Why do I find this absolutely Pathetic

Dun Na nGall

Dateline 4/20 from Toledo, OH about VA Tech:

Local radio station 106.5 the zone has removed two songs from its rotation because of the nature of the lyrics. The zone will no longer play 'Hey man, nice shot' by Filter and 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam. The latter song references a shooting inside a school. The zone's programming director says the station has decided to err on the side of caution even though the songs have no direct connection to the tragedy.

my2hands

Dun Na nGall wrote:

Dateline 4/20 from Toledo, OH about VA Tech:

Local radio station 106.5 the zone has removed two songs from its rotation because of the nature of the lyrics. The zone will no longer play 'Hey man, nice shot' by Filter and 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam. The latter song references a shooting inside a school. The zone's programming director says the station has decided to err on the side of caution even though the songs have no direct connection to the tragedy.

there is a time and place for everything, and out of good taste i agree with the radio station.

soulsinging

Dun Na nGall wrote:

Dateline 4/20 from Toledo, OH about VA Tech:

Local radio station 106.5 the zone has removed two songs from its rotation because of the nature of the lyrics. The zone will no longer play 'Hey man, nice shot' by Filter and 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam. The latter song references a shooting inside a school. The zone's programming director says the station has decided to err on the side of caution even though the songs have no direct connection to the tragedy.

i love when my hometown makes the news. it always makes us look bad.

macgyver06

CAN THEY PLAY DISSIDENT??

escapppppppppppppppppppe is never the safesttt plan

cornnifer

i seriously doubt either one of these songs is getting heavy rotation these days anyway. Besides if i want to hear Jeremy, i have the studio as well as many live versions of it ready to fire up whenever i feel the craving. Who needs radio. It generally sucks anyway.

Reynaldo6

Dun Na nGall wrote:

Dateline 4/20 from Toledo, OH about VA Tech:

Local radio station 106.5 the zone has removed two songs from its rotation because of the nature of the lyrics. The zone will no longer play 'Hey man, nice shot' by Filter and 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam. The latter song references a shooting inside a school. The zone's programming director says the station has decided to err on the side of caution even though the songs have no direct connection to the tragedy.

well, thousands of people will be missing out on how great of a song Jeremy is.

josevolution

i for one do not listen to radio for my music fill at all ,news ,sports yes. music no way they all suck .........

chopitdown

Dun Na nGall wrote:

Dateline 4/20 from Toledo, OH about VA Tech:

Local radio station 106.5 the zone has removed two songs from its rotation because of the nature of the lyrics. The zone will no longer play 'Hey man, nice shot' by Filter and 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam. The latter song references a shooting inside a school. The zone's programming director says the station has decided to err on the side of caution even though the songs have no direct connection to the tragedy.

i wonder if they'll play "shine" by collective soul since that was supposedly Cho's favorite song.http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/

mdigenakis

cornnifer wrote:

i seriously doubt either one of these songs is getting heavy rotation these days anyway. Besides if i want to hear Jeremy, i have the studio as well as many live versions of it ready to fire up whenever i feel the craving. Who needs radio. It generally sucks anyway.

Word!

cornnifer

Reynaldo6 wrote:

well, thousands of people will be missing out on how great of a song Jeremy is.

Perhaps, but i doubt there are to many people who would be hearing Jeremy for the first time. i guess my reaction to the whole thing is "well. gee, thats kinda silly... oh well".


*wanders off to choose a bootleg to hear a particulary cool version of Jeremy*

blackredyellow

I don't have a problem with them not playing the songs, but why is this even news? Did they issue a press release about it or something? If they did, I find that worse than just taking a couple songs off of the airwaves.

Rhinocerous Surprise

Not even trying to be funny here: Has Mr Brownstone been pulled from whatever playlists it might have been on?

MLC2006

weren't both of those songs about people who committed suicide but did not kill anyone else? I think Jeremy is about a kid that shot himself in front of his class and Hey Man Nice Shot is about a politician who called a press conference so his perceived tormenters could watch him commit suicide. if so, I think both those songs should be put into HEAVY rotation to encourage people like Cho to off themselves and not physically harm innocent people.

MrBrian

I don't think anything can beat the post 9/11 black list.

Alice In Chains, "Rooster"
Alice In Chains, "Sea of Sorrow"
Alice In Chains, "Down in a Hole"
Alice In Chains, "Them Bones"
Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot"
Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"
The Cult, "Fire Woman"
Everclear, "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)"
Filter, Hey Man, "Nice Shot"
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
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"
Korn, "Falling Away From Me"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling"
System Of A Down, "Chop Suey!"
Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"
Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm On Fire"
Bruce Springsteen, "Goin' Down"
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
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, "Dead and Bloated"
Soundgarden, "Fell on Black Days"
Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"
Metallica, "Seek and Destroy"
Metallica, "Harvester of Sorrow"
Metallica, "Enter Sandman"
Metallica, "Fade to Black"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"
Godsmack, "Bad Religion"
Tool, "Intolerance"
Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World"
Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
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"
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 & Wings, "Live and Let Die"
Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"
Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"
John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down"
John Mellencamp, "Paper In Fire"
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Boston, "Smokin"
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
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"
John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire"
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 & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces"
Peter & Gordon, "A World Without Love"
Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Zombies, "She's Not There"
Elton John, "Bennie & 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 & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind"
Peter Paul & Mary, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"
Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Happenings, "See You in Septemeber"
Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move"
Zager & 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 & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
Martha & The Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"
Martha & The Vandellas/Van Halen, "Dancing in the Streets"
Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World"
Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times"
Don Mclean, "American Pie"
J. Frank Wilson/Pearl Jam, "Last Kiss"
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, "That'll Be the Day"
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Surfaris, "Wipeout"
Blood Sweat & 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"
Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"
Ricky Nelson, "Travelin' Man"
Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her"
Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"
Mitch Ryder, "Devil with the Blue Dress"
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen, "War"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone"
Drowning Pool, "Bodies"
Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"
Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive"
Megadeth, "Sweating Bullets"
Saliva, "Click Click Boom"
P.O.D., "Boom"

more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11,_2001_attacks

RolandTD20Kdrummer

re: above list....speechless... I had no idea of such a thing existing and to that extent..

FinsburyParkCarrots

I shouldn't have laughed, when I saw Great Balls of Fire in that list.

drew2420

cornnifer wrote:

Perhaps, but i doubt there are to many people who would be hearing Jeremy for the first time. i guess my reaction to the whole thing is "well. gee, thats kinda silly... oh well".


*wanders off to choose a bootleg to hear a particulary cool version of Jeremy*

Year Zero is in motion

statistics

that's just silly. kylie minogue changed the title of her album from inpossible princess to kylie because of princess diana's death at around the same time and the strokes removed new york city cops from their debut album's american release due to 9/11. in both instances, there aren't any connections whatsoever and i find it a cop-out.