Dire Strait's Money for Nothing is unsuitable for broadcast

[njiska]

What a wonderful world we live in where one uptight jag-off can complain about the use of Faggot in a 25 year old song and now the whole country is banned from playing it. Sure there's no actual fine associated as the Broadcast Standards Council has no real power, but that hasn't stopped 99% of stations from refusing to broadcast the full song.

Makes me proud to see my home radio station Q104 is going to defy the ruling with a one hour marathon.

Ridiculous ain't it?

http://www.q104.ca/blogs.asp?bloggerid=8

[PainAmplifier]

What a wonderful world we live in where one uptight jag-off can complain about the use of Faggot in a 25 year old song and now the whole country is banned from playing it. Sure there's no actual fine associated as the Broadcast Standards Council has no real power, but that hasn't stopped 99% of stations from refusing to broadcast the full song.

Makes me proud to see my home radio station Q104 is going to defy the ruling with a one hour marathon.

Ridiculous ain't it?

http://www.q104.ca/blogs.asp?bloggerid=8

Quite frankly, I think some people need to be offended. But the real failure is the complete tools that listen to them. THOSE are the people that need to be shuffled away into jobs where their lack of integrity can't ruin life for the rest of us.

[E. Randy Dupre]

Should have been banned yonks back on grounds of causing offense to the ears, tbh.

[sven666]

Should have been banned yonks back on grounds of causing offense to the ears, tbh.

you sir have no class nor taste.

pull your pants up and put that cap on straight..

[louisg]

I'm still freaked out that some people don't understand that the song isn't from the singer's point of view!

[Vexorg]

Some stations here have been playing the song with the verse in question omitted for years now. The one I mostly listen to just plays it in its original form.

[njiska]

Some stations here have been playing the song with the verse in question omitted for years now. The one I mostly listen to just plays it in its original form.

Well the traditional radio version and the music video version drop that lyric and most of the opening riff. However this was due to time constraints more than anything else. It is a long song after all.

[Stormwatch]

What a bunch of faggots.

[Skykid]

Quite frankly, I think some people need to be offended.

Or deserve to be.

[Domino]

The band sucks anyway.

[undamned]

Well the traditional radio version and the music video version drop that lyric and most of the opening riff. However this was due to time constraints more than anything else. It is a long song after all.

Ok. I was thinking I've heard that song way too many times to have missed such lyrics, but I've only heard it on the radio, never owned the 8-track.
-ud

[jonny5]

What a bunch of faggots.

I was going to post this very thing. Figured I would leave it alone.

[dcharlie]

I'm still freaked out that some people don't understand that the song isn't from the singer's point of view!

lol, indeed - came to post exactly this.

I wonder exactly who called for this to be banned? The ban offends me, who do i complain to?!

[Drum]

I'm still freaked out that some people don't understand that the song isn't from the singer's point of view!

That just makes it worse - song is clearly stereotyping bluecollars as ignorant bigots. Shame, shame.

[Enemy]

been a fan of Dire Straits for years and as one probably like most ... money for nothing is the last song I will play ... to say the band sucks is outrageous ...... Knopfler is one of the best guitarists ever ..... listen to sultans of swing and telegraph road live on alchemy ... and if you know anything about guitarists .. tell me he is not a genius ....

[Acid King]

Pretty silly, if you ask me. I must be lucky because I'd always heard the uncut version on the radio.

[Skykid]

I'm still freaked out that some people don't understand that the song isn't from the singer's point of view!

lol, indeed - came to post exactly this.

I wonder exactly who called for this to be banned? The ban offends me, who do i complain to?!

The sensibilities of our pussy western civilisation.
You wouldn't repaint a DaVinci cos the broad's got her tits out.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Oh no! They said fagot!

[Skykid]

It's not a problem in the UK. We eat them for dinner:



Mmm, tasty faggots!

[BIL]

How I snicker whenever I notice those in Tesco. Right across the aisle from Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. Nobody believes me back home on the other side of the pond that supermarkets sell faggots here!

[Skykid]

It's clearly an acceptable mainstream word.

[antron]

It's not a problem in the UK. We eat them for dinner:



Mmm, tasty faggots!

you smoke them too.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Apparently NewSouth Books, a publishing company from Alabama, turned all "niggers" into "slaves" in the latest print of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Allegedly because school libraries wouldn't buy it otherwise.

[njiska]

Apparently NewSouth Books, a publishing company from Alabama, turned all "niggers" into "slaves" in the latest print of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Allegedly because school libraries wouldn't buy it otherwise.

Yeah because Slave Jim is such an upgrade over Nigger Jim. Hell i think Darkie would've probably been better. And let's not forget that Johnny Rebel albums are still sold without censor in the US. Heaven help the kids that listen to that.

Listening to the first protest broadcast at http://q104.ca. It's been good so far. They opened with a moral statement and then had gay right activists on in between plays. Every time the word has been said it's been said in full. It's nice that they didn't avoid saying faggot when talking to the activists. Very to-the-point and respectful.

It's not a problem in the UK. We eat them for dinner:

IMG

Mmm, tasty faggots!

Eat some faggots and gobble some spotted dick?

[E. Randy Dupre]

been a fan of Dire Straits for years and as one probably like most ... money for nothing is the last song I will play ... to say the band sucks is outrageous ...... Knopfler is one of the best guitarists ever ..... listen to sultans of swing and telegraph road live on alchemy ... and if you know anything about guitarists .. tell me he is not a genius ....

He is not a genius.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Who cares whether Knopfler is a genius or not? Everybody and their dog can recognise his style instantly, which has to count for something. I don't play the guitar, can't tell Neil Young from his imitators (if I didn't know better already, I'd believe A Horse with No Name to be his song), but every time Knopfler is on the radio, I'm like "Hey, isn't it Knopfler?" He's communicative and he's not a wanker. I can name very few guitar players (Tommy Victor) who play non-masturbatory solos. Prong's Cleansing is one of those awfully produced albums of the early nineties I still enjoy listening to, despite the awful sound.
Come to think of it, when there's only one guitarist in a band, he or she is usually less of a wanker.

[CMoon]

I enjoyed Dire Straits in HS but quickly grew out of them. Money for Nothing certainly isn't one of their best songs, but it is very playful and the lyrics intentionally obnoxious. It's just another part of Americana that is no longer suitable for general consumption. Wow.

[njiska]

It's just another part of Americana that is no longer suitable for general consumption. Wow.

Um, they're Scottish.

[brentsg]

It's one of those songs where "you had to be there". Good stuff.

Dialing it up on iTunes now.

[CMoon]

It's just another part of Americana that is no longer suitable for general consumption. Wow.

Um, they're Scottish.

Hahahaha! You're right, but it's been a part of American culture since MTV made it such a huge hit. It doesn't make me less wrong mind you, but I think you can see what I mean.

I can't say if it plays all over the radio in Scotland or anywhere else.