so, for a little fun and entertainment:
-dtheatre / (Be sure to check out "Smack The RedNeck Game") -fuckedcompany -music.launch.com / -it finally reaches E!Online -Snopes catches it
1. dTheatre.com
this blog at http://www.wonko.com/ had this post: Posted by Jack on Sep 17, 2001 05:37PM (PDT)
From the fuck-freedom-of-speech dept. Dtheatre.com just come across a list of songs deemed "questionable" by Clear Channel Communications. They own about 1200 radio stations, and I believe they're asking them not to play any of these songs. <http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=1530 >
Dtheatre.com associates it with a listener supported radio station <http://www.kboo.org/> and with http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/songs.html
Be sure to check out the smack the redneck which turns into a sheep in order to get into the site. this is the "article" http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news02701m03
2. Music.Launch:
Another 'Blog at <http://www.senshineko.com/weblog/ > list this site as the origin: http://music.launch.com/read/content.asp?contentID=205883
3. FuckedCompany.com Clear Channel, owner of over 1,170 radio stations, has banned these songs from their airwaves. Included are songs about war, the word "Tuesday", and even "Walk Like an Egyptian" (okay, i can do without that one...). ***I've confirmed the list with people there and they say it's legit.*** When: 9/17/2001 Company: Clear Channel
4. E! Online http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8842,00.html
"Imagine" All the Inappropriate Songs by Mark Armstrong Sep 18, 2001, 2:45 PM PT
Yes, it's probably about time radio stations finally stopped playing "Stairway to Heaven." But this might not be the best way to do it. Clear Channel Communications, the country's largest radio network, is raising eyebrows after one of its station's program directors created a list of potentially inappropriate songs in the wake of last week's devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Led Zeppelin, John Lennon's "Imagine," Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner," AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" were among more than 150 songs deemed "lyrically inappropriate" following last Tuesday's tragedy. The list also includes everything from the classics (Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World") to recent releases (System of a Down's "Chop Suey!"). Then there's the downright goofy, as the list suggests such un-American songs like the Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" and Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife."
While rumors initially floated that the list was a corporate mandate, or a cruel hoax, the radio conglomerate insists that a program director created and distributed the list to its 1,100 stations, including KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and Z100-FM in New York. "Given the environment, a Clear Channel program director took it upon himself to identify a number of songs that certain markets or individuals may find insensitive today," the company said in a statement. "This was not a mandate, nor was the list generated out of the corporate radio offices. It was a grassroots effort that was apparently circulated among program directors."
Not all Clear Channel stations are paying attention to the list. For instance, New York's Z100 has been playing many of the tunes, while Q104 has noted that "inappropriate" songs like "New York, New York" and "Imagine" were some of the most requested of the week.
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