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Roy G Bivins
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posted September 18, 2001 09:19 AM
  
This was an article from the St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Clear Channel suggests 150 songs for stations to avoid
BRIAN LAMBERT Media critic Movies and TV aren't alone in reviewing the content of their entertainment in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. Clear Channel Inc., which owns over 1,200 stations including seven in the Twin Cities, is circulating a list of 150 songs its local programmers might consider avoiding for the time being.
Clear Channel managers here say the list is merely a "memo from the main office," not something they must adhere to. Many of the songs on the list are heavy-metal warhorses like "Sweating Bullets" by Megadeth, "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica and a half-dozen cuts from AC/DC including "Safe in New York City," "Highway to Hell," "TNT" and "Shot Down in Flames." Some of the 150 song titles "suggested" by Clear Channel are baffling. John Lennon's "Imagine" and The Youngbloods' "Get Together" would seem to be precisely the sort of message people might like to hear in difficult times. Likewise, who could possibly object to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"? Several Beatles songs -- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Obla Di Obla Da" and "Ticket to Ride" -- are also on the list. "You know what this is?" says KEEY-FM's operations manager Gregg Swedberg. "It's a bunch of people sitting in a room saying, "Think of anything, anything, anywhere that might possibly be a little too much, that people might be sensitive to.' "This is just another idea we get. Something for us to "consider.' Nothing more than that." Swedberg adds that K102, a country-music format, returned Garth Brooks' early '90s tune, "We Shall Be Free," to its rotation in reaction to the crisis. Rob Morris, program director for Clear Channel-owned KDWB-FM, said he expected few if any changes to his station's playlist. ABC-owned KXXR-FM, aka 93X, did not respond to several calls asking what changes they might be making to their playlist. Here are some of the other reported song titles Clear Channel suggested its stations avoid: Black Sabbath, "War Pigs," "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," "Suicide Solution"; Dio, "Holy Diver"; Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner"; Van Halen, "Jump"; Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust," "Killer Queen"; Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," "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"; 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"; Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"; Jackson Brown, "Doctor My Eyes"; John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down," "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," "A World Without Love"; Elvis, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"; Zombies, "She's Not There"; Elton John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man"; Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire"; Santana, "Evil Ways;" Louis Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World"; Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City"; Peter Paul and Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"; Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"; Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"; Happenings, "See You in September"; 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," "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"; Sam Cooke/ Herman Hermits, "Wonderful 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"; Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"; The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"; Surfaris, "Wipeout"; Blood Sweat & 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," "Goin' Down"; Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"; Alice in Chains, "Rooster," "Sea of Sorrow," "Down in a Hole," "Them Bone"; Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot," "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," "Under the Bridge"; Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"; System of a Down, "Chop Suey"; Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"; Ricky 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"; Drowning Pool, "Bodies"; Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"; Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive," "Sweating Bullets"; Saliva, "Click Click Boom"; P.O.D. "Boom"; Metallica, "Harvester or Sorrow," "Enter Sandman," "Fade to Black"; all songs by Rage Against The Machine; Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"; Godsmack, "Bad Religion"; Tool, "Intolerance."
Is this not bizarre? Is hearing "Smooth Criminal" going to throw anyone into the depths of despair? And could someone explain to me what "99 Luft Balloons" has to do with anything? ------------------
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posted September 18, 2001 09:25 AM
Same thing I screamed when I saw this on another board.SUCIDE SOLUTION IS BY OZZY AND HIS FIRST SOLO BAND, NOT BLACK SABBATH. It seems that anything that is pro religion or anti religion is gone. Ditto for anything pro or anti-war. And P.O.D. "Boom" Boom, here comes the boom, ready or not, here come the boys from the South. Give me a break. IP: Logged |
Darth Billy Bob
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posted September 18, 2001 09:25 AM
All songs by Rage Against The Machine?LOL!! I think they're a bunch of whiny fucks, but still .. that's just absurd. I heard 'Smooth Criminal' just last night on a local Clear Channel Communications station. Oh, and someone needs to smack Mr. Media Critic, or whomever gave him the song list, because 'Suicide Solution' wasn't Black Sabbath. It was an Ozzy Osbourne song. Philistines. pfft IP: Logged |
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posted September 18, 2001 09:29 AM
In the case of 99 Luft Balloons, the relevant lyric is probably quote:
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
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posted September 18, 2001 09:33 AM
We had recently in my band decided to do a U2 song and decided to play it this last weekend until someone brought up that it might not be in good taste with all that happen on Tuesday. We agreed definatley we hadn't really thought of it in this light but could understand why people might get offended by songs about War or acts of Violence in this time. the song was Sunday Bloody Sunday... we had picked to play it a month ago.GOD BLESS AMERICA! ------------------
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asd109
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posted September 18, 2001 09:53 AM
Ummm, the lyrics of 99 Luftballons are about balloons setting off a countries incoming missile warning system resulting in a war. I think the connection is pretty clear.
