Las 165 canciones prohibidas después del 9/11

Ni canciones que habían marcado el sentir patriótico de los norteamericanos como 'New York New York', o aquellas optimistas como 'Imagine' se salvaron de caer en las garras de la censura después de los atentados del 11 de septiembre.

Clear Channel Comunications (la compañía de medios de comunicación con más de 1.200 estaciones de radio bajo su propiedad), se encargó de hacer una lista de canciones que tocaban temas hostiles para los ciudadanos después del doloroso hecho y que no debían ser programadas en la radio o programas de televisión. 

No sabemos si esa estrategia funcionó para componer el estado anímico de los estadounidenses. Muchos medios argumentaron que se trataba de una medida radical incluso para la gravedad de la fecha. Esta es la lista de las canciones prohibidas: 

• 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 Bleed 
• 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