Parents Music Resource Center
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) is a body founded in the USA in 1985 with the aim of informing parents about a specially diagnosed brutalization of texts in current music. A trend towards sexual and violence-related content as well as the glorification of alcohol and other drug use is pointed out. Complained songs were marked with X ( profane or sexually explicit 'profane or sexually offensive'), O ( occult ' occult '), D / A ( drugs or alcohol , drugs or alcohol ') or V ( violent ' violent ').
Founders were the so-called "Washington wives": Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore ), Susan Baker (wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker ), Pam Howar (wife of Washington real estate agent Raymond Howar ) and Sally Nevius (wife of the chairman of the Washington city administration John Nevius ). The efforts of the PMRC were greeted by Sheila Walsh (singer) and Pat Robertson supported
The PMRC proposed voluntary self-regulation by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) together with the music industry. Guidelines and rating systems similar to those in the film industry should be established. Another suggestion related to warnings on the respective record covers . This proposal was finally implemented in the form of the parental advisory sticker.
Filthy Fifteen
This is how the list of Filthy Fifteen ('dirty fifteen') came about with the 15 most obnoxious songs:
| Artist | Song title | content | |
| 1 | Prince | Darling Nikki | Sex / masturbation |
| 2 | Sheena Easton | Sugar Walls | sex |
| 3 | Judas Priest | Eat Me Alive | sex |
| 4th | Vanity | Strap on Robbie Baby | sex |
| 5 | Mötley Crüe | bastard | violence |
| 6th | AC / DC | Let Me Put My Love into You | sex |
| 7th | Twisted Sister | We're Not Gonna Take It | violence |
| 8th | Madonna | Dress you up | sex |
| 9 | WASP | Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) | Sex / language |
| 10 | Def Leppard | High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night) | drug consumption |
| 11 | Mercyful Fate | Into the coven | occultism |
| 12 | Black Sabbath | Trashed | drug consumption |
| 13 | Mary Jane Girls | In my house | sex |
| 14th | Venom | Possessed | occultism |
| 15th | Cyndi Lauper | She bop | Sex / masturbation |
Dave Mustaine formulated sharp criticism of the PMRC's censorship measures in the song Hook In Mouth , which appeared on Megadeth's 1988 album So Far, So Good… So What! has been published. The American performance artist Karen Finley responded to the censorship measures in 1987 with the title Dear PMRC on her album "The Truth Is Hard To Swollow".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Holland: Washington Mothers Blast 'Pornographic' Rock Lyrics . In: Billboard , May 11, 1985.
- ^ Niel Slaven: Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa . London: Omnibus Press 2009.
- ↑ Chastagner, Claude: The Parents' Music Resource Center: From Information to Censorship . In: Popular Music . tape 18 , no. 2 , p. 179-192 .
- ↑ Jonathan Green and Nicholas J. Karolides: Encyclopedia of censorship . 1st edition. Facts On File, New York 2005, pp. 625 .
- ^ Parental Advisory Label website of the RIAA. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
- ^ Karen Finley Discogs Karen Finley Discography. Retrieved April 11, 2019.