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2021-10-13 -Great Cultural Revolution

Rolling Stones RETIRE 'Brown Sugar' after criticism over slavery lyrics: Keith Richards says 50-year-old song is about 'horrors' of the trade but he's tired of fighting with people 'trying to bury it' and band will not play it anymore

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Gimme
Gimme shelter
Or [we're] gonna fade away

Rape...
Murder...
It's just a shot away
SHOT away
SHOT away.... ee-yay-ee-ee-yaaaay, ay, hey, yay yay...

Posted by Patriot 2021-10-13 06:44|| 2021-10-13 06:44|| Front Page Top

#2 (( Please format this photo link for posting -- tia ))

Rolling Stones cover: Exile on Main Street

Posted by Patriot 2021-10-13 07:30|| 2021-10-13 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Please permit us to respectfully decline on that one.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-13 07:34|| 2021-10-13 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4

Given the censors were <- 1970's super uptight and lyrics were suggestive at best...

I feel in the interest of equality all Gangster RAP should be removed, because the lyrics glorify criminal activity and degrades women?

Or is Black Rappers dis'ing Blacks culture ok?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-13 07:57|| 2021-10-13 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Lyrics

Yeah, its pretty bad...

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-10-13 09:51|| 2021-10-13 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Since Charlie Watts died a few months ago, it's a safe bet they're not playing any songs anymore.

Posted by Raj 2021-10-13 10:02|| 2021-10-13 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 All this does is make sure I add it to my playlist..might be there already..have a few thousand so who knows..

Posted by Warthog 2021-10-13 10:57|| 2021-10-13 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 PIERS MORGAN: I'm getting no satisfaction from seeing the Rolling Stones surrender to the woke brigade - when the charts are full of rappers glorifying violent sex, misogyny and guns, why is Brown Sugar the song that's deemed offensive?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-13 14:47|| 2021-10-13 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 if it was written by Ta Nahesi-Coates, it would've won the Nobel prize in literature.

but since it was written by a bunch of limeys from Kent, it must be banned.

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-10-13 18:24|| 2021-10-13 18:24|| Front Page Top

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