Obsene song lyrics?

[Wing Nut]

Ok, so they'll let people listen to Tupac, but ban Louie, Louie!?  


[url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/no_louie_louie
]Story HERE[/url]


Here are the lyrics so we can all see how revolting and totally innapropriate for kids they are...

Louie Louie,
me gotta go.
Louie Louie,
me gotta go.

A fine little girl, she wait for me.
Me catch the ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.

Louie Louie,
me gotta go.

Three nights and days we sailed the sea.
Me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there.
I smell the rose in her hair.

Louie Louie,
me gotta go.

Me see Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again.

Louie Louie,
me gotta go

[Souichiro]

WOW!!!! And people say Marylin Manson has Obscene Lyrics!!!! :-/  ;D

[ozzy72]

Pretty lame :-/

[Hagar]

So where's the hidden meaning in that? One of my all-time favourites. Even Auntie BEEB never banned it when it was originally released to my knowledge.

[4_Series_Scania]

I'm with Doug, whats so offensive about that ?

[Craig.]

wow. thats all i can think of to describe the stupidity of some people.

[Hagar]

I think this might explain it. In this case the people objecting to it now believed the myth themselves & are displaying their own guilt & ignorance from their youth.

Back in 1963, everybody who knew anything about rock 'n' roll knew that the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" concealed dirty words that could be unveiled only by playing the 45 rpm single at 33-1/3. This preposterous fable bore no scrutiny even at the time, but kids used to pretend it did, in order to panic parents, teachers, and other authority figures. Eventually those ultimate authoritarians, the FBI got involved, conducting a thirty-month investigation that led to "Louie"'s undying - indeed, unkillable - reputation as a dirty song.
So "Louie Louie" leaped up the chart on the basis of a myth about its lyrics so contagious that it swept cross country quicker than bad weather. Nobody - not you, not me, not the G-men ultimately assigned to the case - knows where the story started. That's part of the proof that it was a myth, because no folk tales ever have a verifiable origin. Instead society creates them through cultural spontaneous combustion.

Full story here. http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/louie.htm

I remember liking the Kingsmen's version of Louie Louie from when it was first released & it was very propular in the UK. I never knew until now of any controversy over the lyrics & it was played all the time on the radio & by local groups.

PS. I can't imagine an instrumental version of it but have no idea how this could be regarded as offensive, even by the most straight-laced person. They should hear the alternative words to some of the old standard marches like Colonel Bogey some time.

[Tequila Sunrise]

god forbid they play "bah bah black sheep" or whatever it is being called now thanks to these PC W*****s  ::)

[chomp_rock]

Complete and utter BS!

[beefhole]

I don't consider myself an uptight person, but some lyrics to certain types of music have really crossed the line-and they get huffy about this

[Hyperion2]

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should..."

[Hagar]

[Hyperion2]

Just because you've got a freedom that lets you say pretty much whatever you want doesn't mean you should go out "smackin' up da ho's"...

[Hagar]

I have no idea what you're referring to. If it's this song it's a perfectly inoffensive love song. Read the lyrics & tell me exactly what anyone could find objectionable. I could name plenty of the old rock 'n roll classics that have far more offensive lyrics than that.

[Wing Nut]

The problem isn't that the lyrics are offensive.  The song is pretty much unintelligible and the authors refused to say what the words really were for years.  This created this big mystique and everyone assumed they were something offensive.  Unfortunately, the myth still holds in places, apparently.  Some people make no sense at all...  ::)  It's been decades since the true lyrics were revealed.