Need info if it is true or not...

[Boroda]

http://www.dni.ru/a_list.php

Hmmm... "Stairway to Heaven" is banned!? Are they nuts!?

Russian news site dni.ru says that Clear Channel company that owns 1170 radio stations all over USA banned following songs from radio programs:

Drowning Pool "Bodies"
Mudvayne "Death Blooms"
Megadeth "Dread and the Fugitive"
Megadeth "Sweating Bullets"
Saliva "Click Click Boom"
P.O.D. "Boom"
Metallica "Seek and Destroy"
Metallica "Harvester or Sorrow"
Metallica "Enter Sandman"
Metallica "Fade to Black"
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Nine Inch Nails "Head Like a Hole"
Godsmack "Bad Religion"
Tool "Intolerance"
Soundgarden "Blow Up the Outside World"
AC/DC "Shot Down in Flames"
AC/DC "Shoot to Thrill"
AC/DC "Dirty Deeds"
AC/DC "Highway to Hell"
AC/DC "Safe in New York City"
AC/DC "TNT"
AC/DC "Hell's Bells"
Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Black Sabbath "Suicide Solution"
Dio "Holy Diver"
Steve Miller "Jet Airliner"
Van Halen "Jump"
Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"
Queen "Killer Queen"
Pat Benatar "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
Pat Benatar "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"
The Beatles "A Day in the Life"
The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
The Beatles "Ticket To Ride"
The Beatles "Obla Di, Obla Da"
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"
Jimmy Hendrix "Hey Joe"
Jackson Brown "Doctor My Eyes"
John Mellencamp "Crumbling Down"
John Mellencamp "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"
Peter and Gordon "A World Without Love"
Elvis "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Zombies "She's Not There"
Elton John "Benny & The Jets"
Elton John "Daniel"
Elton John "Rocket Man"
Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire"
Santana "Evil Ways"
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
Youngbloods "Get Together"
Ad Libs "The Boy from New York City"
Peter Paul and Mary "Blowin' in the Wind"
Peter Paul and Mary "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday"
Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Happenings "See You in Septemeber"
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"
Cat Stevens "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"
San Cooke Herman Hermits, "Wonder 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"
John Lennon "Imagine"
Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife"
The Clash "Rock the Casbah"
Surfaris "Wipeout"
Blood Sweat and 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"
Bruce Springsteen "Goin' Down"
Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight"
Alice in Chains "Rooster"
Alice in Chains "Sea of Sorrow"
Alice in Chains "Down in a Hole"
Alice in Chains "Them Bone"
Beastie Boys "Sure Shot"
Beastie Boys "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"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"
Smashing Pumpkins "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
System of a Down "Chop Suey!"
Skeeter Davis "End of the World"
Rickey 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"

[Sandman]

I listen to DC101 here in Washington, especially Elliot in the morning.

He spoke of the list on Friday, but as they see it, the list is simply for awareness of songs that may not be appropriate and they didn't give it much credence. They didn't believe that it came from the corporation but that it was compiled by various program directors.

Hell... look at the list. John Lennon's "Imagine" is on it. Neal Young performed that song last night on the "Tribute to Heroes" telethon.

You should have heard Elliot. He's a bit of a wild spirit. Gawd he was pissed off on Thursday and Friday about ClearChannel forcing their morning networks to air commercials for the Don Imus morning show. He was livid. The "List" didn't even trouble him at all and he stated that the DJ's had received no instruction to follow it.

Many of these songs aren't on the DC101 playlist anyway. I'm pretty sure they played Lenny Kravitz "Fly Away" yesterday morning.

[ 09-22-2001: Message edited by: Sandman_SBM ]

[Dinger]

From what I heard, it's a "Recommended No-Play" list sent out to all stations.  Yes, some stations will not play those songs, lest they fear making some sort of political commentary; but many will be more sensible.

Hell, when I used to do college radio during the Gulf War, "War Pigs" topped our charts, followed closely by several choice Metallica and Slayer bits.

[Eagler]

Boroda

Yes it's true. Any disc jockey caught playing the above listed songs is arrested and shipped to Siberia  

Yep, I thought Neil Young did a great job with "Imagine" last night. I <S> the entire tribute.

[Gadfly]

In fact, if you even hum any of those songs, you will be shot on sight.

[Sandman]

Nothing like humming an uplifting Rage Against the Machine tune... lol...

[Pongo]

Its like they are trying to earase the concept of air travel from the american mind..
scary.
what tardo spent 4 days coming up with that list.

[Mathman]

Well, if they are trying to erase images of airplane crashes and the like, they need to research a bit more.  They only put 1 Lynrd Skynrd song on the list, no Richie Valens, no Buddy Holly, and no Big Bopper songs.  Didn't see any Ricky Nelson songs listed either.

Oh well, just another case of people trying to decide what is good for us and what will cause us all to go into a deep depression.  Glad it is only a "recommended" list.  

[Dinger]

Let's be honest:
this is a list put out by and for radio stations that intend to propagate mindless ditties of no significance.  These tunes were on their list because they might have relevance to current events.
My advice to you is not to listen to radio stations that propagate mindless ditties.  Music should require a brain to appreciate it -- otherwise it's just to help the plants grow.

[Boroda]

Well, frankly speaking I thought it was a joke...

After I posted that message I went home and watched "Tribute to the Heroes". I turned on the TV and saw Neil Young playing Imagine... I wonder why this song wasn't banned since 1971, it's pure communist propaganda...  

I think that "Wish you were here" was the most impressive song there.

The practice of "banning" some somgs from radio playlists exists everywhere. My favourite example is banning Olga Arefieva's "Why do we need war!?" ("Na hrena nam voyna!?") on most of the musical radios in Russia. But this list is a little bit too much... Like in Soviet times here.

[NATEDOG]

you notice they didn't ban The Cure "Killing an Arab"
if they did ban songs, I would think this would be the first song they banned.
here's a link that takes a look at all the other rumors floating around: http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm