-Caveat Lector- From http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/17/2001& ;amp;idMessage=8307 >>>List of artists and songs at the site. A<>E<>R <<< }}}>Begin chatterboxIt's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It By Eliza Truitt Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, at 7:03 p.m. PT On Thursday of last week Clear Channel Communications, a company that owns and programs air time at over 1,000 U.S. radio stations, sent e- mail to its program directors at stations across the country with an updated and expanded list of songs with "questionable lyrics" that they should avoid playing. Some of the 162 songs--more if you include the blanket directive against "All Rage Against the Machine Songs"-- are understandable, such as Metallica's "Seek and Destroy" or Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution." But many of the songs on the list are ridiculous in their tenuous connection to anything even remotely offensive to survivors of the Sept. 11 attack. The Bangles' utterly harmless piece of fluff "Walk Like an Egyptian"? Or what about Elvis' "(You're the) Devil in Disguise," Pat Benetar's "Love Is a Battlefield," and Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife"? Large stretches of the list reveal a grisly perspective on the part of the authors: Boston's "Smokin," Springsteen's "I'm on Fire," Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' for You," Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire," Judas Priest's "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll," and the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces." Several pro-peace songs made it onto the list: Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken" and "Peace Train," presumably because Stevens is now Muslim and goes by the name Yusuf Islam. The oddest inclusion has to be John Lennon's explicitly pacifist anthem "Imagine," unless Clear Channel is pushing a pro-war agenda. Jack Evans, a regional senior VP of programming at Clear Channel insisted this list was not an effort initiated by management: "After and during what was happening in New York and Washington and outside of Pittsburgh, some of our program directors began e-mailing each other about songs and questionable song titles," though the finished list was distributed to the program directors by Clear Channel management. Evans concedes that some of the songs are off base: "I think there were certainly songs on the list that people were reading too much into" (the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," perchance?) though he supports the list in general. "There were a substantial amount of songs in question that I'm glad the [program directors] brought up so we didn't air them at a very, very sad time." You can judge for yourself. Here's the list, with original spellings intact. Clear Channel is now denying the existence of the list. 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