Por Igor Miranda
Em 11/09/21

A programação das rádios nos Estados Unidos teve de ser alterada devido aos atentados terroristas de 11 de setembro de 2001. Diversas músicas - a maioria de rock - deixaram de ser tocadas sob a alegação de que teriam letras com interpretações "questionáveis" após o ocorrido.

Com 165 faixas ao todo, a lista de canções banidas das rádios americanas foi feita pela Clear Channel Communications, empresa hoje conhecida como iHeartMedia. A corporação está no controle de mais de 1,1 mil rádios AM e FM em todo o país.

Em meio às várias músicas selecionadas, algumas delas, realmente, faziam referência a voar de avião, explosões, armas, quedas, morte, entre outros tópicos que poderiam despertar "gatilhos" em ouvintes traumatizados com os atentados. Alguns exemplos são "Learn to Fly", do Foo Fighters; "TNT", "Shot Down in Flames" e "Safe in New York City", todas do AC/DC; "Jump", do Van Halen; "Chop Suey!", do System f a Down; e "Aeroplane", do Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Porém, muitas faixas foram retiradas da programação das rádios por questões meramente políticas. Chama atenção, especialmente, o fato de toda a discografia do Rage Against the Machine ter sido banida. O motivo era evidente: a banda fazia duras críticas a autoridades e grandes corporações dos Estados Unidos.

Ainda que não faça referência à política americana, "Sunday Bloody Sunday", hino do U2 sobre o conflito na Irlanda do Norte, também foi cortada. Outra exclusão curiosa foi a de "Imagine", canção pacifista - mas não menos ácida - de John Lennon que pedia um mundo sem religião.

O site da revista Kerrang compartilhou a lista na íntegra. Confira abaixo.

3 Doors Down - Duck and Run
311 - Down
AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames
AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Safe in New York City
AC/DC - TNT
AC/DC - Hell’s Bells
Ad Libs - The Boy from New York City
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
Alice in Chains - Rooster
Alice in Chains - Sea of Sorrow
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Arthur Brown - Fire
Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Barenaked Ladies - Falling for the First Time
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
The Beatles - Obla Di, Obla Da
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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
Bruce Springsteen - Goin’ Down
Bruce Springstein - War
Buddy Holly and the Crickets - That’ll Be the Day
Bush - Speed Kills
Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken
Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Travelin’ Band
The Cult - Fire Woman
Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Don McLean - American Pie
The Doors - The End
Drifters - On Broadway
Drowning Pool - Bodies
Edwin Starr - War
Elton John - Benny & The Jets
Elton John - Daniel
Elton John - Rocket Man
Elvis - (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
Everclear - Santa Monica
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
Fuel - Bad Day
The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb On Me
Godsmack - Bad Religion
Green Day - Brain Stew
Happenings - See You in September
Herman’s Hermits - Wonderful World
Hollies - He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
J. Frank Wilson - 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
John Mellencamp - 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
Martha & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Streets
Megadeth - Dread and the Fugitive
Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
Metallica - Seek and Destroy
Metallica - Harvester or Sorrow
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - 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
Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
Pat Benatar - Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
Paul McCartney and Wings - Live and Let Die
Peter Gabriel - When You’re Falling
Peter and Gordon - I Go To Pieces
Peter and Gordon - A World Without Love
Peter Paul and Mary - Blowin’ in the Wind
Peter Paul and Mary - Leavin’ on a Jet Plane
Petula Clark - A Sign of the Times
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Pink Floyd - Mother
P.O.D.- Boom
Pretenders - My City Was Gone
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
Queen - Killer Queen
All Rage Against The Machine 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
Rickey Nelson - Travelin’ Man
Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
Saliva - Click Click Boom
Sam Cooke - Wonderful 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
Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World
Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Steam - Na Na Na Na Hey Hey
Steve Miller - Jet Airliner
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated
Sugar Ray - Fly
Surfaris - Wipeou
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven
Third Eye Blind - Jumper
Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’
Tool - Intolerance
Tramps - Disco Inferno
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Van Halen - Dancing In The Street
Van Halen - Jump
Yager and Evans - In the Year 2525
Youngbloods - Get Together
Zombies - She’s Not There