Making the world safe for retired rockers
The NFL says the Stones agreed to be censored for the Super Bowl show. The snips, according to Reuters:
During “Start Me Up,” the line “you make a dead man come” was cut short. A barnyard reference to “cocks” in the new song “Rough Justice” also mysteriously disappeared.
Update: Bible to be rewritten. Jesus now denied three times before barnyard birdies make noise.
Tags: Howard_Stern
February 7th, 2006 at 11:05 am
You do know that this isn’t the only time the Stones have agreed to tone it down in order to get a high profile TV good.
Good businessmen, those anti-establishment rebels….
http://simr02.si.ehu.es/FileRoom/documents/Cases/63rollingStones.html
February 7th, 2006 at 11:31 am
The Rolling Stones of 2006 are about as rebellious as Mickey Mouse. Earn almost as much money as he does, too - a family of four can visit Disney World for two full days for the price of one Stones ticket in NYC. New album’s pretty damn good, though.
February 7th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
I believe Mick Jagger was singing “Start Me Up” to a guy with the defribulator.
February 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Fibrillation’s not funny today. (See a few posts down.)
February 7th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
I admit the new album has some surprisingly good rockers (or at least one that I heard, I don’t have the album), but I don’t want to see even a 20-year-old dude shaking his ass like Mick Jagger was shaking his ass on that stage.
Also, maybe for the money they’re putting into the production they could make sure the television audience was getting good sound. Jagger’s voice at its best - and youngest - can’t withstand a balance like that. It reminded me of the recordings Stern would play where a famous singer’s voice was isolated from the music and just makes them sound like they suck.
February 7th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
was it me or did Mick have a speach impediment??
To me it sounded like “I twy” “I twy” “I twy” instead of “I Try” during “Satisfaction”????
February 7th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Ever see the film “Jumping Jack Flash” where Whoopi Goldberg at one point has to decipher that song’s lyrics and fails? At the end, she collapses and tells the record “Mick, Mick, speak English!”
February 7th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
As Mike G. mentioned, the Rolling Stones have a long history of “caving” to the TV censors (and the radio censors; the song “Some Girls” contains the F-word. It is one of the reasons that they are as successful as they are. It’s show BUSINESS. It’s also why they were invited back arguably regularly to the Ed Sullivan show. Good for them.
If you want all the words, you gotta buy the album.
February 7th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
If only they’d sounded good at the halftime show, but nooooo . . .
February 7th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
It’s no different with Toby Keith’s song, ‘The Taliban’. I had to buy the CD because politically correct stations wouldn’t play the song–afraid of pissing off a certain segment of society. It didn’t even have any bad words.
February 8th, 2006 at 1:22 am
penny,
LOL! The bar where I watched the game had sound that didn’t match lips throughout. Arrggghh.
ct,
I guess I’m not too old to care if they’re still shakin’ their booties after all these years - not that you Are. It took me right back to 1981 when they did their first live PPV concert on ON TV.
Jeff,
Hope that heart of yours behaves itself. I had a heart attack at age 31 from a clot…made the med books and I even lived to tell the tale. I’m sure you will, too. Be well.
February 8th, 2006 at 2:36 am
What I couldn’t help thinking, as I watched that halftime show, was that if you had a time machine and could take a tape of this back to, say, 1972 or so and show it to the Stones of that day, the same guys, they’d be horrified. Remember “hope I die before I get old.”? If those 72 guys could know they would end up playing the Superbowl in 2006, singing their hit songs from over 30 years before, in effect the world’s most high priced oldies nostalgia band, they would have taken themselves down in a group suicide pact.
February 8th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Why should the Stones care about The Who’s lyrics?
February 8th, 2006 at 9:20 am
“Fibrillation’s not funny today.”
Oh crap, sorry Jeff!
How about everyone just pretend that reads-
“Shouldn’t the Half Time show have been sponsored by Depends, the Adult Diaper?”
February 8th, 2006 at 9:37 am
Rich,
just joking in return.
now are you saying something else about me?
February 8th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Jarvis, I ask you: just when the hell are you going to grow up and join the ranks of adults? What are you–nearly 60? And still you don’t understand something as simple as the idea that tens of millions of adult Americans don’t want and won’t accept slimy language into their home through the television, where their children can hear it and thus get the implicit message that polite society accepts this crap? You can bitch all you want about censorship, but most thinking people know and understand that there’s a time and place for everything. Get over it.
February 8th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
John Ettorre, who are the thinking people that know and understand that there’s a time and place for everything? You? The Superbowl is a testosterone-filled event. Why would want your child(ren) see men hitting each other and risking being permamently paralyzed?
Then I don’t want to meet you, a social coward who doesn’t mind bending over backwards like a good slave. Unless it’s slander, libel, verbal endangerment under a false pretense, verbally threatening a politico and sexually exploiting REAL kids, censorship’s A FUCKING JOKE and everybody who believes it. You should be the one who should grow up and learn you’re a slave to the moral majority.
Don’t like it, GOD FUCK YOU.