Banned in the USA

[mik-e_smilez]

Check out this link that talks about 150+ songs that have been decided in appropriate for radio play on over 1000 stations nationwide. This is amazing.

http://slate.msn.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/17/2001&idMessage=8314

[bigpoppanils]

benny and the jets?

head like a hole?

sunday bloody sunday?

are these people nuts?

get the ACLU on the phone!

:jawdrop:

[Guest saleen351]

You guys never lived in the bible belt before, things are different around the us. In NC they never played anything questionable...

[dialectics]

FYI: it was _worse_ then outright banning the songs. the list was circulated by the heads of clear channel (the despicable and disreputable owner of the marjority of mainstream radio stations in the US) not outright banning the songs, but basically "suggesting" that they should not be played. thus, if your station _does_ play any of these songs, expect your job not to exist by tomorrow. you can legally fight "banning" a song as part of your first amendment rights, but when corporate muscle is involved it is all perfectly legal.

also, note that "all rage against the machine songs" are banned. i haven't listened to them in a while, but it is a shame that in a time where we _need_ people to be thinking about what this country is about to do from _all_ sides, any opposition to "we stand by our president" is blacklisted.

rob

[Xpander]

They're not banned. Clear channel, being the owners of 90% of the damn stations in the country, has decided that those songs aren't suitable for public broadcast.

[Guest saleen351]

clear channel owns q104.3 NYC classic rock station, and they play almost all of those songs.

[crobra]

This is just ludicrous, are these songs banned because of the twc attack or is this a lifetime ban?

[roadrunner]

I can't think of a more appropriate song than Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs.' Okay, maybe 'Killing Yourself to Live.'

[shadowchaser]

its a hoax. . .

[teklord310]

Ever see the video for Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up. I have it on my computer, MTV banned it after playing it once. That is one sick and twisted video, if you haven't seen it go out and find it. It's all about the last 10 seconds of it when everything comes together.

[sirdante]

clear channel did *not* ban these songs. nor did they suggest that they *not* be played.

the list was made at clearchannels corporate headquarters so that program directors at 100s of stations did not have to sit down and make a list themselves. there was no indication that the songs should not be played. rather, it was simply a list of every song that might be relative to the events of sept 11. many media outlets (all movie companies, every tv station, etc) are looking at some of the stuff they offer to make sure that they arent being total clods with what they present. after all, when 5000 ppl die in a burning building, "burning down the house" might be considered poor taste.

take it easy. not everything is a big corporate conspiracy.

[dialectics]

please see salon.com's coverage of clear channel, specifically W.R.T. the lawsuit that has recently been filed against them alleging monopolistic practices. we have laws in this country to proctect enterprises like clear channel from engaging in anticompetitive behavior under the guise of free enterprise, and i personally would be glad to see them eradicated.

(it needs to be said that salon.com is a media organization just like any other and is thus susceptible to bias and personal opinion. seek out the facts)

rob

[dialectics]

ps that website is here:

http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/

rob

[xtcgirlie]

ahhhhh what a bunch of good tunes:mad: :mad:

[SPYGIRL3]

Just think, before these songs were fine to play.......It really sucks because most of of those songs are very good......

Clear Channel owns like 1300 stations. Here are some of the songs: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"

Soundgarden "Blow Up the Outside World"

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"

Black Sabbath "Suicide Solution"

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"

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"

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 and Wings "Live and Let Die"

Jimmy Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Jackson Brown "Doctor My Eyes"

John Mellencamp "Crumbling Down"

John Mellencamp "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"

Peter and Gordon "A World Without Love"

Elvis "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"

Zombies "She's Not There"

Elton John "Benny & 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 and Mary "Blowin' in the Wind"

Peter Paul and Mary "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"

Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday"

Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Happenings "See You in Septemeber"

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"

Cat Stevens "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"

San Cooke Herman Hermits, "Wonder 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"

John Lennon "Imagine"

Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife"

The Clash "Rock the Casbah"

Surfaris "Wipeout"

Blood Sweat and 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"

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"

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"

(thank You ShadowChaser)

[foxyroxy20]

Some radio stations still play some of the songs eventhough they were told not to play it... like 92.3..they played...System of a Down "Chop Suey!" which was banned...only cause of the title...

the radio station was saying the song has nothing to do with anyting...theyre not saying anything bad and they said what happened to freedom of speech???....