# What other songs should be banned because of the WTC? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617 "2001-09-19T16:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/21 "2001-09-19T21:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I think Vinnie was just pulling our legs, frankly. [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46925,00.html](http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46925,00.html) Too farcical for \* The Onion \*, but apparently the truth 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/22 "2001-09-19T21:58:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*I don’t agree with banning either, but if I were a DJ I wouldn’t play the Cure’s “Killing An Arab” any time soon … \*\* If I were a DJ, I would never, ever play “Killing an Arab.” I like the song, but there would be instant protests outside of any station that played it. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/23 "2001-09-19T22:27:01Z")
Last night, our local ClearChannel station played a touching medly of quotes set to snippets of various songs (“A Day in the Life”, “Yesterday”, etc), and then followed it up, without showing so much as a trace of irony, with Neil Young’s “Rockin in the Free World”. I don’t use the cell while driving, and the Lady Vor refused to call the radio station and ask them if they realize that this isn’t really a very patriotic song. BTW, I’m agreeing that War Pigs needs to be played more, and if I had my wish, radio stations in terrorist states would be playing nothing but “I’m Afraid of Americans”. -LV ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/24 "2001-09-19T22:42:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LordVor \* > \*\*I don’t use the cell while driving, and the Lady Vor refused to call the radio station and ask them if they realize that this isn’t really a very patriotic song. > \*\* Because what a catastrophe that a non-patriotic song might be played! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/25 "2001-09-19T23:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \* > \*\*“American Pie” ?!?!?!?!? > > You mean the song named after… > > _a plane that crashed?_ > > 😉 \*\* The plain crashed, yes…but it wasn’t called _American Pie_. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/26 "2001-09-20T02:48:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Because what a catastrophe that a non-patriotic song might be played! \*\* TOTALLY not my point. They obviously played it at that particular time (following a song that was created to be patriotic) because they FELT that it was a patriotic song. And it is, if you just listen to the refrain. But if you listen to the VERSEs… Kinda like “Born in the USA” and “American Woman”, in that way. -LV ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/27 "2001-09-20T05:17:38Z")
Personally, I would like to hear Stray Cats’ _Storm The Embassy_. _It’s a heartache and it’s hard luck / well that’s tough shit / Man it’s no fun / Storm the Iranian embassy / Before they start shootin’ at you and me_ Maybe we can have a new version where the chorus alternates between “Storm the Afghanistan / Libyan / Syrian embassy” . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/28 "2001-09-20T05:37:00Z")
Not an outright ban, but, I think that it’d be a bad idea to start a show dedicated to the victims of this tragedy with… … Great Balls of Fire. (Actually happened. I swear. Stopped dead for several seconds trying to convince myself I was hearing what I was hearing.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/29 "2001-09-20T08:17:42Z")
I may have missed it, but I’m kinda surprised I didn’t see “Rock the Casbah” on the alleged “list.” (Hmm, it’s not an “alleged” list, it _is_ a list. But I think you get my drift.) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/30 "2001-09-20T09:10:34Z")
As a former college radio DJ: John Cale – Ready for War DOA – cover of War War – anything by these guys ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/31 "2001-09-20T12:52:26Z")
Actually the title of my OP was tongue-in-cheek with the intention of posters submitting their equally tongue in cheek suggestions to point out the stupidity of this story, true ot untrue. Oh well. ☚ ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/32 "2001-09-20T14:57:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*The plain crashed, yes…but it wasn’t called _American Pie_. \*\* Right, hence my winking smiley. [http://www.snopes2.com/music/artists/amerpie.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/music/artists/amerpie.htm) Of course, thinking about the song itself, I suppose there are a few lyrics that some would find a bit inappropriate and try to “ban”: “And as the flames climbed high into the night To light the sacrificial rite I saw satan laughing with delight” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/33 "2001-09-20T15:05:50Z")
mkay, don’t want nuthin banned but when i thought of what might have been, the doors immediately came to mind… - break on through to the other side, - the end. oh, and mebbe \* people are strange. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/34 "2001-09-20T15:30:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \* > \*\*Here’s a list of songs ClearChannel Communiscations has reccomended not be played by it’s radio stations in wake of the tragedy: > > **"Leavin’ on a Jet Plane** ," Peter, Paul and Mary > > \*\* So the John Denver version of this song is a go? ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/35 "2001-09-21T00:19:23Z")
> [@](#): > > “Hit Me with Your Best Shot,” Pat Benatar > > “Walk Like an Egyptian,” Bangles > > “Dust in the Wind,” Kansas > > “Johnny Angel,” Shelly Fabares > > “Wipeout,” Safaris > > “Free Fallin’,” Tom Petty > > “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” Animals I realize this was a joke about the stupidity of censorship, but I can’t find any way to connect any of these to the tragedy of last week. ---
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/36 "2001-09-21T00:28:38Z")
Well, if we’re going to get sardonic, I would suggest **Crash Into Me** by Dave Matthews. You asked. ---
**Author:** ![schemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@schemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/37 "2001-09-21T15:51:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \* > \*\*Actually the title of my OP was tongue-in-cheek with the intention of posters submitting their equally tongue in cheek suggestions to point out the stupidity of this story, true ot untrue. > > Oh well. ☹ \*\* man…I understood the joke. and my first thought was “Rock the Casbah” ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617/38 "2001-09-21T16:18:50Z")
Not as a song to be banned, Schemo–how about as the new national anthem? 😃 It just kind of “made” the Gulf War for me, ya know? And it’s old enough to count as an “Eighties” oldie. > **[nanuq](https://nanuq.com/)** And “The Star-Spangled Banner” is definitely WAY too violent. Look– [ul] [li]It was written during a war.[/li][li]People were probably dying while F.S. Key was scribbling it down.[/li][li]It glorifies bombing.[/li][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-songs-should-be-banned-because-of-the-wtc/82617.md?page=1)