Imagine by John Lennon is Banned!

woodly6

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I saw this the other day and I cant believe it! I am glad the radio stations in my area are not adhearing to this overreactionary tatic!
 

palad

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Too horrible to be true! Maybe that's cause it isn't...

Snopes debunks it. What you're seeing is an overreaction.



<< the only thing remarkable about this list is that so many sensation-hungry news outlets have attempted to spin it as an outrageous mandate by Clear Channel to "ban" certain songs from the airwaves. Clear Channel did not issue the list to their stations with a directive that the listed songs not be played, nor did they even request that their stations refrain from playing the listed songs, as Robert Hilburn noted in the Los Angeles Times... >>



 

ViperMagic

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NO matter, i listen to country :)
But heres the list:



<< AC/DC, "Shot Down in Flames," "Shoot to Thrill," "Dirty Deeds," "Highway to Hell," "Safe in New York City," "TNT," "Hell's Bells"
Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City"
Alice In Chains, "Rooster," "Sea of Sorrow," "Down in a Hole," "Them Bone"
Alien Ant Farm, "Smooth Criminal"
Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful World"
Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Barenaked Ladies, "Falling for the First Time"
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"
Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot," "Sabotage"
Beatles, "A Day in the Life," "Lucy in fhe Sky with Diamonds," "Ticket to Ride," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," "Love Is a Battlefield"
Black Sabbath, "War Pigs," "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," "Suicide Solution"
Blood, Sweat & Tears, "And When I Die"
Blue Oyster Cult, "Burnin' for You"
Boston, "Smokin' "
Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst that Could Happen"
Arthur Brown, "Fire"
Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"
Bush, "Speed Kills"
Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her"
Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces"
Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
Sam Cooke, "Wonderful World"
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Travelin' Band"
Cult, "Fire Woman"
Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"
Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"
Neil Diamond, "America"
Dio, "Holy Diver"
Doors, "The End"
Drifters, "On Broadway"
Drowning Pool, "Bodies"
Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Everclear, "Santa Monica"
Shelly Fabares, "Johnny Angel"
Filter, "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
Fuel, "Bad Day"
Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling"
Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
Godsmack, "Bad Religion"
Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky"
Green Day, "Brain Stew"
Guns N' Roses, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Happenings, "See You in September"
Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"
Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World"
Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Buddy Holly & the Crickets, "That'll Be the Day"
Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
Elton John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man"
Judas Priest, "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
Kansas, "Dust in the Wind"
Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move"
Korn, "Falling Away From Me"
Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"
Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire"
Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff"
Local H, "Bound for the Floor"
Los Bravos, "Black Is Black"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone"
Dave Matthews Band, "Crash into Me"
Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live and Let Die"
Barry McGuire, "Eve Of Destruction"
Don McLean, "American Pie"
Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner"
Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive," "Sweating Bullets"
John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down," "I'm on Fire"
Martha & the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run," "Dancing in the Streets"
Metallica, "Seek and Destroy," "Harvester Or Sorrow," "Enter Sandman," "Fade to Black"
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic"
Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"
Rick Nelson, "Travelin' Man"
Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"
Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"
Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died"
John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire"
Peter & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces," "A World Without Love"
Peter, Paul, & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"
Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell," "Mother"
P.O.D., "Boom"
Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Pretenders, "My City Was Gone"
Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust," "Killer Queen"
Rage Against the Machine, all songs
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane," "Under the Bridge"
R.E.M., "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, "Devil with the Blue Dress"
Saliva, "Click Click Boom"
Santana, "Evil Ways"
Savage Garden, "Crash and Burn"
Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"
Slipknot, "Left Behind," "Wait and Bleed"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World," "Fell on Black Days," "Black Hole Sun"
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm on Fire," "Goin' Down," "War"
Edwin Starr, "War"
Steam, "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey"
Cat Stevens, "Peace Train," "Morning Has Broken"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Bang Baby," "Dead and Bloated"
Sugar Ray, "Fly"
Surfaris, "Wipeout"
System of a Down, "Chop Suey!"
Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House"
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"
Temple of the Dog, "Say Hello to Heaven"
Third Eye Blind, "Jumper"
Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again"
3 Doors Down, "Duck and Run"
311, "Down"
Tool, "Intolerance"
Tramps, "Disco Inferno"
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Van Halen, "Jump," "Dancing in the Streets"
J. Frank Wilson, "Last Kiss"
Yager & Evans, "In the Year 2525"
Youngbloods, "Get Together"
The Zombies, "She's Not There"
>>

 

trmiv

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Unfortunetly to company that is doing this, Clear Channel, owns a ton of radio stations, including at least 3 in my area. 2 of those stations listen to regularly.
 

Sugadaddy

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Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful World"
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
Elton John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man"
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"


Rage Against the Machine, all songs :Q


WTF are they smoking?
 

palad

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OK, does everybody just automatically respond, without reading the previous posts? People... THIS IS FAKE NEWS!
 

MichaelD

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Some of the songs with inflammatory-type-titles, I can almost understand, but the ChiLites "Have you seen her"? I don't get it? Oh wait....I see, all the missing women...OK, now I get it. But still, that's the Freedom of Speech ammendment they are messing with...not cool. I've had family and friends die; we all have. Of course I heard songs being played that seemed to be improper at the time. There's this little thing called "a dial", you turn it and magically the music changes. I won't tolerate the First Ammendment being stomped on.
 

Balt

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<<Unfortunetly to company that is doing this, Clear Channel, owns a ton of radio stations, including at least 3 in my area. 2 of those stations listen to regularly, so I am not hearing any of those songs.>>

Yeah, I'm beginning to really dislike how many radio stations they have. If consolidation is the only way radio can survive, I guess I can't complain though. I find it funny that (here at least) they say "Owned by Clear Channel Communications, a company bent on world domination." Not very funny since it seems so true.



I'm surprised "U2 - New York" isn't on the list. I believe it uses the words "religious nuts" in it when describing the city's population. <----Note: Sarcasm.

I guess I can understand them saying "Hey, might want to ease off on these songs for a while" because most of us don't even think about the lyrics until something like this happens. If they are officially banning them then I of course don't support that, but I can understand why they are releasing a list. It's best to tone it down a little on such songs for a while at least, just to not piss off too many people or add to their anxiety.

 

palad

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Read the article I linked. What happened was that Clear issued a memo of a list of songs. They wanted their local directors to consider if playing them would offend anybody at a very sensitive time, but they in no way ordered them to stop playing them. News media took that and blew it all out of proportion.
 

Shantanu

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People are so stupid. The Clear Channel can play whatever songs they like. I'm glad that someone at those radio stations is actually thinking. To not play songs that will remind people of the WTC disaster is both a) good business and b) a nice thing to do, unless of course left wing media nutcases spin the story in such a way that the unthinking masses believe that their First Amendment Rights are somehow being infringed upon :p
 

Platypus

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However unlikely, if this is true, I will burn all those songs onto a disk and play them infront of my radio station's office :D
 

Platypus

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<< This ridiculous... so what's the deal, we're never going to hear those songs over the radio-waves again? Grrrrrrrrrr! Godd@mn baby boomer hippies! >>


Its........not..............real...............???????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the link from the top. It says these are considered songs...
 

SWScorch

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oh my god that is so fvcking retarded. How they can be labells "inappropriate" after the WTC incident?? People die all the time, and that doesnt make any songs "innapropriate." That just pisses me off. Most of those on that list are excellent songs (Louis Armstrong?? WTF? that song is a classic!!)

[edit] ahh, its fake... *blood pressure lowers* :p
 

Martin

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<< Rage Against the Machine, all songs
Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"
Kansas, "Dust in the Wind"
>>




what is wrong with these idiots???

 

A5

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Man, most of those are classic rock songs, and CC owns the good classic rock station here :p

Edit: If this is true, it sucks. If not, then oh well.
 

Platypus

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They'd better ban sesame street's theme song because it has the word street in it, and the WTC was on a street.