0–9
3 Doors Down – "Duck and Run"
311 – "Down"

A
AC/DC – "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", "Hells Bells", "Highway to Hell", "Safe in New York City", "Shoot to Thrill", "Shot Down in Flames" and "T.N.T."
The Ad Libs – "The Boy from New York City"
Alice in Chains – "Down in a Hole", "Rooster", "Sea of Sorrow" and "Them Bones"
Alien Ant Farm – "Smooth Criminal"
Animals – "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Louis Armstrong – "What a Wonderful World"

B
The Bangles – "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Barenaked Ladies – "Falling for the First Time"
Fontella Bass – "Rescue Me"
Beastie Boys – "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot"
The Beatles – "A Day in the Life", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "Ticket to Ride"
Pat Benatar – "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield"
Black Sabbath – "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "War Pigs"
Blood, Sweat and Tears – "And When I Die"
Blue Öyster Cult – "Burnin' for You"
Boston – "Smokin'"
David Bowie & Mick Jagger – "Dancing in the Street"
Arthur Brown – "Fire"
Jackson Browne – "Doctor My Eyes"
Buddy Holly and the Crickets – "That'll Be the Day"
Bush – "Speed Kills" (the name of this song was changed after September 11, 2001, to "The People That We Love"

C
The Chi-Lites – "Have You Seen Her"
Petula Clark – "A Sign of the Times"
The Clash – "Rock the Casbah"
Phil Collins – "In the Air Tonight"
Sam Cooke – "Wonderful World"
Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Travelin' Band"
The Cult – "Fire Woman"

D
Bobby Darin – "Mack the Knife"
Dave Clark Five – "Bits and Pieces"
Dave Matthews Band – "Crash into Me"
Skeeter Davis – "The End of the World"
Neil Diamond – "America"
Dio – "Holy Diver"
The Doors – "The End"
The Drifters – "On Broadway"
Drowning Pool – "Bodies"
Bob Dylan – "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

E
Everclear – "Santa Monica"

F
Shelley Fabares – "Johnny Angel"
Filter – "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Foo Fighters – "Learn to Fly"
Fuel – "Bad Day"

G
Peter Gabriel [actually Afro Celt Sound System] – "When You're Falling"
The Gap Band – "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
Godsmack – "Bad Religion"
Green Day – "Brain Stew"
Norman Greenbaum – "Spirit in the Sky"

H
Happenings – "See You in September"
Jimi Hendrix – "Hey Joe"
Herman's Hermits – "Wonderful World"
The Hollies – "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

J
Jan and Dean – "Dead Man's Curve"
Billy Joel – "Only the Good Die Young"
Elton John – "Bennie and the Jets", "Daniel" and "Rocket Man"
Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge – "The Worst That Could Happen"
Judas Priest – "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"

K
Kansas – "Dust in the Wind"
Carole King – "I Feel the Earth Move"
KoЯn – "Falling Away from Me"
Lenny Kravitz – "Fly Away"

L
Led Zeppelin – "Stairway to Heaven"
John Lennon – "Imagine"
Jerry Lee Lewis – "Great Balls of Fire"
Limp Bizkit – "Break Stuff"
Local H – "Bound for the Floor"
Los Bravos – "Black Is Black"
Lynyrd Skynyrd – "Tuesday's Gone"

M
Martha and the Vandellas – "Nowhere to Run", "Dancing in the Street"
MC Hammer – "Have You Seen Her"
Paul McCartney and Wings – "Live and Let Die"
Barry McGuire – "Eve of Destruction"
Don McLean – "American Pie"
Megadeth – "Dread and the Fugitive Mind" and "Sweating Bullets"
John Mellencamp – "Crumbling Down" and "I'm on Fire"
Metallica – "Enter Sandman", "Fade to Black", "Harvester of Sorrow" and "Seek & Destroy"
Steve Miller – "Jet Airliner"
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels – "Devil with a Blue Dress On"
Alanis Morissette – "Ironic"
Mudvayne – "Death Blooms"

N
Ricky Nelson – "Travelin' Man"
Nena – "99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons"
Nine Inch Nails – "Head Like a Hole"

O
Oingo Boingo – "Dead Man's Party"
Ozzy Osbourne – "Suicide Solution"

