![]() Phase one: Contemporary hits from various rock and metal bands, some with violent imagery, some just with the wrong vibe. It’s usually presented in alphabetical order, but you can plot the stages, follow the bonkers logic. Seven AC/DC songs, from "TNT" to "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." "American Pie." "Free Fallin’." "Rock the Casbah." "Dancing in the Streets." "It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." The list is uncomfortably corporate and painfully human, as notable for what it omits (there’s very little country, and no rap) as what it includes. ![]() "Imagine." "Ruby Tuesday." "Rocket Man." Rage Against the Machine’s entire catalog. ![]() A wayward reply-all email debacle made sentient.Īnd then the list leaked, and became an invaluable source of mild outrage and desperately needed comic relief. As a Snopes investigation subsequently revealed, adherence was voluntary, and many stations ignored it at the time, sheepish anonymous employees described it to The New York Times as a corporate memo gone wrong, snowballing thanks to an "overzealous regional executive" who kept adding more songs and soliciting more input. In the week after the attacks, Clear Channel Communications, the Texas-based radio empire then controlling nearly 1,200 radio stations reaching 110 million listeners nationwide, drew up an informal blacklist of sorts - more than 150 songs its DJs should avoid, so as not to upset or offend anyone. But 15 years later, it’s the songs the radio wouldn’t play that tell you the most. If you’re inclined to view history through the prism of the music that inadvertently soundtracked it, 9/11 is unbeatable for tragedy, absurdity, and pitch-black comedy. Jay Z’s The Blueprint, Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft, and Slayer’s God Hates Us All came out that very day. Jennifer Lopez’s "I’m Real," featuring Ja Rule, was the no. The idea, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was to do exactly what you’d done before, and listen to whatever you liked to listen to while you did it. Their bands were scheduled to play a show in Wisconsin. "I was laying in my bunk on the bus - a little hungover from the night before, of course, this is rock ’n’ roll, I had a couple drinks, whatever - and Clint Lowery from Sevendust comes running on my bus: ‘They’re bombing our country!’ I just remember him yelling, ‘They’re bombing our country!’" Pierce, guitarist for Dallas metal band Drowning Pool, of the day no one can forget.
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