Songs recommended to be banned

[Nightflower]

If you thought tv shows and movies being censored because of the attacks was bad enough...

(ABCNEWS.com) — In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, one radio network is recommending its stations not play "lyrically questionable" music and has issued a list of 150 songs it says should be off the air for the time being.
Clear Channel, the world's largest group of radio stations, circulated the list in its newsletter Hits Daily Double. It includes AC/DC's "Shot Down in Flames," as well as mellower songs such as Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and Bob Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door."


Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me" and the 1977 Kansas hit "Dust in the Wind" also made the list.

Clear Channel represents about 1,200 stations and broadcasts in 47 of the top 50 U.S. markets. One out of every 10 radio stations across the United States broadcasts under the Clear Channel banner. A representative from Clear Channel confirmed that the list was circulated, but offered no comment.

ABCNEWS.com's Buck Wolf and ABCNEWS Radio's Vinny Marino contributed to this report.

Here is the list of songs deemed "lyrically questionable" by Clear Channel:

Alice In Chains, "Rooster"
Alice In Chains, "Sea of Sorrow"
Alice In Chains, "Down in a Hole"
Alice In Chains, "Them Bones"
Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot"
Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"
The Cult, "Fire Woman"
Everclear, "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)"
Filter, "Hey Man, "Nice Shot"
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
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"
Korn, "Falling Away From Me"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling"
System Of A Down, "Chop Suey!"
Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"
Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm On Fire"
Bruce Springsteen, "Goin' Down"
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
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, "Dead and Bloated"
Soundgarden, "Fell on Black Days"
Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"
Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World"
Metallica, "Seek and Destroy"
Metallica, "Harvester of Sorrow"
Metallica, "Enter Sandman"
Metallica, "Fade to Black"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"
Godsmack, "Bad Religion"
Tool, "Intolerance"
Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
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"
[Ozzy Osbourne], "Suicide Solution"
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 & Wings, "Live and Let Die"
Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"
Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"
John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down"
John Mellencamp, "Paper In Fire"
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Boston, "Smokin"
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
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"
John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire"
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 & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces"
Peter & Gordon, "A World Without Love"
Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Zombies, "She's Not There"
Elton John, "Bennie & 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 & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind"
Peter Paul & Mary, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"
Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Happenings, "See You in September"
Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move"
Zager & 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 & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
Martha & The Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"
Martha & The Vandellas/Van Halen, "Dancing in the Streets"
Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World"
Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times"
Don McLean, "American Pie"
J. Frank Wilson/Pearl Jam, "Last Kiss"
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, "That'll Be the Day"
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Surfaris, "Wipeout"
Blood Sweat & 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"
Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"
Ricky Nelson, "Travelin' Man"
Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her"
Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"
Mitch Ryder, "Devil with the Blue Dress"
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen, "War"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone"
Drowning Pool, "Bodies"
Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"
Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive"
Megadeth, "Sweating Bullets"
Saliva, "Click Click Boom"
P.O.D., "Boom"

Opinions?

[Trent Lane]

311's "Down"? What the- is it the title, cause if these morons listened to the lyrics they'd get the meaning of the song. It's another shot of BS from Clear Channel, they're so good at screwing stuff up. Totally messed up the stations around here. One alternative station, but many "Lite" stations. They need to get people working for them who are intrested in music and not just money...

[optimal321]

Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World is what gets me. This is so stupid. Most of these songs have nothing to do w/ what happened on the 11th. Thankfully, i have heard some of these songs on Clearchannel radio since then, so they haven't removed all of them from broadcast.

[Bird Boy]

it's gotta be crap, cuz on that Movie-Star special thingy, Paul Simon SANG "A Bridge over Troubled Waters"...and my radio station(it's a clear channel one) still plays "bad day"...so, I doubt if it's true..it can't be...otherwise the stations wouldn't be able to play anything

-BB

[Failure]

The songs weren't banned per se, but it was left up to each radio station to decide for themselves.

What a Wonderful World was on the list because they didn't want to play anything "overtly happy" or something like that. Where's the logic in that? Uh n uh :rolleyes:

Down was on the list, because... well I'm not quite sure why. Cuz the plane went down?

Obviously, it's a bit of overkill and 90% of those songs dont deserve to be on the list.

[Nightflower]

Originally posted by Failure
The songs weren't banned per se, but it was left up to each radio station to decide for themselves.

What a Wonderful World was on the list because they didn't want to play anything "overtly happy" or something like that. Where's the logic in that? Uh n uh :rolleyes:

Down was on the list, because... well I'm not quite sure why. Cuz the plane went down?

Obviously, it's a bit of overkill and 90% of those songs dont deserve to be on the list.

Yeah....if you read the article more carefully, the songs were recommended to be banned, but the final decision was the radio station's.

