What was the first album you got that featured the Parental Advisory Sticker?
Posted by Absolute_Casey@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 444 comments
The Parental Advisory sticker for album covers was introduced in 1990 (Thank Tipper Gore).
My first was Use Your Illusion II by Guns N’ Roses. I was 13 and the dude at Walmart wouldn’t sell the cassette to me. Couldn’t ask my mom because she’d for sure say no and then ground me just for good measure. So I asked some random old hippy to buy it for me and he did.
katersgunak8@reddit
Bodycount. I’m old
lava_monkey83@reddit
“Change my pitch up”
agentmkultra666@reddit
I stole this cd from my mom in 7th grade, hah
lava_monkey83@reddit
I had to hide this and Follow the Leader from my mom. She was very strict when it came to the media I consumed
agentmkultra666@reddit
My mom was too, but certain stuff flew under the radar I guess. Pretty sure I taped Korn from my friends’ cds so it was easier to hide from my parents, hah
ChrissiMinxx@reddit
Hey hey hey
Isaystomabel@reddit
pick_up_a_brick@reddit
Oh I got my ass beat at 11 for having this one
PraetorianXVIII@reddit
Oh man that's a good one, but my buddy had it, not me, so I can't claim it
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
Fuck me in the goat ass!
pick_up_a_brick@reddit
guidevocal82@reddit
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms. I asked where to find it at Best Buy when it came out, and the clerk (an older lady with a conservative haircut) handed me the version that was censored. I reached for the one behind it (the one with the sticker) and said "No, I want this one." She gave me a death stare and walked away.
Legitimate-Special36@reddit
Doggystyle
Lauren12269@reddit
Beck Mellow Gold or Offspring Smash
ThresholdSeven@reddit
Old school Streisand effect before that was a thing. I can't remember which was my first, but it may have been Tool or Korn or Limp.
meatee@reddit
BryanEtch@reddit
I had to send my mom into the store for this one.
theBillions@reddit
There is no way in hell my mom would have bought that CD for me. I ran into Camelot music and bought it when they were shopping in another store, immediately opened it, and trashed the shrink wrap to get rid of the sticker. To my dismay TDS included the book with lyrics, which my dad started leafing through as we walked through the mall. I guess he didn't actually read them because he passed it back to me without saying anything.
LooseFurJones@reddit
I remember getting a Columbia house version of Marilyn Manson’s portrait of an American family and my dad asking to listen to it after I had been freaking out about how crazy it was. He listened to the whole thing and gave it back to me and didn’t say a thing. I was like “dad is cool.” That album had classic tracks like Cake and Sodomy, lunchbox, dope hat, get your Gunn.
c4ctus@reddit
Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish album dropped when I was 15, and my family was visiting my Granny in Indiana. The radio said there was gonna be a midnight release with a special bonus CD at this store in town, and I convinced my mom to drive me. Turns out the store was a head shop.
Long story short, there was a big-ass line, and I was the youngest person there by far. I was mortified that I was gonna have to go get my mom to buy the cd for me since I wasn't yet 16.
aurora888@reddit
Same! She had no idea...
m8k@reddit
Same
mac1diot@reddit
I am pretty sure this is the same for me.
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
Yeah that sticker applies quite heavily to that album.
Combatical@reddit
Hell yes!
LooseFurJones@reddit
2 Live Crew
degreesBrix@reddit
The Chronic
hyzerKite@reddit
“Sex Packets”- The Digital Underground. That album changed my life in a big way.
RIP-ShockG/MC Humpty Hump
jaxsonMiss@reddit
The cassette was superior to other mediums too since I think it has two bonus tracks missing from the CD including the amazing “Freaks of the Industry.”
No_Gap_2700@reddit
I can't recall where I got it, but I had a copy of this when I was 12.
Quirin_Cottonbriefs@reddit
Not on that album but Same Song is still a delightful track and I can’t think of another hip hop song with an organ solo. The music video is a trip as well, about as 90s as you can get.
No_Gap_2700@reddit
Nothing But Trouble Soundtrack!
Own-Entertainment630@reddit
I remember my first tape recorded off the radio had Humpty Dance on it. Them top 9’s at 9 had me at the radio like I was clockin’ in.
Agreeable_Mouse6000@reddit
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
jaxsonMiss@reddit
Me too. At that age I don’t remember most of the songs being too bad except for Sir Psycho Sexy.
pantheroux@reddit
Same.
LameSaucePanda@reddit
Same. And I was in for a wild ride as a middle school girl 😆
unicorn-beard@reddit
I had that CD but my mom found it and threw it away 😥
jstnpotthoff@reddit
I stole my mom's cassette of this. Does that count?
oneeyedwillienelson@reddit
Me too. My mom made me exchange it for Spin Doctors 😂
snwbrdngtr@reddit
One of my first cassettes and the first music to be taken away when my parents read the lyrics lol
mamap31@reddit
I had that album on CASSETTE!
-kindness-@reddit
Same here, and it was my first with the Parental Advisory.
mamap31@reddit
Mine too!
taris300@reddit
I still remember the day my mom took me to the used record store and I asked to go inside without her. Took Blood Sugar Sex Magik to the counter, and the 18 year old kid working the counter side eyeing me, and then not caring allowing me to buy it.
Z0na@reddit
same. also my first CD
GoonieMcflyguy@reddit
It wasn't mine, it was my dad's but first one that I really rocked with.
1Frazier@reddit
Me too.
Redlady0227@reddit
In all honesty 2 Live Crew Banned In The USA.
Kitchen_Art_6400@reddit
Marilyn Manson-Antichrist Superstar. Had an older friend buy it for me since I was only 15
Rivas-al-Yehuda@reddit
My first album purchase ever had the parental advisory on it. I am very surprised my mom let me get it.
sholden180@reddit
RainbowBrite1122@reddit
Mine too. I remember there was a naked chick on the inside of the cover and I was so scandalized that I made my own cover as a substitute and threw away the original.
ebert_42@reddit
Had to scroll way to far... mine was a cassette...
Sweaty-Astronaut7248@reddit
Pearl Jam, Ten
carbonlegends@reddit
Dookie
TonyBooya@reddit
slowride77@reddit
There it is!! I wondered who else.
TonyBooya@reddit
I was the only one with a physical copy in my circle. Everyone started coming to my room to listen to the album. Nobody else wanted to take the risk of getting stolen or getting confiscated at the school.
slowride77@reddit
It was my first Columbia House order! Couldn’t believe they just mailed music to my house.
TonyBooya@reddit
Had completely forgotten about Columbia House. Best Buy and local record stores were our go-to.
LeftOn4ya@reddit
After our family got a new computer I borrowed this from the library and this was the first CD I burnt a copy of
LukeMayeshothand@reddit
Oh this album right here. It was so good, and I get a crazy strong sense of nostalgia thinking about it. I can almost smell and feel the inside of my truck, can imagine the halls of my high school again.
TonyBooya@reddit
This is kinda how I know someone is a Xennial when they know the lyrics to this album.
generalcanoli00@reddit
Absolutely. We can also remember that before Snoop Dogg had a cooking show with Martha Stewart that he was accused of and stood trial for murder.
terententen@reddit
Yessir. Listened to it recently. Still great.
jamisonian123@reddit
Same!
KittyTitties666@reddit
I had this single on tape and it got confiscated at school
TonyBooya@reddit
Mine was a CD and got confiscated too. Got called into the principal's office for wearing a Gin and Juice t-shirt.
JJBOOM80@reddit
Dr Dre-The Chronic
heatherwleffel@reddit
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
styrofoamjesuschrist@reddit
Purchased-Smells Like Children
I had an older neighbor friend who would record albums on blank tapes for me. So probs the chronic
Quimbymouse@reddit
twirlybird11@reddit
✌
Bartholomew-Hunt@reddit
newenglandredshirt@reddit
Mine was also a George Carlin album 😆
Back in Town was mine
suspicious_hyperlink@reddit
Eminem, the one with the Vicodin on the disc
Everyday_everyway@reddit
Whitworth_73@reddit
For sure! Why isn't this higher?
ChrissiMinxx@reddit
Yep, this was mine.
Mattyi@reddit
Oh it was definitley Guns N' Roses for me too. Appetite for Destruction, though. Lies was already out, so I was only like 11 years old. A neighborhood kid that my parents knew to be good loved the album, I think that helped me convince them. Plus I had a brother 13 years older than me, so they were used to loud rock, I guess. I had a twisted sister poster on my wall at like age 6 lol.
mclargehuuge@reddit
Took me like 4 tries until I finally successfully bought it.
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
This was mine too. My parents were separated and I was living with my grandparents. My grandma was adamantly against me listening to rock music, but I hated country music. But my mom let me have this out of her cassette box and it was all downhill from there. Lol
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
That was mine too!
Panjandrum86@reddit
Geto Boys - We Can’t Be Stopped
ZookeepergamePrior87@reddit
Alanis Morsette (spelling is probably off). It was such a new concept at the time it was a sticker on the outside of the packaging so my sister ripped it off for me before showing my mom.
Then Chumbawamba (again spelling is probably off lol) when they started to make that label un removable.
18January@reddit
Yeah, I'm not 100% sure, but Jagged Little Pill was most likely mine, as well.
davesgirl2@reddit
AwkwardPersonality36@reddit
2 Live Crew 'Banned in the USA' lol
M0ntgomatron@reddit
Blood sugar sex magik
dogma4you@reddit
Use Your Illusions 2 was it for me. The themes were less explicit than Appetite IMO
generic__comments@reddit
As Nasty as They Wanna Be
2 live Crew
CannaPeaches@reddit
Sir Mix-a-Lot banned in the USA.
Ill_Amount6549@reddit
Guns n roses use your illusion 1
Django_Unstained@reddit
My aunt bought me “Doggystyle” cassette tape. It had the comic and everything in it.
72scott72@reddit
NWA
72scott72@reddit
NWA - Straight out of Compton
72scott72@reddit
NWA
Careful_Table_6193@reddit
Green Day - Dookie
pantheroux@reddit
The day I bought this, we were shopping with my Grandma and stopped for lunch. She was looking at the CD case and gave a running commentary on everything she saw. It was hilarious.
Nobody ever censored what I listened to, watched or read as a kid, and found it funny that other kids’ parents did. I helped them get around it where I could, by buying music for them, or taping things they weren’t allowed to have and writing something different on the case as a way to disguise it.
Something funny did happen in my family, though. Marilyn Manson was supposed to have a concert in my city, but it was canceled at the last minute due to uproar from concerned parents. Now, my cousin didn’t like Marilyn Manson’s music. She was more an indie folk kid. My grandma didn’t believe in censorship. But they are both very stubborn and good at debate. They got into this argument about the Marilyn Manson concert where both were over the top, playing devil’s advocate. They ended up not speaking to each other for a couple of years, over something neither of them actually cared about.
Bub697@reddit
I’ve got a great memory of driving around in an upper classman’s Jeep with this blaring on the speakers.
jthagler@reddit
My memory of this must be off. My mother was one that would never let me have an explicit album but I specifically remember her buying me Dookie and it not having a warning on it. I also remember seeing it later WITH one and being confused.
Careful_Table_6193@reddit
I want to say they had an “edited” version you could also get that had the words bleeped out…. I think I had a friend that had that copy and I had no idea why you’d want that (prob so her parents wouldn’t confiscate it 😂🤷🏼♀️)
jthagler@reddit
Mine definitely wasn't edited.
Doing some sleuthing I found multiple sources saying the original release didn't have the advisory sticker. There's even sealed original copies that are graded selling on eBay that don't have it.
I think the album came out right before widespread use of the warning and ended up with the sticker soon after.
Octowuss1@reddit
I begged my dad in a Target to buy it for me, and reassured him that the cussing wasn’t that bad. At home, I would quickly turn the volume down and back up for the swears so my mom wouldn’t hear.
