Babwa WawaWAWAWAWAAAAAAAahhhh!!

Hahaha, retards. Stone Phillips called Megadeth Iron Maiden.

That was a non-story; geeks, preps...a group feeling like outcasts?

Say it ain't so!

Ahhh....1987,

Slayer
Melvins
Big Black
Scratch Acid
Laughing Hyenas

....some heavy-ass sh*t went down back in 87.


(you didn't think I was gonna list "hair-metal" bands did you?)

I was watching this with my girlfriend at her apartment. My mom was watching it at the same time at home. About halfway through, my girlfriend decided we better get over to my house right away, just in case my mom decided to start looking through my albums.

craigdamage: Ahhh....1987,

Slayer
Melvins
Big Black
Scratch Acid
Laughing Hyenas

....some heavy-ass sh*t went down back in 87.


(you didn't think I was gonna list "hair-metal" bands did you?)

Any of those five bands would absolutely beat the shiat out of any "hair metal" band.

And in Big Black's case, Albini would write a scathing 'zine article to add insult to the injury.

/not sure Steve Albini could actually beat anyone up though

I love how "Suicide Solution" is cited as a song about explicitly committing suicide. Farking idiots.

BigG: I love how "Suicide Solution" is cited as a song about explicitly committing suicide. Farking idiots.

I once read some idiot blathering on about The Clash's song "Straight To Hell" was about killing yourself and going to hell, not about the Vietnam War and how America has affected the Third World.

I guess Stone never read to the lyrics to those S.O.D. tunes that the kids in the video were listening to. Most of the lyrics on Speak English or Die are damn funny. Milk is a funny track and The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix is gold!
F*** the Middle East is just as current now as it was then. Looks like Billy, Scott, and Dan were on to something........

Form the comments on Part II:

"I would like to see Bruce Dickinson in a battle of wits with that Tipper Gore. He would destroy her."

Couldn't have said it better myself!!

Teenagers listen to metal. Teenagers commit suicide. Metal kills teenagers. Oh, except for the ones that it doesn't.

/flawless logic right there

craigdamage: Ahhh....1987,

Slayer
Melvins
Big Black
Scratch Acid
Laughing Hyenas

....some heavy-ass sh*t went down back in 87.


(you didn't think I was gonna list "hair-metal" bands did you?)



YOU WIN, MY FRIEND.

Seriously, how tame is all this compared with all the gansta rap and hiphop during the nineties and onward??? I guess tipper just gave up...

Didn't Jello end up on Oprah dismantling Tipper? Or did Oprah eat the Jello?

Most folks still associate "heavy metal" with a lot of that crap that came out in the '80s by such craptastic bands as Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, Dokken, and Dio.

Most of that crap is bad that it seeing old videos of those bands has become amazingly funny.

This clip is so farking hilarious, I remember going through all that crap with Tipper and Blackie Lawless.

Best quote "A heavy metal cassette box was found..."

Just WOW

Hahaha. I remember all the PMRC crap regarding heavy metal. If anything Tipper and her crap brought metal to the forefront and made it a household phrase. You think they would have learned with their prior attempts against jazz, Elvis, various books and anyone else who bucked the system.

Anyhow, enjoy a couple of songs written for the PMRC.

Megadeth - Hook in Mouth

Anthrax - Startin' Up a Posse NSFW lyrics.

I was 16 in 1987 (ACK!!!) and came home from my girlfriend's house the night this actually aired. My father watched it and decided to just check things out...

ME: Hi Dad.
My Dad: Hey I watched 20/20 tonight and it was all about heavy metal music and Iron Maiden. It made me wonder so I looked at your records.
ME: Yeah so? I got a right to rock man!!! (not really. My dad would have smacked me for being so lame)
My Dad: You going to commit suicide?
ME: Nah. Not unless this conversation goes on any longer.
My Dad: Good, cause your Mom would never believe you did it because Iron Maiden told you to. She'd blame me and I'd have to clean up the mess and probably never live it down.
ME: There's a plan!
My Dad: Shut up wiseass and quit stealing my cigarettes you little goof!

