This is intriguing...

Some weirdo has taken ten vinyl albums which had all been banned in the past (to some degree); burned them on a bonfire and then attempted to play them again!

One of the albums is Purple Rain.

http://brianjosephdavis.com/banned/

where were these banned?

BTW, the purple rain one was very interesting to listen to
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SammiJ said:

Mostly due to lyrical content.

Purple Rain due to masturbating in a magazine.

banned in religions and at the npgmc.

It's more like documentary art. I think it has its merits.


M

sounds like some venitian snare's or doormouse. their stuff is pretty arty, i kinda like it.

btw, i hope he didn't pay alot for his stylus.

HamsterHuey said:

no it's more obvious why
but where specifically???

I just googled a bit and apparently Lets Go Crazy was banned in South Korea for unknown reasons and Purple Rain was the first album to carry a parental advisory sticker, after AL Gore objected to the lyrics of Darling Nikki.

LleeLlee said:

obscene purple bananas of course!

I hear partially melted records.

PurpleKnight said:

I could not bear to listen more than a couple of seconds

I liked the Stravinsky one and the Sex Pistols... It has some kind of rythem to me

Eline said:

Never Mind The Bollocks is in my top 10.

LleeLlee said:

Actually, wasn't that Tipper Gore or did she just made the headlines with this

HamsterHuey said:

My mistake, it was Tipper who bought the album for her daughter apparently and overheard Darling Nikki.

LleeLlee said:

My dad met her. Apparently she's a nice woman, which was interesting to me considering the censorship thing. Maybe she changed.

JPW said:

to be fair she shouldnt have had to explain to her daughter what masturbation was when she probably hadnt explained the birds and the bees yet.

muirdo said:

yeah it would have been early days for her daughter so i get that aspect of it.



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i like the sound of the purple rain one. but is it really what those
records sounded like when he played them again with all the damage??

i find that hard to believe. it sounds like something deliberately
mixed this way.

IstenSzek said:

yeah, i don't think it was real either, but i do think it's a great idea. it creeped me out.

Anx said:

Co-sign. They sound like cool sample loops that could be used as the backbone of a hip hop song or an electronic piece. The "noise" is most definitely organized. I like the photographs of the burnt LPs too. Even they have been "stylishly burnt". It all reminds me a bit of Jean Paul Gaultier's clothes in Fifth Element. I remember that Empire magazine wrote: "You haven't seen a ripped shirt until you've seen a ripped shirt by Jean Paul".

Eddie "this is sort of like, corps in open oblong oaken coffin"

Patsy "but is it art Eddie?"

Eddie "no darling, it's my father"

i wonder how the ending of Darling Nikki sounds spun backwards?