Interesting CNN Crossfire Clip with Guest Frank Zappa - Topic: Censorship

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDDIiIOFE_Q&NR=1

Obviously we know that the warning stickers did go on the albums.

Was it a bad move to have those warning labels forced onto albums or not?

[Gopherbassist]

I just wish those damned things were still stickers. I hate that they're part of the slip now.

[vene-nemesis]

Funny thing is that 22 years later that music censorship and the parental advisory labels havent solve nor reduced any of the problems they were aiming at.

[JimB52]

A small percentage of laws passes by Congress are for the common good.
The vast majority pander to the narrow interests or obsessions of a tiny portion of the constituancy.
The warning labels are an example of the latter.

[lowendfriend]

Frank was dead right....one of my all time heros - fiercely independent and fiercely creative! RIP way too soon! Cancer not drugs or alcohol....

[santucci218]

watched this many many years ago. always a good clip. I still want to find the balding man with glasses and punch him in the groin.

[ugly_bassplayer]

I always have the urge to get pregnant & do drugs after listening to rock music.

[McHaven]

You can tell the hosts never expected Frank to be such an intelligent man. Frank Zappa is a genius of rock and roll, and the man knew what he was talking about. I love that clip. One of my all time favorite clips to disprove the theory that rock and roll is less intelligent.

[hbarcat]

I wish they had the warning labels on record albums back when I was a kid. As a teenager, I listened to too much Black Sabbath and now my life is ruined since I got so involved in devil worship and the occult.

[warwick.hoy]

There was a time that I wouldn't buy a CD unless it had a Parental Advisory sticker on it.