This is nutty too-- 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."
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