Song that most deserved its 9/11 Clear Channel memorandum ban

Rage Against the Machine - All songs by Rage Against the Machine

classic thread, voting dave matthews

why was the nu metal smooth criminal cover banned??

imo "Ironic" is the worst of these

always ban alien ant farm

never noticed this verse of Ironic

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

"Bad Day" is one I cannot comprehend because "It's a Wonderful World" is also on the list. Which is it, Clear Channel??

haha never noticed the alien ant farm ban, would love to hear the logic. 'say what you will about mohamed atta but give him his due, he was one smooth criminal'. as hard as it is to pass up 'all rage against the machine' this is dave matthews easy. lol @ the "death of irony" claiming "ironic".

hike up your flight controls a lil more

98 Degrees - Flying a Plane Thru Your Heart

foo fighters

i heard "ironic" on the radio 9/12 morning and it triggered legit discomfort, so i'll go with that.

frogs, why didn't you poll the whole list? are these poll options arbitrary?

Guilty lol at 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' being on the Wiki list.

The Beatles "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" - life doesn't go on, EVERYTHING CHANGED.

The Chi-Lites "Have You Seen Her" This is literally the saddest song in all creation so I can see their point here.

The original name of the song was "Speed Kills", but following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bush renamed the song "The People That We Love".

i love how System Of A Down had the #1 album on 9/11 and nobody ever seemed to stop playing "Chop Suey"

God it must have been so surreal, so awkward, sitting on the highway, wondering if that person in the next car over was crying because the radio station was playing the Gap Band.

After giving it much thought, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" is kind of anti-Osama, expresses an angry feeling. Inappropriate, sure, but it at least expresses appropriate emotion.

Had to go with "Free Falling", why do we need to hear about selfish pervs picking on an innocent girl after a national tragedy?

I wanna glide down, over Mulholland
I wanna write her, name in the sky
I wanna free fall, out into nothin'
Gonna leave this, world for awhile

frogs, why didn't you poll the whole list? are these poll options arbitrary?

old frog logic, "never make a poll with more than 20 options, people hate that shit"

To play Dio is to summon.

Always in favour of Crash Into Me being removed from public consciousness, so that.

crash into me and i'll cum into you

classic thread, voting dave matthews

We weren't Clear Channel, but I remember the service that provided our alternative rock weekends sending out panicked playlists that week. Dave Matthews had just released a single called "Gravedigger" (which wasn't half bad, at least for DMB) that got walked the fuck back.

Also will always lol at Bush's "Speed Kills" turning into "The People We Love".

dave matthews

dave matthews banned

lol for no obvious reason at "old frog logic"

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Why was Skeeter Davis on this list? Despite the apocalyptic-sounding title, the song is about being dumped by her bf and has no imagery involving planes, fire, crashes, death or destruction.

Van Halen "Jump" whoaaaa whoever made this ban list is dark

Airing 'Hey Man, Nice Shot"s second verse would have been downright inconsiderate.

why was the nu metal smooth criminal cover banned??

questions that answer themselves

This reminds me that Beck released a song called Earthquake Weather mere 3 months after the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
It was the best song of the album.

Best song banned by the BBC: Geri Halliwell's then-currect cover of 'It's Raining Men'

CURRENT

lol

Zombies - She's Not There

wtf?

she died on 9/11

Rage Against the Machine - All songs by Rage Against the Machine

this is still hilarious

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The original name of the song was "Speed Kills", but following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bush renamed the song "The People That We Love".

this sentence deeply confused me

Lot of new executive powers passed Congress that October.

xp considering the identical lyrics, it's strange the original "smooth criminal" wasn't also included.

i'm guessing "crash into me" is the winner because people hate that song, and not because it was actually considered poor taste to broadcast during the period of grief.

also if it means anything, i don't recall any of these songs getting played any less than usual during this time. i was told the list was fake and i believe it.

you certainly heard a lot less Rage Against the Machine in 2001

I just remember hearing a lot more "Superman" by Five For Fighting.

i was listening to a maximum amount of ratm in 01, because their covers album came out at the end of 2000 and i spent the next year blasting it

At the homecoming dance that year, after hours straight of rap & r&b, they played the Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal" as we were leaving and my gf was like "hold up, they're finally playing a real rock song!" and demanded that we stay until it ended.

I remember Incubus changed their video concept from the Monkees "Head" homage to the overused "chillin in the studio" premise.

And they played the shit out of that Ryan Adams video that just happened to be shot in New York a week or 2 prior.

Immediately post 9/11 I would hear that Ryan Adams song in the grocery store every time I went shopping.

the song that swept the nation...'s aisles

along with that "let goa ya haaht, let goaah ya haaate" song

in tom scharpling's ryan adams rant he does a bit on how "ny, ny" never managed to be an actual hit even with that much zeitgeist and promotion

all the grocery stores in the world couldn't help it crack the top 100. only went to #18 on Hot AC, and even with the benefit of being a double CD, Gold never went Gold stateside.

should start a "songs you hear in au bon pain" thread

along with that "let goa ya haaht, let goaah ya haaate" song

lmao.

other beneficiaries of 9/11 included enya and enrique iglesias.

DESERT ROSE UNDELEEAADEEY

i was told the list was fake and i believe it.

― billstevejim, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:05 AM (Yesterday)

It was real but much less formal and top-down than reports made it out to be. It was a memo which pulled together a lot of local affiliates' blacklisted songs, hence the weird choices and total lack of consistency.

genuine lol from xgau at the time -
A Day Without Rain [Reprise, 2001]
Pondering the fate of post-September 11 pop, everyone predicted what they already wished for--Slipknot undone, Britney in hiding. What happened instead was the unthinkable--sales of Enya's first album since 1995 spiked 10 months after release. (And she thought that movie where Charlize Theron fucked Keanu Reeves and died of cancer was a promotional coup!) Two years in the making with the artiste playing every synthesizer, the 11 songs here last a resounding 34 minutes and represent a significant downsizing of her New Age exoticism since 1988's breakthrough, Watermark--it's goopier, more simplistic. Yanni is Tchaikovsky by comparison, Sarah McLachlan Ella Fitzgerald, treacle Smithfield ham. Right, whatever gets folks through the night. But Enya's the kind of artist who makes you think, if this piffle got them through it, how dark could their night have been? Like Master P or Michael Bolton only worse, she tests one's faith in democracy itself. D-

lmao

quality enya zing

read that as john bolton