Don’t say it, don’t play it
Clear Channel is a corporation that is notable for the fact that they own and control more radio stations in the United States then almost any other group. The following is purportedly a list of songs that they are discouraging their stations from playing in the wake of the terrorist attacks, on the basis that they may be inappropriate, tasteless, or simply evocative of recent events:
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/songs.html
Understandable:
Soundgarden “Blow Up the Outside World”
Black Sabbath “Suicide Solution”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Surfaris “Wipeout”
Savage Garden “Crash and Burn”
Elton John “Daniel”
Lenny Kravitz “Fly Away”
Tom Petty “Free Fallin'”
Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian”
Pushing it:
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Sugar Ray “Fly”
Steam “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey”
John Parr “St. Elmo’s Fire”
Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”
The Clash “Rock the Casbah”
Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
Smashing Pumpkins “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
WTF:
Simon And Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Zombies “She’s Not There”
The Beatles “Obla Di, Obla Da”
Cat Stevens “Morning Has Broken”
Nina “99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons”
John Lennon “Imagine”
Peter Paul and Mary “Blowin’ in the Wind”