errorDrowning 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"

What's REALLY scary about this list is not that it exists but that it was written by executives at Clear Channel Communications — who now own 30 percent of ALL the radio stations in the U.S. and therefore have the power to enforce these bans over a significant portion of the U.S. radio market. And what's even more scary is that even while the rest of the U.S. was mourning the loss of lives in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was moving quietly to remove the last remaining restrictions on media monopolies. Big Brother is alive, well and privatized!

What's REALLY scary about this list is not that it exists but that it was written by executives at Clear Channel Communications — who now own 30 percent of ALL the radio stations in the U.S. and therefore have the power to enforce these bans over a significant portion of the U.S. radio market. And what's even more scary is that even while the rest of the U.S. was mourning the loss of lives in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was moving quietly to remove the last remaining restrictions on media monopolies. Big Brother is alive, well and privatized!

This is facsism and it won't stand.

I have heard all these songs recently.

Whoever is telling lies or misleading truth is a fool.

WE know what they mean.

Hi

I'd appreciate information as to where this list originated.

I've heard a lot of conflicting reports about such songlists. Clear Channel has flat out denied that they have a list of songs that are not to be played. Of course corporations tend to skip past the truth, but it is quite possible that the issues of banned song lists has been over reported, etc., and does not represent what is actually going on in the radio world.

There are so many absurdities contrained in this story, it truly boggles the mind. Forget the anthems of hope--chalk that up to the visceral corporate soul. But what songs like "Black Is Black"??? Or "Ticket To Ride"? "Johnny Angel"? "See You In September"? Sure, I'd be happy if I never hear the last two again in my life, but they're cotton candy POP SONGS, for gosh sakes! The presence of songs like these in the list just go to show that censorship TRULY makes you stupid. Turn on the "censor" machine and sooner or later EVERYTHING will go down the hatch.

However, Friday another level was attained. Not one, but TWO of the songs on this list were played in the televised all-star fundraising tribute. Neil Young played "Imagine"--and did a damn fine job of it too--and Paul Simon did "Bridge Over Troubled Water." I must admit, I nearly laughed out loud when each of these songs began, bacause I distinctly remembered them being on the list.

And, of course, "Imagine" really is a damn subversive song to be sung at a time like this--or anytime for that matter.

This morning on "Brakefast with the Beatles", 97.1, the host returned from a commercial break and stated that he had recieved a memo from management detailing songs that should not be played. Lennon's "Imagine" being one of the songs (Also on above list). The DJ went into three versions of the song.
Michael Moore also mentions the playing of "banned" songs, posted yesterday on his website...
"I recall the email I received the night before from a radio station manager in Michigan. He passed on to me a confidential memo from the radio conglomerate that owns his station: Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200 stations altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio markets -- and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls 60% of all rock-radio listening.

The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150 songs during this "national emergency." The list, incredibly, includes "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine." Rah-rah war songs, though, are OK.

And then there was this troubling instruction: "No songs by Rage Against the Machine should be aired." The entire works of a band are banned? Is this the freedom we fight for? Or does this sound like one of those repressive dictatorships we are told is our new enemy?

The song the college DJ goes ahead and plays is, "Hey, War Pig," by Katrina and the Waves, and he dedicates it to the "all the war mongers out there." Yes, there is hope, the kids are all right."

Check out this thread:
radio.indymedia.org/front.php3article_id=643&group=webcast

Just linked up the link.

The only song I'd refrain from playing is Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep Now In the Fire". I'd wait a couple weeks to play it again, because the attack turned the metaphor of fire into actual fire.

The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists
And march around
Just dont take what you need
Ill jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or Ill drag you to your grave
Im deep inside your children
Theyll betray you in my name

Sleep now in the fire

The lie is my expense
The scope of my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
I am the Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

This link should work better.

I was thinking that "Imagine" is a great song and all, but it's really coming from a late 60's perspective (naivete?) about cultural nationalism.