And we lived happily ever after.

Being a metalhead kid in the 80's was a weird thing man.

Whatthefark: Hahaha. I remember all the PMRC crap regarding heavy metal. If anything Tipper and her crap brought metal to the forefront and made it a household phrase. You think they would have learned with their prior attempts against jazz, Elvis, various books and anyone else who bucked the system.

I found Frank Zappa's testimony (new window) on YouTube. Frank really sticks it to 'em. I also remember John Denver testified in that hearing against the PMRC. They expected him to be on their side, but he instead said that he was opposed to any kind of censorship in music.

Whatthefark: Hahaha. I remember all the PMRC crap regarding heavy metal. If anything Tipper and her crap brought metal to the forefront and made it a household phrase. You think they would have learned with their prior attempts against jazz, Elvis, various books and anyone else who bucked the system.

Anyhow, enjoy a couple of songs written for the PMRC.

Megadeth - Hook in Mouth

Anthrax - Startin' Up a Posse NSFW lyrics.

Don't forget, Judas Priest - Parental Guidance
W.A.S.P. - Eat Me Raw
and probably about 500 other songs by every metal band of the era. It became required that if you played metal you wrote a song slamming th PMRC in the mid-80s.

Anthrax - Startin' Up a Posse NSFW lyrics.

shiat. fark. Satan. Death. Sex. Drugs. Rape.

//testing the filter
/coonty, coonty, coonty

coonty?

skippytheferret: ME: No dad, what about you?
DAD: fark you!!!

Bukharin: skippytheferret: ME: No dad, what about you?
DAD: fark you!!!

Yeah something like that.

In a kind of sad way...

"We need to get some really stupid ass kids to interview."

"Hey, I know... let's go to Jersey!"

Won't someone think of the children??

That was excellent. It was like a 20/20 episode dedicated to my ipod.

Goonie_Goo_Goo: "We need to get some really stupid ass kids to interview."

"Hey, I know... let's go to Jersey!"

Teaneck's a pretty nice place. They've got Jews instead of guidos.

At Eat_At_Milliways: Hahaha, retards. Stone Phillips called Megadeth Iron Maiden.
If you're talking about the beginning of his report, it was Iron Maiden. Megadeth came towards the end of the video and he correctly identified them.

In my high school, around this time as well, most of the burnouts were metalheads, but not all the metalheads were burnouts. In fact, most of us were honors students and used to stop the jocks from beating up other kids in the school.

My mother got riled up after seeing one of these news reports and tried to make me take off an Iron Maiden shirt I was wearing. But its kind of hard to say a certain type of music is ruining your child's life when they've just been accepted to an Ivy league school. I showed her lyrics from Ozzy, Maiden, etc. in context to counter the news reports. It was never an issue after that.

i remember halford saying something like,'why would we want to kill our own audience?' that made alot of sense to me as a kid, apparently it didnt make any sense at all to these dipshiat adults.

skippytheferret: Don't forget, Judas Priest - Parental Guidance
W.A.S.P. - Eat Me Raw
and probably about 500 other songs by every metal band of the era. It became required that if you played metal you wrote a song slamming th PMRC in the mid-80s

Yeah, those were the ones off the top of my head. Especially the Anthrax one. They pulled no punches telling Tipper where to go.

skippytheferret: Don't forget, Judas Priest - Parental Guidance
W.A.S.P. - Eat Me Raw
and probably about 500 other songs by every metal band of the era. It became required that if you played metal you wrote a song slamming th PMRC in the mid-80s.

Even the pussies in Warrant added their two cents (new window)

/submitter

I'm pretty sure Kevin Eubanks plays the solos to all of these songs every weekday night

Man, my mother must've seen this story when it aired. I remember her coming into my room and begging me to take down my Iron Maiden Aces High poster.

Anybody else laugh at the frisbee comment?

Evil shiat, that heavy metal stuff. I once listened to Maiden's "Flash of the Blade" continuously for 5 days.

I went on to win the gold medal for men's individual foil at Barcelona. Ahh, good times.

/apologies to Sergei Golubitsky

mahavishnunj: i remember halford saying something like,'why would we want to kill our own audience?' that made alot of sense to me as a kid, apparently it didnt make any sense at all to these dipshiat adults.

Look, when Satan commands you to kill your audience, YOU DO IT!!

skippytheferret: I was 16 in 1987 (ACK!!!) and came home from my girlfriend's house the night this actually aired. My father watched it and decided to just check things out...

ME: Hi Dad.
My Dad: Hey I watched 20/20 tonight and it was all about heavy metal music and Iron Maiden. It made me wonder so I looked at your records.
ME: Yeah so? I got a right to rock man!!! (not really. My dad would have smacked me for being so lame)
My Dad: You going to commit suicide?
ME: Nah. Not unless this conversation goes on any longer.
My Dad: Good, cause your Mom would never believe you did it because Iron Maiden told you to. She'd blame me and I'd have to clean up the mess and probably never live it down.
ME: There's a plan!
My Dad: Shut up wiseass and quit stealing my cigarettes you little goof!

And we lived happily ever after.

Being a metalhead kid in the 80's was a weird thing man.

I kind of had the same conversation with my dad, I was 13 in 87. My dad was cool because he had partied with Bob Seger and Grand Fun Railroad back in the day. He knew the score, we had a good laugh about the 20/20 story and went on with life.

Heavy Metal Rules! (new window)

/I still love the Rock Chicks!

I was born on an almost 100% Christian/Catholic island. Metalheads were almost extinct, and of those...only a minority of them listened to "real" metal.

As most of you all know, a lot of Christians are narrowminded when it comes to rock/metal music. Me and my friends wore band shirts, which were all mostly black, so naturally they started confusing us with another culture slowly on the rise : goths. Furthermore, they alligned both these groups with satanism.

A reporter then approached us at school one day and offered us a chance to clear our names and defend ourselves. Me and my friends were intelligent kids, but not enough apparently. The interviewer asked us if we visited cemeteries (some dumb kids apparently defiled some headstones a couple of weeks earlier). I answered with : "If a loved one or relative passed away, of course we would want to pay our respects one last time. So yeah, of course we visit cemeteries, who doesn't?"

Needless to say, they edited my answer to the bold part only. And that my friends, is how a reporter screwed us metalheads singlehandedly on national television. It doesn't sound too bad until you take into account I used to live on a small island where you are easily identifiable.

// not too worry though, a brick I threw installed instant natural air-conditioning to said reporter's 4x4 windshield.
///she was hawt though
////had fake boobs

Ahh, the 80's. Grew up then and listend to all the good metal stuff. I laugh at todays music. Marilyn Manson? Please, Venom would eat you alive.

cabritosaurio: // not too worry though, a brick I threw installed instant natural air-conditioning to said reporter's 4x4 windshield.
///she was hawt though
////had fake boobs

you should have thrown the brick at her bewbs

momojoboo: Ahh, the 80's. Grew up then and listend to all the good metal stuff. I laugh at todays music. Marilyn Manson? Please, Venom would eat you alive.

If by "today's music" you mean 1998, then I guess Marilyn Manson would qualify.

mahavishnunj: cabritosaurio: // not too worry though, a brick I threw installed instant natural air-conditioning to said reporter's 4x4 windshield.
///she was hawt though
////had fake boobs

you should have thrown the brick at her bewbs

Yeah, I but I would have risked hitting my eyes.

I wonder what he would think of the heavy stuff now. Good gawd I love the heavy heavy shiz!