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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: PMRC revisited...
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 19:31:59 EDT
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In article <707@cornell.UUCP> rance@cornell.UUCP (Rance Cleaveland) writes:
>> "Parents' Music Responsibility (?) Committee", headed by the wives of Sen.
>> Gore (R-Tenn.) and Treasury Sec. Baker.
>
>Uh, I liked this article, but Albert Gore is a D, not an R.

Alright already!  I've seen at least two postings (and received mucho mail)
pointing this out... ironically, not a single one has mentioned PMRC's
correct name, which is "Parents' Music Resource Center."

Flame off.  I'd like to introduce a new subject for discussion:

PMRC proposes rating lyrics that are a) offensive sexually, b) violent,
c) "occult" (Satanic?  Astrological?), and d) drug/alcohol-related.  The first
two categories are pretty clear-cut; the latter are quite nebulous.  Many
rock lyrics have no literal "meaning" (what does, say, "Stairway to Heaven"
"mean"?); would those be lumped into the drug-related or occult categories
simply because they made no sense to a reviewer brought up on straightforward
50's pop tunes?

BTW, can anyone think of any songs that fall into all four categories
simultaneously?  Think Frank Zappa will write one?


AWR

"Congress shall make no law abr


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