see: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~smendham/music/nena-99luftballoons.html Personally I think it's fine for managers to issue a suggested list of songs to avoid (after all, this was just suggested, not enforced). Their choices are a little odd though. IP: Logged |
Roy G Bivins
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posted September 18, 2001 09:55 AM
Oh. Okay. I had no idea what the lyrics were.IP: Logged |
Owlet
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posted September 18, 2001 11:39 AM
I think this would be a good time to make sure no one ever plays "99 Luftballoons" ever again.Or "Red Red Wine." Or "Pass the Dutchy." "Electric Avenue," even. And everything by Everclear. IP: Logged |
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posted September 18, 2001 12:30 PM
Heh. Owlet rocks. Again.IP: Logged |
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posted September 18, 2001 12:54 PM
On Wednesday I heard the Star Spangled Banner and got a little twitchy at "bombs bursting in air".But I was more sore then. I still wish America the Beautiful was our national anthem (even with the God reference) or maybe This Land is Your Land, or something. Our current anthem is stirring when we're at war, I'm sure, up through WWII, but now I'd prefer a song about how great the country is. Proud to be an American? Well, it's stirring, but I don't think I could take the country twang at every baseball game. 
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posted September 18, 2001 02:29 PM
The overall rules for this list seem to be:
1. Avoid mentioning: New York, fire, airplanes, war, peace, tall buildings, the need for unity, anything with five sides, or newscasters, for that matter.
2. Avoid anything that is even slightly critical of any aspect of the United States and/or anything the USA supports.
3. Don't do anything excessively upbeat or downbeat.
Well, I've just about ruled out all mp3s on my computer, with the posible exception of some of the sound files for computer games.------------------
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farwell3d
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posted September 18, 2001 04:10 PM
You left anything that has any view on religion as well.IP: Logged |
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posted September 18, 2001 04:47 PM
I find farwell3d and DBB's first two posts hilarious...Cheatara always said they were the same person.  IP: Logged |
Cheatara
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posted September 18, 2001 05:26 PM
According to Tech TV Clear Channel has denied releasing this list.IP: Logged |
farwell3d
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posted September 18, 2001 06:32 PM
And for the record, it is not listed anywhere on clear channels site.The point is, though, somebody came up with this list. Somebody has problems. IP: Logged |
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posted September 19, 2001 02:05 AM
Um, yeah, I read in the L.A. Times that ClearChannel denied distributing the list. An explanation *could* be that they circulated a list to their stations but did not say "Don't play these." Perhaps it was just a bunch of people compiling a list of songs that contain words or phrases that aren't appropriate in light of the terrorist attacks. (You know, just because some people got to thinking about it and sent out an e-mail asking employees to list the ones they could think of.) Or maybe they did tell people not to play them and now they feel completely foolish.I have my own ClearChannel story to add: Tonight, on the way home from work, I heard (on my local ClearChannel regime-run radio station, Wild 94.9) a Milli Vanilli song. Apparently, if we are to believe the report of the banned songs, they ran out of songs so they had to dig up total crap. Actually, embarrassing as it is, I knew most of the words and sang along. Guilty pleasure. You know, I can see where the concern comes from. I lived 15 or so miles from Oklahoma City when American terrorists struck there, and my friends and I talked about our hopes for the permanent statewide banning of "Achy Breaky Heart," which includes the line "It might blow up and kill this man." About six months after the bombing, I saw an episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in which a building was cleared out by bomb squads because there'd been a bomb threat. Superman is standing outside, and some kids walk up. They ask what's going on, and Superman tells them they can't go any further because there's been a bomb threat. The kids protest, saying "We want to see the bomb!" I thought this was, besides being highly ODD, totally inappropriate especially since more than a few children had been the casualties in the Oklahoma City bombing. Then again, that city was a distant place in the middle of a country that, six months later, had moved on. But Oklahomans were still grieving. ... Anyway, no one else seemed to care when such poor judgment cropped up in movies and TV shows. Perhaps this will be different, this attack being on such a large scale and in a place most people — particularly in the entertainment industry — can identify with. I think we'll see a toned-down and cautious entertainment industry. This last bit has nothing to do with music or playlists. I think I'm going to post it in the other thread. IP: Logged |
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posted September 19, 2001 08:35 AM
I think Imagine is a wholly appropriate song to play right now. I heard it on a local high school radio station last week and teared up. But emotion is good. Music is supposed to make us feel something. IP: Logged |
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posted September 19, 2001 09:27 AM
Now I could understand laying off a few songs for awhile, like Safe In New York City by AC/DC and Bombs over Broadway by christian punk rockers Squad Five-0, but Blowing in the Wind? Imagine?------------------
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posted September 19, 2001 11:18 AM
Well clearly the list is of songs that either WOULD or WOULDN'T be appropriate - the only thing considered safe is refraining from pertinence altogether.IP: Logged |
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posted September 19, 2001 11:19 AM
Well clearly the list is of songs that either WOULD or WOULDN'T be appropriate - the only thing considered safe is refraining from pertinence altogether.Like, it's okay to protest war as long as it's an abstract war happening some other time, preferably in some other place. When you're LOOKING at a war, well... no-one wants to hear it. IP: Logged |
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posted September 20, 2001 07:19 PM
What's wrong with Everclear? If I had a sad, confused face, I'd put it up. Those guys have gotten me through some tough times...The oddest thing I saw regarding music was on the news a couple days ago was a church full of people singing "Imagine".
