Clear channels rumored banned song list

Janice Brooks · From: Pleasant Gap Pa

Clear Channels List of Songs with Questionable Lyrics

Artist Title (my pithy comments in [ ] )

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" [we got more than enough of that, all over the world!]
Soundgarden "Blow Up the Outside World"
AC/DC "Shot Down in Flames" [planes on suicide mission]
AC/DC "Shoot to Thrill"
AC/DC "Dirty Deeds"
AC/DC "Highway to Hell"
AC/DC "Safe in New York City" [you knew that wouldn't be true sooner or
later!]
AC/DC "TNT" [no, gasoline!]
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" [thousands of planes fly every day, so what?]
Van Halen "Jump" [some did]
Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"
Queen "Killer Queen"
Pat Benatar "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" [hit them back!]
Pat Benatar "Love is a Battlefield"
Oingo Boingo "Dead Man's Party"
REM "It's the End of the World as We Know It" [not until we drop 'the big
one']
Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
Judas Priest "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" [good ones and bad ones]
Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell" [you said a nasty word!]
Pink Floyd "Mother" [what about her?]
Savage Garden "Crash and Burn"
Dave Matthews Band "Crash Into Me"
Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian" [except the bad guys weren't (all)
Egyptian!]
Pretenders "My City Was Gone" [I didn't know an H-bomb was dropped!]
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" ['bad' song anytime somebody dies!]
The Beatles "A Day in the Life"
The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" [get 'high' will you?]
The Beatles "Ticket To Ride" [ridiculous!]
The Beatles "Obla Di, Obla Da" ["Life Goes On", which it will]
Bob Dylan / Guns N Roses "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Arthur Brown "Fire" [we use fire naturally every day in gas ovens, heaters,
etc.]
Blue Oyster Cult "Burnin' For You"
Paul McCartney and Wings "Live and Let Die" [or "Live and Let Live"]
Jimmy Hendrix "Hey Joe"
Jackson Brown "Doctor My Eyes"
John Mellencamp "Crumbling Down"
John Mellencamp "I'm On Fire" [throw some water on him]
U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Boston "Smokin" [smoke kills more people than the actual fire]
Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young" [19 bad died too!]
Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction" [always one to be banned with war!]
Steam "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey" [kiss him goodbye, her too!]
Drifters "On Broadway" [ridiculous]
Shelly Fabares "Johnny Angel" [ridiculous, just for the title?]
Los Bravos "Black is Black" [I want my baby back]
Peter and Gordon "I Go To Pieces" [lost love--not literally!]
Peter and Gordon "A World Without Love" [good for banning anytime!]
Elvis "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" [pick on Elvis again]
Zombies "She's Not There" [he isn't, either]
Elton John "Benny & The Jets"
Elton John "Daniel"
Elton John "Rocket Man"
Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire" [could have been banned anytime in
last 40 yrs!]
Santana "Evil Ways"
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
Youngbloods "Get Together" [we better, or we'll die separately]
Ad Libs "The Boy from New York City" [there still are boys in NYC]
Peter Paul and Mary "Blowin' in the Wind" [Peace anthem--very appropriate!]
Peter Paul and Mary "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" [planes crash every so often,
reality check]
Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday"
Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Happenings "See You in September"
Carole King "I Feel the Earth Move" [it wasn't an earthquake, two-ounce
brain!]
Yager and Evans "In the Year 2525" [will there be Peace by 2525?]
Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky" [we all go there when we die anyway]
Brooklyn Bridge "Worst That Could Happen" [not 'worst' yet by a longshot!]
Three Degrees "When Will I See You Again" [is that a question or comment?]
Cat Stevens "Peace Train" [hop aboard or miss it!]
Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken" [that 'racist' mean-ole Arab, Cat Stevens!]
Jan and Dean "Dead Man's Curve" [driving, not flying, birdbrain!]
Martha & the Vandellas "Nowhere to Run" [nowhere to hide, either]
Martha and the Vandellas / Van Halen "Dancing in the Streets" [what's wrong
with that?]
Hollies "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" [in a broad sense, we're all
brothers]
Sam Cooke / Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World" [take the good with the bad]
Petula Clark "A Sign of the Times" [ridiculous!]
Don McLean "American Pie" [would it be better if he sang about "Afghanistan
Pie"]
J. Frank Wilson "Last Kiss" [my all-time hated song--always turned it off]
Buddy Holly and the Crickets "That'll Be the Day"
John Lennon "Imagine" [Yeah, imagine PEACE]
Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife" [pilots allowed to carry guns would have beat
knives!]
The Clash "Rock the Casbah"
Surfaris "Wipeout" [could apply to anything gone, pumpinbrain!]
Blood Sweat and Tears "And When I Die" [everybody dies eventually--get used
to it]
Dave Clark Five "Bits and Pieces" [not literally, you dummies!]
Tramps "Disco Inferno" [fires happen every day in thousands of homes]
Paper Lace "The Night Chicago Died" [it didn't happen in Chicago,
numbskulls!]
Frank Sinatra "New York, New York" ['The Voice' is silenced only by
censorship]
Creedence Clearwater Revival "Travelin' Band" [what's wrong with travel,
chuckleheads!]
The Gap Band "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" [it wasn't a 'bomb', dummies!]
Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal"
3 Doors Down "Duck and Run"
The Doors "The End" [You knuckleheads left out, "Light My Fire"]
Third Eye Blind "Jumper"
Neil Diamond "America" [yeah, ban "America"; How did you forgot the anthem,
"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" [you skilletheads are really weird!]
Chi-Lites "Have You Seen Her" [sexist! What about him, too?]
Animals "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" [Could be any place bad to live in,
appleheads!]
Fontella Bass "Rescue Me" [many people got rescued before the collapse,
doughheads!]
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels "Devil with the Blue Dress" [The 'Devil'
is a 'she'?]
James Taylor "Fire and Rain" [rain puts out fire, dumbbells!]
Edwin Starr / Bruce Springstein "War" [on the *horrors* of War--dummies!]
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Tuesday's Gone" [so is any day of the week--it rotates
daily, onionheads!]
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" [any relation to our pres.?]
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" [something wrong with balloons now?]

