for its suggestive lyrics and risque symbolism. It didn't exactly help that the mentor/Svengali of this group was the notorious funk musician Rick James.
Cat
"In Utero," Nirvana
Wal-Mart refused to stock this album because it didn't approve of "Rape Me" or the faetus dolls on the back cover.
Jakko Wakko
"Infinitive Putrefaction In Progress," Last Days of Humanity
The video was banned due to the cadaver photos showed in fast-paced speed, so they censored the video by extremely fading all of the photos.
4Garys7
"Invisible Sun," The Police
A song about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the song received little airplay in the UK and the video was banned by the BBC and not shown on its chart programme "Top of the Pops".
Dave
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