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BlazeRadio’s Alyssa Mitchell spoke with the indie rock/post-punk band ‘Cursive’ about their upcoming tour and new album entitled ‘Mama I’m Swollen’.

Yes, I am indeed back from a one-month voluntarily involuntary hiatus, only because a concept just popped into my head about 15 minutes ago.

Remember back in your way younger days, when you used to go to school events, namely Skate Night (if you went to Shiloh Elementary like I did, you went to Skate Night, no questions asked), or maybe the Last Day of School Picnic, or whatever else you ended up doing.  You probably remember good and well the songs that came on during these events, and the fact that you probably knew all the words to at least one of them.  You turn around 10+ years later, only to realize that the song you knew by heart was in no way intended for children.  You may also begin to wonder how, with all the extra-measures people go through to keep children innocent, or how quickly some parents nowadays jump down the media’s throat, how no one’s head was called for during all that.

Today, we’re going to take a look at those songs that really made you stop in reflection and go, WOAH, no way.

5. Barry White - Practice What You Preach

This one is kind of a stretch, I know, but if you were anywhere near my childhood, this song was played a LOT.  It’s not just the fact that Barry himself is just so catchy, with that super deep and raspy voice, it’s the fact that you were more than likely that 5, 6, 7, 8, whatever year-old that thought it was cool to sing this song.   I remember the day I realized what it was that I was singing when I was little.

“I’ve had my share of lovers
Some say I’m damn good
And if you think you can turn me out
Baby, I wish that you would

‘Cause you keep tellin’ me this and tellin’ me that
You say once I’m with you, I’ll never go back
You say there’s a lesson that you wanna teach
Well, here I am, baby, practice what you preach”

There you go, right there.  That’s all you need to see if you’ve never heard the song before, as a matter of fact, that still doesn’t do it justice.  Go to youtube, now, and search for that song.  Listen to the shear sexiness of it, and tell me that’s not inappropriate for a child to sing.

4. Chumbawamba - Tubthumpin

Oh man, good old Chumbawamba, this song is actually not a terrible terrible offender, as the content of what’s inappropriate for a young child is pretty well hidden.  That’s pretty hard to do, especially when half of your chorus involves you stating that you’re [wasting] the night away for lack of a better term.  The song is basically about wasting away the night in bottles of liquor, not bad, but still not appropriate for a child.  They really got away with the fact that the lyrics were hard to decipher, especially at a young age.

3. Village People - YMCA

Now here’s where it starts to get REAL interesting.  It’s not that the song has homosexual undertones all over it, it’s the fact that it was so popular.  The song had a double meaning, but all of us kids were all over the dance.  Who didn’t stick their arms in the air to form Y-M-C-A whenever the chorus came around?  Seriously?  If you claim you never did, then I shall shake your hand, because you have the willpower of an ancient.  Now don’t take that the wrong way, I’m not adding this song because they’re gay, I’m adding the song because it has some seriously questionable content for a young child, especially when they’ve gotten said young child to dance to the song whenever possible.

2. Lou Bega - Mumbo #5

This song being terrible automatically causes it to make the list.  Somehow convincing Disney to let you make a Disney version of a song about male permiscuity, well, that’s quite a feat in itself.  Yes, that indeed is what makes Lou Bega’s hit such a terrible offender, the fact that all the kids were singing a hit song about having five different women at their every whim.  Good job Lou, you pimped the kids to pimp the kids, how does that make you feel?

1. NEXT - Too Close

You may not remember this song to well, here, let me remind you:

“baby when we’re grinding
I get so excited
Ooh, how I like it
I try but I can’t fight it
Oh, you’re dancing real close
Cause it’s real, real slow
(you know what youre doing, dont you)
Youre making it hard for me”

Pause.

Read that again.

Pause again.

Read that last line.

Exactly.  I don’t know how else to tell you this song is just flat out inappropriate for a child.  Oh but it’s my song though, don’t get me wrong, this was THE JAM, but our young minds had no idea what R.L. and the guys were talking about with this song.  My friend (shoutsout to ‘Duce’ Atkins) had to bring this up to me for me to remember that I should have not been singing this at 8 years old, or however old I was.

Links:

#5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyh78I_xNb8

#4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4iU0yx9GY

#3 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

#2 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6iCjDei-g

#1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjqwOXl4bOk

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Up and coming singer-songwriter Nadine Loren spoke with BlazeRadio’s Mark Trammell about her new CD ‘Living in Wonderland’. Listen to hear some select full length tracks from the CD plus her musical influences from growing up around the world.

Nadine Loren’s official website

You can purchase ‘Living in Wonderland’ direct from iTunes. Click the icon below to go directly to the album:

Can’t make it to Springfest 2009? Want to still catch all the action?

Just tune in to BlazeRadio.org this Saturday, April 4th starting at 11 AM Central to hear One Sweet Band play live from the campus green!

And in case you missed it, be sure to check out Lonnie’s interview with the band members here.

Happy Springfest!

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Steve and Harry from One Sweet Band stopped by BlazeRadio to talk with Lonnie Goldberg about their upcoming Springfest performance. Listen to the entire interview and catch some tracks from their latest CDs

BlazeRadio will broadcast Springfest 2009 live from the UAB campus green this Saturday, April 4th starting at 11 AM CDT.

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Mike Crump, aka DJ Unknown, stopped by to tell us more about his show, Know Your Women - airing Thursday and Friday afternoons on BlazeRadio.org!

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Listen to Live, Rare, and Lossless on Thursday, March 19th for a special guest!

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Lonnie Goldberg from BlazeRadio.org stopped by the Inside UAB HQ to tell us all the details!

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Lady X vs Outcast - Originally broadcast live from the UAB Campus Recreation Center.

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Samford vs. Football U - Originally broadcast live from the UAB Campus Recreation Center.