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― Geoff, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clear Channel: the Microsoft of the music world. They control over 50% of commercial radio in the US, and also have concert booking agencies. They are being sued right now by other booking firms for their practise of forcing artists to accept smaller fees in exchange for promotion on Clear Channel-controlled local stations.

Nice to see they're now adding censorship to monopoly.

― Momus, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, that one's folly. And what's with all the AC/DC on the list?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They also rat on independent stations to the FCC. Nasty ass holes all around

― anthony, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

here's a good piece on clear channel courtesy of salon.

― fred solinger, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of this sort of thing with censoring songs, movies, etc because of the attack is very off-putting. Pretty much everything people are putting on tv and playing as music is really in bad taste as well. I watched one newscast here in New York where they played "In A New York Minute" by, I think, Don Henley over a montage of the disaster area. There have also been montages with "Do Na Nobis Pacem" (I have no idwea how to spell that) and lots of other bullshirt. I think the only reason they force you through those music classes when you're a little kid (where you sing songs such as Don Na Nobis Pacem and America the Beautiful in endless effing rounds) is so that when something like this attack happens, they can lull you back into becoming an infantile little shit. To sum things up: I think pretending human beings never liked watching bombs explode in movies is for suckers. So is the terrible and boring taste of the majority of the American people. There are tourists walking around town in t-shirts which say "Evil will be Punished" with pictures of the WTC.

― hans, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd much prefer an evil will be punished with a piccie of britney on it.

― Geoff, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't believe no one has commented on the fact that "Wipeout" by The Surfaris is on this llist of songs with QUESTIONABLE LYRICS. I'm suprised they didn't add "Rockit" and "Axel F".

― Dan Perry, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe the questionable lyric is the "wipeout" itself.

By the way, is Cat Stevens being blacklisted based on religion? I suppose I can see how they'd want to seem noncommittal about "Peace Train" (and, conversely, "Rock the Casbah"), but why "Morning Has Broken?"

And isn't it sort of rude to pull Neil Diamond's patriotic, pro- immigration "America" just because some people might get creeped out by the "they're coming" part? Does this, along with recent usage of "American Woman," conclusively prove that people's hearings of songs have absolutely nothing to do with the text or intent of the song itself, and are based solely on the cultural implications of the main three to five words of the chorus at that particular moment?

And, lastly, how am I supposed to get through the coming months without hearing "Fire Woman?"

― Nitsuh, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And, lastly, how am I supposed to get through the coming months without hearing "Fire Woman?"

This is where owning a copy of, among other things, Sonic Temple , Pure Cult and Rare Cult saves me. I suppose that gives it all away on my end.

"Smoke she is a ri-SIN! FI-YAHHHHH!"

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe the questionable lyric is the "wipeout" itself.

I know, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. Jesus Christ, why don't they just let people change the station if hey hear something that evokes a bad response?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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