Kitty's Corner

Censorship - it's everywhere, and don't you just hate it? I know I do. It's even in CD- and Album covers! Take a look for yourself:


Here's David Bowie's album "Diamond Dogs", that came out in two versions. One where the dog penis is visible, and one where it's retouched.



Black Crowes made an album, "Amorica". The album cover's depiction of pubic hair, from a 1976 United States Bicentennial issue of Hustler magazine, caused controversy. The record company ended up putting out an alternative cover that blacked out the offending image.



The Hip Hop duo Coup made an album in 2001 called "Party Music". The original cover showed the duo standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions. The cover art was finished in June 2001 and the album was scheduled to be released in mid-September. However, in response to the uncanny similarity of the artwork with the September 11, 2001 attacks, the album release was held back until alternative cover art could be prepared.



When Mariah Carey's album "Butterfly" was going on to the Saudi Arabian market, there was a problem with all the naked skin, she's showing. A bit of (badly performed) photoshop was added, and bingo - she was now fully dressed. They did the same trick with her album 'Number 1's', where they photoshopped sleeves onto her t-shirt and pants on her bare legs.



In 1991 Hurricane produced the album "Slave to the thrill". The original cover featured a nude female model lying on a machine. This cover was replaced shortly after the initial pressing by an alternative cover that had the female model removed from the picture so that all that was seen is the machine.



Roger Waters - 'The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking' from 1984 was also hit by censorship, but the lazy kind, with a bar over the "critical part"...



German heavy metal band Scorpions release the album "Lovedrive" in 1979. Censors didn't like the chewing gum on the boob and the scenario as such, so it was replaced with a boring one:




Censorship. Don't you just hate it?

We've finally reached the last post in my row of music challenges. This in number 30, and man, have we been through a lot. I've taken you through hip hop, pop, rock, lullabies, kids' songs, funeral songs and wedding songs. You can listen to them all by clicking here.

Today - this last challenge, is to post my favourite song at this time last year. The hard thing about that challenge is to remember a year back. What did I listen to in the beginning of 2011? I know for sure that I bought "Die Happy"'s album "Red Box" with me home from Germany over Christmas, so I know I was listening to them a lot in January and February.

I therefore present to you a German band playing rock. Forget about Destiny's Child and Beyoncé. Forget about half naked rhythm'n'blues singing girls. Here's the way "Survivor" was supposed to sound like all along.

Long live rock!

We're nearly reaching the end of my series of music posts. It's now week 28 out of 30, so now there only this one and two more to go. Read the rules here if you don't know what I'm talking about.

This weeks challenge is to post a song that makes you feel guilty. It reminds me quite a bit about week 13's challenge: A song that is a guilty pleasure, where I posted a song by Right Said Fred. I have the same problem as I had all those weeks ago: I simply don't understand how a song should be able to make me feel guilty!

I'll give it a go anyway, with two videos, because I couldn't decide which one to chose.

The first one is with Afroman:



I have to admit that I especially enjoy the two white chicks in the beginning of the video.

And next one up is Katy Perry:




That's what I can come up with for today. What about you?

So, it's Monday again already. Those weekends sure happen very fast!
It's time for another post in my row of music challenges (rules listed here in case anyone forgot them)...
This week is calling for a song, that you can play on an instrument. Hmm. I'm not out of a musical family, really, but I can play one song. One.



Meet the Muppets, performing "When the saints go marching in".

Next week's challenge is about which song you wish you could play on an instrument, and I promise you that it'll be a different kettle of fish!