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Radio disc jockeys were being warned against playing songs that might seem in poor taste. The nation's largest chain of radio stations distributed a long list of questionable song titles to programmers, ranging from AC/DC’s "Highway to Hell," to the Chi-Lites' "Have You Seen Her," to, oddly, Simon and Garfunkel’s "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

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Radio musical programmers, shoved aside by news coverage last week, were wary of offending listeners. Jack Evans, an executive with the 1,200-station, San Antonio-based Clear Channel group, prepared a list of 150 potentially offensive song titles as a guide for programmers.

The list cut a swath across formats from rock to pop to oldies. It included AC/DC’s "Safe in New York City," Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," which makes reference to a plane crash, and both the Bob Dylan and Guns N' Roses versions of "Knockin' on Heaven’s Door."

Las Vegas-based radio broadcaster Citadel Communications was building a similar list of about 70 songs, ranging from the Beastie Boys' "Sure Shot" to Peter Paul & Mary’s "Leavin' on a Jet Plane."

"I think that literally overnight the personalities of people have been significantly changed,’’ said Scott Mahalick, Citadel’s vice president for programming, "and radio needs to be in tune to that."

Nonetheless, he said, "people need entertainment, they need a release, it’s part of our culture."

Songs with even passing references to targets, fires, crashes, absent loved ones and the like have all but vanished from playlists, according to Mediabase, a Clear Channel-owned firm that compiles airplay data.

[IN THE JUST TO GET SOL CATEGORY] In the so-called "hot adult contemporary" format, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It" has seen a 63% drop in the number of "spins" in the last week, compared with the week before, according to the data. Dave Matthews Band’s "Crash Into Me" is down 45% in that format.

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Questionable Lyrics

Clear Channel, the nation’s largest chain of radio stations, distributed to its disc jockeys a list of songs that might now be in bad taste, including:

Steve Miller: "Jet Airliner"
Queen: "Another One Bites the Dust"
Pat Benatar: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
Bangles: "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Kansas: "Dust in the Wind"
Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to Heaven"
The Beatles: "A Day in the Life"
Nine Inch Nails: "Head Like a Hole"
Bob Dylan: "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door"
Megadeth: "Sweating Bullets"
Metallica: "Seek and Destroy"
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls of Fire"
Louis Armstrong: "What a Wonderful World"
Peter, Paul & Mary: "Leavin’ on a Jet Plane"
Black Sabbath: "Suicide Solution"
Simon & Garfunkel: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Third Eye Blind: "Jumper"
Alice in Chains: "Down in a Hole"
Hollies: "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Don McLean: "American Pie"
Frank Sinatra: "New York, New York"
Bruce Springsteen: "I'm on Fire"
Ricky Nelson: "Travelin’ Man"
James Taylor: "Fire and Rain"
Limp Bizkit: "Break Stuff"

Source: Clear Channel

[ September 18, 2001: Message edited by: Jay the Obscure ]

Aside from lusting after certain musical personalities, I'm not sure where to take this thread. Lists of appropriate/not-so appropriate songs? More Clear Channel bashing?

I bet Pavement's "Hit The Plane Down" won't get too much airplay any time soon. Not that it ever did.
 

Oh Jay you forgot to add Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal and ALL Rage against the Machine songs to that list.

MTV says it has suspended all broadcasts of TRL and its other live in NYC shows for a while. They've also stuck to playing "mello" music.

VH1 seems to be on its way back to normal 24 hrs of behind the music and Top 100 of the ... programing.

Much Music has been on normal programing the whole time , not surprising since Much Music is Canadian. Why I get it on my cable system I have no idea , i'd prefer MTV2.
 

...You can make them anywhere, in an aprtment on Times Square...
... Lightning flashes across the sky, east to west, do or die....

is part of the song....

dang, most of the songs from the Vietnam Era shouldn't be played......

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They've also stuck to playing "mello" music.

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I'm also surprised to see "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" on that list. I heard the Guns N' Roses version on the radio a couple days after the crashes, and the DJ even mentioned how appropriate it was...
 

What, sensitive persons might remember the attacks if they hear these songs? Well, if that's the issue I think these "sensitive persons" have other obstacles in their way, like news broadcasts, magazines and people in general that are having a conversation!!

Now, songs written after last tuesday that involve the attacks and racist/rallying/militant lyrics, or that are being callous and ignorant about it, those are the songs you're looking for.

But the songs during the Vietnam era (Donovan, Barry McGuire, Lennon) are good songs, written for just these terrible events.
When those songs are "prohibited" someone's screwed up phenomenally.

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[ September 18, 2001: Message edited by: PsyLiam ]

Plus this is something done by Clear Channel not by ALL radio stations.

According to MTV , Clear Channel thinks that most Rage Against The Machine music is about "chaos and destruction" so they are just playing them less.
 

Just a thought.
 

My comments about The Bangles (And Clear Channel being the devil.) still stand.
 

In the end, as usual, it's up to the program directors at the individual stations to plan the playlists. I listen to one the Clear Channel stations on a regular basis. They haven't banned these songs, but a few of them have been shifted to being played in the late afternoon and early evening rather than morning and early afternoon.
 

"Defender" - great lead in by Orson Welles
"Violence and Bloodshed"
"Drums of Doom / Master of Revenge / Black Wind, Fire and Steel"

Good songs to get your blood boiling like any true Klingon Warrior!
 

Brag all you WANT! But don't get between me and the stereo controls!