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Marcella-FL
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| disturbing that they are banning the video. Is this guy always so goofy when he sings? I love this song (always have) and think this is one of the weakest versions .. |
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major.tom
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| This is truly shocking. Banning a song for fear of offending the government??? BBC should be speaking for the people (their owners), not the gov't. And what kind of government does GBR have that we should be concerned about offending them? This is what you see under totalitarian regimes... |
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| Marcella-FL wrote: | | disturbing that they are banning the video. Is this guy always so goofy when he sings? I love this song (always have) and think this is one of the weakest versions .. |
it isn't the best version at all - in the Galloway section there's a thread called Ugly Rumours where you can hear all the versions that seem to be available. My personal favourite was The Temptations version, though I quite liked Springsteen's version too.
The guy in the video was just playing it up cos he looks quite like Tony Blair - but that is him singing the song as far as I know. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| major.tom wrote: | | This is truly shocking. Banning a song for fear of offending the government??? BBC should be speaking for the people (their owners), not the gov't. And what kind of government does GBR have that we should be concerned about offending them? This is what you seen under totalitarian regimes... |
it really is eh? I'm now pissed off that I pay my licence fee. Fucking arses that they are!
The last song I remember the BBC banning was something by some Jamaican rapper that was completely misogynistic, which was fair enough - but where's the offence in this song? If there's a problem why didn't they ban it before? Frankie Goes To Hollywood did their version in the 80s and it was fine - even though they mocked Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov - yet this version is bannable?
I'd happily punch a bbc exec in the head for this and then have a "self-defence" approach in court! |
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IRiSHMaFIA
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That's utterly ridiculous them banning it. What in hell right does the government have doing that? Is it turning into a police state so as to not offend the pricks that are responsible for murdering 100's of thousands of people?
The only thing that should be banned here is the government trying to take liberties over peoples civil rights to release and to listen music or videos of their choice. Suspension of that is going back to the dark ages as far as I'm concerned.
They've caused more grief for themselves by doing this as it will promote more attention. |
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Marcella-FL
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| faceless wrote: | | Frankie Goes To Hollywood did their version in the 80s and it was fine - even though they mocked Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov - |
I loved their "Two Tribes" video with Reagan and Gorby mud wrestling |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| was it Gorby? Ah well - these russkies are all the same! haha |
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nekokate
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| faceless wrote: | | The last song I remember the BBC banning was something by some Jamaican rapper that was completely misogynistic... |
I think that might have been Baja Banton. It's a shame that a lot of reggae is so homophobic because I kind of like the style of music.
I'm so enraged that they've tried to mute the publicity for this single, especially since every person who owns a TV is forced to essentially "subscribe" yearly to them or face a court appearance - they are totally disrespecting a large portion of their customers. Makes me go crazy!
One good thing that might come out of this situation is that people who aren't necessarily strongly anti-war, but have an intense dislike of the BBC, may well hear about this on another channel and buy a copy of the single as a way of sticking 2 fingers up at the corporation. Hopefully, anyway... |
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