Nice try, Mole, but no seegar!

I was a teenager back in the 80s when Tipper Gore started the PMRC. None of us kids could really figure out why. I guess there were some things on people's albums that were offensive but the stuff on the radio back then seemed pretty inocuous, at least it did to us anyway. My friends and I were listening to the Police and Duran Duran and Culture Club. Ozzy took a lot of heat for some of his hijinks but I was never into that.

I guess what I'm saying is, these same sorts of arguments have been made for years about different people (which someone already pointed out) and I really have to say, pop music never convinced me to do anything except sing along. And Joe Camel never convinced me to smoke either.

Now - that being said - I realize there are people of a very sensitive nature who could be set over the edge by the least thing, a song on the radio included. But I think they are in the minority.

No, he is not carrying a folk torch, but I found it interesting that the record company exec on the news story compared the song "Kim" to an old-time murder ballad. I think she had grounds there from the standpoint that songs about death, murder and violence have been around ever since people have been singing. But like Rob-o said, the perpetrators in a lot of those old songs either have remorse or get punished.

And the Doors were popular in their day, Grammy or no Grammy, and Riders on the Storm was a hit song.