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Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
And above us, only sky...
Comforting to all those people who, I'd assume, believe in the big shiny good place where all their relatives are. My personal soundtrack for this thing has, in fact, been "War" and "Ob La Di..." Odd that all this 60s stuff tries to resurface and suddenly we're looking at a potential Vietnam II. ------------------
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posted September 20, 2001 08:06 PM
I want the national anthem to be "This Land is Your Land" c'mon.....it's Woody Guthrie. If it weren't for him, Dylan would have never left Minnesota. PLus, the meaning behind the song will last just as long as the country does. "The Star-Spangled Banner" reminds us of a minor war almost 200 years ago with a current ally. Damn tradition.IP: Logged |
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posted September 20, 2001 09:03 PM
Dminortrip - wouldn't Sunday Bloody Sunday be absolutely appropriate?
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I just heard the news today. I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long? How long must we sing this song...etc.
I think that most people are feeling the rage and helplessness that is personified in that song. And as regards the whole idea of a "don't play" list, it seems that a lot of people are going so far in avoiding offending anyone that they are completely submerging whatever real emotions they might feel or want to express. Something violent and ugly happened last week. Sometimes listening to something violent and ugly helps to purge it. Where does some programmer get off telling me otherwise?
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posted September 21, 2001 05:20 AM
Most tv & radio stations have standard "not to be played during war" lists, much of the list at the top seems to be a leftover from the gulf. I heard Smooth Criminal last Tuesday evening, & was really surprised at them for playing it. But why are some of them on there?A lot have obvious titles. 99 Red Balloons (UK title, sorry) we've done. "Mr Play-it-safe, was afraid to fly
Packed his suitcase, kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life, just to take that flight
As the plane crashed down, he thought, 'well isn't this nice?'" - Alanis bein completely un-ironic. Walk Like an Eqyptian - I've never figured out why with this one, but I think it might be that people are stupid & can't tell the difference between one Middle-Eastern country & another. But Morning Has Broken? It's a hymn for Pete's sake. I expect I'll be singing it at my cousin's wedding tomorrow. I bet it'll be sung at quite a few funerals of those who've died. Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes is usually in there, I had a list of the songs the BBC wouldn't play during the Gulf War, and some of them were just stupid. I'm not sure what I've done with it, but I'll dig it out. This one though, just looks like someone's gone into a search engine & typed in words like crash, kill, etc & wrote down every song featuring them.
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posted September 21, 2001 10:14 AM
That's exactlly what it looks like.What seems to be coming out now, according to USA today, is that Clear Channel released the list as sensitive songs that may invoke emotional respons in some people. Since someone else brought it up, I listened to Blowing in the Wind by Dylan, and Happy Christmas (Was is Over) by Lennon a lot the first couple days after it happened. IP: Logged |
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posted September 21, 2001 10:33 AM
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posted September 22, 2001 12:09 PM
"All Things Must Pass" just came on my CD. It's not always gonna be this grey...