Visible-Activity-184@reddit
Yep and my mom found it and confiscated it 😅
ygduf@reddit
Cypress Hill
SalukiKnightX@reddit
Puff Daddy and the Family-No Way Out
sowokeIdontblink@reddit
tmsaunders@reddit
Me too!
JosephMadeCrosses@reddit
Yes. Yes. Yes.
therebill@reddit
This comes to mind
tmsaunders@reddit
12 year old white girl walking into the record store to buy this on tape for “911 is a Joke”…and they sold it to me no questions asked.
crmom22@reddit
Dennis Leary, and weird al
sexwiththebabysitter@reddit
Ol’ Dirty Bastard. I was 16 and The Wall sold it to me no problem.
Flaxscript42@reddit
Smash
ResponseBeneficial17@reddit
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues.
mighty21@reddit
Lucky_Enough@reddit
My mom lost her shit in Best Buy after reading the track list but still bought it for me.
Equivalent_Sir_2575@reddit
I remember having a cassette tape recording of "NWA - efil4zaggiN" hidden under my bed in a box. My mom found it and called my dad over for a "talk" - they had just started going through a divorce. I got my ass handed to me over some music.
They blamed "that damn n****r music" for my sudden withdrawal from everything, and my sense of being lost and angry.
My state of mind certainly had nothing to do with their sudden decision to rip my world in two. Nah... Let's blame the music. 😒
Demolished-Manhole@reddit
Use Your Illusion I
heresmytwopence@reddit
Walmart must have switched over to carrying edited versions not very long after. I had a friend whose mom would buy him the music he asked for at Walmart, not knowing any better, and they were always badly censored. Imagine listening to Warren G’s Regulate/G-Funk Era with all the curse words scrambled. It was sad to the point of almost being amusing.
Affectionate-Yak5280@reddit
Wee-BeyandPartlowLLC@reddit
100 miles and Running by NWA
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
The chronic.
Dsod23@reddit
My Grandma bought me this for my 10th birthday
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
I love your grandma.
Even-Possession2258@reddit
I also love this person's Grandma.
Dsod23@reddit
She’s awesome and still kicking at 93. I remember her questioning my mom “Are you sure this is what he was asking for?” As I blasted it from my cd player in my room lol.
Hammerhandle@reddit
This was the only CD I ever had taken away from me. My parents, especially my mom, are pretty racist. I had several other vulgar albums at the time, and because they were white dudes making guitar music, my parents didn't bat an eye.
electron_envy@reddit
Ah yes. Not my first explicit album (that was ez duz it) but I do have a funny story about this one. I was on vacation visiting my grandparents in Atlanta and we were out and I got a chance to go to a record store and I, small white child, whispered to a store employee that I was looking for The Chronic and the guy leans in to listen, then says in a very loud voice to whole store, which was quite full, "YO THIS LITTLE WHITE N*R RIGHT HERE WANTS THE MOTHER FUCKIN CHRONIC" I was utterly mortified but walked out with it 😂
yourunclegord@reddit
this was mine. dad didn't even let me we tit out if the wrapper
thedailyguru@reddit
THIS should be played at HIGH volumes...preferably, in a residential area...
abunchalunch@reddit
I was in 6th grade. Got home and threw it on my mom was like “is that what I just bought you???” I was like hellz yeh biatch!
Global-Jury8810@reddit
And she took it away from you after that didn’t she?
Around the same time I got my copy bought for me and taken away, remember that Fresh Prince episode around that same time, where Will was really into this rap group that did a song called “Kill Your Mother” and he had the audacity to jam to it in front of her so she took the cd out the player and I think she threw it out the window, it was so long ago. I was seriously looking for a YouTube clip.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
Mom bought me a copy and once she heard it, had it taken away from me and given to a colleague of hers.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
I always wonder what it would have been like to have a mom who paid attention. Like my mom didn’t work and was incredibly strict but she simultaneously paid absolutely no attention to me. It was all control no care.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
You won’t find that answer here. Mom had a govt job she had to take the car to the ferry to go to while Dad was on the road (semi transport). Both were too tired to be attentive.
Bibblegead1412@reddit
Saaaammmeeeee
Mr_A_Rye@reddit
Same. I loaned it to a friend and when his mom saw the disc with the marijuana leaf, he quickly told her it was holly and that it was a Christmas album.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
It’s my preferred Christmas album
Totally_Bradical@reddit
Dr Dre 2001 was my first, because I bought it for myself after I got a job. Up to that point my parents made me listen to the edited versions
AtmosphereInside2521@reddit
My dad bought this for me to play in my brand new boom box with a CD player! I was the first one in my family to get a cd player for my room.
Euphoric-Proposal-42@reddit
Same here!
Even-Possession2258@reddit
Gangstas Paradise. Got it for my birthday.
Every once in a while, my husband and I will go out for karaoke. And we will do Gangsta's Paradise as a duet. Most people assume that I'm going to be doing the backup lyrics and he will be rapping. I just really enjoy people's faces when they realize I'm doing the rapping.
_ricky_fitts@reddit
tmanarl@reddit
Metallica S&M album. Not even that bad but still had the sticker
rekordsrecker@reddit
funny that artists made completely clean albums with alt lyrics back then. I used to accidentally rip them off froswire or soulseek, then get busted by friends at work playing my iPod. My favorite one that stands out is Cypress Hill Black Sunday. “When the SHIP…goes down” I spit my drink out laughing😂
Ok-Potato-4774@reddit
I'm pretty sure Body Count's first album with "Cop Killer" on it was the first album I had with that on it.
yackie86@reddit
Ben Folds
xxMarcWithaCxx@reddit
When you have to explain what Brick is about
ThingsMayAlter@reddit
This made me laugh.
yackie86@reddit
I mean, how dare he scream “fuck” at the top of his lungs right? 🤣🤣
WasteCommand5200@reddit
Probably 2 Live Crew As Nasty As They Wanna be
thehobster@reddit
Had to make sure some of you young whippersnappers had this on your list. “Outstanding, Private Pyle”!
TransCapybara@reddit
They even made songs that spoke directly to having these stickers on albums.
xxMarcWithaCxx@reddit
Banned in the USA!
