Last Banned Album: Pull Myself Out

Source: Pulling Myself Out
From: Books.com.tw
Date: 2014. Author: Ma Shih-fang

Pulling Myself Out is the last album ever banned in Taiwan’s publishing history. In 1990, the Government Information Office seized the album on the grounds that “the lyrics are vulgar and obscene, violating public morality,” and issued a press release stating that “such emotional rubbish belonging to the author personally should be incinerated in the furnace of self-reflection,” and condemning it as “the sinking of humanity, the surfacing of bestiality.”

 

External Links

• Complete Retrospective: The History of Banned Songs in Taiwan (Sounding Taiwan: An Exploration of Postwar Taiwan’s Sound Culture)
• Pulling Yourself Out Again: Taiwan’s Avant-Garde Rocker Chao Yi-hao (Chang T’ieh-chih)
• “These Two Albums Accumulated So Much of My Anger” — Taiwan Rock Pioneer Chao Yi-hao, Having Survived Martial Law’s Guns, Wants to “Pull Out Lies of an Idiot” (Roxy Rocker)
• Twenty-Five Years of Rock Stubbornness — An Interview with Chao Yi-hao (POkey)