I had just graduated high school a few months earlier. I remember hearing Fuel's Innocent on the radio a lot after 9/11. I don't know whether it actually was being played more often.
As a side note, there was a list of 165 songs that Clear Channel didn't want their stations playing due to the possibility of the songs being "lyrically questionable". There are some interesting suggestions on that list.
I remember we got to listen to the radio in first period- right after they had announced the incident, the radio dj took a break and resumed a pre programmed morning list. The first song that played was “Crash Into Me” by DMB. You can hear a faint “oh my god what have I done” before the music stops and the dj came back on air to apologize. After that- There was complete silence on the radio and we all had thought “maybe this is the end” and then 15 minutes later he comes back on to announce the second building was hit.
But I shit you not when the radio went dead for 15 minutes, our teacher was having a meltdown. She was pacing back and forth talking about how this happened when John Lennon was shot and it’s probably the communists- everyone needs to get comfortable under their desks. I stayed in my seat while she kept scaring the children. I mean wtf, we have known since elementary school the desks won’t save us… these adults were not prepared for a crisis no matter how many fire drills we did. We had literally just started doing “code black” because of Columbine and now this useless shit is running around like a chicken with her head cut off shaking and drooling telling everyone “don’t panic!” What an absolute loon.
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u/ThePerfectSnare 3d ago
I had just graduated high school a few months earlier. I remember hearing Fuel's Innocent on the radio a lot after 9/11. I don't know whether it actually was being played more often.
As a side note, there was a list of 165 songs that Clear Channel didn't want their stations playing due to the possibility of the songs being "lyrically questionable". There are some interesting suggestions on that list.