TransCapybara@reddit
Same!!
LOUCIFER_315@reddit
2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be Thanks, Uncle Luke
rekordsrecker@reddit
One of my most cringeworthy memories of myself. 11 years old, putting on sunglasses and nervously going into the Sam Goody in the local Shopping Mall to buy the censored version of Skid Row’s/ Slave to the Grind. The guy working was probably thinking, “what’s up with this nerd buying this shitty album? 😂
turlatron@reddit
This has to be in the running for lamest submission in this thread.
mADmARTigan66888@reddit
Doggystyle
Warhammer517@reddit
So Far. So Good. So What! by Megadeth.
Connect_Hospital_270@reddit
Adam Sandler: They're All Going to Laugh At You
Played it for 15 minutes and was promptly confiscated. My parents weren't prudes or strict, but if you know you know.
LiteUpThaSkye@reddit
Mine was Adam Sandlers "they're all going to laugh at you". I'm sure there was a couple others because I definitely got it from Columbia House. You know.. 10 cassettes for 1 cent.
Massive_Effect_1956@reddit
HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea@reddit
Honestly? Smash by the Offspring, and that was just a few years ago for the nostalgia. I never liked swearing in my music.
I'm not offended by people who swear, and I swear some myself (not nearly as much as I did as a teen when I would have actually been listening to Smash), but I dunno. Just always seemed so unnecessary in music.
AytumnRain@reddit
Nirvana - In Utero
heresmytwopence@reddit
Miami_Mice2087@reddit
Such a good album. My brother got this for a penny and we wore it the hell out
paintedwoodpile@reddit
Same!
CanadianSpectre@reddit
Get in the Ring blew my 12 year old mind at the time.
JamesDD4@reddit
At the time I first heard it, my 11-year-old self really enjoyed the song, but I don't think it has aged well at all.
Looking back on it, it's like, why did Axl, a millionaire several times over, care what a writer from Hit Parader magazine thought of his music??? Or Kerrang or whatever. Let it go, dude. Jesus.
heresmytwopence@reddit
A classmate and I came back to school from Christmas vacation after having both gotten the albums for Christmas. We were singing “I don’t like you, I just hate you, I’m gonna” and then our teacher interrupts us and says “You’re gonna be quiet!”
kinetic_cheese@reddit
Same for me, but only the first one. I bought specifically for November Rain, but I ended up falling in love with the whole album. I had to have my older sister go with me to buy it because no way would my mom have bought it for me.
heresmytwopence@reddit
I think Don’t Cry was probably the main draw for me initially, but there wasn’t a bad song on that whole album even by my 12-year-old standards. Whole else but Axl Rose could come up with Coma?
bluemitersaw@reddit
That bad boy holds up too. Play Jump Around and tell me you don't feel it.
Miami_Mice2087@reddit
The soundtrack to Rent
RoxyLA95@reddit
I don’t remember because I had older siblings.
DragonTigerBoss@reddit
I don't remember, but my high school "metal" band's only song was called Parental Advisory. The lyrics were, "I say fuck a lot" at the end of every bar.
_SundaeDriver@reddit
2 Live Crew, the first to carry the label
jbergman420@reddit
Doggystyle in 1994. Had to wait until I was 13 before my dad would let me get it.
Rygaaar@reddit
Rage Against the Machine 🤘
Rygaaar@reddit
And NWA!
Richard_Tucker_08@reddit
Onyx - Bacdafucup
UpkeepUnicorn@reddit
I think it was a two-fer with Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar and Sublime Self Titled
Background-Turnip@reddit
Mine was a two-fee with Sublime’s self-titled and Green Day’s Dookie!
Background-Turnip@reddit
Mine was a two-fer with Sublime’s self-titled and Green Day’s Dookie!
Duvetine@reddit
The Marshall Mathers LP
nu_strange_things@reddit
Gotta be this one. I stayed on tape format until about 2000 or so. I didn't specifically seek out albums with that label, but there were a few.
mzamour@reddit
And when I played in the car with my mom on our way to the river she looked at me all crazy haha but she was in her early 30s & not super strict so she let me keep it & then it was on & popping cus I had all the albums with the cuss words after that hahaha
_Internet_Hugs_@reddit
Dookie. I had to hide it because my mom took that crap seriously.
LeroyChestnut@reddit
Wu-Tang - Forever
Selmarris@reddit
The cassette. My parents took it away when they heard her say “fuck” though. So I made a copy of my friend’s CD and kept on listening. Still one of my favorites. Although I like the acoustic version better now in my old age.
sundaycomicssection@reddit
I don't remember, but I do remember it seemed nobody really cared about the label until 2 Live Crew - As Nasty as they Wanna Be
Simple_Car_6181@reddit
eminem marshall Mathers (edited) lp
januaryemberr@reddit
Manson, nin or white zombie.
CaptianBrasiliano@reddit
Absolute_Casey@reddit (OP)
Ha! This made my day.
ThorGanjasson@reddit
agentmkultra666@reddit
My parents were very anti-parental advisory anything (they usually would listen to cds first before I could have them) but somehow this one went under the radar and I got to have it.
ThorGanjasson@reddit
🎵“…and you just dont get it” 🎵
agentmkultra666@reddit
That album’s still full of bangers.
I think the parental advisory song was High Fiving Motherfucker (which was abbreviated on the case) because I don’t remember any of the other lyrics being worthy of the sticker.
davaflav1988@reddit
nocrisistoday@reddit
No_Gap_2700@reddit
Listened to this gem last weekend.
TGsunn78@reddit
Mine too. One of my favorite albums of all time.
WritingNerdy@reddit
Ill Communication
SkeymourSinner@reddit
Aww yea. Mine too. I was so nervous to take it up to the cashier. I worked up the courage for like twenty minutes. When I finally pulled the trigger the cashier didn't bat an eye. All that worry for nothing.
Sane_Tomorrow_@reddit
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
https://youtu.be/ESXW7_LUlmc?si=7f-MXiEH5Dy7dfz1
GibsonMD5150@reddit
Mine was GNR Use your illusion 1
HYPEractive@reddit
This. Although I believe this was before the official “Parental advisory” logo was used. I was 9 I think.
CartersClones333@reddit
Back in 89 or was it 90 and it wasn't even the music I was it to.
AmbitiousRandom@reddit
Dailia-@reddit
Jagged Little Pill!
BeeMe10121@reddit
Dr. Dre's the Chronic was mine
mynameisjodie@reddit
Encore by Eminem
Moraii@reddit
Munk45@reddit
NWA and Ice T
ExpensiveWords4u@reddit
The Fugees…? I have a shit memory but this is my first instinct.
Alpaca_Lips_@reddit
The Beavis and Butthead Experience...... From a used CD store called CD Jungle. This was the first one I'd bought but I'd borrowed plenty from the library (Wu-Tang for example).
FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit
As wack as it is, I never paid attention to the Sticker. I'm sure Korn had them, I don't think Offspring did.
Disastrous-Screen337@reddit
Warrant. Cherry Pie
ehfornier@reddit
Smash.
PintaLOL@reddit
Dookie - first CD I ever bought!
unicorn-beard@reddit
thebookofswindles@reddit
Nirvana, In Utero.
And I am forever grateful to the employee at Sam Goody who explained kindly and patiently to my mom that the song “Rape Me” was about the artist’s relationship to the music industry, not about sexual assault. Real hero, she let me buy it.
agentmkultra666@reddit
That’s great honestly. My parents never actually used critical thinking when it came to what an artist was actually saying, and were just huffy and offended at stuff that had certain words in the title.
Fast_Satisfaction484@reddit
Markayzee@reddit
Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
goofytigre@reddit
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
agentmkultra666@reddit
I remember my parents would not let me have this album because of a song called Heroin Girl
Mr_Perfect22@reddit
Eazy-Duz-It
literanch@reddit
literanch@reddit
Adam Sandler - They’re All Gonna Laugh at You
MrsKCD@reddit
Tupac All Eyez on Me. 1995.
sauvesez@reddit
Guns and rose’s appetite for destruction I had to hide it from my parents I remember that label being very scary to parents around that time. my dad was a teacher, so he was hip to the hallways of the goings on Maybe the seventh grade
grymmy_bear@reddit
* I was 11. My mom hated it, so sad cranked it.
anniemanic@reddit
mr_j_666@reddit
Dangerous Minds soundtrack
InchByinch2024@reddit
Green Day, Dookie. Followed up by ONYX. Tapes. Great times, lol.
lookforfrogs@reddit
The first Gorillaz album!
DBE113301@reddit
gregorypatterson1225@reddit
2 Live Cree
GlenBaileyWalker@reddit
Reign in Blood by Slayer and Straight Outta Compton by NWA. I was 8 years old.
brmarcum@reddit
Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other. Very conservative Mormon household so everything was filtered, but I had some Xmas money and I was mad I got in trouble for something, so I asked dad to take me to the store. Came home and mom asked to see what I bought. I defiantly showed it to her and she was like “parental advisory huh?” I said “yup”, picked it up off her desk, and went and listened to the whole thing. I’m still surprised she didn’t just confiscate it right then.
DashboredPro@reddit
Nirvana - In Utero
FormerlyFrankie@reddit
Not the very first, but an important one. First was Greenday Dookie.
Bruiser21045@reddit
2 live crew banned in the USA
11229988B@reddit
tampapunklegend@reddit
I had this one, too. Still one of my top hip hop albums.
0peRightBehindYa@reddit
Great, now I'm gonna have to go cruise around today and listen to This DJ through the Fosgates.
Esdeez@reddit
“What’s next? What’s next? What’s NXET, it Warren to the motherfucking G”.
Love this album.. but may have the most unnecessary “motherfucks” of all time.
11229988B@reddit
You from the department of motherfucks? You taking a motherfuck census? 🤣
Just joking
KoolTurkeyED@reddit
Hell yeah… I remember my sister ratting me out to my mom about all the bad words on this album! Lol
jpark1984@reddit
Great album
tampapunklegend@reddit
KORN and Marilyn Manson. I think the 3rd was White Zombie. Yeah, 14 year old me was an edgy kid. Then I got into punk rock, and became the serious, politically left person I still am today, 30 years later.
lostmyjobthrowawayyy@reddit
Korn Self titled!
Then my sister had my mom take it away because of the song titled “FAGET” 😂
hevnztrash@reddit
Body Count w Cop Killer
Johhnynumber5ht2a@reddit
flipnitch@reddit
EST. 1999
Elynn6969@reddit
majessa@reddit
RHCP - BSSM
KennethPowersIII@reddit
Adam Sandler - What the Hell Happened to Me?
AppropriateCupcake48@reddit
Salt n’ Pepa, Very Necessary
marteautemps@reddit
It wasn't the first but my (great)aunt looked a little too closely when I was getting Doggystyle and said no because of how it looked. I then threw a bit of a fit at Best Buy saying my mom wouldn't care(she really didn't) we talked to her later and then went back the next day to get it. She looked a little more at the whole thing and just handed it back, disappointed. I had got so many others with the sticker on it but most are pretty innocuous as far as the cover goes.
Also one of my most shameful moments looking back, I basically threw a tantrum at like 11 or 12. What an asshole.
ozoptimist@reddit
The Downward Spiral
harleficent@reddit
I got this one for Christmas! I think I was 13 or 14.
TransCapybara@reddit
Thanks Mom! Wanna listen?
TransCapybara@reddit
2Like crew
PropadataFilms@reddit
Mac Daddy - Sir Mix A Lot | had to have my mom tell the cashier at Fred Meyer that it was ok.
No_Literature666@reddit
Attack Of The Killer B's by Anthrax
Funny_Equivalent7056@reddit
Sinborn@reddit
Extreme 2: Pornograffitti
andiinAms@reddit
Use your Illusion 1 & 2!
GoCartMozart1980@reddit
They're All Going to Laugh at You! - Adam Sandler
I am filled with shame.
90daylookback@reddit
No shame. Ladies dig Sandler.
ethan__l2@reddit
Probably 2 live Crew(???) The first good album with one was Public Enemy.
EatinLikeDianeKeatn@reddit
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Elevenyearstoomany@reddit
The Dangerous Minds soundtrack.
LegallyReactionary@reddit
Nice, mine was Use Your Illusion I on my 13th birthday.
spanishpeanut@reddit
ICP Great Milenko. I heard it the first time I cut class and left school with the upperclassmen. Naturally I thought it was amazing because those kids were so much cooler than me. I also thought it was cool that there were different covers — same design but the second color had a few options. Mine was bright yellow and I was (naturally) awesome.
However, I couldn’t listen to the pig song and after a while I associated listening to the album as bad luck. I still own it because I’m not trying to get some kind of Goosebumps curse going by getting rid of it. I haven’t listened to it in at least a decade.
harleficent@reddit
Life after death - I remember taking my mom into the store to vouch for me... Same with The Great Milenko. After that I put them down on my Christmas list and would get them lol
shadowofmal@reddit
Korn: Korn
Prudent-Lake1276@reddit
I'm pretty sure for me it was Rocket by Primitive Radio Gods
KingLawCA@reddit
I think it was Raisin’ Hell - RUN DMC
0sqs@reddit
Did they have these on cassettes? If so, I have no idea. But my first CD with it on there was I think *Nevermind*.
danger_bears@reddit
It was either NIN- Pretty Hate Machine or else Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
DerbGentler@reddit
Guns'n'Roses
But mine looked like that:
paintedwoodpile@reddit
I forgot about those stickers. Mind had those too.
dubcity81@reddit
NWA
JaxxisR@reddit
JaxxisR@reddit
He literally has an album called Parental Advisory, but this was my first introduction to him.
SisterBeaverhausen@reddit
Prince Controversy
shawa666@reddit
paintedwoodpile@reddit
GNR Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 and Sam Kinison Louder Than Hell comedy album. Then NWA Straight Outta Compton the next day. These were my first CD's. They all came in boxes too!
Danny61392@reddit
NWA.
Nitzelplick@reddit
2 Live Crew. The first. Great promotion by Tipper Gore.
jandrew2000@reddit
Sublime!
flerptyborkbork@reddit
Saaame! What an album.
Ill_Zookeepergame232@reddit
Purple by STP
GuySmiley369@reddit

FluffyButtSilkie@reddit
Aenima
Deedeelite@reddit
2 live crew - Sports weekend. I was 13 and begged my mom for it for months and she finally relented after my dad took my side.
StewdFartsNapplPeels@reddit
Smash mouth 😂
hobsrulz@reddit
Me too! My dad bought it for me (he asked them for smashing mouth) and then he was all like hey wait a minute
StewdFartsNapplPeels@reddit
Yeah I got it for Xmas along with Eve 6 and my grandfather was like... What is that label??? Because they say like shit or fuck once in a song lol
But after that I was all about Columbia House and my mom had no idea who the people were so I got a Lil Kim CD and it was game over from there lol
PraetorianXVIII@reddit
I... think it was this one. I just don't think older ones that I got that still would have qualified had it back then.
LexaproOnTheRocksPlz@reddit
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Razzle-Dazzle-5678@reddit
Green Day's Dookie! (I still have it too.)
Thekiffining@reddit
ChrissiMinxx@reddit
So cash your check and move on
MaxMcLarenTBSL@reddit
I never noticed or paid attention. My dad and his friends were "dirty old bikers," so no CD ws going to introduce me to language any worse than a summer BBQ. I think maybe Korn - Follow the leader? I lived in a tiny town an hour from the city, so my collection was tiny.
anOvenofWitches@reddit
ChrissiMinxx@reddit
I bought this as a teenager and the cashier tried to talk me out of it when I went to pay for it, because it had Madonna sucking a toe on the back cover 🤭
bri52284@reddit
Foxy Brown - China Doll (1999)
ChrissiMinxx@reddit
JamesDD4@reddit
YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit
Body Count
c4ctus@reddit
The Slim Shady LP.
Bought it in a store at Disney World of all places...
FROG123076@reddit
2 Live Crew Banned in the USA.
schmigglies@reddit
Forgive me, I was but 11
jreashville@reddit
I think it was something by Vendetta Red. I didn’t listen to much mainstream music and the label isn’t required for indie label releases.
Esdeez@reddit
36 Chambers.
Side note, does anyone remember the CD Chain store The Wall? They used to give out “guarantee stickers”, so if it ever scratched you could replace it. I would ride my bike there and get new music.. open the case before I got home and put the sticker on the booklet to cover the advisory. I was a brilliant 10 year old.
I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit
The Chronic 2001
I had to buy it myself at 15 because mom wouldn't buy it for me.
I was so nervous because technically I shouldn't have been able to buy it and those advisory stickers were being taken super seriously due to Columbine and all the public outrage over violent video games, music, movies
LegSpecialist1781@reddit
The OPP NbN single would be my first, though not sure if the label was there yet or not.
lemoneegees@reddit
I don't remember the first with the sticker but I do remember the only one my mom ever took away from me was The Offspring, Smash, because she stopped by my room at precisely the "stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker" lyrics in "Bad Habit".
Consistent_Drink5975@reddit
Welcome to the fuck shop!
Epicardiectomist@reddit
In '94, I was 13 and my younger brother was 10. I bought Pantera - Far Beyond Driven, and he bought Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral and the first Rage Against the Machine. Our parents took away both NIN and RATM but I hid Pantera and was able to hold onto it for years. After that we started coloring the advisory marks with black marker, and it worked since most of the album covers had a lot of black.
hantei40@reddit
Hard to say. Might have been Straight Outta Compton. Then again, GNR Lies was after that, and I don't think it had a sticker. Can't recall when I got them.
SeanOfTheDead1313@reddit
Ritual de la Habitual
Quirky_Mongoose2723@reddit
2 Live Crew As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
Quirky_Mongoose2723@reddit
2 Live Crew As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
EmployedByCats@reddit
I got 2 at the same time.
