Singles and videos that simply wouldn't get released now

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

1. Lou Bega, Mambo no. 5

https://youtu.be/EK_LN3XEcnw

[KGR]

Shit then, still shit.

[Satchmo Distel]

Why wouldn't it be released now?

[caja-dglh]

Why wouldn't it be released now?

Too bland

[Stumpy Pepys]

If I remember correctly, Bob the Builder got to #1 with Mambo No.5 in the late 90s.

[RobW]

Great tune.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I fail to see what;s so offensive about Mambo No.5, to be honest.

Now, if the OP had been something like My Boomerang Won't Come Back by Charlie Brake, then I'd have seen the point.

[Gangster Octopus]

Charlie Brake?

[Southport Zeb]

If I remember correctly, Bob the Builder got to #1 with Mambo No.5 in the late 90s.

You remember incorrectly. Lou Bega's was 1999 with the Bob the Builder version released in the same week that the World Trade Centre attacks occurred.

[Mr Delicieux]

I scraped this from the darker recesses of my memory, I really couldn't see this being allowed today.
And that's a good thing ofc

[Mr Delicieux]

Eric Prydz - Call on me?

I won't share a link, which may seem hypocritical, but the Jesse Jaymes 'song' is more of a curio, I think.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Charlie Brake?

That's quite a typo. Charlie Drake.

[Toby Gymshorts]

If the objection to the Lou Bega video is that it has some scantily-clad women shakin' what their mama gave them, then I can only assume you haven't seen the video for Mastodon's The Motherload.

[Wouter D]

Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

[Toby Gymshorts]

Or, for that matter, Skinny by Lo-Rider.

[andrew7610]

Given that "Boris Johnson is a fucking cunt" by The Kunts made it to number 5 in the UK Christmas chart, you would think that there's nothing that wouldn't get made these days.

[Toby Gymshorts]

It's a travesty it only made #5.

[Bored Of Education]

Anything by Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jonathan King.

[Antepli Ejderha]

That Pharrel Williams and Robin Thicke one, don't care to research it either. That was relatively recently iirc.

[gjw100]

I believe Mick Jagger is on record as saying that he wouldn't write a song like 'Brown Sugar' now, let alone release it as a single.

[Jah Womble]

One hopes that he wouldn't consider Midnight Rambler, either.

Ditto Thin Lizzy's Killer on the Loose.

[Third rate Leszno]

Anything by Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jonathan King.

Or indeed, Lostprophets.

[Third rate Leszno]

If the objection to the Lou Bega video is that it has some scantily-clad women shakin' what their mama gave them, then I can only assume you haven't seen the video for Mastodon's The Motherload.

Or indeed, Rammstein - Pussy.

[elguapo4]

Girls on Film Duran Duran or Imagination by Bellouis Some, though both videos were shot to court controversy anyway.

[elguapo4]

Not forgetting Happy Birthday sweet sixteen , or any of the other age inappropriate songs of the time.