 List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following
the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This is the list of songs Clear Channel decided that we would
not like to hear following the September tragedy. It's really
good to know that someone is making these decisions for us.
Maybe we should keep this suggestion (ban) in place, so that
we don't hear a song that could upset us and make us want to
hurt someone. I know when I hear Sabotage, I can't help but
devise elaborate schemes of destruction and mayhem.
Shot Down in Flames - AC/DC (Covered by Spahn Ranch)
- "Ain't it a shame, to be shot down in flames" -
Full Lyrics
Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC
- "I'm the one who's gonna make you burn..." - Full
Lyrics
Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
- Hey Momma, look at me - I'm on my way to the promised land!
- Full Lyrics
Safe in New York City - AC/DC
The Boys from NYC - Ad Libs
Rooster - Alice in Chains
Sea of Sorrow - Alice in Chains
Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
- "Toll due, Bad dream come true. I lie dead - gone under
red sky. I feel so alone, gonna end up a big 'ol pile of them
bones"
We gotta get out of this place - Animals
Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
No smoke without fire - Bad Company
Walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Falling for the first time - Bare-naked Ladies
Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
- "Cant' stand it! I know you planned it! ... I tell y'all
this is Sabotage!"
Sure Shot - Beastie Boys
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
- "She said that living with me, is bringer her down
For she would never be free, when I was around..."
Obla di, Obla Da - The Beatles
- "Obla di, Obla Da, Life goes on"
Hit me with your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
- "You come on with a "come on", you don't fight
fair. But that's O.K., see if I care! Knock me down, it's all
in vain. I'll get right back on my feet again! Hit Me With
Your Best Shot! Fire Away!"
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
- "Politicians hide themselves away. They only started
the war. Why should they go out into a fight?... They leave
that all to the poor."
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
And when I die - Blood Sweat and Tears
Burning for U - Blue Oyster Cult
- 6000 People burned for you, Bin Laden.
Smokin - Boston
Worst that could happen - Brooklyn Bridge
Fire - Aurthur Brown
Doctor my Eye - Jackson Brown
Speed Kills - Bush
Have you see her? - Chi-lites
Bits and Pieces - Dave Clark Five
A Sign of the Times - Petula Clark
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
- The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation
Desert Shield was 'Rock the Casba' by the Clash.
In the Air Tonite - Phil Collins
Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
Travelin' Band - CCR
Fire Woman - The Cult
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darrin
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
America - Neil Diamond
- "On the boats and on the planes - They're coming to
America!"
Holy Diver - Dio
- "Gotta get away, Holy Diver!"
The End - The Doors
- "This is the end..."
On Broadway - Drifters
Bodies - Drowning Pool
Knocking on Heavens Door - Bob Dylan / Guns 'n Roses
Santa Monica - Everclear
- "I am still living with your ghost. lonely and dreaming
of the west coast...we can live beside the ocean. leave the
fire behind. swim out past the breakers. watch the world die"
Jonny Angel - Shelly Farbares
Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter
- Now that the smoke's gone - And the air is all clear - Those
who were right there - Got a new kind of fear ... That's
why I say hey man, nice shot - Full Lyrics
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
- "Hook me up a new revolution, Cause this one is a lie.
We sat around laughing and watched the last one die. I'm looking
to the sky to save me. Looking for a sign of life."
Bad Day - Feul
When your Falling - Peter Gabriel
You dropped the bomb on me - The Gap Band
Bad Religion - God Smack
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Brain Stew - Green Day
See you in September - The Happenings
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Wonderful World - Herman's Hermits
He ain't heavy, he's my bro - The Hollies
That'll be the day - Buddy Holly
Smooth Criminal - M. Jackson / Alien Ant Farm
- "You've been hit by... you've been struck by... a smooth
criminal!"
Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
Only the good die young - Billy Joel
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Daniel - Elton John
Rocket Man - Elton John
- "Zero hour nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite
by then... I'm not the man they think I am at home - Oh no
no no I'm a rocket man!"
Some heads are gonna roll- Judas Priest
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
- "All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to
see. Dust in the wind. All we are is dust in the wind. "
I feel the earth move - Carole King
- "I feel the sky tumbling down"
Falling away from me - Korn
- Another 'falling' reference.
Fly away - Lenny Kravits
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Balls of Fire
Goodness Gracious, Great balls of Fire! - Jerry Lee Lewis
Great balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Imagine - John Lennon
Bound for the floor - Local H
Break Stuff - Limp Biscuit
- "I feel like shit. My suggestion is to keep your distance
cuz right now im dangerous. We've all felt like shit and been
treated like shit. All those motherfuckers that want to step
up I hope you know I pack a chain saw. Ill skin your ass raw.
