-Caveat Lector- It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It <http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/17/2001&idMessage=8314> By Eliza Truitt Sept. 17, 2001 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 Benatar'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. Click here to find out more. <http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/18/2001&idMessage=8318> Drowning Pool Bodies Mudvayne Death Blooms Megadeth Dread and the Fugitive Sweating Bullets Saliva Click Click Boom P.O.D. Boom Metallica Seek and Destroy Harvestor of Sorrow Enter Sandman Fade to Black All Rage Against Machine Songs Nine Inch Nails Head Like a Hole Godsmack Bad Religion Tool Intolerance Sound Garden Blow Up the Outside World AC/DC Shot Down in Flames Shoot to Thrill Dirty Deeds Highway to Hell Safe in New York City TNT Hells Bells Black Sabbath War Pigs Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne Suicide Solution Dio Holy Diver Steve Miller Jet Airliner Van Halen Jump Queen Another One Bites the Dust Killer Queen Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot 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 Mother Savage Garden Crash and Burn Dave Mathews Crash Into Me Bangles Walk Like Egyptian Pretenders My City Was Gone Alanis Morissette Ironic Barenaked Ladies Falling for the First Time Fuel Bad Day John Par St. Elmo's Fire Peter Gabriel When You're Falling Kansas Dust in the Wind Led Zeplin Stairway to Heaven The Beatles A Day in the Life Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Ticket To Ride Obla Di, Obla Da Bob Dillon/Guns and 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 Melloncamp Crumblin Down I'm On Fire U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday Boston Smokin Billy Joel Only the Good Die Young Barry Mc Guire Eve of Destruction Steam Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Drifters On Broadway Shelly Fabres Johnny Angel Los Bravos Black is Black Peter and Gordon I Go To Pieces A World Without Love Elvis (You're the) Devil in Disguise Zombies She's Not There Elton John Bennie & The Jets Daniel Rocket Man Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire Santana Evil Ways Youngbloods Get Together Ad Libs The Boy From New York City Peter Paul and Mary Blowin' In The Wind Leavin On A Jet Plane Rolling Stones Ruby Tuesday Shattered Simon And Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Waters Happenings See You In September 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 Morning Has Broken Jan and Dean Dead Man's Curve Martha and 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, Hermans Hermits Wonder World Petula Clark A Sign of the Times Don McLean American Pie J. 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