Their logic is something along the lines of...for example, Geri Halliwell's "It's raining men" is apparently offensive, because on the 11th, men and women were jumping from the burning buildings. I think this is such bull. "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden has nothing to do with anything but love, it just happens to have that title. And John Lennon's "Imagine" was performed at the American Tribute thingy. I guess "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-dah" is too happy too.

[Failure]

Actually the thing with the Beatles "Obla Di, Obla Da" is maybe even more ludicrous. They thought people might get Obla Di, Obla Da mixed up with Osama bin Laden.

[TuffyCatt]

Why "He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother" ?? We're singing that song in my singing group, and no one has found it offensive. We just think it's a very pretty song. Is it because the song talks about helping other people through difficult situations?? If it is, wouldn't it be a good idea to play the song instead recommending to ban it? I don't understand how some people think....

[Calhoun07]

All these cool songs are listed when they should be banning all Celine Dion songs. It makes a guy wonder.

[joker]

this is stupid, all of the songs on that list were writtin before this happend and have nothing to with what happend. most of them dont even deal with violent issues. the one that most suprised me was p.o.d. even though i havent heard that song, they are a christian group and i dont see what could be so offinsive about any of thier songs, or most of the songs on the list for that matter.

[Trent Lane]

"Down" is a song to 311's fans, kind of a thank you to them all, which is why that totally blew my mind. And P.O.D. got me, too. There stuff is so positive. "Alive" kind of came out at an appropriate time...

[happyheathen]

Hmmm....

since 2 of these are what I consider hymns, should I sue for religious discrimination?


and 'Get Together' contains (working from memory):

'Everybody get together,
Try to love one another
right now'

this is offensive?

and 'Last Kiss' - love it! a classic 'dead teenagers' song (there were a few 1958-1966 - anyone know of any more recent?)

[Betaman8]

what about this song by Ian Thomas Band? would it be on the list? (the lyrics arent exact):

One by one, they danced up hell,
the life and times of nations leaders.
They meet again through destination,
sweatin' in their seats antisipation.

On the salt backs of Nevada,
all those who mattered waited for the word.

Oooooh Pilot, ooooh, Piiiiiilot.
This paradise is lost forever.
Ooooh, Pilot, ooooh, Piiiiiilot.
We place a trust in the flier
to deliver us from the fire we have made.

Through the porthole pan extricuent,
Humanity had been forsaken.
Don't secure the crowd was distant,
(unintelligable) grew persistant.

[DR. BELCH]

--it was a debunked rumor...though I guess it evolved from an outright ban to a reccomendation. Like sending a condemned man out for his own hangin' rope...or tellin' Junior to cut his own switch when he's about to get a butt-whuppin'. Geez.
All right, it's like a game to see how many songs we can add to the naughty list. I'll say Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", Aerosmith's "Janey's Got a Gun", Don Maclean's "American Pie", and Billy Joel's "We Didn't the Fire". Any other ideas? :D

[Nightflower]

Well, I hear a lot of radio stations are just saying "screw you".

I'm sure if you think hard enough, a song sung by a certain happy purple dinosaur could be offensive.

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
...All right, it's like a game to see how many songs we can add to the nuaghty list. I'll say Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", Aerosmith's "Janey's Got a Gun", Don Maclean's "American Pie", and Billy Joel's "We Didn't the Fire". Any other ideas? :D

I'll bite:

'The Letter' "gimme a ticket for an aeroplane..."

and for anything alluding to death (here are the 'dead teenager' songs previously mentioned)

'Patches' (Dickey Lee, c. 1958)
'Tell Laura I Love Her'
'Runnin' Bear'
'Dead Man's Curve'
'Teen Angel'
'Last Kiss'

(yes, all these pre-date almost everyone on this board, but, kids, think of them as research projects - you KNOW you don't have enough homework, right ;) )

[Failure]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
--it was a debunked rumor...though I guess it evolved from an outright ban to a reccomendation. Like sending a condemned man out for his own hangin' rope...or tellin' Junior to cut his own switch when he's about to get a butt-whuppin'. Geez.


I was wondering about that. I was always under the impression that it was a recommendation and not a ban, but I think people misconstrued it and so ClearChannel felt they had to umm clear the air (no pun intended :p ).

[mosszonedotcom]

Hey, everybody I heard that John Mellencamp is altering his "Crumbling Down" song to offend people even more. After all, the fbi has confirmed that he is a devoted member of the Taliban. His music was clearly pro-terrorism before, but now it will be more than ever. It goes a little something like this...

Crumbling Down

Some people, they ain't no dern good
They're infidel Americans and I want to kill um

With a plane or two or four, we're realy going to score
just like with your mamma, then I'll be back for more

Cause I've always been holy man, just ask Saddam
got a more a few nuclear weapons, and a couple o' bombs

You capitalist pigs had it coming, letting a woman show her head
now get get out of the building, unless you want to join the dead

when the walls come crumbling down
when the walls come crumbling, tumbling
when the walls come crumbling down
when the walls come crumbling, tumbling dooowwwnn

*****

See, some of doubted if he was really a taliban-aligned terrorist. Now, we all know for sure.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Nightflower
Well, I hear a lot of radio stations are just saying "screw you".

