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The infamous Filthy Fifteen, along with the reasons for their inclusion on the list, follow. Not only is Prince listed first on the list, he was also the songwriter for #2, “Sugar Walls”; and Vanity, at #4, is a one-time Prince protegé. 2. Sheena Easton – “Sugar Walls” (sex) 3. Judas Priest – “Eat Me Alive” (sex) * * * Just one song on the Filthy Fifteen list, “Animal (F--k Like A Beast)” has a vulgar title, and W.A.S.P. had already made the decision to leave the controversial song off their debut album, W.A.S.P. The copy of the song that I have is on a 12-inch single; the cover features a circular saw blade emerging from a codpiece – the image is more cartoonish than offensive to me at least. * * * Rolling Stone’s article provides reflections from some of the rock artists involved in the PMRC controversy. Blackie Lawless, frontman for W.A.S.P., is also a born-again Christian today; but he isn’t letting these people off the hook: “At the time, to have a female senator hold up a picture of my crotch in front of the Congress of the United States made me ask myself, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m just some kid in a rock & roll band. Do these guys have nothing better to do with our tax money?’ But now being a born-again Christian, I’ve not played that song [‘Animal (F--k Like A Beast)’] for almost 10 years. Knowing what we know now, the PMRC should have stood for ‘Politicians Masked as Reelection Campaigns’. It was Al Gore’s ‘Joe McCarthy moment’.” (June 2016) |