There’s a report at Launch.com about songs that the Clear Channel Network (the largest owner of FM stations in the US) decided were, in the aftermath of Red Tuesday, “lyrically inappropriate” to be played.
They include some presumably obvious ones like Peter Gabriel’s “You Dropped a Bomb On Me,” James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain,” and pretty much anything with “New York” in the title.
They also include some oddities like the Bangles’ “Walk Like an Egyptian,” Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” and the Beatles’ “Obla-di, Obla-da.”
We have met the Enemy, and He is Large Corporations Making Goofy Decisions.
Further coverage is available from the NY Times.
Via Moriarty, who had a few other interesting things to say.
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