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The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) compiled a list of 15 songs, dubbed the "Filthy 15," and we're revisiting them today to analyze how graphic these songs really were.
The 15 songs your parents tried to ban, that led to the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker There was a time when you could pick up an album, whether on CD or vinyl, without being warned ...
With “The Filthy 15,” a unapologetic punk song ripped right out of the early aughts, Berman pokes “holes in all their fearful arguments and hyperbole,” he tells American Songwriter.
Thirty years after the Parents Music Resource Center made a list of the "Filthy 15" most objectionable songs of the time, Rolling Stone looks back.
In 1985, the PMRC issued a list of 15 songs—nicknamed the "Filthy Fifteen"— which it deemed particularly objectionable and deserving of being banned from radio airplay.
In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center compiled a list of songs, famously referred to as “The Filthy Fifteen,” that posed a grave threat to susceptible listeners; among them were Mercyful ...
Lizée discusses her latest work, The Filthy Fifteen, which explores music censorship and the list of "offensive songs" the PMRC published in the mid-1980s.