you it s outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. fans felt i m capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. i don t need tipper gore deciding that this is too obscene for me. the next witness will be mr. frank zappa. the establishment of a rating system voluntary or otherwise opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain christians don t like. i think you should leave it up to the parent because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. yeah, you and i would differ on what s ignorance and educated. the women didn t get the rating system they wanted. but they did get a commitment to begin applying a printed inscription on the packaging of albums, cassettes, and music videos warning that they contain blatant explicit lyrics. good rock n roll breaks all the rules. okay? that s just the way it is. that s the way it always has
shot in the dark you turn on your television set and you see this weird, beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. where do they get this information from that i m satan? do i have horns i know i m a bit strange-looking but do i breathe fire and have horns? critics say there s something seriously wrong with metal music, outrageous by design, that it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. has rock n roll finally gone too far? a growing number of people think so. today they took their case to a u.s. senate hearing. their complaint? that rock lyrics and videos are crossing the line into trash and smut. we are asking the recording industry to voluntarily assist parents who are concerned by placing a warning label on music products inappropriate for younger children due to explicit
than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. the album is called licensed to ill. that s a stupid name for an album. wake up late for school, man, you don t want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. you got to fight for your right to party then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right. i love brass monkey but i won t give d. it we got the bottle you got the cup come on, everybody, let s get beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. it was straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope, if you know what i mean.
white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where you re going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight. video. the power of sound. stereo. mtv. music television. we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we ll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. at the time the world was saying, we don t think anybody is going to watch videos over and over.
like this amazon welder woman or something. we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. it did feel like, i can t steer the ship anymore. where is it going, you know? where are we headed? i think heavy metal is the true rock n roll of the 80s. rock n roll is basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. [ bleep ] like a beast heavy metal is not something new in physics, it is rock and roll. loud, rude, it glorifies sex and violence, it hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. this is it, this is the hot stuff. alan, turn it off for a second so we can talk. shot in the dark one step away from you