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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You are overthinking it.. its simple. Is there even a single instance of profanity? Then it gets the sticker.
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On "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? ... No!
And since the Lips' cover album is a loyal (lyrically speaking) remake of the album, it doesn't have any profanity on it either. Maybe those distorted vocals are full of hidden "cunt!" And "fuck motherfucker cock!" chants, but I have no reason to believe that's the case.
Same goes for Dark Side of the Moon. Yeah, the album has the word "shit" on it, but that's never earned it a sticker before. So.. seriously, why the Lips' version?
I don't think the stickers were ever actually legally mandated. If that was the case, a lot of underground albums that didn't have the sticker-- but should have-- would have on later editions (Songs About Fucking comes immediately to mind, since the sticker could be for lyrical content and/or thematic content/artwork having to do with profanity, drugs, sex, violence, etc.).
The major record companies all wanted to avoid trouble, so they complied and eventually started issuing clean versions of EVERYTHING. Seriously, there's a clean version of 808's & Heartbreak, and it just bleeps out the "shit" from Wayne's verse on Nightmares.
So I do wonder why artists choose to voluntarily put the fucking sticker on their album when either a) their album contains no explicit content to speak of, or b) their album isn't an album, and isn't affiliated with the industry, and they can do whatever the hell they want with it (mix tapes) ... Like, fucking WHY? Unless it is just an expectation, or a badge of some kind of stupid ass honor.
If that's the case, I just want it to be said. Acknowledge that it means nothing and that it goes on if and only if someone wants it on, meaning it fucking has nothing to do with warning people, and is instead being used as a promotional tool.