OK so one of the best Smashing Pumpkins songs ever; The end is the beginning is the end, is flagged as "explicit" in the iTunes store. WTF? What, exactly, is explicit about the lyrics of this song. For those who are not familiar with it:

The sewers belch me up
The heavens spit me out
From ethers tragic I am born again
And now I'm with you now
Inside your world of wow
To move in desires made of deadly pretends
Till the end times begin

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secret's flame
You can watch the world devoured in its pain
Strange

Climb my ribcage to
The replays run for you
Unhook my lights to peek behind the flash
For I am crystal chrome
I am shatter dome
I am Kremlin king of angels avenged
To destroy the end

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secret's flame
You can watch the world devoured in its pain

The zeppelins rain upon us
The guns of love disastrous
A shadow lies amongst you
To defy the future cast

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secret's flame
You can watch the world devoured in its pain
Strange
Strange

What is explicit about this?

Try listening to it backwards if you dare.

Try listening to it backwards if you dare.

Why? Will it reveal the truth about the moon landings?

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niap sti ni deruoved dlrow eht hctaw nac uoY
emalf s'terces dloh I ,ruoh tsekrad ruoy ni dnA
egnarts os er'uoy yppah uoy ekam ti seoD
degnahc elpoep eht evaH
era uoy erehw thgirb ti sI tsac erutuf eht yfed oT
uoy tsgnoma seil wodahs A
suortsasid evol fo snug ehT
su nopu niar snileppez ehT
niap sti ni deruoved dlrow eht hctaw nac uoY
emalf s'terces dloh I ,ruoh tsekrad ruoy ni dnA
egnarts os er'uoy yppah uoy ekam ti seoD
degnahc elpoep eht evaH
era uoy erehw thgirb ti sI
dne eht yortsed oT
degneva slegna fo gnik nilmerK ma I
emod rettahs ma I
emorhc latsyrc ma I roF
hsalf eht dniheb keep ot sthgil ym koohnU
uoy rof nur syalper ehT
ot egacbir ym bmilC egnartS
niap sti ni deruoved dlrow eht hctaw nac uoY
emalf s'terces dloh I ,ruoh tsekrad ruoy ni dnA
egnarts os er'uoy yppah uoy ekam ti seoD
degnahc elpoep eht evaH
era uoy erehw thgirb ti sI
nigeb semit dne eht lliT
sdneterp yldaed fo edam serised ni evom oT
wow fo dlrow ruoy edisnI
won uoy htiw m'I won dnA
niaga nrob ma I cigart srehte morF
tuo em tips snevaeh ehT
pu em hcleb srewes ehT

quite explicit

Im guessing they banned that song because it makes no f***ing sense whatsoever

maybe thay banned it because its a horrible song?

my guess is that they only label entire albums as explicit/clean, that song just got caught up in it

meh its itunes ...expect nothing less ...sorry to bag it for all the apple fans.
While the hardware is great Itunes is just .....

Hmm

I just searched for it on youtube and the version I heard doesn't match the lyrics posted here

EDIT: Ah, I see there's two versions. Actually didn't mind the original one. Sounded damn cool.

last edited by Reverend Evil™ at 09:02:11 18/Jun/09

Sometimes the explicit warning stuff is managed by the label or some other third party, and sometimes songs are misclassified as explicit.

This isn't censorship and it's wrong to label it as such because it dilutes the meaning of the word and makes it less clear when real, actual censorship takes place.

busy day guvna?

I've seen clean/explicit warnings on songs by The Corrs. I've come to the conclusion whoever runs the iTunes store is an idiot.

That song reminds me of the old Batman movies. Well that and Seal.

Yep spent all day typing that, didn't use the first backwards words web page link off google search at all.

Explicit on music is like an R rating on a thriller - it's advertising.

What was the last G rated thriller you saw? Or M rated porn?

You're right, Trog. Using the word 'censorship' was going too far, and I apologise unreservedly. I should have said 'classification' or something. For what it's worth, I was drunk when I posted this thread (weee, drunk on the internets!).

Don't apologise to me.. .apologise to all the people that died because of what you wrote here. their blood is on your hands