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Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums

Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994

Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums featuring "explicit" lyrics are now marked with warning stickers so that parents can veto their children's record collections.

Here VOX presents a selection of records which your average Christian fundamentalist might not approve, but which we think are fundamental to any record collection.

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