Some of these are obvious such as Only The Good Die Young or Leavin' On A Jet Plane. Others are not so obvious like Get Together by The Youngbloods or 99 Red Balloons.
https://www.kerrang.com/features/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11/
I'm going to say this nicer than I want to, wow people are idiots. Like banning songs solves the problem.
shareAgreed, it was weird time
I heard they edited out a lot of WTC footage from popular movies and images in movie posters too
18 years later it feels safe to judge but everyone around here WAS freaking out then...truly bad times
Judge. What judge like. Like Leaving on a jet plane caused 9/11. Wow. I Can't even begin to think why banning songs would help keep us safe.
shareOK...I couldn't decipher that post but whatever...I'm sure you had a point and it was terrificđź‘Ť
The post was about banning songs. Why does that keep us safe. Otherwise why ban... I shook you all night long.
sharecertain companies chose to try to filter out songs that might be deemed offensive or insensitive during a very rough, emotionally raw period.
some of the choices seem silly or inexplicable, i suppose, but it was meant to prevent provocation or offense-taking, not to keep america safe.
You'd have to ask the people that ban songs for the answer
Then there were the anthrax attacks shortly after.
shareI was traveling back from California to Florida about a few weeks later. Since it is about a 40 hour drive I would stay at a hotel every night and go out to a restaurant. One restaurant had a musician who was talking about how John Lennon’s Imagine was being banned from the radio. So he started to play it and everyone cheered.
shareImagine is on the list.
shareI wonder why that one was banned.
I'm guessing the line about imagining there being no Heaven was seen as insensitive during a time when many people were grieving.
Some of these songs are quite the stretch to find any objectionable content.
Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles was banned??
shareAlanis Morrissette's "Ironic" song was banned since it mentions about a plane crash. I think that was an overreaction on their part to ban the song.
shareA little off subject, but Springsteen's album "The Rising" is excellent and one of my favorites. It was basically his response to 9/11 through his personal reflections on the event.
shareOf the banned AC/DC songs only "Safe in NY City" makes any sense for being on a banned list.
"We gotta get out of this place" by the Animals. I know people in my country have a very different and tougher sense of humour but that would have made us laugh I think.
Interesting they banned Van Halen's "Jump" but not the Pointer Sister's song of the same name. I am thinking that no one remembers it existed.