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<blockquote data-quote="sailfish" data-source="post: 5034328" data-attributes="member: 53248"><p>Right after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel sent a memo to all the stations they owned with a list of songs that they deemed "lyrically questionable". Pretty much anything that had a reference flying, falling, fire, or death and a bunch others that were kinda stupid. While they insisted it wasn't an outright ban per say, they discouraged airplay of the songs from this list for quite some time.</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">3 Doors Down — Duck and Run</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">311 — Down</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Shot Down in Flames</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Shoot to Thrill</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Dirty Deeds</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Highway to Hell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Safe in New York City</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — TNT</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">AC/DC — Hell’s Bells</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ad Libs — The Boy from New York City</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alanis Morissette — Ironic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alice in Chains — Rooster</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alice in Chains — Sea of Sorrow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alice in Chains — Down in a Hole</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alice in Chains — Them Bones</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alien Ant Farm — Smooth Criminal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Animals — We Gotta Get Out of This Place</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Arthur Brown — Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bangles — Walk Like an Egyptian</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Barenaked Ladies — Falling for the First Time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Barry McGuire — Eve of Destruction</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Beastie Boys — Sure Shot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Beastie Boys — Sabotage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Beatles — A Day in the Life</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Beatles — Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Beatles — Ticket To Ride</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Beatles — Obla Di, Obla Da</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Billy Joel — Only the Good Die Young</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Black Sabbath — War Pigs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Blood Sweat and Tears — And When I Die</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Blue Oyster Cult — Burnin’ For You</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses — Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bobby Darin — Mack the Knife</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Boston — Smokin’</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brooklyn Bridge — Worst That Could Happen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bruce Springsteen — I’m On Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bruce Springsteen — Goin’ Down</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bruce Springstein — War</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Buddy Holly and the Crickets — That’ll Be the Day</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bush — Speed Kills</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Carole King — I Feel the Earth Move</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Cat Stevens — Peace Train</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Cat Stevens — Morning Has Broken</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chi-Lites — Have You Seen Her</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Clash — Rock the Casbah</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Creedence Clearwater Revival — Travelin’ Band</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Cult — Fire Woman</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dave Clark Five — Bits and Pieces</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dave Matthews Band — Crash Into Me</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dio — Holy Diver</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Don McLean — American Pie</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Doors — The End</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Drifters — On Broadway</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Drowning Pool — Bodies</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Edwin Starr — War</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Elton John — Benny & The Jets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Elton John — Daniel</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Elton John — Rocket Man</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Elvis — (You’re the) Devil in Disguise</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Everclear — Santa Monica</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Filter — Hey Man, Nice Shot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Fontella Bass — Rescue Me</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Foo Fighters — Learn to Fly</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Jimi Hendrix — Hey Joe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Frank Sinatra — New York, New York</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Fuel — Bad Day</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Gap Band — You Dropped a Bomb On Me</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Godsmack — Bad Religion</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Green Day — Brain Stew</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Happenings — See You in September</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Herman’s Hermits — Wonderful World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hollies — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">J. Frank Wilson — Last Kiss</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Jackson Brown — Doctor My Eyes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">James Taylor — Fire and Rain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Jan and Dean — Dead Man’s Curve</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls of Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Jimi Hendrix — Hey Joe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">John Lennon — Imagine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">John Mellencamp — Crumbling Down</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">John Mellencamp — I’m On Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">John Parr — St. Elmo’s Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Judas Priest — Some Heads Are Gonna Roll</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Kansas — Dust in the Wind</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Korn — Falling Away From Me</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Lenny Kravitz — Fly Away</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Limp Bizkit — Break Stuff</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Local H — Bound for the Floor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Los Bravos — Black is Black</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Louis Armstrong — What A Wonderful World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Lynyrd Skynyrd — Tuesday’s Gone</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Martha & the Vandellas — Nowhere to Run</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Martha & the Vandellas — Dancing in the Streets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Megadeth — Dread and the Fugitive</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Megadeth — Sweating Bullets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Metallica — Seek and Destroy</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Metallica — Harvester or Sorrow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Metallica — Enter Sandman</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Metallica — Fade to Black</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels — Devil with the Blue Dress</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mudvayne — Death Blooms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Neil Diamond — America</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nina — 99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nine Inch Nails — Head Like a Hole</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Oingo Boingo — Dead Man’s Party</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ozzy Osbourne — Suicide Solution</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Paper Lace — The Night Chicago Died</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pat Benatar — Hit Me with Your Best Shot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pat Benatar — Love is a Battlefield</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Paul McCartney and Wings — Live and Let Die</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peter Gabriel — When You’re Falling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peter and Gordon — I Go To Pieces</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peter and Gordon — A World Without Love</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peter Paul and Mary — Blowin’ in the Wind</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Peter Paul and Mary — Leavin’ on a Jet Plane</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Petula Clark — A Sign of the Times</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Phil Collins — In the Air Tonight</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pink Floyd — Run Like Hell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pink Floyd — Mother</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">P.O.D.- Boom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pretenders — My City Was Gone</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Queen — Another One Bites the Dust</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Queen — Killer Queen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">All Rage Against The Machine songs (sorry, [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER])</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Red Hot Chili Peppers — Aeroplane</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Red Hot Chili Peppers — Under the Bridge</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">REM — It’s the End of the World as We Know It</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Rickey Nelson — Travelin’ Man</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Rolling Stones — Ruby Tuesday</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Saliva — Click Click Boom</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sam Cooke — Wonderful World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Santana — Evil Ways</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Savage Garden — Crash and Burn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Shelly Fabares — Johnny Angel</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Simon And Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Skeeter Davis — End of the World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Slipknot — Left Behind</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Slipknot — Wait and Bleed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Smashing Pumpkins — Bullet With Butterfly Wings</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Soundgarden — Blow Up the Outside World</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Soundgarden — Fell on Black Days</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Soundgarden — Black Hole Sun</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Steam — Na Na Na Na Hey Hey</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Steve Miller — Jet Airliner</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Stone Temple Pilots — Big Bang Baby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Stone Temple Pilots — Dead and Bloated</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sugar Ray — Fly</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Surfaris — Wipeou</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">System of a Down — Chop Suey!