PMRC’s 'Filthy 15': 35 years after W.A.S.P., Vanity, Judas Priest, Prince, Madonna and others shocked Tipper Gore and her committee, we take a critical look at 1985’s worst of the worst
Protesters attend the PMRC Senate hearing in 1985. Here, Rolling Stone evaluates each of the so-called "Filthy 15" songs the committee compiled that year.In the past year, Tove Lo’s hit “Talking Body” found her singing, “We fuck for life,” Big Sean got on the radio with “I Don’t Fuck With You” and Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop,” in which he raps about purchasing a blanket with the sole intention of ejaculating on it, continues to get airplay.
Thirty years ago, a committee known as the Parents Music Resource Center made a playlist of what it deemed the most offensive music at the time, including songs by megastars like Madonna and Prince and culty underground metal groups like Venom and Mercyful Fate. The list, dubbed the “Filthy 15,” was to serve as an example of how the PMRC thought albums should be “rated,” in a way similar to the MPAA.
Ultimately, the Record Industry Association of America convinced labels to affix potentially offensive albums with the warning stickers the world has grown to love: “Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics.” At the time, record-stickering became such a talking point that the Senate’s Committee on Commerce held a hearing on the
at which Frank Zappa, John Denver and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider testified. The musicians were worried that stickering would lead to record stores refusing to carry albums, a fact that came true with Walmart.has revisited each of the so-called Filthy 15 songs to see what was so objectionable about them in the first place, and to find out what became of the music industry’s onetime pariahs. Many of the artists, including Judas Priest, W.A.S.P.
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