Lyric malfunction: Rolling Stones' sexually explicit lyrics bleeped out

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/SI.com/AP: Lyric malfunction
Rolling Stones' sexually explicit lyrics bleeped out


NEW YORK (AP) -- They may not have flashed any body parts -- except for Mick Jagger's well-toned stomach -- but the Rolling Stones made ABC glad it imposed a five-second tape delay on the Super Bowl halftime show.

Two sexually explicit lyrics were excised from the rock legends' performance Sunday. The only song to avoid the editor was (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, a 41-year-old song about sexual frustration.

In Start Me Up, ABC's editors silenced one word, a reference to a woman's sexual sway over a dead man. The lyrics for Rough Justice included a synonym for rooster that the network also deemed worth cutting out.

It was the first time a network had imposed a five-second tape delay on the Super Bowl, a sensitivity that no doubt reflects a lingering reaction to Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe malfunction two years ago....

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Some in Detroit felt the city's rich musical history was snubbed when the Stones were selected, even if the Super Bowl had Motown-themed halftime shows twice in the past 25 years. This year's Motown tribute came before the game....


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/specials/playoffs/2005/02/05/entertainment.ap/index.html

[MrModerate]

1. Hell, the lyrics were so muddy on that terrible sound system . . .

That Mick could have been singing the Barney theme song for all I could tell.

[ClintonTyree]

2. I caught that.............

"you make a dead man come" was cut out. It sounded as if Mick was just out of breath. Again. All in all I thought their performance was dreadful, there comes a time when you just have to hang up the microphones, guitars and drums. I think that time has come for the Rolling Stones.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. That was bleeped? Ridiculous. nt

[Mizmoon]

23. not bleeped, Mick slurred it so it wouldn't be clear

eom

[Mizmoon]

22. Me too!

Mick's getting old in more ways than one.

[Bassic]

40. Their performances were always dreadful

These guys haven't known the meaning of being tight since Keith Richards first met his dealer.

[zbdent]

3. Question - did ABC totally bleep out Terry Bradshaw because

he works for another network, or was he not in attendance at the "SuperBowl parade of MVPs"?

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Thank goodness I didn't watch the half-time show, then.

From what I hear, I didn't miss much.

:evilgrin:

[bemildred]

5. We would not want anything tacky at the Stupor Bowl now, would we? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. They should have bleeped out the whole show

[Village Idiot]

8. So I suppose a chorus of "Cocksucker Blues" won't pass either?

what hypocrites...I can remember a line from Col Walter E. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now:"

"They teach young men to drop fire on people...but they won't let them write "fuck" on their airplanes because...it's obscene."

[DinahMoeHum]

21. neither would the chorus to "Star Star".

"...star-fucker, star-fucker, star-fucker, star-fucker, star..."

:evilgrin:

[fshrink]

9. On all radios

all words disapproved by the US ayatollahs are bleeped out. That goes for the puny "shit" of "bullshit" in "Money" by the Pink Floyd as well. I am talking from the country, Wyoming, Nebraska etc...

[Roland99]

13. I think it's hilarious how some words slip through but others don't

Look at the song from Nazareth with the line "now you're messing with a son of a bitch". That's ok.

And Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 has the oft-missed "Fuck off!" yelled by a kid at the end of the song.

The Who's Who Are You has "Who the fuck are you" and that usually gets through.

[cascadiance]

20. Yeah, and songs like "Imagine" are kept off the air after 9/11!

The infinite "wisdom" of Clear Channel at work! Ugh!

[ticapnews]

10. well-toned stomach?

I just wish they had sung Sweet Neocon...

[walkon]

11. Hey! Maybe they could bring back

Up With People! Those were some really great shows!

[soothsayer]

12. At first I thought Mick had self-censored, but when 'cocks' got

bleeped---and it really is used in a way that refers to chickens, but also as a double-entendre---i just had to laugh.

[mumon]

14. We can't say "cock" anymore on TV?

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[cascadiance]

15. I assume they didn't play before the Super Bowl...

I recall last year when Fogerty played before the Superbowl, he was able to get in some good tunes like Favorite Son in that were slamming this administration which were enjoyable to watch at the time. I imagine that the Stones couldn't get away with playing Sweet Neocon at half time with more attention focused then on what had to also be a smaller selection of songs too then. Too bad. Would have loved to see them have played that though, even though they've already knuckled under towards downplaying the meaning of that song as it is in other contexts.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

16. Fortunate Son.

[cascadiance]

17. You are so right... I knew that too!

Damn, they already are infecting my brain today! I think Fogerty also played Bad Moon Rising too!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

19. No biggie. I get so pissed off at *, I forget momentarily, too.

[raysr]

18. It's ridiculous what

the fundies are doing to this country.

[BooScout]

24. Who could tell what they sang?

The sound system sucked and so did they. Jagger's batwings were not too attractive either.

