Song Lyrics

    In the 70's, when the songs first came out, Steve Millers 'Jet Airliner' had the lyric: "I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city". The Pink Floyd song ' Money' had the line "goody good bullshit"  and in 'Life in the Fast Lane' the Eagles sang "haven't seen a goddamn thing"... all lyrics that I have heard changed ( 'funky kicks') or censored in today's airplay. With all the blatant sexuality and cursing on TV, the internet and in other forms of media, this seems like unnecessary puritanism to me. Of course in those days some radio stations blacklisted "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones and other songs, so I guess every era has sensitive things that both earlier and later generations question. In the late 60's a radio station would play the entire 17 minute version of Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.' as well, which would never happen in the corporate controlled homogeneity that passes for music these days.