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[glaucon]

oh my god - this is completely deranged.

old news, I guess, but I just saw it for the first time.
(it seems to work best if you skip the introductory material and just skip straight to the list.)

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[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

agreed- completely deranged. I really wonder what roomful of trained monkeys determined that list.
In my opinion, WXPN (furthest leftwing radio station in the area) went completely apeshit on 9/11. it was too close to their fall fund drive for them to take any risks and if memory serves, prior to that they didn't really do much in terms of news- they had someone occasionally read some newswire stuff, but the new release from Richard Thompson had equal weight to, say, the economy, at the time. They started broadcasting BBC news updates and now they have NPR news on the hour. which is good, in my opinion.
what was weird was the day they played a song and afterwards, the DJ went insane with wild apologies, promising that WXPN would be extremely careful with its choices of songs and sensitive to the events of 9/11 in song selection and so on.
the song? Cousteau's "Last Good Day of the Year."

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of how, for the two or three months after 9/11, the bartenders at my favorite dive bar in seattle had to use the lockout feature of their high tech jukebox to make track one of this album unplayable.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah...

No "Killing" on the local Alternative station since 9/11... haven't actually heard it anywhere, even on the VERY 80's stations...

[opadit.livejournal.com]

"Travelin' Band"?!

Also: All songs by Rage Against the Machine cracks me up.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was the one that got me too.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait-wait-wait, they talk about flying in planes, especially right in the beginning.

subversion must be stopped!

[just-jeff.livejournal.com]

she's got electric boots,

a mohair suit, you know

i read it in a magazeee-

eeeeen, oh-oh,

buh-buh-buh-bennie and the Jets.

Re: subversion must be stopped!

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

I think they just threw that one on there as a matter of general principle.

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

Not 'all songs by Cat Stevens'???

I guess only songs that were ever radio hits made the list; otherwise a certain TH song from Remain in Light would have been tagged:

'Mojique holds the package in his quivering hands
Mojique sends the package to the American man...
He sees the foreigners in growing numbers
He sees the foreigners in fancy houses...
He feels the time is surely now or never...more.'
—'Listening Wind' by Talking Heads (with lyrics out of order)

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

that's the first thing I put on the stereo when they sent me home from work early on 9/11.

they also missed that Soul Coughing song about "a man flies a plane into the crysler building" and eno's "burning airlines give you so much more".

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

OMSG, I so very seriously need a 9/11 commemorative mixtape.

I guess only songs that were ever radio hits made the list;

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Just thought of this one: New York Mining Disaster 1941 (http://www.last.fm/music/Bee+Gees/_/New+York+Mining+Disaster+1941)

Can't remember if I ever told you this one or not. In the fall of 2001 I worked at The McCarter Theatre. Their big corporate sponsor at the time was American Airlines. In the lobby, the outer lobby, the one that's open all day long every day, we had two huge framed prints.

one was a black and white photograph given to us by Jersey Arts, some state arts coalition. It had a picture of Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko teaches at Rutgers), smiling away, at an observation desk, saying something like "why go across the river when there's great theater right here?" In the background? Twin Towers. Thank you very much.

the other one was a full-color print of a pastel drawing or a painting or something. in some abstract impressionistic way, the artist had attempted to paint a big, powerful, beautiful American Airlines plane against a background of the American Northeast. but of course, in New Jersey, there is no such thing as any important place except New York. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/The_New_Yorker%2C_1976-03-29%2C_Cover_(View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue%2C_priced_and_dated).PNG) So it was a drawing of a giant American Airlines plane turning to go straight into the Twin Towers, with a cockeyed Statue of Liberty lurching out of the way.

I watched the Managing Director and the assistant to the Artistic Director very quietly take these off the lobby walls and take them elsewhere.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

One of the first songs i played after getting to a nearly empty office building on 9/11 was the Toadies' "Plane Crash".

[alice-at-night.livejournal.com]

I played Vera Lynn "White Cliffs of Dover"

Does anyone here remember Vera Lynn?