I guess cross-dressing became a matter of national security after Sept. 11, 2001...
Didn't PPM release "Big Blue Frog" in the '60s to get around miscegenation bans in the South? Was it banned anyway?
Utterly utterly nuts, that list.
Okay, I have to plump down my quarter for "Mack the Knife". It was in top play on the radio when we returned from India when I was four. I'd hear it in the car and I thought the line "Mackie, Mackie's back in town" was saying "Maggie's back in town". I was thrilled that they'd written a song about it and my mother was tickled enough to not tell me until I was much older.
Now another line applies to Bush: Has our boy done something rash?
I can dream. All of this regressive, retrograde behavior--banning books, bizarre religions and the desire to control the minds and bodies of others strikes me as the last gasp of a fearful culture--we could be winning the culture wars--the other side seems to be falling in on itself.
Perhaps we will see something like the Quiet Revolution of Quebec when in the 1960's the population got rid of the near absolute control of the Roman Catholic Church over secular matters of state. We can reinstate our rights and the separation of church and state. I can dream.
i know they banned Imagine from the radio right after 9/11, for what i suppose they thought obvious reasons, the jackasses, but ob-la-di ob-la-la? i guess "life going on" wasn't the message they were trying to sell people on either...what i do remember distinctly about the radio in the days & weeks right after 9/11 was that system of a down song playing almost constantly...the one about self-righteous suicides & angels deserving to die & so forth...damn song was playing so much (at least on the stations around here, which are all clear-channel) i was about ready to blame it on some dubious subliminal conspiracy myself, though if there was a message there it escaped me...song did make me think of all those folks going to work that morning, not knowing they'd be dead in a couple hours...why'd you put on a little make-up? you wanted to! why'd you leave your keys on the table? you wanted to! etc, etc...
not that this song probably ever got enough radio play to bother banning, but i thought then & i think now that old Leon Russell kind of said it all...
Wow! All the songs from my mis-spent youth! And not-so youth!
This is classic. Just like the GOPpers wanting to use Heart’s Barracuda for Palin, or Springsteen”s Born in the USA at their convention, or Guess Who’s American Woman for Ann Colter. They only go as deep as the song’s title, without thinking about the lyrics.
Favorites? YouTube? MyTube? Allow me...
Aurthur Brown - Fire
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Bonus: since the title means everything to these people, here is their unofficial theme song;
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Guess I don't see a "decline to play" as the same thing as a governmental "ban." It's sort of like saying that Wal-Mart "bans" Playboy when they simply refuse to stock it. It's different when the government's action (i.e. a public library) bans the public free consumption of a book.
Well, I was at the University of Detroit in the summer of 1967, when "the riots" were going on. The radio wouldn't play the Doors' "Light My Fire," which we all found ridiculous. Like that was going to exacerbate the felt rage of people already at the breaking point! Yeah, right ... It is interesting how much power the conservatives attribute to music, isn't it? And to art. you see all over the wingnutosphere this distrust of the arts unless they are reigned in by a conservative vision.They cannot understand why there isn't a groundswell of popularity for their morality plays.
To me, art--pop art included--has something to do with challenging the status quo, with rattling cages. That is why conservatives can't really make art or even be good at comedy: they are so totally aligned with the ruling class. Art shakes things up. Art challenges conventional wisdom. Comedy skewers the powerful--it's just not funny when it makes fun of the vulnerable, weak, and/or powerless. But conservatives just don't get this, apparently.
Long live music's ability to wake people up, whatever kind of music it is, and the same goes for other artistic forms.
I don't know if it has ever been banned (I'd be astonished if it wasn't) is B-Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8...feature=related
More salient than the day it was released. As is Winter in America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...h?
v=M6T2A0QdJVA
Clear Channel sucks so much ass I don't care what they play or don't play as long as I've got KGSR and KPIG (online). We had better watch out for Pandora, though. The big media giants are trying to take it and other online stations out.I got this a few days ago:
Hi, it's Tim from Pandora;
After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. But just as we've gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a covert lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.
Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just days to keep this from collapsing.
This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.
Please call your Congressperson right now and ask them to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 - and to not capitulate to pressure from the NAB. Congress is currently working extended hours, so even calls this evening and over the weekend should get answered.
If the phone is busy, please try again until you get through. These calls really do make a difference.
I don't know who these bozos are and why they are intoducing legislation regarding airplay when they have something else theyreally need to be concentrating on.
This list is a joke, right?
Because if it isn't, (with apologies to Major "King" Kong) I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever read.
I mean, although I'm a Zeppelin fan, I could almost go with a ban of "Stairway to Heaven" since at least during the 70s and 80s it was the most over-played LZ piece of all time.
But Christ on a cracker, does whoever came up with this list think we're all such hypersensitive children that in the wake of a tragedy, we can't be reminded in even the most tangential manner of death? Or even the city where it took place?
Don't answer that ...
Bruce the problem is, clear chanle is a monopolie in a lot of listenign areas...so if they ban it, ti dsont' exist. thanks deregulation....(has there even been an industry that deregulation has helped???)
the zombies, she's not there. brings back memories every time i hear it.
Phuck! Going back over that list, I see they missed Jimi Hendrix's Fire. What an outrage! Who do I write a sternly worded letter to? Why, it’s enough to make one want to set their Strat on fire and smash it . Take that, Pete Townshend.
Well...for what it's worth...the list is a reminder of a lot of good songs I still need to download to my iPod!
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