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Gulf War & WOT War censorship


During the 1991 Gulf War, the British Broadcasting Corporation issued a
list of records which were not to be played on any of its radio stations -

10CC - Rubber Bullets
ABBA - Waterloo - Under Attack
AKA - Hunting High And Low
ALARM 68 - Guns
ANIMALS - We Got To Get Out Of This Place
ARRIVAL - I Will Survive
JOAN BAEZ - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
BANGLES - Walk Like An Egyptian
BEATLES - Back In The USSR
PAT BENETAR - Love Is A Battlefield
BIG COUNTRY - Fields Of Fire
BLONDIE - Atomic
BOOMTOWN RATS - I Don't Like Mondays
BROOK BROTHERS - Warpaint
CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN - Fire
KATE BUSH - Army Dreamers
CHER - Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down
ERIC CLAPTON - I Shot The Sherrif
PHIL COLLINS - In The Air Tonight
ELVIS COSTELLO - Oliver's Army
CUTTING CREW - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
SKEETER DAVIS - End Of The World
DESMOND DEKKER - Israelites
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers In Arms
DURAN DURAN - View To A Kill
JOSE FELICIANO - Light My Fire
FIRST CHOICE - Armed And Extremely Dangerous
ROBERTA FLACK - Killing Me Softly With His Song
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Two Tribes
EDDIE GRANT - Living On The Front Line - Give Me Hope Joanna
ELTON JOHN - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
MILLIE JACKSON - Act Of War
J HATES JAZZ - I Don't Want To Be A Hero
JOHN LENNON - Give Peace A Chance - Imagine
JONA LEWIS - Stop The Cavalry
LULU - Boom Bang A Bang
MCGUINNESS FLINT - When I'm Dead And Gone
BOB MARLEY - Buffalo Soldier
MARIA MULDAUR - Midnight At The Oasis
MASH - Suicide Is Painless
MIKE AND THE MECHANICS - Silent Running
RICK NELSON - Fools Rush In
NICOLE - A Little Peace
BILLY OCEAN - When The Going Gets Tough
DONNY OSMOND - Soldier Of Love
PAPER LACE - Billy Don't Be A Hero
QUEEN - Killer Queen - Flash
MARTHA REEVES - Forget Me Not
B A ROBERTSON - Bang Bang
TOM ROBINSON - War Baby
KENNY ROGERS - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
SPANDAU BALLET - I'll Fly For You
SPECIALS - Ghost Queen
BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN - I'm On Fire
EDWIN STARR - War
STATUS QUO - In The Army Now - Burnin' Bridges
CAT STEVENS - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun
ROD STEWART - Sailing
DONNA SUMMER - State Of Independence
TEARS FOR FEARS - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
TEMPTATIONS - Ball Of Confusion
STEVIE WONDER - Heaven Help Us All

information source - "The filtered war"  (New Statesman, 5 April 1991)


A list of "lyrically inappropriate" songs banned from some
US radio stations in the wake of the WTC attacks in 2001

3 DOORS DOWN - Duck and Run
311 - Down
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds
AC/DC - Hell's Bells
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Safe in New York City
AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames
AC/DC - TNT
AD LIBS - The Boy from New York City
ALICE IN CHAINS - Down in a Hole
ALICE IN CHAINS - Rooster
ALICE IN CHAINS - Sea of Sorrow
ALICE IN CHAINS - Them Bone
ALIEN ANT FARM - Smooth Criminal
ANIMALS - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
LOUIS ARMSTRONG - What a Wonderful World
BANGLES - Walk Like an Egyptian
BARENAKED LADIES - Falling for the First Time
FONTELLA BASS - Rescue Me
BEASTIE BOYS - Sabotage
BEASTIE BOYS - Sure Shot
BEATLES - A Day in the Life
BEATLES - Lucy in fhe Sky with Diamonds
BEATLES - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
BEATLES - Ticket to Ride
PAT BENATAR - Love Is a Battlefield
PAT BENATAR - Hit Me with Your Best Shot
BLACK SABBATH - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
BLACK SUICIDE - Suicide Solution
BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs
BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS - And When I Die
BLUE OYSTER CULT - Burnin' for You
BOSTON - Smokin'
BROOKLYN BRIDGE - Worst that Could Happen
ARTHUR BROWN - Fire
JACKSON BROWNE - Doctor My Eyes
BUSH - Speed Kills
CHI-LITES - Have You Seen Her
DAVE CLARK FIVE - Bits and Pieces
PETULA CLARK - A Sign of the Times
THE CLASH - Rock the Casbah
PHIL COLLINS - In the Air Tonight
SAM COOKE - Wonderful World
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Travelin' Band
CULT - Fire Woman
BOBBY DARIN - Mack the Knife
SKEETER DAVIS - End of the World
NEIL DIAMOND - America
DIO - Holy Diver
DOORS - The End
DRIFTERS - On Broadway
DROWNING POOL - Bodies
BOB DYLAN - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
EVERCLEAR - Santa Monica
SHELLY FABARES - Johnny Angel
FILTER - Hey Man, Nice Shot
FOO FIGHTERS - Learn to Fly
FUEL - Bad Day
PETER GABRIEL - When You're Falling
GAP BAND - You Dropped a Bomb on Me
GODSMACK - Bad Religion
GREEN DAY - Brain Stew
NORMAN GREENBAUM - Spirit in the Sky
GUNS N' ROSES - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
HAPPENINGS - See You in September
JIMI HENDRIX - Hey Joe
HERMAN'S HERMITS - Wonderful World
HOLLIES - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETS - That'll Be the Day
JAN & DEAN - Dead Man's Curve
BILLY JOEL - Only the Good Die Young
ELTON JOHN - Benny & The Jets
ELTON JOHN - Daniel
ELTON JOHN - Rocket Man
JUDAS PRIEST - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
KANSAS - Dust in the Wind
CAROLE KING - I Feel the Earth Move
KORN - Falling Away From Me
LENNY KRAVITZ - Fly Away
LED ZEPPELIN - Stairway to Heaven
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
JERRY LEE LEWIS - Great Balls of Fire
LIMP BIZKIT - Break Stuff
LOCAL H - Bound for the Floor
LOS BRAVOS - Black Is Black
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesday's Gone
MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS - Nowhere to Run
MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS - Dancing in the Street
DAVE MATHEWS BAND - Crash into Me
PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS - Live and Let Die
BARRY MCGUIRE - Eve Of Destruction
DON MCLEAN - American Pie
MEGADEATH - Dread and the Fugitive
MEGADEATH - Sweating Bullets
JOHN MELLENCAMP - Crumbling Down
JOHN MELLENCAMP - I'm on Fire
METALLICA - Seek and Destroy
METALLICA - Harvester Or Sorrow
METALLICA - Enter Sandman
METALLICA - Fade to Black
STEVE MILLER - Jet Airliner
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Ironic
MUDVAYNE - Death Blooms
RICK NELSON - Travelin' Man
NENA - 99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons
NINE INCH NAILS - Head Like a Hole
OINGO BOINGO - Dead Man's Party
PAPER LACE - The Night Chicago Died
JOHN PARR - St Elmo's Fire
PETER GORDON - I Go To Pieces
PETER GORDON - A World Without Love
PETER PAUL & MARY - Blowin' in the Wind
PETER PAUL & MARY - Leavin' on a Jet Plane
TOM PETTY - Free Fallin'
PINK FLOYD - Run Like Hell
PINK FLOYD - Mother
POD - Boom
ELVIS PRESLEY - (You're the) Devil in Disguise
PRETENDERS - My City Was Gone
QUEEN - Another One Bites the Dust
QUEEN - Killer Queen
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - [all songs]
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Aeroplane
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Under the Bridge
REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
ROLLING STONES - Ruby Tuesday
MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS - Devil with the Blue Dress
SALIVA - Click Click Boom
SANTANA - Evil Ways
SAVAGE GARDEN - Crash and Burn
SIMON & GARFUNKLE - Bridge Over Troubled Water
FRANK SINATRA - New York, New York
SLIPKNOT - Left Behind
SLIPKNOT - Wait and
SMASHING PUMPKINS - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
SOUNDGARDEN - Blow Up the Outside World
SMASHING PUMPKINS - Fell on Black Days
SMASHING PUMPKINS - Black Hole Sun
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - I'm on Fire
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Goin' Down
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - War
EDWIN STARR - War
STEAM - Na Na Na Na Hey Hey
CAT STEVENS - Peace Train
CAT STEVENS - Morning Has Broken
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Big Bang Baby
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Dead and Bloated
SUGAR RAY - Fly
SURFARIS - Wipeout
SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Chop Suey!
TALKING HEADS - Burning Down the House
JAMES TAYLOR - Fire and Rain
TEMPLE OF THE DOG - Say Hello to Heaven
THIRD EYE BLIND - Jumper
THREE DEGREES - When Will I See You Again
TOOL - Intolerance
TRAMPS - Disco Inferno
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
VAN HALEN - Dancing in the Streets
VAN HALEN - Jump
J FRANK WILSON - Last Kiss
YOUNGBLOODS - Get Together
ZAGER & EVANS - In the Year 2525
ZOMBIES - She's Not There

from a list at the E! Online News page




thanks to Chris Byers for the following email -

From: "Chris Byers" (chris@byers98.fsnet.co.uk)
To: (weed@wussu.com)
Subject: Gulf Tunes
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 00:09:21 +0100

We had them all played by BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) out there whilst the [Gulf] war was on. You can't put a good track down!


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