http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46925,00.html
Too farcical for * The Onion *, but apparently the truth 
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.
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
Because what a catastrophe that a non-patriotic song might be played!
The plain crashed, yes…but it wasn’t called American Pie.
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
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” . . .
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.)
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.)
As a former college radio DJ:
John Cale – Ready for War
DOA – cover of War
War – anything by these guys
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. 
Right, hence my winking smiley.
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”
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.
So the John Denver version of this song is a go?
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.
Well, if we’re going to get sardonic, I would suggest
Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews.
You asked.
man…I understood the joke.
and my first thought was “Rock the Casbah”
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.
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]