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

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me 19
Alanis Morissette - Ironic 12
Rage Against the Machine - All songs by Rage Against the Machine 11
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 3
Tom Petty - Free Fallin' 3
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot 3
Foo Fighters - Learnin' to Fly 2
Van Halen - Jump 2
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire 1
The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me 1
Fuel - Bad Day 1
Dio - Holy Diver 1
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot 1
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World 0
Boston - Smokin' 0
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You 0
Savage Garden - Crash and Burn 0
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House 0
AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames 0


frogbs, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

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

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

classic thread, voting dave matthews

lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:33 (thirteen years ago)

why was the nu metal smooth criminal cover banned??

call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:35 (thirteen years ago)

imo "Ironic" is the worst of these

frogbs, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:36 (thirteen years ago)

always ban alien ant farm

dmr, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago)

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

dmr, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:41 (thirteen years ago)

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".

balls, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:54 (thirteen years ago)

hike up your flight controls a lil more

the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

98 Degrees - Flying a Plane Thru Your Heart

I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 October 2012 20:01 (thirteen years ago)

foo fighters

teledyldonix, Thursday, 18 October 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

billstevejim, Friday, 19 October 2012 07:30 (thirteen years ago)

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

sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2012 11:36 (thirteen years ago)

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.

ledge, Friday, 19 October 2012 11:40 (thirteen years ago)

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".

turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:03 (thirteen years ago)

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

some dude, Friday, 19 October 2012 12:07 (thirteen years ago)

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.

da croupier, Friday, 19 October 2012 12:43 (thirteen years ago)

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

โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

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"

frogbs, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:43 (thirteen years ago)

To play Dio is to summon.

pretty even gender split (Eazy), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:53 (thirteen years ago)

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

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Friday, 19 October 2012 22:13 (thirteen years ago)

crash into me and i'll cum into you

beatboxing for lou dobbs (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 23:45 (thirteen years ago)

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".

pplains, Saturday, 20 October 2012 00:15 (thirteen years ago)

dave matthews

Iago Galdston, Saturday, 20 October 2012 00:58 (thirteen years ago)

dave matthews banned

some dude, Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:13 (thirteen years ago)

lol for no obvious reason at "old frog logic"

boxall, Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:19 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Lee626, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

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

flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 02:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:04 (thirteen years ago)

why was the nu metal smooth criminal cover banned??

questions that answer themselves

fauxmarc, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:07 (thirteen years ago)

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

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

CURRENT

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

lol

teledyldonix, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:09 (thirteen years ago)

Zombies - She's Not There

wtf?

flopson, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

she died on 9/11

frogbs, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:49 (thirteen years ago)

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

this is still hilarious

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:49 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 25 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 00:08 (thirteen years ago)

Lot of new executive powers passed Congress that October.

pplains, Thursday, 25 October 2012 00:20 (thirteen years ago)

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.

billstevejim, Thursday, 25 October 2012 06:05 (thirteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:48 (thirteen years ago)

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

MarkoP, Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 October 2012 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

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

billstevejim, Friday, 26 October 2012 07:40 (thirteen years ago)

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.

billstevejim, Friday, 26 October 2012 07:43 (thirteen years ago)

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

carl agatha, Friday, 26 October 2012 12:40 (thirteen years ago)

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

da croupier, Friday, 26 October 2012 13:02 (thirteen years ago)

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

toto coolio (clouds), Friday, 26 October 2012 13:07 (thirteen years ago)

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

da croupier, Friday, 26 October 2012 13:10 (thirteen years ago)

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.

da croupier, Friday, 26 October 2012 13:12 (thirteen years ago)

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

toto coolio (clouds), Friday, 26 October 2012 13:13 (thirteen years ago)

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

lmao.

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

teledyldonix, Friday, 26 October 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

DESERT ROSE UNDELEEAADEEY

toto coolio (clouds), Friday, 26 October 2012 17:12 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Get wolves (DL), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

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-

balls, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)

lmao

flopson, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)

quality enya zing

flopson, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

read that as john bolton

difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)


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