Our first single, “Chop Suey!,” had essentially been banned from the radio. The song’s chorus—“I don’t think you trust in my self-righteous suicide / I cry when angels deserve to die”—did feel like a surreal reference to the disturbing events of 9/11, though obviously it was written long before that. But the ban itself was just a misguided knee-jerk effort by the country’s largest radio conglomerate, Clear Channel, to prohibit songs they felt might upset listeners already distraught by the attacks. I suppose “Chop Suey!” was an obvious candidate for this list of banned songs, certainly more
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