| |
|
Off-topic, but interesting given some of the picks above...
banned songs on the airwaves of America....
>
> It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It
> By Eliza Truitt
>
> Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, at 7:03 p.m. PT
>
> On Thursday of last week Clear Channel Communications, a company that owns
> and programs airtime at over 1,000 U.S. radio stations, sent e-mail to its
> program directors at stations across the country with an updated and
> expanded list of songs with "questionable lyrics" that they should avoid
> playing. Some of the 162 songs--more if you include the blanket directive
> against "All Rage Against the Machine Songs"--are understandable, such as
> Metallica's "Seek and Destroy" or Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution."
>
> But many of the songs on the list are ridiculous in their tenuous connection
> to anything even remotely offensive to survivors of the Sept. 11 attack. The
> Bangles' utterly harmless piece of fluff "Walk Like an Egyptian"? Or what
> about Elvis' "(You're the) Devil in Disguise," Pat Benetar's "Love Is a
> Battlefield," and Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife"?
>
> Large stretches of the list reveal a grisly perspective on the part of the
> authors: Boston's "Smokin," Springsteen's "I'm on Fire," Blue Oyster Cult's
> "Burnin' For You," Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire," Judas Priest's
> "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll," and the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces."
> Several pro-peace songs made it onto the list: Cat Stevens' "Morning Has
> Broken" and "Peace Train," presumably because Stevens is now Muslim and goes
> by the name Yusuf Islam. The oddest inclusion has to be John Lennon's
> explicitly pacifist anthem "Imagine," unless Clear Channel is pushing a
> pro-war agenda.
>
> Jack Evans, a regional senior VP of programming at Clear Channel insisted
> this list was not an effort initiated by management: "After and during what
> was happening in New York and Washington and outside of Pittsburgh, some of
> our program directors began emailing each other about songs and questionable
> song titles," though the finished list was distributed to the program
> directors by Clear Channel management.
>
> Evans concedes that some of the songs are off base: "I think there were
> certainly songs on the list that people were reading too much into" (the
> Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," perchance?) though he supports the list in
> general. "There were a substantial amount of songs in question that I'm glad
> the [program directors] brought up so we didn't air them at a very, very sad
> time." You can judge for yourself. Here's the list, with original spellings
> intact.
>
> Drowning Pool Bodies
> Mudvayne Death Blooms
> Megadeth Dread and the Fugitive
> Sweating Bullets
> Saliva Click Click Boom
> P.O.D. Boom
> Metallica Seek and Destroy
> Harvestor of
> Sorrow
> Enter Sandman
> Fade to Black
> All Rage Against Machine Songs
> Nine Inch Nails Head Like a Hole
> Godsmack Bad Religion
> Tool Intolerance
> Sound Garden Blow Up the Outside
> World
> AC/DC Shot Down in Flames
> Shoot to Thrill
> Dirty Deeds
> Highway to Hell
> Safe in New York
> City
> TNT
> Hells Bells
> Sabbath War Pigs
> Sabbath Bloody
> Sabbath
> Suicide Solution
> Dio Holy Diver
> Steve Miller Jet Airliner
> Van Halen Jump
> Queen Another One Bites the
> Dust
> Killer Queen
> Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best
> Shot
> 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
> Mother
> Savage Garden Crash and
> Burn
> Dave Mathews Crash Into Me
> Bangles Walk Like Egyptian
> Pretenders My City Was
> Gone
> Alanis Morissette Ironic
> Barenaked Ladies Falling for the First
> Time
> Fuel Bad Day
> John Par St. Elmo's Fire
> Peter Gabriel When You're
> Falling
> Kansas Dust in the
> Wind
> Led Zeplin Stairway to
> Heaven
> The Beatles A Day in the
> Life
> Lucy in the Sky
> With
> Diamonds
> Ticket To Ride
> Obla Di, Obla
> Da
> Bob Dillon/Guns and 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 Melloncamp Crumblin Down
> I'm On Fire
> U2 Sunday Bloody
> Sunday
> Boston Smokin
> Billy Joel Only the Good Die
> Young
> Barry Mc Guire Eve of Destruction
> Steam Na Na Na Na Hey Hey
> Drifters On Broadway
> Shelly Fabres Johnny Angel
> Los Bravos Black is Black
> Peter and Gordon I Go To Pieces
> A World Without
> Love
> Elvis (You're the) Devil
> in
> Disguise
> Zombies She's Not There
> Elton John Bennie & The Jets
> Daniel
> Rocket Man
> Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire
> Santana Evil Ways
> Youngbloods Get Together
> Ad Libs The Boy From New
> York City
> Peter Paul and Mary Blowin' In The Wind
> Leavin On A Jet
> Plane
> Rolling Stones Ruby Tuesday
> Shattered
> Simon And Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled
> Waters
> Happenings See You In September
> 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
> Morning Has
> Broken
> Jan and Dean Dead Man's Curve
> Martha and 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, Hermans 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
> Surfari's 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 the Bomb
> On Me
> Alien Ant Farm Smooth Criminal
> 3 Doors Down Duck & 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
> Goin Down
> Phil Collins In the Air Tonight
> Alice In Chains Rooster
> Sea of Sorrow
> Down in a Hole
> Them Bones
> Beastie Boys Sure Shot
> Sabotage
> 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
> Under the Bridge
> Saliva Click Click Boom
> 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 Detroit Wheels Devil with the Blue
> Dress
> James Taylor Fire and Rain
> Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen 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
> When It's Over
> Local H Bound for the Floor
> Slip Knot Left Behind, Wait and
> Bleed
> Bush Speed Kills
> 311 Down
> STP Big Bang Baby
> Dead and Bloated
> Sound Garden Fell on Black Days
> Black Hole Sun
> Nina 99 Luft Ballons/99
> Red
> Ballons
> Bad Company No Smoke Without a
> Fire |
|
|
