> I listen to a classic rock station and *nothing* is censored or edited. That would include everything from Pink Floyd's 'Money' with the line:
> "Don't give me that do goody-good bull(fecal matter)"
> to The Who's 'Who Are You' which uses the f*** word about a dozen times. Additionally, there are many songs with violence:
> "Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
> 'I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady, I caught her messin' 'round with another man'",
> or even drugs:
> "When your day is done and you wanna ru-un; cocaine".
>
> It would seem that censorship is not retroactive.
>
> That makes *A LOT* of sense.
>
> Tra "plenty o' songs about drinking, too" nio

Let's also not forget Steve Miller's "I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker". I suppose the censors could have had a field day with that one as well, had it come out more recently...

And on a similar note [no pun intended], at least judging from what I've heard, I've noticed that rock stations-- both modern rock and classic rock-- generally tend to be a *lot* more lenient in what they allow on the air than their top-40 and urban counterparts. Many times when a song successfully "crosses over", it gets edited down quite a good bit at the same time... (And even when it doesn't successfully cross over, MTV often hacks it to pieces-- but that's another story.)

-- codeman"definitely not sanitized for your protection"38