Radio stations to hold certain songs back
john adams
following songs to be too questionable to be played across the country
and is having its 1,000+ stations refrain from playing them in light of
the recent catastrophe. I'm sorry that I wont be hearing one of my childhood
favorites 99 red balloons for a while.
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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"
Jay
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> I thought this was amusing: apparently Clear Channel has found the
> following songs to be too questionable to be played across the country
> and is having its 1,000+ stations refrain from playing them in light of
> the recent catastrophe. I'm sorry that I wont be hearing one of my
childhood
> favorites 99 red balloons for a while.
>
Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax - like your friendly
neighborhood VIRUS WARNING emails.
clearchannel.com has the denial press release.
Parry
> Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax
Whew, I was worried they'd stop playing classics like Eno's "Burning
Airlines Give You So Much More," The Work's "I Hate America," or even
"Ahab the Arab."
-- Parry
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john adams
> Jay wrote:
> > Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax
Damnit, I should have known. Always too eager to blame the
man...
Dale Houstman
"Parry" <pa...@perfectOMITmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jay wrote:
> > Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax
>
> Whew, I was worried they'd stop playing classics like Eno's "Burning
> Airlines Give You So Much More," The Work's "I Hate America," or even
> "Ahab the Arab."
>
impossible: in the 60s even Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" and Lennon's "Ballad of
John and Yoko" were banned by entire radio systems; one - of course -
because it's "dirty" and the other because John (rather dumbly I think)
compared himself to Jesus. This aren't political censorships per se, but the
American urge to prohibit is quite strong. I do believe I've seen a slight
uptick in the number of "bleepings" on televison, and we have heard of
televison and movie producers "self-censoring" some projects already for
various reasons. And - in America at least - the most insidious form of
control is self-control. If the war gets up and running I expect more of
this sort of thing, in addition to the restrictions on access by the press
we saw quite clearly in the Persian Gulf. But - all in all - if most
"newsmen" are like that Texan weeping willow, Dan Rather, we will only be
seeing sentimental pleas for unity until we have finished bombing the last
porta-potty in Luxembourg. All in all, we're in for a good blind ride down a
slippery slope.
dmh
Brandon Freels
> The present example may be a hoax, but I don't see similar events as being
> impossible: in the 60s even Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" and Lennon's "Ballad of
> John and Yoko" were banned by entire radio systems; one - of course -
> because it's "dirty" and the other because John (rather dumbly I think)
> compared himself to Jesus.
Cythera wrote:
> No he didn't.
> Can you really be this much of an idiot?
Um, yes he did:
"Christ you know it ain't easy, you know how hard it can be
The way things are going they're going to crucify me"
Dale Houstman
"cythera" <cyt...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> "Dale Houstman" <dm...@citilink.com> wrote in message
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> > "Parry" <pa...@perfectOMITmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:3BA964...@perfectOMITmail.com...
> > > Jay wrote:
> > > > Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax
> > >
> > > Whew, I was worried they'd stop playing classics like Eno's "Burning
> > > Airlines Give You So Much More," The Work's "I Hate America," or even
> > > "Ahab the Arab."
> > >
> > The present example may be a hoax, but I don't see similar events as
being
> > impossible: in the 60s even Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" and Lennon's "Ballad
of
> > John and Yoko" were banned by entire radio systems; one - of course -
> > because it's "dirty" and the other because John (rather dumbly I think)
> > compared himself to Jesus.
>
>
You're quite a toadflower, cythera. In the song John says to Christ that he
is being crucified. While he is NOT saying (explicitly) that he IS Christ,
he IS quite clearly COMPARING his travails to those of Christ. You're the
iidiot (once more!). I still believe that it was a little stupid of him to
do this: rather pretentious, consideirng his only real problems in the song
were having a hard time finding a place to get married.
When you lost your brain in that windstorm, did you replace it with a
turnip?
dmh
Dale Houstman
"Brandon Freels" <b.j.f...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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I think what cythera thought that I wrote was that John said he WAS Christ.
Cythera can't read well, but that's nothing new.
dmh
>
>
john adams
<<Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax - like your friendly
neighborhood VIRUS WARNING emails.
clearchannel.com has the denial press release.>>
This wasn't really a hoax, as "jay" reports: though the songs weren't banned,
the 1200+ studios were being encouraged to refrain from playing those
deemed "inapproprate".
http://www.massmic.com/noplayradio.htm
Rick Karr reporting:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010919.me.16.ram
Sept. 19, 2001 -- Last week an executive at radio giant Clear Channel
Communications sent its 1,200-plus stations a list of songs with
"questionable lyrics" in light of the terrorist attacks. Some of them
reference air travel ("Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band); others
feature violent or troubling images ("Enter Sandman" by Metallica). Still
others advocate peace (John Lennon's "Imagine"; the Youngbloods' "Get
Together").