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posted September 22, 2001 12:40 PM
Awww, that Urban Legends site just ruins everyone's fun.------------------
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posted September 22, 2001 01:19 PM
Ironically enough, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was played by Paul Simon at yesterday's "America: A Tribute to Heroes" fundraiser.Also, on the subject of irony, on 9/11, the TMBG cover band I play with was supposed to play "New York City". We decided to cancel our set that night. We played the song the following Tuesday, though, since we realized that a positive song about NYC is one of the songs we need to hang on to at a time like this... Isn't it ironic? don't you think? ------------------
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posted September 23, 2001 09:35 PM
Perhaps the one list was a hoax, but I can tell you that the Toronto Star printed a story last Saturday (Sept. 15) about the songs that Toronto and area radio stations would not play, which featured actual quotes and lists from the various program directors and managers. Many of the songs mentioned above were on the lists. IP: Logged |
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posted September 24, 2001 08:41 AM
The Evil of Everclear is outstripped only by the Evil of UB40.IP: Logged |
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posted September 24, 2001 08:48 AM
I expect the stations with banned-song lists will put those lists away in the next week or two. And I predict that as the grief lessens, we'll all get mad. My personal choice for that phase of our national recovery is Don Henley's I Will Not Go Quietly (with minor modifications by me):I Will Not Go Quietly Woke up with a heavy heart
Never felt so down
I could have died if I wanted to--
Slipped over the edge and drowned
But, oh no baby, I won't give up so easy Too many tire tracks in the sands of time
Too many simple lives stopped on a dime
I think it's time to make some changes 'round here Yeah, we're gonna tear it up
gonna trash it up
We're gonna round you up
gonna shake you up
Oh no baby, I will not lie down I'm brave enough to be crazy
I'm strong enough to be weak
I see all those heroes with wills of steel
Whose mighty lives were lost that week
And I want you to tell me buddy
Just what do you believe in now? Well, listen here bin Laden
You'll have to pay for that attack
We're gonna wrap our arms around your land
And squeeze until we find your neck
Yeah, and we're gonna hold you, hold you, hold you
Up for all the world to see Yeah, we're gonna tear it up
we gonna trash it up
gonna round you up
gonna shake you up
Oh, no no no, I will not lie down Turn this thing around
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
I will not lie down Well, don't you ever get lonely?
Don't you ever feel dread?
Don't you ever get tired
Of all those crazy voices in your head?
Oh baby, we just want you out of here We ain't no tigers
We ain't crazy 'bout war
Suppose you tell us, Mr. bin
Who do you think we think we are?
And oooh baby, you'd better give a damn Yeah we're gonna tear it up
gonna trash it up
gonna round you up
gonna shake you up
Oh baby I will not lie down
Turn this thing around
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
I will not go quietly
I will not lie down
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posted September 24, 2001 01:50 PM
As I said when it was mentioned awhile ago that the list was not a clear channel ban, somebody still made that list. So, somebody apparently holds the opinion those songs should not be played. So it's still a viable debate here.One more thing, how does a song about the dangers of alocholism and it's potential to kill you make this list? (that song being Sucide Solution by Ozzy (listed as Black Sabbath for God knows what reason)) [This message has been edited by farwell3d (edited September 24, 2001).] IP: Logged |
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posted September 24, 2001 05:55 PM
I would imagine because you could relate the title to the terrorists' actions. (thank you...I have a talent for the bloody obvious.) IP: Logged |
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posted September 25, 2001 06:55 AM
How odd that no-one thought to include Bombs Over Baghdad in the list.IP: Logged |
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posted September 29, 2001 12:32 AM
Even stranger that I totally missed the fact that if Roy G Bivins is looking at the Pioneer Press, it's probably that Roy G Bivins is in the Twin Cities. Like myself I'm glad that this song stuff mostly cleared up. All the nay-sayers who cried "censorship!" are a little humbled, and I heard "It's the end of the world as we know it" on the radio last weekend, in my friend's car. IP: Logged |
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posted September 30, 2001 09:11 PM
I'm refusing to argue with Owlet over musical tastes, here or anywhere else. I think we did at one point and it was not pretty.IP: Logged |
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posted September 30, 2001 09:32 PM
This group had pretty bad timing.
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Interestingly, in the entire history of the protest song: be they unionized-worker ballads from the 19th century; calls for peace from Dylan, Baez, Lennon, or Peter, Paul, & Mary; race issue songs from the likes of Sly & the Family Stone, religious unity anthems from U2, political rant-thrashes from DK, or socio-economic class-division screams from the Clash, only one, to my knowledge has achieved what the song was written to achieve:
Sammy Hagar's I Can't Drive 55. IP: Logged |
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posted October 01, 2001 09:39 AM
The Coup's pretty good... and they're sorry.It was pretty cliché for quite a while, after 1993, for rappers to say they were going to "blow up like the world trade center". I got really sick of hearing it, both because it was in poor taste and because it was hackneyed. Probably they won't say it again, I thought last week. After attending an MC battle on Thursday, I see I was wrong. They'll do anything for that "oooooh" from the crowd. Sigh. IP: Logged |
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posted October 01, 2001 10:02 AM
SW> Is a song's failure to achieve complete peace to be taken as a rejection of songwriters airing their views in their music? Or should we just take it to mean that a song is a song: it can make people think, and it can help raise money, and it can let a songwriter express his emotions - and give listeners some sort of proxy release for their emotions. Should songs be expected to change the world? Surely every songwriter hopes that his song will...------------------
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