Duh.
Reminds me of when they started slapping those parental warning âexplicit lyricsâ stickers on CDâs at the record stores in the mall. It might have been on a type of music that you didnât really even care about and normally wouldnât have looked at, but when you saw THAT sticker on it, your brain automatically forced your arm/hand to pick that up to look at/buy it hahaha.
I think those explicit lyric stickers did a HUGE favor to the rap industry in particular, probably loved by the record producers, the studios, and the rappers themselves as I bet they boosted sales, even for guys not named Tupac, Biggie, etc.
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2 Live Crew immediately comes to mind, also, as their album was particularly raunchy, but as kids we LOVED it.
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So relateable. Me, You & @Chris_Shugart are all occupying the same age bracket here.
I always think about how they slapped one on Frank Zappaâs âJazz from Hellâ.
Itâs an instrumental album.
Yeah, I believe we are all around the same age.
Now Iâm also remembering when they started to also put that thick black bar across the nudie magazine covers as well! You could still see the titleâŠplayboy, penthouse, Oui, Cherry, Swank (those last 3 were the really trashy but very explicit ones, Iâm just lolâing because I canât believe I remember those names), but man when they started doing that, when you would just glance over at the magazines you instantly were drawn to the magazines with that damn black bar, hiding âthe good stuffâ lol. It was a good thing that one guy in my group of HS friends started shaving like in the damn 6th grade, so he looked WAY older and if we went to the really run-down convenience stores, they didnât give a damn and would sell him magazines, beer, ciggs, whatever we wanted! Awwww, man, the good ol days. I guess todayâs kids donât know how good they have it, they can just type âboobâ into their phones and see all which we used to struggle to see. From having a friend of a friend break into his dadâs âsecretâ VHS collection to swipe a porno, to the guy down the street who ghetto-rigged his cable connection so that he could receive the X-rated channels. Or, when he wasnât around, weâd just watch the channels with all the fuzz and those damn scrolling horizontal lines in the way, hoping to catch a glimpse of something naughty, if but for only a brief second. We had to WORK to get our vices back in the day!
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Yes. Not exactly the sort of cassettes I should have had at 11 years old, though I did.
