If you think that's ridiculous heres 100 songs banned on radio in America the day after 911 Right after the attacks,many media companies began censoring art deemed insensitive or anti-American, for fear of offending or upsetting the traumatized nation. One such entity was media corporation Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), who, three days after the attack, sent a memo to its 1,100+ radio stations with a list of songs that they deemed “lyrically questionable” and insensitive to play following the 9/11 attacks. The reasons for Clear Channel putting some of these songs on their memorandum are pretty obvious — the entire Rage Against The Machine catalog, for example, was most likely banned because their music was overly critical of America. However, some of the motives behind certain songs’ inclusion now seem ridiculous. The Bangles’ Walk Like An Egyptian, for example, was added for having references to the Middle East. It should be noted, too, that some DJs chose to play these songs, but that they were adamantly urged not to do so. Here are all of the songs Clear Channel wanted skipped over. 3 Doors Down – Duck and Run 311 – Down 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 Ad Libs – The Boy from New York City Alanis Morissette – Ironic Alice in Chains – Rooster Alice in Chains – Sea of Sorrow Alice in Chains – Down in a Hole Alice in Chains – Them Bones Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal Animals – We Gotta Get Out of This Place Arthur Brown – Fire Bangles – Walk Like an Egyptian Barenaked Ladies – Falling for the First Time Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction Beastie Boys – Sure Shot Beastie Boys – Sabotage 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 Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young Black Sabbath – War Pigs Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Blood Sweat and Tears – And When I Die Blue Oyster Cult – Burnin’ For You Bob Dylan / Guns N’ Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Bobby Darin – Mack the Knife Boston – Smokin’ Brooklyn Bridge – Worst That Could Happen Bruce Springsteen – I’m On Fire Bruce Springsteen – Goin’ Down Bruce Springstein – War Buddy Holly and the Crickets – That’ll Be the Day Bush – Speed Kills Carole King – I Feel the Earth Move Cat Stevens – Peace Train Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken Chi-Lites – Have You Seen Her The Clash – Rock the Casbah Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band The Cult – Fire Woman Dave Clark Five – Bits and Pieces Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me Dio – Holy Diver Don McLean – American Pie The Doors – The End Drifters – On Broadway Drowning Pool – Bodies Edwin Starr – War Elton John – Benny & The Jets Elton John – Daniel Elton John – Rocket Man Elvis – (You’re the) Devil in Disguise Everclear – Santa Monica Filter – Hey Man, Nice Shot Fontella Bass – Rescue Me Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Fuel – Bad Day The Gap Band – You Dropped a Bomb On Me Godsmack – Bad Religion Green Day – Brain Stew Happenings – See You in September Herman’s Hermits – Wonderful World Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother J. Frank Wilson – Last Kiss Jackson Brown – Doctor My Eyes James Taylor – Fire and Rain Jan and Dean – Dead Man’s Curve Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe John Lennon – Imagine John Mellencamp – Crumbling Down John Mellencamp – I’m On Fire John Parr – St. Elmo’s Fire Judas Priest – Some Heads Are Gonna Roll Kansas – Dust in the Wind Korn – Falling Away From Me Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff Local H – Bound for the Floor Los Bravos – Black is Black Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone Martha & the Vandellas – Nowhere to Run Martha & the Vandellas – Dancing in the Streets Megadeth – Dread and the Fugitive Megadeth – Sweating Bullets Metallica – Seek and Destroy Metallica – Harvester or Sorrow Metallica – Enter Sandman
It's actually 164 songs I cba doing the other 64 Here tho https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11
I'm not sure the censoring of music is all that ridiculous, it don't take much to offend people and ruin a business. I know you probably think but why are they offended and why should we bow to that offence and I'd say you are offended quite often, and at the moment you're making a good job of being offended by migrants, muslims, cousins...and this is the reason they have to take these precautions, to protect themselves from people like you.
That comment made me imagine a group of people going through that list and at some point coming to their senses and binning the idea off as ****ing stupid.
Marnin’ More Xmas markets today. Long ass day ahead and won’t be back until around 11pm. I’m making some decent coin but **** me it’s hard graft
Team Xmas fun this afternoon. Emergency meetings about budgets this morning. QPR tonight. A real day of downs and downs.
