The Times They Are A Changing

Hopped into my car this morning and on the radio station was Tom Petty’s You Don’t Know How It Feels.

I remember watching some sort of music television when this song debuted and the one set of lyrics went

Let’s get to the point
Let’s roll another tnioj

Now, obviously it’s joint, but we can’t have children in 1994 knowing what those filthy things are.

Though, I do remember doing some detective work with my father on the subject. We actually recorded it, then played it backwards to see if they really went through the effort of reversing the word instead of just bleeping it out, and no shit that’s what they did.

I’ve always thought of this as a really odd form of censorship and that’s what made it stick in my mind. Now, I have no idea what they did for the radio cut back in ’94, but today when I heard the song it was censorship free.

And that made me smile.