Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy began after police filed charges against a Dallas branch of the record-store chain for selling harmful material to a minor. The store sold to a 13-year-old boy a rap album containing a graphic tune about a grotesque sex act. Though the charges were eventually dropped by a grand jury, the chain decided to be more prudent about prurience. "We feel we have an obligation to the customers and the communities we are in to police our sales," says Walter McNeer, an executive vice president at Western Merchandisers. "We do not want to be censors...
DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock-' n'-Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...
Rock music has become a dominant -- and potentially destructive -- part of teenage culture. Lyrics, album covers and music videos, particularly in the rock genre called heavy metal, romanticize bondage, sexual assaults and murder. The song Girls L.G.B.N.A.F. by Ice-T contains the words "Girls, let's get butt naked and f." Or consider these lyrics from Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls, an album that reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart and has sold more than 2 million copies...
Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...
DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...