[amandabeech]

25. They should have asked Bob Seger if he had any interest in

performing live. He's from the area and his music is extremely popular even though he hasn't toured in years.

A show of Seger and Motown would have summed up Detroit pretty well, although you might consider the MC5 and Mitch Ryder if they are still alive and playing.

[0rganism]

26. That was hardly the most alarming thing about the Stones' performance

OK, let's cut to the chase and face it, THEY SUCKED.

Yes, that's right, the Stones have long since proven Jethro Tull incorrect, you certainly can be "too old to rock & roll", even moreso onstage at a nationally-televised event. They butchered their own music! It was fucking uh-glay. All comments about his "well-toned stomach" aside, Jagger could barely waddle across the tongue-shaped stage. Perhaps his six-pack abs have become too heavy for his shakey quads to support. Woods and Richards inspire more pity than awe. Their presence only reinforces the farce that the Superbowl has become: geriatric musicians interrupting a near-continuous stream of overproduced beer commercials broadcast to a morbidly obese television audience, while tickets for the event itself sell for thousands of dollars to those wealthy enough not to be adversely affected by the motor city layoffs. Vince Lombardi rolls in his grave during the halftime show, and his zombie stalks the nightmares of half-assed color commentators. Bogus "replay officials" stare into hooded monitors like would-be-Spocks on the bridge of an erstwhile Enterprise, wondering what the fuck went wrong with their empty lives.

/rant

[amandabeech]

29. Watts looked to be the best of the lot.

I agree with you on the others.

[Thor_MN]

27. I wasn't paying too much attention to it, but what was on the stage?

Looked like a pile of cloth. I was thinking either a towel or a pair of granny panties...

[LoZoccolo]

28. Bring back Up With People! n/t

[HuffleClaw]

30. "a synonym for rooster"

hahahhhhahahahaha

pretty lame and petty if you asks me.

[NuttyFluffers]

31. that got you too? :) it's the start of grand new game! :D

"a nickname for richard"

"an acronym of 'this'"

"an term of endearment for the house cat"

"a word comprised of the first syllable of 'country'"

"a task said to involve exhalation"

:rofl:
someone needs to convert those into hot keys or something so we can curse and still get past the censors.
:+

[Wheres The Beef]

32. Strolling Bones

They haven't "Jumped the Shark" Hell, They would have tripped over it!

[DeepModem Mom]

33. Welcome to DU, Wheres The Beef!

[Julius Civitatus]

34. A nation of prudes and puritans

That's how the planet sees us. This 'bleeping out' words is the most pathetic, puritanic, fake, tight-ass behavior. It's sad, pathetic, and over all, a way to tell the populace that they can't handle certain aspects of real life. We need the puritan police to 'shelter us' from hearing some 'bad, dirty, dirty words."

:eyes:

Yet somehow, this nation of prudes and puritans can give the world spectacles like Abu Ghraib (and then have the same puritanical voices minimize it as harmless 'frat hazing.')

[fishwax]

35. "a reference to a woman's sexual sway over a dead man"

:rofl:

very tactfully put

:rofl:

[Ani Yun Wiya]

36. The bleeps were only present in "america".

The tv broadcast cut the air play.
(So tv land in "america" would not be offended)
Mick's microphone was cut in volume for two one second intervals.
(So the stadium audience would not be offended)

However, Mick DID sing the lyrics as is plain to hear in the tapes of foreign broadcasts.

Welcome to "america", land of the free ???

What a bunch of uptight asshats.

As to the performance: excellent as always.

[lumpy]

37. Laughed throughout the whole

presentation. Funny to watch the animated stick fugure wiggle his skinny ass.

[Minstrel Boy]

38. "Start Me Up" was originally the campaign song of

Ontario's Conservative Party in 1995. I remember seeing Mike Harris asked what he thought "make a dead man come" meant. I think he said he hadn't listened to the words.

[alcibiades_mystery]

39. Girl we couldn't get much...ahem...better

:rofl:

[BenDavid]

41. The Stones approved the word(s) be

taken out....

[Bake]

42. It was appropriate to bleep it.

This has nothing to do with First Amendment. The Super Bowl is a family show. Did we really NEED to hear Mick sing "make a dead man come" at the halftime show of the Super Bowl?

Is there no such thing as TASTE anymore? Just because one CAN do a thing does not mean one SHOULD do that thing.

Bake

[Ani Yun Wiya]

43. And just what...

did you think of the Brittney Spears T&A for the pizza commercial?

[Bake]

44. Wasn't that Jessica Simpson?

I thought that too was in poor taste.

Since you asked.

Bake

[Critters2]

45. self-delete

[Critters2]

46. I was watching Puppy Bowl II

but mostly reading. Switched over long enough to see Mick's upper arm skin floppin' all over the place, but switched back, since I hadn't yet eaten dinner.

:puke: