1990. USA. N.W.A.
Members of the rap group N.W.A. received a letter from the F.B.I. saying that the agency did not appreciate the song 'Fuck The Police'. Law enforcement groups across the country agreed.

1990. USA. Sinead O'Connor
Singer Sinead O'Connor banned the 'Star-Spangled Banner' from her show in New Jersey. Some radio stations, in turn, refused to play O'Connor's music.

1990. USA. Frank Zappa
The Meyer Music Markets (a record retail chain in the Pacific Northwest) put a warning sticker on Frank Zappa's 'Jazz From Hell album'. The sticker banned sale to minors and warned of dirty lyrics. If the execs had actually listened to the record, they would have discovered it was entirely instrumental.

1991. USA. Skin Up
Central TV prevented the band from releasing the single 'Blockbusters', named after Central’s TV show Blockbusters starring Bob Holness.

1991. USA. Garth Brooks
Cable music channels banned the video for the American country music singer-songwriter Garth Brooks’ song ‘The Thunder Rolls’ because it depicted adultery, domestic violence and murder. Brooks refused to alter the video. The song was part of the album, ‘No Fences’, which reached no. 1 on the American Billboard country music chart and would go on to become Brooks' biggest-selling album with global sales of over 20 million copies.

1993. USA. Bodycount
The track ‘Cop Killer’ is famously dropped from Bodycount’s album at Ice-T's request following threats to sue by the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association.

1996. USA. Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow's self-titled album was banned in Wal-Mart because of the song 'Love Is A Good Thing', which mentions children killing each other "with a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores."