Editing Parents Music Resource Center (section)

== Filthy Fifteen ==

One of the actions taken by the PMRC was compiling a list of fifteen songs in popular music, at the time, that they found the most objectionable. This list is known as the "Filthy Fifteen" and consists of the following songs along with the lyrical content category for which each song was considered objectionable:<ref name="KrochmalnyEMU">{{cite journal |last1=Krochmalny |first1=Elizabeth |title=""We're Not Gonna Take It": An Examination of Congress and Controversial Music" (2017). Senior Honors Theses. 551. |url=http://commons.emich.edu/honors/551 |journal=Senior Honors Theses and Projects |date=January 2017 |publisher=Eastern Michigan University |access-date=April 1, 2020 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809001139/https://commons.emich.edu/honors/551/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|#
!scope="col"|Artist
!scope="col"|Song title
!scope="col"|Lyrical content
|-
| 1
| [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]
| "[[Darling Nikki]]"
| Sex/masturbation
|-
| 2
| {{sortname|Sheena|Easton}}
| "[[Sugar Walls]]"
| Sex
|-
| 3
| [[Judas Priest]]
| "[[Defenders of the Faith|Eat Me Alive]]"
| Sex/violence
|-
| 4
| [[Vanity (performer)|Vanity]]
| "[[Strap On 'Robbie Baby']]"
| Sex
|-
| 5
| [[Mötley Crüe]]
| "[[Bastard (Mötley Crüe song)|Bastard]]"
| Violence/language
|-
| 6
| [[AC/DC]]
| "[[Back in Black|Let Me Put My Love into You]]"
| Sex
|-
| 7
| [[Twisted Sister]]
| "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister song)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]"
| Violence
|-
| 8
| [[Madonna]]
| "[[Dress You Up]]"
| Sex
|-
| 9
| [[W.A.S.P. (band)|W.A.S.P.]]
| "[[Animal (F**k Like a Beast)]]"
| Sex/language/violence
|-
| 10
| [[Def Leppard]]
| "[[High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)]]"
| Drug and alcohol use
|-
| 11
| [[Mercyful Fate]]
| "[[Melissa (Mercyful Fate album)|Into the Coven]]"
| Occult
|-
| 12
| [[Black Sabbath]]
| "[[Trashed (Black Sabbath song)|Trashed]]"
| Drug and alcohol use
|-
| 13
| [[Mary Jane Girls]]
| "[[In My House (song)|In My House]]"
| Sex
|-
| 14
| [[Venom (band)|Venom]]
| "[[Possessed (Venom album)|Possessed]]"
| Occult
|-
| 15
| {{sortname|Cyndi|Lauper}}
| "[[She Bop]]"
| Sex/masturbation
|}