And if my day keeps goin' this way I just might break somethin'
tonight... break your fuckin' face tonight!! Give me somethin'
to break! How bout your fuckin' face!"
Black is Black - Los Bravos
- "Black is black, I want my baby back..."
Tuesday's Gone - Lynard Skynard
- "Tuesday's gone with the wind..." (Sept 11th was
a Tuesday)
Crash into Me - Dave Mathews Band
- "I told God, I'm coming to your country. I'm going to
eat up your cities, Your homes, you know"
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
American Pie - Don Mclean
- "Bye- Bye Miss American Pie... This will be the day
that I die."
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Dread & the Fugitive - Megadeth
Sweating Bullets - Megadeth
Crumbling Down - John Cougar Mellancamp
- Some people ain't no damn good. You can't trust 'em you can't
love 'em. No good deed goes unpunished..." - Full Lyrics
I'm on Fire - John Cougar Mellancamp
Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas
Dancing in the Streets - Martha & the Vandellas
Seek and Destroy - Metallica
- "Our brains are on fire with the feeling to kill. And
it will not go away until our dreams are fulfilled. There is
only one thing on our minds. Don't try running away `cause
you're the one we will find. Running... On our way! Hiding...
You will pay! Dying... One thousand deaths! Searching... Seek
and Destroy!"
Harvester of Sorrow - Metallica
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Fade to Black - Metallica
- "...Deathly lost this can't be real. Cannot stand this
hell I feel. Emptiness is filling me - To the point of agony.
Growing darkness taking dawn. I was me, but now he's gone"
Ironic - Alanis Morrisette
Death Blooms - Mudvayne
Traveling Man - Rick Nelson
99 Luft Balloons / 99 Red Balloons - Nena
Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails
Dead Mans Party - Oingo Boingo
Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne
- Suicide, there's no way back."
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
St. Elmo's Fire - John Parr
I Go To Pieces - Peter & Gordon
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson / Pearl Jam
Blowing in the Wind - Peter Paul and Mary
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter Paul and Mary
Free Falling - Tom Petty
Run like Hell - Pink Floyd
- "Feel the bile rising from your guilty past. With your
nerves in tatters, When the cockleshell shatters, And the hammers
batter Down the door -- You better run!"
Mother - Pink Floyd
- "Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?"
Boom - POD
Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
My City was Gone - Pretenders
- "My city had been pulled down, reduced to parking spaces."
Another one bites the Dust - Queen
- And BTW, have you ever heard what this song says when played
Backwards?! (And in addition to the secret message, you'll
notice that there is a piano chord that plays forward when
the song is played backwards.)
Killer Queen - Queen
Areoplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
It's the End of the World as we Know it - R.E.M.
Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
Shattered - Rolling Stones
Devil with a Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
Click Click Boom - Saliva
Evil ways - Santana
Crash & Burn - Savage Garden
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkle
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
- "...Right through the very heart of it - New York, New
York! If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere!"
Left Behind - Slipknot
Wait and Bleed - Slipknot
- I feel the hate rise up in me...Full Lyrics
Bullet w/ Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
World - Sound Garden
Fell on Black Days - Sound Garden
Black Hole Sun - Sound Garden
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Going Down - Bruce Springsteen
War - Bruce Springsteen / Edwin Starr
Kiss Him Goodbye (Nananana Hey Hey Hey Goodbye) - Steam
Peace Train - Cat Stevens/10000 Maniacs
- Peace Train??? I think not!
Morning has Broken - Cat Stevens
Big Bang Baby - Stone Temple Pilots
Dead and Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots
When it's over - Sugar Ray
Fly - Sugar Ray
Wipe Out - Surfaris
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
- "Just yesterday mornin' they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you... Sweet dreams
and flying machines in pieces on the ground" -- The is
probably the most depressing song on the whole list.
Say Hello to Heaven - Temple of the Dog
Jumper - Third Eye Blind
When will I see you again - Three Degrees
Duck and Run - Three Doors Down
Down - 311
Intolarance - Tool
- "I will no longer tolerate you. Even if I must go down
beside you. Because, Noone is innocent" ... Full Lyrics
Disco Inferno - Tramps
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Jump - Van Halen
- "Might as well jump!"
Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen
Live and let die - Wings / Guns and Roses
- "When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live.(You know you did, you know
you did, you know you did.) But if this ever changing world
in which we live in, Makes you give in and cry... Say live
and let die! -- When you got a job to do you gotta do it well.
You've got to give the other fella hell"
Get Together - Youngbloods
In the year 2525 - Zager & Evans
- Guess it's time for the Judgement Day...
She's not here - Zombies
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