Friday Music Blogging

I try not to repeat artists too frequently, but I post this new Bruce Springsteen song because, even though it's the number one rock song in America, and Bruce's album is the number one album in the country, period, Clear Channel has banned this song from the airwaves.

Why?

Here:

I got a coin in my palm
I can make it disappear
I got a card up my sleeve
Name it and I’ll pull it out your ear
I got a rabbit in my hat
If you wanna come and see
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be

I got shackles on my wrists
Soon I’ll slip and I’ll be gone
Chain me in a box in the river
And Rising in the Sun
Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be

I got a shiny saw blade
All I need’s a volunteer
I’ll cut you in half
While your smilin’ at me
And the freedom that your songs
Drifting like a ghost amongst the trees
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be

Now there’s a fire down below
But it’s coming up here
So leave everything you know
Carry only what you feel
On the road the sun is sinkin’ low
Sombody’s hanging in the trees
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be

Yea, I had the same reaction...so I looked into it.

Clear Channel says it's because Springsteen is too old...but that it's OK to play his older records, like "Dancing In The Dark"!

I smell a rat...a Republican rat....John Fogerty, Annie Lennox, and santana, all of whom at some point have come out against the invasion of Iraq and President Bush and the Republican warmongers in Congress, have apparently also been included in this blacklist.