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End comments are remarks from whoever posted this over in alt obituaries.

Don't ask me to quote lyrics to some of the more recent stuff

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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
ICQ 44729047

Leigh Howell · From: Edinburgh, Scotland * R.I.P.

!!!!!!

Leigh

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

If I was into conspiracy paranoia, I'd say it looks like a great way to get interesting music off the air and promote the mindless pap that passes for much of pop music. It doesn't require as much talent and imagination to produce the pap which means it costs less to produce which means bigger profits.

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

As I understand it, this suggestion came from one misguided employee at Clear Channel who misunderstood his boss's instructions. Since it hit the Internet, they have been fighting a storm of emails, petitions and protests.

There is no Clear Channel song ban. Given the nature of the subject matter, I think that this piece of spam will be with us for many years to come.

Here's the link to Clear Channel's press release on the subject. It's a PDF file - you need Acrobat to read it. I don't think they're very good at this Internet stuff.

NationalBannedPlaylist.pdf

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[This message was edited by Bobby Lee on 01 October 2001 at 12:03 AM.]

Janice Brooks · From: Pleasant Gap Pa

I knew there was a lot of objections over this list but I thought the folks might be interested in thoughts of someone high up in the control of the entertainment side of radio

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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
ICQ 44729047

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

Janice, don't stop now. What I think is interesting about this list is the crossection of songs and styles. And while one person may be taking the blame, the fact of the matter is, companies on that scale do things by committees. What I think is more interesting is the fear of controversy and of offending anyone which I think contributes to our national obsession with the trivial.

[This message was edited by chas smith on 01 October 2001 at 01:05 PM.]

Rich Paton · From: Santa Maria, CA.,

Welcome to Rich's "PC Music 101" [NOT!]!
Not to worry, if that's the whole of the "banned" list, those programmer-chowderheads are asleep at the switch, as they spaced-out on listing some good ones. Not the least of which is "Mideast Vacation" (Neil Young, "Life" LP/CD. CD= Geffen # 24154-2). Does it ring with a sound that's just a bit [too]vaguely familiar?
(With spirited backing of [awesome]roaring jet engines & sharp explosions [via multiple Fairlight Synths]).
"Mideast Vacation" Copyright 1987, The David Geffen Co.; Neil Young/Silver Fiddle Music.
I used to watch "Highway Patrol, whittling with my knife. But the thought never struck me, that I'd be black-and-white for life.
I was raised on Law & Order in a community of strife, Became a restless boarder, and I never took a wife. [begin massive airstrikes]
I went lookin' for Quaddafi, aboard Air Force One. But I never did find him, and the CIA said "Son"...You'll never be a hero, your flying days are done. It's time for you to go home now, quit sniffing that smokin' gun!
[Now all Hell breaks loose] Boom, Zoom...
I was travelling with my family, in the Mideast late one night. In the hotel, all was quiet. The kids were out like little lights.
Then the streets were filled with jeeps...there was an explosion to the right. They chanted "Death to America!"...and I was feelin' like a fight!
So I ran on down the stairs, and out into the street. Someone kicked me in the belly...someone else kissed my feet. I was Rambo in the disco! I was shootin' to the beat!
~When they burned me in effigy, my vacation was complete!~
(BOOM, BOOM, vrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

And for a closer, how about a little "horseshoe in the boxing glove trick", hmmm, that 1971 anthem of airborne angst...Bloodrock's "We were flting low, and hit something in the air". Yeesh! That oughta keep 'em down on the farm! Or not.
So shoot me! WHATever. The whole thing just creeps me out too much.

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