The cold war really put pressure on ethnic groups to erase/ignore their differences in order to take on a global identity centered around democracy, capitalism, and the rest of it. (Or, to identify with the Soviet Union or China, and the prole.)

Even some anti-establishment texts like "Imagine" reflected this reality.

Just something to think about...

That's a stupid "liberal" for you. So stupid the are dangerous! So scared they want to stay in their houses and suck their thumbs and want their kids to do the same, meanwhile, their kids are climbing mountains, skateboarding and resisting all the Nazi-like Liberal stupidity! Go kids, go!

John is certainly right that "Imagine" reflects its times, and that, more generally, even anti-establishment texts relfect shared assumptions of their times in ways that are hard to see at the time.

But I think that John oversimplifies what the pressures were at the time. There was actually a great deal of exploiting of nationalism (and even cultural sub-nationalism) going on. Just because the US didn't know didley-squat about 1900 years of Vietnamese-Chinese conflict didn't mean that THEY forgot their history so quickly and comletely.

What I think Lennon was up to was clearly post-modern. He felt free to take inspiration from ANY culture on Earth. This is not the same as paving over differences. Rather, it regards differences as precious, even when they generate conflict, but takes a creative approach to conflict--it has confidence that "We can work it out."

This brings me to point #2. OF COURSE "Imagine" is naive. It's DEFIANTLY naive. The Beatles began with sort of routine pop naivete. The maintained that a long, long time. But eventually they wore it out. The naivete that comes after that is particularly powerful. It's CONSTRUCTED naivete. Like The Fugs doing "Morning, Morning," or The Velvet Underground doing "Sunday Morning," or (more complexely) REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It."

Finally, point #3: What I really meant was juxtapose this verse against patriotic, God-is-on-our-side war fever:

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

Obvious, Neil Young HAD to wear a cowboy hat to get away with singing that.

And that's why he's STILL such a fucking pop genius.

Though, of course, if you ban The Bangles version & play the original by Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, that wouldn't be bad at all.

Check this out: you all know that part of lower Manhattan was built over a slave cemetery, right? Well back in 1999 a musician known as ani difranco penned this song about pent up resentment and covering over our history. It is almost prophetic. Yet ani difranco isn't on any of the 'don't play' lists. She certainly deserves it for this. The tittle of the song is called Fuel. It helps to read it out loud.

they were digging a new foudation in Manhattan
and they discovered a slave cemetary there
may their souls rest easy
now that lynching is frowned upon
and we've moved on to the electric chair
and i wonder who's gonna be president, tweedle dum or
tweedle dummer?
and who's gonna have the big blockbuster box office this
summer?
howabout we put up a wall between houses and the highway
and you can go your way , and i can go my may

except all the radios agree with all the tvs
and all the magazines agree with all the radios
and i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go
maybe i should put a bucket over my head
and a marshmallow in each ear
and stumble around for
another dumb- numbweek
waiting for another hit song to appear

people used to make records
as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing
its about sunglasses and shoes
or guns and drugs
you choose
we got it rehashed
we got it half-assed
we're digging up all the graves
and we're spitting on the past
and you can choose between the colors
of the lipstick on the whores
cause we know the difference between
the font of 20% more
and the font of teriakiyi
you tell me
how does it...make you feel?

you tell me
what's ...real?
and they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
even when they're as dry as my lips for years
even when they're stranded on a small desert island
with no place within 2,000 miles to buy beer
and i wonder
is he different?
has he changed? what's he about?...
or is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?

Am i headed for the same brick wall
is there anything i can do about
anything at all?
except go back to that corner in Manhattan
and dig deeper, dig deeper this time
down beneath the impossible pain of our history
beneath unknown bones
beneath the bedrock of the mystery
beneath the sewage systems and the path drain
beneath the cobblestones and the water mains
beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
beneath everything i can think of to think about
beneath it all, beneath all get out
beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel

there's a fire just waiting for fuel