Public Enemy-Fear of a black planet.
RHCP- Blood, sugar, sex, magic.
cajerunner@reddit
gimmeslack12@reddit
Blood sugar sex magik
Biguitarnerd@reddit
I think it was Evil Empire by RATM. Not sure though, that was a long ass time ago.
freestewart@reddit
And to think Ice-T would one day become one of the most beloved TV cops of all time.
ajhe51@reddit
Black Sunday
td138@reddit
Lil Kim Hardcore 💕
hankjuice@reddit
Master P Ghetto D
GoonieMcflyguy@reddit
Doggystyle for me loved "It ain't no fun (If my homie can't have none."
Buttons949@reddit
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
udonbeatsramen@reddit
Mine was the same album, UYI II. It was actually the first album I ever bought
Get in the ring, motherfucker!
RGVHound@reddit
First one I went out and bought with my own money, and had to do it without my parents knowing.
vociferousgirl@reddit
Madonna's Erotica.
I really love the song, "Bad Girl"
muhredditone@reddit
Cereal Killer Soundtrack by Green Jello was the first one I bought with an actual sticker. I remember my dad throwing it in the trash when he saw "Misadventures of Shitman" on the tracklist. I gave him a whole speech on me only listening to one song on the album (Three Little Pigs) and me spending "my own money" on it. A whole thing about it being "my personal property". lol. He ended up replacing it for me. He was a good man. There may have been something before that but it probably would have been a copy I got from a friend, so no sticker. Within a couple years of that incident, I had quite a few stickers in the music collection. Early to mid-90s was a great time for music, man. I was into everything from The Everly Brothers to NIN.
sofakingWTD@reddit
Nirvana, Nevermind
The non explicit Walmart version featured "Waif Me" (instead of Rape Me)
Blue-Album-1994@reddit
the album you are thinking of is actually in utero
chevalier716@reddit
Solid album
Prestigious-Hand9490@reddit
My first one too
LizF0311@reddit
My very first CD. Alanis Morrissette — Jagged Little Pill.
jpark1984@reddit
2pac Me Against the World
absolutnonsense@reddit
Fairly confident it was Green Day's Dookie
Drinkmasta@reddit
My mom saw the warning and immediately threw it out.
Adrasteia-One@reddit
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
swethead@reddit
Mine was Wasp live in the raw....lol
Consistent_Stick_463@reddit
Habanero_In_My_Eyes@reddit
Nineteen sixty….fiiiiivvevveeee yeah!
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
#YEAH!!
animus218@reddit
My parents were morons. Strict about the wrong things, and CDs were bought at Walmart, so all were edited. No rap. Greenday wasn't allowed. Basically, anything they didn't like. Plenty of bad stuff in the music they did like. Also, I distinctly recall listening to "Like a Virgin" at, like, 10. So. Morons.
DifficultMinute@reddit
Mine were similar, which is why my first explicit album was Limp Bizkit Significant Other, bought with my own money after I was old enough to have a job.
They were not pleased lol
RGVHound@reddit
In your parents' defense, you were clearly not ready to make good decisions.
fyrefly_faerie@reddit
The edited albums were ridiculous. For the longest time, I didn’t know “Break on through” by the Doors was edited until a few years ago (the word “high” was cut out).
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
I bought like a virgin album with my very first allowance. I was 7.
animus218@reddit
It feels so cringe now
yeltrah79@reddit
Probably Jagged Little Pill
Quenzayne@reddit
I don’t remember that album having one. Literally everyone I knew had it, unedited, but no sticker. Maybe it varied based on the printing?
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
Appetite for Destruction, I think. I asked my aunt for it for my birthday, and she got it and then my mom saw the cover and the titles and thought there was no way it was appropriate and gave it back to my aunt.
MisRandomness@reddit
My first CD ever
Zeke688@reddit
The Predator - Ice Cube
Texas_Crazy_Curls@reddit
Banger soundtrack
gopms@reddit
1999 - Prince. I loved the Purple Rain soundtrack so I asked for 1999 for my 11th birthday. My mom was like "write it down so I don't forget which one" Picture this: The morning of my 11th birthday. I excitedly run downstairs to find my birthday presents all wrapped and waiting. One is clearly a record and after pawing it I can tell it is a double record. Yay! I tear off the wrapping paper to find.... the Annie soundtrack! My mom had dutifully gone to Sam the Record Man to get 1999 but some overly diligent employee had pointed out the parental advisory label on the record so my mom opted for the Annie soundtrack instead. Heartbreak! I had to save my allowance for weeks to go and buy it myself (it was a double album! It cost $14.99!) Anyway, I finally got it. And you know what? Wildly inappropriate for an 11 year old. I listened to the whole double album and had no idea what most of it meant but I knew it was naughty! I ended up listening to Little Red Corvette, 1999, and Delirious (side 1 of album 1) over and over and never really listened to the rest. You know what else? The Annie soundtrack was wall to wall bangers! So, fair play to my mom.
Perfect_Molasses7365@reddit
Born and raised in the suburbs, my grandma was told her grandson would like this for his birthday. They were correct 😃
Ok-Satisfaction1940@reddit
It’s been so long ago, but if I had to guess, probably NWA or 2 Live Crew.
NaviZenabi@reddit
2 Live Crew “As Nasty As They Wanna Be”
grahams_xwing@reddit
LOL - Jagged Little Pill. One swear I think in the entire album, unless you count 'Wine dine, 69 me'
DrMcJedi@reddit
JerryLewisAndTheNews@reddit
Mine was a tape of 2 Live Crew. I come from a home where art, books, and music were never off limits.
FatReverend@reddit
I don't know how many of the albums I already owned had parental advisories on them but when I went to buy Megadeth so far so good so what, it had an explicit sticker on it that was a little different than the parental advisory. That was the first and only time a record store employee denied me a sale because of some kind of advisory.
littleirishpixie@reddit
Adam Sandler's "They're All Going to Laugh at You"
And I immediately threw away the case so my super religious parents wouldn't see the warning label. "Oh it's just a comedy album by that guy from Billy Madison."
kiblick@reddit
I was going to say The Chronic, but I guess it was Use Your Illusion. I guess that album was less controversial in my white house.