As NPR's Rick Karr reports, Clear Channel execs insist the list was an
"advisory," and stations weren't forced to follow it. But artists and
listeners are outraged that the largest owner of radio stations in the
United States -- and a company whose DJs are known for killing live animals
on the air -- would even consider such a move.
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Leonard Cohen's "First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin" banned in
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"Imagine" All the Inappropriate Songs
by Mark Armstrong
Sep 18, 2001, 2:45 PM PT
Yes, it's probably about time radio stations finally stopped playing
"Stairway to Heaven." But this might not be the best way to do it.
Clear Channel Communications, the country's largest radio network, is
raising eyebrows after one of its station's program directors created a list
of potentially inappropriate songs in the wake of last week's devastating
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Led Zeppelin, John Lennon's "Imagine," Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner,"
AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" were
among more than 150 songs deemed "lyrically inappropriate" following last
Tuesday's tragedy. The list also includes everything from the classics
(Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and Louis Armstrong's "What a
Wonderful World") to recent releases (System of a Down's "Chop Suey!").
Then there's the downright goofy, as the list suggests such un-American
songs like the Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" and Bobby Darin's "Mack the
Knife."
While rumors initially floated that the list was a corporate mandate, or a
cruel hoax, the radio conglomerate insists that a program director created
and distributed the list to its 1,100 stations, including KIIS-FM in Los
Angeles and Z100-FM in New York.
"Given the environment, a Clear Channel program director took it upon
himself to identify a number of songs that certain markets or individuals
may find insensitive today," the company said in a statement. "This was not
a mandate, nor was the list generated out of the corporate radio offices. It
was a grassroots effort that was apparently circulated among program
directors."
Not all Clear Channel stations are paying attention to the list. For
instance, New York's Z100 has been playing many of the tunes, while Q104 has
noted that "inappropriate" songs like "New York, New York" and "Imagine"
were some of the most requested of the week.
Some songs, however, do evoke difficult images from last week's tragedy.
It's not hard to see a connection to songs like Peter, Paul and Mary's
"Leavin' on a Jet Plane" or AC/DC's "Safe in New York City."
As expected, free-speech activists are expressing concern that the list was
even passed around. While Clear Channel insists it did not "endorse or
squash" the list's distribution, First Amendment watchdogs say it's
problematic--especially if you consider that Clear Channel owns one out of
every 10 stations in the U.S.
"It's very dangerous," says Nina Crowley, director of MassMic, a music
free-speech organization. "I understand they're pulling certain violent
songs. But you put out a list of songs like this, and the next thing you
know someone's pulling the albums off the shelves in Wal-Mart.
"There are some very absurd connections," she adds. "'Walk Like an
Egyptian'? You really gotta stretch it to get that."
Most upsetting, Crowley says, is the inclusion of "all songs by Rage Against
the Machine" on the list. "That's political stand against what Rage Against
the Machine has to say," she warns.
Meanwhile, at least one record label has responded to the "objectionable"
list. Wind-up Records is disputing that its single "Bodies," by the band
Drowning Pool, was deemed potentially objectionable. (The song made the list
presumably for its chanting chorus, "Let the bodies hit the floor.")
"From the very beginning, 'Bodies' was never about anything more than the
kids moshing," says Wind-up spokesman Steve Karas in a statement. "We can
obviously understand people's concerns, and we're very sympathetic, but the
meaning of the song still is as it was in the beginning, which is really a
cry for togetherness."
Parry
>
> "Jay" :
>
> <<Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. It's a hoax - like your friendly
> neighborhood VIRUS WARNING emails.
>
> clearchannel.com has the denial press release.>>
>
> This wasn't really a hoax, as "jay" reports: though the songs weren't banned,
> the 1200+ studios were being encouraged to refrain from playing those
> deemed "inapproprate".
So the blacklist was only a "suggestion" rather than a directive?
Looking at the list, one can only wonder at what weird and paranoid
thought went into its compilation. I wonder why they would choose
“Blowin’ in the Wind,” perhaps the most popular anti-war song ever
written. Clearchannel compounded stupidity with dishonesty by issuing a
denial in legalese, saying the “‘banned playlist’ does not exist” and
that “each program director and general manager must take the pulse of
his or her market” etc without mentioning the helpful hints that were
issued. On the censorship-o-meter, this is more serious than the pulling
of Britney Spears’ Pepsi ads for being too frivolous, but less than the
suppression of the Osama bin Laden interview which the BBC recently
carried.