{"article":{"id":10709,"heading":"Songs with Questionable Content","author":"Jeff C.","created":"2001-09-24 15:40:14","modified":"2005-08-15 00:39:14","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:39:14","article":"

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\" <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"150 songs of \"Questionable Content\" that some radio stations are not playing.","numcomment":13,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/09\/songs_with.txt","filesize":"5.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/09\/10709.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":10713,"heading":"What's Really Scary","article":"What's REALLY scary about this list is not that it exists but that it was written by executives at Clear Channel Communications \u2014 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!","author":"Mark Gabrish Conlan","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 16:05:35","modified":"2013-11-10 23:35:37","fileurl":""},{"id":10714,"heading":"What's Really Scary","article":"What's REALLY scary about this list is not that it exists but that it was written by executives at Clear Channel Communications \u2014 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!","author":"Mark Gabrish Conlan","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 16:05:52","modified":"2013-11-10 23:35:37","fileurl":""},{"id":10720,"heading":"I have heard them,","article":"This is facsism and it won't stand.\r\n\r\nI have heard all these songs recently.\r\n\r\nWhoever is telling lies or misleading truth is a fool.\r\n\r\nWE know what they mean.","author":"u","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 18:15:27","modified":"2001-09-24 19:00:03","fileurl":""},{"id":10724,"heading":"check sources","article":"Hi\r\n\r\nI'd appreciate information as to where this list originated. \r\n\r\nI'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.","author":"..","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 19:35:41","modified":"2001-09-24 19:48:25","fileurl":""},{"id":10731,"heading":"Two Songs On Banned List Played On Tribute","article":"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.\r\n\r\nHowever, 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.\r\n\r\nAnd, of course, \"Imagine\" really is a damn subversive song to be sung at a time like this--or anytime for that matter.","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 22:23:41","modified":"2001-09-24 22:39:58","fileurl":""},{"id":10733,"heading":"Brakefast with the Beatles","article":"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.\r\nMichael Moore also mentions the playing of \"banned\" songs, posted yesterday on his website...\r\n\"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. \r\n\r\nThe 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. \r\n\r\nAnd 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? \r\n\r\nThe 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.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Duff","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 22:32:14","modified":"2001-09-24 22:58:51","fileurl":""},{"id":10734,"heading":"A source","article":"Check out this thread:\r\nradio.indymedia.org\/front.php3article_id=643&group=webcast\r\n\r\n","author":"Duff","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-24 22:39:57","modified":"2001-09-24 22:58:51","fileurl":""},{"id":10741,"heading":"more 2 cent comments","article":"Just linked up the link.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nThe world is my expense\r\nThe cost of my desire\r\nJesus blessed me with its future\r\nAnd I protect it with fire\r\nSo raise your fists\r\nAnd march around\r\nJust dont take what you need\r\nIll jail and bury those committed\r\nAnd smother the rest in greed\r\nCrawl with me into tomorrow\r\nOr Ill drag you to your grave\r\nIm deep inside your children\r\nTheyll betray you in my name\r\n\r\nSleep now in the fire\r\n\r\nThe lie is my expense\r\nThe scope of my desire\r\nThe party blessed me with its future\r\nAnd I protect it with fire\r\nI am the Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria\r\nThe noose and the rapist\r\nThe fields overseer\r\nThe agents of orange\r\nThe priests of Hiroshima\r\nThe cost of my desire\r\nSleep now in the fire\r\n","author":"johnk","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-25 02:47:08","modified":"2001-09-25 03:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":10742,"heading":"oops - fixed link","article":"This link should work better.\r\n\r\nI 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.\r\n\r\nThe 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.)\r\n\r\nEven some anti-establishment texts like \"Imagine\" reflected this reality.\r\n\r\nJust something to think about...","author":"johnk","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-25 03:05:41","modified":"2001-09-25 03:37:30","fileurl":""},{"id":10751,"heading":"Stupid liberal","article":"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! ","author":"Judy","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-25 14:23:58","modified":"2001-09-25 15:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":10760,"heading":"Timeliness and Timelessness","article":"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. \r\n\r\nBut 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.\r\n\r\nWhat 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.\" \r\n\r\nThis 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.\"\r\n\r\nFinally, point #3: What I really meant was juxtapose this verse against patriotic, God-is-on-our-side war fever:\r\n\r\nImagine there's no countries\r\nIt isn't hard to do\r\nNothing to kill or die for\r\nAnd no religion too\r\nImagine all the people\r\nLiving life in peace... \r\n\r\nObvious, Neil Young HAD to wear a cowboy hat to get away with singing that.\r\n\r\nAnd that's why he's STILL such a fucking pop genius.","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-25 18:11:27","modified":"2001-09-25 19:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":10762,"heading":"Oh, And \"Walk Like An Egyptian\"????","article":"Though, of course, if you ban The Bangles version & play the original by Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, that wouldn't be bad at all. ","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-25 18:23:11","modified":"2001-09-25 19:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":10796,"heading":"you want subversive lyrics! - FUEL","article":"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.\r\n\r\nthey were digging a new foudation in Manhattan\r\nand they discovered a slave cemetary there\r\nmay their souls rest easy\r\nnow that lynching is frowned upon\r\nand we've moved on to the electric chair\r\nand i wonder who's gonna be president, tweedle dum or\r\ntweedle dummer?\r\nand who's gonna have the big blockbuster box office this\r\nsummer?\r\nhowabout we put up a wall between houses and the highway\r\nand you can go your way , and i can go my may\r\n\r\nexcept all the radios agree with all the tvs\r\nand all the magazines agree with all the radios\r\nand i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go\r\nmaybe i should put a bucket over my head\r\nand a marshmallow in each ear\r\nand stumble around for\r\nanother dumb- numbweek\r\n waiting for another hit song to appear\r\n\r\npeople used to make records\r\nas in a record of an event\r\nthe event of people playing music in a room\r\nnow everything is cross-marketing\r\nits about sunglasses and shoes\r\nor guns and drugs\r\nyou choose\r\nwe got it rehashed\r\nwe got it half-assed\r\nwe're digging up all the graves\r\nand we're spitting on the past\r\nand you can choose between the colors\r\nof the lipstick on the whores\r\ncause we know the difference between\r\nthe font of 20% more\r\nand the font of teriakiyi\r\nyou tell me\r\nhow does it...make you feel?\r\n\r\nyou tell me\r\nwhat's ...real?\r\nand they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics\r\neven when they're as dry as my lips for years \r\neven when they're stranded on a small desert island\r\nwith no place within 2,000 miles to buy beer\r\nand i wonder\r\nis he different?\r\nhas he changed? what's he about?...\r\nor is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?\r\n\r\nAm i headed for the same brick wall\r\nis there anything i can do about\r\nanything at all?\r\nexcept go back to that corner in Manhattan\r\nand dig deeper, dig deeper this time\r\ndown beneath the impossible pain of our history\r\nbeneath unknown bones\r\nbeneath the bedrock of the mystery\r\nbeneath the sewage systems and the path drain\r\nbeneath the cobblestones and the water mains\r\nbeneath the traffic of friendships and street deals\r\nbeneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels\r\nbeneath everything i can think of to think about\r\nbeneath it all, beneath all get out\r\nbeneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel\r\nthere's a fire just waiting for fuel\r\n\r\nthere's a fire just waiting for fuel\r\n\r\n","author":"ani in my heart","parent_id":10709,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-26 09:37:00","modified":"2001-09-26 09:55:52","fileurl":""}]}