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Clear Channel Communications is a corporation based out of San Antonio, Texas. It deals largely in outdoor advertising and radio broadcasting.[1] The company also has strong sympathies with the American Right-Wing.
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[edit] Holdings
In the United States, Clear Channel exists in the top 50 markets, and then some. They own and operate Premiere Radio, which provides Wingnut welfare for various loudmouths.
[edit] "We want the airwaves"
- After one of the Dixie Chicks declared Dubya made them ashamed to be from Texas, their music mysteriously vanished from Clear Channel’s stations.[2] But, you know, Liberal media.
[edit] 2001 Clear Channel Memorandum
A few days after the 9/11 attacks, the top brass at Clear Channel apparently sent an email to over 1,000 US radio stations "an updated and expanded list of songs with 'questionable lyrics' that they should avoid playing."[3] Clear Channel denied the claim, but it received considerable media coverage at the time.
The question was not that there'd be kinds of music that would be inappropriate in the advent of the attacks, but the specific songs Clear Channel ultimately chose. It seemed more like an 60s-style social conservative attack on popular rock music than an understandable suggestions list. The particularly ironic tunes are listed below.
- almost every famous AC/DC single
- "Smooth Criminal" - Alien Ant Farm (not the Michael Jackson version)
- "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals
- "What a Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong
- "Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles
- "Falling for the First Time" - Barenaked Ladies
- "Sabotage," "Sure Shot" - Beastie Boys
- "A Day in the Life," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Ticket to Ride" - The Beatles
- "Hit Me with Your Best Shot", "Love is a Battlefield"- Pat Benatar
- two Black Sabbath songs, another by frontman Ozzy Osbourne
- "Burnin' for You" - Blue Öyster Cult
- "Smokin'" - Boston
- "Rock the Casbah" - The Clash
- "In the Air Tonight" - Phil Collins
- "The End" - The Doors
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan (including the Guns N' Roses version)
- "Learn to Fly" - Foo Fighters
- "Brain Stew" - Green Day
- "Hey Joe" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- "Only the Good Die Young" - Billy Joel
- "Bennie and the Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man" - thevery special Elton John
- "Dust in the Wind" - Kansas
- "Fly Away" - Lenny Kravitz
- "Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zepplin (does NOT need a link)
- "Imagine" - John Lennon[4]
- "Great Balls of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis
- "Dancing in the Street" (including the Van Halen version), "Nowhere to Run" - Martha and the Vandellas
- "Crash into Me" - Dave Matthews Band
- "Live and Let Die" - Paul McCartney & Wings (theyreally love the Beatles...)
- "American Pie" - Don McLean
- "Crumblin' Down," "Paper in Fire" - John Mellencamp
- a bunch of Metallica songs
- "99 Luftballons" - Nena
- "Head Like a Hole" - Nine Inch Nails
- "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (well, obviously), "Blowin' in the Wind" - Peter, Paul and Mary
- "Free Fallin'" - Tom Petty
- "Mother," "Run Like Hell" - Pink Floyd
- "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" - Elvis Presley
- "Another One Bites the Dust", "Killer Queen"- Queen (remember Freddie Mercury?)
- the entire Rage Against the Machine catalogue
- "Aeroplane," "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - REM
- "Ruby Tuesday" - The Rolling Stones
- "Evil Ways" - Santana
- "New York, New York" - Frank Sinatra
- "Bridge over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel
- "I'm Goin' Down," "I'm on Fire," "War" - Bruce Springsteen
- "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" - Steam
- "Morning Has Broken," "Peace Train" -
Yusuf IslamCat Stevens - "Burning Down the House" - Talking Heads
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2
- "Jump" - Van Halen
- "In the Year 2525" - Zager and Evans
So, yeah. Five points for effort, Clear Channel?
[edit] External links
- New York Times article
- "Clear Channel's Hit List"
- "Music Industry Responds to Terrorism"
- The memorandum, investigated by Snopes.com
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Clear Channel: About Us From their website.
- ↑ Dixie Chicks Axed by Clear Channel, Jacksonville Business Journal.
- ↑ "It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It." Slate. 2001 September 17.
- ↑ Totally.