Clear Channel Communication's Banned Radio Playlist

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Clear Channel Communications owns nearly 1,200 radio stations and effectively controls the rock radio market, which equals over half of the radio stations in the United States.

And now, they have submitted a list of songs that are banned from the radio because of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The list is as follows:

***3 Doors Down: "Duck and Run"
***311: "Down"
***AC/DC: "Shot Down in Flames", "Shoot to Thrill", "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", "Highway to Hell", "Safe in New York City", "TNT", "Hell's Bells"
***Alanis Morissette: "Ironic"
***Alice in Chains: "Rooster", "Sea of Sorrow", "Down in a Hole", "Them Bones"
***Alien Ant Farm: "Smooth Criminal"
***Arthur Brown: "Fire"
***Barry McGuire: "Eve of Destruction"
***Billy Joel: "Only the Good Die Young"
***Black Sabbath: "War Pigs", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Suicide Solution"
***Blood, Sweat, and Tears: "And When I Die"
***Blue Oyster Cult: "Burnin' For You"
***Bob Dylan/Guns 'n' Roses: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
***Bobby Darin: "Mack the Knife"
***Boston: "Smokin"
***Brooklyn Bridge: "Worst That Could Happen"
***Bruce Springsteen: "I'm On Fire", "Goin' Down"
***Buddy Holly and the Crickets: "That'll Be the Day"
***Bush: "Speed Kills"
***Carole King: "I Feel the Earth Move"
***Cat Stevens: "Peace Train", "Morning Has Broken"
***Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Travelin' Band"
***Dio: "Holy Diver"
***Don McLean: "American Pie"
***Drowning Pool: "Bodies"
***Edwin Starr/Bruce Springstein: "War"
***Elton John: "Benny & The Jets", "Daniel", "Rocket Man"
***Elvis Presley: "(You're The) Devil in Disguise"
***Everclear: "Santa Monica"
***Filter: "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
***Fontella Bass: "Rescue Me"
***Foo Fighters: "Learn to Fly"
***Frank Sinatra: "New York, New York"
***Fuel: "Bad Day"
***Godsmack: "Bad Religion"
***Green Day: "Brain Stew"
***J. Frank Wilson/Pearl Jam: "Last Kiss"
***Jackson Brown: "Doctor My Eyes"
***James Taylor: "Fire and Rain"
***Jan and Dean: "Dead Man's Curve"
***Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls of Fire"
***Jimi Hendrix: "Hey Joe"
***John Lennon "Imagine"
***John Mellencamp: "Crumbling Down", "I'm On Fire"
***John Parr: "St. Elmo's Fire"
***Judas Priest: "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
***Kansas: "Dust in the Wind"
***Korn: "Falling Away From Me"
***Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to Heaven"
***Lenny Kravitz: "Fly Away"
***Limp Bizkit: "Break Stuff"
***Local H: "Bound for the Floor"
***Los Bravos: "Black is Black"
***Louis Armstrong: "What A Wonderful World"
***Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Tuesday's Gone"
***Martha & The Vandellas: "Nowhere to Run", "Dancing in the Streets"
***Megadeth: "Dread and the Fugitive", "Sweating Bullets"
***Metallica: "Seek and Destroy", "Harvester or Sorrow", "Enter Sandman", "Fade to Black"
***Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels: "Devil with the Blue Dress"
***Mudvayne: "Death Blooms"
***Neil Diamond: "America"
***Nina: "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
***Nine Inch Nails: "Head Like a Hole"
***Norman Greenbaum: "Spirit in the Sky"
***Oingo Boingo: "Dead Man's Party"
***P.O.D.: "Boom"
***Paper Lace: "The Night Chicago Died"
***Pat Benatar: "Hit Me with Your Best Shot", "Love is a Battlefield"
***Paul McCartney and Wings: "Live and Let Die"
***Peter and Gordon: "I Go To Pieces", "A World Without Love"
***Peter Gabriel: "When You're Falling"
***Peter, Paul, and Mary: "Blowin' in the Wind", "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
***Petula Clark: "A Sign of the Times"
***Phil Collins: "In the Air Tonight"
***Pink Floyd: "Run Like Hell", "Mother"
***Queen: "Another One Bites the Dust", "Killer Queen"
***R.E.M.: "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
***Rage Against the Machine: all songs
***Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Aeroplane", "Under the Bridge"
***Ricky Nelson: "Travelin' Man"
***Saliva: "Click Click Boom"
***Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits: "Wonder World"
***Santana: "Evil Ways"
***Savage Garden: "Crash and Burn"
***Shelly Fabares: "Johnny Angel"
***Simon And Garfunkel: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
***Skeeter Davis: "End of the World"
***Slipknot: "Left Behind", "Wait and Bleed"
***Soundgarden: "Blow Up the Outside World", "Fell on Black Days", "Black Hole Sun"
***Steam: "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey"
***Stone Temple Pilots: "Big Bang Baby," Dead and Bloated"
***Sugar Ray: "Fly"
***System of a Down: "Chop Suey!"
***Temple of the Dog: "Say Hello to Heaven"
***The Ad Libs: "The Boy from New York City"
***The Animals: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
***The Bangles: "Walk Like an Egyptian"
***The Barenaked Ladies: "Falling for the First Time"
***The Beastie Boys: "Sure Shot", "Sabotage"
***The Beatles: "A Day in the Life", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Ticket To Ride", "Obla Di, Obla Da"
***The Chi-Lites: "Have You Seen Her"
***The Clash "Rock the Casbah"
***The Cult: "Fire Woman"
***The Dave Clark Five: "Bits and Pieces"
***The Dave Matthews Band: "Crash Into Me"
***The Doors: "The End"
***The Drifters: "On Broadway"
***The Gap Band: "You Dropped a Bomb On Me"
***The Happenings: "See You in Septemeber"
***The Hollies: "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
***The Pretenders: "My City Was Gone"
***The Rolling Stones: "Ruby Tuesday"
***The Smashing Pumpkins: "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
***The Steve Miller Band: "Jet Airliner"
***The Surfaris: "Wipeout"
***The Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House"
***The Tramps: "Disco Inferno"
***The Youngbloods: "Get Together"
***The Zombies: "She's Not There"
***Third Eye Blind: "Jumper"
***Three Degrees: "When Will I See You Again"
***Tom Petty: "Free Fallin'"
***Tool: "Intolerance"
***U2: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
***Van Halen: "Jump"
***Yager and Evans: "In the Year 2525"

