#TWISTED SISTER
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pewpew08 · 3 months ago
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Alex Hirsch at the Stand with Animation Rally via Instagram
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paulmccart · 8 months ago
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We're Not Gonna Take It! And the Story of How We Almost Did
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Protesters outside of the PMRC senate hearings.
Are you a victim of rock? Well maybe you aren't, but all the way back in 1985 a group of prominent D.C wives felt that they were.
These women, with the help of Beach Boys member Mike Love and Joseph Coors, the owner of Coors Beers, formed the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center).
Their reasoning for forming as co-founder Susan Baker put it:
"It started because one day my 7-year-old came in and started quoting some of Madonna's lyrics to me, wanting to know what they meant. And I was shocked. I knew that you had to be concerned about movies and TV, but I didn't have a clue that my 7-year-old would be exposed to inappropriate songs."
The goal of the PMRC was to give parents more control over what their children could listen to. As well as implementing a rating system for music with bad language, sexual themes, and anti-Christian messages just to name a few. Eventually the group made a list of the fifteen worst songs, in their opinion and labeled them "The Filthy Fifteen".
(And it also happens to make a killer playlist)
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Besides a rating system and lyrics printed on album covers the PMRC had several other goals including:
"...records with explicit covers be wrapped or kept under the counter; that record companies reassess contracts with performers who engage in sexual or violent acts on stage; that broadcasters be pressured to exhibit "voluntary restraint" by not airing offending music videos, which would also be rated."
All that noise coming from the PMRC culminated on September 19th, 1985. When a hearing in the senate occurred. Two musicians were called in on behalf of the music industry, Frank Zappa and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Two of musics most studious and serious creatives.
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Zappa and Snider both gave eloquent defenses of what they deemed to be free speech.
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But the PMRC had a trick up their sleeves... or so they thought.
They'd also invited John Denver to speak that day, assuming that he would stand with the side of "family values" but they were mistaken.
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John Denver's testimony was the most scathing that day. He cited his own experience with having some of his music banned from radio. Even going as far as comparing the PMRC and groups like it to Nazi book burnings.
So what did the PMRC end up accomplishing? You know those tiny explicit labels in the corner of some albums? You can thank the PMRC for those. When they were originally introduced they were called "Tipper Stickers" after one of more outspoken PMRC members Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore).
So while we didn't exactly take it, for a time we almost did. And thanks to testimony from Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider, we can regularly enjoy any kind of music we want to- even the songs that promote the occult.
Both photographs come from Mark Weiss who photographed the event for Rock Scene Magazine.
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doubletalkingmaeve · 1 year ago
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Support the arts: sleep with a rockstar
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reynolds-jackman · 1 month ago
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rottingbite · 1 month ago
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Judging you
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yeahiwasintheshit · 4 months ago
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jazzadraws · 3 months ago
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Jason x destructive behaviours 🥰
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i like to think he would smoke but only when he’s stressed out (which just so happens to be often)
His shirt is a ‘Twisted Sister’ band tee since they are canonically one of the bands he listens to !! their song “I Believe In You” is so red hood coded as well, PLEASE listen to it 😫
-Reference used!!!-
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cimmerian-war-shrine · 3 months ago
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eretzyisrael · 10 months ago
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heavymetal · 3 months ago
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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year ago
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rollingstoneandvogue · 29 days ago
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Alice Cooper and Dee Snider
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starch1ldz · 6 months ago
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Found out starchild is trans phobic the other day and I'm just. EXCUSE ME??
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THIS YOU?
Howa are you gonna be feminine asf and queer asf and still be transphobic. I WANT ANSWERS
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doubletalkingmaeve · 1 year ago
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If you’re a 50+ year old rockstar, ditch your partners and date me instead. I understand the signs of a stroke, I got us both.
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partial-prints · 5 days ago
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“We trashed the one that looks like Twisted Sister!”
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Me when I put effort into making something vs. me when I don’t
(I can’t decide if this is clever or incredibly stupid, but either way I hope it makes someone laugh)
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breezypunk · 9 months ago
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maggie wearing her favorite band tee while rockin' out.
rock tee's made by @thelonestrider using @wanderingaldecaldo awesome framework. 🤘🏼
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