P
Paper Lace – "The Night Chicago Died"
John Parr – "St. Elmo's Fire"
Peter and Gordon – "I Go to Pieces" and "A World Without Love"
Peter, Paul and Mary – "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
Tom Petty – "Free Fallin'"
Pink Floyd – "Mother" and "Run Like Hell"
P.O.D. – "Boom"
Elvis Presley – "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
The Pretenders – "My City Was Gone"

Q
Queen – "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Killer Queen"

R
Rage Against the Machine – all songs
Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Aeroplane" and "Under the Bridge"
R.E.M. – "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
The Rolling Stones – "Ruby Tuesday"

S
Saliva – "Click Click Boom"
Francis Scott Key Star Spangled Banner
Santana – "Evil Ways"
Savage Garden – "Crash and Burn"
Simon and Garfunkel – "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Frank Sinatra – "New York, New York"
Slipknot – "Left Behind" and "Wait and Bleed"
The Smashing Pumpkins – "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Soundgarden – "Black Hole Sun", "Blow Up the Outside World" and "Fell on Black Days"
Bruce Springsteen – "I'm Goin' Down" and "I'm on Fire"
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen – "War"
Steam – "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
Cat Stevens – "Morning Has Broken" and "Peace Train"
Stone Temple Pilots – "Big Bang Baby" and "Dead and Bloated"
Sugar Ray – "Fly"
The Surfaris – "Wipeout"
System of a Down – "Chop Suey!"

T
Talking Heads - "Burning Down the House"
James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"
Temple of the Dog - "Say Hello 2 Heaven"
Third Eye Blind - "Jumper"
Three Degrees - "When Will I See You Again"
Tool - "Intolerance"
The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"

U
U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

V
Van Halen - "Jump" and "Dancing in the Street"

W
J. Frank Wilson - "Last Kiss"

Y
The Youngbloods - "Get Together"

Z
Zager and Evans - "In the Year 2525"
The Zombies - "She's Not There"

Many of the songs don't have any reason to be deemed inappropriate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%22songs_with_questionable_lyrics%22_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks





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[This message has been edited by Jock 07 (edited 3/31/2008 4:43p).]

i've heard at least five of those songs set to war footage and used as "moto" videos for Marines. sweet irony.

A private company can do whatever it wants with its business.

What the heck is this about? I don't trust the color blue, so I didn't click the link.

EDIT: ok, I clicked the link now so it's purple. But who cares? Wouldn't this non-issue have made a lot more sense to complain about 6 years ago?

[This message has been edited by aero ag 2010 (edited 3/31/2008 4:48p).]

hrm, all ratm songs eh...

a lot of the songs seem to be about war....

The songs were never banned. The list went around like a bad forwarded email, and some program directors pulled the songs, but Clear Channel never outright banned anything. All programming decisions were left up to the individual stations.

How about Juicy from Biggie? ""Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade."

From the genius of wikipedia:
"This a reference to the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, not the September 11, 2001 attacks."

Gee, you mean Biggie wasn't a clairvoyant?

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I think it was released the same week as 9/11/01

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That came out in 1999.

Wait you meant the live CD. Yeah, they pulled it and rereleased it with new art. I have no idea why any of this is being discussed.

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Harry Potter just like the Smurfs and many other things are simply witchcraft made G Rated on the outside but underlying it is still witchcraft and is against the will of God.

[This message has been edited by NoACDamnit (edited 3/31/2008 5:25p).]

This list is absoultely rediculous...

im missin you like a hijacked flight on september 11th....

so essentially what you are telling me is that 75% of my music is deemed inappropriate? swell.

It looks like they tried to ban every song that even mentions fire, death, or New York.

...you got to come original

The list was circulated because program directors were paranoid that people would get offended at the slightest little thing. At no time did anyone from Clear Channel come out and say "this song is banned" or anything like that.

Believe me, the same thing happened in '99 after the Bonfire accident. Nobody was really in a hurry to play Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" or Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' For You" or anything that referenced fire.

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Louis Armstrong – "What a Wonderful World"

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Could someone explain this one?

maybe bc it wasnt 'a wonderful world' at the time? that one is kind of gay.

i dont understand why 98.36% of those songs are on the list

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Rage Agaianst the Machine - all songs

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i saw that jetch....now im going to hell.

i guess i am too seeing as how a RATM is usually always in rotation in my player.

it's mandatory when on the way to/from school.

How was the star spangled banner on there??? haha

I hate clear channel, but there isn't anything wrong with this. Who cares?