We, as fans of music or just freedom of speech and the right to listen to what you want to, must not let this last and cannot stand for it. Please sign this petition and help stop this grave injustice and impedement upon one of our most basic rights.
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450 signatures
Goal: 1,000
Latest Signatures
21 January 2016
450. Ellis C | I support this petition
21 January 2016
449. Jere D | We will take back the airwaves at any cost... State of Residence CALIFORNIA
15 January 2016
448. Alfonso Del | I support this petition
14 January 2016
447. Evy Stanley | OMG, it's so stupid!!! State of Residence montreal
12 January 2016
446. Alan Gw | Songs like New York, New York shouldn't be on the list. Songs about planes should be kept on the air because they need passengers on the jets. Mack the Knife and That'll be the Day shouldn't be there because they're oldies. Futhermore songs like Morning h
12 January 2016
445. Mindy Pope | I support this petition
12 January 2016
444. Thomas M | I am a vetran who surved during Sept 11 and i feel that your ban is unreal and should be removed State of Residence CT
12 January 2016
443. Joseph F | I support this petition
11 January 2016
442. Anthony P | End monopolistic media practices! State of Residence TX
11 January 2016
441. Andrew Barrera | this is bullsh** it's our right as citizens and the right of artists to freedom of expression. it seems like the government will only let u be free, however, by doing what they say is free. State of Residence NM
10 January 2016
440. Katie Vazquez | I support this petition
7 January 2016
439. Amy Berger | we must stop blaming the arts for our problems.. State of Residence CANADA
6 January 2016
438. Bryce M | your list sucks!!! State of Residence Colorado
5 January 2016
437. Tanichea B | If you ban our music, you're banning what made New York so great in the first place.
4 January 2016
436. Shawn W | Seeing as how my favorite band is rage against the machine this really pisses me off, ive seen this before and i think its a complete intrusion on the right of freedom of speech, if people can where there cross's and stars of david then that gives me EVER
4 January 2016
435. Dylan Gutierrez | I support this petition
2 January 2016
434. Ben S | I support this petition
30 December 2015
433. Amanda T | It is disgusting to think that this radio corporation has put a ban on some of the greatest songs ever written. we should ban clear channel instead
29 December 2015
432. Darren W | I support this petition
25 December 2015
431. Brett Z | How do you take off two of the greatest songs of ALLTIME: Stairway to Heaven and American Pie. You guys are freaking insane, and the scum of the earth.
24 December 2015
430. Oliver L | I support this petition
24 December 2015
429. Angela Z | I support this petition
23 December 2015
428. Adam S | What does Jump, Free Fallin' and Jet Airliner have to do with 9/11???????????????????? State of Residence Ohio
23 December 2015
427. Aimee Simpson | I support this petition
22 December 2015
426. David S | NY NY
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