[Austin-ghetto-list] unclear channel

[Bill Irwin]

Is Bin Ladin on the board of directors?  I know he hates this kind of
decadent Western music so no wonder it is banned.  Seems like the Texas
fundamentalists are joining hands with their Muslim counterparts.  Item by
item we are meeting his demands; ban music, suspend habeas corpus, restrict
freedoms, ruin the economy, sow distrust amongst the people, etc.  What's
next?
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Edwards <hedwards@gstype.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: [Austin-ghetto-list] unclear channel


>
> This just retrieved from the NY Times web site:
>
> lear Channel Communications, the Texas-based company that owns about 1,170
> radio stations nationwide, has circulated a list of 150 songs and asked
its
> stations to avoid playing them because of the attacks on the World Trade
> Center and the Pentagon.
>
> Some listed songs would be insensitive to play right now, such as the Gap
> Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" and Soundgarden's "Blow Up the Outside
> World," but other choices, critics and musicians say, are less explicable
> because they have little literal connection to the tragedies.
>
> These include "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles, "On Broadway" by the
> Drifters and "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John. Even odder, some songs
on
> the list are patriotic, like Neil Diamond's "America." Others speak of
> universal optimism, like Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," and
> others are emotional but hopeful songs that could help people grieve, like
> "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and
> Garfunkel, "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens and "A World Without Love" by
Peter
> and Gordon.
>
>
> Come on back, Jive 95!
>
> Harry
>
>