After September 11, 2001 there were MANY songs that were either edited for the purpose to make music lighter or even based on the fact that the Clear Channel Company (Owner of just about every radio station and/or television station in NYC) thought particular records were inappropriate to play after September 11. Even some songs that may not have seemed to say shocking anything at all were put on this list. For example, songs with titles that Clear Channel was skeptical about, or lyrics that were in anyway out of place to clear channel were “suggested” to not be played on any radio station that they owned. One Disc Jockey at a clear channel referred to these “suggestions” like this, “[if you don’t follow them] you will be fired.” That sounds like some great incentive to follow the rules. Despite that thought, some DJ’s still played some of those songs. Songs that were found to be offensive after 9/11 included:
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Notorious B.I.G- Juicy
John Lennon-Imagine
Louis Armstrong-What A Wonderful World
Elton John- Rocket Man
The Clash- Rock The Casbah
Third Eye Blind- Jumper
Phil Collins- In the Air Tonight
Chi-Lites-Have You Seen Her
Frank Sinatra-New York, New York
“What A Wonderful World” has to be one the least scary song running through my mind after September 11 aside from the SpongeBob theme song, well wishing or not some of the songs on this list are ridiculous.
http://www.freemuse.org/sw6621.asp
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Notorious B.I.G- Juicy
John Lennon-Imagine
Louis Armstrong-What A Wonderful World
Elton John- Rocket Man
The Clash- Rock The Casbah
Third Eye Blind- Jumper
Phil Collins- In the Air Tonight
Chi-Lites-Have You Seen Her
Frank Sinatra-New York, New York
“What A Wonderful World” has to be one the least scary song running through my mind after September 11 aside from the SpongeBob theme song, well wishing or not some of the songs on this list are ridiculous.
http://www.freemuse.org/sw6621.asp
http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=179 (for full song list)
1 comment:
Some of the songs they have on the list is totally ridiculous and is not connected to Sept. 11th at all. Most of the songs they have up there were made way before Sept. 11th ever happened and I don't think they've really censored that much because they allowed B.Y.O.B. to be played on Saturday Night Live. Unless they didn't realize the message in the song which could quite possibly be the case. But yea nice blog I like it!!!
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