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So, considering that promo clip just dropped for the title track from David Bowie's new album, The Day After Tomorrow—which basically set the internet on fire the second it went live, before being pulled from YouTube for a hot minute only to pop back up again soon—I figured it might be a fun time to take a little trip down memory lane. It feels right to look back at all those music videos that were slapped with an "indecent" label over the years and subsequently banned from public airwaves for a while.
In fact, the latest feature in the prestigious Rolling Stones magazine dives right into this exact topic:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ideos-20130509
Here’s an older one from back in 2012 for comparison:
http://globalgrind.com/music/too-hot...evision-videos
Essentially, we’re talking about any and all music videos classified as such, spanning the entire history of the medium from its rise in the mid-70s all the way to the present day.
To kick things off, here is a somewhat obscure and relatively under-the-radar example that, by some miracle, recently resurfaced on YouTube:
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf (banned version) (1981)
In fact, the latest feature in the prestigious Rolling Stones magazine dives right into this exact topic:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ideos-20130509
Here’s an older one from back in 2012 for comparison:
http://globalgrind.com/music/too-hot...evision-videos
Essentially, we’re talking about any and all music videos classified as such, spanning the entire history of the medium from its rise in the mid-70s all the way to the present day.
To kick things off, here is a somewhat obscure and relatively under-the-radar example that, by some miracle, recently resurfaced on YouTube:
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf (banned version) (1981)