Clear Channel suggests 150 songs for stations to avoid (9/18/2001)

[Tom Clark]

I know someone is about to mention that they also missed "High Rise"?


Gerald Whitworth wrote:

> How did they miss Hawkwinds "Urban Guerrilla" (withdrawn in the UK soon
> after its release)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Kusic [mailto:kkusic at EXECPC.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:34
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Clear Channel suggests 150 songs for stations to avoid
> (9/18/2001)
>
> Blue Oyster Cult, "Burnin' For You" banned!!!
>
> http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/ncl_docs/137030.htm
>
>  Clear Channel suggests 150 songs for stations to avoid
>
>  BRIAN LAMBERT Media critic
>
>  Movies and TV aren't alone in reviewing the content of their
> entertainment in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. Clear
>  Channel Inc., which owns over 1,200 stations including seven in the
> Twin Cities, is circulating a list of 150 songs its local
>  programmers might consider avoiding for the time being.
>
>  Clear Channel managers here say the list is merely a "memo from the
> main office," not something they must adhere to.
>
>  Many of the songs on the list are heavy-metal warhorses like "Sweating
> Bullets" by Megadeth, "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica
>  and a half-dozen cuts from AC/DC including "Safe in New York City,"
> "Highway to Hell," "TNT" and "Shot Down in Flames."
>
>  Some of the 150 song titles "suggested" by Clear Channel are baffling.
>
>  John Lennon's "Imagine" and The Youngbloods' "Get Together" would seem
> to be precisely the sort of message people might
>  like to hear in difficult times. Likewise, who could possibly object to
> Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"?
>
>  Several Beatles songs -- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Obla Di Obla
> Da" and "Ticket to Ride" -- are also on the list.
>
>  "You know what this is?" says KEEY-FM's operations manager Gregg
> Swedberg. "It's a bunch of people sitting in a room
>  saying, "Think of anything, anything, anywhere that might possibly be a
> little too much, that people might be sensitive to.'
>
>  "This is just another idea we get. Something for us to "consider.'
> Nothing more than that."
>
>  Swedberg adds that K102, a country-music format, returned Garth Brooks'
> early '90s tune, "We Shall Be Free," to its rotation in
>  reaction to the crisis.
>
>  Rob Morris, program director for Clear Channel-owned KDWB-FM, said he
> expected few if any changes to his station's playlist.
>
>  ABC-owned KXXR-FM, aka 93X, did not respond to several calls asking
> what changes they might be making to their playlist.
>
>  Here are some of the other reported song titles Clear Channel suggested
> its stations avoid:
>
>  Black 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"; 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"; 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"; Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"; Jackson Brown, "Doctor My Eyes";
> John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down," "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," "A World Without Love"; Elvis, "(You're
> the) Devil in Disguise"; Zombies, "She's Not There"; Elton
>  John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man"; Jerry Lee Lewis,
> "Great Balls of Fire"; Santana, "Evil Ways;" Louis
>  Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World"; 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"; Simon &
> Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"; 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
> & the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"; Martha and the
>  Vandellas/Van Halen, "Dancing in the Streets"; Hollies, "He Ain't
> Heavy, He's My Brother"; Sam Cooke/ Herman Hermits,
>  "Wonderful 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"; 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"; 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
>  Bone"; Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot," "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," "Under the Bridge";
>  Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"; System of a Down,
> "Chop Suey"; 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 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"; Drowning
> Pool, "Bodies"; Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"; Megadeth,
>  "Dread and the Fugitive," "Sweating Bullets"; Saliva, "Click Click
> Boom"; P.O.D. "Boom"; Metallica, "Harvester or Sorrow,"
>  "Enter Sandman," "Fade to Black"; all songs by Rage Against The
> Machine; Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"; Godsmack,
>  "Bad Religion"; Tool, "Intolerance."
>
>  ©2001 St. Paul Pioneer Press. All Rights Reserved.
>
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> "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
> Gandhi