Sal_Paradise81@reddit
Enter The 36 Chambers. Changed my life.
AnalMohawk@reddit
Marilyn Manson's Smells Like Children. My dad was not thrilled with the track entitled Fuck Frankie.
UpkeepUnicorn@reddit
What about Everlasting Cocksucker?
AnalMohawk@reddit
I think he was too embarrassed to say the name of that one out loud to his 6th grader.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
How do you folks remember this stuff?
I do know that I always looked out for this advisory otherwise you got the shitty clean version.
pneighthan@reddit
I got Beck's Mellow Gold. My dad made me return it. I exchanged it for Dark Side of the Moon. Good trade.
thefro023@reddit
Tenacious D.
Lemna24@reddit
9 Inch Nails Downward Spiral.
How I loved playing Closer really loud in my room when I was mad at my parents. 😂
xcab02@reddit
2 Live Crew - Nasty as they wanna be on vinyl. I remember 5th grade it was traded around
beattysgirl@reddit
I had (so far) every album in this list lol my parents are huge music buffs and raised me to be the same. I think the first one I bought with my own money was The Chronic, and it was a bootleg tape at a street fair 😂 my parents were more upset that I got tricked into buying a bootleg than anything.
cointerm@reddit
heinenleslie@reddit
It was a Snoop Dogg album, I remember my dad returning it immediately 🤦🏼♀️
dirtjiggler@reddit
NWA. Given to me by a cousin. I was 9. Lol.
BlueProcess@reddit
I wanna say Dookie, aka the one year that I liked and listened to Green Day
I_saw_u_take_a_dump@reddit
Beastie boys - Ill communication, on cassette
BobGnarly_@reddit
Probably 40oz. to Freedom by Sublime.
DinnerSilver@reddit
None Inch Nails:The Downward Spiral.
KnottyCatLady@reddit
NIN, Downward Spiral
MamboNumber-6@reddit
Geto Boys, “Four Mugshots Cover”
Justin_Sideme@reddit
Case116@reddit
Yo, me too!
Jonestown_Juice@reddit
Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey.
gbyrd013@reddit
GnR - Use Your Illusion I and II, RHCP - BSSM, Faith No More - Angel Dust
Kalfu73@reddit
Angel Dust is an album I sadly have not thought about in awhile. Thank you for the reminder, gonna give it a listen.
gbyrd013@reddit
It’s such a great album and still holds up. I had it on cassette so every time I listen to it now, I think about flipping the cassette around while playing Sega genesis.
MLDaffy@reddit
Ugly Kidd Joe and GnR.
WanderingWino@reddit
Korn - Shoots and Ladders
robhatescomputers@reddit
My first cd
Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit
Not joking.
iwannawangchung@reddit
The one that inspired the warning sticker, 2 Live Crew
exqvisitely@reddit
It might have been Beck's Mellow Gold. I remember peeling off the sticker in case my mom noticed it.
RosemaryRoseville@reddit
Outhere brothers don't stop ( wiggle wiggle) explicit version
Dangerous-Bar-3356@reddit
Body Count
ghost_shark_619@reddit
GNR - Use Your Illusion II or Body Count the one that had Cop Killa on it. I don’t remember which came first.
jaredrun@reddit
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
DayDrunkHermit@reddit
I don’t remember what album I bought first but I remember being hassled the most over Body Count, I still play cop killer live to this day 🤘
Peebs3075@reddit
Cop Kier - Body Count
lotsahosta@reddit
Pulp fiction soundtrack. And I loved it.
Loud-Percentage-3174@reddit
That's such a good album.
Nacho_Sideboob@reddit
Sir-Mix-alot Mack Daddy
Loud-Percentage-3174@reddit
Antichrist Superstar. I know it's incredibly cringey today, but at the time I'd never seen anything else like it. The video visuals were stunning and the music was so complex, the lyrics raw but with that polish of artistry.
SimilarRegret9731@reddit
Jay z in my life time - listened to this in elementary school at 10 years old
Alternative-Emu-300@reddit
Mine was also Use Your Illusion II... On cassette 😎
Totally_Bradical@reddit
I had the lame ass Walmart versions with the bleeps 😔
1980pzx@reddit
Doggy style- Snoop and Vulgar Display of Power-Pantera
fatherdoodle@reddit
My friend gave me his extra copy of Follow the Leader (Korn). I had to hide it and listen to it really low
VashMM@reddit
I genuinely can't remember.
The thing I do remember though is having to re-purchase a ton of albums from Best Buy when I was in high school because I was only allowed to purchase them from Walmart before that. Iykyk.
Mundane_Ad3184@reddit
2 Live Crew - Move Somethin’
AffableCynic@reddit
Pretty sure this was mine as well.
At our junior high graduation dance the dj played We Want Some Pussy as the last song of the night. It took an embarrassing amount of time before the faculty shut it down.
CompletelyBedWasted@reddit
Too Short lol
Chief_Br0dy@reddit
Warren G - Regulate.. G Funk Era.
slademccoy47@reddit
sigh
Signifcant Other
LukeMayeshothand@reddit
NWA- Striaght Outta Compton
small___potatoes@reddit
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I
Derrick_Mur@reddit
Green Day Nimrod
LuckyPenny1120@reddit
Mase - Harlem World I was 12 😂🤣😂
QuoVadimusDana@reddit
The first one i bought myself was the matrix soundtrack. I was waiting for them to ID me and they didn't!!
Before that... I know i had some but I can't recall which. Like did Jagged Little Pill have it? I kind of think no? Did the black album? I can't remember.
Key-Tell-4345@reddit
Friday soundtrack
TonyBooya@reddit
heresmytwopence@reddit
Shit, why did you skip UYI 1? Did You could be mine break the tie?
Twanlx2000@reddit
I also owned II before I. It holds locker room significance to when I was coming of age. I didn’t buy I until I was in college and having a GNR renaissance with the ballads.
ego_tripped@reddit
You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge...