Radio Bans songs due to last weeks incident (list inside)

[Smolek]

From f-dcompany - delete if already posted

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Just trying to help (and for this they get a "luck", Clear Channel, owner of over 1,170 radio stations, has banned these songs from their airwaves. Included are songs about war, the word "Tuesday", and even "Walk Like an Egyptian" (okay, i can do without that one...). I've confirmed the list with people there and they say it's legit.
When: 9/17/2001
Company: Clear Channel
Lucked: 5
Points: 105
194 comments


Clear Channel's list of songs with questionable content

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


Interesting find.
Unsavory link though.

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[PrinceofWands]

That has to be the dumbest, most ridiculous thing I've seen yet.

 

[virtuamike]

They banned Neil. That's harsh.

 

[BlackSoul]

<< Frank Sinatra "New York, New York" >>





<< Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World" >>



What in the HELL are offensive about these songs?





<< Judas Priest "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll >>



Damn right they are!

 

[Looney]

This is a joke right? Is there a list of the stations?

 

[IBhacknU]

We are the World.... We are the Children..... ah, nevermind!

 

[purplehayes]

Some of those songs are a real stretch for "offensive".

PH

 

[gopunk]

i heard ratm's message board was ordered taken down by the usss

 

[Mrburns2007]

What about Madonna and Britney Spears, I find them offensive ?

I'm in the mood for some Black Sabbath, Alice in Chains or maybe AC/DC.

 

[MikeO]

LOL!

Unbelievable stupidity...



<< Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World" >>



WTF?!?! ...well maybe there's some irony, but c'mon.

 

[Aihyah]

guess they were lazy and did a keyword search to build the list

 

[Nemesis77]

Oh come on! As tragic this attack was there no reason to act as stupid as this!!!

What's so goddamn offensive about Led Zeppelin?



<< Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water" >>

Huh?!?!?!

Are they stupid or are they REALLY stupid?

 

[loosbrew]

utter stupidity!

 

[iamwiz82]

its simple, just boycott all of their stations. I dont believe there are any in michigan, but, who knows.

Hey, does anyone want to start spamming this to people? This is at least a worthy and real cause.

 

[toph99]

Metallica "Seek and Destroy"
Metallica "Harvester or Sorrow"
Metallica "Fade to Black"
Godsmack "Bad Religion"
AC/DC "Highway to Hell"
AC/DC "Hell's Bells"
Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Van Halen "Jump"
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"


:|

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

I'm surprised they didn't ban Leonard Cohen's "First we Take Manhattan".

 

[woodly6]

I heard some of these song on the radio TODAY:

RATM - Gurella Radio
Alice In Chains - Rooster
SOAD - Chop Suey

All on this station!

 

[cavingjan]

Actually a bunch of these songs I believe have gotten more airtime in the past week. I haven't heard "Fade to Black" but maybe once or twice a week and now its on two different radio stations a couple times a day. Not that I'm complaining about it.

 

[Zwingle]

That can't be true.....Clear Channel owns 5 of the top radio stations here in Dallas-Ft Worth.

The Edge 102.1
Eagle 97.1
Mix 102.9
KZPS 92.5
Kiss 106.1

Some of those songs are not offensive at all.....this has got to be a bad rumor.

Here is a link that debunks the story about a list with Clear Channel......quoting from the article

<< Executives within the radio division at Clear Channel Communications -- one of the nation's largest radio conglomerates -- denied any list had been developed. >>

 

[Zwingle]

Bump for true information.....

 

[ultimatebob]

Wow, THAT is stupid. Once again, another business is panicing and over-reacting to recent events, just like the terrorists WANTED US TO DO. Idiots.

 

[T2T III]

<< Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" >>


Not to set aside the fact that Randy Crawford, John Bon Jovi and others also have done a cover of this song.

 

[RSI]

I have to agree with the comments here. It is stupid. Think clearly for a moment with me. Assume you've been directly affected by the tragedy. Alright, that's truly horrible. Now, are you going to be listening to Godsmack and Rage Against The Machine? Are you going to be listening to the radio at all? I don't know about you, but when I'm feeling like utter shit, I don't exactly feel like listening to the radio. And if I DID decide to turn it on, it would be my choice, no? So why should I be offended by anything that plays on it? If it disgusts me, the power button is very accessible.

Now why they banned ALL Rage Against The Machine songs and only one Godsmack song is beyond me. And they banned a bunch of Beatles/etc, that kind of stuff? Ridiculous. Is there ANYONE here that's offended by much or any of that music on the list? Anybody?

-RSI

 

[RSI]

AC/DC "Safe in New York City"

Alright, that I can understand, if they banned it from New York and surrounding areas' radio stations, for a couple days. It's now a full week from the tragedy though, and I think most people can recover SOMEWHAT, to the point that the radio wouldn't make them go ballistic.

-RSI

 

[kami]

<< That can't be true.....Clear Channel owns 5 of the top radio stations here in Dallas-Ft Worth.

The Edge 102.1
Eagle 97.1
Mix 102.9
KZPS 92.5
Kiss 106.1 >>


Geez that's weird...there's an Edge 102.1 up here in Toronto