Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 3, 2009 23:59:04 GMT 2
Tell you what, the things you discover by accident. When reading Wikipedia about Manic Monday(the Bangles hit, written by Prince while he was "courting" Suzannah Hoff), I clicked on Walk Like an Egyptian to see if there was a reason it was banned from radio. It was always something I'd heard, that it had been banned since the Gulf War, then re-banned after 9/11. I thought maybe it was a myth.
Turns out there's a long, long list of songs now banned by radio, deemed "unsuitable" because of the lyrics in these oh-so sensitive times. Must suck to be waiting on royalties for Rage Against The Machine songs - EVERY track was/is banned on radio. Ouch.
Some songs are banned for baffling reasons (America by Neil Diamond, a song WELCOMING immigrants?) and there are some stupid, pointless entries - for example, MJ's Smooth Criminal isn't banned, but the Alien Ant Farm version IS. Fair enough banning AAF from the radio altogether, but not for that reason.
Here's the complete list. Take a look and shake your head in bemused bafflement, that someone, somewhere, making more money in a year than all of us put together, compiled this horseshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11,_2001_attacks
I don't know about you, but when I hear "Dancing in the Street" by Bowie and Jagger, my thoughts don't turn to a plane smashing into a building.
Turns out there's a long, long list of songs now banned by radio, deemed "unsuitable" because of the lyrics in these oh-so sensitive times. Must suck to be waiting on royalties for Rage Against The Machine songs - EVERY track was/is banned on radio. Ouch.
Some songs are banned for baffling reasons (America by Neil Diamond, a song WELCOMING immigrants?) and there are some stupid, pointless entries - for example, MJ's Smooth Criminal isn't banned, but the Alien Ant Farm version IS. Fair enough banning AAF from the radio altogether, but not for that reason.
Here's the complete list. Take a look and shake your head in bemused bafflement, that someone, somewhere, making more money in a year than all of us put together, compiled this horseshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11,_2001_attacks
I don't know about you, but when I hear "Dancing in the Street" by Bowie and Jagger, my thoughts don't turn to a plane smashing into a building.
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