I'm sure if you think hard enough, a song sung by a certain happy purple dinosaur could be offensive.


That song was offensive BEFORE 9/11 and should never be played!

[Geezil]

Originally posted by happyheathen


and for anything alluding to death (here are the 'dead teenager' songs previously mentioned)

'Patches' (Dickey Lee, c. 1958)
'Tell Laura I Love Her'
'Runnin' Bear'
'Dead Man's Curve'
'Teen Angel'
'Last Kiss'

(yes, all these pre-date almost everyone on this board, but, kids, think of them as research projects - you KNOW you don't have enough homework, right ;) )

Well, lemme tell ya, bucko ... like you (per your profile), I'm no member of "almost everyone else" when it comes to naming those tunes in two or three notes, so toin up the volume on "Running Bear" a few notches and pass the headphones! And for anyone who wants the Cliff's Notes(TM) on all that solid gold gloom, I think Rhino, or Razor & Tie, or some such all-stops-out CD label has issued at least one collection of such tunes. Can't remember the title, though, because I forgot to take my vitamin E this morning (heh) ...!

[Geezil]

OK, I've just returned from VitaminWorld around the corner, and that CD label in fact is Varese Sarabande (check the website: www.varesesarabande.com ... search for "Last Kiss" ... and that's as much musical morbidity as I can stand to throw at anyone today).

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by mosszonedotcom
Hey, everybody I heard that John Mellencamp is altering his "Crumbling Down" song to offend people even more. After all, the fbi has confirmed that he is a devoted member of the Taliban. His music was clearly pro-terrorism before, but now it will be more than ever.

Um, you got a source for this story?

[JustJack]

Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me"


PWA?!?!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I'm just the #1 DMB fan, but that's just stupid!

[mosszonedotcom]

Originally posted by Maxie Zeus


Um, you got a source for this story?

That's what you call "satire". I was just joking.

[Vigo Sprax]

I don't see anything the matter with a company suggesting their stations not to play some of these songs, some of them are sort of sappy or are remotely similar to the incident, and I understand them not wanting to upset people. Of course none of these songs could make you upset/cry more than hearing one of the many patriotic songs that they played much of the week.

[Betaman8]

no one ever told me if this song would likely be banned, even though i asked:

One by one, they danced up hell,
the life and times of nations leaders.
They meet again through destination,
sweatin' in their seats antisipation.

On the salt backs of Nevada,
all those who mattered waited for the word.

Oooooh Pilot, ooooh, Piiiiiilot.
This paradise is lost forever.
Ooooh, Pilot, ooooh, Piiiiiilot.
We place a trust in the flier
to deliver us from the fire we have made.

Through the porthole pan extricuent,
Humanity had been forsaken.
Don't secure the crowd was distant,
(unintelligable) grew persistant.

[Brandon Pierce]

HOLD IT! Why is the Petula Clark A Sign of the Times going to be banned? There's nothing in it that could be considered 9/11ish. Here are the lyrics to the song. And you tell me what's offensive?

It's a sign of the times, that your love for me is getting so much stronger,
and I know that I won't have to wait much longer.
You've changed alot somehow from the one I used to know
For when you hold me now, it feels like you never want to let me go.

It's a sign of the times, when you call me up whenever you feel lonely,
it's a sign of the times, that you tell your friends that I'm your one and only.
I'll never understand the way you treated me
But when I hold your hand, I know you couldn't be the way you used to be.
Maybe my lucky star at last decided to shine.
Maybe somebody knows how long I've waited to make you mine.

It's a sign of the times, that you kiss me now as if you really mean it,
and a year ago I never could have seen it.
Don't ever change your mind and take your love away.
Just leave the past behind, and baby only think of how it is today.

Those are the lyrics, now you tell me what's so bad about it? Well, anyway at least I know now why the KBSG radio station hasn't played this song in awhile.

[Fantasie117]

I remember reading about that in the New York Daily News about a week or so after.

WAXQ (Q104.3), a Clear Channel station and the only one I listen to, didn't play the songs that were recommended. About two months later, they were back to playing them.

I hear, on a regular basis:

AC/DC "Highway to Hell"
Bob Dylan/Guns N' Roses "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Paul McCartney "Live and Let Die"
U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
REM, "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Don McLean, "American Pie"

John Lennon, "Imagine"--Why ban that song? My school sang that song during a prayer service for September 11.

[Bird Boy]

Holy..this thread is pushing on it's 1st year birthday. Why was this bumped? Half of those recommended songs mentioned are still getting air-time. So if it ever did "happen", it's already did and gone.

Thread Closed.

-BB