Tragedy affects Radio Airplay...

[Colin]

Well, apparently people have started reading deep into songs and the folks at Clear Channel Radio Communications (folks who are responsible for about 1100 radio stations nationwide) have released a list of over 150 songs that are deemed "Lyrically inappropriate" for radio, and are requesting (however, not enforcing) that these songs don't get played...

For the article: Click Here

For the List of songs: Click Here


You'll notice that the list is VERY varied... from songs that will leave you saying "huh" like Walk Like an Egyptian to songs that you can say "okay... maybe" to like Bad Day by Fuel or Enter Sandman by Metallica... to songs you'll say "THANK GOD I DON'T HAVE TO HEAR THAT AGAIN" to...

Some of the more amusing entries (tho, may not be appropriate for the list)include:

• Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian"
• Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
• Rage Against the Machine, all songs

I honestly haven't heard anything in my area... tho the article says stations like Z100 and Q104 aren't paying any attention to the list... I also don't think the stations I listen to are Clear Channel... tho I could be wrong...

[Mr. Obsession]

What the hell? Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" made the list.

This is insane.

[Calhoun07]

You know, the terrrorists have stolen our freedom. We have been terrorized, from increased security for US citizens, even to the point of talking about smart cards to identify us and we will be put in jail unless we have ID with us, to editing our existing movies, to even telling people they can't take a cooler into a ball park, to now this...taking away our music. We have allowed them to take freedom from our lives. We no longer have freedom to walk in front of the White House, to drive on certain streets, to freely walk into a congressman's office and tell him we appreciate the job he's doing, to do lots of things. We say we are the land of the free and the brave but we are cowering behind censorship and allowing our freedoms to be stripped away one by one. I want that to end.

[The Mad Hatter]

Oh, Lord. I can understand people wanting to be careful, but 150 songs? And 99 Luftbaloons?

I really, really hate Clear Channel. And to think they own 60% of rock stations in the country, and growing...

[The Mad Hatter]

I just read the whole list... and John Lennon's "Imagine" is on it? What the?! That's a song we need to hear at a time like this!

[Failure]

Obviously, someone in Clear Channel had a little too much time on their hands.
I really hate it when we talk about how great America's freedom is, and then in the next sentence you'll read the following songs, books, and words have been banned...
Luckily I dont listen to radio, but ClearChannel sucks.

[DR. BELCH]

--I'm going to say it: some depraved minds committed a heinous crime, and it seems the American public is the one being punished. Between this overreactionary borderline socialist censorship and men like Falwell playing "blame-the-victim", you have to wonder....

The words of Lewis Grizzard's "A Bulldog's Prayer" (which I'm sure if the authorities have their say will be next on the list after this post), about changing times and robbed liberties, come to mind:
"Way back in sixty
We could play 'Dixie'
At a Georgia football game.
We could drink whiskey,
Get a little tipsy,
And sometimes just go plain insane.
First they got 'Dixie',
Then they got whiskey,
What's this I'm hearing? Oh, Lord!
First they got 'Dixie',
Then they got whiskey,
Now we can't pray anymore."

[don Jaime]

This just in: It's not true.
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/radio.htm
What a relief.

[RockItShipper]

I think alot of songs have more meaning now. My oldest sister got a CD with "New York Minute" on it after hearing it on the radio. She played it for me, and yes, I did get the same queasy feeling that I get from watching the news for a long time... But that's why I have CDs... I pay for 'em and I pick what I listen to.


http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/Do...YorkMinute.asp

[DR. BELCH]

....I'm happy it's just a rumor. Now why "Walk Like An Egyptian" is on the list yet Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" isn't is beyond me. I suppose if we all sat around and thought about it we could double the size of the list.
This site is worthy (for me) at least for the great Dylan pic, whose "Knocking on Heaven's Door" made the list. Rocky and Jojo may get chills from "New York Minute" (and I wonder if we'll hear that expression quite the same way again?), but I don't think "Talkin' New York Blues" (Bob Dylan, 1961) or the 1988 Dylan and the Dead album will haunt me too much.
Though like I said, I will have a new appreciation for the military every time I listen to Jerry Clower's "An Oficer and a Ledbetter"....

[Nightwing]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
Now why "Walk Like An Egyptian" is on the list yet Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" isn't is beyond me.

Oh I think the reason is more clear than you might think. Hiding behind censorship and punishing the public for something terrorists did is wrong and illogical, so I would imagine OTHER aspects of the topic in question would be illogical too. It's only logical.

I don't normally back my own opinions. I just make them, and let them stand in my head so I understand them. And for the longest time I thought that maybe SOME thing shouldn't be changed in society and the entertainment industry, so we could all get back to our lives in order to become strong again. That way we won't let the dispair consume us. And we can be strong enough to do the jobs we have to do, like getting to the bottom of this tragedy, and punish those responsible.

But out of respect for those of us who lost family and friends, I abided by all the decisions made. But now I think that only some of those decisions should be made. I guess it seems human nature to do something that's the right thing, because it is, but then to accidentally take it a bit too far. I sure hope we can find a happy medium, to sustain everyone's feelings.