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Talking Heads — Burning Down the House</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Temple of the Dog — Say Hello to Heaven</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Third Eye Blind — Jumper</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Three Degrees — When Will I See You Again</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tom Petty — Free Fallin’</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tool — Intolerance</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tramps — Disco Inferno</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">U2 — Sunday Bloody Sunday</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Van Halen — Dancing In The Street</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Van Halen — Jump</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Yager and Evans — In the Year 2525</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Youngbloods — Get Together</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Zombies — She’s Not There</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sailfish, post: 5034328, member: 53248"] Right after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel sent a memo to all the stations they owned with a list of songs that they deemed "lyrically questionable". Pretty much anything that had a reference flying, falling, fire, or death and a bunch others that were kinda stupid. While they insisted it wasn't an outright ban per say, they discouraged airplay of the songs from this list for quite some time. [LIST=1] [*]3 Doors Down — Duck and Run [*]311 — Down [*]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 [*]Ad Libs — The Boy from New York City [*]Alanis Morissette — Ironic [*]Alice in Chains — Rooster [*]Alice in Chains — Sea of Sorrow [*]Alice in Chains — Down in a Hole [*]Alice in Chains — Them Bones [*]Alien Ant Farm — Smooth Criminal [*]Animals — We Gotta Get Out of This Place [*]Arthur Brown — Fire [*]Bangles — Walk Like an Egyptian [*]Barenaked Ladies — Falling for the First Time [*]Barry McGuire — Eve of Destruction [*]Beastie Boys — Sure Shot [*]Beastie Boys — Sabotage [*]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 [*]Billy Joel — Only the Good Die Young [*]Black Sabbath — War Pigs [*]Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [*]Blood Sweat and Tears — And When I Die [*]Blue Oyster Cult — Burnin’ For You [*]Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses — Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [*]Bobby Darin — Mack the Knife [*]Boston — Smokin’ [*]Brooklyn Bridge — Worst That Could Happen [*]Bruce Springsteen — I’m On Fire [*]Bruce Springsteen — Goin’ Down [*]Bruce Springstein — War [*]Buddy Holly and the Crickets — That’ll Be the Day [*]Bush — Speed Kills [*]Carole King — I Feel the Earth Move [*]Cat Stevens — Peace Train [*]Cat Stevens — Morning Has Broken [*]Chi-Lites — Have You Seen Her [*]The Clash — Rock the Casbah [*]Creedence Clearwater Revival — Travelin’ Band [*]The Cult — Fire Woman [*]Dave Clark Five — Bits and Pieces [*]Dave Matthews Band — Crash Into Me [*]Dio — Holy Diver [*]Don McLean — American Pie [*]The Doors — The End [*]Drifters — On Broadway [*]Drowning Pool — Bodies [*]Edwin Starr — War [*]Elton John — Benny & The Jets [*]Elton John — Daniel [*]Elton John — Rocket Man [*]Elvis — (You’re the) Devil in Disguise [*]Everclear — Santa Monica [*]Filter — Hey Man, Nice Shot [*]Fontella Bass — Rescue Me [*]Foo Fighters — Learn to Fly [*]Jimi Hendrix — Hey Joe [*]Frank Sinatra — New York, New York [*]Fuel — Bad Day [*]The Gap Band — You Dropped a Bomb On Me [*]Godsmack — Bad Religion [*]Green Day — Brain Stew [*]Happenings — See You in September [*]Herman’s Hermits — Wonderful World [*]Hollies — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother [*]J. Frank Wilson — Last Kiss [*]Jackson Brown — Doctor My Eyes [*]James Taylor — Fire and Rain [*]Jan and Dean — Dead Man’s Curve [*]Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls of Fire [*]Jimi Hendrix — Hey Joe [*]John Lennon — Imagine [*]John Mellencamp — Crumbling Down [*]John Mellencamp — I’m On Fire [*]John Parr — St. Elmo’s Fire [*]Judas Priest — Some Heads Are Gonna Roll [*]Kansas — Dust in the Wind [*]Korn — Falling Away From Me [*]Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven [*]Lenny Kravitz — Fly Away [*]Limp Bizkit — Break Stuff [*]Local H — Bound for the Floor [*]Los Bravos — Black is Black [*]Louis Armstrong — What A Wonderful World [*]Lynyrd Skynyrd — Tuesday’s Gone [*]Martha & the Vandellas — Nowhere to Run [*]Martha & the Vandellas — Dancing in the Streets [*]Megadeth — Dread and the Fugitive [*]Megadeth — Sweating Bullets [*]Metallica — Seek and Destroy [*]Metallica — Harvester or Sorrow [*]Metallica — Enter Sandman [*]Metallica — Fade to Black [*]Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels — Devil with the Blue Dress [*]Mudvayne — Death Blooms [*]Neil Diamond — America [*]Nina — 99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons [*]Nine Inch Nails — Head Like a Hole [*]Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky [*]Oingo Boingo — Dead Man’s Party [*]Ozzy Osbourne — Suicide Solution [*]Paper Lace — The Night Chicago Died [*]Pat Benatar — Hit Me with Your Best Shot [*]Pat Benatar — Love is a Battlefield [*]Paul McCartney and Wings — Live and Let Die [*]Peter Gabriel — When You’re Falling [*]Peter and Gordon — I Go To Pieces [*]Peter and Gordon — A World Without Love [*]Peter Paul and Mary — Blowin’ in the Wind [*]Peter Paul and Mary — Leavin’ on a Jet Plane [*]Petula Clark — A Sign of the Times [*]Phil Collins — In the Air Tonight [*]Pink Floyd — Run Like Hell [*]Pink Floyd — Mother [*]P.O.D.- Boom [*]Pretenders — My City Was Gone [*]Queen — Another One Bites the Dust [*]Queen — Killer Queen [*]All Rage Against The Machine songs (sorry, [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER]) [*]Red Hot Chili Peppers — Aeroplane [*]Red Hot Chili Peppers — Under the Bridge [*]REM — It’s the End of the World as We Know It [*]Rickey Nelson — Travelin’ Man [*]Rolling Stones — Ruby Tuesday [*]Saliva — Click Click Boom [*]Sam Cooke — Wonderful World [*]Santana — Evil Ways [*]Savage Garden — Crash and Burn [*]Shelly Fabares — Johnny Angel [*]Simon And Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water [*]Skeeter Davis — End of the World [*]Slipknot — Left Behind [*]Slipknot — Wait and Bleed [*]Smashing Pumpkins — Bullet With Butterfly Wings [*]Soundgarden — Blow Up the Outside World [*]Soundgarden — Fell on Black Days [*]Soundgarden — Black Hole Sun [*]Steam — Na Na Na Na Hey Hey [*]Steve Miller — Jet Airliner [*]Stone Temple Pilots — Big Bang Baby [*]Stone Temple Pilots — Dead and Bloated [*]Sugar Ray — Fly [*]Surfaris — Wipeou [*]System of a Down — Chop Suey! [*]Talking Heads — Burning Down the House [*]Temple of the Dog — Say Hello to Heaven [*]Third Eye Blind — Jumper [*]Three Degrees — When Will I See You Again [*]Tom Petty — Free Fallin’ [*]Tool — Intolerance [*]Tramps — Disco Inferno [*]U2 — Sunday Bloody Sunday [*]Van Halen — Dancing In The Street [*]Van Halen — Jump [*]Yager and Evans — In the Year 2525 [*]Youngbloods — Get Together [*]Zombies — She’s Not There [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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