disarm - so called 'sodomy' reference
Lauder family
I found this in an article and wondered what the hell the 'sodomy
reference' in Disarm is ?? Am I missing something ?!? Or is it just some
stupid reporter ??
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Siamese Dream (Virgin): This melodic, grunge-rock album is an immediate
breakthrough record for The Pumpkins when it appears in mid-1993. The
Pumpkins become the darlings of that year's Lollapalooza tour. and the
single Disarm, with its sodomy reference, wins the band notoriety when
it is banned by BBC TV's Top of the Pops show.
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Annette :)
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Mela23
ok, well i'm not sure where the reference about being banned from the bbc
top of the pops comes from me, but i did work with this girl who thought
the lyric "inside of me and such a part of you" was really "and sodomy is
such a part of you"
maybe some other idiot made the same mistake?
Giles Brooke
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Lauder family wrote:
> I found this in an article and wondered what the hell the 'sodomy
> reference' in Disarm is ?? Am I missing something ?!? Or is it just some
> stupid reporter ??
>
> ...............................
> Siamese Dream (Virgin): This melodic, grunge-rock album is an immediate
> breakthrough record for The Pumpkins when it appears in mid-1993. The
> Pumpkins become the darlings of that year's Lollapalooza tour. and the
> single Disarm, with its sodomy reference, wins the band notoriety when
> it is banned by BBC TV's Top of the Pops show.
"...inside of me and such a part of you.." ????Maybe
robert c
In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.970214...@sanger.otago.ac.nz>,
Giles Brooke <bro...@sanger.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
"In sodomy and such a part of you" doesn't make any sense as a lyric.
They're not that daft over at Top Of The Pops House. I would have thought
it more likely that it was banned because of the Jamie Bulger case in the
news at the time - a two year old boy was led away from a shopping mall by
two ten year old boys and murdered brutally. The case affected the whole
nation (and still does).
Perhaps the song's references to childhood and the killer in me is the
killer in you... were too close to the Bulger case and while it would have
been understood that the song wasn't directly about Jamie Bulger, it still
would have upset many people. I love the song but I also have two young
children and so can understand the BBC if they wished to not "ban" it, but
simply not give it any airplay.
Robert C