Clear Channel's "Do Not Play" List

[Jim Westrich]

Clear Channel Communications, Inc., Fortune 500 company and owner of 10% of 
U. S. radio stations (receives 20% of U. S. radio ad revenue), has sent a 
list of songs to its stations that it "recommends its stations not 
play".  The list includes many songs that could be taken as insensitive to 
recent tragedies, but also includes many songs with anti-war messages 
(Edwin Starr's "War", John Lennon's "Imagine")  and "any song by Rage 
Against the Machine."

The recommendations to not play many of the songs (e.g., "He Ain't Heavy, 
He's My Brother", "Johnny Angel" and both "Wonderful World's") seem bizarre.

Similar guidelines were sent out during the Gulf War.

If you would like to comment on this you can search for your local station 
manager's contact info at:

http://www.clearchannel.com/radio/index.html

I have formatted an Excel spreadsheet with all 150+ songs that is available 
by request.  Here is a text list in alphabetical order:

  3 Doors Down  "Duck and Run"

  311  "Down"

  AC/DC  "Safe in New York City" "Highway to Hell" "Shot Down in Flames" "TNT"

  Ad Libs  "The Boy from New York City"

  Alanis Morissette  "Ironic"

  Alice in Chains  "Rooster" "Sea of Sorrow" "Down in a Hole" "Them Bone"

  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" "Sabotage"

  Beatles  "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" "Obla Di Obla Da" "Ticket to Ride"

  Billy Joel  "Only the Good Die Young"

  Black Sabbath  "War Pigs" "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" "Suicide Solution"

  Blood Sweat & 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" "Goin' Down"

  Buddy Holly and the Cricket  "That'll Be the Day"

  Bush  "Speed Kills"

  Carole King  "I Feel the Earth Move"

  Cat Stevens  "Peace Train" "Morning Has Broken"

  Chi-Lites  "Have You Seen Her"

  Creedence Clearwater Revival  "Travelin' Band"

  Dave Clark Five  "Bits and Pieces"

  Dave Matthews Band  "Crash Into Me"

  Dio  "Holy Diver"

  Don McLean  "American Pie"

  Drifters  "On Broadway"

  Drowning Pool  "Bodies"

  Edwin Starr/Bruce Springste  "War"

  Elton John  "Benny & The Jets" "Daniel" "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"

  Frank Sinatra  "New York, New York"

  Fuel  "Bad Day"

  Godsmack  "Bad Religion"

  Green Day  "Brain Stew"

  Happenings  "See You in September"

  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" "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 and the Vandellas/Van Halen  "Dancing in the Streets"

  Megadeth  "Dread and the Fugitive" "Sweating Bullets"

  Metallica  "Enter Sandman" "Fade to Black" "Harvester or Sorrow"

  Mitch Ryder and the Detroit  "Devil with the Blue Dress"

  Mudvayne  "Death Blooms"

  Neil Diamond  "America"

  Nina (sic)  "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"

  P.O.D.  "Boom"

  Paper Lace  "The Night Chicago Died"

  Pat Benatar  "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" "Love is a Battlefield"

  Paul McCartney and Wings  "Live and Let Die"

  Peter and Gordon  "I Go To Pieces "A World Without Love"

  Peter Gabriel  "When You're Falling"

  Peter Paul and Mary  "Blowin' in the Wind "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"

  Pretenders  "My City Was Gone"

  Queen  "Another One Bites the Dust" "Killer Queen"

  Rage Against The Machine  all songs by

  Red Hot Chili Peppers  "Aeroplane" "Under the Bridge"

  REM  "It's the End of the World as We Know It"

  Ricky Nelson  "Travelin' Man"

  Rolling Stones  "Ruby Tuesday"

  Saliva  "Click Click Boom"

  Sam Cooke/ Herman Hermits  "Wonderful World"

  Santana  "Evil Ways

  Savage Garden  "Crash and Burn"

  Shelly Fabares  "Johnny Angel"

  Simon & Garfunkel  "Bridge Over Troubled Water

  Skeeter Davis  "End of the World"

  Slipknot  "Left Behind" "Wait and Bleed"

  Smashing Pumpkins  "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"

  Soundgarden  "Fell on Black Days" "Black Hole Sun"

  Steam  "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey"

  Steve Miller  "Jet Airliner"

  Stone Temple Pilots  "Big Bang Baby" "Dead and Bloated"

  Sugar Ray  "Fly"

  Surfaris  "Wipeout"

  System of a Down  "Chop Suey"

  Talking Heads  "Burning Down the House"

  Temple of the Dog  "Say Hello to Heaven"

  The Clash  "Rock the Casbah"

  The Cult  "Fire Woman"

  The Doors  "The End"

  The Gap Band  "You Dropped a Bomb On Me"

  The Youngbloods  "Get Together"

  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  "Jump"

  Yager and Evans  "In the Year 2525"

  Zombies  "She's Not There"