Humor Approved/disapproved songs for the COVID-19 age... (1 Viewer)

[tenordas]

So in this day and age of social distancing, thinking about which songs an authoritarian government might put on the radio and which songs they would ban....

Banned
Touch Me - The Doors
Touch Me in the Morning - Diana Ross
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
So Happy Together - The Turtles
Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Staple Singers
Take a Hand - Rick Springfield
Let's Get Physical - Olivia Newton John
Cheek to Cheek - Irving Berlin (Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald among many others)
Come Together -The Beatles
Put Your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
Stand by Me - Sam Cooke
Hold My Hand - Hootie and the Blowfish
Hands On You - Florida Georgia Line
Uncle Albert [Hands Across the Water] - Paul McCartney and Wings
Lay Your Hands On Me - Bon Jovi
Touch the Hand - Bryan Adams
Hold My Hand - Michael Jackson
Hands All Over - Maroon 5
Lay Your Hands On Me - Thompson Twins
I Have the Touch - Peter Gabriel
Reach and Touch Somebody's Hand - The Temptations
Love Touch - Rod Stewart
Close To You - The Carpenters

Approved
Don;t Stand So Close to Me - The Police
You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) - Bruce Springsteen
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Out of Touch - Hall and Oates
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Don't Touch Me Now - Busta Rhymes
Everything You Touch - Smokey Robinson
Look But Don't Touch - Kenny Neal
I Stand Alone - G-dsmack
Afraid to Get Close - Iggy Pop
Too Close for Comfort - Peggy Lee


As you can see, I have too much time on my hands (Styx), so I've already made a pretty extensive list... Still, others you think of?

 

[IntenseSaint]

Approved Touch Myself - The Divinyls

 

[DaveXA]

Touch me - Smantha Fox (iirc...been a lot of years, lol)

 

[tomwaits]

Approved:
Cartoon Planet Band - Don't Touch Me

 

[DaveXA]

You can look, but you can't touch - Poison

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Personally, I prefer "I'm a cucumber" but I guess this song fits the topic better (regarding the Brak song).

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Modern(ish)
Do You Wanna Touch Me- Joan Jett

Old(ish)
You Can Look But You Better Not Touch - Bruce Springsteen

Random(ish)
Video for the Ramones song "Something to to Believe In" It involves the "Hands Across Your Face" movement

 

[Goatman Saint]

She Bop Cindy Lauper is approved

 

[tenordas]

Banned: Let's Spend the Night Together - The Rolling Stones

I can't decide if Wings' "Uncle Albert" would banned (Hands Across the Water, Hands Across the Sky) or approved as a warning/I told you so/apology (We're so sorry, Uncle Albert)...

 

[Goatman Saint]

Don’t worry be happy should also be approved. Not only the message of being happy in hard times but put that song on a loop and no one will be anywhere near you.

 

[tenordas]

Okay, I guess you have to know Italian to get this one, but from the Opera world:

Approved: "Sola, perduta, abbandonata" from Puccini's Manon Lescaut

 

[Saintaholic]

Approved?

 

[tenordas]

Definitely Banned:
(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China [Frank Loesser] - Jimmy Buffett, Bing Crosby, etc.

 

[zeetes]

another banned poor body count.

nsfw

edit- nevermind. i don't need to be banned.

 

[mattgdg]

No Disturbed - Down with the Sickness?